Doctor Who Review: Kill the Moon

Let me just say this: Oy. This week’s episode of “Doctor Who,” “Kill the Moon,” was about just that—killing the moon. Except the moon is a giant egg that’s about to hatch into something that looks like a miniature Smaug. No, it doesn’t make much sense, but hey, you should know the trend with this show by now. Before I get into the nitty gritty of what I disliked about this episode—and believe me, there are plenty of things to get to—I want to say that the plot was all to lead to the emotional breakthrough at the end of the episode, which I think was very important and very well-done. But the route we took to get there, not so much. So we’re used to the usual fake science involved in “Doctor Who,” but sometimes the writers just love to go above and beyond the norm, even for this show. I’ll believe sentient adipose tissue and statues that move as soon as you blink an eye. But the moon a giant egg? That’s just not the most believable concept. Wouldn’t someone have noticed? I know people in the future have apparently lost all interest in space (and by the way, I also don’t believe that 35 years in the future, all the astrologers and everyone else in the world just lose interest in the mysteries of the universe), but all the years prior to humanity giving up on space, no one ever mined the surface of the moon for minerals and/or water, just to be surprised by their finding amniotic fluid? Oh, and the surface of the moon just disintegrates? On top of that, immediately after the gia…