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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.
-- 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.
