10 Doctor Who Episodes That Should Have Been Two-Parters

2. The Power Of Three

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The Ponds' penultimate adventure, The Power of Three is an ambitious episode where the premise of Earth being invaded by very small cubes gives us a lovely examination of the Doctor's relationship with his companions, as Amy and Rory are torn between their life on Earth and their life with the Doctor. This allows for some beautifully touching scenes, particularly the Doctor and Amy's conversation on the riverbank.

And the main plot is intriguing as well, right up until the infamously rushed ending. After all the build-up around the mystery of the cubes, it turned out that all they did was give people heart attacks. Was that really the most creative thing the writers could think of? Worse still, the episode is resolved, no joke, by the Doctor simply waving his sonic screwdriver at a screen, putting everything back to normal.

Furthermore, there are loads of questions left unanswered: Who were those cube-mouthed surgeons? And that creepy little girl in the hospital? And why were the Shakri abducting humans onto their ship? It all adds up to make this potentially phenomenal episode leave us with the bitter taste of disappointment. The Power of Three certainly has a sense of scale befitting a two-parter, and if it had been one, there would have been more time to do the main plot justice, as well as giving us more of Kate Stewart and UNIT, and a deeper examination of the Ponds' dilemma.

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