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eve11I don't have a River icon but here's Amelia instead:
So if River turns out to be Amy's daughter (which it seems is the heavy implication), I will be a bit... disappointed. And a bit squicked out too. Mostly because of the whole relationship with the Doctor thing--first Amy tries to get in his pants and then he ends up at least somewhat romantically involved with her daughter? Ugh. That just rubs me the wrong way. And it's too soap opera, honestly.
And... it's predictable. Unless they take this twist and twist it more or something. I don't know that they will, though. I think Moffat isn't quite that clever and he underestimates his audience sometimes. I can see, for example, the Silence taking Amy's DNA and making a kid (who is also part Time Lord? So they use the Doctor's too?) and it being kind of a Connor from Angel kind of thing where the kid doesn't really know the parents at all. But for that the be the "big reveal"? I most likely should stop emotionally investing myself in this show. I'm trying not to be pessimistic here and honestly I really did find lots to like in the first two episodes but I don't see Steven Moffat as the JMS of Doctor Who and I really really hope he has his shit together better than David Kemper from Farscape--they were all "Oh the last half of season 4 is the best ever! Season 4 is the best stuff we've ever written! Watch season 4! etc. and I made the mistake of possibly believing them and it was not good. I want to believe Moff and the team but at the same time they are really pushing it. And the whole "you can just dive in whenever; we do arcs but we also are standalone", yeah Farscape sang that tune too, right before it got canceled. So I'm nervous. Very much so.
Bah. Pregnancy storylines. BAH! Anyway, currently I have very little faith that Moffat's resolutions are going to live up to the hype and buildup that has been going on.
Things I am still intrigued about:
1) Who was the lady in the door and WTF was with that scene. "No, I think she might be dreaming." Amy is dreaming? The little girl is dreaming? How did the door just appear and then disappear like that? Was the orphanage some kind of TARDIS? Is a grand portion of this series going to be retconned as somebody's dream? Most likely Amy's?
2) Who shot the Doctor? My current theory is that it's a post-"greatest fall" Doctor in the space suit, somehow reconciling time lines. It would be interesting if the Doctor's darkest hour resulted in some long-lasting repercussions. It would be interesting to me if somehow eg, his TARDIS blows up as a result of the war with the Silence or he loses his ability to regenerate or something catastrophic like that, wherein he meets River Song at that point in his life and she somehow helps him through it. Or, she both engineers the situation AND then redeems herself. But this also would be predicated on the idea that River is the Time Girl at the end of 6x02 who is being engineered into some kind of weapon against the Doctor by the Silence... which, it could be that the Time Girl is someone else entirely.
3) Who is the Time Girl? She is some kind of Time Lord, but is also a scared little kid from 1969, who is being minded by the Silence. But she escapes the Silence somehow and ends up regenerating in an alley in New York City. Does that mean the Silence have failed in whatever their mission was? What do the Silence really want? What does "Silence will fall" really mean? Why do they need TARDISes and proto-Time Lords? Is it instead that she's running from the Doctor?
3a) What is the deal with the Silence? What do they want? Why and how much have they been messing with the Doctor (and for how long)?
4) How much and what does the younger (ie not dead) Doctor know? Seems like way more than he's telling, I don't know.
infinity) How much of this crack is Moffat making up on the spot, and how much does he have down from the beginning? All the retconning with River's timeline is making me wary. Sorry to be angsting over here but my past experiences are not encouraging :(
So if River turns out to be Amy's daughter (which it seems is the heavy implication), I will be a bit... disappointed. And a bit squicked out too. Mostly because of the whole relationship with the Doctor thing--first Amy tries to get in his pants and then he ends up at least somewhat romantically involved with her daughter? Ugh. That just rubs me the wrong way. And it's too soap opera, honestly.
And... it's predictable. Unless they take this twist and twist it more or something. I don't know that they will, though. I think Moffat isn't quite that clever and he underestimates his audience sometimes. I can see, for example, the Silence taking Amy's DNA and making a kid (who is also part Time Lord? So they use the Doctor's too?) and it being kind of a Connor from Angel kind of thing where the kid doesn't really know the parents at all. But for that the be the "big reveal"? I most likely should stop emotionally investing myself in this show. I'm trying not to be pessimistic here and honestly I really did find lots to like in the first two episodes but I don't see Steven Moffat as the JMS of Doctor Who and I really really hope he has his shit together better than David Kemper from Farscape--they were all "Oh the last half of season 4 is the best ever! Season 4 is the best stuff we've ever written! Watch season 4! etc. and I made the mistake of possibly believing them and it was not good. I want to believe Moff and the team but at the same time they are really pushing it. And the whole "you can just dive in whenever; we do arcs but we also are standalone", yeah Farscape sang that tune too, right before it got canceled. So I'm nervous. Very much so.
Bah. Pregnancy storylines. BAH! Anyway, currently I have very little faith that Moffat's resolutions are going to live up to the hype and buildup that has been going on.
Things I am still intrigued about:
1) Who was the lady in the door and WTF was with that scene. "No, I think she might be dreaming." Amy is dreaming? The little girl is dreaming? How did the door just appear and then disappear like that? Was the orphanage some kind of TARDIS? Is a grand portion of this series going to be retconned as somebody's dream? Most likely Amy's?
2) Who shot the Doctor? My current theory is that it's a post-"greatest fall" Doctor in the space suit, somehow reconciling time lines. It would be interesting if the Doctor's darkest hour resulted in some long-lasting repercussions. It would be interesting to me if somehow eg, his TARDIS blows up as a result of the war with the Silence or he loses his ability to regenerate or something catastrophic like that, wherein he meets River Song at that point in his life and she somehow helps him through it. Or, she both engineers the situation AND then redeems herself. But this also would be predicated on the idea that River is the Time Girl at the end of 6x02 who is being engineered into some kind of weapon against the Doctor by the Silence... which, it could be that the Time Girl is someone else entirely.
3) Who is the Time Girl? She is some kind of Time Lord, but is also a scared little kid from 1969, who is being minded by the Silence. But she escapes the Silence somehow and ends up regenerating in an alley in New York City. Does that mean the Silence have failed in whatever their mission was? What do the Silence really want? What does "Silence will fall" really mean? Why do they need TARDISes and proto-Time Lords? Is it instead that she's running from the Doctor?
3a) What is the deal with the Silence? What do they want? Why and how much have they been messing with the Doctor (and for how long)?
4) How much and what does the younger (ie not dead) Doctor know? Seems like way more than he's telling, I don't know.
infinity) How much of this crack is Moffat making up on the spot, and how much does he have down from the beginning? All the retconning with River's timeline is making me wary. Sorry to be angsting over here but my past experiences are not encouraging :(
