Welcome to the blog that will tell you everything that occurs in tonight's Doctor Who, Lets Kill Hitler.
"You've got a Time Machine? What the heck, lets kill Hitler?" - Mels.
Mels is a rebellious young-adult who is the childhood friend of Amy Pond and Rory Williams. Such good friends in fact, that Amy named her daughter after her, but it soon turns out that she named her daughter - after her daughter? We've been refusing to believe Mels is River Song/Melody Pond because it would be to simple but, upon watching the episode last night, I can confirm, Mels is River Song! Although, she has not yet acquired the name, River Song.
The episode begins in a field, on Earth. A small car comes shooting past and not long after comes another, red in colour but with Mel's behind the wheel. For as long as she can remember, Amy has been telling her stories of a man, her best friend from her childhood who likes Fish Fingers and Custard, and today, Mel's is going to meet him, she is going to meet, The Doctor. The TARDIS lands in the corn field and while Amy and Rory are over-joyed to see the Doctor again, Mel's has a shoot to score with him. The police are after her for steeling a car so the with a gun pointed to his head, the Doctor has a choice: let Mel's come with him or she shoots.
At some point the Doctor has said to Amy, gun's don't work in the TARDIS, however, rule number one, he lies. Mel's puts Amy's words to the test and ends up smashing the TARDIS console and the machine goes out of control with it flying into the vortex and good speed, with only one destination in mind, Berlin, 1930
Hitler spends the majority of the episode locked in a cupboard - by Rory. The TARDIS smashes through the windows of Hitlers office and while apologizing to a man in a green uniform with black hair - back to the Doctor, upon realizing who he is, the Doctor discovers he may have just saved Hitlers life from very small people who create robots that right wrong.
So in all the confusion and gunfights of this episode, Mel's ends up shot, but its only a few minutes before this we discover Amy and Rory are in fact her parents after she proposes to the Doctor. The Doctors response involves asking her parents for permission but then she revels he's standing right next to them. And it's with that the melodramatic queen stands back from them and falls back standing up with gold rushing from the sockets of her arms and head till she is revealed as the Melody Pond last seen in A Good Man Goes To War.
This incarnation is her third, as she later revels she "has not done that since New York". This incarnation is pretty hectic and wont take no for an answer. She's been programmed, by the Silence to kill the Doctor, and we know and some point, by lake Silenceo in Utah, the Doctor will die, but will Melody kill him before? The answer, is yes, but it takes her quite a few attempts before hand. Her first move is simple, she tries to shoot him, but with the Doctor being oh so clever, brave and handsome, steels all her ammunition while she kisses him.
Melody warns her parents not to follow her, off the top floor in Hitler's office. Down on the ground, Nazi's spot her and she is shot, but nevertheless still full of surprises. "Here's a little tip for you boys, Never shoot a girl when she's still regenerating" and whoosh, the gold lights are back, this time she stays the same, maybe a little less psychotic but still out to kill the last Time Lord, under the influence of the silence who are in fact not a race, more a religious order.
The small people, who operate from within a spaceship, smaller than a pea, soon shrink Amy and Rory as the robot that was set to kill Hitler (Who is still trapped in a cupboard), changes and takes on the form of Amy. The Doctor feels this a good time to finally get some answers but before he can, he collapses to the floor and Melody has done what she was programmed to do, kill the Doctor. After a montage of her failed attempts she finally reveals it was all in the kiss, the cruelest warfare of all is the only kind the "Doctor has never expeirenced", Love.
With the Doctor now near death, the Little People, who right wrong, see River as a time changer of events and therefor must be killed, so they shoot her, with a blue ray that looks as though its sucking off her face. Here, is an example of just how good the Doctor is, despite the fact this is the woman who killed him (twice), he is still going to make sure she's safe, because although she dose not know it, he loves her. So, it's with his final breath that he urges Little Amy and Little Rory to save their daughter, from inside Amy.
With parental consent, they are the only people who can stop Robo-Amy from killing Melody, and they manage it, leaving the Doctor crawling to the TARDIS, alone. Inside, he activates a voice interface, going through a list of people he has not "screwed up", in this we see a cameo of Rose Tyler, Martha Jones and Donna Noble - then, Amelia Pond, before he screwed her up. Elsewhere, Amy and Rory need to convinve Melody the Doctor is worth saving, and thankfully, she changes her mind, and saves him, in a manner most Time Lord.
Out of the TARDIS, the Doctor is on the floor - dead, Melody approaches him, saying nothing, just raising her hands, which at this point are a sort of gold colour, the same energy she used to regenerate, now being given to the Doctor, to bring him back to life. The room lights up with gold regeneration energy and then, it all goes white...
Melody wakes up in a hospital bed, looking more like the Melody/River we left in A Good Man Goes To War. The Doctor, Amy and Rory are sitting round her bed but she's still not fine, the Doctor explains to her parents that she used up all her remaining regeneration power, bringing the Doctor back to life, which would explain why she dies in Forrest of the Dead.
Many years later, Melody is seen again, in an outer space university - training to become an archaeologist, when asked why, she explains "To find the right man"...
All in all, i give this episode 8/10. Good work, Moffat!
