The Pandorica Has Opened (Spoiler Free)

[meltroid]

...and I don't know how I'll survive the tension of waiting until 26/06/2010! Super episode, great pulling together of threads, loosening of others and cliffhanging.

Points to note from the series to date: 1) we haven't yet had the usual "Doctor lite" episode 2) we haven't yet seen the Tardis console design from Susannah of LancashireA week ago

Comments

[nonesuchhouse]

I'm looking forward to the fairytale playout and; you know who building, you know what, in you know where (that's about as spoiler free as I can manage - assuming I'm right).

I iz excited!!!

[meltroid]

It occurs to me that in a recent episode the Doctor actually did a certain thing that could be construed as evidence of the viability of a certain person building a certain thing next week.

[routemaster159]

The problem with the fairy tale idea is that I've been on the watch-out for any use of the tropes: when I see references to Red Riding Hood (or Red Riding Hoodie) in Flesh and Stone and the Bad Step-mother trope in Vampires of Venice am I seeing their deliberate use? It's one of the perils of education.

[meltroid]

The Red Riding Hood thing was definitely intentional. Setting Amy up in the forest, surrounded by evil beasties, was a piece of genius. Whether it was relevant or misdirection I'm still not sure. Given the way SM totally misdirected me in the latest episode ("what lurks in the Pandorica?") I'm not placing any bets. But the fairy tale thing has been there since episode one when the Doctor said that the name Amelia Pond was like something from a fairy story. Part of me is still expecting Amy to turn out to be a changeling princess from another dimension.

[routemaster159]

My misspent early (actually for quite a large value of early) adulthood made me puzzle over why SM would misdirect you... What about the influence of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy?

[routemaster159]

SM mentioned in Dr Who Confidential for the first episode that the universe that DW inhabits is a fairy tale one, so I've been on the look-out for anything that could possibly be a reference. A young woman, wearing a red hooded garment, menaced in a forest was pretty obvious; I just don't know what it signifies.

Look at the very loose threads left hanging: a duck pond with no ducks in a story with a character called Pond (whose forename is a bit like the Latin for duck); the dolls of Amy, the Doctor and the Tardis; Amy's improbable, too-large, house; her aunt, living in a different house; whatever left the tracks behind when River Song went back to Amy's house. How much of the series since Amy's Choice has actually taken place?

[meltroid]

I've just realised: chameleon circuit

[nonesuchhouse]

I have any number of theories, but they come down to the fact that the TARDIS seems to be the one doing all the work at the moment.

(Maybe it's the TARDIS having regeneration problems for a change.)

I also think the Doctor might have been in that box for a while.

However the stone Dalek image in this weeks RT and online has got me going down other routes (the most obvious being more young Amy Pond books about mythology).

I'm not looking for deep, I'm looking for an end of series that does not say '... and they woke up and it was all a dream (never happened)'.

[nonesuchhouse]

That was me, I was signed in and everything!?!