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[sebastienne]

On re-watching "Let's Kill Hitler":

• The setting DOES make perfect sense; how else could we allow psychopath-Melody to kill and humiliate all those people? Moffat wants us to see that she is ruthless and dangerous, but doesn't want us to start hating River - so Nazis are an easy target!


• "I need to weigh myself" is even worse the second time round.


• The little robot people dish out justice to those who do not receive it in their lifetimes. So if they want Melody for the Doctor's murder, that means she is in prison for killing someone else.


• "The oldest question in the universe" sends me looking for an in-continuity answer, for some reason. "What was the first question asked in An Unearthly Child?", sort of thing. "Hidden in plain sight" - it just must be a lateral-thinking puzzle. "Who's Benjamin?" or "Doctor Who?" or something.


• Melody's transformation from psychopath to child-of-the-TARDIS is either very affecting, or very unconvincing; it took me a rewatch to work out all the subtleties of what must have happened off-screen. That's a lot of unconditioning in very little time.