The following rant is a result of the provocation by my favsies cousin, capnkilljoy
Well, really she just asked me what the episode so I responded with the following email:
Subject:
Girrrl, you got me started…
Enjoy! <3
So this episode, in particular, on it’s own didn’t really blow me away. I am sorry, but once you have had epic Tennant/Davies acting/wring episodes it takes a little more to impress me.
I kinda feel like it was rushed a little. Like, there was a big build up w/the cupboard and the kid. Then you realize that they never had a kid and you wanna know who the frigg that kidd is! Where did he come from and why he’s there and why everthing is happening; and that’s the part that they go through the fastest! The Doctors explination is fast and in the middle of a big action moment and I had to watch it twice to really understand who/what the kid was and what was going on.
As far as the episode being scary, there were some moments where I was like, “what the fruit!?” Like the elevator part w/Amy and Rory, when it falls. And while I still don’t like the doll things, they weren’t as creepy as I thought they’d be. And now that I think about it I don’t really know where they came from… like, I understand why they were in the cupboard, but, is it because the kid thought they were scary that they became real monsters? Why were they turning the other people, like Amy, into dolls? Why did the lanlord and the old lady get taken all random-like? I understand how Amy and Rory end up in the cupboar/dollhouse - I assume it’s b/c they were in the elevator and the sound of it scares the kid and when he put the sound in the cupboard he also put them two - BUT if that’s the case, then, why didn’t the two of them AND the Doctor get put in the cupboard when they were in elevator before? Hmmm, questions… o.O
Also, I am getting sick of shit happening to Amy and Rory. One of them is always dying, or something terrible’s happpened to them and it’s getting to be pretty ri-gosh-darn-diculous. (And the previews for next week make it seem like it’s gonna be Amy again.) It was like they needed to keep them two busy and out of the was while the Doctor took care of business.
I did however like the funny bits - the funny bits are always good :) So basically the Doctor stuff is what I liked from the episode; everything that happends between him, the dad and the kid was good. And the dad/son story was sweet :’)
Then over all as far as the whole season storyline goes, this one was just out if nowhere random. Which i don’t mind, it’s not like it’s never happened before; where they break from the big story and throw in a nice little one, but after that whole thing w/River and how we’re in the middle of the big “Doctor dying” situation, it just feels off.
There was this whole big build up w/the River Song story line and then nothing. Moffat is becoming the king of anti-climactic-ness =/ Because he has all this build up and all these surprises and twists and I’m all like, “yeah blow me away!” then nothing. Eveything is ok. No ones dead. And we go on our merry way. Shit just gets fixed and I’m all, “well, ok then.”
Like, Amy and Rory missed out on the pregnancy and then they missed their childs childhood - like I know they technically grew up together but still they had a baby and then they didn’t and then they had an adult and then they didn’t again. And they seem totally ok with that… o_o They might as well have not had a daughter. I think they’re only River’s parents because it was a surprise but then after Moffat didn’t know how to keep it interesting. So i’m like, “She’s THEY’RE daughter?!” - a big ol’ “huuuuhhhh waahhh!?” moment, and after I’m just like, “…and what?”
The answer is: And nothing - she’s gonna live the rest of her life in a completely different time, in probably a different galaxy, obsessing over the Doctor (rightly so :] ) and that’s it.
THEN there’s the Doctors deathdate that’s going on in the background and that’s really the part of this seasons story line that I’m most interested in b/c that part of the story BLOWS MUH MINDHOLE! Idk how he’s gonna be dead but not dead and burned but maybe not. And there should be some more River questions answered b/c we’re lead to beleave that she’s the one gonna kill him. So we can see about that shiz! 8•
AND, AND, and, and, I just remembered in the silence episodes from the beginning of the season, there were those pictures that Amy found of her and her baby, remember? I don’t remember if there were any pictures of River as a toddler or older than a baby WITH her parents, BUT that means that (if there are only baby pictures) they could have been taken after Melody/River was born and she had them from then (in the facility/ship where Amy gave birth) OR if there are toddler pictures of River w/her parents, then maybe Amy and Rory do get do raise her a little… we shall see.
I would like to pause here and state that River Song sounds so much cooler to me than Melody Pond. Now that that’s done let’s continue…
I think that’s it…
So over all episode was ok. To recap: Amy and Rory are getting a little annoying, where’s River?, THE DOCTOR CAN’T BE DEAD, and finally: WTF Moffat?
So there’s all that that I thought.
Are you sorry you asked?
<3 laura :D
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So there it all is, hope you liked it if you don’t, please remember I bruise easily O_O
Love to the Doctor
and remember
