Thoughts, Doctor Who 5x09

[fan_eunice]

My thoughts on Doctor Who 5x09 -- Cold Blood

OH GOD RORY NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. MOFF WERE YOU NOT PAYING ATTENTION WHEN I SAID "NOT ONE HAIR ON HIS PRECIOUS HEAD?". YOU GET BACK HERE AND FIX THIS RIGHT NOW, MISTER.

::THROWS GIANT TANTRUM::

Okay, okay, okay. ::attempts to take deep breath through runny snot clogged nose::

So, really what this boils down to right now is...do I trust Moffat enough to let him hurt me like this? (BASTARD). And, well, based on the entire rest of the season he has earned that trust from me at this time, since every time I have reflexively flinched, he's managed to go somewhere with the story or characterization that pleased me. And pointless death/angst/woe is not really his thing. There's too much here that makes me think this is part of a larger puzzle.

I can think of several ways to resolve this that I would find acceptable, though some I prefer more than others. My favorite relies on the fact that Rory didn't just die, he was unmade...with heavy emphasis on the way Amy forgot. So, if he can be unmade, he can be REMADE and we can get Rory back. I WANT THIS ONE. I would, though it would involve more runny snotty tears, also accept Amy remembering Rory being vital to the big series arc solution.

But OMG RORY NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. ::breaks down in sobbing tantrum again::

also, the rest of the episode was amazing and I loved it and I love Amy and I love Eleven.

RORY :( :( :( :(

Comments

[pocketmouse]

Yeah, out of that scene, the bit that surprised me was that Amy forgot him. I trust that he's going to come back, and I'm interested to see how, but still. Waaaaaaah.

[fan_eunice]

YES. The forgetting scene was very much a big neon arrow to Future Things. Especially in context of the crack and the themes of forgetting and remembering this season. If the point was just to kill Rory, then there was no need for *any* of that.

I suspect we'll get him back, I really WANT us to get him back, but I also reserve judgement on even the scenarios where we don't until I've seen how it resolves.

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH, ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORY.

[pocketmouse]

Exactly. And in the mean time, I'm going to write lots of porn. Because that will help the Doctor remember Rory. And all the sex they had.

[prof_pangaea]

ahahahaha, best plan ever! <3

[grlnamedlucifer]

>I would, though it would involve more runny snotty tears, also accept Amy remembering Rory being vital to the big series arc solution. <

Yes yes yes, I have to believe that Amy remembering Rory is vital as well, especially given how much of this season has been focused on memory, from Amelia refusing to believe her memories of the Doctor were wrong like her psychiatrists wanted, to the Forget button on the ship, to the Angels being wiped out. But I will be heartbroken all over again if he's still dead by the end of the season. D:

[fan_eunice]

SO HEARTBROKEN. I will cling to hope until the last moment that we get him back for real and not just his memory. WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

[fannishnonsense]

So, really what this boils down to right now is...do I trust Moffat enough to let him hurt me like this? (BASTARD). And, well, based on the entire rest of the season he has earned that trust from me at this time, since every time I have reflexively flinched, he's managed to go somewhere with the story or characterization that pleased me. And pointless death/angst/woe is not really his thing. There's too much here that makes me think this is part of a larger puzzle.

YES, THIS. Though that doesn't make me any sadder at the moment. But I do trust him to work it all out in the end in a satisfying way.

[fan_eunice]

I do trust Moffat, I do, I do, I do. I don't know if I'm just setting myself up...but so far he really has taken things that worried me and made something satisfying out if it every time.

BUT OMG BASTARD. He played me *perfectly* setting this Team TARDIS up that I would love them this hard so he could punch me this hard. I kind of admire that. When I'm not howling and crying.

[violetisblue]

It will all be all right! I truly believe this. Though this is the first episode of this season we didn't immediately rewatch due to Major Upset. :-/

[fan_eunice]

It has to be okay! It just HAS TO. I...am not even sure I will end up vidding this two-parter. If I were home and able to sort it out the complicated headspace I'm in about the thing as a whole *and* the ending...but at the moment I'm fitting my fannishness around the kiddo's graduation stuff.

*crosses fingers and Trusts In Moffat*

[marymac]

I'm clinging desperately to the hope that Moffat is not actually as big a bastard as I've been proclaiming him all day. And the ring. Eleven's face when he saw the ring still there.

[fan_eunice]

THE RING, yes. And just...the whole setup with the two of them on the hill and then just her, and the forgetting scene, and that he was even taken by the crack in the first place and not just deaded. There is MORE here, and to decide before it's all played out...just wouldn't be fair.

EVEN THOUGH HE IS A GIANT BASTARD FOR MAKING ME CRY LIKE THAT.

[heresluck]

I shrieked on your behalf when I got to Rory's death. Seriously, my first thoughts were "oh god, I bet Eunice is not taking this well."

But the fact that his death is tied to the crack that's the season's Big Bad suggests that he'll be back, I think. The crack isn't just a matter of curiosity or fear anymore: there's something more at stake for both the Doctor and Amy (though Amy doesn't remember it at the moment): Rory, but also the TARDIS itself.

[fan_eunice]

Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, I am that transaparent? Heh, of course I am. RORY!!!

Yes, it's clearly part of the larger series arc and not just 'rocks fall, Rory dies'...so I will be patient. And cry.