Doctor Who:
The Impossible Astronaut/Day of the
Moon
By Steven Moffat
"Guys, sorry, but
you're way out of time. Now, come on. A bit of history for you. Aren't
you proud? Because you helped. Now, do you know how many people
are watching this live on the telly? Half a billion. And that's nothing,
because the human race will spread out among the stars. You just watch
them fly.
Billions and billions of them, for billions and billions of years, and
every single one of them at some point in their lives, will look back at
this man,
taking that very first step, and they will never, ever forget it."
Series 6 starts off with a
bang. I mean a BIG BANG. It turns out that the mysterious astronaut in
all the promos happens to be the one person to actually kill the Doctor. I repeat, KILLS THE DOCTOR! (Well we all know that to be not true after
watching The Wedding of River Song.) It
was rumored that someone was going to get killed off in the first episode but you
never thought they were serious. I
thought the main storyline for the season was going to be about the Silence but
now I'm not sure. Unless the Doctor's
death is resolved in the second part of this story then I believe preventing
the Doctor's death will be the main storyline which it ended up being among
other things. The thing that was so
clever about this scenario is that the Doctor who dies is 200 years older than
the Doctor we have been watching. The
whole thing that makes this complicated is that Amy, Rory and River saw the older
Doctor die and are now with the younger Doctor and agree to not tell him what
awaits him in the future. Amy seems to
be conflicted with this decision as she believes that the Doctor should be told
and apparently will go to lengths to prevent him getting killed.
For the first time in 7 years we
finally have a story that opens a new season that isn't silly and way over the
top. I mean the Impossible Astronaut is
downright scary. I was sitting at the
edge of my seat watching this episode as I couldn't believe what I was seeing
and I was anxious to see what would happen next. One of the main reasons I liked the
Impossible Astronaut is that you have to pay attention to what was going on
because if you missed something you will be lost. Steven Moffat has crammed in so much into
this opening episode that it will make your head spin. Not only did he introduce the Doctors death
dilemma he also adds that Amy is now pregnant. We also see for the first time the new alien
The Silence. This is one cool enemy for
the Doctor to fight. What intrigues me
about them is that after you see them they have the power to make you forget
that you saw them at all. So in theory
they wipe your memory. How cool is
that. I think that The Silence will pose
to be a big problem for the Doctor as they return in The Wedding of River Song
and apparently the regeneration story The Time of The Doctor.
