I have a theory that the Doctor that is killed by the spacesuit person is the Flesh version of him, because if you remember, his flesh copy is still around, and what with going back and forth in time, it’s not for certain what time frame they’re in when he’s shot. It’s so confusing. I cried when Amy said goodbye to the Doctor, and his little wobbly lip just pushed me over the edge. I adore Matt Smith as the Doctor and he plays it so well.
I remember moaning after the trailer for next week, “But i don’t want stupid James Corden, I want Karen Gillan back!” lol even though I know she’ll return, it’s just sad that she’s not in next weeks episode. Oh well.

Okay I know it wasn’t a weeping Angels episode but if we remember back to Blood and Stone/Time of Angels then the image of an Angel BECOMES an Angel, pretty damn dangerous room right there!

@Katheryn Actually that is an interesting theory! What if the Doctor you see killed is the Flesh Version?

well in the wedding of river song the doctor getting killed by the astronaut isn’t a big part it’s all about river and amy and rory. so we will be seeing real time amy and rory back in the series. so it’s only for one ep okay. just like the lodger really

oh and what was in the doctor’s room????? anyone enlighten me???

Of course I meant FLESH and Stone

At the risk of causing absolute scandal to the Whovian universe but Toby Whithouse is the worst writer to beckon on Doctor Who since Helen Raynor! The idea (like most of Whithouse’s scripts) are a good idea on paper but was not brilliantly executed. The Minotaur was a terrible idea for a creature and the reasoning behind him haunting people in the hotel is weak. If you watch Confidential afterwards you will see TW try and explain why the creature is doing this but actually he’s finding it hard because he is making more complicated than it needs to be. All he really had to do was just have that the creature feast on the character’s fears, problem solved!

David Walliams was severely underused in the episode and I felt that Rory had gone back a step, following a fantastic character opening in the girl who waited. Sadly the episode was not creepy, it was actually quite dull. The only saving grace came in two forms;

1) The doctor’s room- brilliant idea and better that we never found out what it was. I personally think it’s the time lords as the cloister bell was heard, last time we heard that was towards the end of David Tennant’s run as the doctor.

2) The Doctor telling Amy/Little Amelia to not have faith in him. And although we have not seen the last of amy or rory, the goodbye scene was very well done and emotional.

So far in the 2nd half of series 6; Let’s Kill Hitler was dire, Night Terrors was brilliant followed by a suprisingly poignoint The Girl who waited. Last night’s was a disappointing episode.

Having said that- really looking forward to next week’s return of the cybermen!

P.S: Let me just state that Toby Whithouse is generally a very good writer (especially with Being Human) but his style does not really suit Doctor Who.

Blimey… I hate to be all doom and gloom, and I accept that the final aggregated figure will be up on this, but when “Family Fortunes” beats “Doctor Who” in the overnight ratings (5.19 to 5.17), it worries me ever so slightly.

@Katheryn i have thought that scince i rewatched the first half of the series :) i’m glad i’m not the only one with that theory people look at me oddly when i tell them it xD

this episode again didn’t live up to the trailer but it was still good. i loved the bit when they didn’t show us the doctors fear yet another thing to debate about i guess. i think it is eather river or the time lords because of the cloister bell. the overall story was a bit confusing like why use fears to stop someones faith didn’t make much sence to me neither did the minotor….what would it be doing in a hotel! its just unlikely. i enjoyed the bit when amy lost her faith it was quite poinient and also the ending when the doctor said “goodbye” to amy and i kinda teared up at the end even though i know that amy and rorry will be back cause come on its kinda obvious.
Overall the episode gets a 7/10 from me. this second half of the series has really disapointed me i hope it gets better as the last few episodes run.

@amelia
You are absolutely right. Amy didn’t know she was pregnant in TIA because by the picnic she had already been kidnapped and replaced by her ganger. And the Doctor’s weight crack was an attempt to find out if she knew (ie give her an excuse to tell him why the weight was put on: but she didn’t say anything, c’os she didn’t know).

My guess for the kidnap: after the “home” scene, before they got off the bus.

Even though they are different sets I think this house may be the same one “in story” (you can’t always get the same set twice, or get permission to paint it blue).

I thought it was a decent episode, with some good and some bad for every character. Two things are bugging me:
1) Why did Amy lose faith in the Doctor so quickly? If she has such strong faith that it’s like a religion, then having the Doctor sit her down and explain that he’s a bad person shouldn’t have such a strong effect.
2) What does the room number on Amy’s door mean? The doctor’s was 11, almost certainly because he’s the 11th doctor, but what does 7 have to do with Amy? Have I just forgotten something from earlier in the series, or is this new?

I enjoyed this episode when i first saw it, but after watching it a second time many things bothered me. did they ever mention WHY those people were there? WHY people get sent to that prison? Another thing that bothers me about the season in general is this whole feeling that this is the end of doctor who. The Doctor accepts his death by River in the start of the season, and now he mentions death being a gift, having lived so long.
Oh and inside the doctors room was david tennant

Thats exactly what i was thinking, APPLES ARE RUBBISH!!!@vaguely

@37lightbulbs
I think that Amy has been slowly losing faith in the Doctor since the beginning of the series, and especially since Demon’s Run. The previous episode really shook her, but she still held on to her (childish) belief that he would always save her. The Doctor was really just breaking that last thread of faith. And even so, she regains her faith by the end of the episode, with the knowledge that even though he won’t always be there to save her in the future, he had the strength to do so then. Her room number was 7 because she was seven years old when she met the Doctor. I would argue that, because she has kept faith for so long, she has stayed seven years old in a piece of her mind.

@JohnC
The episode explained that the prison ship drifts through space, picking up random people with strong faith and then converting that faith into food for the Minotaur.

Alors, what did I think of Toby Whithouse’s God Complex? In a sentence, I thought that it would have been far better if it was just fifteen minutes longer.

So many big things were chucked at us with too little time to react and understand. It’s feeding on fear, no it’s feeding on faith, this is a prison, the creature is a god, it’s picking up random people, it’s because society has become more secular, Gibbis is sinister and manipulative (why? For what storyline purpose?)… BUT the ideas themselves were actually really quite brilliant. I get the feeling that had I just read the script, rather than watched the episode, I would have loved it, because I would have been taking it in at my own pace.

Amy’s faith in the Doctor. That was brilliant. The scene with Caitlin was beautiful, and the Doctor’s “mad man in a box” speech was almost perfect. It would have been utterly perfect if he had mentioned her daughter…

Actually, that’s something I’m starting to get slightly annoyed about. From Demons Run through to Berlin, it’s all about Melody. From Night Terrors onwards, no one seems to care. They’re just off on adventures, without a thought to their absent daughter. And yes, maybe this timeline has to happen with Melody being raised as a weapon, but I still think Amy and Rory should react to that more. And then in TGWW, there is no mention made of “you made me wait for 36 years. 36 years without anyone, without my husband, without my daughter. I haven’t seen my own child for 36 years.” Is she not important? Amy’s offhand comment at the end of this ep helped, but it’s not really enough for me.

But anyway, this week’s verdict: very good on paper, not quite so good onscreen. Worked very well with the emotional scenes, nice attempt at tying the emotions into the plot, technicalities and explanations got a little lost. 3.5/5

@TSG
Their daughter grew up; unknowingly they were with her as she grew up, so there’s not much to worry about,they know where she was.

Great review!

I don’t think I was as positive about the episode as you though. I think the biggest problem in the episode was that it was too easy for the Doctor to take Amy’s faith away from her.

But so many of the problems in the narrative of this episode stem directly from the writers having no idea of Amy as a character

hi does any one no if Amy and Rory
have left or are they coming back soon ? :’(

this all is wrong.
in the eleventh hour the doctor tried
an apple and didn’t like it and now
on the god complex he likes them how
weird is that……