The Rings of Akhaten

The Rings of Akhaten will be my first, I think proper review. So the episode starts off in 1981, we saw the Doctor reading Beano 1981, and basically see the story of Clara's parents, mainly the mum. The find out that the leaf is the parents. Also the Doctor is spying on her all her life!
The Doctor is the creepiest main character.
Anyway the Doctor and Clara end up in some alien place with what I believe to be the worst looking aliens I've ever seen. They remind me of the aliens from the space pub in The End of Time Part 2. Come on I'm sure you could do better costume design. You find out that the planet has a currency of something that has value to the buyer. This makes no sense how could you trade that for something else.  Forgery seems easy. I would be fine if they converted it into how much it ment to you but they don't. The Doctor goes off somewhere.

Hang on where did the Doctor go. He didn't go to get something valuable to him. Also the screwdriver is easily replaceable meaning it probably has no value. So the Doctor left so...
Ahh! So Clara can talk to the girl so we can see why you should like Clara and to find out what was going on to the little girl. But how are we meant to like Clara if she says lines like this:
"I don't think it likes me!"
Just to give you a bit of knowledge of when she said that. It was when she couldn't get into the Tardis.
2 things.
1. She's an idiot for saying that.
2. Maybe the Tardis has a reason for not liking you. SHE IS A SHE! NOT AN IT!
The Doctor returns not explaining what he did.

The plot I didn't understand. Could somebody please explain this to me. What was the point of the guards who lets face are just things that can breath exspelliarmus out of their mouths. Has the Doctor now forgotten about the Time War seeing how that's part of his soul. Hang on last episode people's souls were taken and in this episode the definition of soul has changed! What? Since when did the girl have powers? What was the point of the people who wore a red cloak thing? Why did the Doctor not use his flying motorbike? Why weren't the aliens speech translated? These all probably could of been sorted if it was a 2 parter or even an hour long.

I liked how it was solved. I loved Matt Smith acting when he was talking to "God".
What the hell?
How Matt was crying when he was talking about the time war I was for almost in tears. I don't know why but I find that really touching to my inner Whovian.

There are some really funny bits in. Not the Doctor meeting the aliens. No! But when they play it straight for example. When the guy was singing to keep the guy asleep and the Doctor is telling him that it's useless and the guy slowly stops. That is comedy. But nobody else seemed to laugh.
I also loved the bit where everyone is singing and the Doctor tries to sing along but the Doctor doesn't know the lyrics. This was really funny. It seemed like this scene was intended for children who don't know the words in some sort of religious place, which happened to me a lot. I also really liked how the sonic screwdriver was a SONIC screwdriver.

Now let's talk about the characters. First the Doctor. The Doctor is great in this episode. But I don't understand why he didn't sacrifice something of his. Matt Smith was amazing near the end though and really sold what this scene was trying to reach. Clara seemed like a caring person and I quite liked the scene when she was saying why she was helping the girl. It was really sad when she sacrificed something that meant so much to her. The little girl I found on script to be a pain. I say this as when she was talking to Clara being surprised that she didn't know her. That's what somebody who is a royal pain would say. But the actress who played her really made sure this didn't happen. I found her a believable character and she was a really good child actress.

Now let's talk about the aliens. I've already talked about how bad the minor aliens were so lets talk about the main ones. The guards looked really good visually and it was such a shame that they were useless against a sonic screwdriver. The alien in the glass looked really good and seemed actually the most threatening.

Despite it's flaws this was a very entertaining and emotional story. Also a round of applause for that set! Neil Cross, who wrote this, did pretty well for a first timer. I don't know if this was me or a lack of information but I didn't understand what was going on. Somebody please tell me what happened.
I am going to give this episode a 5/10 as it didn't seem like there was much in stake and wasn't completely explained. I think the rest of the episode was really good and well presented.

P.S The Zygons will be in the 50th.
YYYEEEEEEEEEYYYYYY!