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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:
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Rory was there for 2000+ years... *CLINGS* (It's not really hit me yet. My WONDERFUL PONDS!)