Doctor Who: Cold Blood

[owl]

• Amy rocks. "I dressed for Rio" pays off, and she can pick pockets as well as locks.


• Celery, lol! Nice Five reference.


• I like how Amy's all "The Doctor would know" -- and then starts to figure it out for herself.


• Ah, the Doctor and Nasreen geeking out over the Silurian city.


• I wasn't expecting Ambrose to be the one to kill Alaya. Aw, poor Rory, that was an almost Doctor-like moment of trying and failing to save someone.


• Alaya was trying to get herself killed and thus provoke a war, wasn;t she?


• I like Amy apologising for the failed rescue, and the Doctor's "glad you're okay" as they all get chained up for execution.


• Yay Rory, speaking for the humans. Some of them, anyway.


• Yup, this is why shooting your hostage is a bad idea.


• Yay Amy and Nasreen negotiating and the Doctor cheering them on!


• No, they killed Malokay!


• Erk, it's all coming apart.


• Aw, Nasreen and Tony. Be interesting to come back in a thousand years, yes!


• The crack in the universe returns. Doctor, maybe this is not the time.


• Rory!! Nooooo!! Nooooo!!! And now Amy doesn't even remember him. Waaah!!


• Perhaps its better that she doesn't remember him until he's about to come back. Because he is going to come back, right?


• Ah, Ambrose gets her second chance. Elliott, you're going to get the world ready for the Silurians.


• Oh, no, it's just Amy on the hill this time. Waaaah!


• No, you can't blow up the TARDIS! Not going to happen! Time can be rewritten, remember, Doctor?

Comments

[simply]

Are you a Rory fan, too? I know he has his haters out there, but I have quite the soft spot for him.

[owl]

Yes, I am *sniffle* He's less sparky than Amy, but I'm a goner for the quiet ones.

[simply]

Me, too! I like the unsure, slightly awkward boys :).

(I need to get me some Doctor Who userpics!)

[owl]

I should have got a Rory userpic while I still had the chance to use it. :'(

[legionseagle]

I knew it was going to be Ambrose because it was written by Chris Chibnall. As a result women in positions of authority had to be a) psychotic; b) incapable of seeing the bigger picture; c) panic in moments of crisis; d) be driven by hormonal/instinctive familial compulsions outside rational control.

If you look at the episode from that perspective, you'll note all the deaths come at the hands of female characters displaying most or all of the above characteristics. I've done a whopping long essay for an anthology on women in New Who and (while I don't explicitly include Torchwood) I also looked at TW to see whether I was seeing something which wasn't there with Chibnall, but I'm not.

[owl]

Oh, of course you're right, once you've seen it. I didn't realise that this was a pattern for Chibnall (nor that the episode was actually written by him). How depressing.

[nineveh_uk]

I suppose it is possible that as the Tardis has already exploded - possibly multiple times - it is a bit of shrapnel from a _past_ event...

[owl]

Oooh. Good point.

I suppose we know that the TARDIS can't go for good, anyway.