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half-season finale time
Dear Doctor Who fandom,
I am sorry that I yelled at you about your stupid theory, because apparently you were right, and it wasn't too rubbish in execution after all.
Sincerely,
Aria
I ... have not decided what I think about almost any of it, actually, but I am wary of my reaction mostly because I think I was trusting Moffat to do something different. I usually expect that Moffat isn't going to do the screamingly obvious thing, but then, he tends to do the simplest thing too; so in theory River as the Ponds' daughter seemed eye-rollingly absurd, but in practice I think I am willing to be quite down with human Time Lord Melody Pond and the strange tangled time travel adventures she gets up to. I suspect that I am okay with this because I've been convinced that River is the greatest, and because MORE TIME LORDS ALWAYS YES YES PLEASE, and because holy wow Doctor/River just got fifty times as delicious and weird and totally fucked up. (I confess I am a bit sad that my OT4 dreams are shattered. On the other hand, HOW COOL IS THAT, TRAVELING WITH A WHOLE FAMILY OF PONDS.)
I think I will get out of the way the things I know I did not much like, though! First I want to know why in heaven's name the Doctor didn't go rescue that little girl at once back in Day of the Moon, and why for the love of sanity he didn't tell Amy and Rory what was up. Hey, Doctor, you know those nine months Amy was gestating? IF YOU CAUGHT ON SO FAST WHY DIDN'T YOU GET HER WHILE THE BABY WAS STILL IN HER BODY. Moffat, I suspect you have maxed out your allotment of fridge logic here.
Also, I'm a bit meh on so many people fearing the Doctor and wanting to raise an army against him -- not that Moffat didn't properly set it up, with the Doctor's weirdly violent solutions this season, and the Pandorica last time, and &c, but it still felt kind of off? Like, when Ten went off the rails in Waters of Mars, it was long, long overdue. Eleven's intense anger here, and his "Colonel Runaway" speech, was ... I know Amy is important to him (because in weird ways they imprinted on each other and grew up together, and Eleven-Amy might be near Nine-Rose codependency levels) and I know baby-kidnappers probably tick him off pretty bad, but it still just felt odd.
That said, things I really liked:
+ the Silurian and her Victorian girlfriend, omg. EVERYONE NEEDS TO WRITE IT.
+ RORY. Seriously, Amy is 100% right: crying Roman centurion holding a baby = very cool. And adorable. And oh Rory, Rory, you have crept into my heart quietly and subtly but I love you like mad now.
+ Lorna the soldier girl! I just really enjoyed her generally, and the bit where the Doctor pretends to remember her is so utterly lovely.
+ to my surprise, the Melody Pond = River Song reveal actually gave me shivers and was delightfully executed. Plus we know it means bb Melody is going to be okay, though, heartbreak, they don't get to raise their daughter.
I am trying to keep track of all the questions there still are to answer. Re: the opening two-parter, there is of course what was going on with River there, especially regarding her total shock at the Doctor's death and the way she shot at the space suit; either she's the best actor ever, or something else is going on -- no matter whether the Doctor knows who it is in that suit, it might not be River. Even so she must have been playing it very close to the vest there, since she knew her younger self was also running about, unless of course she doesn't remember that bit of her life very well. (Also, the Silence are still involved somehow, right? Since they were keeping bb Melody in that orphanage? WHAT IS EVEN GOING ON.)
And we STILL don't know why TARDIS go boom, or why whatever made TARDIS go boom wanted us to know that Silence will fall, or why the Silence apparently had space ships very like the one atop Craig's house, or or or. Moffat, I'm trusting you to not drop your plot threads. Some September, DON'T LET ME DOWN.
I am sorry that I yelled at you about your stupid theory, because apparently you were right, and it wasn't too rubbish in execution after all.
Sincerely,
Aria
I ... have not decided what I think about almost any of it, actually, but I am wary of my reaction mostly because I think I was trusting Moffat to do something different. I usually expect that Moffat isn't going to do the screamingly obvious thing, but then, he tends to do the simplest thing too; so in theory River as the Ponds' daughter seemed eye-rollingly absurd, but in practice I think I am willing to be quite down with human Time Lord Melody Pond and the strange tangled time travel adventures she gets up to. I suspect that I am okay with this because I've been convinced that River is the greatest, and because MORE TIME LORDS ALWAYS YES YES PLEASE, and because holy wow Doctor/River just got fifty times as delicious and weird and totally fucked up. (I confess I am a bit sad that my OT4 dreams are shattered. On the other hand, HOW COOL IS THAT, TRAVELING WITH A WHOLE FAMILY OF PONDS.)
I think I will get out of the way the things I know I did not much like, though! First I want to know why in heaven's name the Doctor didn't go rescue that little girl at once back in Day of the Moon, and why for the love of sanity he didn't tell Amy and Rory what was up. Hey, Doctor, you know those nine months Amy was gestating? IF YOU CAUGHT ON SO FAST WHY DIDN'T YOU GET HER WHILE THE BABY WAS STILL IN HER BODY. Moffat, I suspect you have maxed out your allotment of fridge logic here.
Also, I'm a bit meh on so many people fearing the Doctor and wanting to raise an army against him -- not that Moffat didn't properly set it up, with the Doctor's weirdly violent solutions this season, and the Pandorica last time, and &c, but it still felt kind of off? Like, when Ten went off the rails in Waters of Mars, it was long, long overdue. Eleven's intense anger here, and his "Colonel Runaway" speech, was ... I know Amy is important to him (because in weird ways they imprinted on each other and grew up together, and Eleven-Amy might be near Nine-Rose codependency levels) and I know baby-kidnappers probably tick him off pretty bad, but it still just felt odd.
That said, things I really liked:
+ the Silurian and her Victorian girlfriend, omg. EVERYONE NEEDS TO WRITE IT.
+ RORY. Seriously, Amy is 100% right: crying Roman centurion holding a baby = very cool. And adorable. And oh Rory, Rory, you have crept into my heart quietly and subtly but I love you like mad now.
+ Lorna the soldier girl! I just really enjoyed her generally, and the bit where the Doctor pretends to remember her is so utterly lovely.
+ to my surprise, the Melody Pond = River Song reveal actually gave me shivers and was delightfully executed. Plus we know it means bb Melody is going to be okay, though, heartbreak, they don't get to raise their daughter.
I am trying to keep track of all the questions there still are to answer. Re: the opening two-parter, there is of course what was going on with River there, especially regarding her total shock at the Doctor's death and the way she shot at the space suit; either she's the best actor ever, or something else is going on -- no matter whether the Doctor knows who it is in that suit, it might not be River. Even so she must have been playing it very close to the vest there, since she knew her younger self was also running about, unless of course she doesn't remember that bit of her life very well. (Also, the Silence are still involved somehow, right? Since they were keeping bb Melody in that orphanage? WHAT IS EVEN GOING ON.)
And we STILL don't know why TARDIS go boom, or why whatever made TARDIS go boom wanted us to know that Silence will fall, or why the Silence apparently had space ships very like the one atop Craig's house, or or or. Moffat, I'm trusting you to not drop your plot threads. Some September, DON'T LET ME DOWN.
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IT'S THE INSANE SCHEDULE
AND THE COMPLETE LACK OF SLEEP
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