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Doctor Who: Night Terrors

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That was basically Fear Her with a boy instead of a girl. But I did like Fear Her, so…

I can’t I can’t I can’t I can’t. We had a whole episode about parents and children and Melody didn’t get a mention. I guess Let’s Kill Hitler really was Moffat’s idea of wrapping up the whole thing? In which case, why make River Amy and Rory’s kid at all? Heck, why have Amy and Rory have a kid at all? Because there’s been no emotional fallout at all and I have a sinking feeling Moffat did all this just to have a mid-season cliffhanger, which is totally the wrong way to go about doing stuff. Sigh. I hope he proves me wrong.

Also Amy and Rory were barely in it, and Rory spent the whole time being grumpy while Amy got to turn into a doll. We did get that funny ‘we’re dead’ moment, though, and Amy taking charge while Rory panicked…

Um! I loved Eleven in this, even more than usual, he was so very Doctory. The one-liners were good, and the little boy was a great actor, and the dolls were creepy and it’s always good to see Daniel Mays. But because of the whole baby thing, it’s just leaving me cold. :(

BUUUUUUUUUUUT how good does next week’s episode look.

Doctor Who fanfic: they fill you with the faults they had

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Title: they fill you with the faults they had
Author: sarah531
Rating: R for general dark themes
Spoilers: Is canon-compatible with Let’s Kill Hitler– set in the gap between it and A Good Man Goes To War
Characters: Amy, Rory, Tabitha Pond, Augustus Pond

Warnings: Contains talk of losing a baby, and implied mental health issues, lying, grief and depression- it may be triggering to some.

Summary: Amy and Rory, still recoiling from their loss, go to visit Amy’s parents.

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Doctor Who: Let’s Kill Hitler

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Would you like some WHAT to go with that THE HELL?

I like it as a stand-alone sort of episode, I swear! It had Rory punching Hitler and Amy taking command and the Doctor in a top hat and so much awesome. And a ginger Terminator. And just forty-five minutes of sheer bonkersness. Buuuuuuuuuut.

River’s still Amy and Rory’s daughter and she’s still out there- Rory’s never even got to properly hold her. They had a kid and now she’s for all intents and purposes gone…and everyone seems okay with this. But the very real baby Melody is still out there somewhere in time with Madame Kovarian, why aren’t her parents ripping space apart to find her, crossed timelines be damned? Haven’t we already seen her alone and afraid in a creepy orphanage? What? What? WHAAAAAAT.

And they may have known her during her childhood, known her quite well, but that’s not the same- looking after your wayward best friend isn’t the same as raising a child, they’ll never have seen her first steps or first words or anything. And I dunno, this is sort of going WRONG WRONG WRONG in my head. Cos to just be okay with all that…

Um.

But I did like many things- I loved loved loved little Rory and Amelia, I loved that Hitler was actually barely in the episode, I loved the Doctor’s guilt over Rose, Martha, Donna and now Amy, I loved Rory’s little nod when River asks if the Doctor is worth it, I loved a lot about this episode. But I can’t turn off the little voice that says I may not like this series, cos they’re doing it wrong…

Thoughts on ‘The Girl Who Waited’

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Bits and pieces about this episode are starting to bleed through, so after giving DWM a thorough read, I think I might have put a few pieces together…

(Again, watch out for the spoiler!)

Looking through the various episode summaries in RT and DWM, it looks weirdly like Amy and Rory aren’t too bothered about finding their baby…they seem to just be swanning about in the TARDIS. The Girl Who Waited even seems to begin with the Doctor taking Amy and Rory on a relaxing break…I can’t see them doing that while Melody’s still captured. Unless they lose their memories of her, possibly in Let’s Kill Hitler?

But anyway- Steven Moffat said in Radio Times that The Girl Who Waited is about what happens when time travel goes wrong, and in the first trailer for Series 6b we see an aged Amy- so I think something timey-wimey is going to happen and it results in Amy becoming old. But! I also heard this huge spoiler, which I think might take place in this episode- (seriously, if you’re a spoilerphobe, look away now) -Amy apparently kills Madam Kovarian, possibly even Madam Kovarian as a child. And just like the prospect of killing Hitler, killing Madam Kovarian screws up the universe completely. So that’s certainly a case of time travel going wrong, so perhaps that’s what happens here? Also, people have speculated that River and Madam Kovarian are one and the same- so…well, that’s BAD. The episode summary says that Rory ‘discovers a very different side to his wife’ – child-killer different? WAH.

Also been reading interviews with Karen Gillan that say that Amy and Rory’s relationship is throughly tested in The Girl Who Waited, and that Amy and the Doctor’s relationship changes utterly in The God Complex. (Which makes me ponder…is the god complex in question the Doctor’s?) Oh man, it’s exciting. I can’t wait for Saturday. But yes! The Girl Who Waited, I think it’ll blow our tiny little minds.

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The Prequel for Let’s Kill Hitler is up…

I gonna admit, I’m a bit disappointed. I dunno why, I’m just not feeling Amy’s fear for her daughter. Sadness, but not fear…I suppose we don’t know how many times she’s called the Doctor, maybe this is the hundreth time and she’s just given up, but…I dunno. I’m just really really hoping they get the Pond family right. Amy knows River is okay, but her very real baby is out there somewhere without her parents, and that’s every mother’s nightmare. So I guess I just want this series to be about parents in the same way the last one was about children…

Also, Amy still seems to have faith in the Doctor, I guess the lack of comforthug in A Good Man Goes To War was just a blip…

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