I missed this thread until now.
This site gives a great review of the series so far and says it better than I could.
Not sure I can take it seriously when they almost immediately call him “Rory Pond”…
-Joe
Hasn’t that been a running gag in the show? I seem to recall the Doctor calling him “Rory Pond” on occasion.
Maaaaybe. But The Doctor says it to needle him. The reviewer’s point was that they need to stop being mean (ie. killing) him.
I’m going to assume that the reviewer wasn’t being double-secret ironic and just screwed up.
Other than that, though, the reviewer was kinder than I was expecting.
-Joe
Yes, it has been a running gag in the show, that Amy is the dominant one in the relationship, and the Doctor calls them both “Pond”.
I have a couple of thoughts on that:
**Killing Rory **- I believe that’s because Rory is fated to die, and is the good man who River will kill. For some reason, he should be dead now, and the uiverse is trying to put that right.
Making the Doctor a figure of notoriety - that, absolutely, 100% is what this year is about. They’ve been reiterating the “everyone is so scared of you, they band together to take you down” and really emphasizing the theory that he’s almost the bad guy now, that his own hubris is the biggest danger the universe faces. This series is Moffat’s way of ending all that and taking it back to a strange guy who puts things right. I wouldn’t be shocked to see that also tie in with his choice to be shot on that beach.
Me, I only think of him as ‘the pretty one’ now.
Never understood why the Flesh Doctor just used the early Doctors voices and not do some morphing - after all it was programable flesh that took the appearance of the person - in the Doctors case 11 of them. Pity that
I think the Doctorganger was trying to get his Flesh to settle down - I would think continual morphing would be distracting at best, quite disconcerting, and would make dealing with humans extremely difficult between all the expressions of squick and the screaming and running away and stuff.
I imagine that’s simply a budget thing.
I think they had to keep it going because if they started calling Amy - Amy Williams then River Song would have been Williams Song
He’ll be back, just in time to get killed by the girl in the spacesuit (River?) instead of the Doctor
This series has been a bit patchy so far, some high points such as the first two episodes and the Doctor’s Wife episode, but the rest have fallen a bit flat for me so far.
It’s not he actors, I think Matt Smith makes a great Doctor and Rory and Amy are good companions, it is the writing in general that seems a bit off. I find myself looking back for some RTD melodrama with a sense of nostalgia.
Speaking of which, this latest series reminds me a little of the Sylvester McCoy era, a good Doctor saddled with poor scripts and an overcomplicated attempt to make him mysterious and dangerous again.
One thing I’m starting to wonder, will The Doctor be getting a new companion next season? I’m assuming that they’ll rescue Melody by the end of this season (if not the last episode), and the TARDIS is no place to raise a kid.
Assuming Melody is the girl we saw regenerate, it seems pretty likely that she doesn’t have her parents as of age six or so.
-Joe
Six years old is still pretty young to be flying around space and time.
Coincidentally, today they announced one person who will be around next season:
So, is River faking it when they’re talking about the girl in the spacesuit, or does she really not remember?I’d think that orphanage would be memorable, even with the Silents around.
We don’t know that’s what she’s been doing. All we know is she’s six years old and running loose in 1969. So, up until at least that age she likely doesn’t have parents around. At least not Amy and Rory.
-Joe
No, I’m saying she’ll likely be rescued at the end of this season, when she’s six years old (don’t forget about time travel), and they don’t want to raise her on the TARDIS.
I was re-watching the last season of Doctor Who and in The Pandorica opens the Romans are discovered as duplicates when River goes to Amy’s room and discovers the history book about Romans in England. She finds a picture of Rory, dressed as a Roman soldier, between the pages of the book and is surprised to see “that centurion” as she called him. Wouldn’t she have been alarmed earlier when she saw her father as a Roman in 2nd century England?
Nevermind. Forgot the whole Rory erased from history bit.