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such_heights) wrote2013-12-25 09:38 pm
such_heights) wrote2013-12-25 09:38 pm
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The Time of the Doctor
I laughed, I cried, I loved it.
So I had two main wishes on my Christmas list for this episode - an explanation for the cracks in time, and an Amy Pond cameo.
*VICTORY DANCE*
Okay, first of all let's talk Tasha Lem. Who is a future regeneration of River Song and I absolutely believe that's a deliberately seeded plot point to pick up in the future. The flirty marriedness of her and the Doctor, the line about her fighting the psycopath inside her all her life, and finally the fact she's always been able to fly the TARDIS. Only River Song can do that. So River is saved from the library (my bet: by Clara during her many lives), then given extra regenerations by the Time Lords?, then becomes the Papal Mainframe and therefore head of the very order that created her and then imprisoned her. Beautiful. I feel like this paves the way either for Alex Kingston + Twelve or for Orla Brady to come back. OR BOTH, BOTH IS GOOD.
No, seriously, anyone who is all 'Moffat only writes one female character ever', on this occasion I AM PRETTY SURE IT'S ON PURPOSE. ON ACCOUNT OF HOW SHE IS RIVER. I was a little surprised they didn't confirm it for sure in this episode but I have every faith that's going to come back in s8.
Anyway.
Holy shit this episode played the long game. The cracks, the Silence, Kovarian, Gallifrey, Trenzalore, everything all came together and was practically tied up with a bow I'm delighted.
To recap:
Something blows up the TARDIS, creating cracks in the universe. Gallifrey, stuck in a pocket universe, uses these cracks to push through and get the Doctor to help them, by asking a question on the planet of Trenzalore, covered by a truth field. As it turns out, the question of 'Doctor Who?' is not actually all that important.
If Gallifrey comes through, a huge war will start. The Doctor stays on the planet so that it's a stalemate - if he leaves, Trenzalore is destroyed, if he lets the Time Lords through, war breaks out. It's a siege.
A siege that is supported by the Papal Mainframe, the Clerics and the Silence, who are good guys as it turns out.
Meanwhile, Kovarian creates a faction and breaks out, taking some Clerics and Silence with her in order to change the Doctor's timeline so he never reaches Trenzalore. First plan: blow up the TARDIS. Which creates the very cracks that Gallifrey is trying to get through. Second plan: create a bespoke assassin to kill him, by seeding the Silence throughout history and kidnapping Melody Pond. Melody becomes River, marries the Doctor rather than killing him, then becomes Tasha, who is the Papal Mainframe, so all in all this is not a good series of plans.
Eventually, the only person who can save the day is the only person who could save Gallifrey in the 50th: Clara. Clara, who can see the other way when no one else can, who can intercede and advocate for peace and mercy. Clara who begs the Time Lords to stop what they're doing and help the Doctor instead. And so they do, retreating back into the pocket universe (for now) but not until they give him a new set of regenerations, previously established as canon in The Five Doctors, among others.
And then, and then. Amy Pond. The first face this face saw. When we saw the little Amelia stand in it was lovely, and I thought it was all we'd get. AND THEN KAREN AND HER STUPID FACE SHOWED UP AND IT WAS BEAUTIFUL AND PERFECT AND OH GOD THE UGLY CRYING.
I can't even on that bit. It was just, oh, my heart. Eleven needed to see her one last time and so did I. ;_;
FEELINGS, I HAVE THEM. The blanketfort of squee is now open! *passes round tissues and tea*
Raggedy man, goodnight.
So I had two main wishes on my Christmas list for this episode - an explanation for the cracks in time, and an Amy Pond cameo.
*VICTORY DANCE*
Okay, first of all let's talk Tasha Lem. Who is a future regeneration of River Song and I absolutely believe that's a deliberately seeded plot point to pick up in the future. The flirty marriedness of her and the Doctor, the line about her fighting the psycopath inside her all her life, and finally the fact she's always been able to fly the TARDIS. Only River Song can do that. So River is saved from the library (my bet: by Clara during her many lives), then given extra regenerations by the Time Lords?, then becomes the Papal Mainframe and therefore head of the very order that created her and then imprisoned her. Beautiful. I feel like this paves the way either for Alex Kingston + Twelve or for Orla Brady to come back. OR BOTH, BOTH IS GOOD.
No, seriously, anyone who is all 'Moffat only writes one female character ever', on this occasion I AM PRETTY SURE IT'S ON PURPOSE. ON ACCOUNT OF HOW SHE IS RIVER. I was a little surprised they didn't confirm it for sure in this episode but I have every faith that's going to come back in s8.
Anyway.
Holy shit this episode played the long game. The cracks, the Silence, Kovarian, Gallifrey, Trenzalore, everything all came together and was practically tied up with a bow I'm delighted.
To recap:
Something blows up the TARDIS, creating cracks in the universe. Gallifrey, stuck in a pocket universe, uses these cracks to push through and get the Doctor to help them, by asking a question on the planet of Trenzalore, covered by a truth field. As it turns out, the question of 'Doctor Who?' is not actually all that important.
If Gallifrey comes through, a huge war will start. The Doctor stays on the planet so that it's a stalemate - if he leaves, Trenzalore is destroyed, if he lets the Time Lords through, war breaks out. It's a siege.
A siege that is supported by the Papal Mainframe, the Clerics and the Silence, who are good guys as it turns out.
Meanwhile, Kovarian creates a faction and breaks out, taking some Clerics and Silence with her in order to change the Doctor's timeline so he never reaches Trenzalore. First plan: blow up the TARDIS. Which creates the very cracks that Gallifrey is trying to get through. Second plan: create a bespoke assassin to kill him, by seeding the Silence throughout history and kidnapping Melody Pond. Melody becomes River, marries the Doctor rather than killing him, then becomes Tasha, who is the Papal Mainframe, so all in all this is not a good series of plans.
Eventually, the only person who can save the day is the only person who could save Gallifrey in the 50th: Clara. Clara, who can see the other way when no one else can, who can intercede and advocate for peace and mercy. Clara who begs the Time Lords to stop what they're doing and help the Doctor instead. And so they do, retreating back into the pocket universe (for now) but not until they give him a new set of regenerations, previously established as canon in The Five Doctors, among others.
And then, and then. Amy Pond. The first face this face saw. When we saw the little Amelia stand in it was lovely, and I thought it was all we'd get. AND THEN KAREN AND HER STUPID FACE SHOWED UP AND IT WAS BEAUTIFUL AND PERFECT AND OH GOD THE UGLY CRYING.
I can't even on that bit. It was just, oh, my heart. Eleven needed to see her one last time and so did I. ;_;
FEELINGS, I HAVE THEM. The blanketfort of squee is now open! *passes round tissues and tea*
Raggedy man, goodnight.