NYC, and the Impossible Astronaut

[raven]

Forward momentum, chaps! Do not even ask about the issues I had getting into the city this morning. Do not even ask. Luckily I have a fairy godmother in the shape of Shim. But I am in New York on macadamanaity's couch and I am blissed out on rum and wine and some other things.

Also Doctor Who ohmygod Doctor Who. I am strangely, faintly bitter that I had to wait a whole eight hours after it was shown in the UK to see it, and also we hate BBC America, we do, how many commercial breaks, come on.

But. Oh, oh, oh. Doctor Who. Here are the things I really liked:

-The beginning! The way we don't actually know when this is set - whether this is a month, a year, or several years after the end of "The Big Bang", and we don't even know if the Doctor, Amy and Rory went on tonnes of adventures after that and if they did what they all were. But the Doctor waves at them through history, and all is well.

-And the picnic, and the spaceman (who reminds of the Solway Firth Spaceman every time I see it), and I was like, "Is that..." and it was regeneration fairy dust, and that was... a death. Rory saying, "Let's do it properly" - that was a beautiful touch, and I loved the visual of the boat on the water.

-This Doctor has friends now. Three whole people he can call. Oh, Eleven, I love you so much.

-Also, Canton is a fabulous character and all that being quietly sardonic is fab.

-The aliens are so scary. They are very, very scary. The suits make them even scarier. It's like the Gentlemen in "Hush". Scary. And the idea of aliens whom you forget when you're not looking at them is amazing, I love it. Star Trek did it, but benevolently, because it's Star Trek and a show for adults that doesn't want to scare your pants off and give you nightmares for the rest of your life (which will be long, because you're five).

-The little girl. Is she American? Is she Scottish? She's very creepy. I have to admit to wondering, since the preview: is she Amelia? I don't know she could be, but if you go to the effort of making sure the little girl you cast is Scottish...

-I'm not sure what I think about the whole River thing at the moment. Because I am an unashamed Doctor/River shipper, I wrote fic about it and everything, I want them to live happily ever after, and if they're drifting further and further apart in time.... well. Well, I don't approve. River Song! I love her. For the record and all that, I really do.

-Amy's pregnant? She's feeling "a bit sick"? But River says that once as well, in this episode. I am intrigued. I haven't been this excited about a television show in months. Yaaaay, Doctor Who!

Tomorrow! Brunch, and probably another windswept grey New York day, and I'm cheerful. It feels good to be in the city; earlier in the day I got a Lindt bunny for the Siren and a cheap necklace from Forever 21 for myself, and I got a purple nail polish from somewhere on Madison and just felt the small-town itch lift. Feeling much better, and so so glad I didn't cancel this trip down. Back up north in the evening, but let's not talk about that.

Comments

[amchau.livejournal.com]

My present theory is that the sickness is alien-produced, but because Amy's forgotten the aliens, she's imagining a pregnancy in order to explain it. Either that or the aliens want to harvest children and have impregnated both Amy and River.

[mi-guida.livejournal.com]

Ah - see, I thought that Amy being pregnant was what she wanted to tell the Doctor in the Space and Time Comic Relief episodes, because she wanted to tell him something them, but never got chance; maybe she'd only just found out then, and this is the two months later, so she's three months gone (it looked like she was showing a bit, though, so maybe she's further along?).

My theory was that the aliens make you feel sick, but when Amy said it we were meant to think she was pregnant, then River feeling it was to throw us off the scent, because then clearly Amy isn't pregnant - except she is. Or something.

[darksideofstorm.livejournal.com]

The Doctor did mention at the beginning that Amy had gained a few pounds...

[mi-guida.livejournal.com]

Yup - and there was at least one shot where her hands/arms were against her shirt pulling it tight and it looked to me like there was a slight round of a pregnant stomach (by which I mean, she doesn't look to have put on any weight anywhere else on her body, and this was a very smooth curve on her abdomen, which I'd associate more with pregnancy than her having just put on a bit of weight that only went to her stomach, but I could be wrong)