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 Flesh and Stone:

Previously on Doctor Who: River! Follow that ship! Ship crashed! Scary scary angels! Amy’s eyes are affected by the Angels! Army Clerics on a mission to capture and neutralize the Angel! All the statues are Angels, and they’re absorbing the radiation and coming alive! Jump when he gives the signal! *shoots the gravity globe*

*title sequence I’m ignoring for now*

They jumped onto the ceiling. *shudders* I’m gonna try not to think about that for now, ok? The statues are morphing into their Angel forms now, because of the radiation. (So, the Angels are like early superheroes, radiation makes them powerful?)

They get inside the ship, but then a door seals them inside. It’s a dead end. Oh, and if the gravity fails they plunge to their deaths.
And then the Angels get inside. It’s pretty impressive, if you think about it, how Steven Moffat has managed to make something impossibly slow impossibly SCARY. With the ‘they can move in the dark’ clause added, it’s like a twisted game of Red Light, Green Light.
The Doctor’s gonna have to turn off the lights again. The Bishop and River have a whispered ‘Do you trust him? / I trust him / I’m gonna tell him if we lose anymore Red Shirts’ standoff that River seems to lose because she’s got no cards to play at the moment. The clerics fire continuously as soon as the lights go down but it isn’t apparent how much good that’s doing to stone monsters. The gang gets the door open, get through, and then slam it shut. They go through another door and into a room. Bishop magnetizes the door, but the wheel still turns. He’s scared. The Doctor thanks him for slowing them down giving him time, though.

For some reason Amy is counting down from ten. Is Mechakara going to show up?

The Doctor pulls open a wall to reveal “an oxygen factory.” Which means a ginormous forest inside a spaceship. BADASS. Zelda approves!
“A forest in a bottle, on a spaceship, in a maze, have I impressed you yet, Amy Pond?”
Yeppers!

Angel Bob calls. The Doctor makes him say “comfy chairs.” Lol. Then a terrible sound happens, because “the Angels are laughing.” Then the crack from Amy’s wall shows up, bright and big and SCARY. The Doctor investigates and sends everyone else into the woods. He sonics it and deems it “extremely very not good.” Then the Angels show up. One catches him. YIPES!

The Angels get excited about the crack in the wall, the Doctor yammers about how they can’t feed on it because it’s “the fire of the end of the universe,” and then flees because they let him talk, leaving his jacket dangling from one of their hands. Yeek.

Amy’s going strange … r. River banters angrily with the Bishop about how she love/hates the Doctor and realizes that he’s standing behind her, Amy is dying and Eleven is blunt.
They figure out what we’ve all figured out: there’s an Angel in her head. Steven Moffat is the Lord of Nightmare Fuel.
The Doctor phones Angel Bob and asks why they’re making her count. “To scare her.” Why? “For fun.” *shudders*
At the last second they figure out that they can stop the Angel in her brain by shutting her eyes. Amy stabilizes. *slumps in relief*

If Amy opens her eyes she will die. Know what this calls for? BLINDFOLD! (Oh come on, it’s not purely motivated by my kinky brain, that would help her in case she tripped or heard a noise from accidentally opening her eyes! Better yet: tape AND a blindfold!) The Doctor tells the Bishop and the clerics to stay and guard Amy, and if anything happens to her he’ll hold them all “personally responsible. Twice.” Kinky. *kicks self*

Bishop insists on going along, because “wherever Doctor Song goes, I go.” Eleven pauses and asks if they’re “engaged or something.” Bishop says yeah, they kinda are. The Doctor finally realizes that something isn’t quite right here. He and Amy have a touching moment that, to me, seems completely chaste and gorgeous, rather like a father and daughter. He kisses her forehead again and leaves with River and the Bishop.

The Doctor asks River how she can be “engaged, in a manner of speaking” and she says she’s “a sucker for a man in a uniform” but sadly she forgot that her classy femme fatale quips annoy Bishop and Bishop spills the beans: he released River from “a Stormcage Containment Facility” four days ago and she’s in his custody until the mission is over and she’s earned her pardon. The look on River’s face is PRICELESS, and it’s clear that Bishop’s been wanting to do that for a while. Heh.

Back with Amy and the clerics, the Angels begin attacking the trees. (Wow, that’s a sentence that reeks of “What Do You Mean It Wasn’t Made On Drugs?”) The lights are going out, again, some more. (Man, what it is with River episodes and the LIGHTS going out all the time? Lady’s a walking power-outage!)
An incredibly bright light shows up, scaring off the Angels. Some of the Clerics run towards it to investigate.

The Doctor’s trying to puzzle out the arc-words already, babbling about how the duck pond didn’t have any ducks and Amy didn’t remember the Daleks and time can run out and stuff. It’ll all make sense later. Or not. Depends, RTD’s season finales were never really satisfying to me, will the Moff’s be any different?

Amy peeks at the glowing thing. It’s the same shape as the crack in her wall. Weird. Another Cleric goes to check it out. Amy asks why they aren’t waiting for the other two to come back. Remaining cleric doesn’t remember the other two. *shudders*

An Angel nabs the Bishop while the Doctor was trying to figure out how time can be rewritten and how nobody remembers the steampunk extravaganza that was the Christmas Special two years ago.

Now Cleric Dude can’t even remember the last guy. It’s really, really freaky. He leaves Amy to go check out the light despite her protestations.

Bishop continues to tell the Doctor to leave him to die in the clutches of the Angel. But before that, he’s got a cryptic warning to give! The Doctor shouldn’t trust River because she’s dangerous and while the Doctor thinks he knows her, he really doesn’t. The Doctor asks why she was in Stormcage. Bishop says it was because she killed a man, “a good man, a hero to many,” but when asked for more info says he’s “said too much already.”

(Hey … is River the Rani? Did she kill the Doctor? aldafjklajflaldfkajflajfljalfal DON’T TELL ME A THING IN THE COMMENTS I MUST AVOID SPOILERS!!!!!)

The Doctor says he wishes he could have known Bishop better, and Bishop says “I think, sir, you know me at my best.” *wibbles* The Doctor asks if he’s ready, Bishop says “content,” and the Doctor leaves him to his courageous and horrible death. *wibbles some more*

Amy looses connection with Cleric Dude. However, she gains connection with the Doctor. He tells her to come to them, following the sound of the communicator, blind, though a forest full of killer stone monsters, while keeping ahead of the energy that can erase her from existence and make it so she was never even born. (Wow, Moff, think you can cram in some giant spiders and disembodied limbs as well?)
Now not only does Amy have to do THAT, she has to walk past a bunch of scared confuzzled Angels who assume she can see them, pretending she is seeing them, walking like a normal person while blind and terrified and alone. (No amount of Phineas and Ferb episodes will wipe this horror from my brain.)

Oh god. Then something HORRIFIC happens. Amy trips, falls, and looses the communicator. And then THE ANGELS START MOVING!!!!!!!!!!!! I CANNOT UNSEE!!!!!!! I CANNOT FORGET!!!!!!! I WILL NEVER SLEEP AGAIN!!!!!!!! *pets cat and tries not to think about the horrible stone monsters MOVING THEIR CREEPY UNSEEING EYES* Thankfully River teleports her to safety just in time. The Doctor says he could “just about kiss” River. She grinz and says “Well, maybe when you’re older.”

The Angels have deduced that if the Doctor throws himself into the energy thingy it’ll close and they’ll all be saved. He does his clever speechy thing and he and the ladies grab onto convenient handles so they don’t fall when the gravity fails. All the Angels get sucked into the vortex and the Batman symbol energy thingy closes.

Resolution! Amy’s fine, the Angel in her head is gone, the crack is gone for now but the explosion that caused it is still happening and it’s still arc-words. Amy spends this scene wrapped in a blanket. Awwwwwwww.

The Doctor goes over to River, who says “You. Me. Handcuffs …” and holds up her handcuffed hands “Must it always end this way?” He asks if she really did kill a man, and she confirms this, and that he was “the best man I’ve ever known.” (Utto …) She says he’ll get a “sneak preview” of sorts when he sees her next, “when the Pandorica opens.” He laughs and says that’s a “fairy tale.” She laughs and says “aren’t we all?” She says “I’ll see you there,” he says “I look forward to it,” and she says “I remember it well.” Hee! Amy says goodbye to River, who tells her she’ll see her soon. Eleven asks if he can trust River, and she says he can “but where’s the fun in that?”

(Oh yeah, totally the Rani. Totally gonna kill him and turn him into 12 or something. I’m totally Wild Mass Guessing, but why not?)

I do love how this season is playing up the magic and fairy tale qualities of everything. Amy being such a little girl at heart, the Doctor being young-but-old, new-but-wise, cranky-but-funny … it’s all very subtle and clever and beautiful.

On the TARDIS Amy says she wants to go home. Eleven sort of slumps and says “ok.” She comes up to him and says she didn’t mean it like that, she just wants to show him something. She says “You’re running from River, I’m running from something too.”

They sit on her bed, the TARDIS in the corner of her room, five minutes after she left, staring at her wedding dress and looking at her ring. He asks why she left her ring. She asks “Why did I leave my engagement ring when I ran away with a strange man the night before my wedding?” and snerks “You really are an alien, aren’t you?” Eleven asks who the “lucky fella” is and Amy says Eleven met him. Eleven says “Oh, the good-looking one? Or the … the other one?” Amy whaps him and says “The other one!” Eleven says “Well, he was good too.” *sporfles* Great! Now you should all have an orgy!

Well, Amy must have heard my thoughts and taken them seriously because she does something … something … something BASE BREAKING, that’s what she does. She tries to jump the Doctor and it’s physically PAINFUL to watch. I’m one of those people who doesn’t care what gender or age or species the characters are, if it’s molestation, it’s molestation, and I’m gonna call it that. So what if it’s a woman trying to jump a guy? It’s still wrong, and he’s saying ‘no,’ and she’s ignoring it, and it’s SQUICKY AS HELL. If this weren’t a “kid’s show” it might have gotten as far as actual RAPE, with the way Amy was ignoring his protestations and all. EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwww! Amy, I don’t like you anymore! As a kid you were cute and as a grown woman you kinda made me anxious but as the episodes went on I decided you were ok for a Companion, not great, but not Rose-levels … and then THIS happened. I don’t care how annoying or Mary-Sue Rose was, at least she never tried to RAPE THE DOCTOR.

[I wanted to follow that up with “THAT’S THE MASTER’S JOB!” but then I realized how a) awful that sounded b) how hypocritical that was and c) that I view the Doctor/Master relationship as consensual. Fucked up, yes, but consensually fucked-up, if that makes any sense.]

The Doctor, in the midst of telling her that he’s 900+ years old, and she’s human, and she’s getting married in the morning, realizes that today’s the day that the universe goes KABOOM and drags her into the TARDIS to figure out what’s going on with her and time and space. Tie her up, Doctor. Tie her up and feed her to the Master. It’s the only logical way to solve this!


NEXT EPISODE!
The Doctor kidnaps Rory and forces him and Amy to go on a romantic getaway to Renaissance Venice. (That makes sense, surely all the poisoning, corrupt Churchmen, plagues, filth in the streets, rampant infidelity, and sexism will make them feel much better!)
Except there’s VAMPIRES IN VENICE! They wear white dresses and have silly-looking fangs and hiss at African-British-Venetians! Also there’s a sexy older lady flirting with Eleven! What is it with Eleven and the cougars this season?

Date: 2010-12-22 11:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] damedbx.livejournal.com
I love how Doctor Who makes you think. I liked Amy too. But when she did this, I was thinking. HE SAID NO!

Craziness. I like how you wrote on some stuff that happened in the episode. I guess I watch it for the fun. I don't really analyze it cause idk. But i like how you point things out.

Cougars. BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! People tell me I am a natural born cougar...i can't help but think they are right. lol It's just because I look younger than I am.

Date: 2010-12-24 01:23 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] aunt-zelda.livejournal.com
I love how Doctor Who makes you think.
Hee, thank you! (It's a very thought-provoking show. At least with me. I wax philosophical about Nine and Ten's seasons in my earlier WAZT.)

I liked Amy too. But when she did this, I was thinking. HE SAID NO!
Indeed! NOT OK! RAPE WHISTLE NOW!

Cougars. BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
It's true! Almost every episode there's been an attractive older lady you could ship with the Doctor. Liz 10, River Song, Rosanna ...

People tell me I am a natural born cougar...i can't help but think they are right. lol It's just because I look younger than I am.
Everyone thinks I look younger than I am too!

Date: 2010-12-24 02:47 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] damedbx.livejournal.com
Definitely. definitely.

Indeed! NOT OK! RAPE WHISTLE NOW!
I think he'd sonic himself to safety.

It's true! Almost every episode there's been an attractive older lady you could ship with the Doctor. Liz 10, River Song, Rosanna ...
Definitely. Definitely. I wonder who would be younger than him.

You too??? lol

Date: 2010-12-24 03:28 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] aunt-zelda.livejournal.com
You too??? lol
It's annoying right now, hopefully it'll stay with me later in life ...

Date: 2010-12-27 10:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] damedbx.livejournal.com
hahaha. Me too. :)

Date: 2010-12-26 08:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] phoenixjustice.livejournal.com
Everyone thinks I look younger than I am too!))
Same here! But honestly it doesn't bother me. *shrug*

Date: 2010-12-26 08:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] phoenixjustice.livejournal.com
It’s pretty impressive, if you think about it, how Steven Moffat has managed to make something impossibly slow impossibly SCARY.))Agree! And again the Moff has shown us his awesome.

Is Mechakara going to show up?))
I wish! I might have do to a DW/TGWTG crossover here soon...

“A forest in a bottle, on a spaceship, in a maze, have I impressed you yet, Amy Pond?”
Yeppers!))
Impressed me enough! lol

Steven Moffat is the Lord of Nightmare Fuel.))
Can't disagree with that...lol.

If Amy opens her eyes she will die. Know what this calls for? BLINDFOLD! (Oh come on, it’s not purely motivated by my kinky brain, that would help her in case she tripped or heard a noise from accidentally opening her eyes! Better yet: tape AND a blindfold!) The Doctor tells the Bishop and the clerics to stay and guard Amy, and if anything happens to her he’ll hold them all “personally responsible. Twice.” Kinky. *kicks self*))
lol. It's hard not to see teh kinkiness. XD

He and Amy have a touching moment that, to me, seems completely chaste and gorgeous, rather like a father and daughter. He kisses her forehead again and leaves with River and the Bishop.))
Yeah, it was an "aww" moment.

The Doctor asks River how she can be “engaged, in a manner of speaking” and she says she’s “a sucker for a man in a uniform”))
...so she's met Captain Jack Harkness already, then? XDD

(Man, what it is with River episodes and the LIGHTS going out all the time? Lady’s a walking power-outage!)
It must be her super-secret power lol. She saw an Eclipse and...

Depends, RTD’s season finales were never really satisfying to me, will the Moff’s be any different?))
I think it was different. But that's just me...*Shrug*

An Angel nabs the Bishop while the Doctor was trying to figure out how time can be rewritten and how nobody remembers the steampunk extravaganza that was the Christmas Special two years ago.))
ME LOVE SOME STEAMPUNK. *_*

Now Cleric Dude can’t even remember the last guy. It’s really, really freaky.))
Yes it is!!

The Doctor says he wishes he could have known Bishop better, and Bishop says “I think, sir, you know me at my best.” *wibbles* The Doctor asks if he’s ready, Bishop says “content,” and the Doctor leaves him to his courageous and horrible death. *wibbles some more* ))
It was a scene for wibbles. I TOLD you there'd me more teary-ish moments! =P

(No amount of Phineas and Ferb episodes will wipe this horror from my brain.)
What if I kidnap everyone from TGWTG Linkara and/or Spoony and wrap them up in a nice big bow? :D

Oh god. Then something HORRIFIC happens. Amy trips, falls, and looses the communicator. And then THE ANGELS START MOVING!!!!!!!!!!!! I CANNOT UNSEE!!!!!!! I CANNOT FORGET!!!!!!! I WILL NEVER SLEEP AGAIN!!!!!!!! *pets cat and tries not to think about the horrible stone monsters MOVING THEIR CREEPY UNSEEING EYES*))
IT WAS FRICKING SCARY AS HELL!!!

Thankfully River teleports her to safety just in time. The Doctor says he could “just about kiss” River. She grinz and says “Well, maybe when you’re older.”))
I LUV U RIVER! <3

All the Angels get sucked into the vortex and the Batman symbol energy thingy closes.))
And again the world is saved due to Batman's awesome. XD

The Doctor goes over to River, who says “You. Me. Handcuffs …”))
You betcha River, just tell me the time and place...

I do love how this season is playing up the magic and fairy tale qualities of everything. Amy being such a little girl at heart, the Doctor being young-but-old, new-but-wise, cranky-but-funny … it’s all very subtle and clever and beautiful.)
Yes, it is and I am glad that someone else besides me gets it too! <3

*sporfles* Great! Now you should all have an orgy!)
*raises hand* I second the motion! XD

Date: 2010-12-26 09:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] aunt-zelda.livejournal.com
lol. It's hard not to see teh kinkiness. XD
This season is impossibly scary AND impossibly kinky. Which is perfect.

Yeah, it was an "aww" moment.
Indeed. Also made what happens at the end of the episode incredibly squicky for me, because it's clear that Eleven views Amy as a kid, almost a surrogate daughter/granddaughter, while Amy can only see teh hotness. It's like watching a schoolgirl jump Merlin: *SQUICK*

...so she's met Captain Jack Harkness already, then? XDD
I think almost everyone in the universe has met Captain Jack. And my 'met' I mean 'had sex with.'

It must be her super-secret power lol. She saw an Eclipse and…
*sporfles*

I think it was different. But that's just me…*Shrug*
*crosses fingers* Catching up, catching up, catching up …

ME LOVE SOME STEAMPUNK. *_*
ME TOO! *PUNCHES THE AIR*

What if I kidnap everyone from TGWTG Linkara and/or Spoony and wrap them up in a nice big bow? :D
I dunno, let's try! For SCIENCE!

IT WAS FRICKING SCARY AS HELL!!!
*shudders* Lovely, now my childhood fear of lawn ornaments has returned with a vengeance …

I love River too. At first I wasn't really sure, but I can totally see her as someone who could not only catch the Doctor's eye but hold his attention for a good long while (well, a good long while for HER, not so much for him, being 900+ years old and all …) Considering my 'HUMANS IN RELATIONSHIPS WITH THE DOCTOR IS SQUICK, MAJOR SQUICK' standpoint, this is quite impressive for the Moff.

You betcha River, just tell me the time and place...
Me too!

Yes, it is and I am glad that someone else besides me gets it too! <3
You know me, I watch Doctor Who and have to analyze and philosophize over it for pages and pages.

*raises hand* I second the motion! XD
*cackles* Fangirl Commandment #11: Everything can be solved with an orgy.

Date: 2011-01-05 08:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] phoenixjustice.livejournal.com
This season is impossibly scary AND impossibly kinky. Which is perfect.)
Who knew Moff had it in him? :P

Indeed. Also made what happens at the end of the episode incredibly squicky for me, because it's clear that Eleven views Amy as a kid, almost a surrogate daughter/granddaughter, while Amy can only see teh hotness. It's like watching a schoolgirl jump Merlin: *SQUICK*)
I know, right? I don't like what Amy did, but at least she starts to change later on and realizes what a freaking awesome guy she has (Rory! *huggles him*)

I think almost everyone in the universe has met Captain Jack. And my 'met' I mean 'had sex with.')
Seriously! lol. He gets around, our boy...XD

ME TOO! *PUNCHES THE AIR*)
I need to write a Steampunk!story. Then again, I DO have a post-apocalyptic fantasy-ish story that I'm sort of working on that might qualify...(it is an original story too, not a fic.)

I dunno, let's try! For SCIENCE!)
I'm sure Insano wouldn't mind Linkara or Spoony all wrapped up like that...XD

*shudders* Lovely, now my childhood fear of lawn ornaments has returned with a vengeance …)
Those lawn gnomes I tell you...*backs away*

I love River too. At first I wasn't really sure, but I can totally see her as someone who could not only catch the Doctor's eye but hold his attention for a good long while (well, a good long while for HER, not so much for him, being 900+ years old and all …) Considering my 'HUMANS IN RELATIONSHIPS WITH THE DOCTOR IS SQUICK, MAJOR SQUICK' standpoint, this is quite impressive for the Moff.))
Very, very! It's hard for me to ship the Doctor with anyone, which is why I really only ship him with the Master and Jack. With Jack he isn't a "regular" human to me, even before he became immortal; he has the knowledge of space/time travel, can work on the TARDIS without any help, very charismatic. And the Master, well obviously I don't need to say anything there! lol. Koschei and Theta knew each other on Gallifrey, were close, the Master is very charismatic (albeit evil-ish lol) and so much more.

Me too!)
There's just something about a strong woman like that...*_*

You know me, I watch Doctor Who and have to analyze and philosophize over it for pages and pages.))
True! But I love doing that sort of stuff too, so that's fine with me! :D

*cackles* Fangirl Commandment #11: Everything can be solved with an orgy.))
OBVIOUSLY! Just look at how many people were in that one hotel room in Kickassia...

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