Amy was rocking, and finally showed some rage at losing her child (which is a relief from my point of view as a fan, but ruins some meta I've been working on for a week or two). I really adored that bit. I also love that she saved Rory for a change.
I will never be completely satisfied with the lack of angst Amy seems to have over losing a lifetime with her child, who is now older than her and lives in a very strange timestream. I'm not a mother, although I know you are, and how would you feel about losing all of Dominic's memories like the one you just shared? Enough to kill a thousand, I imagine, like many a mother's out there. Amy killed one and saved her husband (although, you could argue, Amy just had the eyepatch kill whats-her-name and was only indirectly involved). It will never be enough because River and Amy have the worst luck ever.
I totally forgot about the TARDIs exploding. If it takes 2+ series to explain that, when you're viewers are already forgetting about it, you have a serious problem.
Can they actually use 42 as an answer? Either way, any answer would be a let down (other than Dr. Foreman, but we've giggled over that already). And, when watching Classic Who, other Time Lords had names, but you also had The Master, Romana, Rassilon, Borusa, or even Omega. When did Time Lords ever need to have proper names? I see no reason why we need to have the Doctor's name replaced by a name that's conforms to what we expect a name to be.
Re marriage: I agree. I usually hate weddings fics in general, even in other pairings, not only because it isn't my type of fic, but when it comes to the Doctor, unless you have a type of scenario like in TIP, with a ridiculously long story for the Doctor to be involved with someone, I can't see it. He's run all his life, which was also a theme in this episode, so to "settle down" with marriage is against all that he is.
Heh, come to think of it, the Doctor would be a terrible husband and would constantly be off and about with no one to track his whereabouts (except for River, perhaps). And with Moffat at the wheel...I just don't trust him writing women. Ever. (Which I think is why I love his version of Sherlock: all the women have either minor roles or fit into easy stereotypes.)
Series 7...*sigh* I think my head!canon will revert to ending with Ten and then backtrack, again, for more Classic Who. Or maybe skip on to Fringe....
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Date: 2011-10-02 04:06 am (UTC)I will never be completely satisfied with the lack of angst Amy seems to have over losing a lifetime with her child, who is now older than her and lives in a very strange timestream. I'm not a mother, although I know you are, and how would you feel about losing all of Dominic's memories like the one you just shared? Enough to kill a thousand, I imagine, like many a mother's out there. Amy killed one and saved her husband (although, you could argue, Amy just had the eyepatch kill whats-her-name and was only indirectly involved). It will never be enough because River and Amy have the worst luck ever.
I totally forgot about the TARDIs exploding. If it takes 2+ series to explain that, when you're viewers are already forgetting about it, you have a serious problem.
Can they actually use 42 as an answer? Either way, any answer would be a let down (other than Dr. Foreman, but we've giggled over that already). And, when watching Classic Who, other Time Lords had names, but you also had The Master, Romana, Rassilon, Borusa, or even Omega. When did Time Lords ever need to have proper names? I see no reason why we need to have the Doctor's name replaced by a name that's conforms to what we expect a name to be.
Re marriage: I agree. I usually hate weddings fics in general, even in other pairings, not only because it isn't my type of fic, but when it comes to the Doctor, unless you have a type of scenario like in TIP, with a ridiculously long story for the Doctor to be involved with someone, I can't see it. He's run all his life, which was also a theme in this episode, so to "settle down" with marriage is against all that he is.
Heh, come to think of it, the Doctor would be a terrible husband and would constantly be off and about with no one to track his whereabouts (except for River, perhaps). And with Moffat at the wheel...I just don't trust him writing women. Ever. (Which I think is why I love his version of Sherlock: all the women have either minor roles or fit into easy stereotypes.)
Series 7...*sigh* I think my head!canon will revert to ending with Ten and then backtrack, again, for more Classic Who. Or maybe skip on to Fringe....