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amberfocus) wrote2011-06-06 09:35 pm
amberfocus) wrote2011-06-06 09:35 pm
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A Good Man Goes to War--DW 607 Reaction Post
I don't know what to think. I knew what was coming, of course, but the reveal at the end of this episode literally had me in tears. I haven't cried over a Doctor Who episode since Doomsday. It was very emotional for me. Not on the same level as Doomsday, nothing will ever be on that level other than Parting of the Ways, but still, it did move me. It is very confusing. It also really no longer feels like a family show and I kind of am sorry about that.
I kind of found this episode to be a muddled mess of a mishmash (ha, aliteration!), far, far too busy with all the various bits from previous episodes thrown in, and it really wasn't until the stand at the end that I actually found myself totally drawn in. When Melody turned out to be a clone, I was actually surprised. It was one of the only things I didn't see coming and it hurt. I can't even imagine the pain Amy and Rory must be in. I can only look at it through the eyes of a mother and know that it would devastate me to see that happen to my child.
But I loved the part at the end. Not the immature stuff with the Doctor doing the kiss kiss business or figuring stuff out, but when River confronted Amy and Rory with the truth of who she was. It was...can you imagine being so hurt by losing your daughter and thinking you might never see her again and then find out she was standing in front of you and not only was she safe but she'd lived to be almost 50? That would be amazing, even if it meant you might never raise her. Just to know she had survived would be this beautiful thing.
Anyway, I have completely divorced this series and the previous one from RTD's Who and classic Who. It is a different show to me and I am enjoying it to a certain extent as such. It will never be the same, but I can like it in a different way. I won't write it and I probably won't ship it very hard (love Amy/Rory, can't help that), but I have grown to like Eleven and River together. It isn't adoration like with Doctor/Rose and never will be. But I can enjoy it. Even if I don't rush to watch it the day it comes out. And I'm okay with that.
I kind of found this episode to be a muddled mess of a mishmash (ha, aliteration!), far, far too busy with all the various bits from previous episodes thrown in, and it really wasn't until the stand at the end that I actually found myself totally drawn in. When Melody turned out to be a clone, I was actually surprised. It was one of the only things I didn't see coming and it hurt. I can't even imagine the pain Amy and Rory must be in. I can only look at it through the eyes of a mother and know that it would devastate me to see that happen to my child.
But I loved the part at the end. Not the immature stuff with the Doctor doing the kiss kiss business or figuring stuff out, but when River confronted Amy and Rory with the truth of who she was. It was...can you imagine being so hurt by losing your daughter and thinking you might never see her again and then find out she was standing in front of you and not only was she safe but she'd lived to be almost 50? That would be amazing, even if it meant you might never raise her. Just to know she had survived would be this beautiful thing.
Anyway, I have completely divorced this series and the previous one from RTD's Who and classic Who. It is a different show to me and I am enjoying it to a certain extent as such. It will never be the same, but I can like it in a different way. I won't write it and I probably won't ship it very hard (love Amy/Rory, can't help that), but I have grown to like Eleven and River together. It isn't adoration like with Doctor/Rose and never will be. But I can enjoy it. Even if I don't rush to watch it the day it comes out. And I'm okay with that.