Rate & Discuss: Day of the Moon

April 30th, 2011
Warning! This article and its comments may contain spoilers...

The Doctor is locked in the perfect prison while Amy, Rory and River Song are being hunted down across America by the FBI. With the help of new friend and FBI-insider Canton, they are reunited to share their memories. The world is occupied by an alien force that controls humanity through post-hypnotic suggestion, and no one can be trusted.

Our heroes embarked on an apollo mission tonight as Series 6 of Doctor Who continued, and there were shocks aplenty as their US adventure reached its thrilling conclusion…

Episode one’s cliffhanger saw us all holding our breath as Amy shared a life-changing revelation, and part two (as part two’s often do!) picked up from right where we left off, and from then on it was non stop action as Earth faced a threat from a terrifying force.

Three months later, the Doctor was locked up in the perfect prison and his friends were alone, terrified and on the run across America. It seemed that nothing or no one could break the Silence as they controlled humanity through post-hypnotic suggestion. Of course, the new series has only just begun, and with 5 other episodes to get through this spring, things were eventually wrapped up and the TARDIS team managed to save the day, aided – as one often is – by Neil Armstrong’s foot, and be back in time for tea.

The Day of the Moon has dawned, and as the sun doth set on the Doctor’s dapple in the desert, we want to know what you thought of the latest episode. Do you think it was a worthy conclusion to the opening two-parter, or do we need to speak to Houston about a problem? Did its momentous cliffhanger result in you screaming at the television? Leave your mark in the comments below (the good, the bad and the ugly) before you forget!

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96 comments on this article
  1. vaguely
    May 3rd, 2011 at 5.31pm | #1

    @Patrick
    How do we know you are not the same Patrick, caught in a wibbly-wobbly timey-whimey loop?

  2. elena
    May 3rd, 2011 at 5.39pm | #2

    @vaguely
    haa love it :)

  3. elena
    May 3rd, 2011 at 5.41pm | #3

    well all i think is that river is deffo amy’s and rory’s baby from the future and maybe that little girl is amy’s baby from her recent pregnancy which might not deffo happen as it is a tipping point, what do you think? x

  4. Ruby
    May 3rd, 2011 at 6.51pm | #4

    I might be being really stupid but I dont really think there is a chance River is Amy’s daughter :L Shes been in it since series four, Moffat wasnt even head writer then, didnt even have the character of Amy (and even at the start of series five when he had created Amy, Karen might have only done one season then the whole River is Amys daughter would all be ruined) Since hes known River identity since series four, I dont think its anything to do with Amy :L

  5. TSG
    May 3rd, 2011 at 6.55pm | #5

    @Ruby
    Very very good point… unless he knew back in s4 that River was going to be the child of the Doctor’s companions, and it was just left to actually write the companions… :P

  6. elena
    May 3rd, 2011 at 7.12pm | #6

    good point but didn’t moffet write river’s character? so i guess he could of known way in advance? i dunno, but i do think rory is her father somehow? there are alot of clues to suggest it… :)

  7. Patrick
    May 3rd, 2011 at 8.37pm | #7

    @vaguely
    Cause i posted this comment: “When the girl regenerated it was 6 MONTHS LATER so what happened in them 6 months?”

    BUT not this quote: “The little girl is obviously Amy and Rory’s with a Time Head.”

  8. trevor chalkley
    May 3rd, 2011 at 9.33pm | #8

    @Patrick
    it took six months to get from flor to nyc think about it thats why she was dieing no real food and heat for six months that would kill most little kids!!!

  9. TE
    May 3rd, 2011 at 10.36pm | #9

    @elena
    Exactly – River drops the bomb that Rory is her father in Day of the Moon, which would obviously suggest that Amy is her mother.

  10. Ellen
    May 3rd, 2011 at 10.45pm | #10

    Who was the eye patched lady? I thought at first something happened and that wasn’t supposed to be in but it was Oo

  11. TE
    May 3rd, 2011 at 11.08pm | #11

    @Ellen
    The mystery will be resolved soon… ;)

  12. Grace
    May 4th, 2011 at 3.27am | #12

    The little girl is the nightmare child that never was….

  13. Rassilon
    May 4th, 2011 at 5.42pm | #13

    @Calli Arcale That already happened. He did not know her at all as Professor River Song in Silence in the Library (Series 4 Episode 8). She ‘died’ in the next episode – Forest of the Dead. Well, The Doctor ’saved’ her anyway, in digital form that is.

  14. Ellen
    May 4th, 2011 at 7.20pm | #14

    @TE

    It just seems odd how a mysterious lady opens a hatch in the door and closes, its quite random but im sure we will find out ;)

  15. Calli Arcale
    May 5th, 2011 at 12.49am | #15

    That’s exactly what I was alluding to, Rassilon, and of course also what Moffatt was alluding to — he knew that a significant portion of the audience had seen “Silence in the Library”, and would know that yes, she actually would die on that day. Very bittersweet. Not *precisely* a classical case of dramatic irony, but close, in that much of the audience already knew just when that moment would come. For a change, we knew more than River.

  16. JamButty
    May 5th, 2011 at 5.54pm | #16

    @Ruby

    Moffat has said a while ago that he didn’t decide who River was back then and has been hard to come up with who she is because of that.

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