I agree! This episode was disappointing and sub-par. And I love Rory to pieces but I really wasn't nervous for him at all. Especially not after the excellently done Amy-forgets-all-about-him storyline. THAT one made me sad. So, yeah. Cute idea about sirens being alien hologram doctors, but not enough to hang the whole episode on I think.
Yeah, it was just so damn bland. More of a paint-by-numbers Doctor Who episode than an actual effort at telling a story. It hit all the right notes in the right order and probably reads fine on paper, but on screen it was a total blah-fest.
And yeah, I agree, the writer probably thought of the hook first -- "what if the thing they think is trying to kill them is actually trying to save them? Oh that is GENIUS" -- and then tossed in some pirates, cause everything's better with pirates, and . . . bleh.
Nothing's ever really explained either. Why were they becalmed? Why did the siren take the TARDIS? How did the siren take the TARDIS? If they were stuck on a rift how did they get the spaceship and the TARDIS out? How the hell did Rory come back to life after Amy's crapass CPR? Why was it so important that Amy do the CPR? He'd have stood a better chance with someone stronger doing the compressions since Amy was totally pants at it. How did Avery know how to fly the spaceship? I mean I know they had the bit in the TARDIS about "a ship's
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My understanding is that the TARDIS moved itself because it was confused about there being two ships in one point in space and had to pick one.
Also I've seen a theory that it's deliberate and a plot point that Rory keeps almost dying/fake-dying. Like, either he's supposed to be dead/non-existent so the universe keeps trying to erase him, or he's supposed to be alive and so basically immortal or something. I'm interested to see how that plays out.
Yeah I would be kinda pissed if I was the rest of the crew. No one asked their opinion.
My understanding is that the TARDIS moved itself because it was confused about there being two ships in one point in space and had to pick one.
Man, shows how much attention I was paying by that point. I figured the TARDIS had indigestion because of the two ships on one point in space and so the Siren took her because she was sick.
Also I've seen a theory that it's deliberate and a plot point that Rory keeps almost dying/fake-dying. Like, either he's supposed to be dead/non-existent so the universe keeps trying to erase him, or he's supposed to be alive and so basically immortal or something. I'm interested to see how that plays out.I think I've seen that theory too and was intrigued by it. I'm just not sure how to make it work because I'm not sure when he was supposed to have died. True, he died in the crack in the universe, but that was undone, Amy's parents are proof of that. The theory I saw went on to speculate that that was why Amy was Schrodenpregnant: because it was Rory's, and he was flipping between Auton Rory (plastic,
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And yeah, I agree, the writer probably thought of the hook first -- "what if the thing they think is trying to kill them is actually trying to save them? Oh that is GENIUS" -- and then tossed in some pirates, cause everything's better with pirates, and . . . bleh.
Nothing's ever really explained either. Why were they becalmed? Why did the siren take the TARDIS? How did the siren take the TARDIS? If they were stuck on a rift how did they get the spaceship and the TARDIS out? How the hell did Rory come back to life after Amy's crapass CPR? Why was it so important that Amy do the CPR? He'd have stood a better chance with someone stronger doing the compressions since Amy was totally pants at it. How did Avery know how to fly the spaceship? I mean I know they had the bit in the TARDIS about "a ship's ( ... )
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Also I've seen a theory that it's deliberate and a plot point that Rory keeps almost dying/fake-dying. Like, either he's supposed to be dead/non-existent so the universe keeps trying to erase him, or he's supposed to be alive and so basically immortal or something. I'm interested to see how that plays out.
Yeah I would be kinda pissed if I was the rest of the crew. No one asked their opinion.
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Man, shows how much attention I was paying by that point. I figured the TARDIS had indigestion because of the two ships on one point in space and so the Siren took her because she was sick.
Also I've seen a theory that it's deliberate and a plot point that Rory keeps almost dying/fake-dying. Like, either he's supposed to be dead/non-existent so the universe keeps trying to erase him, or he's supposed to be alive and so basically immortal or something. I'm interested to see how that plays out.I think I've seen that theory too and was intrigued by it. I'm just not sure how to make it work because I'm not sure when he was supposed to have died. True, he died in the crack in the universe, but that was undone, Amy's parents are proof of that. The theory I saw went on to speculate that that was why Amy was Schrodenpregnant: because it was Rory's, and he was flipping between Auton Rory (plastic, ( ... )
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