Closing Time
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neadodsHow in *hell* are they going to wrap up so many threads in a single episode next week?
I liked it well enough - as a parental love episode, I think it's a lot stronger than Night Terrors or Good Man Goes to War. Night Terrors had a guy stay awfully invested even after he knew that his kid was not just a bit off, but frankly a defective alien who was killing people. And as parents I know have said, they could never, never have given a baby over like Amy did in Goes To War; not even with a pep talk. Ripping apart anything with the force of sheer determination to get to their own child? THAT'S more like it.
I also liked Amy and Rory's cameo. First of all, I'm ready to dance at the death of the notion that traveling with the Doctor ruins a woman forever 'n' ever emotionally. Obviously Amy and Rory are still together, and as woman who never really thought beyond a future traveling with the Doctor Amy has synthesized her experiences into decent success. (And if the perfume actually smells like dust after rain, that's not necessarily a bad thing... after all, Old Spice smells like old books, but it sold by the gallon when they stripped Isaiah Mustafa down to a towel and had the right marketing campaign.)
Not as thrilled by the arc, though, especially as I hear that next season is supposed to be arc-less. Everything but the kitchen sink has been thrown at River's character - the child in an astronaut suit, the adult in the astronaut suit, the justice people wanting to judge her for something she may or may not have already done, the Silence (who, after only one story of their own are hardly making me hide behind the couch), the headless monks and all that jazz of Demon's Run, and Eyepatch Lady who we know little about and won't have time to learn much more about. (I'm not convinced that a nanosecond view of River in said eyepatch means that she's meant to turn into Eyepatch Lady. After all, we *already know* how River's story ends.)
It's simply not going to be possible to wrap all of that up satisfactorily in a mere 45 minutes. All the more reason for me to welcome next season; I tend to prefer the one-off eps anyway.
In other news, have spent almost all day in bed with a cold. I freakin' Cannot. Win. For. Losing.
I liked it well enough - as a parental love episode, I think it's a lot stronger than Night Terrors or Good Man Goes to War. Night Terrors had a guy stay awfully invested even after he knew that his kid was not just a bit off, but frankly a defective alien who was killing people. And as parents I know have said, they could never, never have given a baby over like Amy did in Goes To War; not even with a pep talk. Ripping apart anything with the force of sheer determination to get to their own child? THAT'S more like it.
I also liked Amy and Rory's cameo. First of all, I'm ready to dance at the death of the notion that traveling with the Doctor ruins a woman forever 'n' ever emotionally. Obviously Amy and Rory are still together, and as woman who never really thought beyond a future traveling with the Doctor Amy has synthesized her experiences into decent success. (And if the perfume actually smells like dust after rain, that's not necessarily a bad thing... after all, Old Spice smells like old books, but it sold by the gallon when they stripped Isaiah Mustafa down to a towel and had the right marketing campaign.)
Not as thrilled by the arc, though, especially as I hear that next season is supposed to be arc-less. Everything but the kitchen sink has been thrown at River's character - the child in an astronaut suit, the adult in the astronaut suit, the justice people wanting to judge her for something she may or may not have already done, the Silence (who, after only one story of their own are hardly making me hide behind the couch), the headless monks and all that jazz of Demon's Run, and Eyepatch Lady who we know little about and won't have time to learn much more about. (I'm not convinced that a nanosecond view of River in said eyepatch means that she's meant to turn into Eyepatch Lady. After all, we *already know* how River's story ends.)
It's simply not going to be possible to wrap all of that up satisfactorily in a mere 45 minutes. All the more reason for me to welcome next season; I tend to prefer the one-off eps anyway.
In other news, have spent almost all day in bed with a cold. I freakin' Cannot. Win. For. Losing.
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Date: 2011-09-25 05:10 pm (UTC)I love River, or more accurately, did until about three episodes ago. I *really* preferred her as a wise and experienced companion from the future, a sort of Bennie ripoff as opposed to the female in jeopardy.