nineveh_uk | Doctor Who

Does that mean that you liked it, or were you a tad disappointed? (No spoilers, please - I'll have to wait a few more hours, but I'm impatient and all for instant gratification...)

I thoroughly enjoyed it.

FEZZES ARE COOL!

So was this episode.

Bizarrely, I guessed. But I meant it as a joke and was dumbfounded when it happened.

I wasn't expecting much, since most of this season I've been thinking 'too much confusing arc plot, too much sketched-in stuff that I'd sooner see a bit more explanation of, and I'd really prefer more in the way of River Song doing her own thing rather than everything being predestined' but I actually enjoyed the finale a lot. Certainly more than any of the Ten finales, which mostly left me wondering whether I should buy a mouthguard to go over the mouthguard I already own for when I grind my teeth.

I enjoyed it a lot, but though I like a good romp, I like a really well-constructed plot even more. Moffat conceals his plot holes well at the time of watching, but I wish he didn't always seem to be in such a hurry.

I wondered about it as a solution, but not too thoroughly. I think it calls for crackfic though - the teenyweeny people trying to escape the burning ship after the transporter beam is damaged by fire...

Does this mean that River and the Doctor get married again properly? Because in Silence in the Library, River whispers something to Ten and he says that she could only have know it if... (did he say married or did fandom fill it in?).

You know what could be absolutely brilliant? A revisitation of Silence in the Library where the actual Silence are involved. It would have to be done in a Trouble with Tribbles/Trial and Tribbilations way.

The Doctor had the TARDIS inside the Tesselector, though, so presumably he gave the teenyweeny people a lift home after they let their ship be burnt for him.

And in the Library episode Ten says 'there's only one time I could have told you' (the clip was on last night's Confidential, where they did a montage of River's life in order of her timeline) - I think that may mean she'll be there at 'the fall of the eleventh' where it sounds as though he'll be forced to reveal it.

(And I completely agree about a Trials and Tribbleations version of Silence in the Library, that would be awesome!)

Didn't it say something about the Tesselector being "barely singed" - or I may be making that up.

I think he said he was barely singed, rather than the ship. Though I guess they could have let it drift out into the lake and then tesselated into a fish or something and swum out again.

For someone with an English degree, I can be rubbish at spotting the obvious - I've said before that I failed to notice Jean Brodie was a fascist. But also I was lead astray by the fact that the teenyweeny people of LKH were the moral equivalent of mid-ranking Nazis.

Goodness knows about the Doctor and River. I think if I were her I'd be really, really angry about having to spend my life in prison for a murder I didn't commit. Why can't the Doctor fake her death and let her out?

I love the Silence in the library idea!

Edited 2011-10-02 18:33 (UTC)

I suspect the Doctor of thinking that actually, the universe is a damn sight safer with River Song safely locked up; she has basically been trained from birth to be a psychopathic killer and I don't think her conversion to the Doctor's side has changed that (she was, after all, prepared to let everybody else in the universe die rather than live with the pain of knowing she'd killed the Doctor, which seems pretty psychopathic to me).

Of course, it may also be that she's safer in prison; the teenyweeny people may not be the only ones who think she deserves more than prison for killing the Doctor, after all.

The Doctor may well be right re. River Song being dangerous, but she's not alone - the Doctor was willing to change a fixed point in time so he didn't have to feel bad about the death of Adelaide Brook? That said, lots of [beings] would like to see the Doctor locked up!

I have decided to erase the RTD/Tennant specials from my personal canon, because the Doctor was so ridiculously OOC in them. Though of course the whole point of the last two seasons has been to show the Doctor that he's done too much of the big messianic stuff and needs to go back to pottering round the Universe solving much smaller problems.

I wasn't expecting that either.

Best season finale in a long time.

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