Well.
We were right in a way that the Pandorica was made to hold the Doctor. It looks like Rory isn't actually alive, but is a construction made from Amy's memory. When Rory first spoke about waking up with Roman memories, I thought it was the other way around -- that Amy had stolen him from the past because she loved Roman history, and that being a Roman was his true life that he woke up to after dying in Amy's life.
You think too much
But I also note that hope now is what is left in the box. So it fits with the myth.
And it is strange how the words describing what is in the box (goblin, trickster, warrior, soaked in the blood of.... most feared being &c) fits so well when you see the Doctor from the perspective of his enemies. "Nothing could stop it or hold it or reason with it. One day it would just drop out of the sky and tear down your world". So true. No wonder they finally had enough.
Instead, it was the Alliance of Big Bads using Amy's memories to construct a trap for the Doctor. I wonder if that's all it is.
I want there to be more. Which seems a little unfair, because if this were Davies that would have been the point in the finale. But this is Moffat and my expectations are high.
There's still Jacket Doctor. There's still the need to remember. The Doctor said it right out loud in this episode -- if something is remembered, it can come back. That's what the duck pond meant, like I said. But I don't know how that will play out, or if it will mean anything, or if Amy can still bring the real Rory back now that she's remembering him, because she can't be dead just yet.
I am a little intrigued as to how he could come back. He isn't only absorbed, after all, he is also dead. Would he just materialise out of one of the cracks?
And he also said right out that Amy's life does not make any sense. It might have been just a reference to her mad current state, but it did not sound like it -- it was coupled with the reference to the oddness of the house. It isn't by any chance bigger on the inside, is it?
Hmmm. About Amy not being dead. Could it be that it was just the effects of another cyberman tranquiliser dart? That she didn't actually get shot?
Was Jacket Doctor controlling the TARDIS? Did he cause it to explode? Did he do something to stop it from exploding? How is a future version of the Doctor out there when the present version is locked inside an unbreakable cage? Will a crack appear inside the Pandorica, allowing him to escape into the past and effect the changes we've seen on the timeline?
I don't know! However, I'm willing to bet there's still more going on here than meets the eye.
Me neither! And me too.
It did not really feel like the Doctor controlled the TARDIS. Unless he has gone evil. I thought I heard Davros for a moment: "Silence will fall".
I did not recognise the pattern of the burn marks. But I feel like I should. Did you?
But that was a fantastic episode. I adored -- I mean truly loved -- that speech he gave to the assembled alien fleets from atop the rock. That was incredible. I must retype it here for posterity.
"Hello Stonehenge!
Who takes the Pandorica, takes the universe. But, bad news, everyone. 'Cause guess who!
They sent you lot, you're all ... whizzing about, it's very distracting, could you all just stay still a minute, because
I
AM
TALKING!
Now the question of the hour is, who's got the Pandorica. Answer, I do. Next question, who's coming to take it from me?
C'mon! Look at me, no plan, no backup, no weapons worth a damn, oh, and something else I don't have: Anything. To. Lose.
So, if you're sitting up there in your silly little spaceships with your silly ... little ... guns, if you've got any plans on taking the Pandorica tonight, just remember who's standing in your way. Remember every black day I ever stopped you, and then, AND THEN ... do the smart thing.
Let somebody else try first."
The speech was good.
I liked the opening of the episode a lot. The chain of people, and the wonderful effects of the hallucinogenic lipstic. I laughed out loud at that. And the "I hate good wizards in fairytales, they always turn out to be him" comment. SUCH a red herring.
And I LOVED the "I discover we've been playing host to Cleopatra. Who's in Egypt. And dead." moment.
And "there are fruitflies who live at XXX who live for 20 minutes, and they don't even mate for life" -- this episode was quite the cornucopia of witty comments.
*MySmiley*
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/Doctor Who: "The Pandorica Opens" *spoilers*
- 19/06/2010 09:24:45 PM
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The only thing jumping to mind at the moment...
- 19/06/2010 09:38:44 PM
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Oh and...
- 19/06/2010 11:41:17 PM
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Nice!
- 20/06/2010 07:57:03 AM
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True...
- 20/06/2010 09:57:08 AM
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- 20/06/2010 09:59:09 AM
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I can't believe we have to wait an entire week to find out what happens!
- 20/06/2010 01:03:40 AM
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- 20/06/2010 09:15:05 AM
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Quite a crowded episode.
- 20/06/2010 01:14:52 AM
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- 20/06/2010 01:32:49 PM
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- 20/06/2010 02:39:46 PM
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- 20/06/2010 02:48:48 PM
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Re: Rose
- 20/06/2010 03:43:57 PM
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- 20/06/2010 03:46:05 PM
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- 20/06/2010 04:03:43 PM
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- 20/06/2010 10:50:47 PM
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- 20/06/2010 10:52:44 PM
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- 20/06/2010 11:16:19 PM
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The Silence
- 20/06/2010 01:26:02 AM
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Yeah, but what's the significance of that?
- 20/06/2010 01:40:55 AM
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Plus of course the whole "Silence will fall" shebang from Prisoner Zero. *NM*
- 21/06/2010 10:00:10 PM
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Also.
- 20/06/2010 07:46:05 AM
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Re: Also.
- 20/06/2010 09:33:34 AM
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- 20/06/2010 02:46:15 PM
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- 20/06/2010 02:49:34 PM
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I did at the time
- 20/06/2010 02:52:48 PM
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- 20/06/2010 02:58:46 PM
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- 20/06/2010 04:10:35 PM
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Oooh. Potentially interesting thing from Confidential
- 20/06/2010 10:02:27 AM
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- 20/06/2010 10:29:27 AM
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- 20/06/2010 01:16:44 PM
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*minor spoiler for next season*
- 20/06/2010 08:05:23 PM
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- 20/06/2010 08:08:05 PM
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I feel that there is another party to all this
- 20/06/2010 08:10:15 PM
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- 20/06/2010 08:14:18 PM
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I've just discovered that iPlayer has the whole of this series available.
- 20/06/2010 10:05:55 PM
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Yes, they are devious
- 20/06/2010 10:07:35 PM
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I can still see them both.
- 20/06/2010 10:24:08 PM
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- 20/06/2010 10:29:05 PM
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Who can blame them?
- 20/06/2010 10:31:38 PM
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I can't stop thinking there's still more to Amy. (Crazy speculation within.)
- 20/06/2010 11:08:13 PM
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Nutter
- 20/06/2010 11:20:44 PM
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You think Shada, I think...
- 20/06/2010 11:31:13 PM
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What book?
- 20/06/2010 11:34:23 PM
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It's kind of a big spoiler.
- 20/06/2010 11:37:42 PM
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Hmm
- 20/06/2010 11:39:02 PM
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Yes. *NM*
- 20/06/2010 11:40:15 PM
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- 20/06/2010 11:28:39 PM
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- 20/06/2010 11:33:43 PM
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Re: the accent.
- 22/06/2010 10:05:35 AM
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Oh, I know. I have Scottish neighbours. The kids have never even live in Scotland but have accents. *NM*
- 22/06/2010 12:48:47 PM
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Elaborating on your crazy speculation...
- 22/06/2010 10:14:14 PM
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- 22/06/2010 11:48:00 PM
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If Amy Pond is a trap.
- 22/06/2010 11:43:34 PM
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- 22/06/2010 11:46:57 PM
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- 23/06/2010 12:02:24 AM
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- 23/06/2010 12:04:28 AM
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Epiphany
- 23/06/2010 12:11:09 AM
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I was bothered by the Cyberman
- 24/06/2010 09:00:37 AM
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Apparently "someone very important is coming back".
- 25/06/2010 11:58:26 AM
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Another point I only just thought of.
- 26/06/2010 01:21:49 PM
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In fact, that makes a horrible sort of sense.
- 26/06/2010 02:12:38 PM
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Didn't the new Daleks travel back to "their own time", which implies time travel.
- 26/06/2010 03:00:10 PM
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I think I read somewhere that the Dream Lord won't be coming back.
- 26/06/2010 03:45:01 PM
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