A Good Man Goes to War
Jun. 4th, 2011 08:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sawylMelody Pond? Hah! Silver eyepatch lady threatens. Amy's passive-aggressive bedtime story is intercut with the cybermen getting a pasting. Significant shot of Soldier Girl in the background. Nice misdirect on the baby's parentage. Superman pod? Check. "I have a message from the Doctor and question from me: where is my wife?" The cybermen use centrifugal gravity? Significant Soldier Girl is sewing something Significant. She also gets a name: Lorna Bucket.
Meanwhile, in Victorian London: "Thank you, Parker. I won't be needing you again tonight" "Yes, milady" Thunderbirds! Having just eaten Jack the Ripper, Lizardwoman finds the TARDIS in her drawing room. A Welsh Sontaran nurse it the 39th century who seems to be Morbo's second cousin? Why not. River breaking back in: the Doctor has taken her skating for her birthday. But she can't help: the Doctor's going to rise higher, fall further, and finally learn the truth about the mysterious River Song. The Blue Guy exposits: the Doctor is calling old favours and going to war.
Lorna gives Amy her Significant Sewing. Foreshadowing? "They're talking like he's famous" "He's sort of like a... dark legend" Amy listens in on Col Manton's St Crispin's Day Speach. Apparently the pope is now a mainframe. And also female. The big reveal: "Point a gun at me, if it'll help you relax" The Headless Monks seem to have mastered the dark side of the force.
"You do realise he's man, don't you ma'am?" "Mammals. You all look alike" Lizardwoman and Jenny deserve their Sarah Waters-penned spin-off. "The Doctor must think he's winning, right until the trap closes" Luckily Significant Lorna overhears. And suddenly there are space pirates! The Doctor humiliates Manton. "Good men have too many rules" Nice close up of Matt Smith. "Today is not the day to find out why I have so many" Rory to the rescue. "Crying Roman with a baby. Definitely cool" The Doctor understands baby. But not how family names work.
"You have never risen higher" Lizardwoman says the fatal words. "Could she even regenerate?" Call back to the end of The Invisible Astronaut. "I know how you can blush" She may be cold-blooded, but she's got a good understanding of the audience demographics. "It's all running about and sexy fish vampires..." When did Dr Who turn into On Chesil Beach? "Why would a Timelord be a weapon?" "They've seen you" Nasty home truth for the Doctor.
The trap snaps shut. "That's the attack prayer!" Ick. Amy's going to need serious therapy to get over that. River arrives in a thunderclap and explains it all. "This wasn't me!" "This was exactly you!" "Can't you read?" Matt Smith's look of dawning realisation makes up for all the stuff that hasn't worked so far, as does Amy's look of abandonment. "The only the water in the forest is the river" Well, duh. And it's time to fade to black and tell the viewers that they'll have to wait until September for the rest...
Meanwhile, in Victorian London: "Thank you, Parker. I won't be needing you again tonight" "Yes, milady" Thunderbirds! Having just eaten Jack the Ripper, Lizardwoman finds the TARDIS in her drawing room. A Welsh Sontaran nurse it the 39th century who seems to be Morbo's second cousin? Why not. River breaking back in: the Doctor has taken her skating for her birthday. But she can't help: the Doctor's going to rise higher, fall further, and finally learn the truth about the mysterious River Song. The Blue Guy exposits: the Doctor is calling old favours and going to war.
Lorna gives Amy her Significant Sewing. Foreshadowing? "They're talking like he's famous" "He's sort of like a... dark legend" Amy listens in on Col Manton's St Crispin's Day Speach. Apparently the pope is now a mainframe. And also female. The big reveal: "Point a gun at me, if it'll help you relax" The Headless Monks seem to have mastered the dark side of the force.
"You do realise he's man, don't you ma'am?" "Mammals. You all look alike" Lizardwoman and Jenny deserve their Sarah Waters-penned spin-off. "The Doctor must think he's winning, right until the trap closes" Luckily Significant Lorna overhears. And suddenly there are space pirates! The Doctor humiliates Manton. "Good men have too many rules" Nice close up of Matt Smith. "Today is not the day to find out why I have so many" Rory to the rescue. "Crying Roman with a baby. Definitely cool" The Doctor understands baby. But not how family names work.
"You have never risen higher" Lizardwoman says the fatal words. "Could she even regenerate?" Call back to the end of The Invisible Astronaut. "I know how you can blush" She may be cold-blooded, but she's got a good understanding of the audience demographics. "It's all running about and sexy fish vampires..." When did Dr Who turn into On Chesil Beach? "Why would a Timelord be a weapon?" "They've seen you" Nasty home truth for the Doctor.
The trap snaps shut. "That's the attack prayer!" Ick. Amy's going to need serious therapy to get over that. River arrives in a thunderclap and explains it all. "This wasn't me!" "This was exactly you!" "Can't you read?" Matt Smith's look of dawning realisation makes up for all the stuff that hasn't worked so far, as does Amy's look of abandonment. "The only the water in the forest is the river" Well, duh. And it's time to fade to black and tell the viewers that they'll have to wait until September for the rest...
