I Made You Say Comfy Chairs!

[masterofmidgets]

 
1. Since I started off with my indignant dislike of River Song in last week's episode, it's only fair that I start off this week by saying that I...hated her a great deal less this time around? She's not my favorite favorite character ever, but I'm less in a place where I want to shove her out an airlock. A lot of it, I think, is that they dialed back the RIVER SONG IS MORE PERFECT THAN YOU thing they had going on before - she's still competent and smug, but she's allowed to fail a little, to not know what she's doing, so that when she does get the teleporter working it feels like an accomplishment rather than something she's rubbing in our face. The other part of it is that her relationship with the Doctor is now more complex than 'She loves him and he doesn't know her' - I assume we're meant to assume she killed him at some point in the future, and I think that the Doctor's figured that out too, and that is interesting. 

And let's be honest - her last lines with the Doctor were just sweet. Fairy tales, indeed, dear. 

2. IS THAT A SEASON PLOT ARC I SPY? I'm almost a bit torn on this whole cracks in the universe thing. On the one hand, it's monstrously unsubtle, and I would have liked a more delicate hand in it. Or even putting off the reveal until late in the season, rather than laying everything out a third of the way in. On the other hand...so many wonderfully unsettling implications of this. The idea of being erased from time itself is deeply, viscerally horrifying to me, and I like that a lot. And using this plot arc as a way of tying up so many of the dangling threads left from RTD's time on the show is continuity porn in the best way. And the Doctor's face when he's talking about rewriting time made me wonder what things he's thinking about rewriting, exactly. So I guess I'm not 100% onboard, but I am eagerly awaiting the rest of the season.

3. I thought seeing the angels move on screen would make them less scary. I WAS SO VERY WRONG. Oh god, and the scene when they open the ship's hold and all the angels are standing there, pressed right up against the glass? AAAUGH. (I hate opening windows and drawing blinds, especially at night, because part of me is always convinced someone will be there pressing their face against the glass. DOCTOR WHO, YOU ARE NOT HELPING.)

4. "I don't know, it's a thing in progress. Respect the thing!" Eleven, I love you so much. :D

5. MOST HILARIOUS SEDUCTION EVER, Y/Y? That was...such delightful physical comedy. I love Matt Smith's horrified expression when she tries to tug off his suspenders, and his frantic scrambling to get off the bed. Honestly, Amy, if you want to get laid that badly, you're going to have to try it on a Doctor who isn't as INCREDIBLY GAY as Eleven. That being said, despite my adamant Amy/Eleven are adorable platonic BFFs stance, I didn't hate this! I really, really, really liked that there isn't any blithering about True Love and Fate and Soul Mates of Destiny and all that: Amy wants to get laid, and she wants to do it with the Doctor, and she wants to do it now. End of story. It is refreshing, and it makes me happy, and I kind of want them to have a round of happy, giggly, angst-free sexing and then move on with their relationship, like, you know, actual functioning adults, and that that is possible for them also makes me happy.