Watching it again...

[avevale_intelligencer]

...looking for the clever bit. (Spoilers in comment. No, I'm not strong enough.)

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[zanda-myrande.livejournal.com]

Whereas for me it looked more like a case of "let's think up a grabby title and then shoe-horn the character into the story we've already written."

Also, here's this girl. Regenerates in a public place, arrives from there in Amy's village, grows up alongside Amy, has the right name and keeps getting disciplined (though strangely not sectioned) for talking about the Doctor...and the Doctor has all summer to find her and can't?

Add to that the "TARDIS/sonic screwdriver/Teselecta/regeneration can do/can't do whatever the writers want it to do/not to do whenever they want it to do it/not to do it" sloppiness*, the umpty-eleventh retread of the "dinner with the architect" bit from Curse Of Fatal Death, the longest Norman-Wisdom-impression-cum-death-scene in the history of television, brainwashing that survives two regenerations and concomitant synaptic disruption, and the obvious fact that the only reason the Silence falls when the Question is asked is that nobody can be bothered to say "forty-two," and sadly the cleverness still eludes me.

I mean, I liked the Numskulls as well, but it takes more than that.

*"This room has been sound-screened" is precisely on a par with "ah, but I've got a mega-gun that can shoot through bullet-proof vests an' concrete an' everything, so you're still dead, ner."