I meant to post this days ago, but I've been schooling and packing and moving and cleaning and unpacking, and so I haven't had time to get it written up.
"The Vampires of Venice" - Fantastic episode. Instalove for Rory. Interesting parallel of Amy/Rory/Doctor compared to the earlier situation of Rose/Mickey/Doctor. Doctor has grown up and learned to deal with these situations, even if only to protect himself from getting hurt again. I was also interested that he was being propositioned by someone going by the name of Rosanna - but maybe I just read too much into these things. Although his reaction there also fits with the Doctor growing up. He turns her down, seemingly, on the basis of their differing species ('Think of the children'), something that never seemed to be an issue with Rose. Wow, I can really make anything about Rose. Main point of this episode: I love Rory.
"Amy's Choice" - Another fantastic episode. This one was a total mindfuck, obviously. I would like to rewatch this one. I think it would be really interesting to analyze it after knowing the 'big reveal' at the end of the episode, you know?
"The Hungry Earth"/"Cold Blood" - I'm not sure I've ever hated a character on this or any show as much as I did Ambrose. Ugh. I was actually in tears when Amy and Nasreen were negotiating with Eldane because you knew everything had already gone wrong on the surface and their beautiful plans were never going to work out. Also, Nasreen/Tony was the cutest thing. But Rory, oh Rory... I mean I knew he came back because I'd already seen "The Big Bang" but still... his death, AGAIN, was heartbreaking.
"Vincent and the Doctor" - This was just downright heart-warming. I'm not sure I have that much to say about it. Vincent broke my heart, and the poor blind Krafayis broke my heart and poor Amy not understanding why the Doctor was being so nice to her really broke my heart. I bawled my eyes out at the ending of this.
"The Lodger" - I really liked this episode, although I felt like I really didn't understand a lot of the major plot points. Erm, how did Amy get trapped in the TARDIS again? Why was the Doctor wearing an earpiece allowing them to communicate if he didn't know they were going to get separated? Why was there a TARDIS-thing hanging out there? Lots of confusion, basically. It was a really funny episode, though, seeing the Doctor trying to be a normal person. This was the one that won me over for Matt Smith. Also, Craig and Sophie were great characters.
"The Pandorica Opens"/"The Big Bang" - The first half of this two-parter was such a psyche-out. The Doctor was so astounded and confused about what could possibly be in the Pandorica that I couldn't help but share his sentiments, but the second the truth was revealed... well, duh, what else could it possibly? I was kicking myself for not realizing it (I had seen "The Big Bang" before, so I actually even knew, but it was long enough ago [and before I really started paying attention to the show] that I'd forgotten that part). Anyway. So my main thoughts about this episode are:
1) How did River know to take her diary to the wedding? She would have had to remember the Doctor, which means she could have just brought him back herself which means she wouldn't have had to remind Amy. Unless of course it was because she couldn't bring back the Doctor she remembered because he was an older Doctor that wasn't appropriate to the time line he needed to be brought back in or something. But still, how did River remember? Maybe the Doctor is so connected to her life that she couldn't possibly forget him...
2) How did Rory become a plastic Roman? I have a hard time believing the 'miracle' explanation...
3) Who/what blew up the TARDIS and why? I assume this will be explained this season, but I'd think the Doctor would try a little harder to figure it out soon, rather than running off taking Amy and Rory on honeymoon adventures all over the place...
"A Christmas Carol" - I love this episode. It is just the best. I'd seen it when it first aired, and I loved it then and I loved it now and I suspect I will always love it. So brilliant and magical. So good. So much love. Random unimportant thought on a minor detail: line near the end where old Kazran is debating whether or not to use up his last day with Abigail, and he says something to the Doctor about "one last day with your beloved" and Doctor is all *pouty-face* and I, as you can probably guess, assumed he was thinking of Rose, but several other blogs I've read on the subject assumed he was thinking about River and how he lost her before she even became his beloved and my immediate reaction was to assume they were over-eager about River, but on further consideration, maybe I'm just holding onto Rose too much. I don't know.
"Space"/"Time" - These were cute and fun, but not really logical. The TARDIS just happened to drift ahead in the time stream or whatever the explanation was for it? Hmmm. I would like to know, though, what it was that Amy had to talk to the Doctor about that was so important before she got distracted by Rory... I wonder if it has anything to do with her big revelation to him in the most recent episode?
Okay that's finally it. I have seen "The Impossible Astronaut" and I will be posting about it soon, but I don't want to overblog today because I have quite a bit to say about it, and I want to write about last week's Glee before the new one tomorrow, so the next Who post will probably be up Wednesday or later.
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