My Issues with 'Let's Kill Hitler'

When I love a show, I really love a show. I will basically stand by it even when it sucks, and I'll be in denial that it sucks. That's why it is killing me that I can't love the latest episode of Doctor Who, and maybe in the long run the events of the episode will make the season or something, but that isn't good enough. I'm getting so sick of Moffat.

First of all, there was hardly a storyline at all. It was just everywhere and it felt like 50 stories were mashed together. Someone on the nets said that it was like Moffat got so into his own mythology that he panicked and tried to get out of it in one episode, and that seems really true. Furthermore, why are Amy and Rory okay with their baby just being stolen? Why are they even more okay being told that River is their baby so everything is fine? In this episode River is freaking crazy. They need to stop skipping ahead months at a time between episodes. This has happened, what, 3 times just this season? Why did they need to run around America for 3 months? And then why was Amy just totally fine chillin' on an asteroid for so long? And now again they've jumped through the summer. I get that irl things take time, but not when you have a time machine. MAKES NO SENSE.

My favourite part of the whole entire episode was the past companion cameos. For once, I thought to myself, Moffat is acknowledging that there was in fact many series of Doctor Who before he took over. It was nice to see that the Doctor still does care about them, but as a fan of the series I was also deeply offended. How on earth does he not feel more guilty about what happened to Donna and Martha over Amy. She had a rough childhood but then she got to go on adventures and all these crazy times. Martha got adventures, and now she's some crazy war machine. Maybe she's happy, BUT HOW WOULD WE EVER KNOW. And Donna. Just Donna. She got all these adventures, had proper character development, and then NOPE, she forgot it all and she is still a temp and if she ever sees the Doctor again her brain will explode. How are these not worse than being left behind by an imaginary friend when you are a little girl? She has issue but everyone does and it's offensive to be told that he doesn't feel that bad about the other companions.

Moffat needs to stop telling us how amazing Amy Pond is and show us why she is so amazing. She's the worst character on the show. I remember when I first started to watch series 5 and she was dressed as a cop, I thought she would actually be a cop and that would be so bad ass. But nope- stripper. But no you guys, the fact that she's a stripper means she is in control of her sexuality and that makes her a strong female character. k.

Which brings me to my #1 problem with Moffat. He is so sexist. And he thinks being so blatantly sexist will make him somehow not sexist, I don't even know, probably timey-wimey bs, to be honest.

That's why I feel like River should be the one the Doctor feels most guilty about. Her whole life literally revolves around finding the Doctor and spending time with him. Of course she is Moffat's character so that must be her main goal in life. Even worse though is how she dies, because she doesn't even get to die. If she died, that would be sad, but a lot of characters have died before. No, the Doctor plugs her into a computer so she has to spend the rest of time taking care of fake little children and hanging out with co-workers she was kind of nice to once. That is her new purpose in life, to just care for fake little children! And this is supposed to be better than letting her die. Shaking my head at you forever for this, Moffat. She is the most tragic character, and not because you tell us that she is, and not because as she gets older the love of her life gets younger, but because she doesn't even get to die. Her afterlife is a billion times worse than her beforelife, where she's a lady Indiana Jones. And the Doctor should feel guilty about that.

I've liked most of the episodes this season, Moffat's less than the others, but this episode really reignited my love of RTD's Doctor Who, just by showing the old companions. It was so much better then, even if it was a bit more cheesy and didn't have as big a budget. I'm just excited for when Moffat leaves and maybe Toby Whithouse takes over and makes it absolutely terrifying.