Day of the OMGWTFBBQ
Alright, let's get all of the ALKDSAJLA out of the way so I can attempt to get coherent reactions down:
OH MY FUCKING GOD WITH THE HOLY SHIT RIVER AND THE DOCTOR AND RORY AND EVERYONE BEING AWESOME AND CANTON AND AHFSLKHFKJFSAJSHDKJSHDAKJSF!
...okay. So. Now that that's (mostly) out of my system, my thoughts:That was a CRACKING good way to open a season! Jam-packed two-parter with turns and thrills and everything one could want. The Silence is my new personal nightmare, thank you very much Moff, but I'll forgive him because he seemed to go through a big-ass list of my personal head-canon and tick a shit load of boxes. Canton wanted to get married - to a man. Check! Rory remembers being roman but in a "sleep in my mind" way - check! The kid is possibly Amy&Rory's - ...check? OHWAITNOTIEMBABYOMRWTFBBQ. My new favorite theory for who River is is Lil Pond, btw - who seems to be in a state of temporal flux according to the scanner. And who may or may not be a Time Lady (Time Girl?) May I just say that the idea of regenerating that young broke my heart(s) into itty-bitty pieces? MOFF WTF ARE YOU DOING TO ME??? (Answer: HIS JOB. Moving on) And as for THE TERRIBLE THING that happened at the start of the season - I have officially filed it under "things to think about - URGENT!" which is to say I'm desperately NOT thinking about it.
I love love love love love forever that Rory's new pet name is officially "StupidFace" - I may start calling my husband that. I am also far more okay than I thought I would be with River and The Doctor being officially "an item" it would seem - at least I'm doing the Ron Weasley "If you must" face. I think it helps that if this lovely proper awkward mostly asexual Doctor is going to indulge in those shenanigans, he's at least going to a) be rubbish at them (look at him FLAIL when she's kissing him! he doesn't know what to do with his hands! XD) and b) partake in them with someone who kicks more ass than I thought it possible for the universe to contain! "Anthropology." *BLAM* A certain Doctor Jones (er, no, the White Male one) needs to watch himself lest he have "most ass-kicking Archeologist" title snurched out from under him. (Sorry, Daniel, you're a distant third)
Last on my list of things madly burbling out of my brain thanks to that episode is that we saw (and I'm stealing a phrase from Mike here) "the vengeful Machiavellian Ten and Seven style Doctor" in that beautiful, chilling engineer-hoist-by-his-own-petard poetic justice smackdown from hell he gave the Silence. Because (as he himself said) he was never going to let them go easy for this one. I find it so right that Eleven is a) very very capable of getting his Oncoming Storm on and b) only seems to resort to it when he is very very angry on a deeply personal/moral level. The Doctor is a scary mother bear - for the entire human race. ♥
Oh oh oh I just though of a final thing, one that made me happy: there was lots of Doctorly gestures of affection aimed at Rory - I admit I'd been afraid that favorites were going to be played but no, Rory and the Doctor got their reverse Bechdel moment, and he hugged him when he hugged Amy AND-AND-AND he gave him a little happy affectionate Doctor kiss on the forehead which made me melt into a puddle of happy Ampersand-shippy goo. I 'ship Doctor&Rory hardcore (well, Doctor&Ponds, but Rory is often neglected) so that got my platonic mush heart all gooey in a warm fuzzy way.
Okay so I tried the other day a risky maneuver called Earthquake which has a chance to make your eggs hatch early at the risk of killing some or all of them - I will not be trying that again. Here's my (mostly) new selection of eggs:
Please click, if you can!
[Rory] ...and what are you a Doctor of, exactly?
[River] *while blowing away a baddie over her shoulder without looking* Archeology.
-Doctor Who, "Day of the Moon"
OH MY FUCKING GOD WITH THE HOLY SHIT RIVER AND THE DOCTOR AND RORY AND EVERYONE BEING AWESOME AND CANTON AND AHFSLKHFKJFSAJSHDKJSHDAKJSF!
...okay. So. Now that that's (mostly) out of my system, my thoughts:That was a CRACKING good way to open a season! Jam-packed two-parter with turns and thrills and everything one could want. The Silence is my new personal nightmare, thank you very much Moff, but I'll forgive him because he seemed to go through a big-ass list of my personal head-canon and tick a shit load of boxes. Canton wanted to get married - to a man. Check! Rory remembers being roman but in a "sleep in my mind" way - check! The kid is possibly Amy&Rory's - ...check? OHWAITNOTIEMBABYOMRWTFBBQ. My new favorite theory for who River is is Lil Pond, btw - who seems to be in a state of temporal flux according to the scanner. And who may or may not be a Time Lady (Time Girl?) May I just say that the idea of regenerating that young broke my heart(s) into itty-bitty pieces? MOFF WTF ARE YOU DOING TO ME??? (Answer: HIS JOB. Moving on) And as for THE TERRIBLE THING that happened at the start of the season - I have officially filed it under "things to think about - URGENT!" which is to say I'm desperately NOT thinking about it.
I love love love love love forever that Rory's new pet name is officially "StupidFace" - I may start calling my husband that. I am also far more okay than I thought I would be with River and The Doctor being officially "an item" it would seem - at least I'm doing the Ron Weasley "If you must" face. I think it helps that if this lovely proper awkward mostly asexual Doctor is going to indulge in those shenanigans, he's at least going to a) be rubbish at them (look at him FLAIL when she's kissing him! he doesn't know what to do with his hands! XD) and b) partake in them with someone who kicks more ass than I thought it possible for the universe to contain! "Anthropology." *BLAM* A certain Doctor Jones (er, no, the White Male one) needs to watch himself lest he have "most ass-kicking Archeologist" title snurched out from under him. (Sorry, Daniel, you're a distant third)
Last on my list of things madly burbling out of my brain thanks to that episode is that we saw (and I'm stealing a phrase from Mike here) "the vengeful Machiavellian Ten and Seven style Doctor" in that beautiful, chilling engineer-hoist-by-his-own-petard poetic justice smackdown from hell he gave the Silence. Because (as he himself said) he was never going to let them go easy for this one. I find it so right that Eleven is a) very very capable of getting his Oncoming Storm on and b) only seems to resort to it when he is very very angry on a deeply personal/moral level. The Doctor is a scary mother bear - for the entire human race. ♥
Oh oh oh I just though of a final thing, one that made me happy: there was lots of Doctorly gestures of affection aimed at Rory - I admit I'd been afraid that favorites were going to be played but no, Rory and the Doctor got their reverse Bechdel moment, and he hugged him when he hugged Amy AND-AND-AND he gave him a little happy affectionate Doctor kiss on the forehead which made me melt into a puddle of happy Ampersand-shippy goo. I 'ship Doctor&Rory hardcore (well, Doctor&Ponds, but Rory is often neglected) so that got my platonic mush heart all gooey in a warm fuzzy way.
Okay so I tried the other day a risky maneuver called Earthquake which has a chance to make your eggs hatch early at the risk of killing some or all of them - I will not be trying that again. Here's my (mostly) new selection of eggs:
Please click, if you can!
[Rory] ...and what are you a Doctor of, exactly?
[River] *while blowing away a baddie over her shoulder without looking* Archeology.
-Doctor Who, "Day of the Moon"