tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9987513.post7621851414041880511..comments2024-03-17T11:05:22.464+00:00Comments on The Life And Opinions of Andrew Rilstone: Fish Custard [Intermezzo]Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9987513.post-36703974667127687712011-06-09T00:47:56.557+01:002011-06-09T00:47:56.557+01:00You are a genius.You are a genius.Helen Louisehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07600284354557428351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9987513.post-24068898983173223212010-06-15T09:08:54.454+01:002010-06-15T09:08:54.454+01:00You read it here first (after The Beast Below): no...<a href="http://reprog.wordpress.com/2010/04/18/oh-and-by-the-way/" rel="nofollow">You read it here first</a> (after <i>The Beast Below</i>): not just River Song and Amy Pond, but also Jackson Lake. Just saying.Mike Taylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06039663158335543317noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9987513.post-13064498799027978592010-06-14T15:03:53.747+01:002010-06-14T15:03:53.747+01:00River Pond is Amy's daughter: a River Comes fr...<i>River Pond is Amy's daughter: a River Comes from a Pond.</i><br /><br />Uh, River <i>Song.</i> But apart from that one niggle, smart thinking! <a href="http://lucidfrenzy.blogspot.com/2010/05/time-of-angels-flesh-and-stone.html" rel="nofollow">I’d pontificated that</a> River might be a <i>future</i> Amy, based largely on that same name-similarity, but a daughter would indeed make sense of the wedding thing. (I’m till not sure how the Doctor goes from it all being about Amy to it all being about Amy’s <i>wedding,</i> but anyway...)<br /><br />Yet... IIRR, River was surprised and excited to meet Donna, yet didn’t have any such similar expression over Amy. I know we all tend to take our parents for granted, but even so...<br /><br />Also, when they first meet River talks about Byzantium and Asgard. This suggests Asgard is as essential to her (their?) story, so either Asgard will appear in the next two weeks or the book of River Song’s diary will not yet have closed.<br /><br />Another way round, could River be the Doctor’s wife after all and <i>Amy</i> their daughter? The first episode made a big point of keeping her parents offscreen. (Though of course it’s a fairy story and fairy stories do that sort of thing.) This could also explain the Doctor’s alarmed reaction when Amy tries to snog him.<br /><br />Either way round, though, I have trouble seeing this new Doctor as the father of <i>anyone</i> very much. It was kind of established with Tennant that he <i>could</i> have settled down to relationship-ness if he’d ever given up his Doctoring. (‘Girl in the Fireplace’ in particular was based upon this.) Matt Smith’s character, it seems to me, can <i>only</i> do Doctoring – he’s quite singularly cut out for the task. He has enough powers of observation to see when two humans need to get it on (as evidenced last week), but I can’t see him managing the task himself.<br /><br /><i>So my money is on the Pandorica containing an evil future incarnation of the Doctor.</i><br /><br />Yet... we’ve already had <i>one</i> episode about some evil other Doctor. And there’s clearly some other Doctor running about (aka the ‘jacketed Doctor’ of so much internet conflab) who if anything seems much <i>nicer</i> and more personable than the regular Doctor. In ‘Flesh and Stone’ ‘our’ Doctor leaves her, while the ‘other’ Doctor stays with her.<br /><br />It’s probably turn out to be the bloody Daleks again. Threatening to blow up the universe again. Only fiercer.<br /><br /><i>there's no reason to think we need a Big Continuity Clear Our this late in the day.</i><br /><br />Besides which, any comics fan can tell you exactly how long clean slates stay clean for. There never was a time where the Whoniverse <i>wasn’t</i>< messy or extemporised. ‘Babylon 5’ this ain’t. It should look cluttered and lived-in, not neat and ordered like a show home.Gavin Burrowshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16347163260510316959noreply@blogger.com