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:

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[usuallyhats]

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:
I'm really worried about that. I can see the Doctor going back and telling Brian what had happened and that the Ponds are fine, but it would be so sad. Be OK, Ponds!

[stick-poker.livejournal.com]

ALL THE SQUEE.

I took the face to be just because of the domesticity; Rory asking his wife where his clothes are, and her knowing and telling him in a long-habituated-to-answering-these-questions sort of way.

[eve11]

Amy's telling the story from a past perspective, so it is my guess that in their timeline, A Town Called Mercy takes place after the events of the Power of Three.

Also, I predictably loved it to bits.

[light-frost.livejournal.com]

I think the Henry VIII thing is definitely timey-wimey. In "Dinosaurs on a Spaceship," Queen Nefertiti asked Amy if she was a queen too, and Amy responded with "yes," haha.

[lady-with-cats.livejournal.com]

I feel slightly more reassured having read your take on this week's ep, since I was mostly seriously worried one or both were going to die/have some horribly irreversible done to them. :(

AND CAN WE KEEP KATE FOREVER? I would be v happy to see her as a recurring character.

Additionally, the first question: maybe he took off his scrubs ~before, and well humans with their kissing are sort of gross so... :D

I AM INORDINATELY INTERESTED IN THE EXTENDED POND FAMILY DYNAMICS! Like, what do Mr and Mrs Pond Sr think of all these shenanigans? Did Amy tell her mom and dad she and Rory were about to split? Did she tell them why they got a new house/car? Why that dude who was Rory's stripper actually turned up at her wedding???? (HA!) What about disappearing every few months etc? I JUST WANNA KNOW IT ALLLLLL. (And Eleven's presence at that Christmas dinner too!)

(And here I was wondering how he'd ever tell Amy and Rory about River's death. Goshhhhhh.)

[honeynoir.livejournal.com]

*dances* AWESOMENESS.

I really do think the Ponds will get their happy ending, in some manner. As we've learnt, Amy isn't an ordinary girl. (Their families, though! *sadface*)

Timey-wimeyness seems to be a popular theory: spoilers!

[tasty-kate.livejournal.com]

and it made me feel simultaneously quite sad and strangely reassured about next week.

YES. YESYESYES. This was what I've been bouncing around since I watched it. It's a "Let's be reaffirmed that the Doctor omgloves the Ponds and the Ponds omglove the Doctor and that both have a choice in all of these matters and that everyone's happy and next week will TOTALLY be okay, kay?"

[arliddian.livejournal.com]

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: - augh, just thinking about that breaks my heart. I read a speculative fic a while back where the Doctor goes to tell the Pond parents and it was so sad.

But I'm with you on all the squee from this latest episode!!!! =D It was just so good to see so much happy!Ponds and to see how much they love the Doctor and how much he really loves them. <3 ALL THE LOVE!

[aoife-hime.livejournal.com]

(Late to the party, but I finally had time this evening to watch it and I deliberately didn't read this until I'd gotten through the episode.)

1. OH GOD THE WEEPING ANGELS. I am now so worried after being made to feel slightly less worried because of this episode (for all the reasons you mentioned). This had better not end up like Blink where nearly everyone who was awesome ended up back in time.

2. The Ponds are so wonderfully domestic. They are one of those couples who are even more interesting now that they're married. Which is rare in television. I would watch an entire episode of Rory doing the grocery shopping, that's how much I love them.

3. Brian is not a development I expected ever but I LOVE HIM.

4. I am so pleased they found a way to work in football for Matt. Again.

[promethia_tenk]

It was pretty much the perfect episode to have at this juncture <3 And excellent points about Amy getting what she wants and the significance of the hearts stopping and starting again--I think you're spot on with those.

I'm actually looking forward to the next episode? Just because I think, no matter how sad it is, that one thing Moff does do exceptionally well is to give good closure. I mean, the Library episodes are just the most beautiful hurt. And closure has been something sorely lacking on the show of late. Plus, I've gone back and have been watching the beginning of season five again, and it is stunning how long ago it seems. Even before season seven started I could watch those episodes and it was all very lovely and nostalgic, but it did have an immediacy to it, like you were going back? But now it's not like going back; it's like watching a memory. There's this wistful understanding that those days are gone. Amy and Rory really have been on a whole journey, and I think in gross, I'm really happy with it.

Also, getting more Kate Stewart just might do something to ease the hurt ; )

[giallarhorn.livejournal.com]

KATE STEWART COME BACK and if you do in fact have ravens and have just two named Huginn and Muninn then you just became that much more awesome

I think we were supposed to take the scrubs line in lieu a sense of domesticity, but I mean, it could've just as well meant that they did have sex in the living room since I'd imagine that the scrubs themselves would've come off prior to the actual act, therein making them more or less clean. Plus, in all the clean room environment that I've had to work in, we'd always keep at least a second or third change of coats around, in case one had to be cleaned, so I'd imagine he would've had something similar plus in terms of technical sanitation hospitals in a larger sense are horribly dirty

I had taken the phone charger as a means to indicate that ATCM happened within the frame of PoT- that is, since PoT occurred over a larger time frame than we've previously seen (over a year, as opposed to a day), they decided to include it as a means to indicate the passage of time? A lot of people have been saying that it's a sign that the episodes are out of order, but I've yet to actually see a convincing enough argument for it.

I don't know how Eleven would actually tell Brian, since I imagine Brian would ask to see them? But that also raises a question of why Eleven wouldn't be able to just go and find them again? But I mean, he got around telling Brian his son's been erased from time/drowned/shot/aged to death/etc, so...