The Power of Three

[ladymercury_10]

I don't have much coherent to say, but basically I LOVED EVERYTHING.  It was lovely and funny and bittersweet and dear in all the ways it ought to have been, and it made me feel simultaneously quite sad and strangely reassured about next week.  When the Doctor tells Amy that she always gets what she wants, I think that might be the show's way of telling us that she and Rory will be more than all right.  And when the victims of cardiac arrest--Eleventy included--recover and start to walk again, I think it might be the writers saying that the Doctor will have his heart broken, but that he, and we, will be okay eventually as well.  They've said similar things in interviews about the new companion, if memory serves.  But dear goodness, Ponds, will I miss you.

And now, for bullet points of squee:

-KATE, ILU AND YOUR RAVENS OF DEATH
-AMY AND THE DOCTOR GOING "THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS"
-Amy and the Doctor's heartbreaking/lovely talk by the water
-Rory and Amy acting properly happy together again
-Rory and Amy being adorably domestic (esp. in their adorable pajamas)
-BRIAAAAAN
-Eleventy, why can't you sit still?  Bless.
-The Doctor's anniversary present gone predictably wrong
-Brian Cox is on Doctor Who, oh dear goodness!  My inner science fangirl is v. pleased.

Question: Why does the Doctor make that face at Amy when she tells Rory she left his scrubs in the lounge?  Is it meant to be an innuendo thing, like, eww, I just realized they were having sex in their living room last night, and if so, why would Rory put on the same clothes again to go to work IN A HOSPITAL?  Is that really sanitary?

Also question: Is the Henry VIII thing timey-wimeyness?  Because last week the Doctor def said something to Rory about leaving his phone charger in Henry VIII's en suite.

Slightly spoilery question: Eleventy, if Amy and Rory get Weeping Angeled next week, as many have speculated, how will you ever tell poor Brian?  Or Tabetha and Augustus, for that matter? D:

Comments

[aoife-hime.livejournal.com]

That's true, Cathy did live a happy life after she was transplanted back in time. So that's good. But still the fact that she was torn from her friends and family like that was sad :/ I guess I'm just very protective of the Ponds at this point so I will be worrying until I watch the episode (but can you blame me?).

Yes, exactly! It's so wonderful to see them actually able to be happy together without life-or-death situations. It's great to see them work. I feel like there's still that spunk that was around in Series 5, but it's transformed into something that fits a couple instead of two individuals. And it's not boring in the least, which is so amazing to see because as I said, that usually doesn't work out well on television. I wish it did, but it doesn't.

Brian is truly spectacular. He's kinda like Wilfred in that he snuck up on me and now I'm super attached to him.

And the great thing is that it completely works that the Doctor would be playing football if he were to be stuck in an extended length of linear time. Because he's just that bouncy. I suspect that, even though we didn't see it, he had a match of football with Craig off-camera just for old times' sake.

[ladymercury-10.livejournal.com]

I think if something like that happens to the Ponds, they will get something good to make it worth it. I have read a lot of theories to this effect. But yeah, even so, it's been hard not to worry, because I love them so. :/

It's really nice that we got to see them grow up before they left, because they aren't the same anymore, but you can definitely see that they have grown out of the people they were. And yeah, it works strangely well to see them do "boring" things like wonder where their dirty laundry is or drink tea in the garden. I mean, I think a lot of people wanted to see their lives after everything having been at such a break-neck pace for so long, but it should have been stupidly easy to screw up. I guess the Doctor was there to balance it out, too. You can't go wrong with the plot of "The Lodger." I will watch that episode as many times as they want to redo it.

Now that you said that, though, I can't stop thinking about Rory going grocery shopping. I really want to see that now, and I don't even know why. In my head Amy is there also and they are having adorable silly arguments over the shopping list, complete with pulling faces at each other in public and kissing to make up in the cereal aisle.

Brian is quite Wilf-esque. The really cool thing about him is that you can't really pinpoint anything *special* per se--he's pretty much your average old dad. But he's a good person and very caring and willing to put in the time to make any situation work, ridiculous or normal, and those are the sorts of things that make someone wonderful in ordinary ways, and it's always nice when Doctor Who celebrates that.

It is now my head-canon that at some off-screen time during the episode the Doctor was playing football with Craig and Sophie and Stormageddon/Alfie, who must be in primary school by now, dear goodness do they grow up fast on TV. Perhaps when he ran off traumatized by linear time and patience being for wimps?