i actually made this weird gasp/cry sound and turned my face away from the computer.
like actually fuck this show. i’m tired of feeling things.
WHY DID I CLICK IT
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Two more Amy points
- Does Amy know that the Doctor killed Solomon? Surely she can’t, or she’d have called him out on it.
- When she was asking the Doctor where it ended…if he was going to start killing anyone who’d ever killed anyone else…she was thinking of herself, wasn’t she? Herself and Madame Kovarian.
Doctor Who: A Town Called Mercy
Rory
I was wondering why Rory reacted so mercilessly to the baddie in that episode, perfectly happy to go along with the Doctor’s initial plan. Then I thought-
Rory’s a nurse, a healer, who’s got the thoughts and memories of an near-immortal soldier hidden away inside him. What would he find more appalling than a man who was a doctor, should have been a healer, but used his skills to mutilate people and create immortal soldiers?
Amy
THANK YOU SHOW for finally remembering Amy is a mother AND POINTING OUT ALL THE WAYS IT MADE HER GREAT. Seriously, thank you.
Also: when Amy was asking the Doctor where it ended…if he was going to start killing anyone who’d ever killed anyone else…she was thinking of herself, wasn’t she? Herself and Madame Kovarian.
The Doctor
…is every bit as bad as Jex, really, isn’t he? Not in the same way, but he’s a war criminal, too. No wonder he wanted to kill him…and of course, last episode he killed Solomon. (Do the Ponds even know about that? Because Amy would certainly have called him out on it.) He really shouldn’t travel alone, but even with the Ponds he seems to be getting more merciless. And gunplay! Eleven isn’t Ten, that’s for sure.
The rest
-Damn the music was beautiful in this episode
-As was the direction
-AND THE SUPPORTING ACTORS, DAMN. I saw Adrian Scarborough in an episode of Miranda yesterday and here he was again and he was like ACTUALLY SCARY
-I ship Susan the horse/Arthur the horse
AMY BEING DOCTORY
PONDS BEING DOMESTIC
GENIUNELY SCARY VILLAIN
MITCHELL AND WEBB ROBOTS
RORY AND HIS DAD
RORY BEING A NURSE
THE GUY WHO TREATED A WOMAN LIKE AN OBJECT BEING KICKED TO THE GROUND BY THAT WOMAN AND TOLD IN NO UNCERTAIN TERMS THAT A WOMAN IS NOT AN OBJECT
SORT OF VAGUELY FEMINISTIC THREAD RUNNING THROUGH THE EPISODE
I LIKED IT
Doctor Who: Dinosaurs On A Spaceship
Okay, this has probably been my favourite episode for a whole year
-RORY'S DAD. We didn't see as much of him as I'd hoped but he was great
-there was a joke about BALLS oh my god I'm immature
-There was all FEMINISM-Y stuff, like Amy announcing she was easily worth two men, and Queen Nefertiti attacking her abductor, and the guy who was creepy and objectifying of women meeting a sticky, explodey end.
–LESTRADE Rupert Graves was a Jack-esque big game hunter, which unfortunately caused one of the most morally odd moments of the episode: why is it not okay for Solomon to shoot a triceratops but it is okay for Riddell to shoot whatever animals he likes? Cos presumably he's still doing that.
-Rory carries around a nursing kit, of course he would
-Every Pond has now been kissed by the Doctor. Except Amy's parents.
-Amy is gradually becoming more Doctor-y which I love
-And she got all fangirly over Queen Nefertiti!
Um basically this episode was BRILLIANT and I'm much more cool with the idea of Chris Chibnall possibly being showrunner now.
Brian Williams- what we know so far! (Contains references to deleted scenes and probably some wild speculation as well)
-He’s a retired schoolteacher (source: DWM)
-He’s gonna be in The Power Of Three as well (source: DWM)
-The Doctor refers to him as a member of the Pond family (not explicitly said, but hinted here.)
-He’s divorced from Rory’s mother- or he might be: a deleted scene in Vampires Of Venice had a reference to Rory’s stepmum, and there was also an interview with Arthur a couple of years where he stated Rory’s parents were divorced, but I can’t for the life of me find it anywhere. Nothing’s set in concrete, anyway, so who knows what the state of his marriage is…
-Rory’s referenced his dad only once before, in a deleted scene from Cold Blood:
Rory to Alaya: What do your people believe? I mean, do you have a god?
Alaya: A deity for simple-minded apes.
Rory: I should’ve put you in a room with my dad. He’d soon put you right on that.
Which I always found very interesting, wondering what Rory’s dad relationship with religion was, and therefore what Rory’s relationship with religion was, and how that reconciled with his lack of faith in The God Complex…but I can’t see it being brought up again, alas.