Doctor Who 6x02, "Day of the Moon"

[starlady]

So I'm watching Doctor Who now! And it's awesome! No one is surprised.

Me: "The Hoover Dam? Seriously?"
Roommate: "Well, they have a budget now!"
Me: "I suppose, since they haven't gone to America at all for the past forty years, they're trying to hit all the highlights." 
Roommate: "Yes, since they spent a lot of the last forty years in Wales, for their sins."

It was funnier at the time.

Things I was right about: Amy not actually being pregnant, except now she is! Quantum pregnancy! Also about Delaware wanting to marry a (black) man. Delaware, you are awesome! You can join the TARDIS any time.

Other things: Nixon ex machina! Also, I sort of don't feel like the show managed to completely erase the sympathy I had for Nixon unwillingly from the first part of the last episode, not even with the David Frost and Tricky Dicky references. Also, now we know why the taping. No bets on what the missing 18 minutes were talking about.

The orphanage was about as creepy as I remember The X-Files being, which is both a tribute and a, well, I can't really think how the show could be more X-Files at the moment, next week's Pirates of the Caribbean episode notwithstanding. We still haven't resolved the Doctor's death: I'm inclined to give my "we're in a third time loop that subsumes the other two!" theory more weight thanks to that. And what is with this Silence Will Fall business? And the Silence doing Amy honor? Yes, obviously, there's still a lot here to be unpacked.

Also, Rory! And River! They are both quite hot in their period clothes, and I could watch River Song, AKA Indiana Jones' daughter, shoot aliens all day.

At this point I wouldn't be surprised if Time Girl is somehow Amy's daughter, though I wouldn't be surprised if she isn't, for some value of 'isn't.' I also feel like the spacesuit is going to regenerate and break out of the TARDIS at some point. Remember that in 200 years the Doctor will say that it's time for him to stop running. In conclusion: this was a skirmish, not the war.

Comments

[juniperphoenix]

You win the prize for best cut text. :D

[starlady]

Heh. Billy Joel FTW! I was obsessed with that song as a very young child.

[oliviacirce]

...mostly unrelated, but something about the way you italicized stop running made me suddenly want an Eleven and team vid to Sing. To be fair, I want all the Danger Days vids in the world, but...huh. Keep running!

[starlady]

There are several good vids waiting to be made here. At least one of them is to Radiohead or Thom Yorke, but Danger Days could work too!

[(Anonymous)]

For as borderline anvilicious as River's line was, her realization that she'd just had her last kiss (and it wasn't particularly appreciated) got to me more than anything else in the episode.

I felt like on the whole there were far too many gotcha moments between part one and part two. Everything surrounding "I'm glad I missed" was totally unnecessary, imo. I like twisty plots, but this one started to feel like cheating.

[starlady]

Yeah, River's story actually gets more painful the further along it goes.

For my taste, I thought they did a nice job of resolving enough threads while keeping enough dangling. The first half of the episode in particular moved at a really fast clip, but in comparison with, say, The X-Files, I actually liked that, at least as a change of pace.

[recessional]

Also about Delaware wanting to marry a (black) man. Delaware, you are awesome!

The thing I loved the most? That the beginning clearly indicates that Delaware got to live long enough to be the old man who gave them the gasoline.

[starlady]

Yes, exactly!

I admit, I spent a few minutes trying to block out a fic where the Doctor shows up at Canton and his partner's wedding in 2008.

[recessional]

Someone wrote one. :D Although I think she set it in 2003.

[starlady]

I just read that! Hooray for the fannish hive-mind, I say. :D

[nokiirat.livejournal.com]

I liked the Silence. The start of this season held my attention much more than it had throughout last season. But I think we won't see the resolution to the astronaut suit and daughter until the end of the season. :/

Since I like Rory, I'm a little wary of Amy's love confession/nonconfession. :P

[starlady38.livejournal.com]

Rory is awesome! And I'm sure it'll be a good long while before Time Girl and the spacesuit issue are resolved. Which I am okay with on most levels. :P

[arha-chan.livejournal.com]

You are watching doctor who!? YAY! =D I'm so glad I watched the five previous seasons this summer haha. (I sadly couldn't watch any Classic Who yet)

So looking foward to your reviews!!

[starlady38.livejournal.com]

Isn't it great? I haven't seen any other Who yet really, but I'm hoping to watch New Who this summer, to catch up. :D