Do you remember Wild Wild West? Me neither since it was awful. Consequently when I saw the Doctor, Amy and Rory heading to the far west I knew it was going to be terrible.
This episode it's absolutely a mess, I thought season could be an improvement, but I start to be hopeless. The Doctor for some god-knows- reason decides that maybe saving one at the price of a 100 is kinda stupid: this wiseness lasts for about a minute, when Amy basically tells him "there are 20 minutes left, if you let him die now, what are we going to do?". And at this point the marshal dies but we don't care about him, do we?
So the Doctor becomes the marshal, there's a duel between him and Isaac where the Doctor, surprise surprise, uses the sonic screwdriver. Isaac nearly kills every human being in the village but again, who cares? The Doctor makes Jex escape so his executioner can follow him on tons of different planets and maybe shoot someone in the meantime (brilliant plan, ain't it?), but Jex commits suicide, thank God.
I believe there was an attempt to follow the same path of "Midnight" (4x10) but the result here is a disaster: it's boring and predictable as much as "Midnight" was deep and emotional.
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