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Matt Smith is great. Almost as great as Tennant. I like Moffat's big works, his fluffy episodes are pretty awful. Blink, Girl in the Fireplace, and some of the last season episodes that I don't know the title of were great. It's true that he exalts the Doctor a bit too much.

I figured he'd die. It was so random though. I like that this season (and last) actually has a plot though. The whole "The Daleks are back" got really old...

I like Moffat as a writer, Blink was great.  I don't like him in charge.

My one worry about this season is that it'll get old. I just don't see how they're going to keep the spaceman thing coming around, and with the Doctor dying, there's no way that the companions will let the Doctor get sidetracked with other things.

My one worry about this season is that it'll get old. I just don't see how they're going to keep the spaceman thing coming around, and with the Doctor dying, there's no way that the companions will let the Doctor get sidetracked with other things.

Well, remember, the doctor that died is 200 years older than the "current" doctor, so he could sidetrack for the rest of Amy's life and still have a good amount of time to figure out what's up.

Just watched the second episode. The astronaut is The Rani. Not sure I'm going to like this season...

Conspiracy theory. River Song is the Doctor's daughter.

River Song had better not be the doctor's daughter.

Incidentally, David Tennant is engaged to the actor who played the daughter.

River Song has to be what the Tardis was referring to with the "No water in the forest..." line. It's too obvious though...

Agreed. But it still has nothing on Blink...

I've actually been a bit disappointed so far this season.  Last season had great moral dilemmas and really got me to care about the characters (The Beast Below, The Hungry Earth/Cold Blood, Amy's Choice).

"The Christmas Carol" was an awesome start to the year really showcasing the time-traveling aspect of the show, and how the Doctor both helps and hurts when he changes things.

But since then, the rest of the shows this season just haven't resonated with me.  The Astronaut/Day of the Moon episodes created some decent questions about future.  But they weren't really that interesting by themselves.  The Black Spot had a nice surprise ending, but seemed to be more about the special effects than the characters.  And the Drs. Wife was an interesting concept, but seemed to move to fast for me.  I think it would have made a better 2-parter.  I just didn't care about most of the characters in the episode, and parts of it didn't make any sense.  Rory already waited 2000 years for Amy, why would he go insane and start hating her after just waiting for 50 more?

I actually think this has potential to be the best season.

I agree that there is great potential, I just don't think it's been realized yet.

The bit about them forgetting the silence whenever they looked away was brilliant.

I agree that was a cool concept.  But the silence weren't interesting as enemies.  They were just pure evil and therefore, were too simplistic.  And there were no negative consequences to stopping them, so the Drs actions were never moral dilemmas.  And the ultimate solution was anti-climatic.  Saving the world with a cell phone camera....really?

there were some really funny parts. "We're sailers! Just like you! Well, except for the guns...and the beardyness..."

I agree that there have been some funny scenes/lines this year.

Being outside of the universe for starters was especially curious

Actually this was also anti-climatic.  It would have been interesting if things worked fundamentally differently "outside the universe", but it ended up being just the same as here.  In fact, that whole part of the episode could have just have easily taken place on a junkyard asteroid in our own galaxy.

, and the TARDIS coming to life was amazing.

This wasn't nearly as cool as the Star Trek:TNG episode when the holodeck character of Moriarty came to life, or the ST:Voyager series where the holographic Doctor deals with being real quite regularly.

The Christmas Carol was probably my least favorite episode in a while, actually. Little quotability, rewatch value, heavily filler, etc. The first two episodes were fairly good starts, above average I'd say at least.  The third episode was obviously filler, but it was still decent.

Beings I loved the premise, and the Tardis was absolutely amazing, it would have been nice to have two parts. However, the extended time would have likely detracted from the ending. This episode just had so much going for it. Auntie and Uncle were great characters, and as mentioned the Tardis was fantastic. The cubes really brought back some of the old Who which was really fun. There was some great foreshadowing (The Tardis on River (probably), potentially Rory referring to the Silence).

As for Rory getting mad, there are two things that should be considered. Firstly, that wasn't Rory. It was House. Although House may have taken the feelings from Rory, that isn't specifically Rory. Secondly, Rory and Amy's relationship has been changing throughout the series, it seems like they all realize that Amy isn't sure if she likes the Doctor more then Rory.

This episode also really started to explore the Doctor more. Not only his relationship with the Tardis, but how harsh he is going to be. It's pretty clear he took the 10th's playfulness and the 9th's unforgiving attitude, and he's really starting to display the latter. He may turn out as dark as the 7th (who was the best doctor, obviously) was. He didn't care about the people used to keep Auntie and Uncle alive (expect for his Time Lord buddy), he didn't show much emotion about the Ood dying, and he really lost control of his emotions after finding the cubes. I also don't seem to recall him giving House a warning, which he has given his other opponents (even after they try to kill him).

I think traveling outside the universe may actually be setting things up, also. I believe Tennant said it wasn't possible, but the Old Ones disagree.

Traveling outside of our dimension with two companions romantically interested in each other, ending up in a world with lots of strange vehicles, the TARDIS completely on the fritz, a character previously mentioned, but not explored before comes to life, and the Doctor heroically saves the day with his mad skillz and the companions ... heroicness?  Also: should have been a two-parter.

Hmm..  Why does this all sound so familiar?

/conspiracy theory

Speaking of all that:
http://www.redbubble.com/people/zerobriant/art/7141877-youll-miss-me-if-you-blink-twice