Apparently Steven Moffat wanted this two-part episode to be big and mad. Well, he managed that fairly successfully. These two episodes, acting as the finale to series five of the new Doctor Who bring together strands of story from across that years series, as if the plot of these episodes alone wasnt confusing enough. Beneath Stonehenge is a chamber housing an impenetrable prison for the universes most dangerous creature. Travelling to 102AD, the 11th Doctor, Amy Pond and River Song are helped to uncover the chamber by a group of volunteer Roman soldiers, one of which is Amys fiancé Rory, who was wiped from the universe in a previous episode, and whos revealed to be made of plastic. Meanwhile, the prison the Pandorica is transmitting a come-and-get-me signal to every alien race that hates the Doctor. Amy is killed by plastic-centurion Rory against his own will, the Doctor is sealed inside the prison itself, and River is on board the TARDIS, which is about to explode. In the next exciting and very nearly incoherent episode of Doctor Who the explosion of the TARDIS has destroyed the whole universe, except for Earth. This, apparently, is the catastrophe that the Pandorica was intended to prevent, by locking the Doctor up. We think. From then on, things get considerably more complicated. How children are supposed to follow this show, we have no idea.
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