Yesterday, I was delighted to discover that I can buy these on Amazon and watch them on my Kindle Fire.

Yes, I'm a noob.
We already knew that.
Let's move on.

Secondly, let's just dispense with this nonsense, shall we?



I thought "Asylum of the Daleks" was a great opener. I suspected that she was going to turn out to be something other than what she appeared to be, but I did not suspect that she would be a Dalek. Maybe there will be a wider personality amongst the Daleks now.
I liked how they revealed that Rori and Amy could not have any more children. Writing their break up and reconciliation into the episode gave it some extra weight.
It's interesting that the Daleks have now forgotten who the Doctor is. I'm sure that will come back later in the season.

"Planet of the Dinosaurs" was good. Not as good as the opener, though full of great ideas.
1) I love the idea of a Silurian ark ship.
2) Inspector LeStradde as (not really) Allan Quartermain was great.
3) I'd like to see more of Rori's dad (Mr Weasley) and Queen Nephratiti (no way I spelled that right)
4) I thought immediately of Escape to the house of Mummies Part II http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0825198/
5) I kept waiting for a "Snakes on a plane" reference, but I may have missed it.

I quite liked this episode. I had expected that it would be overly-gimmicky and a bit dumb, but they tied it in to texisting Doctor Who Mythos rather well, and while it was paced as a Matt-Smith era episode, the basic storyline would have been at home even in the original series (though it would have been longer and involved more scenes of running down corridors).

I am not sure about the Doctor essentially killing the villain, though. It's not the first time that he has done this - for example, during the "Key to Time" storyline in the original series, there was a point when the fourth Doctor literally strapped a bomb to a bad guy and watched him explode - but it was jarring nonetheless.

I generally agree with you, though I had serious problems with the reason for Amy and Rory's break-up (what, had neither of them ever heard of adoption? Even if that wasn't an option for some reason, it would have helped to have some discussion of it - but, then, my fiance and I have been dealing with the childbirth-vs-adoption issue for the last year [turns out, we can have children, but we are still talking about possibly adopting down the road], so perhaps I am just very sensitive to it).

I like the fact that stories from last year, and this opener both dealt to some extent with the Doctor removing himself or being removed from the consciousness of others (which was followed-up in a small way int he next episode), pulling him back from being the legendary figure that he had been developing into and more towards the mysterious traveler of the original series and Chistopher Eccleston era.

Well, I think since it was the Silurians, it felt a bit more in character. He has seen them get murdered at least once before.
Even in the David Tenant era, he trapped a guy in the form of a Scarecrow and left him there for eternity, so it's not like the modern doctor hasn't done something like that before.

I think their problem stemmed from a lack of communication. One advantage to the way it was written is that we didn't see the break up happen. We only saw it after the fact and we didn't really have time to question how it happened.

As I said, it's not unheard of for the Doctor, it's just very jarring. I think that, perhaps, this was the point, though.

I agree.
It's like they sometimes have him do something cold, cruel and terrible, just to demonstrate that he can.

Asylum of the Daleks:

Epic in its scope. When the whole of Dalek-kind begin begging The Doctor to save them, I was stunned.

I was less stunned about their special helper lady being a human consciousness trapped within a Dalek, since I had
1) Seen humans being converted into Daleks already made a plot point for the episode, and
2) Agreed with The Doctor when he said "How are you getting the milk?"
I put it together from those two parts.

As for the Rory/Amy breakup subplot, there was a small glimpse of it in Pond Life, the Youtube mini-sode that preceded the episode.

Dinosaurs on a Spaceship:

Weee! Dinosaurs! On a spaceship!!

Oh yeah, that asshole genocided a whole race, used threat of the companions to force The Doctor to do his bidding, attempted to capture The Doctor for the sole purpose of auctioning him off, and then fled with a brown stain running down his leg when shit got real... he deserved what he got. I liked to see this Doctor finally willing to go all the way for once.

The Matt Smith Doctor has been responsible for quite a few deaths. Think about all the Silence that were killed because of the recording he slipped into the Moon Landing video. That one really caught me off guard because it just didn't seem like something he would do. There are a few other examples, but as mentioned the new Doctor Who is much more likely to kill than I remember the older Doctor's being. It is never directly by his hand though. He sets everything in motion and others do the killing.