A Pond Farewell
October 3rd, 2012 07:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kalihaDoctor Who has had the best hashtags on Twitter this mini series. But I think the one I’ve appropriated for my title is the best one.
[x] I do love a Thirties noir detective story, with whiskey-swigging private eyes and femme fatales. And the cinematography really emphasised the genre, lots of shadows and pools of light, rain-slicked streets. Ooh lovely.
[x] Giant evil!Liberty really freaked me out. However, she is probably the most watched statue in the whole of New York, there will always be people taking photos or looking out of hotel rooms at her so there’s no way she could sneak off her island, across the river and loom threateningly over that block of flats.
[x] she’d be a remarkably frustrated Weeping Angel because she’s got her hands full already, how is she supposed to touch people to send them across time and space for a hit? Or would she be able to catch tourists when they climb up the inside of her for the view from the top?
[x] it was all a bit Ghostbuster-y
[x] Amy needs glasses now, glasses are cool. (They do not suit the Doctor). I like the way they are trying to show that Amy and Rory are aging even though when you look at them absolutely no effort has been made to age them off, not even given Rory some distinguished grey hairs a la George Clooney.
[x] Baby Angel is really quite scary, they’re all cute and chubby but so so evil. Especially when one of them blew out Rory’s match. That scene really tapped in to a lot of my fears, dark, spooky cellars, weeping angels, noises in the dark with murder on their minds. *goes and hides behind the sofa* *Not coming out until Merlin’s back*
[x] The episode really benefited from filming on location, there was the bridge from Cloverfield, the Monument from Angels in America. Oh Who you’ve come so far from the days of filming in Quarries.
[x] “Only you can fancy someone in a book” – Rory doesn’t do much book reading for pleasure does he? I fancy lots of people who out of books, and I’m not ashamed of the fact. So nhyeh!
[x] Sting’s Englishman in New York, Confidential must be fuming that would have been the perfect music for a montage. If only the Beeb hadn’t cancelled them. And they probably could have squeezed in some Sinatra and Alicia Keys too.
[x[ No don’t rip the page out of the book! Gah! Ooh, I hate wanton destruction of books. If I’d have been there I’d have smacked him up the head with that book. Maybe it’s a good thing that ebooks are becoming so popular, he can’t do that with a Kindle.
[x] Love the fact River is considered an expert on Weeping Angels. And she’s been pardoned, well, now the Doctor doesn’t exist there’s no crime to be accused of. Very neatly done Moffat, very neatly done. And like every self-respecting 55th Century time traveller she’s got a vortex manipulator so she can cause havoc wherever she likes.
[x] Don’t let him see your pain. Don’t let him see you age. And that’s what this little mini-series has all been about. (Just in case you hadn’t already noticed).
[x] Doctor, vandalism isn’t big and it isn’t clever, and Yowza? Really? You’ve got a brain the size of a planet (according to you) surely you could have come up with something better.
[x] Please don’t jump. The bit on the roof was heartbreaking. It was raining on my face a bit then. It was lovely to see Amy’s absolute trust of Rory and the proof that she loves him so much that she’ll risk him being wrong in order to stay with him. Other people have written about this already a lot more eloquently than I could because I get a bit teary at the thought.
[x] If Rory had got into the TARDIS and hadn’t have seen the gravestone would they have lived, or would they have just have had a short reprieve before the angels found them again? Is the Doctor going to wipe them out completely in a form of revenge at some point in the future?
[x] River letting Amy go was really touching.
[x] Now River is a Professor we must be starting to get close to The Library :( I hope she spends a bit more time on the TARDIS to have some hilarious japes and adventures before that happens.
[x] The Pond’s probably lived a wonderful life. I hope they invested heavily in all those fledgling start ups like Facebook, Google, Yahoo and MySpace and used the money to travel the world causing trouble. Especially if you keep your TARDIS language skills even once you were out of the TARDIS.
[b] Brian :( he knew what would happen, probably better than Amy and Rory did who were off having all these great adventures. Have you see that drawing that’s doing the rounds at the moment of the Doctor coming back to Brian to tell him…only the Doctor wouldn’t. He doesn’t revisit where he feels he failed and he doesn’t go back to give bad news. Brian won’t know what happened to them, just that one day they didn’t come home and that is the saddest thought I had about the episode. I hope Amy and Rory did something to get a message back to him, even if it was a delayed letter just to let him know.
[x] A fitting ending? Yes I think so, they may have died but only after having a long (hopefully happy) life. Maybe the Doctor will get to see them again, who knows. I’m quite sure River will because she’s never one for following the rules, even the rules of time and space.
[x] I think I need to do some more reading up on time travel theory and fixed point theory. Yes, I got that the Doctor can’t go back to New York 1938 because the time lines are so messed up but what’s to stop him going to 1937 and leaving a message for Amy & Rory to meet him at a certain spot in 1939, he could pick them up and take them home? (I expect there is already a fix-it fic to cover this, if not a dozen of them).
And you know what, I missed the Christmas trailer that was on at the end. Gutted.
[x] I do love a Thirties noir detective story, with whiskey-swigging private eyes and femme fatales. And the cinematography really emphasised the genre, lots of shadows and pools of light, rain-slicked streets. Ooh lovely.
[x] Giant evil!Liberty really freaked me out. However, she is probably the most watched statue in the whole of New York, there will always be people taking photos or looking out of hotel rooms at her so there’s no way she could sneak off her island, across the river and loom threateningly over that block of flats.
[x] she’d be a remarkably frustrated Weeping Angel because she’s got her hands full already, how is she supposed to touch people to send them across time and space for a hit? Or would she be able to catch tourists when they climb up the inside of her for the view from the top?
[x] it was all a bit Ghostbuster-y
[x] Amy needs glasses now, glasses are cool. (They do not suit the Doctor). I like the way they are trying to show that Amy and Rory are aging even though when you look at them absolutely no effort has been made to age them off, not even given Rory some distinguished grey hairs a la George Clooney.
[x] Baby Angel is really quite scary, they’re all cute and chubby but so so evil. Especially when one of them blew out Rory’s match. That scene really tapped in to a lot of my fears, dark, spooky cellars, weeping angels, noises in the dark with murder on their minds. *goes and hides behind the sofa* *Not coming out until Merlin’s back*
[x] The episode really benefited from filming on location, there was the bridge from Cloverfield, the Monument from Angels in America. Oh Who you’ve come so far from the days of filming in Quarries.
[x] “Only you can fancy someone in a book” – Rory doesn’t do much book reading for pleasure does he? I fancy lots of people who out of books, and I’m not ashamed of the fact. So nhyeh!
[x] Sting’s Englishman in New York, Confidential must be fuming that would have been the perfect music for a montage. If only the Beeb hadn’t cancelled them. And they probably could have squeezed in some Sinatra and Alicia Keys too.
[x[ No don’t rip the page out of the book! Gah! Ooh, I hate wanton destruction of books. If I’d have been there I’d have smacked him up the head with that book. Maybe it’s a good thing that ebooks are becoming so popular, he can’t do that with a Kindle.
[x] Love the fact River is considered an expert on Weeping Angels. And she’s been pardoned, well, now the Doctor doesn’t exist there’s no crime to be accused of. Very neatly done Moffat, very neatly done. And like every self-respecting 55th Century time traveller she’s got a vortex manipulator so she can cause havoc wherever she likes.
[x] Don’t let him see your pain. Don’t let him see you age. And that’s what this little mini-series has all been about. (Just in case you hadn’t already noticed).
[x] Doctor, vandalism isn’t big and it isn’t clever, and Yowza? Really? You’ve got a brain the size of a planet (according to you) surely you could have come up with something better.
[x] Please don’t jump. The bit on the roof was heartbreaking. It was raining on my face a bit then. It was lovely to see Amy’s absolute trust of Rory and the proof that she loves him so much that she’ll risk him being wrong in order to stay with him. Other people have written about this already a lot more eloquently than I could because I get a bit teary at the thought.
[x] If Rory had got into the TARDIS and hadn’t have seen the gravestone would they have lived, or would they have just have had a short reprieve before the angels found them again? Is the Doctor going to wipe them out completely in a form of revenge at some point in the future?
[x] River letting Amy go was really touching.
[x] Now River is a Professor we must be starting to get close to The Library :( I hope she spends a bit more time on the TARDIS to have some hilarious japes and adventures before that happens.
[x] The Pond’s probably lived a wonderful life. I hope they invested heavily in all those fledgling start ups like Facebook, Google, Yahoo and MySpace and used the money to travel the world causing trouble. Especially if you keep your TARDIS language skills even once you were out of the TARDIS.
[b] Brian :( he knew what would happen, probably better than Amy and Rory did who were off having all these great adventures. Have you see that drawing that’s doing the rounds at the moment of the Doctor coming back to Brian to tell him…only the Doctor wouldn’t. He doesn’t revisit where he feels he failed and he doesn’t go back to give bad news. Brian won’t know what happened to them, just that one day they didn’t come home and that is the saddest thought I had about the episode. I hope Amy and Rory did something to get a message back to him, even if it was a delayed letter just to let him know.
[x] A fitting ending? Yes I think so, they may have died but only after having a long (hopefully happy) life. Maybe the Doctor will get to see them again, who knows. I’m quite sure River will because she’s never one for following the rules, even the rules of time and space.
[x] I think I need to do some more reading up on time travel theory and fixed point theory. Yes, I got that the Doctor can’t go back to New York 1938 because the time lines are so messed up but what’s to stop him going to 1937 and leaving a message for Amy & Rory to meet him at a certain spot in 1939, he could pick them up and take them home? (I expect there is already a fix-it fic to cover this, if not a dozen of them).
And you know what, I missed the Christmas trailer that was on at the end. Gutted.
