Sunday, Munday, Zappy Days! (Review: 'Doctor Who' 1.3, "Boom")

• The last bit of Steven Moffat on Doctor Who was the Twelfth Doctor warning his future incarnations about consuming pears. That rather undersells the final speech he did.
• An AI killing someone because they won't recover quickly enough and will consume more resources than the bottom line is happy with is pretty chilling. While something already done in Doctor Who.
• We've definitely heard the name Villengard before - a past Doctor blew up their weapons factories and had them replaced with banana groves.
• Using your own body as the bomb and turning you into a carriable memorial... that's dark.
• Ncuti Gatwa spends most of this episode standing still on a landmine, unable to do much moving and yet delivers his finest performance as the Doctor in the five episodes we've seen in him so far.
• A very good episode for Millie Gibson too as well. I wasn't expecting Ruby to get nearly killed in this one!
• There were definitely things I was thinking about Munday Flynn. Like "she's wearing a lot of eye make-up" but not "that's Varada Sethu!", which didn't occur to me until I watched Unleashed straight after.
• Not 100% sure about the writing for Splice though.
• Susan Twist is going to be in every episode of this, isn't she?
• Definitely an episode where the "power of love" saves the day. Here it just about works.
• Moffat and RTD are both atheists and so take a couple of shots at organised religion. In fairness, they're not 100% wrong in some of their comments. As an Anglican myself, but not a marine of any form, I know my denomination has been pretty dodgy at times. The gag about "thoughts and prayers" also works well - it's become seen as a cheap refrain by politicians unwilling to do anything about gun control in the states to the point it can no longer be done straight.
• The snowflake thing is pretty meaningful, it seems. I thought Clara, but that was actually a leaf.

Conclusion

Steven Moffat has on the whole been a superlative Doctor Who writer - it's rare he's ever written anything bad.

This definitely is an example of one of his best.

9/10