Doctor Who
Rorrrrrrrrrrrrrryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Which was sad, but appropriately sad given it was a Siluran story.
And we not only did get a lot of the cast of both species still alive at the end but also the voiceover of hope that in a thousand years time both might manage to grow up enough to share.
So, less bleak than Warriors and we had two human women negotiating for us rather than the alien trying on behalf of us like in Silurians, and no third party like the Master making the death toll higher than human/silurian weakness would make it anyway. So, Bonus.
The overall arc got TARDIS Go Big Bang as cause of the cracks.
The simple human drama got the double loss of Rory and that incredible scene between Amy and Eleven.
We got women of both species who gave in to the worst side of their nature.
We got women fighting for their people and those they loved.
We got human women speaking for their people, even if they don't have a democratic mandate or the consent of the inhabitants of the Outback, Sahara or American deserts.
We got the Good as well as the Grey Silurians we've been lacking since The Silurians, though it would have been better to have some of those be women Silurians rather than Green Men.
We got good nurturing men worthy of their women.
Even if one of them won't be remembered by her.
Which is tragic but is shown as such, which is good.
The change in who is waving showed time in flux and that our people are in danger from the crack and paid off the opener appropriately tragically.
It isn't a gun on the wall, it is an engament ring box in the Time Machine.
So, overall it was a good story
And very sad.
But good sad.
Which was sad, but appropriately sad given it was a Siluran story.
And we not only did get a lot of the cast of both species still alive at the end but also the voiceover of hope that in a thousand years time both might manage to grow up enough to share.
So, less bleak than Warriors and we had two human women negotiating for us rather than the alien trying on behalf of us like in Silurians, and no third party like the Master making the death toll higher than human/silurian weakness would make it anyway. So, Bonus.
The overall arc got TARDIS Go Big Bang as cause of the cracks.
The simple human drama got the double loss of Rory and that incredible scene between Amy and Eleven.
We got women of both species who gave in to the worst side of their nature.
We got women fighting for their people and those they loved.
We got human women speaking for their people, even if they don't have a democratic mandate or the consent of the inhabitants of the Outback, Sahara or American deserts.
We got the Good as well as the Grey Silurians we've been lacking since The Silurians, though it would have been better to have some of those be women Silurians rather than Green Men.
We got good nurturing men worthy of their women.
Even if one of them won't be remembered by her.
Which is tragic but is shown as such, which is good.
The change in who is waving showed time in flux and that our people are in danger from the crack and paid off the opener appropriately tragically.
It isn't a gun on the wall, it is an engament ring box in the Time Machine.
So, overall it was a good story
And very sad.
But good sad.