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Overview

First aired

Saturday, April 30, 2011

Production Code

2.2

Written by

Steven Moffat

Directed by

Toby Haynes

Runtime

45 minutes

Story Type

Two-Parter

Time Travel

Past

Story Arc (Potential Spoilers!)

Amy's Pregnancy, Melody Pond, Silence Will Fall

Location (Potential Spoilers!)

Earth, USA, Utah

UK Viewers

7.30 million

Appreciation Index

87

Synopsis

As Amy Pond, Rory Williams and River Song are pursued across America by Canton Everett Delaware III and the FBI, the Eleventh Doctor is locked in the perfect prison.

Against the backdrop of the first moon landing, the Doctor and his companions must solve the mystery of the aliens and the little girl.

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before eleventh doctor the ponds and river song visit florida july 16 tenth doctor visit kennedy space center he eat half cheese sandwich to watched saturn v launch to the moon two agents came by Spencer and Milledge had known of a species july 17 he met Justin gave his dictaphone but The agents knocked the Doctor out and locked in an office with justin on it july 20 it sunday thank help by Mission Commander Cliff Boxworth he could reach the TARDIS to the moon he pick the craters this one long shadows and stark highlights The Doctor kept his Sanctuary Base 6 space suit in the TARDIS to put it on with a broom, a spade and a wireless radio a deckchair and a telescope and listen a radio 4 with afternoon play He surveyed the crater He set to work he sweeping carefully on the floor of the crater he dig a message of the surface of the Moon to get the alien species to leave and he looked to the star With no trace of the aliens they left a Perfect time he get a deckchair to sit and listen The Archers he used a telescope to see apollo 11 he have whistled and flung his arms into the heavens, as though offering up the biggest hug in the world say light The Doctor folded his arms across his eyes as an impossibly bright haze poured into the crater from above, so strong that the he could almost feel the dust rippling out from around his feet he met apollo 11 after The agents gone tenth doctor is happy and watched the astronauts for a moment neil first step on the moon he happy On the rim of the farthest crater the Doctor watched, a smile tickling his lips. And was that a tear in his eye He was glad before he in the TARDIS As Armstrong planted the flag, he thought he heard a sound fading over his earpiece. A kind of wheezing, groaning noise. He felt a tiny breeze inside his space suit as the particles of the universe shifted ever so slightly.

The flag fluttered in his hand. tenth doctor best stargaze ever on the moon for my future dream doctor who blue moon my fav website story to become a tv episode for xmas


Amazing two parter. Clever and satisfying resolution. Love the Silence.


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I liked it. There's some really interesting plot threads and I'm really interested in seeing what the girl regenerating at the end was all about. Definitely needs a rewatch though. The pace was way too fast to keep up with everything.

One thing I did have a problem with though was the resolution to the cliffhanger. That was poor and was the main reason the episode needed some catching up with. How did everyone get out? They ran away. What about the girl that was shot? Oh, lol, Amy missed. It was like a completely different story from the last episode and there was no explanation as to what had actually happened in the previous three months. It was like there was missing part of the story. If it is part of the series then I will take my words back but I'm not sure if it will be.

Other than that, it was good stuff.


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Not as good as The Impossible Astronaut but is still pretty good. The Doctor using the moon landing to defeat the Silence is a good plot twist and although it was never brought up again in the TV series, I'm glad Big Finish picked the Silence back up for the boxsets, UNIT: Silenced, Doom's Day: Dying Hours and Classic Doctors, New Monsters: Broken Memories.


Why? Nooooo.


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SILENCE: Silence will fall.

— The Silence, Day of the Moon

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Transcript

[Valley of the Gods, Utah]

(Three months later - July 1969.
Amy is running for her life from men in a four wheel drive.)

CANTON: Suspect directly ahead. Coming to you now. Over.

(Another vehicle is coming from the opposite direction. They trap her by a cliff.)

AMY: Canton.
CANTON: Miss Pond.
AMY: Is that a body bag?
CANTON: Yes, it is.
AMY: It's empty.
CANTON: How about that?
AMY: Do you even know why you're doing this, eh? Can you even remember the warehouse?


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