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Doctor Who: The Big Bang

FUCK YEAH DOCTOR WHO

LOVE LOVE LOVE SOOO MUCH LOVE.

Time travel is done brilliantly! (the whole nipping back to get the drink and other things reminded me of the tie scene in Smith and Jones) The theory about Jacket!Doctor was right! River Song is all mysterious! SO MUCH LOVE AGAIN.

Rory is brilliant, and so totally devoted to Amy that I rather wish she tended to show a little more love and devotion to him. I suspect, though, that that’s actually why he loves her. Love is confusing. Go figure. I love that he guarded her for two thousand years. There’s never been a more romantic gesture in the whole show…and I hope Amy has remembered what he went through to keep her safe! Because it must have been incredibly boring for a very long time.

Amy is still LOVE as well. She’s very nearly tied with Martha as my favourite Doctor Who companion. “YOU ARE LATE FOR MY WEDDING!’ was very Donna-esque but it totally worked with her too. In fact, Amy got the fate I think a few people wish Donna had gotten too…

I’m starting to quite like River now she’s gone all femme-fatale. She’s totally going to kill the Doctor, isn’t she? Ooh, and I love that we’ve already got next year’s arc set up. He plans in advance, that Moffat…

Looking so so forward to series six! Please don’t kill Amy, please don’t kill Rory for a third time, please bring back Martha (or Jack, or Sarah Jane, but Martha is top of my list) please keep it awesome and plese don’t ruin that fantastic fairytale happy ending. The princess marries the prince, they run off with the mad wizard, and they all live happily ever after. Everybody lives, people! Everybody lives! Fuck yeah.

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Susan
Susan
Take Which Doctor Who companion are you? (girls) today!
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You’re Susan!

For a fugitive from your own people, you’re one of the most innocent of the companions, probably because your grandfather is so protective of you. You bring out the tenderness behind the Doctor’s bluster and occasional coldness. You are implicitly trusting of the Doctor, no matter what he gets you and the others into, and your confidence in him helps others rally around him, too. Your sweetness and fondness for humans is the legacy you leave him even after you move on.

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…

No Matter (a Doctor Who/Sherlock Holmes crossover) 7/?

Title: No Matter
Author: sarah531
Rating: PG13
Fandom: Doctor Who, Sherlock Holmes
AN: This is set after the Hiatus for Holmes and Watson (oh, and it’s the bookverse, despite my icon) and after Human Nature for the Doctor and Martha.
Summary: A detective, a doctor, a would-be doctor and a Doctor walk into a bar.

Previous chapters: One Two Three Four Five Six

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Doctor Who: The Lodger

That felt a teeny bit like a rehash of Love and Monsters, but it was still pretty likeable and pretty funny. It was just very lightweight, I suppose. Apart from Amy finding the ring at the end…

Basically I get the feeling this was mostly an excuse for Matt Smith to show off his football skills…(he was nearly a professional footballer) ;)

Doctor Who: Vincent and the Doctor

Okay, this turned into a ramble about things I love and don’t love about DW and its fandom. But it’s mostly about the episode…

Oh wow, I think that’s one of the best ones this year. And although it was never made explicit in the episode, I LOVE the idea that invisible monster = depression (something horrible and frightening that only you can see.)

The scene at the end with the stars and the hand-holding may be one of my favourite scenes in DW ever. Also, this is such a tiny thing, but I love love love that this show can have two men holding hands and it’s not mocked or even commented upon. I utterly, totally love DW’s Gay Agenda (the hand-holding moment had nothing at all to do with sex, but my thoughts just sort of meandered this way). I love that this show can have Nine and Jack kissing and it’s just as ‘normal’ as Rose and Jack kissing, and two old ladies can be happy in love and gay people are very, very visible. Visibilty is good, visibilty is awesome, I want more Gay Agenda in fact.

I continue to adore Amy, she’s brilliant.

I’m glad that Rory is remembered. BTW, can I just say I really like the relationship that eventually developed between the Doctor and Rory? With Nine and Mickey it was all about the belittling and bickering, and it was the same thing to a lesser extent with Ten, and Jack never quite fit into the ‘companion’ mold, but Eleven and Rory were actually friends. I think the Doctor misses him quite a lot.

Back to VATD…unusually for DW, this episode dealt heavily with mental illness and suicide (usually big no-nos for family shows, but DW has never been a typical family show). They did it very well, and hopefully the episode will provoke many interesting discussions, and then at the end they stuck on a number to call ‘if you’ve been affected by any of the issues featured in the show’. Cue a massive influx of morons talking about how uneccesary and ‘PC’ it was for the BBC to give a damn at all about people who might have had things triggered. I love this fandom, but sometimes I hate it. Not often, just sometimes.

Mostly I love it though.

Doctor Who: Cold Blood

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Eeeek! Things that are Worse Than Death (see: Dementors, cracks in time) freak me out like crazy. And now I’m trying to work out what exactly happened to Rory. He died, but then got sucked into the crack, so presumably when he died everything about him except his body (read: soul) would have gone someplace where presumably Time itself couldn’t get to him. Doctor Who’s never dealt with the afterlife, has it? So is Rory dead or did he never exist?
Does he never exist in the afterlife too? Also (and I think this is a plot hole more than anything else) why did Amy remember the soldiers in Flesh And Stone but not remember Rory? Will she ever remember him? She’s got to, right? But on the other hand, knowing your other half was wiped out of existence would drive you insane, so maybe it’s better she doesn’t know.

Plus, she never did get round to telling him she loved him.

All in all, that was very depressing. :(