I enjoyed the episode, but yeah, the last third or so of the episode really ... didn't work. After the severe dip in quality mid-season I'm just glad this was an episode I could enjoy at all. (Aside from the PoC being the only ones to die ...)
I agree that Amy being a perfume entrepreneur/model was a little ... off. It's not that it doesn't fit the character or that it's demeaning or anything, but at this point I can't not notice and be unsettled by the show drawing attention to Amy's looks because I'm far too aware of Moffat's rather creepy comments about both Amy and Karen Gillan's attractiveness. On the other hand, the parallels between Amy/Rory and Peter/MJ become ever more amusing, so there is that.
The Cybermat is a classic Cyber-subsidiary dating from Tomb of the Cybermen, actually! I was pleased to see it. I assume the organic mouth was a hint to the "spare parts" nature of this Cyberinvasion -- they didn't have the parts so they used leftover bits of the people they assimilated (wait, that's the Borg ... whatever).
Closing Time is definitely supposed to be 200 years on the Doctor's timeline after The God Complex, though I'm not really sure why the Doctor needs to go die right that moment. Maybe he can feel the timelines closing in on him or something.
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I agree that Amy being a perfume entrepreneur/model was a little ... off. It's not that it doesn't fit the character or that it's demeaning or anything, but at this point I can't not notice and be unsettled by the show drawing attention to Amy's looks because I'm far too aware of Moffat's rather creepy comments about both Amy and Karen Gillan's attractiveness. On the other hand, the parallels between Amy/Rory and Peter/MJ become ever more amusing, so there is that.
The Cybermat is a classic Cyber-subsidiary dating from Tomb of the Cybermen, actually! I was pleased to see it. I assume the organic mouth was a hint to the "spare parts" nature of this Cyberinvasion -- they didn't have the parts so they used leftover bits of the people they assimilated (wait, that's the Borg ... whatever).
Closing Time is definitely supposed to be 200 years on the Doctor's timeline after The God Complex, though I'm not really sure why the Doctor needs to go die right that moment. Maybe he can feel the timelines closing in on him or something.