Doctor Who!!

[giandujakiss]

That was awesome! I swear, Matt Smith's sort-of-death-scene had me all verklempt - which is way more of a reaction than I had for Ten's endless death sequence. And the ending was just marvelously exciting and squeeful.

I also kind of preferred seeing Amy's memories bringing the Doctor back to the entire planet restoring Ten, just because the focus on interpersonal relationships rather than god-like status is more interesting to me.

I'm not sure any of the plot actually made sense ... why was Amy needed if River was hanging about, clearly remembering things?

Also, for the very first time, I liked Rory. Up until now, I thought of him as dull comic relief interfering with my Eleven/Amy 'ship, but he totally won me over by waiting for Amy for 2,000 years. Of course, I'm really more of an OTP than an OT3 person, and now that they're married and he's so devoted to her, it puts a total dent in my Eleven/Amy 'ship, and that's just terribly disappointing.

(River is obviously awesome and her relationship with the Doctor will be fantastic to explore, but I was kind of hoping to hold off on that one until the next doctor - again, because I wanted more Eleven/Amy time. It's the buddy!kink, you see; I love how much Eleven and Amy enjoy each other as buddies.)

Which basically just means - the finale was a wonderful emotional roller coaster, I loved the use of flashbacks to earlier parts of the season, and I think the developments in the relationships among the characters are great storytelling, even if they are sadly straying from my personal kinks.

Comments

[giandujakiss]

sol-se at LJ says that Amy could remember him into existence because she still had that residual power from the crack - which is probably right, though that leaves me wondering why River could remember anything at all :-).

But yeah, Rory was totally made interesting for the first time!

[wealhtheow]

Yeah, I'd buy that. The Doctor even talks about how much power she's got from all that crack-energy pouring into her head for years. OK, that makes total sense to me!

It does, however, leave your original question of how River knew to leave the book...and I still don't know. There must be an explanation!

[rike_tikki_tavi]

I'm so happy with this episode. Everybody lived and the Doctor danced.

I guess River remembered the Doctor for the same reason that the Doctor remembered Rory after he got erased from history. She's a time traveler, too and got almost as special a relationship with time as he. In Flesh and Stone she argues with him about who of them should sacrifice themselves and jump into the crack as the Angels demanded.

[giandujakiss]

I haven't rewatched Flesh & Stone so I don't remember - did they suggest that she would have similar powers or something to the Doctor? Because that would be awesome but I haven't gotten that sort of impression from anything else.

[rike_tikki_tavi]

Well, River thought she was a complicated enough space-time event to close the crack because she'd traveled in time. The Doctor didn't agree, but he didn't really think about it, because he already had a different plan. Plus, he told Amy that she remembered the clerics and the Angels even though they'd fallen into the crack because she was a time traveller.

Of course, that leave the question of why didn't Amy and Rory remember the Doctor right away, but Amy did know something was wrong and Rory was plastic when the Universe went bang. I'm willing to take that.