DW5x13: The Big Bang -- post #2 (the one with less CAPSLOCK)
All caps by killcolor.
There are many timey-wimey things in this episode. If one chooses to overthink it, we would lose the magic of the fairytale ending and frankly, be complete joy-killing prats. The pseudo-science of Doctor Who doesn't always have to make sense. Simply because it is Doctor Who. That's the magic of it. Stop thinking about the complexity it. Amy Pond being saved by the Pandorica. The nonsensical farce of the time jumps (the Moff's words!) was hilarious, it truly was. Paradox after paradox of future and past selves meeting (no Reapers, because the universe is ceasing to exist after all, all rules go out the window), we've not seen this in New Who before. All of creation being rebooted by the particles of the Universe stored in the Pandorica being bathed in its restoration light, what a brilliant way out of all the mess. The Doctor being remembered into existence by a memory, a wedding saying, and the dear love of a beautiful friendship. This was a brilliant, fantastic, classic story. Adjectives like 'epic' too can be tossed into the gallimaufry of descriptions.
I think Steven Moffat did this episode very beautifully. The man has a heart after all. xD For all the times we moaned about the lack of emotion this series, I'm very glad he injected large chunks of it in here. Rory guarding Amy in the Pandorica for 2000 years ("Why do you have to be so human?"), the Doctor's hushed, soft, tender conversation with Amy, ("You'll have your family back. You won't need your imaginary friend any more." *wibble*) before he piloted the Pandorica into the burning the TARDIS, and then the Doctor gently tucking wee Amelia into bed, telling her the stories and memories that she would never have ("Live life. Love Rory. Bye bye Pond." *wibbles more*) ... well, it's right up there with those scenes I loved in Amy's Choice and Vincent and the Doctor. I'm very glad because it was like the Who I loved in Russell's era all over again. It might not be exactly the same, but it's still there somewhere, and when it hits its stride, it is just Wonderful.
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Will she be safer if I stay?
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Rory and Amy. Rooooory and Amy. I can keep gushing on about their love story. RTD would be proud of this. AND NOBODY DIES. Just like the Moff used to do it. Arthur Darvill was magnificent in his role, truly, and so was Karen Gillan. I cannot say that enough.
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It's the most important thing left in the universe. It's why I'm doing this.
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The relationship that is the Doctor and Amy boiled down to their final conversation before everything exploded. I'm really really really glad that the whole mystery of Amy Pond was revealed in a beautiful, touching scene and not reduced to him babbling out all the facts in a rush. The Doctor's importance to a companion is now no longer just making the companion a better person, as was in the case of Rose and Martha and Donna, but it was trying to fix the wrongs that never should have happened to Amy, and to repair the years of damage he did by not returning in 5 minutes as he had promised when Amy was 7.
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I don't belong here any more.
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And the times we had, eh? Would had. Never. ... The Doctor and Amy Pond. And the days that never came.
I thought Matt Smith had a pretty epic moment when he was being trapped in the Pandorica in the previous episode. Well, he topped even that when he said goodbye to little Amelia (one of the best piece of dialogue this series). It broke my heart when he said all that, and even more when he said he'll "skip the rest of the rewind. I hate repeats." (Ten angst, anyone?) "Live life. Love Rory. Bye bye Pond.", and I was a mess. Matt Smith has truly truly truly owned this role, and again, I'm VERY GLAD. It makes me able to love this show even when the people change.
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Raggedy man, I remember you, and you are late for my wedding!
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I'm quite sure a TARDIS will be the next in thing to have at weddings now. xD
This series finale had a happy ending, which may be that key difference between it and all of Russell's finales. Look at the Series 1 finale,: we had Nine rescuing Rose by absorbing the Time Vortex into himself which is too much for him and hence he regenerates. We were all left mourning the demise of Ten and tentatively, gingerly (ha ha), saying hullo to David Tennant as the new Doctor. Series 2 finale, perhaps the most gut-wrenching and saddest ending of all, Rose separated from the Doctor. Forever. (Well, we thought it was forever.) All that crying on the cold beach. Series 3, well, it's certainly not my favourite because glowy floaty Doctor was just that bit weird, BUT, it gave us the angst of the Doctor losing the only other timelord left (or so we thought, again.). Martha leaving doesn't count into the angst, okay. The Doctor had been inwardly shunning her so it wasn't a devastating loss. Then series 4. The Doctor loses Rose (again), Donna gets her mind wiped, and the Doctor is left drenched from the rain, in the TARDIS, morose and all alone. The specials, well, let's treat The End of Time as the finale of them all, and we get perhaps the best (and most emotional) 20 minutes of Doctor Who right at its end.
Then we have THIS. You know what, I am very glad we've gotten a happy ending for once. Might not be my favouritest of all time, because like Catey said, we have a soft spot for the sadly-sad-sad endings that Russell wrote, but I do like a happy ending, I do. I'm quite a sucker for happy endings, to be honest. For once, I'm not left traumatized at the end of a series! AND WE HAVE THE BEST TEAM TARDIS AT THE END. That may be the best part yet. :p
We're even left with some mysteries yet unsolved, like the Silence, and the even-more-mysterious River Song. I'm excited about the Christmas special and the next series. Team Doctor/Amy/Rory guys. HURRAH!
There are many timey-wimey things in this episode. If one chooses to overthink it, we would lose the magic of the fairytale ending and frankly, be complete joy-killing prats. The pseudo-science of Doctor Who doesn't always have to make sense. Simply because it is Doctor Who. That's the magic of it. Stop thinking about the complexity it. Amy Pond being saved by the Pandorica. The nonsensical farce of the time jumps (the Moff's words!) was hilarious, it truly was. Paradox after paradox of future and past selves meeting (no Reapers, because the universe is ceasing to exist after all, all rules go out the window), we've not seen this in New Who before. All of creation being rebooted by the particles of the Universe stored in the Pandorica being bathed in its restoration light, what a brilliant way out of all the mess. The Doctor being remembered into existence by a memory, a wedding saying, and the dear love of a beautiful friendship. This was a brilliant, fantastic, classic story. Adjectives like 'epic' too can be tossed into the gallimaufry of descriptions.
I think Steven Moffat did this episode very beautifully. The man has a heart after all. xD For all the times we moaned about the lack of emotion this series, I'm very glad he injected large chunks of it in here. Rory guarding Amy in the Pandorica for 2000 years ("Why do you have to be so human?"), the Doctor's hushed, soft, tender conversation with Amy, ("You'll have your family back. You won't need your imaginary friend any more." *wibble*) before he piloted the Pandorica into the burning the TARDIS, and then the Doctor gently tucking wee Amelia into bed, telling her the stories and memories that she would never have ("Live life. Love Rory. Bye bye Pond." *wibbles more*) ... well, it's right up there with those scenes I loved in Amy's Choice and Vincent and the Doctor. I'm very glad because it was like the Who I loved in Russell's era all over again. It might not be exactly the same, but it's still there somewhere, and when it hits its stride, it is just Wonderful.
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Will she be safer if I stay?
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Rory and Amy. Rooooory and Amy. I can keep gushing on about their love story. RTD would be proud of this. AND NOBODY DIES. Just like the Moff used to do it. Arthur Darvill was magnificent in his role, truly, and so was Karen Gillan. I cannot say that enough.
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It's the most important thing left in the universe. It's why I'm doing this.
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The relationship that is the Doctor and Amy boiled down to their final conversation before everything exploded. I'm really really really glad that the whole mystery of Amy Pond was revealed in a beautiful, touching scene and not reduced to him babbling out all the facts in a rush. The Doctor's importance to a companion is now no longer just making the companion a better person, as was in the case of Rose and Martha and Donna, but it was trying to fix the wrongs that never should have happened to Amy, and to repair the years of damage he did by not returning in 5 minutes as he had promised when Amy was 7.
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I don't belong here any more.
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And the times we had, eh? Would had. Never. ... The Doctor and Amy Pond. And the days that never came.
I thought Matt Smith had a pretty epic moment when he was being trapped in the Pandorica in the previous episode. Well, he topped even that when he said goodbye to little Amelia (one of the best piece of dialogue this series). It broke my heart when he said all that, and even more when he said he'll "skip the rest of the rewind. I hate repeats." (Ten angst, anyone?) "Live life. Love Rory. Bye bye Pond.", and I was a mess. Matt Smith has truly truly truly owned this role, and again, I'm VERY GLAD. It makes me able to love this show even when the people change.
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Raggedy man, I remember you, and you are late for my wedding!
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I'm quite sure a TARDIS will be the next in thing to have at weddings now. xD
This series finale had a happy ending, which may be that key difference between it and all of Russell's finales. Look at the Series 1 finale,: we had Nine rescuing Rose by absorbing the Time Vortex into himself which is too much for him and hence he regenerates. We were all left mourning the demise of Ten and tentatively, gingerly (ha ha), saying hullo to David Tennant as the new Doctor. Series 2 finale, perhaps the most gut-wrenching and saddest ending of all, Rose separated from the Doctor. Forever. (Well, we thought it was forever.) All that crying on the cold beach. Series 3, well, it's certainly not my favourite because glowy floaty Doctor was just that bit weird, BUT, it gave us the angst of the Doctor losing the only other timelord left (or so we thought, again.). Martha leaving doesn't count into the angst, okay. The Doctor had been inwardly shunning her so it wasn't a devastating loss. Then series 4. The Doctor loses Rose (again), Donna gets her mind wiped, and the Doctor is left drenched from the rain, in the TARDIS, morose and all alone. The specials, well, let's treat The End of Time as the finale of them all, and we get perhaps the best (and most emotional) 20 minutes of Doctor Who right at its end.
Then we have THIS. You know what, I am very glad we've gotten a happy ending for once. Might not be my favouritest of all time, because like Catey said, we have a soft spot for the sadly-sad-sad endings that Russell wrote, but I do like a happy ending, I do. I'm quite a sucker for happy endings, to be honest. For once, I'm not left traumatized at the end of a series! AND WE HAVE THE BEST TEAM TARDIS AT THE END. That may be the best part yet. :p
We're even left with some mysteries yet unsolved, like the Silence, and the even-more-mysterious River Song. I'm excited about the Christmas special and the next series. Team Doctor/Amy/Rory guys. HURRAH!