The Doctor is lost, the TARDIS destroyed and Amy is definitely not feeling very well. As the fallout from last week continues, the only hope for the universe might be a little girl who still believes in the stars...
Holy. Fuckballs. The ep wrong-footed me from the outset, then kept upping the ante. About the only thing that wasn't a surprise was Amy's memories being important. Oh, and the final scenes, since I knew about the event and the lead-in to the Xmas Special (assuming the phone call refers to the Xmas Special). Bloody good 50 minutes of telly!
Yes, fantastic stuff. Brilliant writing, a very very complex plot that was actualy quite easy to follow. It was great to see the season tied up so well. I feel like watching the whole season in one go now
People at GB are complaining about it being too "Bill and Ted". Yes... complaining that the show that "Bill and Ted" ripped off and made cool is, now that it is also very cool, doing the exact same things. Despite a bit of RTD sappiness at the end, this was a damn fine ep. And anyone saying Amy doesn't do emotion should be eating those words right now.
The sappiness was nowhere near RTD levels. Enjoyed it. Slight disappointed, if not surprised not to have at little bit on the overall big bad controlling the TARDIS. However, it concludes a very good season by Moffat. More of the same would be marvellous.
I'm not, in fact it's very welcome. If you look at other arc-based shows, they very rarely answer all the questions in one season. The Doctor knows something caused the TARDIS to explode, but he's been distracted by the phone call... Series Six will now focus on him investigating who or what was behind the events of Series Five... very nice change of pace.
Well I was way off in my prediction (although Amy's memory did play a vital role) but it was a great episode. I'm really starting to think that River Song may be some future incarnation of the Doctor... but I'm 0 for 1 now so what the heck do I know!
I'm wondering if River is some kind of physical projection of the TARDIS. Didn't they have something like that in one of the novels??
Enjoyable, fun and generally well done - my bugbear is using something like memories as a resolution, I'd hoped we'd be getting rid of Flying Spaghetti Monsterisms in this series. Sets up the next season rather nicely, with the Doctor hunting the big bad from this season and probably more River Song. Of course they could be one and the same...
When I went to Glasto back in '99 had the option of seeing Orbital or Manic Street Preachers. They did the Dr Who theme then. We chose unwisely and went to see the miserable taffys.
he one reason I regret never going to Glasters is never seeing Orbital there. They would definitely be my #1 choice
It's well worth a visit, if you keep away from the middle-class twats and chavs you're fine. You get to meet some real characters (the type of people the middle class twats think they are), and if you don't take the whole thing seriously or get into the rut of just going between stages there is a lot of fun to be had.
So, did the Doctor actually win this one, or did the silence voice just manipulate him into doing exactly what it wanted? Consider: -Silence manipulates the alliance into creating the Pandorica and delivering it to the Doctor. -Silence manipulates the TARDIS into exploding, destroying the universe. -Silence manipulates the Doctor into a position where he's forced to recreate the universe using the Pandorica, which itself was only created via the Silences earlier manipulations. I'm pretty sure the plan all along was to manipulate the Doctor into creating a new, Pandorica-influenced universe which is somehow more amicable to the Silence. Maybe there's something new hidden away in this universe that didn't exist in the old one? Or something slightly different about the fabric of this universe that gives the Silence more power? Either way, I don't believe this was a "win."
I wouldn't have minded if Rory stayed dead. The whole paint-by-numbers "who will she choose!?!?" soap opera formula really made the Amy Pond character less endearing.