I need to take a shower and go do mommy stuff, but first!

[apocalypsos]

-- Plotwise, a pretty meh episode. Character-wise? RORY! Rory, I dig you and you and Amy are adorable together and you can both stay in the TARDIS forever and ever and EVER. I love that they seem so damn compatible and that she didn't go for the pretty guy but the guy who's sweet and smart and would follow her anywhere, and I love that he's perfect for her because he's not like Mickey who needed time to work up to companion status (not that that's a bad thing) but that he's got it in him to be ready for this stuff from noon on day one so long as he can have the entire morning to tell everyone involved "This is bloody insane, you crazy, crazy people, what the HELL." I just really fucking like Rory.

-- I can't avoid admitting any longer that Eleven is my favorite. Matt Smith, you magnificent bastard. There is something delightfully old-man that fills his performance and it lights me up with glee. :D

-- I know somebody on ye olde friends list was knocking on this season for leaning heavily on "perception filters" for all of the villains, which I get, but I find myself wondering if that's not tied into the cracks just a bit, considering how much of what they do tends to lean heavily on your perceptions of time and space. Why not visuals as well?

-- The episode is set in 1580. Rory says he's getting married in 430 years, meaning 2010. Mark that on your, "What the hell is going on?" calendars.

-- I find it interesting that at the end of the episode when the sound cut out, and the Doctor said, "Do you hear that?", Rory just sort of handwaved it with, "I just hear silence." It's a busy city cleaning up after a disaster. It's not silent, until all of a sudden all the sound cut out. Shouldn't Rory notice and be unnerved by the muffling of the surrounding sound? Especially considering the scene opens with a cacophony of crowing roosters and horse-drawn carts and general people noises all around.

-- The only thing I dislike about Rory is his hair in next week's trailer. Oh, that poor Lhasa Apso. It died of old age, so they made it into a wig? That's just sick.

Comments

[lilacsigil.livejournal.com]

Yes, Matt Smith is *such* an old man! I really love his tweediness and the way he pokes around at things.

[apiphile.livejournal.com]

I heard Matt bases his performance on Patrick Troughton's Who. :) Which helps me to LOVE HIM.

And I am so, so, so happy that at least for now, they have two companions again. One companion just makes things skeevy. Two makes for excitement.

[marag.livejournal.com]

Rory!!!! He totally made up for an idiotic plot! Do we know how long he's going to stick around?

[mayatawi.livejournal.com]

Five episodes total, according to Arthur Darvill's wiki page (so, sadly, only three more). I'm kind of hoping he's in more and it's just not widespread knowledge yet. Scratch "kind of," I am TOTALLY hoping that.

[earis.livejournal.com]

I know somebody on ye olde friends list was knocking on this season for leaning heavily on "perception filters" for all of the villains, which I get, but I find myself wondering if that's not tied into the cracks just a bit, considering how much of what they do tends to lean heavily on your perceptions of time and space

Makes you wonder who else is wearing a perception filter? Like maybe River Song?

[wiliqueen.livejournal.com]

There's certainly more to River than meets the eye one way or another. I'm half-suspecting her of being the Rani (though she's much more blatantly Irene Adler to the Master's Moriarty than the Rani ever was).

[earis.livejournal.com]

though she's much more blatantly Irene Adler to the Master's Moriarty than the Rani ever was

I LOVE this analogy.

Actually when River Song first showed up (back in Silence in the Library), I thought she was Romana in disguise, so hey! Secret TIme Lady is totally something I could get behind.

But I do think that perception filters are important this season, because seeing and not seeing and seeing out of the corner of your eye have been huge themes.

[nycdeb.livejournal.com]

more blatantly Irene Adler to the Master's Moriarty than the Rani ever was

River is the perfect Irene Adler to the Master's Moriarty. The Rani would be shocked (as much as she could be) by such a suggestion.

Of course, I'm happy to believe that if any other Time Lord survived it would BE the Rani (having been exiled after her experiment ate the President's cat). But whenever I see River as Rani, I wonder "why wouldn't the Doctor sense it a la the Master post-fobwatching?" And if she's fob-watched so that he can't know it, then she doesn't know she's the Rani either so how does she know all that about him?

Oddly enough, I've been thinking a lot about the Rani lately. I have a Rani/Ten or Eleven ficlet in my head (haven't decided which Doctor makes more sense in the context of the story yet).

I always kind of liked the Rani (and Kate O'Mara as who wouldn't). She was utterly unimpressed with the Doctor or the Master, was quite certain she was smarter than both combined, just wanted to be left alone to get on with her work. If her work involved temporary partnership with the Master, she;d do what she had to do. If it required subjugating a entire planet - well, the work must come first. But if the "work" decided to kill the Doctor, she killed the work.

She was/is an interesting character.

[wiliqueen.livejournal.com]

The episode is set in 1580. Rory says he's getting married in 430 years, meaning 2010. Mark that on your, "What the hell is going on?" calendars.

I'm missing something in this statement, I think? His math is right. What is the blinky light I'm missing? (I'm missing lots of blinky lights this season. At this rate I'm going to have to turn in my "I'm a Doctor Who fan; I eat temporal paradoxes for breakfast" card.)

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

It *is* right. That's the point. So many other things have indicated they're living in the nineties -- this is simply another "No, they're living in 2010" note. We've had clues both that they're really in, say, the early '90s and out-and-out statements that they're living in 2010. I'm just keeping track of every comment and clue about time for Amy and Rory just for my own sake. :)

[wiliqueen.livejournal.com]

Ah! Gotcha.

And yeah, I hadn't thought of it that way. I figured the village was in some kind of weird causation bubble (something else that seems to be coming to a head sooner than I expected, with that "village that time forgot" line in the promo), but it hadn't occurred to me that they actually seem to be in an earlier time in some ways (though not all, given Rory's iPhone, f'rinstance).

I do remember you mentioning that now, though. :: needs moar caffeine ::

[nycdeb.livejournal.com]

village that time forgot - and maybe more than one version of it. I've been thinking again, you see . . .

And I'm on board with the Matt Smith happy and the yeah Rory of it all. When Rory says "It's another dimension" and is utterly unthrown by the TARDIS interior, I actually cheered

[wiliqueen.livejournal.com]

Yes! And the Doctor getting all shirty about it cracked my shit up.

[nycdeb.livejournal.com]

if anything bad happens to Rory, I will be MOST displeased.

[lavenderfrost.livejournal.com]

I'm a Doctor Who fan; I eat temporal paradoxes for breakfast

*DIES*

I'm gonna have to icon this.

[wiliqueen.livejournal.com]

*chuckle* My brainiacfive's been saying it for at least 25 years, but he wouldn't mind it catching on.

[aurora]

I just really fucking like Rory.
ME TOO OMG.

[seraangel.livejournal.com]

I think one of my favourite bits was the bit right at the end where she was saying 'I've got my spaceship, and my boys, what more could a girl want?' and Rory's all 'We're not her boys' and the Doctor is 'Yeah, we kinda are' and Rory is 'Well, yeah, okay, we are.' I was totally gleeful.

I think I have a thing for Doctor and Companion + Love Interest/s Tardis family. :)

[3jane.livejournal.com]

I love that the Doctor's library card has a picture of the first Doctor on it.