Flesh And Stone

[daibhidc]

Well, as far as I'm concerned, we now have the line that defines the Eleventh Doctor.

River: There's a plan?
Doctor: I don't know, I haven't finished talking yet.

Beyond that ... Wow!

First of all, lets really amp up the Weeping Angels. If you close your eyes you're dead? Fine, how about if you open your eyes, you're also dead? (Although, I'm not totally convinced by the idea that the Angels freeze if they think you can see. It was my understanding that freezing was an autonomous reaction caused by the mere fact of someone seeing them, whether the Angel knew this or not. I suppose they could have some psychosomatic thing where they think this is happening, so they don't bother trying to move...)

And yay, they notice the cracks! For a while there, I was afraid that every episode was going to end with a crack appearing after the TARDIS had left, but we'd never actually learn anything further until the finale. But now we know, and the Doctor knows, that this is the End of Time following Amy around, and connected to history being altered so she doesn't remember The Stolen Earth/Journey's End. And to there being a duck pond with no ducks!

And River Song killed someone in her recent past. A good man. A hero. Someone she considers the best man she's ever known. Lucky history's being changed really, or we wouldn't have a series next series...

And then, oh good life, what's this? I've seen it suggested before now that the difference between Doctor/Rose/Mickey and Doctor/Amy/Rory is that Amy isn't interested in the Doctor that way - she just wanted to get away for a while. But apparently the difference is that Rose was Tragically In Love with the Doctor, and Amy just wants to get him into bed...

Comments

[cat63.livejournal.com]

I missed it, but it has been pointed out elsewhere that when the Doctor comes back to Amy after being about to leave with River and the Bishop, he's wearing the jacket the Angels took off him. I did notice that his hair changed abruptly in that scene, but thought it was a continuity glitch until the jacket thing was mentioned - people are theorising that this is a Doctor from a "time can be rewritten" future...

[daibhid-c.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I hadn't noticed that either. And, again as jblum says, it adds another wrinkle to "Remember what I told you when you were seven" -- was it something he told her in the scene we saw, or was it something FutureDoc went back to tell her, maybe in that scene where she wakes up to the sound of the TARDIS?

[cat63.livejournal.com]

Aargh! Time paradoxes do my head in :-) But it's nice to see them actually using that aspect of things for once.