The Only Water in the Forest

I don't normally write about every episode of a TV series, if I did there wouldn't be time for anything else. However I guess there is never much else interesting happening on Saturdays so I end up talking about Doctor Who. It's the mid-season finale today though so that counts as a special episode anyway. I would advise against reading any further if you've not seen "A Good Man Goes to War" yet, I've not decided what I'm about to say but I probably end up with at least minor spoilers.

So we finally get an answer as too who River Song is. On Friday Steven Moffat tweeted "For all of you who keep on, yes, you will find out who River is tomorrow. Thing is though - was that what you were REALLY asking?" And that's the thing, it's an answer to one question and it probably wasn't the most important question either. We still know nothing about the Silence, who is eye patch lady and what is she up to or how is the little regenerating girl related?

Still it was a pretty good episode though. A few small issues with pacing I thought but that's often a problem with multi-part stories and they're building to a conclusion we won't see until the Autumn. I did enjoy a lot the calling in of favours at the beginning. Even though they got very little screen time overall, I found myself really liking Madame Vastra and Jenny. When the Doctor said "Until next time" to them I thought they might make good companions if the Ponds have to go. Though I suspect a full time Silurian would be hard to make work, especially in a present day Earth setting.

Now we have wait until October! I suppose spreading it out is sort of a good idea as it means there is only a five month wait rather than the usual nine, but right now I want to know what happens next.