Doctor Who:
A Good Man Goes To War
By Steven Moffat
"This was exactly you.
All this. All of it. You make them so afraid. When you began, all those
years ago, sailing off to see the universe,
did you ever think you'd become this? The man who can turn an army
around at the mention of his name. Doctor. The word for healer and wise
man
throughout the universe. We get that word from you, you know. But if you
carry on the way you are, what might that word come to mean?
To the people of the Gamma Forests, the word Doctor means mighty
warrior. How far you've come. And now they've taken a child,
the child of your best friends, and they're going to turn her into a
weapon just to bring you down. And all this, my love, in fear of you."
The series six mid-way point was
A Good Man Goes To War and the big revelation was revealed here and judging by the response on the
Internet in 2011 this story will go down as one of the big ones. But should it? Was A Good Man Goes To War a great episode or
will it be mainly viewed in the eyes of the fans as one of the greatest stories
ever due to the fact that we find out who River Song really is. The clues are all there in this episode as River
Song is in fact Amy and Rory's baby. You
got that. Good. So does this story live up to the hype? I believe so as I was mainly watching to see
who River Song is. After getting the
answer I realized this story was more filler than substance and was just a
publicity to get fans talking about the show.
Was this the greatest story ever? Well no, not really. But it wasn't that bad either. I mean there was a lot of stuff going on in
it and we had the reappearance of fighter planes from Victory of the Daleks and
the pirates from The Curse of the Black Spot. Did we really need to have all
these characters in it? I don't think so
as it just seemed to be a cluster fracker.
I think this story would have survived without bringing back all those
characters. That is one of Steven
Moffats downfalls as he likes to bring back characters that would not make
sense in the overall story like Danny Boy. So yes I wasn't that crazy to see
the pirates and fighter planes. I didn't
mind seeing the Cybermen but wouldn't they just gun down Rory when he appeared
on the control deck? I like the Cybermen
and was disappointed that they appeared wimpy and didn't play a bigger part in
this story. I mean they just stood there and were bullied by Rory. They
listened to his questioned and stood there like toy soldiers. That was pretty pathetic.
