Ok so i'm a bit behind on the blog front but circumstances have meant watching the episodes later than broadcast and, in perfectly timey-wimey Moffat style - out of order!!
In the post for part one of the Silurian two parter I said I thought the first episode was either a perfect set up for a great finale or would turn out to be too slow and leave too much for the next 45 minutes to cram in.
Turns out I was wrong since neither happened. The second part, Cold Blood, felt in some ways like a completely different story to the first. That's not necessarily a criticism though.
The Silurians themselves were pigeon-holed quite neatly into a range of pro and anti "apes" groups, setting up that excellent moral dilemma this foe brings up and the superb way that Doctor Who can show that no conflicts are a "black and white" good-versus-evil. Both sides had their bad eggs and even the human who "did wrong" had motivation for her actions. It's this sort of thing that lifts Doctor Who beyond the categories of "just for kids" or "just sci-fi".
The episode also looked fantastic. The design team once again excelled themselves with a pretty superb looking underground world for the Silurians.
If anything then the ending did feel rather too simple. The friendly Silurian simply hit the pause button againand we returned to the status quo....
....and then came THAT ending. In some ways the death of Rory over shadowed what had come before it, but equally it added a nice twist to an otherwise formulaic end. Amy's reaction and subsequent "recovery" was powerful and not over-played and the Doctor pulling a fragment of the Tardis out of the crack was a suitably tantalising set up for what is to come.
Overall then, plenty of good things here. Not a classic but certainly one to warrant further viewings.
7/10
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