The Doctor's Wife reaction post

[dbskyler]

Oooh, I really liked that. Okay, so I've always had a soft spot for the relationship between the Doctor and the TARDIS, and I feel like not only did he wish really hard, but I did too -- and got what I wanted! I loved how she kept calling him "Thief" and said she stole him and just wanted to go out and see the universe. Yay, TARDIS!

-- The whole "pull to open" conversation was awesome.
-- "The pretty one" -- LOL!
-- For some reason, when the TARDIS started talking about sending Rory and Amy to an old "archived" console room, I was expecting something along the lines of Four's secondary control room. Then when they showed up in Ten's console room, I was simultaneously YAY!! (it was so wonderful to see it again) and "wow, I'm such an idiot, of course that's the set they still have hanging around."

This was apparently an arc-free episode, except for one curious thing: Rory again made a point of saying that he's a nurse. Haven't we gotten that in, like, every episode so far? What could be the reason behind repeating that so often? Is he going to unexpectedly declare himself a different profession someday, and that's how we'll know the universe is in big trouble? ("Damn it Amy, I'm a ______, not a nurse!")

Comments

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

I confess to finding it very amusing that Idris kept calling him "Thief"...

[tempestas-inu.livejournal.com]

According to sources, Neil Gaiman ideally wanted them to recreate one of the classic console rooms for that scene, but they ran into budget troubles (which is why his plans to put in the Room of Mirrors and the Zero Room, as well as the swimming pool also fell through..... apparently Gaiman had plans to have Rory and Amy learn to levitate!) so they went for the next best thing; Nine/Ten's coral TARDIS.

ADORED the episode though. The "old married couple" banter was fantastic, and the "Pull To Open" conversation was probably one of the funniest thing's ever. Idris!TARDIS was acted brilliantly, I only wish that we could've had her around for a little longer....

As for Rory, I think.... Rory might be having an identity crisis. They're not making a huge deal about it in the show so far but when you think about how in the second ep they made it a point to show that Rory still has 2000 years of memories as a plastic centurion.... it makes sense that he might be trying to somehow assert his identity, like maybe he's having issues reconciling the different sets of memories, even if he says that sometimes he remembers and sometimes he doesn't.

Speaking of Rory I'm worried about him. He keeps dying or near-dying. I don't think it's a "gag" either, as some people have been waving it off as. The way it's been portrayed has never been anything but serious.

[cavgirl.livejournal.com]

Yes! I SO expected to see Four's secondary control room. A friend pointed out that they had to go with what they could recreate properly, and apparently the bits from Ten's room were still lying around.