Let's Kill Hitler
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I'm going into this with a sort of dread. I had to force myself to put the episode on, but then I felt the same way at the beginning of this season as well. Matt Smith and crew still haven't entirely won me over. I enjoy most of the storylines (not loving the baby one) but Eleven is soooooo not my Doctor. I'm just riding it out until we get a new Doctor and companions, basically. This isn't to say that I actively dislike him, because I don't. He's just not my type, maybe? We'll never be more than friends.
I don't know...the whole baby thing doesn't thrill me. It's probably going to hang over our heads all season if not longer, with this whole thing of knowing that River is fine (for some definition of fine which includes her living in the Storm Cage) so the Doctor must find her eventually. So Rory and Amy are just going to continue having adventures with the Doctor and say, 'oh hey, our missing baby is fine because the Doctor will find her someday?' Yuck!!!!!!
Mels...okay, they've provided the back story to explain why the Doctor hadn't ever met her before, but I still think she's highly suspicious. It seems odd that her life has been affected by the Doctor almost more even than Amy's. And then she's all 'let's kill Hitler' and we find some other futuristic folks have already infiltrated the period. That's not at all coincidental.
Lol at Amy thinking she and Rory aren't possible because he's gay. Her argument: she's never seen him look at a woman. But really, that's ignoring the fact that she's also never seen him look at a man. He only looks at her, awwwww! Poor Rory, running away from the exposure of his secret love. And Amy's face when she realizes!
The future people are actually inside the robot/replicator thing? Cool! I love the Antibodies. So polite. "Welcome. You'll experience a tingling sensation and then death. Remain calm while your life is extracted."
"Where are we?" "A room." "What room?" "I don't know. I haven't memorized every room in the universe yet. I had yesterday off." Okay, well, if nothing else, Moffat is keeping me laughing.
Go Rory! "Sit still and shut up." He's turning into such a badass. Rory really is my favorite of the current crop of characters. He's the only one I'll miss when they go, which means he'll probably get killed early on and I'll be left with Amy. *insert unhappy face here*
Ooh, interesting. They identify the TARDIS, but when they're talking about the biggest war criminal of them all, it's "her." Amy, Mels, the TARDIS itself, River (she's not on board but maybe they don't know that)? It could be any of them. Or maybe the Doctor is going to be a woman next time and they're just a bit early. My gut says River, but Mels has been introduced so conveniently, it seems likely to be her. So many possibilities, makes my head go 'splodey!
OMG I'm so fucking dim! Mels. Melody. River. I guess that resolves some of the questions about where River grows up, although it still feels a bit wrong. Too neat. But let's have a look at things. If the child in Impossible Astronaut/Day of the Moon is Melody, she regenerated in the late sixties but ended up in Leadworth in the mid-nineties? Does the Doctor eventually go back and find her in the sixties? Why would he leave her in Leadworth, though? Or is it a case of, well, he knows she grows up in Leadworth so when he finds her he takes her to Leadworth? Gah! I hate this kind of circular thinking. And we don't know for certain sure that the little girl in IA/DotM was actually Melody. She could have been someone else, a creation of the Silence, who is still out there, unaccounted for.
Hm, well, it seems she made her own way to Leadworth. "Last time I did this I ended up a toddler. In the middle of New York."
And then we have River. Too many lines to quote! "I love it. I love it. I'm all sort of...mature."
Okay, I sort of like this. We've had a lot of River at the end of her timeline, it's fun to see her much earlier on. This is her first real meeting with the Doctor. She doesn't know him yet, but he knows her. Shoe gets to be on the other foot.
So, it's been confirmed that she kills the Doctor. At some point. He's certainly not about to let her do it today. Which lends credence to the idea that it is her in the space suit. So early in her timeline, conditioned for one thing only. She isn't really River yet. I'm wondering. When does she become familiar with the people of the Gamma Forest. Is that where she goes after killing the Doctor? Is she deconditioned there, so that she can see the Doctor at other points of his timeline without continually needing to kill him? When does she end up in the Stormcage?
Okay, got a little distracted by actually watching the episode, there.
So, Melody (can't really call her River, yet - she knows that at some point she'll be River, but she hasn't reached that point yet) used up all her regenerations to save the Doctor but she is still, at some point, going to kill him in Utah. Unless that isn't her in the space suit, despite the future people being completely certain that it is, and them saying it is a completely fixed point in time. Which I still hate because it means that Eleven is the last Doctor, which I don't think is what TPTB are intending, so there's going to be some mumbo-jumbo to get around it, which will almost certainly be stupid. I just hope they have a plan.
Overall impressions: I'm kind of tired of this era's penchant for killing people off and then bringing them back to life. Enough already! Of course we knew they were going to find a way around the Doctor being dead here, that was never the question, only how. But it's just a bit stupid. It loses it's impact when it happens so often. I suppose at some point they're going to kill someone off and then leave them dead forever and maybe they think it will have more impact since we'll be expecting them to come back to life again in some way. But it's become a cliche and I think it's stupid.
Otherwise, I liked the episode. Fun and silly in the beginning, much more serious but still a bit silly at the end. And now, we have Amy and Rory trying to keep their knowledge of the Doctor's death from him (although Amy already spill the beans without realizing it) and the Doctor keeping his knowledge of his death from them. Which makes room for lots of meaningful looks and awkward pauses.
Alex Kingston clearly just went to town with this episode. She looked like she had a lot of fun with it. Matt Smith looked like he was having a bit of fun as well, with that top hat and cane death scene. Ham it up as much as you can, boys and girls. Chew the hell out of that scenery.
Oh, and I just had a thought. I wonder how long Hitler stayed in that closet? Lol!
I'm going into this with a sort of dread. I had to force myself to put the episode on, but then I felt the same way at the beginning of this season as well. Matt Smith and crew still haven't entirely won me over. I enjoy most of the storylines (not loving the baby one) but Eleven is soooooo not my Doctor. I'm just riding it out until we get a new Doctor and companions, basically. This isn't to say that I actively dislike him, because I don't. He's just not my type, maybe? We'll never be more than friends.
I don't know...the whole baby thing doesn't thrill me. It's probably going to hang over our heads all season if not longer, with this whole thing of knowing that River is fine (for some definition of fine which includes her living in the Storm Cage) so the Doctor must find her eventually. So Rory and Amy are just going to continue having adventures with the Doctor and say, 'oh hey, our missing baby is fine because the Doctor will find her someday?' Yuck!!!!!!
Mels...okay, they've provided the back story to explain why the Doctor hadn't ever met her before, but I still think she's highly suspicious. It seems odd that her life has been affected by the Doctor almost more even than Amy's. And then she's all 'let's kill Hitler' and we find some other futuristic folks have already infiltrated the period. That's not at all coincidental.
Lol at Amy thinking she and Rory aren't possible because he's gay. Her argument: she's never seen him look at a woman. But really, that's ignoring the fact that she's also never seen him look at a man. He only looks at her, awwwww! Poor Rory, running away from the exposure of his secret love. And Amy's face when she realizes!
The future people are actually inside the robot/replicator thing? Cool! I love the Antibodies. So polite. "Welcome. You'll experience a tingling sensation and then death. Remain calm while your life is extracted."
"Where are we?" "A room." "What room?" "I don't know. I haven't memorized every room in the universe yet. I had yesterday off." Okay, well, if nothing else, Moffat is keeping me laughing.
Go Rory! "Sit still and shut up." He's turning into such a badass. Rory really is my favorite of the current crop of characters. He's the only one I'll miss when they go, which means he'll probably get killed early on and I'll be left with Amy. *insert unhappy face here*
Ooh, interesting. They identify the TARDIS, but when they're talking about the biggest war criminal of them all, it's "her." Amy, Mels, the TARDIS itself, River (she's not on board but maybe they don't know that)? It could be any of them. Or maybe the Doctor is going to be a woman next time and they're just a bit early. My gut says River, but Mels has been introduced so conveniently, it seems likely to be her. So many possibilities, makes my head go 'splodey!
OMG I'm so fucking dim! Mels. Melody. River. I guess that resolves some of the questions about where River grows up, although it still feels a bit wrong. Too neat. But let's have a look at things. If the child in Impossible Astronaut/Day of the Moon is Melody, she regenerated in the late sixties but ended up in Leadworth in the mid-nineties? Does the Doctor eventually go back and find her in the sixties? Why would he leave her in Leadworth, though? Or is it a case of, well, he knows she grows up in Leadworth so when he finds her he takes her to Leadworth? Gah! I hate this kind of circular thinking. And we don't know for certain sure that the little girl in IA/DotM was actually Melody. She could have been someone else, a creation of the Silence, who is still out there, unaccounted for.
Hm, well, it seems she made her own way to Leadworth. "Last time I did this I ended up a toddler. In the middle of New York."
And then we have River. Too many lines to quote! "I love it. I love it. I'm all sort of...mature."
Okay, I sort of like this. We've had a lot of River at the end of her timeline, it's fun to see her much earlier on. This is her first real meeting with the Doctor. She doesn't know him yet, but he knows her. Shoe gets to be on the other foot.
So, it's been confirmed that she kills the Doctor. At some point. He's certainly not about to let her do it today. Which lends credence to the idea that it is her in the space suit. So early in her timeline, conditioned for one thing only. She isn't really River yet. I'm wondering. When does she become familiar with the people of the Gamma Forest. Is that where she goes after killing the Doctor? Is she deconditioned there, so that she can see the Doctor at other points of his timeline without continually needing to kill him? When does she end up in the Stormcage?
Okay, got a little distracted by actually watching the episode, there.
So, Melody (can't really call her River, yet - she knows that at some point she'll be River, but she hasn't reached that point yet) used up all her regenerations to save the Doctor but she is still, at some point, going to kill him in Utah. Unless that isn't her in the space suit, despite the future people being completely certain that it is, and them saying it is a completely fixed point in time. Which I still hate because it means that Eleven is the last Doctor, which I don't think is what TPTB are intending, so there's going to be some mumbo-jumbo to get around it, which will almost certainly be stupid. I just hope they have a plan.
Overall impressions: I'm kind of tired of this era's penchant for killing people off and then bringing them back to life. Enough already! Of course we knew they were going to find a way around the Doctor being dead here, that was never the question, only how. But it's just a bit stupid. It loses it's impact when it happens so often. I suppose at some point they're going to kill someone off and then leave them dead forever and maybe they think it will have more impact since we'll be expecting them to come back to life again in some way. But it's become a cliche and I think it's stupid.
Otherwise, I liked the episode. Fun and silly in the beginning, much more serious but still a bit silly at the end. And now, we have Amy and Rory trying to keep their knowledge of the Doctor's death from him (although Amy already spill the beans without realizing it) and the Doctor keeping his knowledge of his death from them. Which makes room for lots of meaningful looks and awkward pauses.
Alex Kingston clearly just went to town with this episode. She looked like she had a lot of fun with it. Matt Smith looked like he was having a bit of fun as well, with that top hat and cane death scene. Ham it up as much as you can, boys and girls. Chew the hell out of that scenery.
Oh, and I just had a thought. I wonder how long Hitler stayed in that closet? Lol!
