Righteously Indignant

So Dr Who is back after that unusual and unwelcome tactic of having a break in the middle of the series.

When I saw that the opening episode was called 'Let's kill Hitler' I think I was fairly justified in assuming that they'd try and put a new spin on the age old 'If you had a time machine why wouldn't you stop the Holocaust/WW2? question'. However, they neatly sidestepped this assumption by using it as an introductory spiel (They accidently save Hitler's life but are then very rude to him and lock him in a broom cupboard) to what they really wanted to focus on.

Hence righteously indignant, I was loooking forward to seeing what they'd do with it and spotting historical inaccuracies. Whatever criticisms of the series you may have you cannot say it is unoriginal and I'm sure they could have rehashed the familiar premise in a convincing manner.

However, maybe it is a blessing in disguise. Even if they had handled it in a new way, the 'killing Hitler' story has been gone over so many times that I think everyone is sick to death with the scenario (See also: JFK assassination). In the end we got an interesting episode that had a few nice twists and got rid of some inconvenient hanging plot lines - namely was young River Song going to stay regenerate-y forever and how does she eventually turn from evil, assassin Song to friendly, flirty Song).*

* Minor gripe- introducing a new character that is shown to have played a monumental role in the main character's lives but has never been referenced before is not big and it isn't clever. Dr Who is usually good at foreshadowing plot events so especially galling in this case!