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The Power of Three. DW S7.4.
I've been meaning to write something all week, but a combination of work [still] eating me alive and a lack of ability to formulate any sensible/original thoughts have prevented this... Not sure I have any thoughts now, but I want to write something.
There were all these LOVELY things like the Brig's daughter (and the fact that she had fixed UNIT) and the Doctor & Pond-y bonding moments and beautiful and funny scenes and a daft plot and yeah. Lovely stuff. And sad, end of an era stuff. So, two (short) things.
1. All of history is happening at once. Well, not literally, but... At the beginning Amy and Rory talk about how they have two lives, very distinctive and separate: Real Life and Doctor Life. The episode then goes on to blur the distinction almost entirely. The show has always been timey-wimey, but even the audience can't keep up now... (It's reminding me of the 'Previously on Buffy' from 'The Gift', where everything goes faster and faster until it all blends together. You can tell an ending is coming.)
2. End of an era... It struck me the other day that the Ponds have only been on the show a few episodes more than Rose - and I was staggered. Rose's time was about 2 years in show-time, and 2 years in real-time (although she came back, so it's complicated). The Ponds count for three hundred years in show-time (or 24 years knowing the Doctor overall, 10 of which travelling), although 'only' 2-3 years in real time. It feels like forever. Just... the change, the scope, the journeys... They've lived and died and had a child and lost and won and loved and hated and become different people. Tomorrow will be heartbreaking, but our Girl Who Waited and our Last Centurion have had a good run.
Mostly I just want you all to go watch this vid:
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such_heights.
There were all these LOVELY things like the Brig's daughter (and the fact that she had fixed UNIT) and the Doctor & Pond-y bonding moments and beautiful and funny scenes and a daft plot and yeah. Lovely stuff. And sad, end of an era stuff. So, two (short) things.
1. All of history is happening at once. Well, not literally, but... At the beginning Amy and Rory talk about how they have two lives, very distinctive and separate: Real Life and Doctor Life. The episode then goes on to blur the distinction almost entirely. The show has always been timey-wimey, but even the audience can't keep up now... (It's reminding me of the 'Previously on Buffy' from 'The Gift', where everything goes faster and faster until it all blends together. You can tell an ending is coming.)
2. End of an era... It struck me the other day that the Ponds have only been on the show a few episodes more than Rose - and I was staggered. Rose's time was about 2 years in show-time, and 2 years in real-time (although she came back, so it's complicated). The Ponds count for three hundred years in show-time (or 24 years knowing the Doctor overall, 10 of which travelling), although 'only' 2-3 years in real time. It feels like forever. Just... the change, the scope, the journeys... They've lived and died and had a child and lost and won and loved and hated and become different people. Tomorrow will be heartbreaking, but our Girl Who Waited and our Last Centurion have had a good run.
Mostly I just want you all to go watch this vid:
Sunday by
such_heights.
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That is SO crazy. And yeah, the timey-wimey-ness - especially with the implication things are going backwards, with the Henry VIII stuff - is crazy. I like your The Gift analogy.
POOOONDS. I am going to be so so sad when they go. I'm hoping it will be a fairy-tale sort of ending - not in the happy-ever-after sense so much as the genre-appropriate sense. Growing up and going back into the real world with their new magical knowledge.
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IKR? The... scale is so different. I didn't want to sound as if I was putting Rose down (I am very fond of Rose), but S2 f.ex. is her and the Doctor frolicking around the universe having fun... They don't always succeed, but the scope is incomparable.
And yeah, the timey-wimey-ness - especially with the implication things are going backwards, with the Henry VIII stuff - is crazy. I like your The Gift analogy.
It took me a while to work out what it reminded me of, and was very happy when I managed to pin it down. :)
POOOONDS. I am going to be so so sad when they go. I'm hoping it will be a fairy-tale sort of ending - not in the happy-ever-after sense so much as the genre-appropriate sense. Growing up and going back into the real world with their new magical knowledge.
I'm sure it'll be fairy tale, but I don't know *how* - they've already rejected simply 'going back to the real world as grownups' (they were nearly there, and then Brian talked them out of it), so I expect something... Different. Possibly along the lines of Rose, to be honest, except lost in Time, rather than another universe. That's how I've vaguely been imagining it in my mind at least.
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*SOBS*
I want my PONDS!!
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Rory was there for 2000+ years... *CLINGS* (It's not really hit me yet. My WONDERFUL PONDS!)
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Tomorrow will be heartbreaking, but our Girl Who Waited and our Last Centurion have had a good run.
Right now, that's all that's consoling me. I just want them to have a happy ending. That's not too much to ask for, is it?
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*many many hugs*
Right now, that's all that's consoling me. I just want them to have a happy ending. That's not too much to ask for, is it?
No it isn't. Moffat better deliver.
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Wait, don't the Ponds count for about 2134 years, if we count aborted Pandorica timelines? :)
I'm extremely curious and a little apprehensive about tomorrow. I hope it is a good ep. I've not watched anything except the "Next time" trailer. I only have to stay unspoiled for a few more hours...
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Have you added Amy's 30 years from TGWW to that? SO MUCH STORY OMG!
I'm extremely curious and a little apprehensive about tomorrow. I hope it is a good ep. I've not watched anything except the "Next time" trailer. I only have to stay unspoiled for a few more hours...
You and me both!
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My friend K: "This is the only show on TV at the moment that I really care about".
There was much bitter discussion as to why they're splitting the season in half-- I think it's to maximize their newsworthyness, but K's wife C is convinced it's just because the PTB are evil, cruel, and want to make us poor viewers suffer.
I've liked the Ponds much more this year than last, but I'm looking forward to seeing the new companion. I'm partially just curious to see how they resolve the Dalek thing though!
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Not lame. Very sensible.
There was much bitter discussion as to why they're splitting the season in half-- I think it's to maximize their newsworthyness, but K's wife C is convinced it's just because the PTB are evil, cruel, and want to make us poor viewers suffer.
A combination, probably. Plus, it emphasizes the Ponds and makes their exit linger.
I've liked the Ponds much more this year than last, but I'm looking forward to seeing the new companion. I'm partially just curious to see how they resolve the Dalek thing though!
Oh yes. Although I have a theory - not about the Dalek thing, about who Oswin IS! :)
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There's also the fact that Moffat thinks that Doctor Who is the sort of show that should run in the winter, when it's dark and cold outside and cozy inside
and people have an excuse to cling together when he's just invented, I don't know, terrifying sand.I don't know if that's a ratings thing or a nostalgia thing on his part.no subject
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Even after all this time, I don't feel much of a connection to the Ponds. It's just the way SM writes character. I dislike Amy - that's never changed - I quite like Rory. So it's very strange to be awaiting the big goodbye - a bit of a relief that, for the first time, we're losing someone I don't care about all that much (though of course I appreciate it's tough on the Doctor). I don't think I could survive another Doomsday or EOT.
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(Once it's all over, and I've posted my thoughts & my Oswin theory, I shall get back to my Ten poetry meta. I think you'll like it.)
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I hope so too. If nothing else, I'm sure they'll have an emotionally fitting ending with lots of closure. (Why yes, I'm still traumatised by CoE. Incredible TV, but damn, I never want anything like it again.) Moffat is good at [and likes writing] happy endings though, so I'm crossing my fingers like mad!