Comic Relief Special - Space and Time

What a brilliant mini-episode! Well, mini-episodes… Finally having some new Who on the screens since Christmas; it just feels too long. Now, with an episode set entirely within the TARDIS, you have to praise it to the Almighty Moffat that he could think of something both plausible and original, and he does it with complete charm and brilliance that it’s impossible not to watch over and again. With Rory now an official part of the TARDIS-team, it can only be said that, as a major fan like myself, I want both Amy and Rory in the TARDIS forever more… well, for as long as the Moff can come up with plots suitable for the characters and the all-important originality needed after nearly fifty years of the show.

Moving onto the actual plot of the mini-episode, it was extremely clever make the TARDIS materialize within itself and then to place a time shell over the outer casing of the machine, allowing an amazing timeloop of information to come forth—Amy only knowing what to say BECAUSE she had already said it (similar to Time Crash, anybody?). The same going for Rory’s quite literal, self-conversation, and the Doctor’s statement of the ‘wibby lever’ for the resetting the TARDIS and freeing them of the space and time loop that Rory and Amy’s short skirt had landed them in in the first place—just genius! All three cast members also suiting their roles to the ground and beyond once more, Matt Smith especially as he brings forth the perfect alien-ness towards the Eleventh Doctor, along with that hint of human that make the Doctor the character we know and love.

Let us not forget, too, the important information presented just after the six-ish minute special, the series six introductory episode, The Impossible Astronaut, airing on twenty-third of April—Easter Saturday! (My prediction being this ‘impossible’ episode will be better than the previous from Series Two) And it is with pleasure to announce that, to those who do not know yet, episode two is called, Day of the Moon! So there we go…

Am not going to rate the characters or the plot, because of both the length of the episode and this review so let us move straight on to…

Overall rating for the mini- episode: 10 out of 10, it is for charity after all!

And continuing with my Smith-related reviews, coming up this week: Christopher and his Kind! Airing at 9:30 tonight (19^th March) on BBC2, and available on iPlayer soon after.