Doctor Who: The Power Of Three
A whole episode of the Ponds and not one mention of River ARGH this shouldn’t bug me as much as it does
-KATE the BRIG’S DAUGHTER she was FABULOUS I’m delighted to see her. And even more delighted that apparently she may be back.
-I thought that dude at the end was Ian McDiamid. He was not.
-Oh Brian. Your heart will be broken next week, as well as all of ours.
-Amy’s friend was marrying another woman! I love that!
-Rory’s a nurse and he’s good at it and he has friends at the hospital!
-And Amy’s a TRAVEL JOURNALIST! Inspiring others to do what she does! I love that. Somewhere, in some fictional bubble untouched by real life, Sarah Jane was her mentor.
-Steven Moffat’s approach to real life vs Doctor life is much, much better than RTD’s, I feel. Remember “for the first nineteen years of my life nothing happened, nothing at all”? But here both worlds were shown to be equally desirable, with people in both worlds the Ponds cared for, and…I liked this so much more than what happened to Rose. She couldn’t survive without the Doctor, in the end, but Amy and Rory could.
There’s a lot of stuff sort of lurking in the back of my mind about this episode but I can’t really explain it, woe.
September 23, 2012 @ 4:07 pm
Maybe the reason the show largely refuses to talk directly about Melody is because Amy and Rory can’t talk about it with the Doctor. Like, he told them he couldn’t go back for her because that would take away River’s life, and they probably get that intellectually, but that’s got to be awful and horrible to know that she’s out there suffering and that he could stop it and the only reason he doesn’t is because he won’t. So maybe they just box it away because if they actually talked about it with him seriously they’d probably want to shove him in the nearest mine shaft, and who wants to lose their best friend? This is just ramble speculation, I really have no idea. Kate was fabulous and I want her and her ravens of death to come back again soon. Rory being a good nurse and having friends! Amy being a travel journalist and a bridesmaid! Oh man, Sarah Jane so should have been her mentor. Maybe she went to a journalism workshop and was classmates with one of Sarah’s now-grown up neighborhood kids, anyway. Or something. I think it’s really nice that Amy can survive without the Doctor now, and that their real life is shown to have meaning. Not more or less meaning than their adventures, because it’s all part of their life. And I liked that they set it up like they were going to have to choose between real life and “Doctor life,” and then it was never really about that, it was about fitting the people you love into whatever life you have however you can manage. And also Amy and Rory are finally learning to be nice to each other and have conversations when they are not dying and not only show love when they are worrying about something and not look completely surprised by any of this, YES. GOOD JOB, PONDS.
September 23, 2012 @ 4:18 pm
I second all of this! I hope River sends them cards, though. :( Or calls. Or something!
September 23, 2012 @ 4:34 pm
She always seems to be randomly visiting their house in fanfiction. I like to imagine that this is so. She certainly surprise visits the Doctor enough, so I wouldn’t put it past her. :P
September 24, 2012 @ 2:27 am
The little black android girl who turns Blue when the Doctor sonics her? Just before he turns her off? That’s your River meta. Oh, and that wonderful conversation by the river outside the Tower.
September 24, 2012 @ 6:32 pm
Oh, and that wonderful conversation by the river outside the Tower. I never thought of that! Reminds me of that flashback of the Ponds kissing by a river, way back in Cold Blood…