Before getting into the review, I wanna say from the getgo that I thought this week’s episode further demonstrates a theory I’ve had for the past few years: that the Doctor is an unconscious agent of God. Last year’s “The Doctor’s Wife” might have supported that notion, but I mean, c’mon: how is it that the TARDIS is always landing in a time and place that the Doctor is needed? How else… unless there is a Higher Power guiding the Doctor, whether he is aware of it or not?

Anyway…

In spite of the beautiful special effects work (along with the reunion of Harry Potter alums Mark Williams and David Bradley, each of whom turned in fine work) I found last week’s “Dinosaurs on a Spaceship” to be somewhat lacking. Maybe that’s because it came on the heels of this season’s Doctor Who premiere “Asylum of the Daleks”, which was ...