I don't normally do this (in the four months I've had this blog), but I'm gonna review 'A Town Called Mercy'. It was awful. Singularly awful. Unforgivably awful.
Not only was it not funny, it was unfunny: the parodical elements were nothing less than cringeworthy ('I'll have a tea, but the strong stuff; leave the bag in'- I wanted to thump him) and the only good line was 'his name's susan and he wants you to respect his life choices'; the rest of the horse thing was just a rip off of 'I speak baby', which was slicker and came first.
The plot was ridiculous- it was meant to be a moral dilemma, but it just wasn't. They should've just let the doc die at the beginning. Yes, he'd done some good, but as the doctor said, you don't get to choose your justice- and as the cyborg said, the victim does get to choose. Amy's logic 'Are you gonna hunt down everyone who's built a gun' doesn't work as an argument because guns aren't sentient- the doctor wasn't angry because the doc had built a weapon, it was cos he altered people against their will. The doc even ended up killing himself (and where did that come from?), rendering the entire thing pointless.
Overall, it was boring and overwraught and didn't have enough in it to last forty minutes. I expect more of Doctor Who, and honestly it's a shame that this was one of Amy and Rory's last episodes- they didn't even need to be in it. They did bugger all. Shame on whoever wrote it.
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