I’m more worried by the fact that while we got some answers to questions set up by series five, we’ve been given a boatload more for series seven to answer, and after The Wedding Of River Song I’m not so eager to see them fully answered.

Not that it was all bad. The time-shattering kiss was a nice touch, and the All Of History At Once-verse was full of brilliant little moments. (“Pterodactyls are vermin” being a stand-out favourite.)

I do like the idea that the Doctor is moving away from the egocentric “Who da man?” attitude he’s been building up in a very nicely-formed character arc (beginning with his “look me up” speech to the Vashta Nerada until it backfires spectacularly in The Pandorica Opens) and is now ready to fall back into obscurity as he thwarts evil. If nothing else, it should get Lawrence Miles working on new arguments against the show.

And by the way, was anybody else expecting to see Lorna Bucket and the Gamma Forests in this episode? Maybe next series, then.

Above all, though, wasn’t that a nice posthumous shout-out for Nicholas Courtney?

I know Closing Time was disappointing but that used to mean a review would take a while to go up, not the broadcast discussion.

I do hope you keep going with this. It’s the community that’s nice, even if people occasionally don’t have time for anything other than lurk mode.

Anyway, all the best. No worries if maintaining this forum is too much given the other stuff you have to do in life. I couldn’t do it, and please don’t receive my sentiments as some kind of demanding.

One of my favourite things about this episode was watching the Doctor’s reaction to spying Rita as a potential new companion. The fact that he so readily joked about “firing” Amy made a nice contrast with the fact that the episode’s conclusion was all about her.

I don’t really have many criticisms of this episode in itself, but did anyone think it was slightly hurt by following on so soon from the very similar Night Terrors? It was a bit distracting to find myself making comparisons throughout. Both episodes involved childhood fears; the doll’s house and hotel were quite similar Shining-referencing, exit-less locations (this seems to be something of a trend this series, what with the House-controlled TARDIS from The Doctor’s Wife); and the mind control elements of both “praise him” and the doll transformations felt like similar threats. (But this episode really benefited from the fact that “praise him” was much more thoroughly explored than those doll transformations.)

The final shot of the teaser for next week’s episode reminded me of that signature gory moment from Hitchcock’s The Birds…

Last night, I deemed The God Complex my favourite story before the title sequence even began.

Absolutely brilliant.

Still, I did briefly expect to learn that Amy Pond is red/green colour blind in this episode.

Correct!

Actually, I was more referring to Planet of the Dead, there…