Doctor Who: The Pandorica Opens
RORRRRY! I’ve really grown to like him. It is actually him, right? I’m sort of confused. Is it a Rory-auton-clone? With Rory’s personality and memories but not him?? Moffat said on Confidential that he’s just a contruct of Amy’s mind, but I dunno. I love that he appears as Amy’s knight-in-shining-armour and I love the bit where the Doctor suddenly cottons on. I might have laughed harder at that than I ever did at Doctor Who…
I LOVE how the characters from the previous eleven episodes got brought back. Vincent! Bracewell! Winston Churchill! Liz 10! Oh, and the Daleks (just once, can’t there be a season finale without them? Oh yeah, there was. Never mind.) This somehow managed to be EVEN BIGGER than Journey’s End, with all the old monsters and old friends coming back. Moffat has out-Russelled Russell!
Ooh, and this is sort of a vague thing, but waaay back in VOTD Amy makes Bracewell be human again by getting him to remember past loves, and this is what she tries with Rory too. And it almost works…
Ooh! And they got the Eleventh Doctor to say ‘I AM TALKING!‘ Rememeber that from Rose? Anyone?
How on Earth they’re going to bring Amy back from the dead I don’t know, but I think Amelia will have something to do with it.
Amy’s dead, Rory’s an auton, River’s blown up the TARDIS, the Doctor’s trapped in the Pandorica…wow. Drama all round! Can’t wait for the next one…
June 19, 2010 @ 8:04 pm
I loved this episode so much. It was amazing. And, yes: ROORRRYYY! I was so happy when I saw that the centurion was him, and he killed a CyberMan, with a SWORD! That is ten levels of awesome right there. Yay, old characthers! Though, where was Bracewell? Did I miss him? And the ending, THE ENDING!! I think my jaw hit the floor when the Pandorica opened. ‘Cos it is a prison, to hold the most powerful being in the universe….but it was never about facing what was inside it. It was a prison for the Doctor all along. That was so clever and fitting and a brilliant twist. And, yeah, like I said on my own journal; you know shit just got real when the writers refuse to give you a preview to next week.
June 19, 2010 @ 9:17 pm
It didn’t actually surprise me. At the description of who the Panorica was to held, I thought, “So what’s in there? A mirror for the Doctor to look at himself in?”
June 19, 2010 @ 9:50 pm
Well, he will need a mirror to adjust his bow-tie and keep his hair perfectly flopsy
June 19, 2010 @ 8:09 pm
Drive by wooping on the Rory front! And I can’t tell! Damnit why do we have to wait a week for it
June 19, 2010 @ 10:12 pm
An amazing Episode <3 I was happy and a little bit surprised to see Rory <3 But I feel a little bit sad…poor Amy
June 19, 2010 @ 10:52 pm
Moffat has out-Russelled Russell! Haha, I was totally saying that. It’s even more OTT than anything they’ve done before. :D
June 20, 2010 @ 3:21 am
It was brilliant; absolutely brilliant. I’m still speechless with what happened. I think I’m going to need a full 24 hours to actually process what I saw. Even then I might have to watch it again. The surprises in it were excellent and definitely unexpected. Poor Amy, poor Doctor, poor Rory, and everything just went out. What I’m wondering about is who’s voice was it that we heard talking in the Tardis?
June 20, 2010 @ 5:03 pm
THIS. I must know who it was, oh lord.
June 20, 2010 @ 7:40 pm
That episode has given me a major Whovian mindfuck – I’m so confused, and I love it. :) I love that there are so many echoes of my beloved ninth Doctor in this series – “I am TALKING!” made me squee this week, where as during last week’s “The Lodger” it was the “don’t spend it all on sweets” line. And as the Doctor studied the Pandorica and said that it allegedly contained “a nameless, terrible thing soaked in the blood of a billion galaxies” I was thinking “isn’t that you?” though it would be more pertinent to the ninth doctor, that “lone” survivor and reluctant murderer of millions. There’s something so significant about Amy in all this and I can’t for the life of me understand quite what she has in common with the time-erasing crack in the universe – and don’t even get me started on the erasing of events. What’s happened and what’s not in history now? Really, how is the Doctor gonna get out of this one? ACH! It’s got all the hallmarks of a great finale without the ridiculousness of S3’s finale, or the “we’ve-trod-this-ground-before”-ness of the end of S4. Moffatt is awesome. That’s all I’ve got to say. I’d lost faith in Who after that horrid series 3 finale – I lost faith even during S2, to some extent – but now it’s back up to strength and I love it. ♥
June 20, 2010 @ 10:11 pm
This episode has confused the heck out of me but I love it also. :D I hope Amy’s not dead! I like her too much. Good old Nine. I really like that the show hasn’t forgotten him. :D
June 21, 2010 @ 3:14 pm
I did call that the Pandorica was going to have something to do with the Doctor. I was figuring on some paradoxical future version of him. Honestly bummed that the Skittleks made an appearance as such. I stand by my opinion that the scourge of the universe should most certainly not come in candy orange. Black, silver and gold are very good color schemes for them. Even the white I can handle. The others just make them look silly. The BBC is certainly playing it like Amy is really dead, but I shall not believe it until the last scene of the second half of the finale if over. I really want her to return for a second season, anyway. She’s such a throwback to companions of old and I really love her. I mean, she’s not scared to stand up to the Doctor. A man that almost all the species in the universe are at least cautious of, if not downright fearful. Yet, on the flip side she’s very innocent and childlike in her excitement and glee over what she’s seeing and doing. I am looking forward to The Big Bang, and am hoping Moffat doesn’t mess it up.The RTD era had some very good episodes, yes, but it also had several outright horrible ones
Last of the Time Lords and Evolution of the Daleks come to mind. So far this season the worst I’ve seen is “mediocre” and still others have been downright fantastic. I hope Moffat can keep that track record up for a couple more seasons at least. And I adore the frequent callbacks not only to previous new series Doctors, but also the old ones all the way back to Hartwell (the library card gag in Vampires of Venice made me squiggle in glee)