Foggy on Doctor Who - The God Complex

Possibly one of the weakest episodes of Part 2 is like saying it's the worst piece of gold I've ever found.

A lot of my friends disagreed with me on The Girl Who Waited, saying it was boring. Hopefully they have more than shit for brains now that this episode has aired and the themes underlying the episodes have come clear.

But here is me digressing from a well-written, although obnoxiously executed episode.

First things first, The God Complex is probably the most mature episode written for Doctor Who this season, if not on par with The Girl Who Waited. A lot of stuff on faith and religion is played upon here, and it's interesting to see the show take on these matters. The episode is written by the head behind Being Human, so you can see a similar style in modern characters added into a strange situation, I don't think Doctor Who has ever touched upon Muslims before, and of course, those ever superstitious Bloggers (I hate those guys, don't you?)

Add in a lot of strange visuals, like the laughing dolls, a man in a gorilla suit and a sad looking clown, as well as the return of the weeping angels to vamp up the creepy/surreal element of the show, making this one of the more surreal episodes of the series, everything should point to gold.

Sadly, none of these things seem to go anywhere, or make sense in any way or form. Especially when you look back upon the episode and some of the plot details and reveals make some of the earlier stuff less sense. Like what was the police woman's faith? And what did the girls in the room have to do with the bloggers conspiracy theories? And what was with the Clown?

And the big ambiguous question, that I'm a bit sad they never answered, What was in the Doctor's Room? And will it actually be revealed?

Of course, I like the homages to Tron and The Shining (the latter being both key, and very well done). But my god, was the director behind this episode on a major sugar rush, kept having cameras woosh down hallways, none stop dutch angles, wide angle shots of peoples sweaty faces. The episode was more like a showreel or music video than a damn Doctor Who episode.

The acting in the episode wasn't much to be blown away from for the most part (excluding the ending). The episode guest starred David Walliams as some weird cowardly dude who did nothing much but be David Walliams in alien make up. The other guests in the hotel had a little more to work with, in the sense I didn't know who they were, and they often stole the limelight from the time traveling trio.

However, once we get the shocking ending, where we find out that the Doctor is leaving Amy and Rory to live out there lives over dying one day at the hands of the Doctor due to his dangerous travels was both very abrupt (which is as it would feel for the characters, so it's a good point) and very poignant and moving, as well as a very natural ending to the episode, without just being tagged on (Like Rory's death at the end of Cold Blood).

The Girl Who Waited and The God Complex could almost be a two parter (which is lacking in this half of the series), in terms of themes and style (both take part in one place, start of with the Doctor promising a grand adventure, but somethings wrong) and I guess that's what makes it work, for the most part. The God Complex is a well written but amateurishly filmed episode, it's like the director got a cool camera trick guide and used every single page from that book. However, The God Complex does not soil the 4:4 quality ratio of the Part 2...

7.5/10

...although, it looks like the shows producers are putting this too the test with next weeks episode, with the return of the evil Cybermen (Wooh!) and the evil James Corden (Boooooo!), returning from last years lame ass filler episode "The Lodger" (which I hate, with a passion), next week should be interesting, hopefully I won't be spewing up too much hate next week...hopefully...