Never let it be said that when Steven Moffat decides to throw resources behind a story it certainly shows.  Imagination, and the expenditure it often takes, were all over the screen in The Wedding of River Song.  To wrap up a story whose elements began in 2008 had to be, by definition, a daunting task.  And yet, for as much of a puzzle-box structure that Moffat seems to bring to his style of Doctor Who, in the end most of the answers provided in the story, save for the inclusion of the Tesselator, were relatively straightforward and easily guessed. 

It probably amuses The Moff to see so many fans contorting themselves to make even the most trivial inclusion relevant, and yet there's a bit of JN-T in Moffat as well.  For the second straight year his season ending story has been a self-referential continuity free-for-all, but it's been done in such a throwaway manner to remain palatable for the general public.  Still despite best efforts to make the story feel epic as happened in The Pandorica Opens and The Big Bang, The Wedding of River Song felt much more constrained, almost personal, and therein lies the potential for a trap.

Here at THT Omninational we felt oddly detached for the goings on and would've preferred a two-episode wrap up instead of the episode and a fraction we got, and hence it scored somewhat low in the 2011 Dynamic Ratings Table.

Know what though?  That's more than good enough as the forecast to more nu-Who looks awfully, awfully dry for the foreseeable future.

Images and caps for The Wedding of River Song are now online.

Let's put this out there first.  There's absolutely nothing wrong with The God Complex.  It's just that…. sometimes it's the company you keep that carries the overall feeling one has towards an episode.  The company in this case is the shadow feeling running out of The Girl Who Waited.  Of course it also doesn't help that for the second week running this is an episode which to one degree or another has the Doctor/companion relationship at it's core, and in so doing inadvertently trades on somewhat familiar themes. 

Had The Girl Who Waited aired in the first half of the season perhaps then perception here at THT Universal towards The God Complex would be more favorable.  This story certainly had the requisite weirdness one might expect, but like Planet of Fire or The Android Invasion, otherwise fine stories that have been somewhat overlooked because they were hammock-ed between two other great stories, we suspect that The God Complex will look better a year or two down the line.

BTW the reference to The Horns of Nimon aside, once the minotaur's connection was explicitly made, all I could think of was "Lord Nimon!!"

Images and caps for The God Complex are now online.

At first glance Night Terrors bears some superficial resemblance to Fear Her, that strange concoction from David Tennant's first year, but here at THT Galactic Central we were more struck about how it seemed to be more of a macabre version of Patrick Troughon's surreal The Mind Robber.  That's high praise indeed.  God knows it was a far sight better then Gatiss' last outing.

As usual Matt Smith was superb but then all of the cast, including George, was just great.  Lots of images this time around, mostly from the location shooting availabilities in Bristol.  We also experimented with a new technique for producing super HQ caps which we think worked well.

Images and caps for Night Terrors are now online.