Amy is schrodingers pregnant, and the TARDIS is the father...
I bet they'll be revisiting bits of this throughout the series, possibly even in the finale. It gave me a feeling of something that had been set up for a reason rather than just left hanging. I think it just gives a bit of a weird jolt when they shift between heavy plot and monster of the week episodes as they seem to be doing (pirates? really?)
The thing that bugged me the most was that that it seemed like they were setting things up for a reason, but they were trying to pretend they weren't so much by having the characters almost entirely ignore all the clues-to-the-future that were showering down on the episode. Not a good technique!
Yeah, they've ordered the episodes really weirdly. I don't think that once you're into a heavy plot you can't do MotW, because they used to do that in Buffy and cope just fine, but then they never had the characters suspend their interest in the main plotline. The characters just wouldn't find out anything new that week, despite trying in-between fighting the MotW. I think the DW writers think they can get away with this nonsense because they've got The Doctor and he's quirky and his curiosity doesn't follow normal human patterns. Except that he has human companions. Who should care. UGH. Are we supposed to believe that Amy and Rory are too loved up/glad to see the Doctor again to be looking out for weirdness clues? UUUUUGH.
I hope that they do still mention the weirdness in the next episode and the impression that it's all "ok forget all that lets go have a swashbuckling adventure!" is just one created by editing
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Surely all the weirdness they've experienced thanks to the Doctor should give them some perspective? They should be open to weirdness-related clues. But then they're just not supposed to be that clever, I guess. Amy has the best hair in the universe but is really not brain of Britain, and Rory is well, Rory, and River, like you say, doesn't give a fuck.
It's still unsatisfying as a viewer though, as it could have been written so much more smoothly. I can see the cracks and they're not in the universe, they're in the writing! *ba-doom-tish*
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I bet they'll be revisiting bits of this throughout the series, possibly even in the finale. It gave me a feeling of something that had been set up for a reason rather than just left hanging. I think it just gives a bit of a weird jolt when they shift between heavy plot and monster of the week episodes as they seem to be doing (pirates? really?)
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Yeah, they've ordered the episodes really weirdly. I don't think that once you're into a heavy plot you can't do MotW, because they used to do that in Buffy and cope just fine, but then they never had the characters suspend their interest in the main plotline. The characters just wouldn't find out anything new that week, despite trying in-between fighting the MotW. I think the DW writers think they can get away with this nonsense because they've got The Doctor and he's quirky and his curiosity doesn't follow normal human patterns. Except that he has human companions. Who should care. UGH. Are we supposed to believe that Amy and Rory are too loved up/glad to see the Doctor again to be looking out for weirdness clues? UUUUUGH.
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It's still unsatisfying as a viewer though, as it could have been written so much more smoothly. I can see the cracks and they're not in the universe, they're in the writing! *ba-doom-tish*
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