The Big Bang - my review. Spoilers, obviously.

[sensiblecat]

...and spending the rest of the evening trying not to cry into my mussels (almost the only thing the local had left on the menu, since the glorious weather seemed to have caught them by surprise).

I had an awful lot of questions but I can live with them not all being answered. They weren’t, as it happens (duck pond, anyone? When did Amelia’s

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[altariel]

That was lovely, thank you.

[sensiblecat]

Thanks very much! How is the book selling?

[altariel]

Pre-orders at Amazon are looking healthy: doing well in the SF chart there. Release date is 8th July, so it should peak over the next few weeks.

[parrot_knight]

I like this review. Thank you. (though I'm happy to assume that the duck pond now has ducks in it...)

[sensiblecat]

I've very much enjoyed your more academic and well-informed speculations, too.

[azalaisdep]

As per my own review, I am really hoping that next series, shorn of the requirement to be a Screaming Plot Device, Amy might become a whole character and I may therefore start both believing in and caring about what happens to her (and by extension Rory). I found it terribly frustrating this series that because Moff killed off and resurrected Rory every five minutes according to the requirements of the current plot, I soon stopped believing anything that was said/shown about their relationship, since the writer(s) couldn't be bothered to believe in it either.

That's a very interesting point about remembering-the-Doctor being a riposte to RTD; the one I spotted was the Doctor's rewind of his timeline emphatically stopping while he was still Eleven, "won't bother with the rest of the rewind, I hate repeats". "I reject you, RTD, and all your works..."?

[sensiblecat]

The Nine/Rose/Jack dynamic (the last significant trio) has been upended by Moffat. Rory has Rose's compassion and bravery, while Amy has a rather obvious sexuality and outrageousness. It's a nice way of subverting gender stereotypes without going down the Gay Agenda lane too far

[np_complete]

I have to admit I liked River tormenting the Dalek. To me it suggested more back story than all the glimpses of filled pages in her diary.

She hated that thing. She really, really, hated it, and responded with a kind of steady, practiced, unelaborated rage that suggests a long history with them. And that's something we haven't even seen hinted before. (She's turned up so many times it's hard to remember, but this is the first time we've seen her and the Daleks in the same place.)

[toledom]

Like you, it infuriates me when people say David Who?, etc. It doesn't take long, does it

[mrs_roy]

*Clears throat* ... and Ten and Rose are living happily ever after in Pete's world having tiem!babeez while Ten2, who is actually now 11, after gaining his second heart upon regeneration has finally reconciled feelings within himself, to the point where he's ready to move on knowing that all is right with the world again. That, and the fact that he has to figure out who the hell River is and ditch her quick smart!

No?

[mrs_roy]

It's really the only way I'm able to explain 11 away. It also accounts for most of the OOC things 'Ten' did post WoM. Regenerate into a whole new man, who reverts back to that child like status as a coping mechanism.

I've not seen the finale, so I can't comment on that, well I could, but it wouldnt really be fair of me to do so. I think, if we really think logically, there's always an out.

Moffat really has no place dissing DT/RTD. I was mad with RTD after JE, but he maintains the Ten/Rose love story and I can't hate him for that. As for DT, the man is brilliant. Matt Smith, eh, he's a fine Doctor, but he's not THE DOCTOR!

I'm anxious to see what you come up with now, Rae.