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The Wedding of River Song...
I have no idea what just happened.
Well, no, I do, obviously. I just watched a load of plot points be neatened up and away and one or two new threads being laid out and it all seemed to be a bit mechanical and methodical and... blah. I don't know what to say. Russell always did that thing where there was too much EMOTING and everyone telling everyone else HOW WONDERFUL THEY ALL ARE without actually paying attention to any finer plot points or continuity. This, on the other hand was a mass of continuity (apart from that whole thing about last week and the date and the two Amies and Rories existing at the same time.), nods back to older stories, self-referential stuff, "Don't you dare" and all the rest of it, but apart from one or two scenes it lacked emotional impact for me. Also, it just wasn't terribly exciting, simply because we knew he wouldn't die so the only real question was "How will he get out of it this time" and that was about it. I didn't buy the stuff about the whole universe telling him they loved him, it didn't ring true somehow. So yeah, bits of that disappointed me.
On the whole, I'm not happy with the way the whole arc was wrapped up this season. Maybe I just take the whole kidnapping babies thing wayyy too seriously. I was glad Amy killed Kovarian, though, that at least was finally an acknowledgement that she was A BIT AFFECTED by what happened, but it did involve what seemed to be the nth time that Rory was completely out of the loop when it came to the life of his own wife and child and that really didn't sit well with me. My main problem, if I overlook the whole lack of emotional fallout from the baby thing, is that I still don't quite understand what happened to Melody/River in LKH that was so dramatic that it turned her from a psycho into his biggest, schmoopiest fan in the space of a minute. Will I understand that if I watch that one again? Did I miss something? Help me out.
ON THE OTHER HAND IT WAS A TINY DOCTOR IN A BIG DOCTOR SUIT ALL ALONG. That is good enough for me. Also: Darvill was hot. I should have felt sexy things about Darvill ages ago when he was still on my telly and not now when he is leaving, that's just foolish. Also: really, when it boiled down to it, it was complete crack of that how-much-weird-shit-can-I-stuff-in-here variety that Moffat does pretty well, and even when it's not edge-of-seat gripping, it's always entertaining at the very least. So there's that. And Darvill was hot. Wait, I said that already. Come back, Ponds, I don't want you to go, you're totally hot together and cute and I love you both to bits and I don't want you to leave, ever, ever, I want you to get your own spinoff and Rory's ALWAYS dying and Amy's ALWAYS forgetting who he is and then he stops dying and she remembers who he is and they have hot sexytimes celebrating those two things. Every episode. It would work.
I have digressed. My love of Ponds knows no bounds.
Oh, I'm sick. This may have made me more incomprehensible than usual.
Well, no, I do, obviously. I just watched a load of plot points be neatened up and away and one or two new threads being laid out and it all seemed to be a bit mechanical and methodical and... blah. I don't know what to say. Russell always did that thing where there was too much EMOTING and everyone telling everyone else HOW WONDERFUL THEY ALL ARE without actually paying attention to any finer plot points or continuity. This, on the other hand was a mass of continuity (apart from that whole thing about last week and the date and the two Amies and Rories existing at the same time.), nods back to older stories, self-referential stuff, "Don't you dare" and all the rest of it, but apart from one or two scenes it lacked emotional impact for me. Also, it just wasn't terribly exciting, simply because we knew he wouldn't die so the only real question was "How will he get out of it this time" and that was about it. I didn't buy the stuff about the whole universe telling him they loved him, it didn't ring true somehow. So yeah, bits of that disappointed me.
On the whole, I'm not happy with the way the whole arc was wrapped up this season. Maybe I just take the whole kidnapping babies thing wayyy too seriously. I was glad Amy killed Kovarian, though, that at least was finally an acknowledgement that she was A BIT AFFECTED by what happened, but it did involve what seemed to be the nth time that Rory was completely out of the loop when it came to the life of his own wife and child and that really didn't sit well with me. My main problem, if I overlook the whole lack of emotional fallout from the baby thing, is that I still don't quite understand what happened to Melody/River in LKH that was so dramatic that it turned her from a psycho into his biggest, schmoopiest fan in the space of a minute. Will I understand that if I watch that one again? Did I miss something? Help me out.
ON THE OTHER HAND IT WAS A TINY DOCTOR IN A BIG DOCTOR SUIT ALL ALONG. That is good enough for me. Also: Darvill was hot. I should have felt sexy things about Darvill ages ago when he was still on my telly and not now when he is leaving, that's just foolish. Also: really, when it boiled down to it, it was complete crack of that how-much-weird-shit-can-I-stuff-in-here variety that Moffat does pretty well, and even when it's not edge-of-seat gripping, it's always entertaining at the very least. So there's that. And Darvill was hot. Wait, I said that already. Come back, Ponds, I don't want you to go, you're totally hot together and cute and I love you both to bits and I don't want you to leave, ever, ever, I want you to get your own spinoff and Rory's ALWAYS dying and Amy's ALWAYS forgetting who he is and then he stops dying and she remembers who he is and they have hot sexytimes celebrating those two things. Every episode. It would work.
I have digressed. My love of Ponds knows no bounds.
Oh, I'm sick. This may have made me more incomprehensible than usual.
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Still to be honest I definitely think that this finale is like King Lear compared to the dreadful RTD ones (with the exception of the wonderful Eccles series). At least it hung together, it was a very simple resolution, none of this Doctor/Dobby business and we all believe in fairies. I liked the straightforwardness of it. I like that River's Dad married them, that was cute.
Sweet that he mentioned Rose and Jack of all his ex companions (that was an aaaw moment for me, although I love Sarah Jane the best, I'm enormously fond of the few episodes at the end of the Eccles series with Rose and Jack.)
I didn't like her killing Frances Barber, but I agree at least it showed she was affected by the way they treated her and taking the baby. I do actually kind of like that Moffat has just got on with his plot, I think that if he wanted to go into the trauma of having the baby taken etc etc, then just don't use the plot, because then it's not Dr Who, it's a soap, or a crime drama. The only way to do it was to almost handwave it. Now I'm not saying it works, but I think it works for that show. I know people who have stopped watching because their children found it became too emotional, and relationship orientated, and they just got bored, so any more of that would have turned even more people away.
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Otoh, Rory's already shown that he won't/can't alter someone's past because he wants to make their history nicer (old!Amy - if she hadn't made the decision herself, he would have let her in) - trying to get his daughter back without the express permission of River (who would cease to exist) is just... icky. And mindwipey. And exactly what the Doctor did to Donna and old!Amy, and Rory's already made the definitive statement that he doesn't want to become that.
Also, if Doctor is Tesselecta, they were not touching when time started again. But whatever, Moffat.
(Moffat.. shows his working to show you how it all makes sense. But fails to get me emotionally involved. Whereas RTD just went "floaty Jesus Doctor, okay? FAITH!" and I had to protest that it was ridiculous after I'd stopped crying. Which is why Moffat's best scripts were in RTD era because making us care wasn't his problem.)
Things that are established facts about Rory Williams
-Rory Williams can withstand almost supernatural amounts of pain.
-Rory Williams believes in nothing. NOTHING.