This post contains spoilers for Doctor Who "Let's Kill Hitler"

[lizziec]

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Let's have a list for my OMGWTFBBQ!!!!

• MEL IS MELODY OMG


• The whole "you named your daughter after your daughter" bit made me laugh


• The bit where the Doctor promised to marry Mel if she didn't die made me think that actually it was a hollow promise AND THEN SHE REGENERATED IN TO RIVER! And everything that means for that promise especially in light of Silence in the Library/Forests of the Dead oh gosh.


• Is Hitler still in the cupboard?


• I wanted River to comment on the fact she's now a redhead, especially as The Doctor always wants to be (though thinking about it further, Alex Kingston is blonde as River, isn't she?)


• I really enjoyed the sequence of "I saw that coming so I did X" moments (reminded me of the end of Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey a little though). Particularly enjoyed the banana as a callback to The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances :)


• Rory is a complete BAMF. If I wasn't married and he wasn't fictionalmarried I would totally have him. Oh yes.


• The gift of the diary made me smile. A really sweet moment.


• So River is the Impossible Astronaut like the internet was speculating? Is that the conclusion we're drawing from this episode?


• I guessed before it was said that River was giving up her regenerations to the doctor there (the only bit of the episode I guessed in advance of plot). A nice way to keep him the last of the timelords and essentially handwave the regeneration problem they're coming up to in a couple of regenerations time.


• I want to know what the Doctor said to River :(


• Is it bad that I feel incredibly sad for the Ponds not being able to bring up their daughter properly? That they will never get her as a baby, because of what the doctor said about knowing too much, and the rule about going backwards in someone's personal timeline? Honestly, that thought really makes me incredibly sad. Am I overthinking this plot point? :/

Comments

[bethanthepurple.livejournal.com]

Yes. Just need to watch it a few squillion more times now...

[trappermcintyre.livejournal.com]

Yes!

Also, your icon tells me not to look, but I can't take my eyes off it :(

[embolalia.livejournal.com]

Yay!

Is Hitler still in the cupboard?
Hah! Totally forgot about him. I imagine the writers did too :)

I was almost annoyed about the whole introduction of a new character at random bit--and then it totally wasn't! I agree about the sadness of the Ponds not raising Melody, but we still don't know too much about her--she did escape the Silence (or whoever) as a child, and there's a lot of room in there for the writers to play. Plus if the Doctor can find a way out of his own death since there's no indication the show is ending forever, maybe they can change her story too?

[trappermcintyre.livejournal.com]

Hah! Totally forgot about him. I imagine the writers did too :)

I wouldn't be surprised. I suppose there wasn't any time for them to wrap it up anyway and technically Hitler was just a catalyst for what followed. I still found myself wondering about it at the end :)

Plus if the Doctor can find a way out of his own death since there's no indication the show is ending forever, maybe they can change her story too?

I really, really hope so. I will be incredibly sad if they don't manage that because it seems a very cruel implication for both Melody and the Ponds.

[bookses-and-tea.livejournal.com]

It was an amazing episode! I don't think you are overthinking not being able to bring up Melody properly. It's really poignant. I can't see a way out of it, but I hope there is one!

[trappermcintyre.livejournal.com]

Me too :( Ben thinks that Moffat will find a way out. Crossing my fingers he does.