Doctor Who:
The Doctor's Wife
By Neil Gaiman
"No. I just wanted to say hello. Hello, Doctor. It's so very, very nice to meet you."
Probably one of the most
anticipated stories of series, that isn't a series opener or closer, was The
Doctor’s Wife mainly for the person who wrote it. When I heard the news in 2011
that Neil Gaiman was writing an episode of Doctor Who I was pretty amazed that
someone of his talents would want to write for Doctor Who. As most people know Neil
Gaiman is the writer of such movies as Beowulf, Coraline, and Stardust. But to his fans he is most recognized for his
work on the incredibly popular The Sandman.
The Sandman is a 75 issue comic book story about Morpheus which was
published by Vertigo an imprint of DC Comics.
The Doctor's Wife boasted that
something from The War Games would be coming back. Well we have our answer in the appearance of
the Time Lord Hypercube. You remember
that device that the Second Doctor used to contact the Time Lords for
help. Well it's back and there are quite
a lot of them too. This must come as a
disappointment to those fans who speculated that the War Chief was coming
back. But I have to say it was a good
plot device to get the Doctor to come to the planet that has the House entity.
After watching the first 5
minutes of this story you quickly realize who the Doctor’s wife is. It's the TARDIS. The Doctor's Wife gives us a chance to see
the Doctor and the TARDIS interact since the soul of the TARDIS has been put
into Idris this can now happen. I was
blown away by this as the two long time companions finally get to talk to each
other. We get to know why he picked this
one Type 40 or did he. This was pretty
cool as something like this has never been done on televised Doctor Who before.
Another cool element of this
story is when House had taken over the TARDIS and had Amy and Rory trapped
inside him. Well he used them as
entertainment and they start running through the corridors of the TARDIS. We finally get to see other rooms in
TARDIS. Granted it is only corridors and
the Tenth Doctor's consul room. But hey
we can't be picky. Those scenes in the
corridors were pretty intense as we get to see Amy get mentally tortured. Yes apparently we see another dead Rory, Oh
My God They Killed Kenny err Rory, but even still it works in the Doctor's Wife
as it makes it more suspenseful especially when Amy sees all the death threats
written all over the wall. Those scenes
have to be some of the scariest in Doctor Who.
I truly liked this story. It was different, bizarre, strange, and all
together crazy. I really like stories
like this and this one was top notch.
The Doctor's Wife had everything.
From really good dramatic scenes like when the Doctor finds all the Hypercubes
or to the heart felt exchange between the TARDIS and The Doctor after House had
been exorcised. This was an all-around
enjoyable story. Yes it was strange what
with the characters Auntie and Uncle strolling around not making much sense but
that is part of the charm. I also liked
the fact that you could not see House.
There is nothing scarier than having an enemy that you can't see but is
everywhere.
When all is said and done and
Matt Smith leaves the role of the Doctor at Christmas The Doctor's Wife will go
down as one of the best stories of his era.
I'm sure there will be those that will not like this story because it is
pretty complex but the story is pretty simple.
It is the story of a man and the true love of his life. As Amy says towards the end she is still here
when all of us have left. In all The
Doctor’s Wife is a wonderfully strange and heartfelt episode that is one of my
favorites of the Matt Smith era.
Grade A
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