I know I'm late to the party, but.

[beingfacetious]

This episode, you guys.

Attention was paid to Amy Pond as a person; as a girl, as a wife, as a friend, as someone who has been mistreated and someone who has loved and someone who has hurt.* Attention was paid to Rory and his relationship with Amy and what it actually means to him to have become a companion to this Doctor and at this point in his life. Eleven was cold and he tricked Rory and he believed in a version of The Right Thing that other people didn't believe in; he acted like the Doctor.

Things were said that resonated really deeply in me, and things happened that were undeniably important. And that just hasn't happened in so long.

And there were Doctor/Rose hints and Doomsday parallels, and they were handled beautifully, with respect and class and enough to subtlety to also let the moments stand on their own.

I'm not going to lie, I started crying pretty early in this episode and kept crying and cried hard. Because this was my show. This meant something. This is what Doctor Who used to do, what it's supposed to do, to be this gorgeous and this important, to reflect our humanness and connect us deeply to a show that, despite being set in ~Time and Space~, is supposed to be about people. They were people. Finally. And I was so moved and touched and honestly so inspired, and that's cheesy, but whatever. I haven't stopped thinking about it since I watched it about 18 hour ago, and just...I can't remember the last time that was true about an episode of Doctor Who. (I mean in the sense that I've been actually thinking about it, feeling about it, as opposed to still being angry and sad about how much I hated or was disappointed by it. Ha.)

I hate that I've been given this because it's not going to last and I'll be mad again like immediately, but whatever, this episode and The Doctor's Wife and (most of) the Flesh two-parter are enough to keep me from Whoicide. (Ha! Get it?...not that funny?...whatever.)


*Granted, it did not look at Amy as a mother, but that shouldn't have been Tom's job. It should have happened in Gatiss' episode the week before, you know, the one that was all about a strange parenthood. (It REALLY should have happened in LKH, but what's to be said about that; there was no time for it in LKH because of all the other super quality stuff that was happening in that episode, obviously.)


Hi, ElJay. I'm bad at you. Maybe we'll be friends again soon.

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[anonymouscatt.livejournal.com]

Things were said that resonated really deeply in me, and things happened that were undeniably important. And that just hasn't happened in so long.

Yes! This episode was like a breath of fresh air. I'm sad because I know it probably won't last, but I'm glad we got at least a few good episodes in this season.

And the Doctor/Rose parallels! My heart!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_thirty2flavors/]

This episode was SO damn good, and came at a point when I'd basically given up entirely on s6, so it was a nice breath o fresh air, even if in the end the s6 I acknowledge is only two episodes long and is "that time they met the TARDIS" and then "that time Amy got stranded for 36 years and then the Ponds went home because the Doctor is a gigantic douchebag".

This episode was amazing for both Karen and Amy. I love Karen, but I'll be honest and say I didn't really think she had it in her -- but she knocked it out of the park in this episode. The difference between oldAmy and youngAmy was so well-done, making them the same person while also emphasizing the years of pain and loneliness that had turned oldAmy so bitter. (And she was PERFECTLY JUSTIFIED in being bitter so f u people on Tumbr who say otherwise.) And we had slow-mo action scenes of badassery that made a point other than just LOOK GUNS ARE SEXY!!! Amy's skill showed how long she'd had to fight for her life, how accustomed to it she'd become, how hard she'd had to become... rather than just "chicks with guns are hot amirite lol". Anyway, I feel like after the better part of two seasons I FINALLY love Amy, though I'm hoping my extreme love for oldAmy in this episode carries over to youngAmy in the next episode.

shinyopals pointed out that oldAmy in this episode was kind of how the Doctor should be -- old and lonely and hard around the edges, but ultimately willing to do anything for the love of her "companion". Awwww.