the eleventh doctor

Doctor Who: The Angels Take Manhattan

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Oh god I’m so sorry guys but I found that disappointing

It’s just, I was getting increasingly invested in the Amy/Rory/River relationship, despite the lack of it- she’s their daughter and yet they’re always so ‘meh’ about her. I’m sure that’s not the intention, but…Amy and Rory barely even reacted when they saw her. Okay, maybe that’s because they see her all the time, and I like that so I’ll go with that, but…I just wanted one moment. We sort of got one with Amy and River, but not Rory and River, and not them all together, and I’m just…damn, would anything at all have changed throughout series six and seven if River wasn’t their daughter? It wouldn’t! So why do it?

Also, I was really hoping the Ponds would go on to raise little Melody, still growing up in a plothole somewhere in Sixties New York. Except that never happened, thus destroying the chance to FINALLY FILL THAT BLOODY plothole. Although, I suppose it never said they didn’t, so…

Sigh. It was alright, better than I’m making it sound, I’m just sad that there were SO MANY loose ends from all throughout the Pond’s series that never got filled. What will Brian do now? And Amy’s parents? What was with Amys picture at Melody’s orphanage? And…er…why, exactly, can’t the Doctor and River still visit them in the TARDIS? I’m so confused. And sad. And annoyed. Bah.

Other stuff:

-River’s out of prison kicking ass and being all independent, yay

-Amy apparently is Amy Williams after all (should have guessed from the divorce papers, really), although she still refers to herself as Amy Pond so I suppose it’s just an official thing.

-Oh Rory. You went all Sherlock on us.

-I wish they’d spent more time on the Ponds and not wasted five pre-credits minutes on some random guy

-Amy outlived Rory by about five years. So she ended all alone. :(

-I’m not quite sure I follow the ending. So, the Doctor appeared briefly back to Amelia and told her what was to come? So…did he tell her the bad parts? “Hi, little Amelia! You’re going to grow up be duplicated and give birth not knowing you were pregnant and a evil woman will steal your baby and DEATH SO MUCH DEATH”

I am sad and yet confused. Maybe I’ll like it better as time goes on.

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areyoumarriedriver:

#how do you think rory felt here #because like #yes the doctor was just frustrated #but like #rory is the king of patience #and he waited#and then amy #amy too #she’s the girl who waited #and then there’s him#and he’s tired of waiting #how do you think they felt here #even for just a second #to see the man who’s changed their lives so much #called such an integral part of the personalities #for wimps #i can’t (via stormcages)

OH GOD

Eleven’s like a thoughtless little kid in this scene, annoying his parents with words that go deeper than he knows. And they just ignore the slight hurt, the annoyance, and carry on. Because they’re parents and he’s their son-in-law and just…argh.

Doctor Who: The Power Of Three

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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.

Doctor Who: A Town Called Mercy

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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

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hawthornhedge:

sarah531:

A new promo picture! (With thanks to llenka)

I love analysing the set design of Doctor Who, so looking at this makes me so happy- those knick-knacks on the table, do you think they’re things Amy and Rory have picked up from their travels? And there’s so much art on the walls- Amy hasn’t lost her love of art! Or of plants and gardens, look, there’s plants everywhere!

And it’s all blue, the same shade as Amy’s bedroom I believe, or close to it. And, quite significantly, for me at least- there appears to be another picture of a naked woman at the back of the room. (Amy’s bedroom too had one.) Amy’s whole personality is expressed through this room. And that’s not even getting into the lovely picture of the trio, or the Amy/Rory picture we saw in Amy’s Choice sitting there on the mantlepiece. It’s fabulous. I love it!

I love the analysis, but I sincerely hope that Rory’s terrible ponytail is not canonical in the present universe (joking not joking).  Although the implications are kind of interesting, especially since that was a dream state….

Also, I’m kind of impressed that the picture of the trio has Arthur/Rory smiling-that doesn’t happen too often on the show!

You’re right about the Amy/Rory photo! It shouldn’t exist! :O Should it?

My mind is slightly blown, although I think it’s an oversight…but still…

Doctor Who: Asylum of the Daleks

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When [SPOILER] happened I actually literally SCREAMED you guys SCREAMED

Oswin
(Wait, I thought her name was Clara…) Wasn’t she BRILLIANT? But where does it go from here? Does he pick her up in the past? Is the woman we’ve seen in set photos actually an ancestor or a descendant of hers? And as people have said…the Doctor doesn’t even know what she looks like! He could meet her, and not realise til much later who she really is. Oh my god…

Did you notice her little glance to camera, before she died?

Amy and Rory
I don’t know, it seems quite in-character for Amy to not tell Rory what was really going on, to push him away instead. People grieve in different ways…and after her first terrible loss, that of Melody, she barely mentioned her for ages, not even to Rory. And not only did she have to go through that, but now the prospect of another child has been taken from her too. (God, I bet she’s secretly so glad she killed Kovarian, now.)

If she’d ever sat down and talked to Rory about it, it would have brought the terrible experiences on Demon’s Run (which are now even more terrible) crashing right back into what was supposed to be a new life. She should have talked to him, not pushed him away, but I understand her actions perfectly…

Poor old Rory seems to be the innocent in this, but I wonder what exactly they argued about before they split. Did he ever fling his 2000-yr wait back in Amy’s face, like he almost did aboard the ship? I always hoped he’d never do that, but he’s only human after all.

The Doctor
THE DALEKS DON’T KNOW HIM AGAIN!

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namberjams:

Pond Life Episode Two had me laughing for far longer than the duration of the short.  I’ll leave the dirty jokes about ‘the bedroom rule’ to other people,  I’m more interested in the fact that the Doctor is basically an overactive puppy.  I can just see him whining loudly outside of a locked door until one of the Ponds finally breaks and lets him in the room.

The three of them are the best kind of awkward best friends.

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