The Name of the Doctor: A Grave on Trenzalore
The Name of the Doctor answers the Impossible Girl question properly, goes to Trenzalore and ends on a John Hurt shot I can’t stop thinking about.
The Name of the Doctor answers the Impossible Girl question properly, goes to Trenzalore and ends on a John Hurt shot I can’t stop thinking about.
The Angels Take Manhattan sends Amy and Rory off with a chosen ending, a book from the future and the nastiest Weeping Angels idea yet.
The Wedding of River Song collapses all of history into one afternoon when River won’t fire, and then gets out of a fixed point through a loophole.
Closing Time sends the Doctor to babysit with Craig Owens and fight Cybermen in a department store, with a goodbye hiding under every joke.
Let’s Kill Hitler shoves Hitler in a cupboard, regenerates Amy’s childhood friend into River Song, and explains why she can’t regenerate in the library.
A Good Man Goes to War has the Doctor take an asteroid without firing a shot, lose anyway, and learn who River Song is. The reveal lands perfectly.
Day of the Moon beats a monster nobody can remember by hiding a message in the Apollo 11 broadcast, and gives River Song her cruellest scene yet.
The Impossible Astronaut opens Series 6 with a shock at Lake Silencio, Nixon in 1969 and the Silence, a monster you forget the moment you look away.
The Big Bang opens brilliantly and ends with Amy’s wedding, but the time-travel escape in the middle left me a bit flat after The Pandorica Opens.
Flesh and Stone ends the Weeping Angels two-parter with a blind walk through a forest of statues and a crack in the universe that eats people whole.
Forest of the Dead explains what saved means, gives Donna a whole life she never had, and asks River Song to die for a man who has never met her.
Silence in the Library strands the Doctor on a planet-sized library where the shadows eat people, and introduces a woman who knows him far too well.