The Big Bang
Jun. 26th, 2010 08:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
masterofmidgetsI stayed over at my mom's last night (horses and kitties yay, no internet boooo), but luckily I am back today, because I'm pretty sure I would have gone mental waiting to see Doctor Who and the Very Final Finale. BECAUSE OMG DOCTOR WHO.
1. If there was anything I was not expecting to get out of this episode, it was Amy and Rory actually getting married. And, and, and *flaily hands* I LOVE RORY. I LOVE AMY. I LOVE RORYNAMY. He waited for her for 2000 years dressed as a centurion! He became a museum guard! He used to be a robot! She loved him so much she pulled him out of non-existence! He is Mr. Pond! (he really is, whatever the marriage certificate says) And you know, this is exactly absolutely where I wanted this relationship to go - the thought of Amy settling down to be a proper small-town wife to a small-town doctor is just impossible. But the thought of Rory getting his adventurer on and them travelling with the Doctor together makes me all wibbly and excited.
2. So, this entire season never happened? That's...interesting. How far back does this retcon go, one wonders? But on the whole I thought this was an excellent series ender, plot-wise. I'm sure I could pick at some niggly bits later, but it held together well, it kept my interest the whole time (my singular interest, which is rare as hell for me and TV), and it wasn't too hand-wavy - they didn't pull any plot points too much out of nowhere, it was all stuff that they'd seeded earlier in the season, some of it (like Jacket!Doctor, fuck yeah fandom) quite deftly. As uneven as this season was, Moffat definitely has my seal of approval as show-runner.
3. All that, and we still don't know why the TARDIS blew up or what the deal with the silence is (but I thought the silence was just the universe stopping existing? Okay then). I guess we know what next series' big bad is. So we'll add that and WTF is the deal with River Song to the list of dangling plot threads that theoretically will be dealt with in the future. I'm looking forward to next spring already.
4. "We're all stories in the end. Just make it a good one, eh? Because it was, you know. It was the best. A daft old man who stole a magic box and ran away."
5. I never thought Matt Smith would be my Doctor. Really, I didn't. This season has been wonderful and Smith has been brilliant and Doctor Who has taken over my brain to a worrying degree but I wasn't ready to say Matt Smith was My Doctor. But this episode. This fucking episode. I knew he'd be fine by the end, I knew the Doctor always finds a way to save the day and it's not like the show would kill off their main character, I know. And I was still crying, literally actually crying, for ten minutes straight in the middle of the episode because MY DOCTOR was dying and it was breaking my heart. So yeah, my Doctor wears braces and professor coats and a fez and blows himself up with the Pandorica and talks about fairy tales and dances terribly at weddings and I love him so fucking much.
And now the long, bleak series-break is looming and I have about 11 million fic ideas burning to be written. Oh boy.
1. If there was anything I was not expecting to get out of this episode, it was Amy and Rory actually getting married. And, and, and *flaily hands* I LOVE RORY. I LOVE AMY. I LOVE RORYNAMY. He waited for her for 2000 years dressed as a centurion! He became a museum guard! He used to be a robot! She loved him so much she pulled him out of non-existence! He is Mr. Pond! (he really is, whatever the marriage certificate says) And you know, this is exactly absolutely where I wanted this relationship to go - the thought of Amy settling down to be a proper small-town wife to a small-town doctor is just impossible. But the thought of Rory getting his adventurer on and them travelling with the Doctor together makes me all wibbly and excited.
2. So, this entire season never happened? That's...interesting. How far back does this retcon go, one wonders? But on the whole I thought this was an excellent series ender, plot-wise. I'm sure I could pick at some niggly bits later, but it held together well, it kept my interest the whole time (my singular interest, which is rare as hell for me and TV), and it wasn't too hand-wavy - they didn't pull any plot points too much out of nowhere, it was all stuff that they'd seeded earlier in the season, some of it (like Jacket!Doctor, fuck yeah fandom) quite deftly. As uneven as this season was, Moffat definitely has my seal of approval as show-runner.
3. All that, and we still don't know why the TARDIS blew up or what the deal with the silence is (but I thought the silence was just the universe stopping existing? Okay then). I guess we know what next series' big bad is. So we'll add that and WTF is the deal with River Song to the list of dangling plot threads that theoretically will be dealt with in the future. I'm looking forward to next spring already.
4. "We're all stories in the end. Just make it a good one, eh? Because it was, you know. It was the best. A daft old man who stole a magic box and ran away."
5. I never thought Matt Smith would be my Doctor. Really, I didn't. This season has been wonderful and Smith has been brilliant and Doctor Who has taken over my brain to a worrying degree but I wasn't ready to say Matt Smith was My Doctor. But this episode. This fucking episode. I knew he'd be fine by the end, I knew the Doctor always finds a way to save the day and it's not like the show would kill off their main character, I know. And I was still crying, literally actually crying, for ten minutes straight in the middle of the episode because MY DOCTOR was dying and it was breaking my heart. So yeah, my Doctor wears braces and professor coats and a fez and blows himself up with the Pandorica and talks about fairy tales and dances terribly at weddings and I love him so fucking much.
And now the long, bleak series-break is looming and I have about 11 million fic ideas burning to be written. Oh boy.
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Date: 2010-06-29 06:18 pm (UTC)Somehow, the Doctor being restored by the power of Amy's imagination beats the sparkly!Jesus!Doctor by... I don't even know by how much. Enormously much. Yay!
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Date: 2010-06-29 06:39 pm (UTC)I'm not sure why Amy's memory!Doctor is so much less exasperating than the sparkly!Jesus!Doctor - maybe because the power of memory, and especially Amy's memory, is such a huge theme throughout the season, whereas the clap-your-hands-and-believe thing was a bit out of left field (and, you know, kind of dumb) - but I agree that it was hands-down better. ;D Go Amy!