7/10
Good
and much much
better than the
previous episode.
Rory is dull as
a brick and is getting
way way to
Big for his boots this
season, he wants a slap
with the way he's started
kicking off at The Doctor
and the way he speaks to
him is absolutely disgusting.
Who does he think he is
Really, he's an absolute
Nobody punching way above
his weight with Amy and
having the honour and
the privilege to travel in
The Tardis because of
Amy. He's been the village
Idjit from the beginning but
this season he's just straight
up annoying and I'm sick
to death of his lack of
respect towards The Doctor.
I'm ready for the fool to go.
Loved the hole multiple
time streams always makes
for an interesting episode,
although it would have been
better if Amy didn't tell
Rory the fool to not open
the door, that's just giving
him a free pass on guilt
and undermines the hole
situation and makes it
meaningless
(well it's okay
she told me too).
It certainly wasn't
The Doctors fault either.
Those buttons were nothing
more than a plot device
I mean who pushes red
on an Alien planet
with no clue what it does
(would have been better if
it was at least blue
to not make Amy look
like a complete dumb-bat)
but it's still another planet
anyway where colour doesn't
have the same association
as we would think.
The fool Rory wonders off
from his wife without waiting
for her then never
states what button to press
when there are clearly two,
if anything it's that numbnuts
fault.
One highlight for me
was both time streams
in real-time.
The Doctor knew right
from the start only one
could be saved and he
definitely made the right
Choice Amy's Choice
if you will
and the only decision
possible,
"Wouldn't Want To
Blow A Hole In
The Fabric Of The
Universe Now Would We
And Rupture Time And Space".
The cost of traveling with the doctor.
What a deep and sad episode.
This is what happened to one of the doctor's companions. Seperated from the man she loved for decades in a strange world alone. For decades. Traveling with the doctor did this to her.
I liked seeing Amy and Rory's dynamic this episode, and i liked the production design, though we could have seen more and seen more of Amy's life as she aged.
I loved seeing Rory's justified anger at the doctor.
And the older Amy even knew she would be alone for decades because when she was young her older self declined to save her. I'm not keen on when Amy later breaks a kind of causality, but i can headcanon it as also explained in the episode about who Amy is, a time traveler and she's got the ability to interfere with time like this.
And the doctor lied again about trying to save them both. And then he shut the door mercillesly on the older amy, his companion. Cold, calculating.
A complex episode, but Rory shouldn't have tried to open the door at the end and he should have to deal with his choice and be forced to follow through with it, but It was nice of Amy to tell him not to let her in though. The doctor was clear to Rory about the choice.
Would have liked more dialogue from older Amy through the episode.
In one respect, the doctor could be seen as one of the most secretly villainous characters ever. The epitomy of "the road to hell is paved with good intentions" He invites, snares, so many humans to come travel with him, seeing such wonders, and most of them end up in tragic ends. Even those that don't, they then have to live a normal life after having traveled through space and time. It's evil.
And to Amy, she was forced to spend decades alone. That's the price of traveling with the doctor.
And even after this, the doctor still kept traveling with them, and they wanted to still keep traveling with the doctor. He's a drug. The adventures with him and what you can see and experience is a drug.
Death and suffering follow the doctor, the dangers he gets involved in and the people and empires that wish him dead. Being a companion you will be drawn into that.
This incarnation of the doctor is especially insidious, having a romantic couple travel with him, and all the bad things that can happen to split them up like if one of them died on an adventure or what happened in this episode, and it would be his fault because he allowed them to travel with him.
For all his genius and compassion, the doctor doesn't really understand this, or want to understand it. It's mostly a game to him as he larks about the universe going on adventures and occasionally getting angry and threatening people and throwing his weight about. At least this incarnation likes throwing his weight around while acting humble, even though he is humble in a lot of genuine moments.
He can't stand to be alone, because part of him becomes a monster. His inner darkness grows and has no limit if he's alone and his darkness is allowed to fester. Because the doctor is not a wholly good man. He's not a completely good entity, but he tries to be. It's just, as much as he's helped and saved so many people and planets and the universe, he's also hurt his companions a lot.
He's powerful, charitable, amazing and wondrous, yet also insidious and manipulative. He's a complex being, but as many people look starry eyed at him and his adventures, i think he's actually a very secretly insidious being. A being who tries to do good, sure, and does do a lot of good, with his companions always suffering in the meanwhile. They have great experiences and scary experiences, and in the end, they're likely to suffer a tragic fate. And if they don't, they get discarded by the doctor so he can find a new companion, a new toy. Or the companion grows old while adventuring while watching the doctor stay young, and then maybe the older companion realizes they didn't build a life on earth and have nothing to go back to. Maybe the companion is okay with that, but eventually they will grow old and die, alone, while the doctor lives on.
As a sci-fi junkie, it’s brilliant episodes like this which set Dr. Who and, to a larger extent, other quality British shows apart. When Rory was walking around holding the large magnifying glass with old Amy, that was more like theater than TV show. And I mean this in the best possible way. Fantastic!
Well that was dark. More please!
This is so sad, how do you choose between your wife and her future self, I mean u choose the present but you are killing your future wife, it’s such a dilemma
Shout by Kyle RugglesBlockedParent2016-07-09T20:41:57Z
Simply wow..... No words for how much this episode moved me..