Doctor Who: Cold Blood
:( Spoilers below!
Eeeek! Things that are Worse Than Death (see: Dementors, cracks in time) freak me out like crazy. And now I’m trying to work out what exactly happened to Rory. He died, but then got sucked into the crack, so presumably when he died everything about him except his body (read: soul) would have gone someplace where presumably Time itself couldn’t get to him. Doctor Who’s never dealt with the afterlife, has it? So is Rory dead or did he never exist?
Does he never exist in the afterlife too? Also (and I think this is a plot hole more than anything else) why did Amy remember the soldiers in Flesh And Stone but not remember Rory? Will she ever remember him? She’s got to, right? But on the other hand, knowing your other half was wiped out of existence would drive you insane, so maybe it’s better she doesn’t know.
Plus, she never did get round to telling him she loved him.
All in all, that was very depressing. :(
May 29, 2010 @ 9:22 pm
Didn’t the Doctor mention something about the soldiers not being part of her personal timeline so that’s why she remembered? I missed that bit, very confusing. And I liked Rory much better than Amy, so I’m depressed too.
May 29, 2010 @ 9:25 pm
“So is Rory dead or did he never exist?” He never existed… but who knows? Timey-whimey… “Also (and I think this is a plot hole more than anything else) why did Amy remember the soldiers in Flesh And Stone but not remember Rory?” She remembered the soldiers because she’s a time-traveller, but Roy, he’s part of her OWN timeline so… it looks like it’s different… “Plus, she never did get round to telling him she loved him.” Yep. Very much like Ten with Rose in Doomsday :(
May 29, 2010 @ 9:32 pm
Doctor Who’s never dealt with the afterlife, has it? So is Rory dead or did he never exist? Not Doctor Who itself, but Torchwood rather bizarrely claimed there was no afterlife while manifestly having an afterlife… (at least three characters brought back from the dead say there’s ‘nothing’ after death but then describe an awareness of being somewhere frightening and dark)
May 30, 2010 @ 9:20 pm
Ooh yes, I forgot about that. I’d actually quite like Doctor Who to do an afterlife story, but I have no idea how that would play out.
May 29, 2010 @ 11:19 pm
Yes, it was.
May 30, 2010 @ 4:21 am
Well, since all my Who-watching friends are Americans who don’t
illegallydownload the episodes I shall vent here. Apologies: I’m annoyed over the Rory thing, quite frankly. I miss the days of multiple companions who could gang up on the Doctor (and god knows this one may need it)/help him out if necessary, and Rory was a sweetheart. They “killed” themselves for him in 5×07 only to have him die a storyline later? I don’t understand why it’s so important to maintain a status quo of one male Doctor and one female companion. I would think that maybe it is difficult to maintain multiple companions in individual stories that are frequently only an hour long (as opposed to old-series ones, which were often 4 half-hour segments), but they proved them perfectly capable of it in the five episodes with Jack, and the Rory episodes this season. So there’s not a good reason than I can see. And half the episodes are 2-parters anyway. They just killed off a good character with great potential and I am thoroughly angry about it.May 30, 2010 @ 9:23 pm
I thought Rory was safe from death seeing as how he already ‘died’ in the dreamworld. Guess I was quite wrong about that… :( And he was awesome. Don’t apologise for venting, tis quite welcome. :D