Previous episode: The Pandorica Opens.
This was… there are no words. I.. you.. now.. finally… argh! See, there are no words! Well, almost no words, because I’m determined to write the “happy-happy-happy!” review this episode deserves.
If you haven’t seen the episode yet, don’t click the jump, ’cause there will be spoilers. Lots and lots of spoilers. Continue reading
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Images: BBC and Cracktor Who
So. Spoilers. Little Amelia’s going to make an important appearance, the Doctor’s got to somehow manage to get himself back into the action, River somehow survives ‘TARDIS bang bang’.
All in all, these pics aren’t that spoiler-y, but what’s reeally interesting: Is that Dalek set in stone? The cover of the DW Magazine suggests that that’s the case. Hm. Seeing as we’re stuck in Greek mythology already, why not bring back Medusa? The Doctor already made a bit of fun of a statue of Perseus, who had the pleasure of beheading the woman with the snake-y hair, when he visited the Musée d’Orsay together with Amy and Vincent; that might be an idea. Or.. just.. not.
Anyway: my dearest fellow Whovian M. suggested that the voice whispering “Silence will fall” could be Dalek CAAN, or maybe Davros–didn’t these guys kick the bucket in Journey’s End, though? Or am I getting things confused again? In any case, I think it might be the right voice, but I can’t be sure. Anyone else here think that’s possible? Could the Daleks be pretending to be allies, but cheating everyone else on the way again? Could it all, for the fourth time in the new series, be a Dalek conspiracy?
What made me choke back a sob:
Previous episode: The Lodger.
Oh. My. God. Guess who?
This was magnificent. The twists, the turns, the tragedy. Everything. Steven Moffat, I bloody love you. At the same time: Curse you, Moffat! One, for nearly giving me a heart attack, two, for making me sob into my dinner, and three, for the most awesome cliffhanger I’ve seen in.. well, ever. Rory’s back! He’s back because he’s a part of Amy’s history, and because of that dress-uppy photo in Amy’s Roman Britain he’s linked to the cover story—and he’s an Auton, supplied by the Nestene Consciousness. And he shoots Amy. Great. And the director, Toby Haynes, has called this “the death of the Doctor as we know him.” Lovely.
The Doctor: “The Pandorica…”—River: “More than just a fairy tale.” Continue reading
This is potentially very spoiler-y. So don’t jump to the 2nd page unless you know what you’re doing.
There was a goblin. Or a trickster, or a warrior. A nameless, terrible thing, soaked in the blood of a billion galaxies. Nothing could stop it, or hold it, or reason with it — one day it would just drop out of the sky and tear down your world.
That’s what’s in the Pandorica. And Dalek, Sontaran, Cybermen, Slitheen and God knows who else’s fleets are gathering to witness its opening — and probably kill what’s in it, no questions asked. And what would all of them be so damn afraid of?
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The Doctor. Seriously, who else? The Oncoming Storm, the Destroyer of Worlds, the guy who has a lot of blood on his hands, even the blood of his own people, the madman who just drops out of the sky in his TARDIS and turns your world upside down until you hardly recognize it anymore — or yourself, for that matter. The guy you can rarely stop, rarely talk sense into.
And the fact that the Doctor narrates this (whether he cited from his own knowledge or from a text, we don’t know yet, so interpretation hinges on that a bit) could be an indicator that this is a testimony of his own dark side, of the Dream Lord, who promised he wouldn’t just stop to haunt the Doctor.
The thing is: when have they — and who exactly are they? — thrown him in there, which regeneration of himself is that, and how bad would it be for the two of them to meet? It is certain that the TARDIS is going to be destroyed and the Doctor will vanish, but what plan does he have to get [it] back?
The other thing is: if it’s not the Doctor — then what is it? What could be so terrifying that we haven’t met yet?
That’s my Holy Crap Thought of the day.
So, I was looking at Blogtor Who’s spoiler section for the series finale, and what I found had me a little flummoxed:
CAREFUL: Spoiler-y pic follows–don’t continue after the jump unless you really want to. Continue reading
