I, too, was impressed that Rory Did Stuff. (Yay, Rory! Congrats on having Things To Do! You wouldn't think people would consider a 3 person cast too big, and yet...)
Incidentally, I'm starting to suspect that Rory is going to be dying in some way for every story of the series. I wonder if maybe he's supposed to be dead and the universe is a little ticked off at him for not being so. And then I realize that's the plot of the Final Destination movies and I really hope that isn't the case.
The shoe-horning in of this season's plot stuff makes sense when you consider that this episode was SUPPOSED to air where The Lodger did, last season. So I forgive Gaiman that one. It's hard enough cramming in an entire extra character. (Which he did superbly.)
Next week: Appears to be a Doctor Who/Deep Space Nine crossover. The Founders are invading!
Oh, my God. They DO look like The Founders. Now I'm going to be spending the next two episodes looking for Odo, you realize. Dammit.
Yay, Rory! Congrats on having Things To Do! You wouldn't think people would consider a 3 person cast too big, and yet...
I think it may just be that most of the modern writers don't have much practice balancing three people in the TARDIS. I was looking at the list of episodes with three people in the TARDIS and most of them were either written by Rusty or the Moff.* Two people is easy, an A/B plot. Three people is . . . does Rory get his own plot? Does he go with Amy? If he goes with Amy, Amy's pretty much a force of nature, what does he do? I haven't really felt called to write fic this season but I suspect Rory would be the death of me if I did.
Incidentally, I'm starting to suspect that Rory is going to be dying in some way for every story of the series. I wonder if maybe he's supposed to be dead and the universe is a little ticked off at him for not being so. And then I realize that's the plot of the Final Destination movies and I really hope that isn't the case.
Funnily enough 1istener mentioned this last week. I think I saw it for
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... Rory get his own plot? Does he go with Amy? If he goes with Amy, Amy's pretty much a force of nature, what does he do?
I started typing a reply where I discussed this in Buffy terms until I made the observation that Rory is basically The Zeppo, and then everything derailed into me really wanting a Who version of that episode where Rory's B plot becomes the A plot and how it would be hilarious.
The version I saw on MeFi went on to speculate that that's the reason Amy is Schrodenpregnant: it's Rory's, not some sort of bizarre Silence-created tiny Time Lord, and because Rory's fate is in flux, so is the pregnancy, but that bit gives me a headache.
I've seen that theory, too. Though I don't necessarily buy it. I do have my own ideas, though.
Either the Tardis is scanning her in the future and she's not pregnant, yet, and whatever event that leads to her pregnancy is in flux
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Or, more likely, they're in a situation where there's multiple timelines vyying for dominance (Either because of the Doctor doubling back on his own timeline or because Amy fucked up her remembering of the universe or because of something The Silence did) and the Tardis is confused and scanning both of them simultaneously.
Yeah, I'm on Team Two Timelines myself. My vote is it has to do with the death of Future Doctor -- there's a timeline where it happened and one where it didn't, and the universe hasn't got it worked out yet which actually happened. Which suggests to me that the timeline where the Doctor dies is the timeline where Amy is pregnant and we may indeed be revisiting TIA/DotM to foil her abduction/pregnancy (because of COURSE the Silence knocked Amy up, Moffat's totally playing with the cliches of an alien abduction.)
But I rather prefer what Moffat is doing. I mean, yes, he hit you over the head with that crack, but it sort of gives the series a sense of cohesion that
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One of my friends in high school was super into Sandman so he's been on my radar for a while, I just never really had any burning desire to read any of his stuff myself. I may bump him onto the To Read pile after this episode though.
I loved that the TARDIS thought Rory was the pretty one. Because Rory looks a lot more like the Doctor than Amy does, and obviously the TARDIS is in love with the Doctor. LOL. Win.
Regarding the whole TARDIS-as-a-woman thing, I can not believe they went there. There has got to be so much deleted scene porny fanfic. *goes to check*
Ok, no, not really that much so far, on fanfiction.net anyway. But still. That was awfully cracky. Wow.
I loved that the TARDIS thought Rory was the pretty one. Because Rory looks a lot more like the Doctor than Amy does, and obviously the TARDIS is in love with the Doctor. LOL. Win.
I actually hadn't picked up on that until you said it! I figured it was more LOLALIENS HAVE ALTERNATE STANDARDS OF BEAUTY but you're so totally right. Hah!
Regarding the whole TARDIS-as-a-woman thing, I can not believe they went there. There has got to be so much deleted scene porny fanfic. *goes to check*
I thought nostalgia_lj might have put some post-episode fanfic up as a TAKE THAT I WAS RIGHT because she's been shipping Doctor/TARDIS for yonks (and guessed that Idris would be the TARDIS) but she is apparently still in a TAKE THAT I WAS RIGHT coma. Well, it's not often one gets to be so spectacularly right on something so spectacularly cracked out.
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Incidentally, I'm starting to suspect that Rory is going to be dying in some way for every story of the series. I wonder if maybe he's supposed to be dead and the universe is a little ticked off at him for not being so. And then I realize that's the plot of the Final Destination movies and I really hope that isn't the case.
The shoe-horning in of this season's plot stuff makes sense when you consider that this episode was SUPPOSED to air where The Lodger did, last season. So I forgive Gaiman that one. It's hard enough cramming in an entire extra character. (Which he did superbly.)
Next week: Appears to be a Doctor Who/Deep Space Nine crossover. The Founders are invading!
Oh, my God. They DO look like The Founders. Now I'm going to be spending the next two episodes looking for Odo, you realize. Dammit.
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I think it may just be that most of the modern writers don't have much practice balancing three people in the TARDIS. I was looking at the list of episodes with three people in the TARDIS and most of them were either written by Rusty or the Moff.* Two people is easy, an A/B plot. Three people is . . . does Rory get his own plot? Does he go with Amy? If he goes with Amy, Amy's pretty much a force of nature, what does he do? I haven't really felt called to write fic this season but I suspect Rory would be the death of me if I did.
Incidentally, I'm starting to suspect that Rory is going to be dying in some way for every story of the series. I wonder if maybe he's supposed to be dead and the universe is a little ticked off at him for not being so. And then I realize that's the plot of the Final Destination movies and I really hope that isn't the case.
Funnily enough 1istener mentioned this last week. I think I saw it for ( ... )
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I started typing a reply where I discussed this in Buffy terms until I made the observation that Rory is basically The Zeppo, and then everything derailed into me really wanting a Who version of that episode where Rory's B plot becomes the A plot and how it would be hilarious.
The version I saw on MeFi went on to speculate that that's the reason Amy is Schrodenpregnant: it's Rory's, not some sort of bizarre Silence-created tiny Time Lord, and because Rory's fate is in flux, so is the pregnancy, but that bit gives me a headache.
I've seen that theory, too. Though I don't necessarily buy it. I do have my own ideas, though.
Either the Tardis is scanning her in the future and she's not pregnant, yet, and whatever event that leads to her pregnancy is in flux ( ... )
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Or, more likely, they're in a situation where there's multiple timelines vyying for dominance (Either because of the Doctor doubling back on his own timeline or because Amy fucked up her remembering of the universe or because of something The Silence did) and the Tardis is confused and scanning both of them simultaneously.
Yeah, I'm on Team Two Timelines myself. My vote is it has to do with the death of Future Doctor -- there's a timeline where it happened and one where it didn't, and the universe hasn't got it worked out yet which actually happened. Which suggests to me that the timeline where the Doctor dies is the timeline where Amy is pregnant and we may indeed be revisiting TIA/DotM to foil her abduction/pregnancy (because of COURSE the Silence knocked Amy up, Moffat's totally playing with the cliches of an alien abduction.)
But I rather prefer what Moffat is doing. I mean, yes, he hit you over the head with that crack, but it sort of gives the series a sense of cohesion that ( ... )
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Regarding the whole TARDIS-as-a-woman thing, I can not believe they went there. There has got to be so much deleted scene porny fanfic. *goes to check*
Ok, no, not really that much so far, on fanfiction.net anyway. But still. That was awfully cracky. Wow.
I also really need an Eleventh Doctor icon.
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Ok, made one.
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I actually hadn't picked up on that until you said it! I figured it was more LOLALIENS HAVE ALTERNATE STANDARDS OF BEAUTY but you're so totally right. Hah!
Regarding the whole TARDIS-as-a-woman thing, I can not believe they went there. There has got to be so much deleted scene porny fanfic. *goes to check*
I thought nostalgia_lj might have put some post-episode fanfic up as a TAKE THAT I WAS RIGHT because she's been shipping Doctor/TARDIS for yonks (and guessed that Idris would be the TARDIS) but she is apparently still in a TAKE THAT I WAS RIGHT coma. Well, it's not often one gets to be so spectacularly right on something so spectacularly cracked out.
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