The Girl Who Waited BBC Three Repeat
tiggerpooh
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Saw this on BBC Three at 7:45pm. Thoroughly enjoyed the story about two Amys, one of which had aged 36 years. 
This story felt like Castrovalva, with Peter Davison from 1982. That one I really like to watch now and again. In fact I pretty much love all the stories that had Tegan in them.
Plus, I prefer Anthony Ainley's Master to Roger Delgado's.
I'm looking forward to seeing The God Complex on Friday. I've seen that before and have got it on the Series 6 Box Set.
I'm a big fan of David Walliams anyway. Love Little Britain, Little Britain USA and Come Fly With Me. Shame that there isn't going to be a second series of Come Fly With Me or a second series of Little Britain USA. Apparently I read on the Internet last week that Matt Lucas doesn't want to do a second series of Come Fly With Me, and David is too busy with Britain's Got Talent.
This story felt like Castrovalva, with Peter Davison from 1982. That one I really like to watch now and again. In fact I pretty much love all the stories that had Tegan in them.
Plus, I prefer Anthony Ainley's Master to Roger Delgado's.I'm looking forward to seeing The God Complex on Friday. I've seen that before and have got it on the Series 6 Box Set.
I'm a big fan of David Walliams anyway. Love Little Britain, Little Britain USA and Come Fly With Me. Shame that there isn't going to be a second series of Come Fly With Me or a second series of Little Britain USA. Apparently I read on the Internet last week that Matt Lucas doesn't want to do a second series of Come Fly With Me, and David is too busy with Britain's Got Talent.
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It did have a 'star trek' sort of vibe about it.
The minimalistic cast worked brilliantly - just the three leads and the voice of Imelda Staunton carrying the tale. It could have fallen flat but I really enjoyed it. Series 6B had such variety in its standalone stories, but this was probably my favourite of the bunch (along with LKH)
I just think the whole ep is a great one and showed in part how I believe in the modern age a solo male companion could work. Rory and the Doctor in their bits together work ever so well as a team, it's a shame that dynamic didn't get overly explored elsewhere. Dinosaurs on a Spaceship did it greatly but an Amy-lite ep would have brought it out great in my opinion.
I just feel now he and Karen have left, we never got to see Rory/Arthur's full potential on the show, but what we got was still great though!
Overall, a fab episode with a fab cast!
I loved Series 6 as a whole, I just found the pacing and structure to let it down. Opening with a two-parter of such scale made it difficult to care about the following episodes in quite the same way, given all the unresolved plots. Day of the Moon even referred to the events of the episodes that followed as "some adventures" as if they had been relegated to a rank lesser.
A Good Man Goes To War and The Wedding of River Song tried to cram in far too much. There was no breathing space, as each contained enough ideas to carry half a series. They tried resolving a serialised story arc with a single 45 minute episode, and I think it failed in my opinion.
As a whole though, I loved Series 6. I enjoyed River Song's story, I liked the variety of episodes on offer and I don't know if it is just me, but Series 6 seemed very...colourful.