Big Bang Doctor
***Spoilers alert, especially if you are following the American schedule of Doctor Who****
The latest season of Doctor Who was a strong season with a fantastic Doctor, I do have some problems with a particular plot element, but luckily the season finale completely erased my complain by being so cleverly plotted. The first part “Pandorica Opens” is epic and emotional. The Stonehenge location, Roman time period and the appearance of almost all the villains of Doctor Who Universe make this as big as the other season finale we have seen from the Davies era. Not only that, the cameo of all the supporting characters this season before the credit to give the Doctor his warning really make this season a collection of tightly connected stories that we have not seen before. The stakes is as high as ever because just like last season finale where the entire reality might get erased, this time around, everything would have never been existed. Yet Moffat really is a good writer who is the best when during with the smallest thing to use it the most effectively. Less is more is always his case. This time around is a single cyberman. I have never seen a Cyberman that is this scary before! Moffat is really great with bring out the creepy horror elements!
The emotional part of the story is the reappearance of Rory, who turns out to be an Auton with memories of Rory, in which Amy still don’t remember him because he never existed. Moffat crafted this wonderful and yet heart-wrenching exchange between the two where Rory trying to make Amy remember, and yet by the time Amy remembers, Rory started to lose himself to the programming of Auton. And the role is reversed that Amy is the one who trying to get Rory to remember who he is. Yet Rory eventually lost control of his plastic gun hand and killed Amy.
The second part “Big Bang” explores and push the limit of time travel that Doctor Who, as a show that’s about a Time Traveler, never really addressed head on. And it is this episode that satisfied my complains about time travel and that very front and center crack in time problem. First of all the episode easily solved all the cliffhangers of the previous episode: the death of Amy, Auton-Rory, the evil alliance, and the imprisonment of the Doctor, without falling into cheap tricks. The visual cue of a Fez and a mop to indicate the different time is brilliant! The two Doctor and two Amy from different time can interact together, which is completely cool, kind of like the end of Star Trek the new movie, where the new and old Spock meets. Then there’s once again a single use of Dalek is more effective than the millions of the Daleks as we have seen from the finale of season 1, 2 and 4.
The best part of the episode is of course after the Doctor sacrifice himself and woke up in a time-rewinding and erasing “zone.” We finally found out the meaning behind that out of place cryptic talk the Doctor had with Amy in the Weeping Angel episode! It wasn’t the Doctor from that episode, it’s the Doctor from the future at this moment! No wonder! That’s so awesome! And that bed time story the Doctor planted in Amy’s head when she’s little was brilliant: the doctor and the TARDIS, something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue. Who would have thought it fit right into the old wedding saying and work itself perfectly to bring the Doctor back to existance on Amy’s wedding day!
I can’t wait for the Christmas episode and next season! Steve Moffat really is a great!!
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