The Angels Take Manhattan Squee Post

[blue_aeon]

Here's your squee post for The Angels Take Manhattan, which is on at 7.20pm. Tonight we welcome back the Weeping Angels, River Song, and bide adieu to the Ponds. Not necessarily in that order; this is Moffat after all. Knowing him the episode will probably play out in reverse

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[blue_aeon]

Little late giving my thoughts this week, but only because I had an early night (turns out I've been having silent migraines for the past couple of weeks).

It seems fitting that Amy and Rory's final episode heavily revolved around a book, given how S5 felt very storybook-ish. And the perfect bookend to a companion arc. We were right - that scene with Amelia in The Eleventh Hour was important.

In fact, if you think of the entire two series and a half as the story the Doctor is telling young Amelia, a truckload of all the narrative inconstancies stop being... well, inconsistent, and start looking like the Doctor was purposely editing or making up what happened (because admit it, we do that sort of thing with kids all the time). Which means the Doctor is the ultimate Unreliable Narrator.

A couple of other points:-

1) Despite all the questions it brings up, the fact remains that if the Statue of Liberty actually did what it did in this episode, I would soil my pants2) I never want to see a Weeping Angel smile ever again

[tiggsybabes]

I cried at the end. The Weeping Angels freak me out anyway, as they relate to things that are actually around us. I wondered about Brian, we were introuduced to him in 2 episodes & he told the Doctor he wanted Rory & Amy kept safe.

[blue_aeon]

Both my sister and I were pretty sad about Brian last night, and then I come across this tumblr post today. Took everything I had not to break down sobbing.

[jaelle_n_gilla]

Aaaand - another set of companions used up. I thought the exact same thing: How does he break that to Brian? "I know I said I promised 'Not then - never them' but, Brian, I'm sorry. I'm so, so sorry. They got misplaced in time. They are not dead though. I mean they are, now. Just not, you know, died young.... maybe you could just read this book."

Can you explain what you mean with the narrator and the Eleventh Hour? It was never mentioned that the Doctor came back to Amy to tell her to go on waiting for years, was there?