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 Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2011 2:51 pm
I'm still crying at this one. This has got to be my second favorite episode after "The Doctor's Wife." I loved Rory so much in this, and seeing such an old, bitter Amy made me shiver. I've not a big fan of Amy, but Karen Gillan was fantastic here. I loved the whole idea for the episode, and I loved how surreal it was. This was also one of those rare times when I wanted to just slap the Doctor. Seriously.
Also, what did you think of the Two Streams facility's system? Was it really a kindness, or just some twisted timeline-manipulation scenario?
What did you guys think? Did anyone else cry, or am I just a total sap? gonk
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Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2011 4:01 pm
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Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2011 4:57 pm
I liked it a lot, but it still had some bits that were just silly. Not good, doctor who silly either. Like, the fact that future Amy is somehow a samurai-ninja super genius robot killer, and the part where she says something like "I'll rip up time for him" or something like that, and the over the top epic music started playing.
I did like episode as a whole though. Infinitely better than "Let's Kill Hitler".
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Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2011 7:04 pm
Ahahahaha the gratuitous slow-mo at the end as three rather ineffectual humans charge a group of harmless plastic gimpbots was hilariously inappropriate, but other than that I really liked the episode. It's not going to replace Amy's Choice as the best mindscrew ep of eleven's tenure but it sort of felt like a spiritual successor to that in a lot of ways.
It only really fell down in Amy's wildly varying levels of competence. She starts off by being stupid enough not to ask which button she should push when there are clearly two on the door, then graduates to elite supergenius levels after a little alone time. Then despite being a crazy paranoid witch she contrives to get herself left behind at the end when she's relying on the sympathy a man she knows has already robbed her of a life once to save her.
Derp doesn't even begin to cover it. I guess you're only as competent as the plot lets you be :c
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Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2011 8:30 pm
I liked it a lot!!! I teared up toooo. Though I agree that it was a bit weird that it took 36 years to make Amy a super genius......
Other than that, it was better than "Let's Kill Hitler" LOL
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Posted: Sun Sep 11, 2011 6:02 pm
I thought it was great, was so great to learn more about all the characters and see new sides to them. and despite being a Doctor-lite episode, we got some awesome acting from Matt Smith. He's so good with the subtle stuff, the gestures, expressions, mannerisms...he doesn't even need to speak. I'm just so in love with his incarnation of The Doctor [and maybe him as well...so hard to distinguish, LOL!]
I didn't cry, but I've read comments here, Facebook, tumblr...everywhere...SO many people cried over this episode. Maybe I need to watch it again...
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Posted: Sun Sep 11, 2011 7:59 pm
In this episode, they really put Karen Gillan's acting to the test and honestly speaking, she was brilliant! Quote: Also, what did you think of the Two Streams facility's system? Was it really a kindness, or just some twisted timeline-manipulation scenario? Honestly I think their "kindness" can be confusing to some and is clearly a gray line.. The people who were there were 'trapped' because of an infection.. The place allowed them to live out their lives and others close to them to watch them grow old--which if not for that place, they would never be able to. Amy's case was very different from those who were there.. Now, answer me this: There are super bugs that kill within 24-48 hours. If you happened to contract that and your loved ones didn't, would you choose to grow old, or would you choose to die young? As far as those saying she had a "little" alone time: She had almost 40 years to figure things out and master it. It's not like she suddenly figured things out overnight..
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Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2011 11:51 am
I found it very moving and cried a little. Next to the doctor wife its my new fav epd!
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Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2011 1:51 am
MiLynn Aiko As far as those saying she had a "little" alone time: She had almost 40 years to figure things out and master it. It's not like she suddenly figured things out overnight.. She built a Sonic Screwdriv-probe! No other human in history has accomplished that sort of thing. How the heck did she manage it? Regardless of the fact she had years to achieve I don't recall her ever majoring in anything more intellectual than kissogram studies. Oh wait, she probably asked Interface :/
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Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2011 3:14 pm
This is just another episode that points out the lack of a science background or time taken to do research by the writers.Not only do you get the paradox of two Amys in one place, but the paradox of the fact that the one helped the other. there in the causing of the one to escape.This should have cancel out the other making it imposable that she could have escaped.
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Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2011 10:55 pm
When I watch it I cried for the first time in like two, three years and at the end I wanted to punch the doctor.
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Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2011 1:42 am
Jettrick MiLynn Aiko As far as those saying she had a "little" alone time: She had almost 40 years to figure things out and master it. It's not like she suddenly figured things out overnight.. She built a Sonic Screwdriv-probe! No other human in history has accomplished that sort of thing. How the heck did she manage it? Regardless of the fact she had years to achieve I don't recall her ever majoring in anything more intellectual than kissogram studies. Oh wait, she probably asked Interface :/ I don't see what's so wrong with her asking interface. Amy has never really been stupid intellectually speaking, she just does stupid things and just because she was a kissogram doesn't mean that she was an idiot. Think about it, she was alone for a long time, and only had the interface there as a friend, the interface which provides information and by the sounds of it is virtually a library. Even then, she's been around the Doctor enough- she's bound to have picked up something, even if it is just technological jargon. The episode to me in whole was a bit flitty and all over the place. The slow mo of Young Amy and Rory pushing over the robot was hilarious. In saying that though, I did like the emotional side of it all.
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Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2011 6:47 am
Great episode I like this one. It's kind of like Donna Noble's Turn Left. I didn't cry but it's quite emotional. Much better than I had expected from the preview emotion_dealwithit
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Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2011 9:23 am
NatsumenoKage This is just another episode that points out the lack of a science background or time taken to do research by the writers.Not only do you get the paradox of two Amys in one place, but the paradox of the fact that the one helped the other. there in the causing of the one to escape.This should have cancel out the other making it imposable that she could have escaped. That was the whole point of the end, though. The Doctor lied to get older Amy to help younger Amy, knowing that the TARDIS wouldn't be able to support the paradox. Older Amy was able to help them up to the point of entering the TARDIS, when she would have become a fixed part of that reality/time stream. The Doctor shut her out of the TARDIS knowing that it would have created a paradox for her to enter.
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Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2011 5:40 pm
I didn't care for it. It had quite a few flaws and still needed work. I felt that if I missed this episode, I wouldn't be missing much. Hopefully tonight's episode will be better.
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