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Doctor Who: A Good Man Goes to War
I'd considered the idea that the girl from the season premiere was Amy and Rory's daughter and that Amy and Rory's daughter was River, and as soon as I saw the baby's name, I knew where that was going. After that, the rest of the episode felt a bit anticlimactic. The idea that other people could see the Doctor as a warrior and that he needs to be careful not to become a greater threat than anything he fights - that's pretty well-traveled ground at this point. He does seem kind of destruction-happy lately, but it's hard to tell how much of that is thematically significant and how much is just the result of having a different showrunner with a different POV.
I did like the scene between River and Rory, where she's obviously reacting to him as her father and he equally obviously has no clue. Would love to see more of the Silurian-human Victorian lesbian crimefighting duo! And the idea that a human baby conceived in the time vortex can be born with Timelord powers is... interesting.
Since I didn't post about last week's ep: gosh, a female character in a sci-fi show having a sudden or mystical pregnancy and winding up strapped to a table by villains before or during labor. WHAT ARE THE ODDS? (Probably about 80% at this point.)
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Didn't we already endure through "TimeLord Victorious" with poor Ten? I thought we were over this with Eleventh's fun-lovin' madman with a box.
And I am increasingly peeved (to use a very mild term) about the implication that River will kill Rory. (She's in prison because she killed a man, "the best man she ever knew"; and guess what, Rorycus is the "good man going to war". And there was a lot of emphasis on Rory being a good man - because he is! :| I would hope for it to be a red herring, but I'm afraid the red herring was that River might kill the Doctor.
And it's all very... huh? They steal the child to make her a weapon, and she ends up becoming the Doctor's SO through time and space. So... is her influence going to be that intended? Is River going to be the weapon she was meant to be by Evil Eyepatch Lady? (Also, hm, what is it with girls named River who are weapons? Too much Firefly, Moff?)
It was a bit creepy, the way the Doctor made that kissy face, and went in search of the child. O_o OK, he made the kissy face at grown-up River, but, er, he'd just spoken to her in Baby!
And finally, cry me a River, but Doctor/TARDIS forever. (Although one could argue that River is part TARDIS, what with being conceived in such peculiar circumstances... :D But the insta-Timebaby biology doesn't even respect the already shady bio-techno-babble of DW, it's basically just plot-serving crack.)
PS: Time-travelling plots are weird. Never since the great time-travelling debacle of Stargate SG-1 have I felt the need to take pen and paper to make sense of a timeline...
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