Rewatching Doctor Who: A Town Called Mercy

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Another Matt Smith one that I can't remember much of, but that was much better than I remembered. The idea of a war criminal hiding out in a quiet town isn't new, but it's given a scifi twist here. I was surprised that the war criminal was revealed so early on, but it's an episode that gets on with things, even if the pacing sags a bit in the third quarter. I'd forgotten the ending, where the war criminal blows himself up in his ship. That's bleak, even by Doctor Who standards. But it's hard to imagine - well for me anyway! - what other ending there might have been. Amy was well written in this episode, in fact she's better written in this later set of her stories than earlier on. Though noticeably often not as written by Steven Moffat himself, but by other writers. Rory felt somewhat superfluous. Ben Browder was excellent.