Doctor Who 5x07, "Amy's Choice"
May. 15th, 2010 07:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kindkitShort version, because I'm tired: I mostly loved it. Clever plot, GREAT dialogue ("If we have to die, let's die looking like a Peruvian folk group"), both a nice ensemble feel and individual moments of win for all the characters (e.g. Amy's fake!labor pains and "don't ever again say our life is dull"), and good creepy acting from Toby Wossname as the Doctor's guilt complex the Dream Lord.
I wasn't expecting the Dream Lord to turn out to be the Doctor, but it makes perfect sense. As the Doctor said, "nobody else in the universe hates me that much."
A couple of things I didn't love: the "romantic triangle" aspect (could we please drop that now? especially since she's decided who she most wants to be with?) and the implication that Amy proves her love by committing suicide after losing Rory. I'm choosing to believe that the latter was mostly force of circumstances: she believed she had to die in one universe or the other, time was running out and they hadn't found a logical way to decide which one, so she picked the situation in which being wrong would be least unbearable. Which is to say, I'm choosing to believe that in normal circumstances, she wouldn't think her life was worthless without Rory.
By the way, I'm taking the Dream Lord's line about redheads as proof of Five/Turlough.
Speaking of which, next week it seems we'll be watching Frontios II. That's okay with me, although Rory is not as pretty as Turlough, alas.
I wasn't expecting the Dream Lord to turn out to be the Doctor, but it makes perfect sense. As the Doctor said, "nobody else in the universe hates me that much."
A couple of things I didn't love: the "romantic triangle" aspect (could we please drop that now? especially since she's decided who she most wants to be with?) and the implication that Amy proves her love by committing suicide after losing Rory. I'm choosing to believe that the latter was mostly force of circumstances: she believed she had to die in one universe or the other, time was running out and they hadn't found a logical way to decide which one, so she picked the situation in which being wrong would be least unbearable. Which is to say, I'm choosing to believe that in normal circumstances, she wouldn't think her life was worthless without Rory.
By the way, I'm taking the Dream Lord's line about redheads as proof of Five/Turlough.
Speaking of which, next week it seems we'll be watching Frontios II. That's okay with me, although Rory is not as pretty as Turlough, alas.
