Yes, Ellen said exactly the same thing - about not knowing where to begin. I am sure it won't be something as simple as "it was all a dream," but I also think there is some serious mucking with perceptions here, even beyond what has already been established with the Silence. For instance, I think there might be a power behind the Silence. Or something. I don't know. We do know that whatever was happening with Amy in this sequence was already seriously WTF, with the picture of her with the baby, and the child - her child? but she's just pregnant now? - busting out of the suit just when Amy is getting abducted, and the way she just *had to tell the Doctor she was pregnant right then* before she shot the space suit last time...
I smell a wibbly wobbly timey wimey thing.
I actually really like Moffat's ability to creep me out. His episodes were easily my favorites during the RTD years, and a couple of them were downright scary the first time. I couldn't bear RTD's OTT apocalypses, personally.
But oddly enough I was not so creeped out by 6.01-02. I love Matt Smith's light, comic affect, and Eleventy's warmth and sexiness and connection with people. I find him so much less tragic and serious than 9 or 10. I think the dialogue's been really witty and funny. I adore River. And I love that HDGF will actually watch with me now!
Oh, don't get me wrong, I love Moffatt and Eleven. I just easily get creeped out, and the Silence managed to push my buttons very effectively.
(Even if (because?) they were highly reminiscent of the bad guys in the Buffy episode "Hush"!)
I'm with you on almost all that weirdness. There's a lot of wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff going on, and since they've explicitly never said what made Amy so Special w/r/t last season's universe-rewriting, I think it's more than just an issue of the Doctor and his companions.
The one thing that made sense to me in context was Amy telling the Doctor she was pregnant then. Yes, the timing was odd, but I saw it as a mixup: the Silence telling her to tell the Doctor "what must not be said" (his coming death), but her interpreting that as her pregnancy. Though . . . hmm. I'm starting to lean more toward your perspective.
Gah, I want to see what happens this season! They don't usually set up the season-plot-arc with so many questions quite so explicitly; even the time crack was more of an ongoing unsolved mystery.
Hah, I said on FB that they were a cross between the Gentlemen ("Hush") and the Dementors.
I think there may be a couple things still hanging out from last season. We just rewatched Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead (hdgf likes River YAY!), and it was so tightly consistent with everything that has come after. Very cool, IMO>
I smell a wibbly wobbly timey wimey thing.
I actually really like Moffat's ability to creep me out. His episodes were easily my favorites during the RTD years, and a couple of them were downright scary the first time. I couldn't bear RTD's OTT apocalypses, personally.
But oddly enough I was not so creeped out by 6.01-02. I love Matt Smith's light, comic affect, and Eleventy's warmth and sexiness and connection with people. I find him so much less tragic and serious than 9 or 10. I think the dialogue's been really witty and funny. I adore River. And I love that HDGF will actually watch with me now!
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(Even if (because?) they were highly reminiscent of the bad guys in the Buffy episode "Hush"!)
I'm with you on almost all that weirdness. There's a lot of wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff going on, and since they've explicitly never said what made Amy so Special w/r/t last season's universe-rewriting, I think it's more than just an issue of the Doctor and his companions.
The one thing that made sense to me in context was Amy telling the Doctor she was pregnant then. Yes, the timing was odd, but I saw it as a mixup: the Silence telling her to tell the Doctor "what must not be said" (his coming death), but her interpreting that as her pregnancy. Though . . . hmm. I'm starting to lean more toward your perspective.
Gah, I want to see what happens this season! They don't usually set up the season-plot-arc with so many questions quite so explicitly; even the time crack was more of an ongoing unsolved mystery.
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I think there may be a couple things still hanging out from last season. We just rewatched Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead (hdgf likes River YAY!), and it was so tightly consistent with everything that has come after. Very cool, IMO>
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