The Pandorica Opens
Jun. 20th, 2010 12:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
daibhidcI'm not sure I can comment coherently on this beyond "Oh. My. Freaking. God!" In fact, I'm starting to appreciate what Terry Pratchett said in SFX about overuse of the word "awesome" - I thought I was using it carefully when I described past episodes, but now I'm in the position of having to say "That was awesomely awesome!"
I was going to start with the bits that didn't work for me, to get them out of the way, but I can't think of anything! I mean, when it happened I thought the Doctor bluffing a million spaceships into not attacking him was a bit silly, but then it turned out that they weren't attacking because they had a plan. So that's OK.
Rory's back, except he's a Roman, except he's an Auton. Did not see that coming, darn you, Moffatt! And darn you again for having River already in prison - so we're still not going to find out what "killing the greatest man she's ever known" was about.
I worked out who the nameless being that brought destruction was quite early on, but given the Moff's timey-wimey tendencies, I suspected he was already in there. Which, I now realise, would have been a total ripoff of Alien Bodies, so I'm glad they didn't do that.
Beyond that: Vincent! Winston and Paisley! River! Liz Ten! Cybermen! Daleks! Autons! Silurians! Judoon! Sontarans! The TARDIS exploding! The universe exploding! A whole week to wait! And no "Next Time" trailer, not even after the credits, so we don't even know if Amy lives! (I mean, obviously, she does, but we don't know she does!)
I was going to start with the bits that didn't work for me, to get them out of the way, but I can't think of anything! I mean, when it happened I thought the Doctor bluffing a million spaceships into not attacking him was a bit silly, but then it turned out that they weren't attacking because they had a plan. So that's OK.
Rory's back, except he's a Roman, except he's an Auton. Did not see that coming, darn you, Moffatt! And darn you again for having River already in prison - so we're still not going to find out what "killing the greatest man she's ever known" was about.
I worked out who the nameless being that brought destruction was quite early on, but given the Moff's timey-wimey tendencies, I suspected he was already in there. Which, I now realise, would have been a total ripoff of Alien Bodies, so I'm glad they didn't do that.
Beyond that: Vincent! Winston and Paisley! River! Liz Ten! Cybermen! Daleks! Autons! Silurians! Judoon! Sontarans! The TARDIS exploding! The universe exploding! A whole week to wait! And no "Next Time" trailer, not even after the credits, so we don't even know if Amy lives! (I mean, obviously, she does, but we don't know she does!)
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Date: 2010-06-20 11:52 am (UTC)Rory being a Roman and then an Auton was beautifully set up. Moffatt actually drags a frigging great clue in front of you in the scene where Rory tells the Doctor he doesn't know how he got there, and does it in such a way that you still don't see what's coming.
I am so looking forward to the boxset and watching the whole thing through again to see the clues that were seeded throughout, like that photo of Rory and Amy in their costumes.
And next week we finally find out what happened after Young Amy heard the Tardis engine and looked up...