It's been a while since I've been really impressed by Doctor Who episodes. The latter half of this series especially has elicited a 'meh' reaction from me and I don't feel an overwhelming compulsion to watch them again just yet (and I'm not touching "Night Terrors" with a barge pole). Yes, this episode did a surprisingly good job of tying up the loose ends (considering Moffat had 45 minutes in which to do it, and he had to introduce a new world as well - this explains why the first 15 minutes are dedicated to exposition) and yes, there were some cracking moments in there. However, it just wasn't as good as I was hoping it would be. I think I'll have to wait until I see all the episodes in close proximity before I consider this to be a good season overall.
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1 - Jack
While I agree with you about 'Night Terrors', and also felt that 'The God Complex' was a particularly average episode, the rest of the episodes were fantastically done, and 'The Girl Who Waited' was one of my top 5 all-time favourite episodes. Definitely the best episode of Series 6/Fnarg.2 they did.
2 - Steve Does Dr Who
Personally, I found it a pretty patchy season, and the reveal of how the Doctor escapes death at the lake was a bit of a cop-out - as it was always going to have to be - but overall, I enjoyed the episode.
3 - John Smith
With your whole point about the Tesselecta being more fluid and not as robotic this ep I hav come o conclusion on that point that after the botched job in Berlin they probalery would have had more training to ensure that this sort of thing did not happen again. Good review in all.
4 - atkinson
The whole basis of season 6 was so contrived that there was no way this episode could be successful. It distracts us with questions like "why is the first question Dr Who?", so that we don't ask "Why do the Silence want to kill the Doctor, and how is having Riversong shooting the Doctor while wearing an automated space suit at an Arizonan lake the simplest assassination plot they can hatch?