Never has there been a harder finale to rate than : after serving up an apocalyptic cliff-hanger last week, Steven Moffat then pulled a cat out of the bag, quickly establishing a fine wibbly-wobbly-timey-wimey-esque story involving the Doctor (portrayed by the ever-amazing Matt Smith) teleporting throughout the universe to send messages back to his companions in 108AD and free himself from the Pandorica, while also confronting the explosion of the TARDIS on 26-06-10 and finding the reason for Amy's house having so many empty rooms. Admittedly, many of the revelations were thrown in at such a rate that it was hard to keep up and/or catch a breath at times, but the acting and writing were of such superb quality that it's an easy shortcoming to forgive (and one that can be remedied with repeat viewings). Moffat also proved here that not every series has to end on a downer with a main cast member leaving the TARDIS, instead posing a romantic wedding and climax to the Amy-Rory love story then sending the pair off with our favourite Time Lord for more adventures, but with the tense promise that River, the mentioned-but-not-dealt-with silence, and whoever caused the finale's events to occur would be dealed with in the sixth season (2011). The media seem to have adored this episode, and for unexpected surprises the first viewing is truly special, although its frantic pace and low-key action (bar the immensely satisfying CGI flight of the Pandorica towards the end) did seem to put some off. Ah well, a brilliant way to end Series 5 nevertheless, even if it wasn't done in quite the way some expected.
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