Doctor Who: Night Terrors
Sep. 3rd, 2011 10:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annissamazingI'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 ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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.
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.