Doctor Who: Night Terrors

[annissamazing]

I've been quiet on the Doctor Who front because I haven't been enjoying Season 6 as much as I hoped I would. The best thing about this season so far has been watching flydye8 enjoy it during our IRC watches, but the show itself just hasn't been ringing my bell. Tonight, though, I enjoyed the hell out of "Night Terrors." It hit everything I like in a Doctor Who story.

I don't intend to do a thorough review (for no other reason than I just don't want to), but there is one thing that bothered me and I suspect it will bother me for the rest of Amy's run. I find Amy utterly tragic now. She was kidnapped and forced to carry and deliver a baby only to have that baby stolen from her, raised by someone else, and brainwashed to kill her best friend. Maybe the line Mels says in "Let's Kill Hitler" was supposed to close that plotline. "You got to raise me after all," or something like that, was supposed to indicate that Rory and Amy would be ok with losing their baby since they were around for her childhood as Mels' friend, if not her parents.

I loved "Night Terrors." It felt like a return to fun, action-packed shenanigans with just a hint of creepy goodness. But in the end when they were trying to decide what to do next, I watched Amy and Rory and felt really bad for them. And I don't think that feeling is going to go away.

I'm still holding out hope that the emotional ramifications of the baby situation will be addressed, but with so few episodes left in the season, I'm beginning to doubt it will happen. "Time can be rewritten." I'm not a big fan of that concept, but in this case, I'm crossing my fingers for it.

Comments

[kelkat9.livejournal.com]

I wasn't going to watch tonight as I was so put off by last weeks ep and after reading a really well written analysis of it had realized, I didn't get half of what lots of other people got out of it and loved about it. I felt like DW was so over my head now. But, I decided to give it another shot as thie ep didn't sound like it was part of the timey wimey plot and I liked it. It was pretty good!

It kind of was alomst like the movie Poltergeist and played on childhood fears. I actually guessed part of what had happened before it was revealed.

I do understand the Amy bit and yeah that bothers me a bit too. I keep thinking I'm over analyzing things a bit but, it just seems so much has happened to Amy and her character just seems a bit blase about it. I don't know. I think I read some where that I'm suppose to understand that Amy was okay because she knew River was okay from her past meetings with River. I'm not sure I understand that either though. She knows that her daughter went to prison for killing someone so wouldn't that bother her knowing she wasn't really able to protect and raise her? Is she okay with the potential that her daughter has a realtionship with the Doctor? Maybe she's going to have a break down later in the series? Perhaps this will be why she ends up leaving the Tardis.

[kilodalton]

Ngl, Moffat seemed to be satisfied that the parental worry would be covered by the fact that they got to spend their childhood with their friend Mels per the Confidential and the "so you got to raise me, after all!" line in LKH =/ So I don't think he intends to deal with it further - that's not really his style =/

However, I 100% agree with you, and I think that he's wrong - and a lot of people instinctively know he's wrong about that being sufficient for Amy and Rory. I've just kind of given up on emotional coherence at this point =/

I think Amy would have been MUCH more emotional in Night Terrors about a scared child calling for help, right after she'd lost her own child. The discontinuity is ... discontinuous =/

[annissamazing]

Do you think "The Girl Who Waited" might address some of this? Seeing two-time-stream Amy has me excited that some of my discontent might be allayed.

I probably need to stop getting my hopes up. I'd probably enjoy the show more if I just went with the flow.

[kilodalton]

Not sure ... I doubt they will dwell on it, if it comes up at all. Moffat seemed to think that the issue had been resolved sufficiently in the DWC =/

I probably need to stop getting my hopes up. I'd probably enjoy the show more if I just went with the flow.

Nowadays, I just tell myself ahead of time that I will hate it, so I can be pleasantly surprised when my low expectations are exceeded XD

[flydye8.livejournal.com]

I am glad that I have made you DW watching experience just a bit better. Tonight's episode was creepy but I enjoyed watching it with you. Now if I can just hold off the monsters in the cupboard tonight I will be a happy camper

[ikindofrock]

The episode was beautifully directed, but the story itself fell quite flat (and gets worse the more I think about it).

I've written a bit about what I see as the central problem with the Ponds this season, and would love your thoughts on the matter.

http://theoncominghope.blogspot.com/2011/09/problem-with-ponds.html

[miranda-askher.livejournal.com]

I also thought this episode was much more enjoyable than last week's. I wrote a whole bunch of stuff about why, and then I realized that I was getting into entry length. I decided not to clutter up your comments, but I liked it too. :)

[annissamazing]

My comments were made to be cluttered! :)

I want to respond to your entry when I get a moment! I love reading your thoughts on it!