187 ★ the skin's bend at the bullet's nudge
OKAY RIGHT DOCTOR WHO FIRST WATCH THOUGHTS.
Really really need to rewatch though, pretty sure I didn't catch half of that episode because I was too busy being creeped out.
OH MY GOD WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT EVEN.
I'm finding it really hard to be coherent right now.
I'm just really really ecstatic that Canton wanted to marry a black man? HOW AWESOME IS THAT? I love how upfront he is to Nixon about that as well. God, I LOVE HIM. Also I kind of feel bad for shipping Eleven/Canton since Canton clearly loves his partner very much, but like, THAT BOWTIE-STRAIGHTENING SCENE. ♥!!! I can't not ship it! I JUST CAN'T. (I really hope Canton comes back one day. I want more of him, dammit.)
RORY BREAKING THE MODEL WAS SO ADORABLE AND HILARIOUS. <3
JESUS FUCK WHEN THAT GIRL BEGAN TO REGENERATE I LEGIT SWORE OUT LOUD FOR ABOUT FIVE MINUTES. That I did not see coming from a mile off.
Amy's Schroedinger pregnancy! WHAT IS THAT. I'M SO CONFUSED. Though I was kind of waiting for something like that. So I saw someone's theory that Amy is River and the Doctor's daughter, and then the girl in the spacesuit is Amy and Rory's daughter, and so the girl is part time lord. IDK BUT THAT SOUNDS PRETTY COOL TO ME EXCEPT FOR THE FACT IT MAKES ME FEEL AWKWARD ABOUT SHIPPING ELEVEN/AMY SO I HOPE IT'S NOT ACTUALLY TRUE.
Speaking of Eleven/Amy... THIS EPISODE. TOO MUCH FOR MY SHIPPER HEART. TOO MUCH. First, let me make this clear! I ship Eleven/Amy, but I'm convinced that Amy does love Rory, wholeheartedly. Her love for Rory and the Doctor aren't mutually exclusive or even different types of love. In my head, EVERYONE IS POLY AND NOTHING HURTS. But I loved that moment when Rory insisted that wherever Amy was, she could always hear him, and that she knew that he, Rory, was coming for her. The emphasis on the "I" as Rory spoke. And then, immediately after that, Amy speaks, and it's not Rory's name on her lips, but the Doctor's. She isn't asking for Rory. She wants the Doctor. And that, I think, is absolutely incredible writing and possibly my favourite moment in this episode. It makes my heart ache in the best way.
However, I didn't want Amy to be talking about the Doctor when she was saying "I love you" and "your stupid face", because Rory was so heartbroken when he thought she was talking about the Doctor and I don't want him to be heartbroken, and I hate how in that instance, she says, "I know you think it ought to be him, but it's not, it's you"-- thereby excluding one of them, and I don't want anyone to be excluded (though I did thoroughly enjoy the Doctor's awkward faces during this bit when he sat down next to Rory ♥). So I was somewhat glad to find out it was Rory, but at the same time I had this feeling that it wasn't entirely it, that her feelings are still so much more complicated than that, and that bit near the end when she says "oi stupid face" was kind of ambiguous. Although it's most likely that Amy was calling to Rory because she knows he was eavesdropping, I did get confused at first because I thought she was saying it to the Doctor. It was weird.
(I'm pretty sure the reason she told the Doctor about her pregnancy before she told Rory was not because of her feelings for one over the other, but the fact that she really didn't think she was pregnant until that moment with the Doctor in that warehouse when she blurted it out.)
So I also ship River/Doctor now, because come on. THAT KISS. River's last. "Your firsts and my lasts." ;___; And all that flirting and fighting back to back! It was gonna get to me eventually. Really, really warmed up to River this episode. I mean, come on! BADASS ARCHAEOLOGIST. "Love a tomb." No, I couldn't resist anymore. I hope I stay in love with her throughout the rest of her arc.
Still really confused about the Silence and what the hell they're actually trying to accomplish? I'm sure this isn't the last we'll see of them, but I'm just uncomfortable with how the Doctor chose to deal with them, and I'm wondering whether there was a better solution. This episode was much creepier than last week's though. I had to pause several times and look around me to make sure they weren't behind my back. T__T God that orphanage nightmares forever. THE ORPHANAGE GUY WAS SUCH A GREAT CASTING CHOICE THOUGH SO DELICIOUSLY CREEPY.
WHO WAS THAT AT THE HATCH? WHY WAS THERE NO HATCH? WHAT IS THIS? WAS IT ALL A DREAM? SHIFTING REALITIES? LEAKING DIMENSIONS? (LOL I HONESTLY THOUGHT THE GIRL IN THE SPACESUIT WAS GOING TO SAY "ARE YOU MY MUMMY?" WHEN SHE WALKED INTO THAT ROOM AND AMY WAS ASKING HER ALL THOSE QUESTIONS.)
When the Doctor & co. first walk into the room and hear the nano-recorder on the floor playing Amy's voice, it does feel like Steven Moffat's overusing elements from his previous episodes, but I guess with this I thought it was pretty well-done? Because having seen something similar in the Silence of the Library, when we hear Amy's voice from that nano-recorder, for a split second we instinctively get that sinking feeling in our stomach because Silence of the Library has taught us that this happens when people are dead. But then it turns out it's live, and Amy's alive. So I think Moffat used this one thing really well.
Overall that was really really AMAZING. I definitely was slightly worried about my reaction to last week's episode, which was... less enthusiastic than it should have been, I think, but this week? I was really fucking in love with the way I felt during the episode. It was the most perfect ride ever, and I'm glad. ♥
Probably some edits coming later when I've read more reviews/speculation and can think more coherently. BUT FOR NOW I WOULD LIKE TO HEAR ALL YOUR FEELINGS. BECAUSE I'M SURE YOU HAVE A LOT OF FEELINGS. LIKE ME. SO MANY FEELINGS.
Really really need to rewatch though, pretty sure I didn't catch half of that episode because I was too busy being creeped out.
OH MY GOD WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT EVEN.
I'm finding it really hard to be coherent right now.
I'm just really really ecstatic that Canton wanted to marry a black man? HOW AWESOME IS THAT? I love how upfront he is to Nixon about that as well. God, I LOVE HIM. Also I kind of feel bad for shipping Eleven/Canton since Canton clearly loves his partner very much, but like, THAT BOWTIE-STRAIGHTENING SCENE. ♥!!! I can't not ship it! I JUST CAN'T. (I really hope Canton comes back one day. I want more of him, dammit.)
RORY BREAKING THE MODEL WAS SO ADORABLE AND HILARIOUS. <3
JESUS FUCK WHEN THAT GIRL BEGAN TO REGENERATE I LEGIT SWORE OUT LOUD FOR ABOUT FIVE MINUTES. That I did not see coming from a mile off.
Amy's Schroedinger pregnancy! WHAT IS THAT. I'M SO CONFUSED. Though I was kind of waiting for something like that. So I saw someone's theory that Amy is River and the Doctor's daughter, and then the girl in the spacesuit is Amy and Rory's daughter, and so the girl is part time lord. IDK BUT THAT SOUNDS PRETTY COOL TO ME EXCEPT FOR THE FACT IT MAKES ME FEEL AWKWARD ABOUT SHIPPING ELEVEN/AMY SO I HOPE IT'S NOT ACTUALLY TRUE.
Speaking of Eleven/Amy... THIS EPISODE. TOO MUCH FOR MY SHIPPER HEART. TOO MUCH. First, let me make this clear! I ship Eleven/Amy, but I'm convinced that Amy does love Rory, wholeheartedly. Her love for Rory and the Doctor aren't mutually exclusive or even different types of love. In my head, EVERYONE IS POLY AND NOTHING HURTS. But I loved that moment when Rory insisted that wherever Amy was, she could always hear him, and that she knew that he, Rory, was coming for her. The emphasis on the "I" as Rory spoke. And then, immediately after that, Amy speaks, and it's not Rory's name on her lips, but the Doctor's. She isn't asking for Rory. She wants the Doctor. And that, I think, is absolutely incredible writing and possibly my favourite moment in this episode. It makes my heart ache in the best way.
However, I didn't want Amy to be talking about the Doctor when she was saying "I love you" and "your stupid face", because Rory was so heartbroken when he thought she was talking about the Doctor and I don't want him to be heartbroken, and I hate how in that instance, she says, "I know you think it ought to be him, but it's not, it's you"-- thereby excluding one of them, and I don't want anyone to be excluded (though I did thoroughly enjoy the Doctor's awkward faces during this bit when he sat down next to Rory ♥). So I was somewhat glad to find out it was Rory, but at the same time I had this feeling that it wasn't entirely it, that her feelings are still so much more complicated than that, and that bit near the end when she says "oi stupid face" was kind of ambiguous. Although it's most likely that Amy was calling to Rory because she knows he was eavesdropping, I did get confused at first because I thought she was saying it to the Doctor. It was weird.
(I'm pretty sure the reason she told the Doctor about her pregnancy before she told Rory was not because of her feelings for one over the other, but the fact that she really didn't think she was pregnant until that moment with the Doctor in that warehouse when she blurted it out.)
So I also ship River/Doctor now, because come on. THAT KISS. River's last. "Your firsts and my lasts." ;___; And all that flirting and fighting back to back! It was gonna get to me eventually. Really, really warmed up to River this episode. I mean, come on! BADASS ARCHAEOLOGIST. "Love a tomb." No, I couldn't resist anymore. I hope I stay in love with her throughout the rest of her arc.
Still really confused about the Silence and what the hell they're actually trying to accomplish? I'm sure this isn't the last we'll see of them, but I'm just uncomfortable with how the Doctor chose to deal with them, and I'm wondering whether there was a better solution. This episode was much creepier than last week's though. I had to pause several times and look around me to make sure they weren't behind my back. T__T God that orphanage nightmares forever. THE ORPHANAGE GUY WAS SUCH A GREAT CASTING CHOICE THOUGH SO DELICIOUSLY CREEPY.
WHO WAS THAT AT THE HATCH? WHY WAS THERE NO HATCH? WHAT IS THIS? WAS IT ALL A DREAM? SHIFTING REALITIES? LEAKING DIMENSIONS? (LOL I HONESTLY THOUGHT THE GIRL IN THE SPACESUIT WAS GOING TO SAY "ARE YOU MY MUMMY?" WHEN SHE WALKED INTO THAT ROOM AND AMY WAS ASKING HER ALL THOSE QUESTIONS.)
When the Doctor & co. first walk into the room and hear the nano-recorder on the floor playing Amy's voice, it does feel like Steven Moffat's overusing elements from his previous episodes, but I guess with this I thought it was pretty well-done? Because having seen something similar in the Silence of the Library, when we hear Amy's voice from that nano-recorder, for a split second we instinctively get that sinking feeling in our stomach because Silence of the Library has taught us that this happens when people are dead. But then it turns out it's live, and Amy's alive. So I think Moffat used this one thing really well.
Overall that was really really AMAZING. I definitely was slightly worried about my reaction to last week's episode, which was... less enthusiastic than it should have been, I think, but this week? I was really fucking in love with the way I felt during the episode. It was the most perfect ride ever, and I'm glad. ♥
Probably some edits coming later when I've read more reviews/speculation and can think more coherently. BUT FOR NOW I WOULD LIKE TO HEAR ALL YOUR FEELINGS. BECAUSE I'M SURE YOU HAVE A LOT OF FEELINGS. LIKE ME. SO MANY FEELINGS.