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There has been far too much red wine this evening to write about Doctor Who but I'm about to do it anyway...
Rory doesn't have a nightmare room and he talks about himself in the past tense and both of these elements are highlighted by the show.
When the minotaur come, he is knocked aside and hidden by the door while the Doctor sacrifices Amy's faith in him. I'd have never pinned Rory as a man without faith. I'd have said - if I were writing the episode, that Rory's faith was in Amy and in their marriage. Amy, who pulled apart time and space for Rory, not one but twice.
And yet here's a man without a faith to lose...
That seems wrong.
Meanwhile, there's a theme running through this season about identity.
In the first episode - two doctors.
Amy Pond - pregnant and not pregnant at the same time (itself an actually quite elegant commentary on the liminality of pregnancy: parent and not at the same time).
Amy Pond present in the Tardis and not at the same time.
Mother-figure and mother to her best friend, Mels.
Young and old.
Amelia Pond and Amy Williams.
And then Rory, who sympathized so deeply with the gangers...
It's all very timey-whimey and whibbly-wobbly and pure Moffat.
But I didn't expect that "The God Complex" would break my heart along the way.
Peter Pan may be the saddest story in the English canon because Wendy always must grow up.
And because Peter Pan never does.
The same tragedy for opposite reasons.
Rory doesn't have a nightmare room and he talks about himself in the past tense and both of these elements are highlighted by the show.
When the minotaur come, he is knocked aside and hidden by the door while the Doctor sacrifices Amy's faith in him. I'd have never pinned Rory as a man without faith. I'd have said - if I were writing the episode, that Rory's faith was in Amy and in their marriage. Amy, who pulled apart time and space for Rory, not one but twice.
And yet here's a man without a faith to lose...
That seems wrong.
Meanwhile, there's a theme running through this season about identity.
In the first episode - two doctors.
Amy Pond - pregnant and not pregnant at the same time (itself an actually quite elegant commentary on the liminality of pregnancy: parent and not at the same time).
Amy Pond present in the Tardis and not at the same time.
Mother-figure and mother to her best friend, Mels.
Young and old.
Amelia Pond and Amy Williams.
And then Rory, who sympathized so deeply with the gangers...
It's all very timey-whimey and whibbly-wobbly and pure Moffat.
But I didn't expect that "The God Complex" would break my heart along the way.
Peter Pan may be the saddest story in the English canon because Wendy always must grow up.
And because Peter Pan never does.
The same tragedy for opposite reasons.
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