NEEDLE IN YOUR BALLOON

3 May 2010

• Generally, I enjoyed these two episodes a lot!!
• I have no more complaints about Karen Gillian's acting but as always, I find her really adorable.
• I wished that I'd like Amy Pond the way I like Karen Gillian. Know what? She's a whole lot better here than in Series 5.
• Rory remains adorable.
• I'm warming up to River Song a lot, but then again, my issue associated with this character is that, I've always been indifferent to Alex Kingston even from way, way back her ER days.
• Eleven remains a mysterious stranger. I don't know if that's by design or what, but he remains an unknown to me. I know, he's the Doctor but that's all I know.
• GAHD!! How much I enjoy Mark Sheppard as a sort of companion. I feel his role doesn't end with the second episode. He'll be back and I'm so looking forward to it.
• Saw the Confidential and I was finally able to hear his real accent. LOL!
• That kiss between Eleven and River? That is sad. When the Doctor said, "There's always a first time for everything." And River muttered, "And the last time." A lot of people think that there would be more in the Doctor's future for it because River said it's the last.  But I read it differently. When she asked him, "Didn't we do this in the future?" she was assuming that they'd be together in her future. And since the Doctor said it's the first time, she got that it never happened in his past. And that's sad, isn't it?
• I'm intrigued as to why River continues to punish herself and goes back to her prison. There must be some deep-seated remorse for doing such a thing.
• And I feel sad, again, that she'd just do as she's told by the Doctor. Nobody does what the Doctor say. Just ask Amy, Rory, Martha, Rose and Donna... even Mickey.
• The Doctor's solution to the Silence is a bit out of character, isn't it? To manipulate the minds of human beings to kill the creatures when they see them, is just a strange solution. And he's not even shown any regret about his decision. He was heartbroken when he was accused of turning his companions into weapons and as idiotic as it may have been, he even wanted to save Davros when the Crucible was falling apart. The Doctor has always been manipulative and would decide the fate of his companions. But to do this to the entire human race, removing their decision to do so and make them killers without them knowing? That's just wrong. I hope there's an answer to that in the future because I don't think I could come to terms with that.