Short review this time, I am on holiday.

Mel, the best friend that we have never seen before, has appeared. She is the only one who believed in Amy, despite the fact that no one believed in him. She steals things, compulsively: a sports car, a bus, the TARDIS.

She wants to go back in time and kill Hitler.

Meanwhile, in Germany or somewhere under Nazi rule, a shape changing, mosaic robot replaces a member of the Nazi party. Somewhat oddly, the robot is run by tiny little people who live in the robot’s head.

They were going to kill Hitler, but the TARDIS landed on him.

Rory got to tell Hitler to shut up, the Doctor told him to put Hitler in a cupboard.

Ah, and Melody makes sense all of a sudden. Sort of. ‘I am going to wear a lot of jodpurs.’

Not a whole lot of sense though. It is a whole lot of paradox, wrapped in a Gordian time knot and dipped in fish fingers and custard. A few questions were answered, a lot more were posed.

Who is the Silence? What is the question? Why have a deadly security system that you can’t turn off? Where did the Tuxedo come from?

It was clever and complex, not always In a good way. The emotional pay off to Melody Pond’s story was disappointing. In fact, it was borderline offensive. The show is significantly better than Torchwood, but I feel narratively blue-balled.