On from last week, The Angels are still causing trouble but the big plot point this week is the CRACK in time and space, it finally takes center stage and even though we hear a lot of talk about it, it remains a mystery. All we know for sure is it’s caused by a “big bang” and somehow Amy is involved, OK I’m intrigued. This half of the two parter basically follows The Doctor as he tries to get everyone to safety and is doing a decent job until what was happening to Amy last week starts to effect things and the group must split up. People die and others survive, The Angels (especially Angel Bob) have some cool moments and we finally get to see them move and even though it is simple it freaked me out, I mean I’ve only ever seen these things as statues and while I knew they could move something about seeing it sent a few chills down my spine.

The Doctor, Amy and River all shine this week but that’s to be expected, Matt Smith is straight up owning the role right now, he’s manic in a similar fashion to Tennant but he has a kind of cockiness to him that is coming through that Tennant never had it’s a nice adaptation to the character. Amt has some great moments especially when she is forced to keep her eyes closed due to some Angel shenanigans, some good acting on display. Then theres River, oh River you just keep getting better and something is revealed about her this week that is pretty perplexing, you’ll know if you’ve seen it but it’s something that is stated and could be simple and obvious but stuff is rarely that easy in Who, time will tell. One of the major stand-outs this week was Father Octavian who didn’t really contribute too much IMO last week but has a real great moment this week and The Doctors line to him about “knowing him”, Wow what a great moment . Oh and Amy at the end of the episode...OH MY GOD...SWOON.

I can’t believe we are only 5 weeks in and already we have 3 or 4 classic episodes. It seems like we have had so much story yet we still know nothing, thank god there is still 8 weeks to go, I can’t imagine what is in store for the finale and my mouth is watering in anticipation and like I said we are still 8 damn weeks away! Who hasn’t been this consistently strong during it’s revival, Tennant and Davies would string together a good 3 or 4 episodes but there would always been one dragging things down every so often, so far we don’t have that problem with Moffat and Smith. Even next weeks episode, Vampires in Venice which seems like it could just be a monster of the week type episode looks thrilling. It may be my fanboy-ness slipping through but I’ve never enjoyed Who as much. Perhaps I’ll look back a bit down the road and realize it was more a flavor of the month type love but this show has a whole lot of awesome going for it right now.

10 out of 10

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