Doctor Who Series 6 Episode 11 “The God Complex”
Cast: Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, Arthur Darvill, Caitlin
Blackwood and David Williams
Review - SPOILER ALERT!
Let me put one thing out in the open, Doctor Who is brilliant ahahaha this episode was a fantastic for a number of good reasons… It’s scary story like “Night Terrors” it worked very well with the hotel having huge corridors and identical rooms a smart idea, which writers have been using for a long time “The Shining” is perfect example. The script is extremely witty, particularly when it comes to David Walliams’s cowardly moleman character, a lot like Peter Kay’s Abzorbaloff lol I liked how the Doctor within the first 5 mins was impress by Rita’s intelligent on what was going on? Favourite line “Amy your fired” “What?” “Just joking ahaha” (The Doctor: Phone Me) ahaha I found very funny in how she could of been a possible companion, one I did notice throughout the episode was the framed photos on the wall that had a Sontaran, Judoon and Tritovore all aliens from past series.
Let me put one thing out in the open, Doctor Who is brilliant ahahaha this episode was a fantastic for a number of good reasons… It’s scary story like “Night Terrors” it worked very well with the hotel having huge corridors and identical rooms a smart idea, which writers have been using for a long time “The Shining” is perfect example. The script is extremely witty, particularly when it comes to David Walliams’s cowardly moleman character, a lot like Peter Kay’s Abzorbaloff lol I liked how the Doctor within the first 5 mins was impress by Rita’s intelligent on what was going on? Favourite line “Amy your fired” “What?” “Just joking ahaha” (The Doctor: Phone Me) ahaha I found very funny in how she could of been a possible companion, one I did notice throughout the episode was the framed photos on the wall that had a Sontaran, Judoon and Tritovore all aliens from past series.
The fear factor was very good in picking the right monsters
for the theme of story, e.g. The Weeping Angels with strange angles and
sequences making things feel like something experienced in a dream state, and
having the creepy dumbs that laugh and directly looking at you was done well by
the director (and the filming crew) one of the bad things about the story is hard
to keep track, sometimes it didn’t make sense lol apart from the scene where
the hotel illusion rolled back and the monster died, I’m guess the monster is just
needs to eat on people’s faiths to live but if that’s true he got no choice and
the monster is more of a victim, this is why I like Doctor Who is not stereotypical
monsters wanting to take over the world…it’s an alien who does what he needs to
do of course killing people is wrong but as a viewer I do feel sorry for this character.
One of the best scenes was Matt Smith’s The Doctor looking
into room 11 (nice reference being he’s the 11th Doctor lol) and not
showing he’s greatest fear, my money is on the Doctor seeing himself in that
room like Series 5 “Amy's Choice” plus we never saw Amy’s fear also, so I’m interested
to see whether they make it known later date. The cast put in impressive
performances, most notably Matt Smith, who was tremendous in the scene where he
makes Amy lose her faith in him and of course later on The Doctor bids farewell
to the Ponds and decide to take them home, I found it to be smart writing because
of past companies, one being trapped on a parallel universe, one losing her memories
of being with the time lord and others which had ended in a bad note….The
Doctor as learned from past mistakes and no is moving on, I would think the
Ponds will be back for the season finale, right?
Overall I found it to be an interesting episode with a strong
ending and is definitely one to remember.
Thanks for reading :D
