Campy yet smart at the same time (Warning! Spoilers Abound!)
After the first episode of the new season being so serious, it was a given that the next episode of Doctor Who, ‘Dinosaurs on a Spaceship’, would be just as campy as its name suggests. It delivered this camp is abundance and, although it was silly and ridiculous, it still managed to convey quite a bit of serious information about character development and keep a slight dark undertone to the episode.
The basics of the story were that there is an unknown spaceship hurtling toward a future version of Earth. The Doctor is called in and must stop it before Earth launches missiles to destroy it. He grabs up Amy, Rory, Rory’s dad (quite by accident), Queen Nefertiti and a big game hunter whose name I can’t remember right now. The Doctor and his “gang” head off and try to solve the mystery of the ship, only to discover there are dinosaurs on board - hence the name. But with no crew to be found, what the heck is a giant ship filled with dinosaurs doing hurtling toward Earth?
