"I hate good wizards in fairytales. They always turn out to be [the Doctor]."

[locker_monster]

Hmm... I was wondering if they would try to top "The End of Time" with this finale. That's the problem with Doctor Who finales. They're always getting progressively bigger and bigger. Stakes are raised, the universe is threatened, etc. I mean, you can't have the season ending on the Doctor saving Earth from, I dunno, space mould.

So how do you top Time Lords? Well, you bring back a whole boat load of the Doctor's enemies. The Next Time trailer sort of ruined that reveal, but I wasn't expecting the Doctor's enemies to form an alliance. You rarely see any of them sharing the screen so I really wasn't thinking they would be working together, let alone wanting to throw the Doctor into the Pandorica. Though, it's about time all of these villains finally clued in and thought, "Gee, we can never defeat the Doctor on our own. Maybe we should work together!" We'll see how this works out. Maybe this alliance will break down? But it's an interesting notion, locking up the Doctor to save the universe. He does all of this brilliant stuff, from our point of view, but from another person's point of view, the Doctor could be doing all sorts of horrible things. That little speech the Doctor has about what's in the Pandorica, the worst of the worst, can totally be applied to him.

I'm not sure I totally get everything. So it's the TARDIS exploding that causes the Cracks and through those Cracks, there was just silence. Naturally, this freaked people out and we get people like the space fish trying to flee it. So, seeing that it's the TARDIS that causes the end of the universe, all these aliens band together to lock up the Doctor, and thus, saving the day. Hmm, that's probably why everyone but the Doctor know about the Pandorica. Okay, that makes sense. But what causes the TARDIS to explode in the first place? If everyone believed caging the Doctor would save the day, why the heck is the TARDIS going all kablooey around River?

Now, it seems obvious the Doctor will get out. We can't spend the finale just watching Daleks, Cybermen, Autons, Judoon, and whoever else celebrating that they've saved the universe and finally gotten rid of the Time Lord menace. And we know River survives, since when we met her in "The Time of Angels", it happened after this adventure. Unless time gets re-written, which seems plausible, since Amy is supposedly dead. Are we going to end up with someone hitting a big ol' reset button?

But Rory! Roman Rory! Okay Auton Roman Rory, but he still seems like Rory. He can remember everything that happened. I hope they explain this further. Rory was erased from time but he still exists. Did he replace a random Roman when he fell through the Crack? I'm expecting fic now with Roman Rory. He has that line, saying he thought his life with the Doctor and Amy might be a dream. And I just loved the Doctor's reaction. At first I thought he wasn't going to acknowledge Rory's return at all, but then you hear him drop the guns and he walks back into the room. It wasn't over the top and that made it even funnier. And then Amy gets to remember but then Auton Roman Rory shoots her in the gut. So is real Rory locked up somewhere, because Autons never kill the real person they're replacing.

Random: Ooh, they tied everything together, sorta. Vincent, and Churchill, and Liz 10. We finally got that Van Gogh painting of the TARDIS; too bad it was of the TARDIS exploding. But it was neat how everything was connected. That's a wonderful use of time. It's not liner in the Doctor's world. The past can affect the future and the future can bleed back into the past. And I do believe this was the best line of the episode: "Look at me! I'm a target!" Oh, Doctor, sometimes you're so awesome. Because, come on, not every plan of his has to be super complicated. Also, the thumbs up to Amy in the middle of mortal peril? "You might die! Thumbs up!" And the Doctor talking his way out of trouble in the middle of Stonehenge, very him.

This is just the first part, so I'll have to see the second part before I decide if this story was great or not. Come on, Doctor Who, don't let me down!

Comments

[quean-of-swords.livejournal.com]

So is real Rory locked up somewhere, because Autons never kill the real person they're replacing.

That's what I'm hoping. *wibbles* Roooooooooooooorrrrrrrrrrrry.... D: He's died, what three, four times? (1st dream, 2nd dream, dead by lizard guns, dead from Universe Splode. Am I missing anything there?) Moffat really likes to kill him. :(

Oh, and Roman Rory fic? I am all about that. *squees*

[locker-monster.livejournal.com]

Four deaths. That sounds about right. Jeez, and Rory's only been around for twelve episodes. That has to be a new record.

It's been pointed out to me that Roman Rory is just part of the scenario created from Amy's mind, so he's not really Rory, but then if he wasn't really Rory, how does he remember everything? I hope something happens in the finale that allows time to be re-written. That is one retcon I would buy.

[quean-of-swords.livejournal.com]

I not only want Rory to survive, but I want him to survive with the Roman memories so that we can have super-awesome Roman Rory forever. ^_^

[locker-monster.livejournal.com]

Now that would be awesome. It'd be like Xander keeping his solder memories on Buffy. I can totally picture Rory going all bad-ass Roman soldier when trouble pops up. :-)

[beachkid.livejournal.com]

i think [we're supposed to think, at any rate] rory is there because they used amy's brainspace to create the pandorica scenario. and some part of her remembers even if he was never there and if he was never there then how oh god my head etc.

[locker-monster.livejournal.com]

The thing I don't get is if Rory is part of Amy's memory then how come Rory can remember everything about travelling with the Doctor? He should just be a random Roman soldier who looks like Rory. But I guess if that happened, we wouldn't have seen their reunion and got the angst.