I do love the retread of the stuff from The Lodger where everybody buys whatever the Doctor is selling – even giving him a name badge that says “Doctor” and treating it like it was his name. “I did exactly what you would have done and I almost got arrested,” he remarks. The Doctor, of course, is much smoother and more self-confident than Craig, resulting in the rather wonderful scene where store security accuse Craig of being a pervert while doing the routine “asking around” thing companions do. It helps that the Doctor is out of his element again ( “social call, thought I’d try it”) and that Craig is reasonably comfortable in his own surroundings – it creates a wonderful dynamic between the two, where it often seems that the Doctor isn’t equipped for the day-to-day world that Craig lives in (doing stuff as mundane as locking himself out of the house and losing his screwdriver in the midst of a Cybermat attack). It helps that Matt Smith and James Cordon work remarkably well together, having a genuine sense of banter.
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Indeed, there’s something very touching about the Doctor trying to teach Craig to assert himself and to believe in himself – to give him the coaching that he needs in order to become the loving and successful father that we all know he can be.ĭon't worry, the Doctor knows how to wreck their heads. Indeed, it’s telling that the opening scene juxtaposed the discovery that Craig has a bad with the massive global threat of the Cybermen – the personal and the universal challenges emerging for the characters to face.
The Doctor is the force that united the couple in the first place, so his arrival at this time of personal crisis for Craig – being left alone to “cope” with the baby – is fortuitous.
Similarly, here the Doctor appears as the spur in Craig’s life just when he needs him the most, a last vestige of childhood (even for a manchild rather than an actual child) returning while his partner’s away. Davies did is that Moffat tends to view the Doctor as an imaginary friend, rather than “the Lonely God.” The relationship between Amy and the Doctor is essentially one about a girl in her twenties who rediscovers her imaginary friend and goes on wild adventures. I remarked last year that the biggest difference between how Steven Moffat sees the Doctor and how Russell T.
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