Doctor Who - The Time Of Angels

This episode has one of the best pre-title sequences I can remember for Doctor Who: one half Mission Impossible / Spooks/ Hustle with River Song and the other half, separated by a gulf of time naturally, The Doctor in a museum with an artefact. Fast, slick and intriguing.

And it doesn't stop there, the episode has a lovely rhythm, non-stop and full but not rushed. Everything felt inevitable and yet not predictable. I only realised at the end that this was a two-parter and again supports my hypothesis that forty-five minutes isn't long enough for a Doctor Who story.

The inter-play between The Doctor, River and Amy was great: witty and sharp, and the full story of River Song is intriguing, I hope Moffat has the full arc mapped out. It can't be as simple as she was/is his wife surely? And where did she learn to fly the TARDIS? Is she a Time Lord? (I loved the wise-cracks about flying the TARDIS, very funny.)

Also pretty good was the transformation of a quarry into a spaceship crash site. The BBC don't have a massive budget for Doctor Who, so they don't get to use exotic locations, but this one looked different enough and very effective.

On top of that there were Weeping Angels! I was worried about Moffat bringing back the angels because Blink was such an awesome episode, and I didn't want him to spoil the magic. I should have had faith, the angels came back scarier than before. No mere time relocations this time, they're monsters, they're nasty, they're super powerful.

All in all an excellent episode, can't wait for the second part.