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allfireburnsSo I've failed at reaction posts this whole season, but I am spazzing enough that I need to do it at people. The episode itself was wonderful, and if the next one is as good, it might have to fight it out with Utopia/SoD/LotTL for my favorite season finale ever.
At the very least, I think my favorite Team TARDIS has been upset. Sorry, Ten/Martha/Jack. You're still my OT3, but Eleven and River and Amy are way better at teamwork. Maybe because Eleven's less of an ass to his friends.
1. I called... a lot of things in this episode. I didn't say it anywhere online, so really onlyordinarygirl can back me up on this, but I called a bunch of things way in advance. And despite being able to predict pretty much from the trailer last week how it would end, it was still awesome.
(One of the things I called is minor and stupid, but I told you people the Doctor taught River to fly the TARDIS, and not some random other Time Lord. Fandom and its silly little theories... Honestly, people, learn to tell when a character is lying. Or joking.)
2. On that note, OMG RIVER. RIVER RIVER RIVER RIVER. I, uh... kind of have no words other than that? It's just that every single episode she's in makes me love her more. (Also, as clearly she is not in Storm Cage for killing anyone this season, or she'd have put herself in an endless time loop... yeah, I'm putting my money on the Eleven-to-Twelve regeneration being the reason for that. If that means we get to keep River for the rest of Eleven's time on the show, I am totally cool with that.)
Also, that looked an awful lot like Jack's wriststrap. I mean, yeah, lots of Time Agents in the 51st century (presumably), all of them with wriststraps, but Hart's looked slightly different, and from the one glance I got, that looked exactly like Jack's. ...Jack, I'm sorry your sister keeps stealing your shit.And your ex. (Alternatively, the BBC's props department is just cheap and/or lazy, but I care not for Doylist explanations.)
3. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD STOP SAYING RORY IS NOT REAL. Yeah, sure, so he's plastic and has a gun in his hand. He's not like plastic!Mickey, who was just a slightly-more-intelligent-than-usual Auton, he has all of Rory's memories and personality, he is Rory. He's just... a plastic one.
I'll admit, I've been cranky about the "talking the Bracewell!bomb out of exploding" since it happened - not because of the actual fact of it happening, just because it seemed like a really rubbish, anticlimatic... climax for an episode. But now, in the context of Auton!Rory, I'm really pleased with how that got set up.
4. ...also, kind of freaked out now that I think about stuff. Did the Daleks have help with Bracewell from the Autons? I've always thought that was a little... well, disturbingly subtle for Daleks. Did they get the scans of Amy's memory from the Atraxi (who got it from Prisoner Zero, who may have been a plant, knowing or unknowing on its part)? Or from the Silurians?
I mean, I suppose they could have done it secretly at any point between episodes, off-screen, but I can't imagine it would have been easy even finding her and the Doctor what with them bouncing through time all the damn... time... Basically, I want to know how long everyone (by which I mean the Big Bads) have been setting this up.
5. NEXT EPISODE. I want to know what happened to Amy's family. I suspect they may've been eaten by the crack, but could they then come back? I vaguely remember a casting spoiler about Amy's aunt, but I may have... imagined that. There's no way we won't get to know what's wrong withAmelia Amy, but I badly want to know that too, and will be annoyed if it's nothing in particular - I love her, but there is something really weird about her through this whole season that I can't put my finger on.
And if the theory about the Doctor somehow hopping back to deal with things turns out to be entirely untrue, I will also be disappointed. I especially want him to talk to TINY AMELIA. IMDB has promised me tiny Amelia, but I don't entirely believe it's not lying. There's also a casting spoiler on IMDB that is making me go "WHAT, AGAIN?", and I can't decide if I want it to be true or hope it's a lie. Here it is, if you want to go look for yourself.
...no, I won't click any of the spoiler posts on actual Doctor Who sites/journals. I fear plot spoilers, but casting spoilers make me happy.
And I won't be annoyed if I'm not right about this, but so far, The Lodger is the only episode this season that hasn't tied into the general arc (besides, I suppose, Vampires of Venice, but that did give us some useful information about the cracks, so I don't know whether to count it or not). But anyway. Someone is trying to build a TARDIS - not just a time machine, the Doctor said a TARDIS, and it did look to me like a TARDIS built out of some other kind of spaceship. It bothered me last week that no one ever asked who is trying to build a TARDIS, and if that gets answered next week, I will be bouncing off the walls with glee.
....there were more things I might have wanted to say, but I got distracted from them. By stuff. I may come back to this, but in the mean time, I'm going to go wander off and see about![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
writerinadrawer voting.
Annnd this is entirely unrelated to everything else, but does anyone know if there's an Amy vid to Blue Caravan? And if there's not, can someone fix that problem ASAP?
EDIT: Okay, so I'm slow, but it came back to me eventually, and I think this may have been the thing I forgot before - who's saying Silence will fall? (I haven't rewatched the episode yet, so the actual audio at the end of the episode could be a replay of Prisoner Zero saying it, but someone had to say it in the first place, for it to become a story, a myth, a fairytale.) Who in the universe is actually rooting for that? Not the assembled armies who shoved the Doctor in there, obviously. So... personally, I'm hoping for some uber-Xanatos gambit, though who's playing it, I have no idea.
And speaking of fairytales, I have this vague and possibly vain hope that - like the little poem at the end of The Beast Below - there will be a myth of the Doctor. An actual proper fairytale. And that Amy will tell us a bit of it. That would make me the most happy.
At the very least, I think my favorite Team TARDIS has been upset. Sorry, Ten/Martha/Jack. You're still my OT3, but Eleven and River and Amy are way better at teamwork. Maybe because Eleven's less of an ass to his friends.
1. I called... a lot of things in this episode. I didn't say it anywhere online, so really only
ordinarygirl can back me up on this, but I called a bunch of things way in advance. And despite being able to predict pretty much from the trailer last week how it would end, it was still awesome.(One of the things I called is minor and stupid, but I told you people the Doctor taught River to fly the TARDIS, and not some random other Time Lord. Fandom and its silly little theories... Honestly, people, learn to tell when a character is lying. Or joking.)
2. On that note, OMG RIVER. RIVER RIVER RIVER RIVER. I, uh... kind of have no words other than that? It's just that every single episode she's in makes me love her more. (Also, as clearly she is not in Storm Cage for killing anyone this season, or she'd have put herself in an endless time loop... yeah, I'm putting my money on the Eleven-to-Twelve regeneration being the reason for that. If that means we get to keep River for the rest of Eleven's time on the show, I am totally cool with that.)
Also, that looked an awful lot like Jack's wriststrap. I mean, yeah, lots of Time Agents in the 51st century (presumably), all of them with wriststraps, but Hart's looked slightly different, and from the one glance I got, that looked exactly like Jack's. ...Jack, I'm sorry your sister keeps stealing your shit.
3. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD STOP SAYING RORY IS NOT REAL. Yeah, sure, so he's plastic and has a gun in his hand. He's not like plastic!Mickey, who was just a slightly-more-intelligent-than-usual Auton, he has all of Rory's memories and personality, he is Rory. He's just... a plastic one.
I'll admit, I've been cranky about the "talking the Bracewell!bomb out of exploding" since it happened - not because of the actual fact of it happening, just because it seemed like a really rubbish, anticlimatic... climax for an episode. But now, in the context of Auton!Rory, I'm really pleased with how that got set up.
4. ...also, kind of freaked out now that I think about stuff. Did the Daleks have help with Bracewell from the Autons? I've always thought that was a little... well, disturbingly subtle for Daleks. Did they get the scans of Amy's memory from the Atraxi (who got it from Prisoner Zero, who may have been a plant, knowing or unknowing on its part)? Or from the Silurians?
I mean, I suppose they could have done it secretly at any point between episodes, off-screen, but I can't imagine it would have been easy even finding her and the Doctor what with them bouncing through time all the damn... time... Basically, I want to know how long everyone (by which I mean the Big Bads) have been setting this up.
5. NEXT EPISODE. I want to know what happened to Amy's family. I suspect they may've been eaten by the crack, but could they then come back? I vaguely remember a casting spoiler about Amy's aunt, but I may have... imagined that. There's no way we won't get to know what's wrong with
And if the theory about the Doctor somehow hopping back to deal with things turns out to be entirely untrue, I will also be disappointed. I especially want him to talk to TINY AMELIA. IMDB has promised me tiny Amelia, but I don't entirely believe it's not lying. There's also a casting spoiler on IMDB that is making me go "WHAT, AGAIN?", and I can't decide if I want it to be true or hope it's a lie. Here it is, if you want to go look for yourself.
...no, I won't click any of the spoiler posts on actual Doctor Who sites/journals. I fear plot spoilers, but casting spoilers make me happy.
And I won't be annoyed if I'm not right about this, but so far, The Lodger is the only episode this season that hasn't tied into the general arc (besides, I suppose, Vampires of Venice, but that did give us some useful information about the cracks, so I don't know whether to count it or not). But anyway. Someone is trying to build a TARDIS - not just a time machine, the Doctor said a TARDIS, and it did look to me like a TARDIS built out of some other kind of spaceship. It bothered me last week that no one ever asked who is trying to build a TARDIS, and if that gets answered next week, I will be bouncing off the walls with glee.
....there were more things I might have wanted to say, but I got distracted from them. By stuff. I may come back to this, but in the mean time, I'm going to go wander off and see about
writerinadrawer voting.Annnd this is entirely unrelated to everything else, but does anyone know if there's an Amy vid to Blue Caravan? And if there's not, can someone fix that problem ASAP?
EDIT: Okay, so I'm slow, but it came back to me eventually, and I think this may have been the thing I forgot before - who's saying Silence will fall? (I haven't rewatched the episode yet, so the actual audio at the end of the episode could be a replay of Prisoner Zero saying it, but someone had to say it in the first place, for it to become a story, a myth, a fairytale.) Who in the universe is actually rooting for that? Not the assembled armies who shoved the Doctor in there, obviously. So... personally, I'm hoping for some uber-Xanatos gambit, though who's playing it, I have no idea.
And speaking of fairytales, I have this vague and possibly vain hope that - like the little poem at the end of The Beast Below - there will be a myth of the Doctor. An actual proper fairytale. And that Amy will tell us a bit of it. That would make me the most happy.
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Date: 2010-06-22 05:40 pm (UTC)Plastic!Rory is totally A Real Boy, and possibly extra awesome because he has bonus Roman knowledge!
who's saying Silence will fall?
That is the question! I was trying to figure that out too, and thought maybe it was something that hopped onto the TARDIS when she was stuck in that loop due to the spaceship in The Lodger? Or possibly Davros...because, well, usually it is ALWAYS Davros.
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Date: 2010-06-22 09:14 pm (UTC)And I am glad someone else thinks plastic!Rory is real. Every reaction post I read was bemoaning his not-realness, and it made me sadface. A lot.
I'm not going to lie, if it's Davros, I just might cry. He is my least favorite Who villain ever. I don't mind the Daleks and the Cybermen being in this episode, since they're not the only ones involved, but I've been getting really sick of those two (mostly the Daleks) being behind EVERY SEASON FINALE EVER. (...I hadn't thought of this before, but that might be another reason I like S3 so much.) I just want a new Big Evil with a plan and reasons beyond "KILL EVERYONE."