Doctor Who 6x11 Thoughts
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• I really liked Rita. The was a short period of time where I actually thought the show was setting her up to be a new Companion – how taken the Doctor was with her, the multiple mentions of him taking her with him as well as the hints that the Ponds would be leaving – and I was all for it. She was great – smart, confident, handled the situation and all its strangeness well, curious... she was everything that makes a great companion. Also sarcastic - I laughed right along with Amy. Plus I really liked her scenes with the Doctor.
• What was with the Doctor eating the apple? That moment feels like it might be something important since 5x01 established that he doesn’t like apples in this regeneration. I was expecting him to spit out his bite and be all ‘still rubbish’ but it didn’t happen. Hmm.
• The creepiest moment was Joe and the dummies. When he started laughing and they all laughed with him... eeee.
• I loved the concept of the episode – the hotel with the moving hallways and rooms full of nightmares.
• “Every time the Doctor gets pally with someone I get the overwhelming urge to notify their next of kin.” – Rory. LOL. Interesting that Amy laughs instead of hitting him like she always had before.
• What was with the fish? It just seemed random. The Doctor asking Amy to bring it, and then Gibbis apparently eating it... was there a point or some symbolism there?
• “All I want to do is go home and be conquered and oppressed. Is that too much to ask?” – Gibbis. Heh.
• "Don't talk to the clown." - Amy. Heh. I liked the little scene between Rory and Rita.
• I love that the Doctor’s room number was 11. The Doctor’s greatest fear – that has to be himself right? He did say “who else” and I really can't think of any other person it could be. The door probably opened into the TARDIS – you could hear the cloister bells – so him alone in the TARDIS? Him evil? All his failures?
• Wouldn’t Rory’s faith be Amy?
• Surprise Amelia was excellent. I love her.
• I really didn’t like the Doctor calling Amy ‘Amy Williams’ and the implication by association that accepting her husband’s name is part of growing up and by keeping her own name she was continuing to be childish. I get the whole Amelia Pond = a bit fairy tale = unwillingness to grow up but one thing I have loved has been Amy keeping her name, and Rory even taking hers (sometimes). This hit a pet peeve of mine so maybe I’m being sensitive but it left me very irritated.
• I felt like the Doctor getting Amy to lose faith in him happened too easily. I mean I definitely think that the show overall has built things up enough for me to buy Amy losing her complete faith in him – everything in this season seems to have building to it really – but in that scene I... I guess I just needed more. Mention of Melody and perhaps of what happened in the previous episode (for the other Amy he did fail) because despite all that Amy’s been clinging to him so hard that even now she continues to have complete faith in him. So him just telling her to stop didn't seem quite enough.
• The Minotaur’s last words were fine – except for the Doctor translating the last bit. “I wasn’t talking about myself”, yes I think most people got the connection to the Doctor without having to spell it right out.
• I loved that the Doctor remember Rory’s favourite car because of that one time Rory mentioned it. It was sweet.
• “Why now?” – Amy
“Because you’re still breathing.” – Doctor
Oh, Doctor. And oh, Amy as well. Amy handled being left a lot better than I was expecting to be honest. Overall though it was a really lovely goodbye. (Also I doubt this is the last we've seen of the Ponds.)
• “You bump into my daughter tell her to visit her old mom sometime.” – Amy. It was nice to get this mention but at the same time it just seemed to highlight a problem I’ve been having. Amy and Rory’s reactions about Melody and River have felt so contained and distant and because of that they’ve felt off. She’s their daughter! And they lost her. And she’s someone they’ve known for awhile now and travelled with, and she was revealed to have been their childhood best friend and there are just so many issues here but we never really get to see them actually deal with any of it. I feel like the show failed emotional with this storyline which makes me sad because I really liked it.
• I really liked Rita. The was a short period of time where I actually thought the show was setting her up to be a new Companion – how taken the Doctor was with her, the multiple mentions of him taking her with him as well as the hints that the Ponds would be leaving – and I was all for it. She was great – smart, confident, handled the situation and all its strangeness well, curious... she was everything that makes a great companion. Also sarcastic - I laughed right along with Amy. Plus I really liked her scenes with the Doctor.
• What was with the Doctor eating the apple? That moment feels like it might be something important since 5x01 established that he doesn’t like apples in this regeneration. I was expecting him to spit out his bite and be all ‘still rubbish’ but it didn’t happen. Hmm.
• The creepiest moment was Joe and the dummies. When he started laughing and they all laughed with him... eeee.
• I loved the concept of the episode – the hotel with the moving hallways and rooms full of nightmares.
• “Every time the Doctor gets pally with someone I get the overwhelming urge to notify their next of kin.” – Rory. LOL. Interesting that Amy laughs instead of hitting him like she always had before.
• What was with the fish? It just seemed random. The Doctor asking Amy to bring it, and then Gibbis apparently eating it... was there a point or some symbolism there?
• “All I want to do is go home and be conquered and oppressed. Is that too much to ask?” – Gibbis. Heh.
• "Don't talk to the clown." - Amy. Heh. I liked the little scene between Rory and Rita.
• I love that the Doctor’s room number was 11. The Doctor’s greatest fear – that has to be himself right? He did say “who else” and I really can't think of any other person it could be. The door probably opened into the TARDIS – you could hear the cloister bells – so him alone in the TARDIS? Him evil? All his failures?
• Wouldn’t Rory’s faith be Amy?
• Surprise Amelia was excellent. I love her.
• I really didn’t like the Doctor calling Amy ‘Amy Williams’ and the implication by association that accepting her husband’s name is part of growing up and by keeping her own name she was continuing to be childish. I get the whole Amelia Pond = a bit fairy tale = unwillingness to grow up but one thing I have loved has been Amy keeping her name, and Rory even taking hers (sometimes). This hit a pet peeve of mine so maybe I’m being sensitive but it left me very irritated.
• I felt like the Doctor getting Amy to lose faith in him happened too easily. I mean I definitely think that the show overall has built things up enough for me to buy Amy losing her complete faith in him – everything in this season seems to have building to it really – but in that scene I... I guess I just needed more. Mention of Melody and perhaps of what happened in the previous episode (for the other Amy he did fail) because despite all that Amy’s been clinging to him so hard that even now she continues to have complete faith in him. So him just telling her to stop didn't seem quite enough.
• The Minotaur’s last words were fine – except for the Doctor translating the last bit. “I wasn’t talking about myself”, yes I think most people got the connection to the Doctor without having to spell it right out.
• I loved that the Doctor remember Rory’s favourite car because of that one time Rory mentioned it. It was sweet.
• “Why now?” – Amy
“Because you’re still breathing.” – Doctor
Oh, Doctor. And oh, Amy as well. Amy handled being left a lot better than I was expecting to be honest. Overall though it was a really lovely goodbye. (Also I doubt this is the last we've seen of the Ponds.)
• “You bump into my daughter tell her to visit her old mom sometime.” – Amy. It was nice to get this mention but at the same time it just seemed to highlight a problem I’ve been having. Amy and Rory’s reactions about Melody and River have felt so contained and distant and because of that they’ve felt off. She’s their daughter! And they lost her. And she’s someone they’ve known for awhile now and travelled with, and she was revealed to have been their childhood best friend and there are just so many issues here but we never really get to see them actually deal with any of it. I feel like the show failed emotional with this storyline which makes me sad because I really liked it.
