"One must bear a world of demons for the sake of one angel."
Well well. There's a girl who's on the slow path. Meanwhile, the Doctor can flit into and out of her time stream as he pleases, but it'll all end in tragedy. See also The Time Traveller's Wife, "A Christmas Carol," and anything with River Song in it. Hey, maybe Stephen Moffat's not quite as clever as we all thought.
(On that note, note that the episode ends with Madame de Pompadour calling the Doctor a lonely angel. The next episode that Moffat wrote was...)
Stupid thing Rose does this time around: goes wandering off after being told explicitly not to go wandering off. Yeah, she did it back in "The Empty Child," but at least then there was a kid on a building to distract her attention. This time she does it pretty much to impress Mickey. Yeah, my hatred for this character might occasionally spill over into irrational, but take a look at her so far; she's let herself get sucked into an idiotic possession plot, baited Queen Victoria, gotten in a bitch-fest with the Doctor's Best Companion Ever, and now gone wandering off for really no good reason whatsoever. Adam got off to easy.
Look, this is obviously the weakest episode Moffat wrote until he took over the show. It still stands out as one of the better entries in a comparatively weak season.
7 out of 10.
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