Blubber blubbering blubbis. I'm aware that last one isn't a word but it was the way best to describe how the Doctor Who episode was supposed to make everyone feel. I didn't blubber or even blubbis, but I did get teary eyed.
So now I'm going to say this. If you have not seen the most recent Doctor Who episode called "Angels Take Manhattan" then I suggest you stop reading this if you don't want spoilers.
I was kind of expecting Amy and Rory to die in this episode but I just wasn't sure how. That being said I kind of wished they hadn't told us they were leaving the show. It would have been kind of nice to be surprised by every thing. Instead we knew they had to leave, we just needed to fill in the blanks on how.
What I liked about the episode was: The relationships. I really liked the relationships in this episode because for the first time since meeting Amy and Rory I actually felt like they were both equally in love with each other. There was a hierarchy where Amy was still hung up on the Doctor and Rory pining for her that existed in their relationship before now.
This was the first time I felt Amy's love for Rory and think there was no other way they could have ended the episode. If she had stayed with the Doctor I would have been super disappointed in her and think she was making such a brave choice.
They did a stellar job with their performances in this episode too. The scene on top of the building before the jump just about rips your heart out, but poor freaking Rory can't even catch a break. The poor guy dies three times in that episode. He is definitely the man who dies.
Besides the relationships between Rory and Amy being better and more clear I really liked what Moffat did with River and the Doctor's relationship this episode. There was just something about River that made her seem like she was so much older than the Doctor now and more mature. I can't quite put my finger on it but she seemed more comfortable with there relationship while the Doctor seemed still like a giddy newly married type or has a crush when straightening his hair and such.
I'm really curious where in the timeline they are meeting this time for River and how that has made her act not as flirty as she normally is. I know that she tends to be ahead of him in the relationship but not always. I enjoy her character but I'm curious if she will come back now that her 'parents' are gone.
What I didn't like about the episode was: The plot holes. I suppose I could just say plot hole since I can only really think of one right now. I don't understand how the Doctor can't go back and see them ever again. I can understand going back to that exact same time he went back the first time would cause problems but if he came back the next day wouldn't that be fine? No risk of paradox then? I just thought that was a terrible way to "keep" the Doctor from Amy and Rory.
A part of me thinks Moffat just wants the option of bringing them back in the future You know. Like he does. I just don't see how he can't go back an see them. If someone else has some insight on this I will gladly take it.
All in all I really enjoyed this episode and I'm going to fill the space between now and Christmas with my homework for Gally. That and running a show, but hey I still have awhile before it opens.
River tells him the Storm Cage was ages ago (she was pardoned), and she's a professor now. So she's past everything else we've seen of her to this point except the Library (assuming I've not missed something). :)
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