[Doctor Who] 6.12 "Closing Time"
I am going to try very hard not to crack any Semisonic-related jokes.
Once again I find myself without much to say about the episode. I thought it was a solid meh, to be honest. It wasn't as funny as Roberts wanted it to be. Maybe I'm just a grump, but it's always weird to me when the Doctor makes pop-culture references -- "I've got an app for that"? Really? Though I did mostly like the Doctor's emotional arc and how nicely quiet this farewell tour was. No fucking Ood, no stumbling in the snow, no creepy trips to perv on your favoritest human, just a . . . oh wait. Okay, so he still made a creepy trip to perv on his favoritest human but there weren't any Ood so I'm calling it a win.
I'm a wee bit disappointed Amy's post-Doctor career is as . . . a model. I mean, I get that it's a gag on the fact that Karen Gillan was a model before going into acting, but brave, strong, smart Amy, Amy who built her own sonic screwdriver and reprogrammed robots and survived on her own for thirty-six years, has no further worth to society beyond being decorative? Boy isn't that a fun message to send. Yes, girls, if you're plucky enough you can travel through all of space and time with a nine-hundred-year-old alien but it's your looks that count when you come back to Earth! I guess it's a step above getting dumped somewhere so you can get married (which was the fate of a depressing number of previous female companions) but the previous few companions wound up in Torchwood, in alt-Torchwood, in UNIT, as an alien bounty hunter and as the best damn temp that ever temped her way across London, and Amy's a model?
I wonder if they're actually going to keep the 200 year gap going, or if the 200 years the Doctor spent bumming around the universe are going to be wiped out in whatever magical reset button Moffat comes up with to explain away the fact that River shot the Doctor and then she and Amy and Rory burned his body. On the one hand, it leaves a beautiful gap for ficcers, but on the other hand this is a show that wasn't able to remember it was running a year ahead of real time for the first couple seasons. One supposes the Doctor spent a fair bit of time with River in the gap and if he did, ow, the pretzel loops it makes of River's personal timeline give me a headache. Also, the Doctor is way more forgiving than I am to go hang out with a woman he knows is in jail for killing him. Oh man. I think I just popped a blood vessel in my brain thinking about that.
Specs count: BRING BACK THE SPECS
Hat count: 1, but it's a repeat, or rather the one we saw in "The Impossible Astronaut" was a repeat
Rory deaths: The Doctor has decided to have mercy
Amy: A model!
Next week: That episode is going to have to run like a hamster on meth to plow through everything it needs to in 45 minutes.
Once again I find myself without much to say about the episode. I thought it was a solid meh, to be honest. It wasn't as funny as Roberts wanted it to be. Maybe I'm just a grump, but it's always weird to me when the Doctor makes pop-culture references -- "I've got an app for that"? Really? Though I did mostly like the Doctor's emotional arc and how nicely quiet this farewell tour was. No fucking Ood, no stumbling in the snow, no creepy trips to perv on your favoritest human, just a . . . oh wait. Okay, so he still made a creepy trip to perv on his favoritest human but there weren't any Ood so I'm calling it a win.
I'm a wee bit disappointed Amy's post-Doctor career is as . . . a model. I mean, I get that it's a gag on the fact that Karen Gillan was a model before going into acting, but brave, strong, smart Amy, Amy who built her own sonic screwdriver and reprogrammed robots and survived on her own for thirty-six years, has no further worth to society beyond being decorative? Boy isn't that a fun message to send. Yes, girls, if you're plucky enough you can travel through all of space and time with a nine-hundred-year-old alien but it's your looks that count when you come back to Earth! I guess it's a step above getting dumped somewhere so you can get married (which was the fate of a depressing number of previous female companions) but the previous few companions wound up in Torchwood, in alt-Torchwood, in UNIT, as an alien bounty hunter and as the best damn temp that ever temped her way across London, and Amy's a model?
I wonder if they're actually going to keep the 200 year gap going, or if the 200 years the Doctor spent bumming around the universe are going to be wiped out in whatever magical reset button Moffat comes up with to explain away the fact that River shot the Doctor and then she and Amy and Rory burned his body. On the one hand, it leaves a beautiful gap for ficcers, but on the other hand this is a show that wasn't able to remember it was running a year ahead of real time for the first couple seasons. One supposes the Doctor spent a fair bit of time with River in the gap and if he did, ow, the pretzel loops it makes of River's personal timeline give me a headache. Also, the Doctor is way more forgiving than I am to go hang out with a woman he knows is in jail for killing him. Oh man. I think I just popped a blood vessel in my brain thinking about that.
Specs count: BRING BACK THE SPECS
Hat count: 1, but it's a repeat, or rather the one we saw in "The Impossible Astronaut" was a repeat
Rory deaths: The Doctor has decided to have mercy
Amy: A model!
Next week: That episode is going to have to run like a hamster on meth to plow through everything it needs to in 45 minutes.