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Doctor Who 7x01

oh my god oh my god oh my god ahhhhhh SQUEE

THINGS I LOVED IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER:

+ AMELIA POND YOU DISASTER OF A PERSON. I can't even with you. The reason for her kicking Rory out was so Amy and it hurts my heart SO MUCH oh my god. AMY. WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT. Push Rory away because you've made the unilateral decision that kids are the be-all and end-all for Rory and if he won't leave out of guilt or whatever then she'll make him and oh, AMY. I can't with you. *buries head on desk, cries*

+ Brb writing all the post-episode fic dealing with all of this. OH GOD, PONDS, NEVER DO THAT TO ME AGAIN.

+ I need to watch it again for more of the Doctor characterisation but oh my god oh my god Eleventy can I hug you forever.

+ HOLY SHIT UNEXPECTED JENNA LOUISE COLEMAN WAS UNEXPECTED. YOU GUYS. THE NEXT COMPANION IS FROM SPACE. And, um, possibly a Dalek now? My brain has actually melted from the sheer wtf of that whole reveal - I couldn't believe she was in it and we didn't know, and now I don't even know what's going on. But, um, flirty science pilot genius queer space girl? SIGN ME UP. I am assuming until suggested otherwise that the 'just a phase' line referred to her attraction to boys. With the exception of ones called Rory. :D

+ OH MY GOD. THAT WAS AWESOME. There were so many great callbacks to other Dalek episodes - you stop becoming a Dalek through love! eee!

+ I am *fascinated* by the Daleks forgetting the Doctor and the idea that rather than him being a deterrent he just makes them worse.

+ oh god I don't even know I AM FULL OF SQUEE. And Amy and Rory are having mind-blowing makeup sex RIGHT NOW and that brings me joy.

The Blanketfort of Squee and Feelings is officially open! Come in, come in, have a cookie. <3

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ooo cookies!!

Oh Amy, how can you destroy my heart so quickly? Rory(Nina) too, bless him. So much love.

I quite like Oswyn. She has a fun name, she's quirky and clever and how are they going to get her back?

Amy/Rory kind of need all the fic and adopted kidlets.

I have so many Oswin theories and NO IDEA WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN OMG.

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oparu - 2012-09-01 20:35 (UTC) - Expand

ALL OF THIS!

That's all for now. ♥ ♥ ♥

Also, souffle and Carmen. These are going to become a THING. Am already working out ways in which he might be able to save her...

Oooh, do please share when you come up with things, I look forward to all the theorising!

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elisi - 2012-09-01 20:27 (UTC) - Expand

Amy and Rory are having so much make-up sex right now.

And Oswin was marvellous and queer in my little shipper heart. (I apparently am shipping her with myself. THAT DRESS.)

That dress was made of so much awesome and win. I ... just .... wibble.

SQUEEEE OMG I LOVE ALL THEIR FACES.

But, um, flirty science pilot genius queer space girl?

YES THIS. SO MUCH THIS. ALLLLLLL OF THIS!!!!

And I too assumed the "just a phase" phrase (hello awkward sentence!) was about boys too. asdfghjklasf!!!!!!!

OMG, the headtilt-wink at the end with Amy and Rory and his dance of dorkitude! I forgave the show entirely at that point for my heartbroken Ponds! with the divorce papers at the beginning.

I CAN'T BELIEVE WE MIGHT ACTUALLY GET A QUEER SPACE ROBOT COMPANION. Like, what. I could cry with joy as;ldja

THAT BIT WAS THE BEST. THEIR FACES. NOW MAKE OUT LOTS PLS.

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liseuse - 2012-09-01 20:20 (UTC) - Expand

OH, OH! And actual, genuine, for the first time, terror from the Doctor as he backs against the door and cries out for Oswin to save him. Loved it.

OH GOD I KNOW. Ugh that scene was amazing and his faaace and oh gosh.

...Is she the new companion? Okay how many more mojitos until I forget that omg.

WORD ON EVERYTHING ELSE.

Okay I got no ice and no spearmint but I can work with that.

Oh I'm sorry, I completely forgot that was information some people were still avoiding! My apologies!

Mmh, I didn't like the divorce part much, it did seem a bit of out of character to me. While I can buy Amy would try something like it (breaking up with Rory *for his own good*), I can't believe Moffat actually had them ready to divorce. It's too much too soon, I somehow can't believe they'd be to that point so quickly. Sure, it was feels-worthy, but it felt too soapy for me, you know ?
Apparently it's an unpopular opinion, I haven't seen anyone thinking the same thing yet ^^

On the other hand, OSWIN ! i love her so much already omg :D:D:D All the parts with her were wonderful. And the Ponds making up were <3 of course.

The only logic train I can think of there is that once Amy made up her mind that she had to let Rory go, she wanted to do it quick, like ripping off a bandaid.

The only problem here is that this is Amy, the queen of not being able to talk about feelings, and she doesn't actually want to cheat on Rory or anything that would hurt him like that, so all she's got is words. And she can't come up with anything more than 'I don't love you any more' and probably some stuff about being bored and Rory being boring and really vague platitudes. And Rory's angry and hurt and he's snappish, so she can react to that, but Rory's still a total pushover, so of course he's going to eventually roll over and do whatever she says, even if he still loves her.

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niyalune - 2012-09-02 15:54 (UTC) - Expand

Hang on, THAT was Jenna Louise Coleman? Boy, I really have been avoiding spoilers, I never realised. (Casting spoilers are the ones that don't usually bother me too much.) OK, the whole episode looks way different from I thought then. (I was bracing myself for a Moffat-sexism firestorm over the portrayal of Amy and Oswyn.)

I wonder how much of what Oswyn was saying about her past was real? If that's the same character as expected later, surely it can't have been? If that was her first space trip, how can she travel with the Doctor?

If you're ok with casting spoilers....

She's credited in future episodes with the character name Clara. So possibly she'll be a different person? IDEK.

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Arthur Weasley is Rory's dad!

And omg Rory celebrating with Amy going "I can see you" was my favorite thing.

I'm now making it a permanent part of my head-canon that Rory is a squib cousin of the Weasleys. xD

I WILL JOIN YOU IN THE BLANKETFORT! I KEEP GOING TO MAKE A SQUEE POST, BUT I HAVE TOO MANY FEELINGS TO PUT INTO WORDS, AND ALSO SO MANY PEOPLE ARE HATING IT THAT IT FEELS PASSIVE-AGGRESSIVE.

It's so right (characterisation-wise) that Amy pushes Rory out before he can leave her. Her abandonment issues, man.

Two days later and my need to give Amy all the hugs in the world is still pretty overwhelming. WHY IS SHE SO BAD AT FEELINGS, I LOVE HER SO MUCH.

FEEEEEEEEEEEELINGS

SO MANY FEELINGS

SO. MANY. a;sljda

Brb writing all the post-episode fic dealing with all of this. OH GOD, PONDS, NEVER DO THAT TO ME AGAIN.

I need this fic like burning. Gah!

flirty science pilot genius queer space girl? SIGN ME UP.

Yep, me too. I liked that she was flirty in a playful way rather than the aggressive way that is more stereotypical. And what about a phase? I guess I missed that bit. I sort of thought she was properly bi/queer, because she said the thing about Nina but did seem at least vaguely interested in both Rory and the Doctor.

you stop becoming a Dalek through love!

Doctor Who goes a little crazy with the "stop being a monster via love" thing, but when they do it right, it's AWESOME. And it was awesome when Oswin did it. AHHHHHH.

And Amy and Rory are having mind-blowing makeup sex RIGHT NOW and that brings me joy.

OMG you're so right, that's what that was about with the eyes and the celebrating and the "I can see you," wasn't it?

*collapses into blanket fort* All the angst leading up to this episode and until they resolved things at the end wore me out. I'm actually serious. Well, I guess the first week of school didn't help, either. :P

I sort of thought she was properly bi/queer, because she said the thing about Nina but did seem at least vaguely interested in both Rory and the Doctor.

Same here. IMO I'm thinking she might be bi, but's that just me because FHDKFA OMG YES BI/QUEER COMPANION PLZ.

brb shipping Oswin with all the main characters. xD

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masakochan - 2012-09-02 05:24 (UTC) - Expand

POOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONDS!!!!

Oh Amy. Oh Rory. Rory, you have the self-esteem of a peapod.

I'm choosing to assume Oswin went through a phase of naming everyone she had a crush on Rory.

Oh, he does, doesn't he? Poor Rory. And Amy still doesn't get that she'd be more than enough for Rory if she'd just be there. I hope they're getting better, from now. *pets them*

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such_heights - 2012-09-03 11:47 (UTC) - Expand

OMG is she the new companion? I HAVE JUST GONE FROM SADCAKES TO HURRAH! She was fabulous and I was so unhappy to see a great character gone so quickly.

In some capacity, that actress will most certainly be back! How what where why, who knows, but I'm excited to find out! :D

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copracat - 2012-09-03 12:55 (UTC) - Expand

AHHHHHHHH! POOOOOONDS! ELEVENTYYYYY! JENNNNNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! I squeed SO LOUDLY when she appeared! I look forward to the patented Moffat Magic that's going to turn her into a proper companion. I think they'll get along swimmingly!

Most definitely! I still can't believe they actually managed to keep a lid on that one, what an amazing surprise!

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ashpags - 2012-09-03 22:01 (UTC) - Expand

Ponds! Eleven! Mostly, though: Oswin! She's probably my favorite part of the episode. :D

She was SO GREAT. Squee!

Souffle-making, Carmen listening, flirty science pilot genius queer space girl (who is, was, or will be a Dalek)-- yes, I think that will do nicely. Loved her. I love her name.

I love absolutely everything she chose to be omg. :DDD

Heee! I really enjoyed it too, and I have come to share your squee.

I totally assumed that the "just a phase" referred to boys. And on a more serious note, I find the whole thing about Amy's fertility interesting in light of the Christmas episode.

Yay! I'm just so happy my show is back after so long. :D

And do you mean in terms of Madge and her motherhood? I am interested; do tell. I suppose Amy's in the slightly odd/interesting position of having one kid, a daughter who is very much not in need of any mothering, and not being able to have more. (Oh, Amy.)

I was sucked in from the first moment. Oh, Ponds! Oh, Amy, you gorgeous dilettante! You're probably making buckets of money with the modeling and bored with it all, but using the attitude to push Rory away.

At the end of the episode, my biggest reaction was that it's about damned time that the whole 'we had a child but were robbed of raising her' was brought up in some damned fashion, even if they're going to displace the grief onto not being able to have more. And I have Thoughts about that - what if the reason for the Ponds' exit is that through wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey stuff, Amy is able to get pregnant, and they leave the Doctor to gestate in peace?

it's about damned time that the whole 'we had a child but were robbed of raising her' was brought up in some damned fashion, even if they're going to displace the grief onto not being able to have more.

Yes. This. I've been thinking this, too. What a mindfuck it must be for both of them, to discover that Amy was pregnant and they never got to know it -- that their child was stolen from them and they never got to raise her. Granted, the relationship they have with River is amazing, and something they probably couldn't have built had they known who she was -- but it's not the same as getting to raise a kid from infancy onward. When I heard the spoiler that there were troubles in paradise for them, I figured it was because their baby had been taken away and they were finally starting to deal with the impact and the fallout from that.

+ Brb writing all the post-episode fic dealing with all of this. OH GOD, PONDS, NEVER DO THAT TO ME AGAIN.

+ I need to watch it again for more of the Doctor characterisation but oh my god oh my god Eleventy can I hug you forever.

I am watching it RIGHT NOW, and I am -- omg. OMG. OH MY FUCKING GOD. With the -- Amy! and the reason for her kicking Rory out! and Rory being Rory! and Eleven! and omg, Oswynn. Where did the milk come from for the soufflés? OH MY GOD.

Eveeryone has theories about the 'just a phase', but I think that it was Nina just going through a phase of being called Rory. And thinking about it more it's unlikely, but now the backstory for me is that Nina was male-assigned and going through a phase of trying to live as male before coming out as a Nina.

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