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First, a general niggling feeling I'm having about this season: I think that everyone is trying to write Moffat episodes? And they're doing it with only middling success; I deeply wish Gatiss wouldn't try to write about creepiness and small children when he isn't actually saying anything with it (this would be the reason I never wrote up an episode reaction for last week's), and I'm not entirely sure how I feel about this iteration of "Amy's timestream gets fucked relative to the Doctor's." Also the setup was clunky enough that I spent the first ten minutes rather irritably wondering why Amy didn't just go out of that room and press the green waterfall button and save them all a lot of bother.
That said, holy wow this episode. I loved the sets; the creepy robots were the proper sort of creepy; I loved Rory in those stupid glasses. Mostly, though, KAREN GILLAN, HOW SO AMAZING. Her old Amy was absolutely fucking fabulous in every way, and the single best scene of the episode is when Amy's talking to herself through the glass, reminiscing about Rory and connecting. The epic swordfighting didn't hurt either. And guys, I don't think I've shipped a married couple this hard in ever. Except for maybe Peter and Elizabeth. (There is no universe in which Amy and Rory and Peter and El sit down for married couple dinner nights, but against all reason I kind of want to write that fic now.)
I also fucking adored what they chose to do with the Doctor in this one; actually, though they've done it in writing with varying success all season, Matt Smith has been totally selling a Doctor who is as kind as he can be while still being very alien and very calculating and very frightening. And I love that it's being done in a quiet understated way, too. Oh, and Rory saying, "This isn't fair; you're turning me into you," because -- of all the companion-as-Doctor moments that have happened in New Who, that was the most direct and the most chilling.
It's funny, because this season much more than last I am beginning to have the "I can see a brilliant, glorious show somewhere in here, but it's not quite there," that I had with all of RTD's stuff, but ... I think I missed it! I think I like having it back. And I think I have it back less for the episodes that miss than for episodes like this one, where I can see exactly what the show is supposed to be, and it's wonderful.
That said, holy wow this episode. I loved the sets; the creepy robots were the proper sort of creepy; I loved Rory in those stupid glasses. Mostly, though, KAREN GILLAN, HOW SO AMAZING. Her old Amy was absolutely fucking fabulous in every way, and the single best scene of the episode is when Amy's talking to herself through the glass, reminiscing about Rory and connecting. The epic swordfighting didn't hurt either. And guys, I don't think I've shipped a married couple this hard in ever. Except for maybe Peter and Elizabeth. (There is no universe in which Amy and Rory and Peter and El sit down for married couple dinner nights, but against all reason I kind of want to write that fic now.)
I also fucking adored what they chose to do with the Doctor in this one; actually, though they've done it in writing with varying success all season, Matt Smith has been totally selling a Doctor who is as kind as he can be while still being very alien and very calculating and very frightening. And I love that it's being done in a quiet understated way, too. Oh, and Rory saying, "This isn't fair; you're turning me into you," because -- of all the companion-as-Doctor moments that have happened in New Who, that was the most direct and the most chilling.
It's funny, because this season much more than last I am beginning to have the "I can see a brilliant, glorious show somewhere in here, but it's not quite there," that I had with all of RTD's stuff, but ... I think I missed it! I think I like having it back. And I think I have it back less for the episodes that miss than for episodes like this one, where I can see exactly what the show is supposed to be, and it's wonderful.