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Doctor Who 7x4-5
I'm not entirely sure I even have my thoughts together, but I ought to at least say something, so that when I clicked my tags, I'm not like "why did I never talk about those episodes?"
My thoughts on 7x4 boil down to: the plot was pointless (BUT THAT WAS THE POINT, after all), Amy looked so hot with her hair up in that dress I just... unf. (also, she looked like Anne Shirley). KATE STEWART. EXCUSE ME.
I can't even explain how fucking amazing Kate Stewart is. Nor how lovely the very idea of her is, nor how she slotted so wonderfully into canon.
BASICALLY, Moff saved UNIT from being Black Air, and it's now WHO again. So thank fuck for that. (I mean, UNIT weren't always lovely, even in ye olden days, but RTD's take was a bit... meh. Like, I'd totally believe newskool UNIT would murder the Warpies to autopsy them and shit.)
ok, also, ALL THE CROSSOVERS EVER NOW. Alistair Stuart is totally Kate's mentor, and they get together every so often and he whiiiines about Wisdom, and she moans about how people dislike the changes she's made. And then he asks after her dad and the Doctor, and they devolve into technical discussions about the effects of magic upon time travel and technology's applications in the world of Faerie.
And sometimes Liz Shaw wanders by with scotch, and mocks Alistair for that cross-time caper thing.
If Brian Braddock shows up, it's a party that Wisdom will whine about not being invited to four seconds before he calls them all eggheads.
I seriously had not considered this until now.
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7x5
So. I've known for a while that the Ponds were leaving. Not really a disappointment, as, well. Oldskool fan. Companions leave. It's a fact of life one deals with and moves on.
I've also had a pretty good idea how they were going to go--at least, once I'd heard the Angels would be involved. I was holding out a vague hope that it would just be Moff trolling, but it wasn't (well, it was, but not in the way I'd initially thought). Because there's really only so many ways an encounter with Weeping Angels will go, and the Ponds were at the end of their tenure. I did have a vague worry that he'd be worse and kill them, but he didn't.
A part of me feels like he did it the way he did in an attempt to echo some of the earlier newskool exits--ie, Rose's, which meant it would be impossible for her to get back. One hopes he doesn't try to bring the Ponds back (although, ultimate trolling would be achieved). I mean, I like them, but I'm ready for someone new.
The episode itself was entertaining--I love noir and Weeping Angels. AND OMG THE STATUE OF LIBERTY. That was. It was priceless.
The emotional beats were also good and jolly and wrenching and lovely. And when Amy said "Melody." like that, my heart broke. I couldn't even deal with her saying goodbye to her daughter, while planning for her future. It just. ugh. SO GOOD.
So, yeah, Rory didn't really get to choose his destiny, and Amy was between a rock and a hard place, but I fucking love that she made that choice all on her own. No one lectured her on what would be good for her, no one listened to her pleading for her life, no one lost her between one episode and the next (with only some off-hand mention of staying with people, because the actress's contract ended), no one exiled her from the TARDIS because of ~love, no one said she couldn't go to Gallifrey, no one married some warrior king/or got shot when her body was stolen... To be fair, companions generally leave on their own terms. Martha, Nyssa, Babs and Ian, Leela, Jo Grant, Liz Shaw, Romana, Mel...
Well. All right, some of them do.
But yes. Amy made her choice. So I'm happy about that.
I envision them living out their lives and being ~awesome~. I know there's some sort of coda thing out there, but it didn't fill in any of the questions I wanted answered.
(fandom has mostly taken care of that)
Hrm. I think that's all I had to say.
My thoughts on 7x4 boil down to: the plot was pointless (BUT THAT WAS THE POINT, after all), Amy looked so hot with her hair up in that dress I just... unf. (also, she looked like Anne Shirley). KATE STEWART. EXCUSE ME.
I can't even explain how fucking amazing Kate Stewart is. Nor how lovely the very idea of her is, nor how she slotted so wonderfully into canon.
BASICALLY, Moff saved UNIT from being Black Air, and it's now WHO again. So thank fuck for that. (I mean, UNIT weren't always lovely, even in ye olden days, but RTD's take was a bit... meh. Like, I'd totally believe newskool UNIT would murder the Warpies to autopsy them and shit.)
ok, also, ALL THE CROSSOVERS EVER NOW. Alistair Stuart is totally Kate's mentor, and they get together every so often and he whiiiines about Wisdom, and she moans about how people dislike the changes she's made. And then he asks after her dad and the Doctor, and they devolve into technical discussions about the effects of magic upon time travel and technology's applications in the world of Faerie.
And sometimes Liz Shaw wanders by with scotch, and mocks Alistair for that cross-time caper thing.
If Brian Braddock shows up, it's a party that Wisdom will whine about not being invited to four seconds before he calls them all eggheads.
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7x5
So. I've known for a while that the Ponds were leaving. Not really a disappointment, as, well. Oldskool fan. Companions leave. It's a fact of life one deals with and moves on.
I've also had a pretty good idea how they were going to go--at least, once I'd heard the Angels would be involved. I was holding out a vague hope that it would just be Moff trolling, but it wasn't (well, it was, but not in the way I'd initially thought). Because there's really only so many ways an encounter with Weeping Angels will go, and the Ponds were at the end of their tenure. I did have a vague worry that he'd be worse and kill them, but he didn't.
A part of me feels like he did it the way he did in an attempt to echo some of the earlier newskool exits--ie, Rose's, which meant it would be impossible for her to get back. One hopes he doesn't try to bring the Ponds back (although, ultimate trolling would be achieved). I mean, I like them, but I'm ready for someone new.
The episode itself was entertaining--I love noir and Weeping Angels. AND OMG THE STATUE OF LIBERTY. That was. It was priceless.
The emotional beats were also good and jolly and wrenching and lovely. And when Amy said "Melody." like that, my heart broke. I couldn't even deal with her saying goodbye to her daughter, while planning for her future. It just. ugh. SO GOOD.
So, yeah, Rory didn't really get to choose his destiny, and Amy was between a rock and a hard place, but I fucking love that she made that choice all on her own. No one lectured her on what would be good for her, no one listened to her pleading for her life, no one lost her between one episode and the next (with only some off-hand mention of staying with people, because the actress's contract ended), no one exiled her from the TARDIS because of ~love, no one said she couldn't go to Gallifrey, no one married some warrior king/or got shot when her body was stolen... To be fair, companions generally leave on their own terms. Martha, Nyssa, Babs and Ian, Leela, Jo Grant, Liz Shaw, Romana, Mel...
Well. All right, some of them do.
But yes. Amy made her choice. So I'm happy about that.
I envision them living out their lives and being ~awesome~. I know there's some sort of coda thing out there, but it didn't fill in any of the questions I wanted answered.
(fandom has mostly taken care of that)
Hrm. I think that's all I had to say.
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I'm going to miss the Ponds like crazy but I agree that it's time for a new Companion. And if she's even half as fabulous as Oswin, I'll love her :)
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(I want Kate Stewart!)
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Could you actually direct me to some good Pond Who fic? I haven't read any fanfic in far too long...
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Pretty much everything ever by Such_Heights, but most especially Seven Weeks (http://such-heights.dreamwidth.org/400776.html) (warning for ot3ness).
I'm quite fond of everything I've read by lizbee, especially Detectives, Adventurers and Girls Who Don't Wait Around: The Paradox of Amelia J. Williams (http://lizbee.dreamwidth.org/1218431.html) (which is spoilery, and not necessarily about the Ponds). I just read The Think Tank (http://lizbee.dreamwidth.org/1106361.html) which is amusing (but still not completely Ponds)
I'm sure there's more (I'm trying to find the link to that Amy/Rory cheerupathon that someone hosted recently. Maybe hek
eta: here it is http://ladymercury-10.livejournal.com/46296.html
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She's Alistair Stewart's child.
Alistair Stuart (he might have an 'e' on the end, I don't remember) and his sister Alysande run the Weird Happenings Organisation, Marvel's (Claremont and Davis's) Excalibur's answer to UNIT (circa 1988).
Alistair Stuart is the scientist, his twin sister is the Brigadier. They're both pretty awesome (Alistair's still kicking around these days, last seen in Captain Britain and MI-13 where he was running Wisdom as an agent. Alysande died in Excalibur, though it's the sort of death I handwave as not being real--after all, this is Marvel Comics we're talking about. They brought COLOSSUS back from being burned to ashes. So.)
And I assume Kate is Alistair and Doris's child. Or his child from an earlier marriage (excuse me while I imagine that time Ace and Shou Yuing baby-sat)