doctor who: the angels take manhattan

[usuallyhats]

Short version: in the end, not terribly impressed.

To be fair, the iPlayer kept buffering, which didn't really enhance the watching experience, but I thought it was pretty great... up until "Amelia Williams". NOPE. THAT IS NOT HER NAME. And once I was angry about that, I got annoyed that the reasons for not being able to go back for Rory made no sense: they might not have been able to go back to New York, but surely they could've gone to, say, Philadelphia and pinched another car. And the gravestone's easily dealt with: there's not necessarily anyone actually IN that grave. Bah. Those two things basically killed the episode for me: I was just starting to cry when that stupid "Amelia Williams" appeared and I started swearing instead. So we now have a complete set of New Who companion departures I've disliked. And it's all the same problem - refusing to allow the Doctor and his companions to just go their separate ways, without having to have them be separated! forever! Why can't we have companions who go "that was fun, but we've had enough now"? And "we jumped off a building together and are now slightly traumatised" would be an EXCELLENT reason to want to call it a day.

(I was really hoping that they weren't going to go the "Amy and Rory are sent back in time" route, also, because what about Brian, and Amy's parents, and their awesome life we saw last week?)

THERE WAS SO MUCH GOOD STUFF IN THAT EPISODE WHY DID THEY HAVE TO FUMBLE IT AT THE LAST MINUTE ARGH.

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Comments

[wils.livejournal.com]

I was struck by the driving-from-Philadelphia theory too, but then again wouldn't the Doctor's reading of the final page of River's novel (Amy's afterword, it went something along the lines of 'we will never meet again') have created a fixed point which cannot be changed, and hence no more possibility of rescues / meetups ...? Same thing with the Doctor seeing their gravestone - makes their deaths a fixed point.

My thoughts :)

[usuallyhats]

True, but I don't think it would've been a fixed point until someone read it, though, would it? And just because he saw the gravestone doesn't mean they were necessarily buried there, or that they got there in a linear way... I did like the way the "last page" thing worked out, but I felt like the only reason the Doctor couldn't go back for them was because Moffat had decided he couldn't, if you see what I mean?