A Good Man Goes to War

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Oh my god. This is overwhelming. Baby, Centurion Rory, angry Doctor, gathering of old friends, cot!!! All of it. Just so good. I knew it was a Time Baby. I knew Amy was being held somewhere by people who wanted to make Time Babies. Henry knew it was being conceived on the TARDIS that would make the Time Baby a Time Baby. We're so smart.

This is the angry Doctor. Now he's finally becoming as damaged as he ought to be, considering all of the things he's done. All the death he's seen, all the friends and family he killed, the friends he left, the people he failed to save,

THE KING OF TOWN!!!! NOOOOO!!!!!!!!!

God, Amy! Fooling him the same way twice. The Time Baby!!!! Where is the Time Baby?????

Hey, Rory is a nurse too... huh. Ok, Steven Moffatt, this is not ok. How DARE you???

Ok, does River use lightning to time travel? Oh dear, domestic. Oh god, Doctor.

The Doctor's little noises when he finds out who River is. So cute! GOD I wish I could read Gallifreyan. Oh hang on, here we go. Oh, Gallifreyan doesn't translate. OH JESUS CHRIST IT'S RIVER RIVER IS MELODY HOW I DON'T EVEN WHAT KIND OF GENES MAKE A SCOTT AND A ENGLISHMAN HAVE A LIGHT BROWN BABY?????? HOLY FUCK HOW I DON'T EVEN

"We're the fat-thin-married-gay-Anglican marines. Why would we need names?"
"Good men don't need rules. Today is not the time to find out why I have so many."
"Well how would I know? That's all humany private stuff, it just sort of goes on. They don't put up a balloon or anything!"
"Of course I remember. I remember everyone."

Curse of the Black Spot

Post review here, more of a "series so far" kind of thing.

I am fucking loving this series. Oh my god. Seriously, it's like the best ever. Moffat is so fucking long-term, I love it. What is the Silence? Who is Amy's baby? What's the deal with the regenerating little girl? Who the fuck is that eyepatch lady? How will it swing around so Matt Smith isn't the last Doctor (because it WILL swing around)? Why does Rory have to die so often?

Some people thought this episode was too pirate-y, but I liked it. I liked it a bunch. It was a very Stargate sort of thing, with the whole scifi explanation for an olde tyme superstition stuff. I liked that. I like it when the TARDIS has a mind of her own. And I love Matt Smith. Also, fumbly drunk Rory was fun. I wanted him to be like that for the whole episode.

A Christmas Carol

Ok, this is a post-entry. The Christmas special was really incredible. So epic. The Christmas Carol reference was only slightly crowbarred in, there were swimming fish, and the Doctor married Marilyn Monroe. Actually there was quite a few moments involving the Doctor and romance, or his total ineptitude at romance. The best quote on that front was when the guy (as a young man) was asking the Doctor for advice when he knew the woman was about to kiss him and the Doctor goes "It's either this or staying in your room and inventing a new kind of screwdriver, don't make my mistakes." Hilarious. And he, again, doesn't understand how people can make out and not suffocate. Maybe Time Lords use their respiratory bypass when they make out. I want more about the Doctor's love life. 'Cause I don't believe that his first kiss was Rose at over 1,000 years old. Anyway, it was lovely and very exciting and just awesome. Oh, how I loved it.

Also, I've ordered the 10th Doctor's sonic screwdriver off Amazon and I'm making a knit K-9!

EDIT: I somehow managed to exclude my very favourite quote from this episode, possibly from the whole series.

"Do you know, in 900 years of time and space I've never met anyone who wasn't important before." - The Doctor

The Pandorica Opens (SPOILERS - highlight to read)

The Daleks can't die. Listen, I know they're cool enemies, and I know everyone loves them, but they have to be destructible at some point.

Rory!!! He's here! And the music is so sweet and tender! This is ridiculous. Everyone. Everyone ever from every episode is coming back. Every enemy everywhere. It felt epic in Stolen Earth and Journey's End, now it just feels a little old hat. Sontarans, Zygons, Daleks, Cybermen, Slitheens, the star thing from Christmas, everybody. Oh for heaven's sake. So the Doctor is a rock star now? This is just silly. I'm sorry, but it's just silly. Ok, so it's a little epic. Ok, so it's epic. But it's still over the top.

Wait, so the TARDIS exploding destroys the universe? It's just a type 40 TARDIS, I'm sure they explode occasionally. I mean in the entirety of Time Lord history a TARDIS has never exploded? Ah, whatever.

Ok, so the timey-wimey stuff is pretty cool. Oh, man! So everything revolves around Amy! It's all about Amy, and that's why the crack was in her bedroom wall, and the Doctor crashed at her house when he was regenerating..

That's Torgo's theme. It's Torgo's theme! They're playing Torgo's theme! Why are they playing Torgo's theme!

Ah, and yeah, this is all a creation of Amy's memories. It went to Amy's house and took her memories and hid the Pandorica in there. Someone was trying to lure the Doctor? What do they want him for? Who wants him? Who is that voice? Is that a sound byte from an earlier episode or is that Davros? It sounds a bit like him, but then I guess all the badguys sound pretty similar.

The Romans are Autons, whatever else is happening. Oh for heaven's sake. It's the Daleks. But they're not a surprise because we already heard them and knew they were here. So there has to be somebody else. Somebody else is organizing this, having all his enemies work together, unless the enemy bit is his memories projected like Amy's are.

Lol, that was the thing from Love and Monsters.

Wait, why is this happening??? What's going on? Who is doing this? Someone has to be organizing all this. Ooh!!! They said "The Doctor is the only one who can pilot the TARDIS" but someone else was controlling it, and it was River who blew it up. And the Daleks have tried to destroy all of creation in the past, what do they care?

So... all of creation was just destroyed... what... can we do? I mean, what happens now?

Ok, so the Pandorica was created to trap the Doctor so he wouldn't destroy the universe, but the reason the universe was destroyed was because River... blew up the TARDIS? I think that's what she was doing? But then maybe it was the guy who kept saying "Silence must fall", at least it was because of him. So I think the real villain has yet to be revealed. I can't wait for next week!!!!!

The Lodger (SPOILERS - highlight to read)

Woah! Cool stuff. I'm loving this episode. I'm talking to Henry on the phone as I watch it so I only just remembered to be writing this. I guess a little post-watch reflection is fine. So this is really cool, dude. I mean, not the coolest, but really well executed. The Doctor makes a really terrible human. And I swear he's going senile. He didn't used to be like that. I mean really, he didn't used to act as if he wanted to ruin peoples lives so completely. Only an old old man could be that uncool and harmful.

So yeah. The premise was a little random, and the overall plot wasn't really that interesting I don't think, and the whole "Doctor makes a terrible human, look at him screw stuff up" thing could have been terrible, but I think Matt pulled it off really well. And who doesn't love a good shower scene? Unless it's, you know, John Pertwee. Like it Spearhead from Space. That was just strange a little shocking and upsetting. Matt Smith, though. Not upsetting in the slightest. No sir.

I don't know, I can't think of that much to say about this one. It's really only interesting to watch, not much to talk about. Maybe I'll watch it again at some point and add to this post. Certainly add some quotes when I get around to it. Now, back to Warrior's Gate.

Vincent and the Doctor (SPOILERS - highlight to read)

Aw, poor Doctor. He knows Amy’s lost Rory, but she doesn’t. He’s being so nice to her, and she doesn’t even know why. I think the whole forgetting thing is new to him. He doesn’t forget, and it’s really tragic to him when people do (like Donna, for instance). KITTY! Sorry, there was a cat. Gah! And the bit where he automatically goes “Amy, Rory…” - so sad. And Amy was crying without knowing it or knowing why. Argh! This is so great, this episode. And I have to briefly mention the bow-tie exchange with the museum guy. Bow-ties are cool. And the Doctor quite likes praise that has nothing to do with how smart he is, as it turns out.

Oh! The accent thing. In a time and place where there aren’t Scottish people, but there are Dutch people who are gonna look similar, a Scottish accent is translated by the TARDIS as a Dutch accent, apparently. I always did wonder about accents, and how it did them. And what if there are people speaking a couple different languages? Do you understand everyone and speak several different languages? Does anyone wonder why you seem to know every language?

By the way, they cast Van Gogh really quite well. Well, according to the self portrait at least. Also, for Americans, yes they do pronounce it “Goff” in Britain. Apparently it’s supposed to be pronounced like “Loch” in Scotland.

The Doctor mentions a godmother (with two heads and bad breath). I think that’s interesting. Also, I love whenever they reference his previous regenerations, i.e. when the thingamabob identifies him and shows William Hartnell, then Patrick Troughton, then is cut off before John Pertwee, Tom Baker, Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy, Paul McGann, Christopher Eccleston, and David Tennant (done from memory, no less).

Dude, what a great episode this is. Van Gogh is a special crazy guy. Nice to see someone with a near-crippling mental illness being so awesome and useful. Not that he wasn’t awesome in real life. Though he may not have been if they’re portraying him correctly. Anyway, you know what I’d like right now? I’d like for them to take Vincent as a companion after when he’s supposed to have killed himself. I love him. He loves Amy (just as I was typing that he actually said “I love you”). The writers are giving him some great lines (this episode is really funny, by the way), and I’m always sad to see cool people not come along. And they’d have Vincent Van Gogh as a companion! How cool would that be! Ok, I have to stop putting in quotes that aren’t absolutely fantastic, there are too many awesome ones. Right. I need to stop until later in the episode so I don’t overflow this post.

Alright, not a quote, but the noise the Doctor made when Vincent said “I think he rather enjoyed it” - priceless.

Anyway, significant is the moment when he says he getting old. And that sometimes winning is no fun at all. Man, there’s just too much in this episode. Who wrote this? They need to write more!

Wow. Just wow. I don’t think they’ve ever taken anyone from their past into their future like that. Oh, this is just indulgence on the part of the writer, but I love it. You always wish you could show artists how popular they became after they died. Argh, and Amy says she not the marrying kind… I think that shows just how special Rory was to her.

I don’t know how I feel about this music, though.

(By the way, they could still visit him before he died, you know. They’re constantly in a future where people from the past have died, but they can still go back and see them.)

Oh god… they give a support line number at the end of the episode. That was incredibly intense.

Quotes:
“Or, on the other hand, slightly more compassionately, yes?”
“Your hair is orange.” “Yes. So is yours.” “Yes. It was more orange, but now is of course, less.”
“Maybe you’ve had enough coffee now.”
“I’ll be back before you can say ‘where’s he got to now’… NOT THAT FAST!!! But pretty fast…”
“Is this how time normally passes?! Really slowly… in the right order…”
“But you’re not armed!” “I am! With overconfidence, this, and a small screwdriver. I’m absolutely sorted.”
“Return, and we will have children by the dozens!” “Uh, aaaiieee...”