Doctor Who: The God Complex
Episode: B+, story arc: F
“If you see Melody, tell her to visit her mum.” OH FER PITY’S SAKE ALL THAT GAME CHANGING CLIFFHANGER STUFF AND THAT. WAS. IT? After the loveliness of A Good Man Goes To War and Amy and Rory’s obvious love for their kid, they really have just…mostly forgotten her? Just a quick mention and that’s it? Oh, this story arc has driven me insane, insane I tell you. All that and nothing.
Amy’s leaving scene was nice- although why didn’t the Doctor say goodbye to Rory- but I think both of them will be back for the finale anyway. I’m expecting it, otherwise I’d have more to say about that.
It’s not fair, I really liked this episode and then I started thinking about it and coming up with things I don’t like. Why does Rory have no faith for the Minotaur to hold onto when we saw in the pirate episode that he puts all his faith in Amy? Why introduce a cool Muslim girl who’d be an awesome new companion and then kill her? And why why why why have they not cared about River/Melody for so long? AAARGH I AM ANNOYED. But I still love these characters, and on the whole this episode was okay, it’s just I really can’t get over the mess they made of this series arc…
September 17, 2011 @ 8:14 pm
I don’t think the show could handle having a religious companion for very long. It’d be left having to either let them be right and add a specific god to the universe or it would leave them looking deluded as they thought their god was behind everything.
September 17, 2011 @ 10:12 pm
If it was me writing it, I think I’d mention it only occasionally and have enough interesting stuff going on with her that religion would just be a teeny bit of it. (We could’ve gotten a whole series out of Rita’s father issues…)
September 17, 2011 @ 10:15 pm
I’d feel uncomfy waiting for it to surface :S
September 18, 2011 @ 9:01 am
I want to watch Rita-as-companion done the way you’d do it SO BADLY. OH RITA. <3
September 18, 2011 @ 8:04 pm
Aw thank you. I may write it! :D
September 17, 2011 @ 9:10 pm
The throwaway mention of Melody made my jaw drop; I’d really thought there was a twist coming (because the Silence do affect memories, after all) but no, they do in fact remember that their baby was stolen to be raised as an assassin. In between a horrific upbringing by aliens and being imprisoned for murder she gets a couple of fun jaunts with the Doctor and a decade or so as Mels, so that’s fine. I love this season as individual episodes, but unless something spectacular happens in the last two, the arc was a bad, bad idea.
September 17, 2011 @ 10:12 pm
I agree with this a billion percent.
September 18, 2011 @ 4:02 am
Also agreed.
September 18, 2011 @ 9:03 am
Yeah. As always, the bond between Amy and the Doctor is more important than Amy and her daughter. Because the Doctor is considered more important, so we get Doctor/River-Melody and Doctor/Amy, but only the barest hint of Melody and her mom’s relationship. ALWAYS MUST HAVE A MAN RELATING TO A WOMAN. Otherwise why is the woman there at all, amirite?
September 18, 2011 @ 8:04 pm
Well, I have my fingers crossed that we’ll eventually get to see something of the mother/daughter relationship. I’ll be cross if we don’t. :( I think so long as the Doctor is a man, that’ll always be the way. I’m coming round to the idea of a female Doctor, I’d like Miranda Hart in the role…
September 19, 2011 @ 10:20 am
I totally agree. I’m not sad to see the back of the Ponds, as the writers have no interest in developing them as characters: I offer you character analysis based on the last episode, The God Complex: http://theoncominghope.blogspot.com/2011/09/doctor-who-god-complex-aka-characters.html
September 19, 2011 @ 4:01 pm
Ooh, thank you! I do love the Ponds, though, both Rory and Amy, so I just pretend that all the character development about their daughter happened inbetween the episodes.
October 1, 2011 @ 9:13 am
lol. i wish i could pretend like you!