The Angels Take Manhattan Squee Post

[blue_aeon]

Here's your squee post for The Angels Take Manhattan, which is on at 7.20pm. Tonight we welcome back the Weeping Angels, River Song, and bide adieu to the Ponds. Not necessarily in that order; this is Moffat after all. Knowing him the episode will probably play out in reverse.

Squee, complain, empty the box of tissues or dive behind the sofa. I've been avoiding spoilers, but I have it on authority (and by that I mean "I heard it from our co-mod") that I'll need to issue an official Brown Alert. You may also experience Very, Very Localised Flooding, so please take all necessary precautions.

Comments

[lolita]

SOB.

[blue_aeon]

Little late giving my thoughts this week, but only because I had an early night (turns out I've been having silent migraines for the past couple of weeks).

It seems fitting that Amy and Rory's final episode heavily revolved around a book, given how S5 felt very storybook-ish. And the perfect bookend to a companion arc. We were right - that scene with Amelia in The Eleventh Hour was important.

In fact, if you think of the entire two series and a half as the story the Doctor is telling young Amelia, a truckload of all the narrative inconstancies stop being... well, inconsistent, and start looking like the Doctor was purposely editing or making up what happened (because admit it, we do that sort of thing with kids all the time). Which means the Doctor is the ultimate Unreliable Narrator.

A couple of other points:-

1) Despite all the questions it brings up, the fact remains that if the Statue of Liberty actually did what it did in this episode, I would soil my pants.
2) I never want to see a Weeping Angel smile ever again.
3) What about Brian? Does the Doctor let him know? Do Amy and Rory find him and let him know they're fine? And most importantly: I'm not ready to say goodbye to Brian yet! (not a question, but I don't care)

PS: Was on the verge of tears at the end, at which point my mother starts laughing (because for some reason she is permanently immature when it comes to crying at shows or movies) and I promptly gave her the stink eye.

PPS: Was that a James Cameron's Titanic shout-out I spied in the Christmas special trailer?