[qazwsx]

duce ex machina

Right, Here we go:

There are four primary forms a Deus Ex Machina can take according to http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DeusExMachina

New Who has a LOT of them.

• 
  New Who Series one,
  Spoiler:
  Rose absorbs TARDIS Heart
  Total Deus Ex Machina.
• New Who Series two,
  Spoiler:
  Gate opens and sucks every single dalek and cyberman into the void
  arguably a cut and paste Deus Ex Machina.
• New Who Series three,
  Spoiler:
  Tinkerbell Jesus Doctor saves everyone thanks to the power of love human thought and technobabble
  IMO, a cut and paste Deus Ex Machina
• New Who Series four,
  Spoiler:
  K9 being called out at exactly the moment he's needed.
  another Deus Ex Machina, not to mention the whole doctor-donna thing.

As for New Who Series five,

Spoiler:

the time travel doesn't make sense (how did the doctor get out of the pandorica in order to go back and tell Rory how to get him out of the pandorica?)

but overall, I thought it was better (apart from the cheesy ending)

[The E]

As for New Who Series five,

Spoiler:

the time travel doesn't make sense (how did the doctor get out of the pandorica in order to go back and tell Rory how to get him out of the pandorica?)

but overall, I thought it was better (apart from the cheesy ending)

It's a paradox. No decent time travel show should be without one.

[Ransom]

That was fun.

Spoiler:

I'm a little sad it was ultimately another reset button finale, but I suppose not even Moffat can write his way out of destroying the universe.

Now I am doubly curious as to the identity of Captain Silence Will Fall. I wonder if it's whoever the Doctor stole the Tardis from. On that note, I really like that we finally have a multi-series story arc.

[terran_emperor]

Okay...Who is Mr "No-Name" above...and why doesnt he have a name.

That was fun.

Spoiler:

I'm a little sad it was ultimately another reset button finale, but I suppose not even Moffat can write his way out of destroying the universe.

Now I am doubly curious as to the identity of Captain Silence Will Fall. I wonder if it's whoever the Doctor stole the Tardis from. On that note, I really like that we finally have a multi-series story arc.

I doubt it can be whoever the Doc stole the tardis from as just about the entire time-lord race is dead
Minus the Doctor, The Master (Nothing keeps him down) and the Valeyard (The Doctor (Kind of...)...Look him up. Its easier than trying to explain it)

[Liberator]

Spoiler:

"The one thing you need at a wedding, something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue" and then the Tardis appears!

I LMAO

I won't lie, I was grinning like a chesire cat.

[Flipside]

Spoiler:

It must be remembered that the Doctor is a Time Lord, and I think this episode just went to explain how much better the Doctor is at dealing with moving around in time than humans are.

As someone mentioned earlier, it was kind of a reset button, but used in a good way, rather than just resetting the subject in the next episode, the Doctor actually reboots the entire Universe. I did think, on the Earth without Stars, that history would have wound out utterly differently without them (no Navigation, Astonomy, Astrology etc, and the effects they had on Humanity) but that was tiny nerd-niggle

All in all thoroughly enjoyed the episode, nice to get some consistency and a nice series-length story, kind of reminds me of the Key To Time, looking forward to the next one.

My only concern is the amount of weight being put onto the character of River Song, can't help thinking, whilst she's a great character, that creating a non-regenerating (assumedly) long-term partner for a character that regenerates may be a Pandora's box in and of itself.

Edit: Oh, and I agree with whoever suggested earlier that the oroginal destruction of the Tardis has something to do with River, or possibly even the Doctor himself

[Ghostavo]

Spoiler:

To be honest, the part I liked the most in the episode was the time rewinding part, in particular the moment when the Doctor visits the events of Flesh and Stone, and establishes that the exchange between him and Amy that looked a bit weird in that episode, was in fact him "now" trying to make her remember him.

Also funny that the obsession she has with the Doctor is basically all his fault, and that it was intentional!

Regarding River Song, isn't her character's and Amy's getting a bit too... similar?