Doctor Who 6-10 The Girl who Waited
Sep. 11th, 2011 06:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethOh *Ponds* <3 <3 <3
That's pretty much all my thoughts.
I loved the setup, I liked the visuals, I like that it's sort of cheap to do but doesn't look cheap, I like the hand bots even though they're a bit daft no especially because, and also because it's easy to play handbot.
I like that their kindness will kill you. Hello Doctor. (Very very kind)
I very much like that after all the mucking around with making us think she's waiting for the Doctor we get this whole love letter from Amy to Rory. The most important thought in her life, for all her life, is Rory.
... I kind of think they're going to kill off Rory now. It would be double super extra cruel now. So TV has conditioned me to expect it.
But! Rory! And Amy, who this story is all about, all in love with him.
*big hugs for them*
The Doctor doesn't come out of this looking very good, but he has to make these decisions all the time. Once he has been somewhere then all the life that would have happened unhappens and a different life happens instead. Showing it like this makes him look creepy.
They're playing with time a lot this year. What is and isn't possible in the rewritten world. Finale?
The bit with Amy and Rory the opposite sides of the TARDIS door looked a lot like Doomsday only it proper works.
I like that bit where Rory says he doesn't mind she got old, just that she got old without him. I also like that as soon as young Amy is around again he gets all awkward about it. Because humans are like that. Contradictory and not as adaptable as they think.
I like that they're kind of symmetrical now, they both waited for each other.
I mostly just want to go back and hug them all a lot.
... even the Doctor, who does it to be kind.
ETA: This is about River and Mels and Melody. This is the exact same choice. If the Doctor saves their baby, he unmakes River. This is what he's facing all season, and Rory gets to face it here. Only in this case it's surgically separated. It's not about her impact on other people's timestreams. It's simply and solely that this woman lived, Amy lived that life, and now she will not. Here the Doctor and Rory and older Amy choose to unmake her together, the Doctor choosing it first and hardest, Rory only following Amy's lead. And it's a tough choice, a bad choice, a no good options choice. Even if she never met any other people.
River met a lot of people.
the Doctor promised he'd save Amy, and there she was, saved.
the Doctor also promised he'd save baby Melody...
That's pretty much all my thoughts.
I loved the setup, I liked the visuals, I like that it's sort of cheap to do but doesn't look cheap, I like the hand bots even though they're a bit daft no especially because, and also because it's easy to play handbot.
I like that their kindness will kill you. Hello Doctor. (Very very kind)
I very much like that after all the mucking around with making us think she's waiting for the Doctor we get this whole love letter from Amy to Rory. The most important thought in her life, for all her life, is Rory.
... I kind of think they're going to kill off Rory now. It would be double super extra cruel now. So TV has conditioned me to expect it.
But! Rory! And Amy, who this story is all about, all in love with him.
*big hugs for them*
The Doctor doesn't come out of this looking very good, but he has to make these decisions all the time. Once he has been somewhere then all the life that would have happened unhappens and a different life happens instead. Showing it like this makes him look creepy.
They're playing with time a lot this year. What is and isn't possible in the rewritten world. Finale?
The bit with Amy and Rory the opposite sides of the TARDIS door looked a lot like Doomsday only it proper works.
I like that bit where Rory says he doesn't mind she got old, just that she got old without him. I also like that as soon as young Amy is around again he gets all awkward about it. Because humans are like that. Contradictory and not as adaptable as they think.
I like that they're kind of symmetrical now, they both waited for each other.
I mostly just want to go back and hug them all a lot.
... even the Doctor, who does it to be kind.
ETA: This is about River and Mels and Melody. This is the exact same choice. If the Doctor saves their baby, he unmakes River. This is what he's facing all season, and Rory gets to face it here. Only in this case it's surgically separated. It's not about her impact on other people's timestreams. It's simply and solely that this woman lived, Amy lived that life, and now she will not. Here the Doctor and Rory and older Amy choose to unmake her together, the Doctor choosing it first and hardest, Rory only following Amy's lead. And it's a tough choice, a bad choice, a no good options choice. Even if she never met any other people.
River met a lot of people.
the Doctor promised he'd save Amy, and there she was, saved.
the Doctor also promised he'd save baby Melody...
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Date: 2011-09-11 09:01 pm (UTC)a very different take on the ending. sees it as sacrificing herself for a man. I can see that reading, even though it wasn't my first thought.
It seemed to me she was sacrificing herself for herself. Amy will still grow up awesome, but this time she'll have a lot of people around.
... in as much as she was sacrificing herself. Which she sort of wasn't, given the thing where she wanted to live too.
... and it was for Rory that she changed her mind. but I thought that wasn't what she could do for Rory, it was remembering how awesome Rory was for her. Like, she could have this. Different direction of ownership.
But I can totally see it. Older Amy was awesome, and it was writer fiat that made it impossible for her to come with.
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Date: 2011-09-15 03:26 am (UTC)This is what I posted in response there, though she doesn't know me from David Duke & will most likely not care:
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Date: 2011-09-11 09:15 pm (UTC)but
without the Silence and trying to kill the Doctor she'll grow a whole lot older.
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Date: 2011-09-15 03:12 am (UTC)But River is part of the Doctor's past now, can he even do that? Probably not. Though Amy did.
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Date: 2011-09-11 02:01 pm (UTC)I wrote a whole paragraph about Melody-River and then decided you summed it all up much better.
This season really, really hurts.