Brand New Doctor! Exciting New Adventures! Episodes Comprise: 1. The Eleventh Hour 2. The Beast Below 3. Victory of the Daleks 4. The Time of Angels 5. Flesh and Stone 6. The Vampires of Venice 7. Amy's Choice 8. The Hungry Earth 9. Cold Blood 10. Vincent and the Doctor 11. The Lodger 12. The Pandorica Opens 13. The Big Bang
From the time he first burst onto our screen's Matt Smith WAS the Doctor. And, oh my, how wonderful he did it! Assisted by the glorious Amy and her equally fantastic partner Rory this series weaved humour, excitement and complex Moffat-esque story lines! Each week I was questioning what's happening? What does THAT mean?!
"The Eleventh Hour" was an introductory romp and put to rest all my worries about the new series. Fun fast and furious - and you got to se all the previous Doctors!
"The Beast Below" was a very good story with some heart-achingly sad bits and some strong anger-acting from Matt Smith! This IS the same Doctor we've all known and loved! Much creepiness in this episode meant, I'm sure, that many kids (and adults!) headed for behind the sofa!
"Victory of the Daleks" wasn't the best Dalek story ever and the Dalek redesign did leave a lot of people divided - lots loved it - lots HATED it! However, ignoring that it was a Dalek story, the actual story overall was fun and there was a fine Winston Churchill performance within. Amy once more came into her own near the end of the episode. What a great actor Karen Gillan is!
The two-parter "The Time of Angels" & "Flesh and Stone" was a good story but nowhere near the same class as the previous "Blink". That partiuclar story would be very hard for any story to reach! However it worked really well, the angels were still as creepy as ever - more so when the unexpected angels were revealed! It was also nice to have River Song back - I won't reveal "spoliers" here though!
"The Vampires of Venice" didn't stand out for me - I think It was enjoyable at the time but not one I can really recall now!
"Amy's Choice" however was a much better story - a possible death for a character and just who IS the Doctor's nemesis "The Dream Lord". A great, well acted and fully-realised character. He seemed really spiteful towards the Doctor! And which is the real world!? A really creepy, well executed story and a real moment to show what Rory really means to Amy.
The two-parter "The Hungry Earth" & "Cold Blood" was okay but didn't really grab me. I think it was too muddling to know if these were the same under the earth creatures the Doctor had met before or not. The costumes were really good and the "Silurians" themselves were well played. The end was really sad though and, not to give too much away, I really thought it was the end of a major character.
"Vincent and the Doctor" was a genius story - Richard Curtis did us proud with the writing on this one. The man who played Van Gogh was superb. He brought such torment and pathos to the character, it was tragic and, though we knew they couldn't change Vincent's outcome, the end with him finding out what his paintings meant to the world was beautifully done.
"The Lodger" - Comedy genius! After the previous, quite sad tale, this was a much more fun story! James Corden was brilliant as the put-upon guy sharing a flat with the Doctor - a popular, fun man (with a previously unknown skill in Football!). I hear he's coming back into the new series which will be great as James made a great addition to the cast! The rest of the story had it's darker moments - the upstairs was quite creepy and it was sad what happened to the James' character's potential future gal.
Finally the finale! "The Pandorica Opens"/"The Big Bang" - Mr. Moffatt Sir! You are off your mind!!! This was absolutely bonkers. So much happened in these two episodes that I can't even try to review them - you need to watch them yourselves, go "What"?! and then watch them again!!! A lot gets tied up nicely and in a spectacular way (you even get a stone Dalek!) but there are still questions to be answered.....! So, roll on Series 7 and keep up the mind boggling work Mr. Moffat!!
M.J. Fouldes
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All 13 episodes from the fifth series of the relaunched sci-fi adventure series, which marked Matt Smith's debut in the role of the legendary Time Lord. Episodes are: 'The Eleventh Hour', 'The Beast Below', 'Victory of the Daleks', 'The Time of Angels', 'Flesh and Stone', 'The Vampires of Venice', 'Amy's Choice', 'The Hungry Earth', 'Cold Blood', 'Vincent and the Doctor', 'The Lodger', 'The Pandorica Opens' and 'The Big Bang'.
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