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valinor spider party ([personal profile] aria) wrote2011-05-28 05:36 pm

no, I think she's dreaming

Thor + Castle = me nearly forgetting it was Doctor Who day.

That really could've been a one-parter, I think; the pacing was generally weird, and since everyone came to the same conclusion in part two that they'd come to at the end of part one before they all started trying to kill each other, it all feels a bit pointless, especially since it was just a setup for Amy.

That said, I loved the bits with the two Doctors, especially when ganger!Doctor is still calibrating his millennium of memories and does the frankly rather alarming dub of Four's "Would you like a jellybaby?" Also, on a rewatch of that bit I see that he also does a snatch of One's "Someday I shall come back," although in his Eleven voice, and that his "Hello, I'm the Doctor!" is a dub of Ten. LOVELY. So! Assuming that ganger!Doctor and proper!Doctor swapped shoes almost first thing, though, then Amy going outside to confront ganger!Doctor and basically tell him that she's seen him die was ... something she actually told proper!Doctor. Oops?

Also, okay, the timeline of Amy's pregnancy is ... that she got pregnant sometime around Impossible Astronaut, but was put with eyepatch lady and released back into the world as a ganger somewhere in those three months between then and Day of the Moon, because she first sees eyepatch lady while investigating the orphanage. I have no idea how to untangle ANY of that.

Who the hell is behind Amy's kidnapping and gangering? (Shut up gangering is totally a verb.) I suppose the Silence are still the top suspects, except they would have to be time-traveling ones -- possible, since Amy saw one on picnic in 2011 just before the Doctor was killed even though the Silence had ordered their own execution half a century previous -- because Rebel Flesh/Almost People definitely took place in the unspecified future, when the living flesh thing was just beginning, ergo the '69 Silence wouldn't really have the means to do that. Goodness knows who or what Amy's pregnant by, either, although I am holding out hope that it's Rory's even if it is the timebaby. (I ... would be okay if it was Sexy's baby, but that is the MAD TARDIS LOVE talking.)

Anyway, next: RIVER, ALL THE RIVER. I will be okay with anything River is as long as she is not the timebaby or otherwise Amy-spawn. Meanwhile, sigh, the Doctor and Rory have to rescue Amy AGAIN, I miss those times when Amy used to save the world with her brain, although also YAY DOCTOR & RORY TIME, I am hoping they will have some more good interaction.

This half-season is ALARMINGLY SHORT.
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[personal profile] tenlittlebullets 2011-05-28 10:39 pm (UTC)(link)
I actually wrote up a whole thing right after Day of the Moon aired about how Eyepatch Lady was a giant whopping hit-you-over-the-head clue to expect some subjectivity-of-POV shenanigans with Amy (...well, MORE than was already going on with the Silence), and trying to track down where it could've started. And then I never posted it because of finals. But the gist was that we see her go into the room in the orphanage, then the tally marks start mysteriously appearing, which means the scene is being shot from her POV. Which means memory lapses and unreliable narration. And then she wakes up the Silents on the ceiling and... we see her walking out unharmed with a single Silent lurking behind her. SOMETHING happened in there, man. Something off camera. And then she starts seeing Eyepatch Lady.

(Also, I just watched the first episode of Life on Mars! And then went directly on to Almost People, which in retrospect was a bad idea. WHAT IS REALITY OMG.)
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[personal profile] tenlittlebullets 2011-05-28 10:50 pm (UTC)(link)
SAM TYLER IS TOTALLY A GANGER. Who, on top of all the complications in his life, has really bad dreams about being a mad gay villain on some rubbish sci-fi show. Do gangers dream of electric roboskulls?

And I'm just saying, of all the Who episodes I could've preceded with Life on Mars, it had to be this one.
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[personal profile] tenlittlebullets 2011-05-28 11:21 pm (UTC)(link)
I like it! The premise was something that could've either been really great or really awful depending on execution, and I think what's making it really great so far is (a) Sam Tyler reacts to his bizarre predicament in a completely believable way, and (b) they are playing up the ambiguity of what exactly that predicament is.

And I am finding it a little strange that I am ferociously attracted to John Simm as Saxon!Master and not at all attracted to him as Sam Tyler. The fuck, brain?

(Also, not only does Sam have bad dreams about being the Master, every time Gene Hunt hits him the Master hears drumming in his head. Trufax.)
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[personal profile] tenlittlebullets 2011-05-29 12:00 am (UTC)(link)
I think it is because the Master is made of sex appeal and Sam is made of woobie.

This is an excellent theory! I think it's not so much that I want to do John Simm as that I want Simm!Master to dominate the everliving fuck out of me, no matter how unsafe and insane and nonconsensual that would be. (And coincidentally I want to top the everliving fuck out of Ten, so him and Simm!Master = two ends of a magnet meeting.)
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[personal profile] skipthedemon 2011-05-28 11:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, but she was remembering/not remembering being pregnant before that. Before they went into the warehouse, even. And in "Time and Space" she had something important she needed to talk to the Doctor about, but that got sidetracked.
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[personal profile] skipthedemon 2011-05-28 11:39 pm (UTC)(link)
*grins widely*
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[personal profile] tenlittlebullets 2011-05-28 11:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Hmmmm. So does that mean she was normal!pregnant (by Rory, one assumes), then got kidnapped in the orphanage and her captors did something to make it a Tiembabby? That kind of... blows a hole in my hunch that Amy was being used as a surrogate for a Tiembabby created out of the Doctor's DNA.

And this is all assuming the Tiembabby in the spacesuit is in fact Amy's kid.

*shakes fist* MOFFAT!!!
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[personal profile] skipthedemon 2011-05-29 12:53 am (UTC)(link)
Have you seen the prequel clip for next week? I don't know what to think.
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[personal profile] januar 2011-05-29 05:18 pm (UTC)(link)
I am beginning to hope that "A Good Man Goes to War" refers to Rory rather than, say, the Doctor.

Not Rory! Because I can't forget what Octavian says in "Flesh and Stone": "She killed a man. A good man." And if River kills Rory, I will scream.
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[personal profile] minkhollow 2011-05-29 02:03 am (UTC)(link)
All I can think here is 'HOW IS TIEMBABBY FORMED?' Which in this case is actually a valid question I feel.
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[personal profile] gehayi 2011-05-28 11:26 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm very glad to have read this review, as I barely understood a word anyone said last week and I am starting to feel sick. So I will probably say, "Sorry, Doctor, but I wouldn't understand any of the accents this week anyway," and go to bed.

And yes, gangering is totally a verb.
januar: River Song from Doctor Who ([dw] river song)

[personal profile] januar 2011-05-29 05:07 pm (UTC)(link)
I think "reverse the polarity of the neutron flow" is a Three thing.

Aaah, I want next week now.

[personal profile] oldstarnewshine 2011-05-30 01:34 am (UTC)(link)
I was talking to a friend of mine, and we both agreed that Amy being gangered didn't seem like they were trying to deceive anyone, more like... a service, the hospital provides. Get to be out and "normal" for nine months while your body does all the pregnancy messiness.

I am so excited for the return of Roranicus Pondicus, you have no idea.