The Girl Who Waited
Sep. 10th, 2011 09:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
daibhidc...or "Rory's Choice".
That was brilliant. So brilliant that I can almost overlook that the Two Streams admittance procedeures are clearly completely insane. Anybody who presses the red button is automatically a patient, and there's no actual staff to explain things to, just robot dispenseries without enough medical knowledge to even notice you aren't the right species. And even when future!Amy hacked into the system, there was no way of communicating with the hospital administrators and saying "There's been a bit of a mix-up here" (or, indeed, of calling off the handbots).
But like I said, I can almost overlook that. And I can also overlook that the Mona Lisa is painted on a wooden panel, not on cheap poster paper. Obviously this isn't really the Mona Lisa, but a beautifully framed cheap Mona Lisa poster.
Because, apart from that, the episode itself was fantastic. Future!Amy's distance from Rory and anger with the Doctor was excellently realised (I loved the bitter sarcasm with which she spat "Raggedy Man"), and the aging makeup was very well done.
It got a bit wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey when Future!Amy remembered her conversation with herself, but also remembered it not making any difference, and decided that this time it was going to. How the heck does that make the slightest bit of sense? I know, Amy's bloody-mindedness can fight destiny, but it's the same Amy, so why didn't Future!Amy make that decision in her memory of having that conversation as Present!Amy.
Funniest scene: Future!Amy is reminded how much she loves Rory, and responds by shifting from Bitter Warrior Woman to Inappopriately Flirty Older Woman. Now we know where her daughter gets it from.
And, of course, Rory's Choice. He wants to save both Amys but he can't. So he saves the one who hasn't suffered yet. And the Doctor can say that means the other one never existed (and therefore doesn't matter) all he likes; as far as Rory's concerned, she did exist, he failed her. And when the Doctor forces him to be the one to make the choice, his reaction is "You're trying to make me into you!"
Amy's relationship with the Doctor won't be affected much by this; she's not the Amy who hated him and never will be. But Rory remembers a version of his wife who, with some justification, hated the Doctor, and I don't think that's going to go away.
(And on a lighter note; talking of freaky future versions of the cast, what is with Arthur Darvill's beard in Confidential?)
That was brilliant. So brilliant that I can almost overlook that the Two Streams admittance procedeures are clearly completely insane. Anybody who presses the red button is automatically a patient, and there's no actual staff to explain things to, just robot dispenseries without enough medical knowledge to even notice you aren't the right species. And even when future!Amy hacked into the system, there was no way of communicating with the hospital administrators and saying "There's been a bit of a mix-up here" (or, indeed, of calling off the handbots).
But like I said, I can almost overlook that. And I can also overlook that the Mona Lisa is painted on a wooden panel, not on cheap poster paper. Obviously this isn't really the Mona Lisa, but a beautifully framed cheap Mona Lisa poster.
Because, apart from that, the episode itself was fantastic. Future!Amy's distance from Rory and anger with the Doctor was excellently realised (I loved the bitter sarcasm with which she spat "Raggedy Man"), and the aging makeup was very well done.
It got a bit wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey when Future!Amy remembered her conversation with herself, but also remembered it not making any difference, and decided that this time it was going to. How the heck does that make the slightest bit of sense? I know, Amy's bloody-mindedness can fight destiny, but it's the same Amy, so why didn't Future!Amy make that decision in her memory of having that conversation as Present!Amy.
Funniest scene: Future!Amy is reminded how much she loves Rory, and responds by shifting from Bitter Warrior Woman to Inappopriately Flirty Older Woman. Now we know where her daughter gets it from.
And, of course, Rory's Choice. He wants to save both Amys but he can't. So he saves the one who hasn't suffered yet. And the Doctor can say that means the other one never existed (and therefore doesn't matter) all he likes; as far as Rory's concerned, she did exist, he failed her. And when the Doctor forces him to be the one to make the choice, his reaction is "You're trying to make me into you!"
Amy's relationship with the Doctor won't be affected much by this; she's not the Amy who hated him and never will be. But Rory remembers a version of his wife who, with some justification, hated the Doctor, and I don't think that's going to go away.
(And on a lighter note; talking of freaky future versions of the cast, what is with Arthur Darvill's beard in Confidential?)
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Date: 2011-09-10 09:34 pm (UTC)But if you're not a patient until you've passed the second door, why can't Amy leave the red room as easily as Rory left the green room?
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Date: 2011-09-11 08:13 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-09-11 06:57 pm (UTC)That was the bit that ruined it for me actually. The story and the emotions were beautifully poignant, but it depended on an "idiot plot" to make it actually work, which annoyed the heck out of me.
How is it inappropriate? She's his wife!