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amberfocusWell...so..huh. That's it then.
This episode was a little messy for me. Not like episode one or two of this season, and nowhere near the hot mess that was season 6, but still messy. Or maybe just uneven. I liked it well enough as a plot if I hadn't seen so much of it a.)coming or b.)before. I really did like quite a bit of it, but right now all I can think of was the stuff that annoyed me. Can we please get a new showrunner that is better than SM, but a touch more grounded than RTD? Pretty please.
I think we can retire the weeping angels now, because since we can't keep a straightforward mythos on them from one episode to the next and they are no longer scary at all and haven't really been since Blink. The angels are supposed to be made out of stone. Stone. Alien stone. Now they can be any statue. Hey, they can be bronze off that fountain. Or they can be copper, and gigantic, and made in France and shipped over to the US and put together with documentation out the wazoo, but it's a weeping angel. No. I don't think so. And also, the angels depend on secrecy. People would notice this. (SM, could you please stop setting things in my country if you can't be bothered to get your facts straight on...oh, anything at all?)
Was there any point at all to River being in this episode? I'm not sure she really contributed to the plot. I mean, Amy could have written the book in the end. That would have made more sense than River being able to send the book back into something that apparently couldn't be entered by the TARDIS...and also, why not? I mean, clearly not 1938, but what about dropping by in, oh, say 1952? They knew enough about the future to bet big on something somewhere and get enough money to move back to their home country. Or at least get the heck out of New York, tombstone or no tombstone, so why did they stay?
I liked Amy choosing to go with Rory, both on the roof and in the cemetery. Not that there is romance in jumping to one's death, but to me it showed that Amy had finally grown up and grown into her marriage, that she was cleaving to her husband and forsaking all others. That she would rather be with him in any time period than without him in her own. I would not have jumped off a roof, but I definitely would have made the same choice in the cemetery to go back and be with my husband. She should be choosing her husband over the Doctor. It's about time. And the Doctor being such a baby about it, expecting her to choose him over Rory was just stupid. He knows better than this, or did before this regeneration. And anyway, he can see them again. Any time up to that point in their lives he could pop in. It doesn't have to be in order. They are the ones that will never see him again. Follow some of the rules of continuity already.
I dunno, mostly I'm left with a weariness over recycling bits of plot. Angels, check. Letter from someone now dead ala Reinette, check. Impossible, supposedly, to ever see his companions again, check. Doing something to completely reverse something you wrote in a previous season, check. Screwing with your own mythology yet again so it makes even less sense than before, check. Blatantly contradicting yourself, check. Time loop, check. Stuff and nonsense, check.
This episode was a little messy for me. Not like episode one or two of this season, and nowhere near the hot mess that was season 6, but still messy. Or maybe just uneven. I liked it well enough as a plot if I hadn't seen so much of it a.)coming or b.)before. I really did like quite a bit of it, but right now all I can think of was the stuff that annoyed me. Can we please get a new showrunner that is better than SM, but a touch more grounded than RTD? Pretty please.
I think we can retire the weeping angels now, because since we can't keep a straightforward mythos on them from one episode to the next and they are no longer scary at all and haven't really been since Blink. The angels are supposed to be made out of stone. Stone. Alien stone. Now they can be any statue. Hey, they can be bronze off that fountain. Or they can be copper, and gigantic, and made in France and shipped over to the US and put together with documentation out the wazoo, but it's a weeping angel. No. I don't think so. And also, the angels depend on secrecy. People would notice this. (SM, could you please stop setting things in my country if you can't be bothered to get your facts straight on...oh, anything at all?)
Was there any point at all to River being in this episode? I'm not sure she really contributed to the plot. I mean, Amy could have written the book in the end. That would have made more sense than River being able to send the book back into something that apparently couldn't be entered by the TARDIS...and also, why not? I mean, clearly not 1938, but what about dropping by in, oh, say 1952? They knew enough about the future to bet big on something somewhere and get enough money to move back to their home country. Or at least get the heck out of New York, tombstone or no tombstone, so why did they stay?
I liked Amy choosing to go with Rory, both on the roof and in the cemetery. Not that there is romance in jumping to one's death, but to me it showed that Amy had finally grown up and grown into her marriage, that she was cleaving to her husband and forsaking all others. That she would rather be with him in any time period than without him in her own. I would not have jumped off a roof, but I definitely would have made the same choice in the cemetery to go back and be with my husband. She should be choosing her husband over the Doctor. It's about time. And the Doctor being such a baby about it, expecting her to choose him over Rory was just stupid. He knows better than this, or did before this regeneration. And anyway, he can see them again. Any time up to that point in their lives he could pop in. It doesn't have to be in order. They are the ones that will never see him again. Follow some of the rules of continuity already.
I dunno, mostly I'm left with a weariness over recycling bits of plot. Angels, check. Letter from someone now dead ala Reinette, check. Impossible, supposedly, to ever see his companions again, check. Doing something to completely reverse something you wrote in a previous season, check. Screwing with your own mythology yet again so it makes even less sense than before, check. Blatantly contradicting yourself, check. Time loop, check. Stuff and nonsense, check.
