Angels Take Manhattan
Oct. 6th, 2012 03:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tardis_stowawayThat was better than a lot of recent episodes written by Moffat, but it still had some problems. I give it one thumb mostly up.
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Goodbye, Ponds. The presence of Weeping Angels combined with Moffat's insistence that there would be real death made the overall shape of their exit pretty much inevitable, but the turns along the way were still worth watching. I got a little choked up, but not quite to the point of tears.
-Rory died THREE TIMES in that episode. When I realized that, I had a moment of inappropriate laughter. I am really glad they found a way to undo his dying in the Weeping Angel hotel after a lifetime alone, because that was horrific.
-Speaking of which, the angels' hotel/factory farm place was highly creepy. I thought the baby angels were unnecessary, but whatever.
-The Statue of Liberty is not made of stone! Her outer skin is copper. NOT A FEASIBLE WEEPING ANGEL. Also, how the heck did she get off her island and into the city? She's not big enough to make it in one stride, and she has no wings. Even if she can walk under water she should have arrived dripping wet. Ah well, logic and Doctor Who don't get along well. It was a pretty fun moment to see her enormous face looming over the hotel.
-I have this mental image of Moffat, backlit by sparks, shouting "the laws of time are mine, and they will obey me!" like crazypants Ten. He definitely seems to change the rules of time travel to suit the needs of each individual episode. I try not to get too worked up about it. Doctor Who in general is highly inconsistent about its time travel rules, and I am willing to handwave that there are complications that our ape brains just don't get for why different rules apply in different situations. But still, why should reading something in a book make it inevitable? River/Melody Malone could have written a fictionalized account of events, for crying out loud! Even the headstone could have been faked.
-The inconsistency I am kind of worked up about is Eleven using his regeneration energy to heal River. Where the hell did that ability come from? Why have we never seen it before? Will there be consequences when it comes time for him to regenerate for real?
-I did like that River is back up to Professor status in this ep. Good for her. Her relationship with the Doctor is really not healthy, with her insistence on not showing weakness or letting him see her age, but for this episode I found it interestingly messed up.
-Really glad Amy told the Doctor to not travel alone. He needs that. I also liked the use of her afterword in River's book to let her narrate her own departure. I would have liked to at least catch a glimpse of her life with Rory in the past.
-Unlike Asylum of the Daleks and most of Moffat's S6 episodes, I thought like this one had good pacing and contained about the right amount of story. That was a pleasant change.
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Goodbye, Ponds. The presence of Weeping Angels combined with Moffat's insistence that there would be real death made the overall shape of their exit pretty much inevitable, but the turns along the way were still worth watching. I got a little choked up, but not quite to the point of tears.
-Rory died THREE TIMES in that episode. When I realized that, I had a moment of inappropriate laughter. I am really glad they found a way to undo his dying in the Weeping Angel hotel after a lifetime alone, because that was horrific.
-Speaking of which, the angels' hotel/factory farm place was highly creepy. I thought the baby angels were unnecessary, but whatever.
-The Statue of Liberty is not made of stone! Her outer skin is copper. NOT A FEASIBLE WEEPING ANGEL. Also, how the heck did she get off her island and into the city? She's not big enough to make it in one stride, and she has no wings. Even if she can walk under water she should have arrived dripping wet. Ah well, logic and Doctor Who don't get along well. It was a pretty fun moment to see her enormous face looming over the hotel.
-I have this mental image of Moffat, backlit by sparks, shouting "the laws of time are mine, and they will obey me!" like crazypants Ten. He definitely seems to change the rules of time travel to suit the needs of each individual episode. I try not to get too worked up about it. Doctor Who in general is highly inconsistent about its time travel rules, and I am willing to handwave that there are complications that our ape brains just don't get for why different rules apply in different situations. But still, why should reading something in a book make it inevitable? River/Melody Malone could have written a fictionalized account of events, for crying out loud! Even the headstone could have been faked.
-The inconsistency I am kind of worked up about is Eleven using his regeneration energy to heal River. Where the hell did that ability come from? Why have we never seen it before? Will there be consequences when it comes time for him to regenerate for real?
-I did like that River is back up to Professor status in this ep. Good for her. Her relationship with the Doctor is really not healthy, with her insistence on not showing weakness or letting him see her age, but for this episode I found it interestingly messed up.
-Really glad Amy told the Doctor to not travel alone. He needs that. I also liked the use of her afterword in River's book to let her narrate her own departure. I would have liked to at least catch a glimpse of her life with Rory in the past.
-Unlike Asylum of the Daleks and most of Moffat's S6 episodes, I thought like this one had good pacing and contained about the right amount of story. That was a pleasant change.
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Date: 2012-10-08 09:36 pm (UTC)