Doctor Who: The Rings Of Akhaten

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Ah bugger I forgot to write about Doctor Who. But it was really good! Honest!

WE MET CLARA’S MOTHER AND SHE WAS AWESOME. I mean, she seemed awesome, even though we didn’t really see that much of her- she saved a guy from a leaf, married him, was a perfectly lovely mother and then, well, died at only 45. Aw man. But this all lead up to a story where grief actually sort of saved the day, Clara’s knowledge that her mother lost out on so much caused her to offer up the leaf to the memory-eating alien. And it all probably didn’t make much sense when you really look at it but I don’t care because it was all emotional and thought-provoking, and I suppose that’s possibly the main thing.

AND Matt Smith got to do some speechifying. And there were things exploding and tons of monsters and A REFERENCE TO SUSAN and a cute little girl and some very very very pretty scenery, so basically it all added up to probably my favourite episode for a while.

QUESTIONS I WANT ANSWERING:

-What killed Clara’s mother? Because someone pointed out that her date of death on her gravestone is the day the Autons attacked London, alllllll the way back at the very start of New Who. No way, they wouldn’t, would they?

-What…exactly…happened to the Doctor’s memories? I thought the big sun monster took them but maybe it didn’t.

-Why have we met Clara before what’s the Doctor’s name how will this all play into the 50th anniversary etc etc THIS IS ALL JOLLY EXCITING