So, anyway... how was Matturday for you?

[tencrush]

I have random thoughts about Let's Kill Hitler, which I shall post in no particular order.

• RORY IS FUCKING AWESOME. I have to start with that, because I've seen even people who didn't like Rory much before acknowledge that Rory was pretty awesome this episode. Punching Hitler, shut up, Hitler, putting Hitler in a cupboard, doing Scottish, and those seemingly endless Arthur Dentlike statements and reiterations of the obvious. Love Rory. So much. And that punching Hitler and putting him in a cupboard thing? That wasn't about Amy! We witnessed the first Rory/Anyone interaction in which Rory actually passed the reverse Bechdel test and did or said something that wasn't about Amy. It's only taken a season and a half. (I lie, he did that thing with the ganger in The Rebel Flesh, but I tend to overlook that one because I must admit the plot of that two parter passed me by entirely. I couldn't even tell which people were which half the time. I don't know why, I'm a pretty intelligent person, but I had no idea what was going on in those episodes. Apart from the end bit, obviously.)


• AMY AND RORY!! Oh God, how cute and lovely and cuddly and wonderful are they together? The thing is, that Amy/Doctor joke is OVER now, having had its culmination in the "that man is your father" punchline, and now that that joke is absent, and with it the implications about Rory's seemingy boundless insecurities about Amy and whether or not she really loves him, the whole tone of his character has shifted in a more pleasant direction. The same goes for Amy, because like or not, that joke was always hovering over her, implying really quite unpleasant things about her character, was she settling for Rory? Leading him on until something better came along? Was she cheating on him? Would she? What was the deal there? The joke made it very difficult to be 100% convinced of their love for each other, and I'm still a bit pissed with Moffat for that, simply because I think it should have ended with the overheard "stupid face" declaration and subsequent clearing up. I think the attempt to take it all the way to the who-is-the-babydaddy culmination that it had was, well... tasteless I guess is the only word for it. It didn't bother me hugely at the time because I, personally, was cheering all the way through Amy's speech because I knew it was about Rory. But really, Moffat wanted me to think it might not be about Rory. Moffat wanted me to think Amy might have fucked the Doctor while married to Rory. Really funny, Moff. Not tacky at all. So yeah THAT JOKE IS OVER NOW AND WOW ISN'T EVERYONE JUST A WHOLE LOT BETTER OFF?


• Okay, Mels. I'm not going to go into how annoying Mels was, but I am going to reiterate what I said a few months back, this isn't an adequate resolution to the You've-had-you-newborn-baby-kidnapped-but-don't-worry-it'll-all-work-out storyline. "You grew up with her" is not a good enough solution. "She turns out okay in the end" is not a good enough solution. Anything that doesn't involve the actual baby being raised by Amy and Rory, through whatever timey-wimey means, is, to me, not a good enough solution. And sometimes I feel like Moffat thinks it is. And that makes me terribly fearful. I hope he proves me wrong but I'm fearing now that he might not.


• I love the looks on both Amy and Rory's faces when River gets all in the Doctors face and they're both like "We don't really want to see this it's SO WEIRD now that we know who she is" And then there's that bit where the Doctor covers his manhood trying to hide his arousal from his inlaws and the inlaws are all WE SO WANT TO BE ELSEWHERE RIGHT NOW about it. I like Doctor/River MORE now that it makes Rory and Amy cough and look away and be awkward. And the Doctor, so far, hasn't interacted with a young Melody at all, so my fears about him grooming his child bride have, for now, been put aside. Doctor/River has a green light once more. Yay!


• Amy and Rory in a mini. Amy and Rory on a motorcycle. I find these things dirty and they give me dirty thoughts. I know I am probably alone in this, but hey. If there are any more motorised vehicles involved in their relationship anytime soon, I am going to assume they both have a fetish and run with that in my brain for all it's worth.


• Actually, no, those are all my thoughts for now. Maybe I'll have more later. But they'll probably be dirty.


• ETA: Actually, scratch that, I do have a random prediction. Moff does love his throwaway lines and I reckon "You've had all summer" is one of them. I think there'll be a reveal that the Doctor has been fruitlessly looking for baby Melody for nearly 200 years and he's now 1103 years old.

Comments

[dune-drd.livejournal.com]

Amy/Rory is so precious I want to put it in a locker and look at it whenever I feel down :D

[tencrush]

They are THE BEST.

[nobleroman1.livejournal.com]

I was completely unspoiled (unspoilered? Is that even a word?!), so Mel came as a complete surprise, and liked her quite a bit. And OMG when she regenerated into River Song? Loved it. I have to admit before the regeneration completed and Mel's stated she was their daughter, my poor pea sized brain groaned and said oh,god, don't tell me Amy cheated on Rory?! Yes, I'm a stupid American. American.Is.Stupid. LOL

I didn't think I could love Amy and especially Rory more, but bb!Rory was so adorable, and teen Rory/Amy even more so. And yes, I do believe I replayed the Rory's not gay, you're THE girl he's looked at during the past 10 years. Loved it.

I really loved everything about this episode.

[off_coloratura]

And yes, I do believe I replayed the Rory's not gay, you're THE girl he's looked at during the past 10 years.

THIS. LOVED this scene. Although they went a bit overboard with the Rory Third Wheel thing in childhood, the revelation was SO SWEET.

[tencrush]

SO CUTE. That scene was the sweetest ever.

[ghira.livejournal.com]

Not a word about gay gypsy bar-mitzvahs for the disabled?

[radiant-pip.livejournal.com]

Ahhhhhhh!!! I haven't been able to see this yet because of a stupid hurricane! So, hopefully, it'll turn up on On Demand today.

[satanassa.livejournal.com]

I'm tired of Hitler and Nazis. Why does Moffat keep going back to that?
Mels was a bit grating. Fortunately she regenerated pretty fast! This was a fun episode and I'm really looking forward to the next week.

[radiant-pip.livejournal.com]

I loved Rory's assumption that he knew how to handle the motorcycle 'cause it's just been that kind of day.

And next week's promo -- "We're dead...again" (or something close).

Somehow think Jack should've gotten a "guilt" appearance, though. More so than Martha.