DW Cold Blood.

[lyssie]

I'm not sure how to process that.

There are parts of this and the prior episode that are just marvelous:
Amy Pond picking a lizardman's pocket (Parker approves)
How most of the action revolves around women: Amy, Ambrose, Alaya, Alaya's sister the General, Nasreen. They make the decisions, they move and shift and change the course of history. The men are mostly just appendages (outside of the scientist and the leader dude, and even they're passive).
The city and the tunnels are beautiful, but I'm not loving the Silurian masks so much. They're not awful, though.
The factions amongst the lizards, which is an echo to The Silurians where there were, what, a triumvirate? And they had fights and arguments.
That both of these episodes are just lush and lovely and all that thing.

There are things I was expecting:
The narration was a bit ludicrous and misleading, and I expected it to not be the reality (despite the fabulous "let's negotiate" scene).
The crack contains pieces of the TARDIS. The Doctor causes the cracks. Or Amy causes it (when the Pandorica opens?). Does River kill Amy?

There is one thing... I was not expecting. And I still don't know how to process it. I just. I don't. I can't even manage that Amy's forgotten him, especially after the Doctor told her to remember. Was that a futile gesture? Was he hoping that she'd remember, even when she couldn't?

What else would the Doctor go back to tell her to remember?

Is Amy the one who causes it, knowing it will get Rory back? Knowing that he shouldn't have died (that was like an extra stake to the heart, the crack wrapping around him)

Would the crack have eaten Amy, too?

Eleven, is your lot in life going to be remembering those you've lost? Not everyone lived, this time around.

I refuse to believe she can forget him.

Somewhere, I expect Rory is sitting at a table, trying to figure out why the guy on his right has a wing tattoo and jokes about being a robot. Rory and Anders, best dead buddies ever?

This season has... it has been so good. I've loved it, and I'll continue loving it. It's just a shock to get over.

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[lyssie.livejournal.com]

I have this suspicion that it's going to end up playing into what causes the cracks, and that Amy will be... haunted by it and not know why she is.

That's what I'd do, at least, and this season has been pretty good at doing the things I'd do. So. (I can't keep hoping, mind)

And, really, I should've been suspicious, as Chibnall wrote Exit Wounds, the last episode of Torchwood series two, and, well, he's got a history with this sort of "...you did NOT..." thing.

[wishfulaces.livejournal.com]

I really, really hope she *is* haunted by it because otherwise, it was a relationship for nothing. And making your audience remember and care when your characters don't is just a way to make me really, really unhappy.

Of course, I just finished watching it ten minutes ago and I'm still at the NOO stage.