"I'm 907 years old, do you have any idea what that means?"
"It's been a while?" - The Doctor and Amy
For some reason Blogger thought it would be a bitch and delete half my post on the preview, so now I have to write it all again.
It weren't bad.
"Content"
The Weeping Angels just aren't scary any more, and despite everyone harping on about it being an emotional fare, it was more just slow to my way of thinking. That said I like explody whizzybangs more than substance. Still, Octavian's death did pull at a heart string, but a lot of it, as with many two parters,
seemed to drag itself out because it needed to fill time. The worst aspect though was that god awful explanation stuff at the end of the episode "well I kept telling you", suddenly Smith forgets how to act entirely, with other lapses being when he's conversing with Angel Bob, apologizing for bringing up life jokes. More mystery comes about from the evil rip in the universe, and Moffat takes it upon himself to clean up the mound of vomit Russel created in The Next Doctor, possibly even implying it never even happened, which I could happily live with."I remember it well"
River Song adds more to her mystery that she divulges, even though we now know twice as much about her, such as her killing the best man she ever knew, which is obviously supposed to make us think the Doctor, and indeed with such conviction it's hard to think who else she could mean, still, it's all to come, and Kingston's acting makes the character such a delight that like The Doctor I look forward to it. Wonder what the Cybermen will make of her?
"The most important thing is I get you sorted out right now"
"That's what I've been trying to tell you!"
It's also this episode we learn Amy is an eager beaver with an eager beaver. Thankfully she's not doing a Rose, who's relationship with the Doctor was both grinding and just wrong, lets be honest. Nor Martha pining away like a little bitch. Steven's way of explaining Amy's sudden lust is "she'd had a bad day", still, it made for good Telly, and it's nice to see the Doctor's lost the confidence with women his eighth persona granted him. He was a right horny devil.
"I'm not six months late I'm twelve years late"
And now we get to point out a glaring omission in the first few seconds of the first episode. We finally learn that Amy's time is 26th June 2010. Yes, it lands on a Saturday. But, subtract fourteen years and we're in 1996, which when the TARDIS was flying around erratically passed a very noticeable O2 arena. Whilst it's possible it vwarped further back in time from 2000, it wasn't well enough elaborated if it were the case. Just sayin'.
Cock ups aside a thoroughly enjoyable episode and makes a good cap for the last, with Treeborgs being a piece of genius, but the Angels scare factor has diminished noticeably. Probably because we know what they can do now. Still, over all I'm happy, and looking forward to Vampires next week.
2 comments:
Pretty much spot on. You've echoed my opinions on the episode, though I'd go so far as to say that not only were the Angels no longer scary - they were just rubbish. :p
In between O2 Arena and back garden, the intro sequence is meant to be him actually bouncing around an angry time vortex. This is made more obvious by the fact that the time of day changes too - it's dark when he gets there.
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