If you haven’t read my review/speculations from the first two episodes of Doctor Who Series Six, click here and here. Then come back here. This review, although it does include SPOILERS, has less speculation and more review, because this episode is mostly just a filler/fun one. Once that’s understood, onward!
The Curse of the Black Spot was a fun episode, no doubt about it. Nothing that happens in it is necessarily important later on (although our fine captain and his son make an appearance in A Good Man Goes To War), but what would Doctor Who be without these sorts of episodes?
The premise is basically this: the Doctor, Amy, and Rory get stranded on a pirate ship in the middle of the ocean, and the TARDIS sort of disappears and they’re in constant fear of this green glowing woman that takes injured men after marking their hands with a black spot. (Curse of the BLACK SPOT. Get it??) Hilarity and Doctor-genius ensue.
My favorite part of this episode, by far, was seeing Amy swinging from the rigging in her pirate getup, brandishing a sword to rescue the Doctor. I’m not even attracted to girls and I’m totally in love. My second favorite part would probably be the Rory-Amy banter regarding Rory’s reaction to first seeing the Siren.
My only complaint about this episode is that they’re playing up the Rory’s-gonna-die card again. STOP KILLING OFF RORY. They kill him off, or at least nearly kill him off, every other bloody episode. Play-kill Amy once in a while. Now THAT would shake it up.
Once again, Matt Smith gives a masterful performance, as do Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill. I love this leading cast. Unfortunately, I have a feeling they might be replaced by the end of this season. Why? They’ve got a baby, we know who River is (and she’s tied to them), and Moffat needs a new companion so the Matt Smith era isn’t the Matt Smith-Karen Gillan-Arthur Darvil era. As much as I love Amy and Rory as characters, I also would like to see how Matt Smith deals with a new batch of companions. That might be fun.
NOTE: Just as warning, the next four posts are also going to be Doctor Who series 6 reviews, so if you don’t care about Doctor Who, the next new non-Who blog will be on August 5th (whew is is really already that late in the summer?). Even so, remember that every Thursday and Sunday there are new videos, so don’t forget to come back to check them out!
