Day 887 - A Town Called Mercy

This picture just seems so wrong. The Doctor wielding a gun and threatening to shoot a man. After cold heartedly allowing Soloman to die in the previous episode it seems the Doctor is continuing down a very dark path.

The location for this episode is fantastic. In Doctor Who's first western since The Gunslingers (braced for fan rage should I be wrong on this!) the production team filmed this story in Spain in a location which I believe has been used for many a feature film. Over the last few years, there have been a few stories set in America and I'm all for that to be honest. It makes sense that the Doctor wouldn't always visit England. And it's probably a good way of boosting the shows appeal in the states which I'm happy to say is doing incredibly well. I've been watching a fair few videos on YouTube recently and it's amazing to see how popular the show is across the world now.

So basically the town of Mercy is protecting an alien Kahler-Jex from a cyborg which is trying to kill him. What the town don't know is that Jex is actually the creator of the cyborg and the creature is after revenge for the experiments that were performed on him and the countless people who died on Jex's operating table at bodged attempts to create the perfect weopon. When the Doctor finds out the truth he goes mental and forces Jex out of the town at gun point. Amy calls the Doctor up on his actions and tells him this is what happens when he travels alone. Over the last few episodes, Amy and Rory have been wanting to be dropped off back at home for a few months rather than to continue to travel with the Doctor. It must be quite sad for him as he sees his friends drift away from him.

As Amy confronts the Doctor I love how the he rages back at her that he's sick of trying to understand people. He's always trying to be the merciful person but the bad guys always come back. I also get a little shiver at Matt Smith mentioning The Master. Surely he's due a come back soon!

I really enjoyed this episode. I hadn't watched it for a good while and I don't remember rating all that highly when I first saw it but watching it now that the excitement of it being a new episode has died down I can really appreciate it for the awesome episode it is. I mean it's the Doctor in the Wild West for goodness sake! What more can you want...All it's missing is a jaunty tune played after every single scene....I want to watch The Gunfighters now.