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Doctor Who (The Second Series): “Curse of the Black Spot”

At long last, an allegory about the British NHS. But seriously, folks...

For once Amy had an excuse to glare as much as she does. First she had to rescue herself from pirates and then she almost got cuckolded by an alien siren. Granted, given the way she had treated Rory in previous episodes, I found it hard not to feel a bit of schadenfreude when Rory was first seduced by the siren -- and no, it was not a self-styled siren -- but then not even Amy at her worst deserved the fate the pirates would have given her had she not been so handy with a sword.

That said, I did find it amusing when the pirate captain not only proved blase about being inside the Doctor's Tardis but proved quick to identify those parts of the Tardis that most resembled the nautical instruments with which he was most familiar. Apparently those people in the past were not always as stupid as we in the present would like to believe. Or perhaps it would be more diplomatic to note that when you've seen one type of ship, you've seen them all. And what else is the Tardis than another type of ship, eh?