Doctor Who S05E03

Have you ever fancied someone you shouldn't?

So week 3 of the new series of Doctor Who and it’s still all about her, really, isn’t it? Amy Pond. Amelia Pond. Karen Gillan. The Doctor’s new assistant. A 5ft 11in Amazonian goddess with Titian hair, girl-cat eyes and legs from here to yaya. You can rack up all the super-intellectual 900-year-old time-travellers you want — in the end, they won’t hold a candle to a tamale-hot giantess with freckles and an attitude.

At 19, Pond has already worn out four psychoanalysts, handcuffed a Time Lord to a radiator while dressed as a sexy cop kissagram, and embarked on what will be, in perpetuity, the high-water mark for hen nights: the day before her wedding, Pond has climbed into the Tardis and has gone racketing across all of space-time, while still in her nightie. As Gillan is already signed up for the next series, that’s one hell of a prenuptial knees-up. It certainly puts doing karaoke’n’shots in Brighton with “The Girls” into perspective.

Last week Pond, in slippers and winceyette, was on her first alien vessel, in the year 3120. This week, in cowboy boots and a mini skirt, she's making Winston Churchill's eyes pop in the Cabinet War Rooms of WWII London. As both episodes unfolded along all the right adjectives — witty, tearful, scary, deftly moral — you noted that, on the whole, Matt Smith’s Doctor is still hanging back. There are none of the David Tennant James Bond/Geek Christ hero-shots we’d got so used to. No resurrecting from fire, ash or rubble. No — the Eleventh Doctor is focusing on a Troughton-like eccentricity instead. With hands so large they look like foam-rubber ones, and a jacket of quietly sexy tweed, he’s manifesting the air of a man who could either, a) save the imploding Universe, or, b) do a legendary Gold Run on Blockbusters, with a gonk Dalek as mascot, and isn’t fussed which, really.

This withholding is all presumably to allow space for the establishing of a new landscape — before all hell breaks loose later in the series, as it invariably does. This time around, cracks are appearing in the Universe. Cracks in the Universe rarely bode well in terms of the Doctor’s “me” time. He probably isn’t going to get to finish that 20,000-piece double-sided jigsaw before the season finale. At some point, this Doctor will have to rise, magnificently, to the occasion, and you suspect, on the evidence so far, he will.

But, in the meantime, at the start of its run, the show has other fish to fry. Right now, it’s the image of Amy Pond — dreamily floating in space, pillowed on Technicolor hair, with the Doctor holding on to her ankle, flying her like a kite — that still resonates the most.


Television Series: Doctor (S05E03- Victory of the Daleks)
Release Date: April 2010
Actress: Karen Gillan
Video Clip Credit: ddandd



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