5.13: The Big Bang

[Karen]

Jul 26, 2010 11:29:37 GMT -5 Riff said:

Jul 24, 2010 22:56:34 GMT -5 Anne, Old S'cubie Cat said:

That was a season finale. I suspect Kitty and I will be watching both parts again this next week, and I've already promised her the DVDs when they come out. Best Doctor Who ever.

Fezzes are cool. Heh.

I am also inordinately pleased that it looks like we'll be seeing more of River Song.

Amy and Rory are going to have quite a honeymoon. And I really, really love that Amy didn't choose between Rory and the Doctor, she brought Rory into the adventure. It's Amy and Rory and the Doctor, all adventuring together. It's the least the poor boy deserves after nearly 2000 years.

Sorry - but I think such a euphoric ending means that the Amy Pond costume is out. ;D

Anyway, according to Mr Moffat we will be seeing more of River next season. And we'll learn more about who she is. Hooray! In Moffat we trust!

Hooray indeed!

Part of why I love the River Song character is the fact that I've been in girl-love with Alex Kingston ever since she was on ER.

[Rachael]

Jul 26, 2010 11:26:53 GMT -5 Riff said:

Jul 24, 2010 22:02:50 GMT -5 S'ewing S'cubie said:

OMG, I am squeeing all OVER THE PLACE!!! I frikkin' LOVE this episode! The whole thing was perfect, right up to Amy's remembering the Doctor at her wedding, Rory's remembering with her and all the way to the end! It was about the best ever!

It was good, wasn't it?

I especially liked the Doctor's dancing at the wedding, although bearing in mind what Steven Moffat uses "dancing" as a euphemism for...

Indeed. Are we to infer that there will be some three-way dancing, a la Rose and Jack?

I think not, really.

I think he's referring to River.

[Lola m]

Back to the past-present-future. Little Amy asking for help with the crack in her wall. And she’s the only one who remembers stars. Eeeeeeep!

“You know this is just a story, don’t you?”

Daleks and the Pandorica in a museum!! “Stick around, Pond.” OH, this is awesome!! OMG OMG OMG!! She opens it and finds HER inside it!!!!

“Suppose this means you and I never get born at all. Twice, in my case.” Oh, Rory! Doctor! Oh this is gonna have lovely lovely lovely time looping back and around and over itself again and again. Heee!

Goading him into punching you in, 3 . . . 2 . . . 1 – bingo! Heee!

Yay, and the Doctor does end up using the Time cuff thingee!

Oh, Rory! The lone centurian!!

“Come along, Ponds.” Heeee!

RORY!!!!

Heeeee! And then he tracks down all the hints and bits he did and does them all to make sure the path leads right back to where they are now.

And it’s all still happening, they’re all still being overwritten, erased, removed. Get cracking, you guys!

If all the stars never existed, then what is that? Not the sun, but the TARDIS! And River Song in a time loop inside, exploding over and over. Whoa!

“It’s a fez. I wear a fez now. Fezes are cool.” HA!!

Reboot the universe using a few memory bits of it in the Pandorica given a moment of infinite power. Which is lovely, dear, and only almost completely impossible. Wheeee! ;D

Mercy? Think again! Doctor dead! And not dead! (The Doctor lies. )

They all wake up “where they’re supposed to be”, forgetting everything. And the Doctor is gone, trapped, and never will have been.

The crack in the wall was eating away at her life . . . nothing is ever forgotten, but you have to try . . . she can bring them all back . . . “gotcha”.

“Oh. I escaped. Brilliant. Love it when I do that.” Except, no, he’s unraveling thru his own timeline. Ooooh! Will we see previous Doctor incarnations? Will we go all the way back thru all the Doctors?!

Amy has to remember. She’s gonna be the one who remembers it all, is she? The girl who waited. (Matched with Rory, who also waited.)

Awwwww. Skipping the rest of the rewind, dang! I wanted to see those repeats, Doctor.

Wedding day – getting married in the morning. “You’re my mum.” “You’re my tiny little dad!” Heee!

It’s all you, Amy. Remember, Amy, remember!! RIVER SONG!! And she’s crying without realizing it again.

“I’m really really sad.” “Great.” “Why am I sad?”

Tear! Genetic material!! And her imaginary friend, the raggedy Doctor, late for the wedding! Old new borrowed blue TARDIS! Yay for Amy and her special space-time crack-induced memory power!

“It’s the Doctor! How did we forget the Doctor?” Rory, you adorable Rory you! ;D

Dance dance Doctor revolution. Woot!

River. Yes, and yes, and yes, off they go adventuring! **happy bounces**

[Lola m]

Jun 26, 2010 13:48:52 GMT -5 beccaelizabeth said:

beccaelizabeth.dreamwidth.org/2021163.html
First review here

second review later after I watch it AGAIN!

Yay!

Liked this:

Speaking of roman, Centurion!Rory!!! Who is a legend in his own right!!! In his own universe, of course. But of course he would be, given those givens. He just stayed with her, refused to leave her. And he had training and all. It's not a flashy kind of save the universe, he doesn't get mary-sued in the process, he's just *devoted*. Like Sam and Frodo, he won't leave.

And this:

And that ending: They both go with him! *happy dance happy dance happy dance* YAAAAAYS!

and

For Amy, *both lives are real*.

And this:

The best bit about this episode is how the whole season led up to it.

And this:

And the best bit is: it wasn't Hubris!Doctor talking himself up. He accepted the possibility that he would be forgotten, that the universe would be remade without him, that he would have never been. He tried to save the TARDIS.

Also? River Song!

[Lola m]

Jul 7, 2010 11:39:54 GMT -5 Riff said:

Right, my dear. This is where it gets really complicated…

Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh!!

[Riff]

Jul 26, 2010 13:25:24 GMT -5 Karen said:

Jul 26, 2010 11:29:37 GMT -5 Riff said:

Sorry - but I think such a euphoric ending means that the Amy Pond costume is out. ;D

Anyway, according to Mr Moffat we will be seeing more of River next season. And we'll learn more about who she is. Hooray! In Moffat we trust!

Hooray indeed!

Part of why I love the River Song character is the fact that I've been in girl-love with Alex Kingston ever since she was on ER.

Ah, she's a sassy lady!

[Riff]

Jul 26, 2010 14:02:19 GMT -5 Rachael said:

Jul 26, 2010 11:26:53 GMT -5 Riff said:

It was good, wasn't it?

I especially liked the Doctor's dancing at the wedding, although bearing in mind what Steven Moffat uses "dancing" as a euphemism for...

Indeed. Are we to infer that there will be some three-way dancing, a la Rose and Jack?

I think not, really.

I think he's referring to River.

*laughs* Quite possibly.

So when she said to him, "You always dance at weddings," I wonder exactly what she meant?

Especially since his response was, "Do I?"

[Riff]

Jul 28, 2010 20:40:36 GMT -5 Lola m said:

Dance dance Doctor revolution. Woot!

River. Yes, and yes, and yes, off they go adventuring! **happy bounces**

Indeed! And interesting stuff is on its way. I'll post some (non-spoilerish) stuff from Mr Moffat shortly.

[Anne, Old S'cubie Cat]

I just watched most of this one (and several previous) as they repeated on BBCA, and a couple of things struck me:

In "Vincent and the Doctor", the Doctor knows that Vincent will kill himself, and there's nothing that can be done except, as he says, to make the pile of good things bigger. It's a huge philosophical change from "Waters of Mars" and the arrogance of the "TimeLord Victorious". The Doctor learns from his mistakes.

This Doctor is much more tactile than the last two - he touches Amy, he holds her when she cries, he kisses her forehead - but it's all nonsexual, like a father, or a grandfather, with a child. It's probably because when he first met Amy, she was a child, and that's how he sees her.

I also really noticed, this time around, how, just before he flies the Pandorica into the TARDIS-explosion, the Doctor speaks to Amy. He talks to her as if he were a very old man at the end of his life, and it's the same as he rewinds back through the timeline - he's telling bed-time stories to a child. I think I also detected a certain wistfulness when he told her that when she wakes up, she'll have a mum and a dad, and she won't need her imaginary friend any more. He doesn't want to die, but he knows it's necessary, and he accepts it. Not that he won't do what he can to leave himself an out...

Matt Smith is really moving and sweet in those scenes, and projecting wise beyond his years.

The DVDs are out next week, we've already preordered, and I expect the Younger Daughter will be very busy the following weekend... I plan to spend at least a day or two watching them all in order, without commercials, when there's nobody around to mock me.

[Sue]

Aug 1, 2010 11:30:30 GMT -5 Riff said:

Jul 28, 2010 20:40:36 GMT -5 Lola m said:

Dance dance Doctor revolution. Woot!

River. Yes, and yes, and yes, off they go adventuring! **happy bounces**

Indeed! And interesting stuff is on its way. I'll post some (non-spoilerish) stuff from Mr Moffat shortly.

WANT!

Believe I found it on the Geronimo thread.