SPOILER LINE
Episode 1: Eleventh Hour
Starting 14 years ago would mean this episode starts in 1996, spends a lot of time in 2008, and ends in 2010.
Questions:
Duck pond with no ducks?
The universe is cracked. Pandorica will open. Silence will fall. (What the hell does this mean?) The Doctor certainly doesn't seem to know-or if he has he's forgotten.
How does the TARDIS key get into the Doctor's pocket?
Cracks: One in Amy's wall in 1996, one on the TARDIS screen in 2010.
One thing I did NOT spot and that someone else did is Rory's ID. Rory is Amy's boyfriend in 2008 and he's her fiance in 2010. They've grown up together-she's known him all her life in Leadworth.
BUT something is NOT right with Rory's nurse ID, issued from the hospital.
(Ta to alienpanda for the sharp eyes)NOTE THE DATE. 1990? We assume Rory is standing there 18 years later (in either 2007 or 2008.) Something is NOT right here. It's perfectly obvious to me (having had it pointed out) that there's more to Rory than meets the eye. And the Doctor knows more than he's letting on, since we only saw this ID in his mind's eye.
The head writer is a stickler for details-on the making of, the crew were placing postcards with the name of the town on them in card racks-so this isn't a mistake or a goof. The fact that the director focused on it for a long while in the Doctor's mind is another clue that this is terribly important.
Another thing that seems to bother some of the Who fans is the high amount of coma patients in the small town of Leadworth. They don't even have an airport-so why do they have at least 6 coma patients (may be more in the next room over that we couldnt' see) in a HOSPITAL no less? Wouldn't they have all been moved to a long-term care facility? I don't know how many coma patients an average town should have but 6 seems a tad high.
Episode 2: The Beast Below
How'd the Queen and her entourage know the Doctor was coming?
I thought Magpie got eaten by the Wire, so why is his business still around in the year 3295?
When did Amy record the message (my assumption is during the 20 minutes she doesn't remember.)
Okay, so the starwhale upchucks the Doctor and Amy-why aren't they dumped into space? It's fairly clear where the head is placed underneath the ship-maybe it deliberately hurled them into a room.
Cracks: In the Starship UK at the end (the year 3295).
The Poems:
(Recited by little girl in Vator at the beginning of the episode):
A horse and a man, above, below
One has a plan, but both must go
Mile after mile, above, beneath
One has a smile and one has teeth
Though the man above might say hello
Expect no love from the beast below.
(Recited by Amy at the end of the episode-I think it's clear what she's getting at but I'm putting it up here anyway):
In bed above we're deep asleep
While greater love lies further deep
This dream must end
This world must know
We all depend on the beast below.
Episode 3: Victory of the Daleks
The new Daleks shot the old ones away. This Doctor seems to get particularly pissed at the Daleks and just wants to make them dead (unlike the last one who made deals with them.) And since he spent a good 30 seconds pummeling one of them (as it decided he probably didn't want a cup of tea) I think we're seeing a tad more rage than we usually do out of the Doctor when it comes to these guys. I don't know why-all the Doctors have hated them, but this seemed a little more than just plain rage. I recall Nine and Ten handling them with distrust and certainly distaste, but they certainly wouldn't have lost it the way this one did. Great acting from Smith on this-I was impressed with him yet again.
Doctor showed up a month late-something's mucking with his time rotor. This is the third time!
Third Scottish joke in as many episodes? Coincidence?
Amy doesn't remember the Dalek invasion AT ALL. What the hell is going on?
Crack: In the wall at the end of the episode. Year was...hold on, 1940's. No specific date.
Episode 4: The Time of Angels
I want hallucinogenic lipstick like River has. That's awesome.
She seems a lot like a 1st season Jack here-anyone seeing similarities? She seems more ruthless, more uncouth, and a bit more reckless...plus, she just busted out of prison for murder and she's already flirting with the Doctor.
Question: Who'd she kill to get put into prison in the first place?
Question: What is that bit about the people no longer needing their dreams anymore? This sounds a hell of a lot like "everyone having bad dreams" from the end of Series 4...please, not again!
Question: Why the hell did they have her on the Byzantium to begin with?
Question: Why is she a doctor and not a professor yet? Seems a bit odd.
Question: They let her keep her hallucinogenic lipstick and the gun-blowtorch thing in jail, even though she was in trouble for MURDER?
Comment: Her and Jack Harkness are SO going to hit it off if and when they meet.
They've obviously been married (?) awhile already because she A) immediately knows who he is (but Moffat answered the possibly brewing paradox by saying that River has pics of all of his faces in the Spoilers Book, so there goes that problem.) B) can fly the TARDIS (and she didn't learn from him, that's for sure, but that scene reminded me heavily of Romana I and Four in the TARDIS when she flew it right and he didn't and so he ripped the page out of the TARDIS flying manual, and SHE called his ship old and then landed it perfectly. Very, very similar to that), C) River knows Old High Gallifreyan (he trusts her with something that precious or did she already know it?)
I also wrote down while watching this the first time through that he thinks they're married but she's been through all the firsties with him already, so she knows more than she's letting on (again.) She told Amy it's more complicated than that with him. This I am longing to hear...
I also wrote down that I thought she was A) Romana (but wasn't she trapped in E-Space or something?) or B) the Rani (unlikely as she was a total psycho, only showed up once, and she was more attracted to the Master anyway.) The fact that she knows Old High Gallifreyan and how to fly the TARDIS right is downright annoying.
BUT IF she WAS a Time Lord, he would KNOW it just by looking at her. The Time Lords were all connected in their minds, so she would connect to HIS if she WAS Romana. Unless she's covering something up there so that he doesn't find out too much too fast...she's not chameleon-arching because then she wouldn't know any of the stuff she does. She's not the product of a metacrisis (because that would kill a human.)
The angels were awesome, Amy was awesome, the Doctor was awesome. I screamed my way through this one thanks to those blasted statues.
Episode 5: Flesh and Stone
Second half of the Weeping Angels stuff.
Crack: In the hull of the Byzantium-the Doctor closes this particular crack up but probably doesn't fix the root problem, which he seems to believe is Amy.
River stuff:
She was in a thing called or a place called Stormcage, which I rightly assume is a pretty secure prison. She was there because she killed a man (which she admits to) and she says he was a very good man. She refused to tell the Doctor the man's identity and Father Octavian said that the Doctor would more than likely stop working with her if he knew who she really was.
This tells me it's probably the Doctor, since this episode had the running theme of "time can be rewritten." I suspect it's going to all get rewritten at the end of this series when he lives instead of dying.
River says she'll see him next at Pandorica (so it's a place and not an event) and he says that Pandorica is a fairy tale. Betcha it isn't NOW...
Prisoner Zero and River could be connected. What's to say that that was Prisoner Zero's true form? What's to say that she isn't part of the whole shebang that started at Episode 1?
PS: Another boost to that theory-take a look at this picture someone posted from the episode:
(thanks to the people over at digitalspy for the photo)
Is that an eye or are we seeing things? Is River Prisoner Zero? Does she know Prisoner Zero? Is Pandorica a Stormcage jail for criminals and when it opens a hell of a lot of bad people come out and start causing problems?
We still don't know what she is (besides a doctor and an alleged murderer of "good men") but my two theories from both weeks are 1. Spy working for the Church 2. Researcher/Archaeologist for the Church.
I noted this also: The clerics followed her lead despite knowing at least some of the details on who she is, and that bishop was willing to follow her lead despite knowing she was a criminal trying to win her pardon from custody (she did the Weeping Angel trip because she was trying to win her freedom.)
Episode 6: Vampires in Venice
Why is Amy so damn attracted to the Doctor? I'm beginning to think she's confused.
What's up with Rory and the very blank stare when he's standing in the TARDIS?
Rory=Mickey. Anyone else getting this vibe?
Mention of chasm by the lead space fish/vampire.
"In memory of the children lost to the silence..."
Crack info-some were tiny, some were as big as the sky. Through some of them you could see worlds and you could travel to other places, but the cracks would snap shut behind you.
Saturnine lost?
Rory hears silence but the Doctor hears a voice. Even after two runs over the spot I couldn't get WHAT was being said or WHO was shouting but that was definitely a voice.
Crack in the TARDIS keyhole. PS: Correction. The crack was apparently in the sunny blue sky ABOVE Venice at some point in the episode. We could see the Vortex in the keyhole. There is also another possible one in the dark clouds above Venice but we could be wrong about both of these (I would say the sunny sky one is more legit but remember that everything in the series is a potential clue)
Once again, Rory shows at least two instances of something being WRONG with him. First the blank stare when he was in the TARDIS-he didn't seem impressed at all but covered by saying he'd been studying up.
He also hears NOTHING when us and the Doctor hear something. How unusual.
This episode made BIG mention of the cracks and the possibility of zipping between them and getting stuck someplace.
And Amy is really, really needing to get her mind straight on either Doctor or Rory, cause she's driving them both nuts.
Episode 7: Amy's Choice
Amy's Choice.
I thought this was a pretty damn good episode.
First off, we DON'T find out who the father of the baby is (though I'm assuming since it really doesn't exist it's no one's.) One thing that bothered me was Amy not feeling much attached to her child, although that could be explained by 1) peril and 2) it was all a dream! By the time Rory "dies," she's decided that the world around her is a dream and so the child within her doesn't technically exist, but I would have wanted to see SOMETHING there...
Wonder if the aliens popping out of the old people were Prisoner Zero's captor's relations, because they certainly looked familiar. According to Whowiki they are Eknodine and they DO exist in the Whoniverse because the Doctor knew who they were. These could be related to the Atraxi from episode 1.
Lots of doors in the butcher shop. Does a butcher shop need that many damn doors?
And we find out at the end that it was all psychic pollen and made the Doctor make a Dreamlord and two false realities. Something about this just doesn't sit right-did he do this on purpose to drive Ames toward Rory? Because two episodes ago he SAID he was going to fix it and NOW he has. Hm. Convenient, no?
Once again, we see a possible manifestation of the Valeyard, or the "nasty charismatic world-smashing baddie that the Doctor is supposed to turn into around his 12th or 13th body and which he fears becoming." He showed a small hint of it last year in "Waters of Mars" when he decided he was in charge of time and space and could do as he pleased. It's the evil half of the Doctor, the demon with the face of an angel. He may look nice, but can manipulate and charm you into walking off a cliff or blowing up a planet. Hence, he's a lot frightening and not someone you want to let out.
Which would explain why when the Doctor saw him in the last seconds of this episode on the console of the TARDIS, he seemed afraid of him.
Apparently there's no break next week so see you for "Hungry Earth."
Now some clearing up! More spoilers here, some possibly for 12 and 13, so I'm going to put ANOTHER spoiler line to keep people safe from knowledge if they so choose.
I've been snooping around and stuff, pondering and sticking my pointy nose in places where it probably shouldn't be. And I found this:
(thanks to Cameron K McEwan over on Flickr for this one)I dunno what it means, but some have supposed that Omega is returning. If you know your Who history, there were three greatest of the great Time Lords-Rassilon (who we saw at the end of last year's series) the Other (who the Doctor's supposed to be a reincarnation of) and Omega. Omega is apparently pretty damn bitter towards his own people (who technically no longer exist thanks to the Doctor) and it wouldn't be a far stretch for the Doctor and him to stand together and battle something pretty big, seeing as Omega might have gotten out of the time lock...
Omega was also apparently power-hungry at one point, which would put him at odds with the Doctor if he still feels the same.
Anyway, some other person supposed River's gonna just chuck the Doctor into a time crack and fix the whole problem. That's too easy, people-do you really think Moffat would make it that simple?
Episode 8: Hungry Earth
Amy and Rory see future versions of themselves in 2020. Really? I don't think so!
The Doctor put the blue grass in his mouth again and I was distinctly reminded of his last incarnation who put EVERYTHING in his mouth...oh, David I miss you sometimes...
The kid obviously is significant to the Silurians and possibly to their downfall because of his dyslexia, or they wouldn't have emphasized it so damned often.
Something about bioprogramming.
The Doctor calls for silence (significant?)
Clennparii defense is the defense of oneself by saying you're the last of a species. The Doctor was more than moderately insulted when the Silurian in captivity dared to claim this defense, since at this moment he IS the last of the Time Lords.
Of the three people left standing there, who would kill the Silurian? Rory, who's lost Amy to the ground? Ambrose who's lost her husband and son (where is that kid anyway-haven't seen him since he vanished), or Tony, who's been bitten and has the venom of the Silurians running through his system and has also lost his son-in-law and grandson to the ground?
Next week deals with time in flux and not fixed points.
Episode 9: Cold Blood
Crack in Silurian tunnels. Rory dies here. Doctor sticks an arm in and pulls out a chunk of toasted TARDIS doorsign-not good. Rory's body is absorbed by the light and Amy forgets he exists as a result.
Rory, however, cannot be dead as he appears in the finale. So there.
Best line? Squeaky bun time!
Episode 10: Vincent and the Doctor
The crows in Vincent's field painting look like cracks in time.
I assume the Krafayis was dropped by a crack in time.
Amy doesn't remember Rory, but she's still crying (at least according to Vincent). Does she still have something wrong with her eye (angel dust?) or is this her subconscious recalling Rory?
Episode 11: The Lodger
The time loop in this episode was caused by a localized effect because of a TARDIS sitting upstairs. Whose was it, why was it parked there and who built the thing?
Crack in apartment wall.
Thanks to the engagement ring she's carrying in her bag, Amy doesn't remember Rory but she knows the ring means something significant.
Cracks in the year 1580, 1941, 1996, two in 2010, 2020, 3295, and the 51st century.
The trailer for next week is full of stuff...lots of stuff.
Pandorica is a big damn box with a lock on it full of writing. I assume that the Pandorica is a big damn box with lots of bad, bad, bad stuff shoved in it and that someone is going to open it up and cause a major ruckus.
The time period appeared to be Roman or Dark Ages, thanks to the stupid red skirts and tents and armor. Also the Doctor was riding a horse.
The ship in space with everything headed towards it looked a lot like the one that just got vaporized last episode. Possibly the same one before it disappeared?
The Doctor mentions the Trickster and the Warrior. Tricksters have shown up a few times recently-there was the beetle on Donna's back in Series 4 and the whitefaced thing that tried to kill off Sarah Jane in her show. The Warrior could be the War Chief or Omega (if indeed it is a Time Lord we're facing here-and how could we not be with all these damn time cracks?)
That should be it. Everything is here for your perusal and mine. Have fun!
Ta,
Bec
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