So going into the episode I, like everyone else in the world, knew that one of the four was supposed to die. My hope was River Song. I just don't have an emotional connection to her like I do with the others. My prediction was Amy. We know River dies in the Library (yes, "time can be rewritten," but doing so would negate basically everything meaningful about those episodes), Rory died twice last season so that's getting a little old, and they couldn't possibly kill off the Doctor.
So yeah, I was wrong. When he started regenerating I had a freak out moment of "HOW ON EARTH DID THEY KEEP THIS SECRET?!" and then there was the third shot and I didn't even know how to deal with that. Obviously it has to get undone because they can't just end the show, but still. There's always that nagging little possibility that maybe I'm wrong on this one and maybe this is going to be the end.
So, stating the obvious: Utah is very pretty.
The Silence are really fucking creepy. Like, actually the creepiest aliens that have been on the show. So, so, so super creepy.
How are there tunnels under the entire Earth that no one knew about? How is that even possible? Why is the TARDIS-thing from "The Lodger" (or one similar to it) underground in some random place in Florida? QUESTIONS, I HAS THEM.
Steven Moffat really likes to write stories that involve: disembodied voices, things in space suits, small children, time paradoxes, the creepiest aliens, aliens with associated catchphrases (are you my mommy?, don't blink, count the shadows, look behind you), and really mean cliffhangers.
Why is Amy pregnant? Erm, by which I mean, why does she ALL OF A SUDDEN really need to tell the Doctor that she's pregnant RIGHT AWAY? That seems fishy. And I just have a hard time believing she would let herself get pregnant. Given that she seems pretty sure that the Doctor is going to come back for them, I feel like she's still ready for adventure and not ready to settle into the comfortable family life that Rory wants for them, and which I suspect she wants too but just not yet. Also, if she is pregnant, I don't think Rory knows, because I don't think he would have let her run off with the Doctor this time if she was, or at the very least he would be constantly checking to make sure she was okay. But apparently it's been said that her pregnancy is an important part of the story line, so I guess there's something more to it than "the Silence made her think she was pregnant."
I'm interested in how things that happen in this episode were foreshadowed last season - and I wonder whether that foreshadowing was intentional. I mean, obviously there was the Silence, and the TARDIS-thing. Then there was Amy's pregnancy in "Amy's Choice." I also can't help but wonder about The Sarah Jane Adventures episodes "Death of the Doctor" are somehow related (not as in 'explain the story' but as in 'foreshadowing' like with the pregnancy thing), but I haven't seen them, so I don't really know.
I'm also interested whether/to what extent the episodes of this season/the events of this episode will be related to the exploding TARDIS? They've got to explain that at some point. Knowing this show/Moffat, everything will probably be one big intricately-woven interconnected puzzle-event-thingy.
Everyone and their dog is speculating about how River is the space-suited figure who kills the Doctor/River is Amy's child/the child in the space suit is Amy's child/the events here are an essential part of the mystery of River Song, but I can't help but wonder if they're unrelated... or as unrelated as anything can get in this show.
Another thing: someone writing somewhere else, I've lost the link unfortunately, mentioned that they were rewatching last season after this episode to look for clues, and they came across a few instances in "The Lodger" where Amy might have seen the Silence (around 14:00 and 22:00). I checked them out and I am inclined to agree. It seems a little unlikely that they managed to hide out on the TARDIS, but I guess since we haven't seen much of it, I always forget that it's actually way huger than we ever see. On the other hand, "The Lodger" is the episode that is most obviously related to this one, and it was the one that made the least sense to me, so throwing in some Silence doesn't seem too far out of the realm of possibility.
ALSO. I'm really suspicious of older-Doctor-who-dies. Where is... everything? Why is he driving a car? The TARDIS is nowhere to be seen, nor is his sonic screwdriver. That, combined with his adventures through history, lead me to suspect he's been taking the slow path for some reason. What is that reason?
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