A SPOILERY Thought About The Girl Who Waited

[jjpor]

I liked that one rather a lot - the first S6 story since, oh...The Doctor's Wife, probably, that I can go, unreservedly "that was a good'un, that one!" (The Gangers two-parter - okay, mostly. AGMGTW - surprisingly disappointing - I may elaborate on why another time. Let's Kill Hitler - pretty good from an entertainment point of view but kind of empty when you got past the fun bits. Night Terrors - a damp squib, to be honest). But yeah - liked it. Gillan, Darvill, Smith were ace and you know, it was actually about stuff. You could actually consider the options and decisions the characters took on a basis that was more than just timey-wimey technobabble.

So, thumbs up! The SPOILERY question I wanted to pose, though, was this:

I'm no doubt doomed to be proved wrong by Moffat's perverse Master-like urge continually to pull rugs and never take the obvious route, but does anyone else reckon that at the end of this series we might be faced with a situation similar to the one we got here with the two Amys? I.e. our heroes will be presented with a chance to rescue baby Melody (and maybe coincidentally prevent the Doctor's death), but only at the cost of erasing River Song from history forever? You know, they do keep hammering the "time can be rewritten" thing. Or would that just be rubbish?

Next week looks like a corker, just going from the trailer. We will see...

Comments

[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

I think that doppelgangers has become a definite theme. Likewise with alternate versions of reality. And the fact we didn't see the ganger doctor actually die in that two parter, makes it pretty certain to my mind that the doctor we saw killed at the beginning of the season will turn out to have been the ganger doctor.

[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

And yes, Night Terrors was a bit disappointing wasn't it. I haven't been able to put my finger on what I didn't like about it yet, but it's not an episode I think I'll ever want to see again.

[clocketpatch]

All this time I've been thinking that Rory is going to buy the farm somehow (permanently) and especially after that ending because wouldn't that just be the the cherry on top of the tragedy? - Amy gives up her days so that she can grow old with Rory and then Rory dies. :S

But... with all of the themes of time being rewritten and the impossible conundrum played out at the start of this series, and River's insistence that her life not be rewritten... I think you might be spot on the money there.

I guess we'll just have to wait and see.

(The Doctor's Wife, as you know, was my other favourite episode this series, and I find it interesting that both dealt with Amy and Rory's fear of losing the other. House's nightmare was almost a perfect reversal of the scenario, right down to the abandoned partner being hunted and harmed by an uncaring alien force)

(Except in this case the force was caring. Everyone was caring. Everyone was doing their level best to do the right thing. Even Eleven with his shifty manipulative ends-justify-the-means Seven levels of bastardly-ness. They were all trying to be kind. That's what makes it so damn tragic)

[akashasheiress.livejournal.com]

'Sup! I miss your comments...

Er, just saying that because I haven't seen the episode, yet.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

So, just how many Amys is the Doctor going to kill for not being the right Amy this season?

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

That is a really, really interesting idea. Of course, my first thought is that erasing River means the Tenth Doctor dies back in The Library, but maybe time heals around that somehow. (Most likely that potential paradox wouldn't even be mentioned, though.)

I'd be sad to see River erased, but happy that Amy and Rory get baby Melody back . . . and it would let Moffat get the final word on the fate of River . . . and it would also be pretty epic.

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

I don't Moffat will do that. I think he'll keep River's ending as-is...

[farsh-nuke.livejournal.com]

Considering how gut wrenchingly wrong I was about who River Song is and Who she killed. I think this is possible.