I absolutely loved this episode. One of my favorites of New Who, and by far the best New Who sendoff. It was nothing like what I expected and yet I didn't mind because it was better than my expectations.
I thought the episode was OK. I thought it had lots of plotholes that I can't seem to make sense of though. Regardless of that, I think that the episode served it's purpose in sending the Ponds off in a heart-wrenching manner. I pretty much knew it would end like that due to spoilers. I'm glad that Amy and Rory were able to spend their lives together. But on another hand I'm really sad about the loss of Amy and Rory. I wish it didn't have to end that way (I would have preferred an ending like The God Complex). The episode was basically Amy's Choice redux. I think that there could have been a better way to send off Amy and Rory than by making her choose again. Amy already has proven in Series 5 and 6 that she chooses Rory. It tore me up inside to see the way The Doctor reacted at Amy's choice to get zapped by an angel. "Come along Pond, please!" is quite possibly the most heartbreaking thing he's ever had to say to her. In the end he did have to stand over her grave and it breaks my heart. I am so attached to the dynamic they have
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Yeah, it was weird to make Amy choose again. It's pretty obvious she's going with her husband. His reaction to losing Amy seemed contrary to how the Doctor treated her in the past, when he was always pushing her towards Rory.
Honestly I preferred Amy and Rory's departure in TGC, where they were able to stay with their family and friends, jobs, and live in the 21st century. Now that they're in the 1930's in America, they have no birth certificates, no credentials, no friends or connections. Rory will probably need to go to medical school since there were no male nurses back then, and he needs to unlearn a lot of modern medicine. Amy's career options are limited too, although she could probably still be a writer. Hopefully they're able to get rich off wise stock market investments.
The Weeping Angels make less sense every time they appear lol. Like... a human farm? Where they have to hope the prisoners attempt to escape so they can send them back again and get more time energy? The Baby Angels were creepy though. The Statue of Liberty angel was pretty funny too.
Head canon: Rory could not break into the medical field for the reasons you stated. He took a job as a stagehand. SO AS YOU SEE, RORY WAS A PIG IN DALEKS TAKE MANHATTAN!!! Wibbly wobbly!!! =D
The Weeping Angels make less sense every time they appear lol.
Trufax. As is par for the course nowadays imo, they seem to be written to fit the plot du jour.
Was it a perfect episode, no. I think this was perhaps Moffat' most successful season ender. Generally speaking, he tends to throw so much action into an episode that you lose something of the emotion and characterization which is what I look for as a viewer. I think he was more successful at capturing the emotion in this ep but I also want to credit the actors for doing such a stunning job of portraying the angst and loss involved in this ep
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He's not always been super nice to her considering he's supposed to love her.
See, this has always been the elephant in the room for me. *Is* he supposed to love her? Or is that just up to us at the viewer to decide if he's going through the motions since he already knows the 'end of the story' and clearly carries guilt, or if he falls in love in the process?
I just personally don't feel that we've been given any indication for it being love. Which kind of bothers me, because I'd like to know the author's thoughts either way. And Moffat (as well as Smith & Kingston) has been decidedly (purposefully?) nonforthcoming on that front, even in interviews.
So I just gotta go with what I see, which is ... nothing =X
I think this is one of those things (there seem to be several) where Moff wants us to take what he gives us without needing external prompting (which, I admit, I will take over RTD telling me what to think evert week). It's the Doctor falling in love with the woman he shouldn't, knowing that he's going to lose her and how it's going to happen. He's always touching her when he doesn't have to, looking at her like he wants to jump her, falling for her when she's a fictional character in a book...
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I pretty much knew it would end like that due to spoilers. I'm glad that Amy and Rory were able to spend their lives together. But on another hand I'm really sad about the loss of Amy and Rory. I wish it didn't have to end that way (I would have preferred an ending like The God Complex).
The episode was basically Amy's Choice redux. I think that there could have been a better way to send off Amy and Rory than by making her choose again. Amy already has proven in Series 5 and 6 that she chooses Rory.
It tore me up inside to see the way The Doctor reacted at Amy's choice to get zapped by an angel. "Come along Pond, please!" is quite possibly the most heartbreaking thing he's ever had to say to her. In the end he did have to stand over her grave and it breaks my heart. I am so attached to the dynamic they have ( ... )
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The Weeping Angels make less sense every time they appear lol. Like... a human farm? Where they have to hope the prisoners attempt to escape so they can send them back again and get more time energy? The Baby Angels were creepy though. The Statue of Liberty angel was pretty funny too.
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The Weeping Angels make less sense every time they appear lol.
Trufax. As is par for the course nowadays imo, they seem to be written to fit the plot du jour.
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Also, isn't DiM/EotD set in 1930...? So Amy and Rory missed that particular adventure. DAMN.
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See, this has always been the elephant in the room for me. *Is* he supposed to love her? Or is that just up to us at the viewer to decide if he's going through the motions since he already knows the 'end of the story' and clearly carries guilt, or if he falls in love in the process?
I just personally don't feel that we've been given any indication for it being love. Which kind of bothers me, because I'd like to know the author's thoughts either way. And Moffat (as well as Smith & Kingston) has been decidedly (purposefully?) nonforthcoming on that front, even in interviews.
So I just gotta go with what I see, which is ... nothing =X
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I think this is one of those things (there seem to be several) where Moff wants us to take what he gives us without needing external prompting (which, I admit, I will take over RTD telling me what to think evert week). It's the Doctor falling in love with the woman he shouldn't, knowing that he's going to lose her and how it's going to happen. He's always touching her when he doesn't have to, looking at her like he wants to jump her, falling for her when she's a fictional character in a book...
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