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Day: March 12, 2014

Confession #52: I Enjoy a Challenge

Ah, the brain-bending twists and turns of a modern Doctor Who plot. Be it episode or series, we’ve come to expect some pretty convoluted machinations. And you know what? I like to be made to think about what I’m watching. I enjoy a challenge.

Just not where it pertains to major plot points.

A theme unfortunately common to Series Seven could be summarized as “WTF just happened here?” Perhaps the most obvious case in point was The Angels Take Manhattan. At the end of the episode, Amy and Rory are zapped back in time by the Weeping Angels, forever lost to the Doctor. Because New York City in 1938 was a temporal mess. Or something.

Before the theme music over the final credits had even faded, though, fans everywhere were looking at each other in puzzlement. Why couldn’t the Doctor ever see them again? If NYC was the problem, why couldn’t they meet him in Vegas or London instead? If it was 1938, then why not wait until 1952? Or maybe 1952 London?