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This ad played during BBC America's airing of Doctor Who tonight and made me laugh myself sick.

Anyway, on to the episode!

The reveal that (spoilers!) the woman they were trying to save had been absorbed into one of the insane Daleks was surprising, but not as effective for me as the opening act with the reveal that Amy and Rory are in the process of getting a divorce. Or that Amy's work as a model/perfumer has continued to take off - I thought that was a one-off gag reference to Neil Gaiman (the perfume is called 'petrichor' - the smell of the earth after rain - which is one of Gaiman's favorite odd words and appears in both Sandman and American Gods long before it showed up on Who in his episode.)

I thought the later reason given - Amy's bitterness over her inability to have children - could have been seen a mile away post-that-reveal and has been done a lot in genre fiction. Off the top of my head, Starbuck and Scully both had this storyline. So Moffat's got his work cut out for him, but unlike those characters, he can pivot by making Amy's reaction centered around her relationship. Which Starbuck and Scully really did not have. I strongly suspected before that this season ends with time being rewritten so that Amy and Rory properly raise an infant River, but that just adds fuel to my fire.

Other notable things about this episode: skin-job Daleks didn't work for me, but the idea of a Dalek Prison for the Beautifully Insane, really freaked the fuck out of me. Scary Daleks were very scary in this one, and you never knew if they were capable of killing or not, or if they were scavenged by survivors. (Uh, hey Mulan? They're popping out of the snow. LIKE DAISIES.)



In other news, I watched this at school and one of the freshmen (a dude, of course) was dumb enough to try and tell me that "Love and Monsters" was a Moffat episode. Naturally, after I schooled his ass - to his utter shock, he didn't pay up. I am going to heckle his dumb ass for the ten bucks for the rest of the semester, because someone has to teach nineteen year old chubby nerds that yes, sometimes women know things.

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