Doctor Who: Closing Time
The most bromancy thing that ever bromanced.
I want to talk about Amy first! How did she become a famous model/businesswoman in that time? How far past The God Complex are we? She is now, offically, The Girl Who Is Tired Of Waited. And I love that so much, finally she really has moved on and can do fine with or without the Doctor. (And he still calls her Pond, yay.)
CRAIG. I actually do want him as a companion now (with Sophie and Alfie in tow, of course) he was so perfect in this, I want him to be the Doctor’s PARTNER.
Loved the bit with the Doctor and Alfie too, when the Doctor lights up the room with stars. Oh, so sad and pretty.
Heh, Arthur Darvill is credited for an episode where he had no lines and just stood there! I know that ‘__’ is Arthur’s netural face (sorry Arthur, I do think you’re awesome! That ‘__’ is your netural face just makes me like you more.) but his body language in that tiny scene made it look a bit like he wanted to run- I know it almost certainly isn’t intentional, but because it was a little girl approaching them I have added it to my headcanon that Rory gets sad over seeing young girls because they remind him of what he won’t have with Melody. (Wow, that’s a lot to read from a fifteen-second cameo…)
Alex Kingston looked stunning in her graduation dress. My favourite outfit on her so far. :D
I loved those three children looking up at the Doctor. And I LOVE THAT CRAIG GAVE HIM THE HAT.
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Um, but as in all episodes, there’s something I didn’t like. I didn’t like that both the characters who died were black. Between this and The God Complex (and Vampires of Venice) it’s something of a thing now. This is the conversation me and Dave had at the beginning of the episode-
Me: Well, she’s gonna die.
Dave: Because she’s black?
Me: Yep.
Sigh.
September 25, 2011 @ 12:34 am
I think part of why there are always minority characters dying is because the secondary characters die rather frequently, and so if you want to have more minority characters in the show, you also have to accept them dying. But yeah, it was kinda bad that about half the secondary characters survived, and none of the black ones did.
September 25, 2011 @ 6:30 pm
It’s a pity, I hope it doesn’t become even more of a pattern. :(
September 25, 2011 @ 6:39 pm
Oh, I guess there was the little boy at the end! But he was on for like, 30 seconds. On that subject, am I the only one who saw a little black boy and a little blonde girl and assumed that Eleven was visiting wee baby Rose and Mickey by accident? But then their voices were wrong. I’m not even a big Rose fan, but that’s where my brain automatically went. I think I’ve read too much fanfiction, haha….
September 25, 2011 @ 8:22 pm
That would have been awesome! :D I’d so love to see them again, especially baby!Mickey.