So, the finale of season 5 of Doctor Who has come and gone and the more I think about it the more I need to share my thoughts. Warning- Spoilers (as River would say). SERIOUSLY - do not read further if you haven't seen it!
So 'The Pandorica Opens' ended with all seeming pretty lost. The daleks, sontarans, nestene etc (noticed a Hoix and a Blowfish in the crowd) had joined forces and locked the Doctor inside the Pandorica, Nestene-Rory shot Amy and the TARDIS was being controlled from outside and River was stuck inside as a voice said that silence would fall and then the TARDIS exploded and the universe started ending.
And then we get to the Big Bang. I was expecting great things and while I thought the episode was pretty awesome it wasn't "season finale awesome". Look at previous season finales, season one we have the Bad Wolf reveal, daleks, Jacks death and resurrection and Rose absorbing the time vortex (not to mention the regeneration from 9 to 10). Season 2 we have the HUGE Doomsday with cyberman vs daleks and Roses "death". Season 3 we have the Master, Martha's saga, Jack and the Toclaphane. Season 4 we have the DoctorDonna, Davros and the saddest moment in any episode ever.
Then we have season 5 and I had such high hopes, I mean Doctor Eleven has proved awesome, I love Amy and Steven Moffat has been behind some of my favorite episodes. Instead of being full of win this episode has a SINGLE half dead dalek as the only real enemy and the Doctor totally crosses his own timeline and causes loopy timey paradoxy bull crap. Last time there was interference like that the Reapers tried to purify the wound in time it created (Fathers Day, season 1) but maybe the cracks that were erasing everything got the Reapers. Anyway, it just seems really douchey, I mean if the Doctor did that kind of thing there's really no point to the show, he can never lose cos he can just rewrite time how he chooses. It really was reminiscent of Bill and Ted, remember them getting the cell keys cos they were the ones who stole them days before etc? It really seemed like a cheap and nasty way out. Also, too much was left unanswered! We don't find out what caused the TARDIS to explode, who was controlling it, what the silence was, and how did River get to Amy's wedding and why since she never knew the Doctor in the first place and shouldn't have had the TARDIS journal at all, whether blank or not. Hopefully some of tis will be answered at Christmas or next season but I don't think so much should have been left hanging.
Having said all that there WAS a LOT that was awesome about this episode...
The revisit to Amelia's prayer, I loved it the first time. Also the return of Amelia :)
The Fez, "Fez's are cool"! And the way Amy and River deal with it.
Speaking of River, she was awesome. Can't wait to see more of her and glad she didn't die.
The Doctors dance moves, hilarious!
Rory! Oh Rory! I've loved Rory since episode one when he revealed that he used to dress as the Doctor for Amy when they were kids. Nestene-Rory was sweet, the way he punched the Doctor, him staying with the Pandorica as the Centurion. Being Mr Pond, lol!
The reveal about the fate of Amy's parents. I suspected but was nice to have confirmation. Her Tiny Dad! Rofl!
Everything about the wedding! The phone call before, Amy's dad not being ready etc
The story and the saying. Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue! LOVE it!!!
The Doctor accidentally proposing to River.
The fact Rory and Amy are both on board for the trip to the Orient Express (in space)
There's more but GNW is on and my hands getting sore.
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I forgot - the dalek begging River for mercy! Freaking awesome!!
ReplyDeleteOkay, I think I have figured some stuff out.
ReplyDeleteThe cracks and the "silence will fall" stuff is the TARDIS' explosion, before it happened. It's the effect of that on time/space. When little Amy was chastised for believing in stars when clearly there weren't any, it was because of the TARDIS destroying everything. When there's not anything left, there's silence. Make sense?
I still haven't worked out who was controlling the TARDIS or why it went off to explode, but if we can somehow stretch ourselves to take that as a given, then I think the silence and the cracks are explainable in that way.
The episode itself was incredibly lame. I've never been so disappointed in a Dr Who season finale. It was absolutely terrible. I'm sure our puppies could write a more exciting and fitting end to the first season of the new Dr.