New Who: "Cold Blood"

[lizbee]

Don't give away the Outback, Amy. People live there and stuff. (For some reason, non-Australians are always trying to give away the Outback. When the idea of creating a Jewish state was being kicked around, in the aftermath of WW2, one suggestion was to locate it in central Australia. COME ON, GUYS, PEOPLE ARE USING THAT AREA!)

More importantly, however:

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, RORY IS NOT DEAD! I REFUSE TO ACCEPT IT! violetisblue AND I HAVE DECIDED THAT HE WAS SUCKED THROUGH THE CRACK AND INTO E-SPACE, WHERE SOME MAGIC E-SPACE TECHNOLOGY BROUGHT HIM BACK TO LIFE, AND NOW HE AND ROMANA ARE HAVING ADVENTURES. ONLY RORY'S ALL, "BUT MAH AMY IS ON THE OTHER SIDE," SO ROMANA'S GOING TO BREAK OPEN THE UNIVERSE AND REUNITE THEM, AND THAT'S THE SEASON FINALE.

And it was such an evil set up! There I was, thinking, "At last, a Silurian episode with a happy ending! Nasreen didn't die! And she and Tony are going to wake up in a thousand years and have each other, and a brave new world, and she'll have her dream of exploring under the earth! WAIT, WHY IS RORY BEING SHOT? WHY IS RORY DYING? HEY, WHAT'S THAT CRACK DOING -- OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH, NO WONDER THE HATERS CALL HIM "EVIL WIZARD MOFFAT".

Oh yeah, evil. But in a brilliant way.

Other things that are not related to Rory's accident:

- The underuse of Amy last week: completely rectified when she picks a lizard man's pocket. I LOVE YOU, AMY.
- I loved that most of the Silurian soldiers were women, but I do rather wish the elder had also been female, just to balance out the vague impression of Dangerous Irrational Women vs Sensible and Rational Mens. It wasn't enough to even make me eyeroll, but it could have been easily averted all together.
- I do not think the Doctor would have loved the Silurian scientist so much if he'd known about the wide-awake dissections.
- Also, when he goes off, having woken Elliot, I seriously believed he was going to go into a room FULL of suspended-animation children.
- All these scenes with good actors in full-lizard face, and impromptu negotiations for the planet actually went a small way towards satisfying my unfulfilled need for more Babylon 5. So well done, show.
- People who are not going to get jobs on space stations dedicated to interstellar peace: Amy Pond. I laughed at the bit where she's obviously gotten bored and put her head on the desk. She is, in so many ways, still a child. And, you know, she did come up with actual constructive ideas, even if they did involve GIVING AWAY BITS OF AUSTRALIA. So maybe she can be, like, a diplomatic aide. G'Kar needs a new aide after Na'Toth; the Doctor needs to leave Amy in a safe place for five minutes weeks while he does something very important involving River Song, an archaeological convention, a bottle of Saurian brandy and a feather boa. Hilarity ensues.
- My friends list is maybe a bit more upset about Rory suffering a brief and temporary withdrawal from life than the TARDIS shrapnel. But really, two OTPs were destroyed today.

So yes, this was a bit amazing, and I am not going to spoil my fun by reading links from the Daily, for they will be full of people saying wrong things, like that Amy and Rory are underdeveloped and bad actors. And it is sad that so many people are somehow getting the Crap Edit, but I love my show and want to hug it, and indeed, may have to make some kind of Amy-and-Eleven plushie for exactly that purpose. But first, if anyone needs me, I'll be building a shrine to Rory outside Upper Boat, and sending packages of nurse's scrubs to the BBC until they bring him back.

Comments

[copracat]

Well, you know, Liz, the British have traditionally thought Australia was uninhabited/a nifty beach holiday destination. I imagine the people who live in the Sahara are going "??" too.

ONLY RORY'S ALL, "BUT MAH AMY IS ON THE OTHER SIDE," SO ROMANA'S GOING TO BREAK OPEN THE UNIVERSE AND REUNITE THEM, AND THAT'S THE SEASON FINALE.

APPROVED.

[lizbee]

Well, you know, Liz, the British have traditionally thought Australia was uninhabited/a nifty beach holiday destination. I imagine the people who live in the Sahara are going "??" too.

As Vali points out above, the Nevada plains include, oh, only one of the wealthiest and fastest-growing cities in America. SILURIANS IN VEGAS, WRITE THAT FIC NOW PLEASE.

[sabra_n]

The Silurians can totally have the middle of Greenland, Chernobyl, and maybe some really unlovable bits of Nunavut. :P

[fyrdrakken]

The thought I had during that discussion was actually, "Oh, well done, fobbing off the less-desirable parts of the Earth on the Silurians -- can't we at least have a line about them being cold-blooded and hence happier in a really hot dry environment than humans are?" And possibly that such a line was in the original script but cut for time.

Tangential reply there, but that's my own train of thought as to why offering them anywhere cold would have come across as not only ungenerous but impractical. (Chernobyl is another story -- apparently the environment has rebounded fantastically and it's almost like a nature reserve now because no humans live there...)

[neadods]

SILURIANS IN VEGAS, WRITE THAT FIC NOW PLEASE.

I would *pay* to read a good Siluran/CSI crossover.

[violetisblue]

Honestly, if you want to settle the Silurians in a depopulated part of North America two words: Rust Belt! All they'd have to do would be to promise to reopen some of the mills and factories using their super-advanced technology and there'd be a freaking stampede here to welcome our lizard brethren to the fold.

[biichan]

Doooooooo eeeeeeet.

Write this fic. With bonus Silurians Do Vegas.

[violetisblue]

I've never been to Vegas in my life, though! But I could send them to the casinos right outside the Gary steel mills.

[biichan]

That could work.

(I do want to see the look on future!President's face when he realizes that Amy gave the Silurians Vegas, though, if we are to be having Peace Was Acchieved AU-age. If only gently alluded to.)