Doctor Who 5x02

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Okay, so I am probably going to rip into the science in one of my weird attempts to make the universe internally consistent (doomed!) so if that is squeekill for you, maybe backclick? But as has been pointed out elsewhere, there's no friction in space. The whale either has hydrogen jets or something on its tentacles or it navigates through ejecting mass out the back, right?

What I am saying is that if they'd just thought to feed the whale lots of Space Fiber, they wouldn't have had to keep poking it.

So Amy is pretty gosh-darn good, and if the Doctor keeps canoodling with the British royal family he's going to wind up committing Space Incest by accident one of these days. I think the Action Queen was funnier if you're from the Commonwealth, but then, part of the reason I watch Doctor Who is for all the jokes I won't get.

It has been pointed out that Doctor Who once again Cares about Saving the Whales. And that that is awesome. And that yay.

Also, I can't find the spoiler reel from last week from here because I'm not at home - are the shots of Amy floating unobscured on those? Because I spent the first five minutes of watching being aggrieved that they put credits over the bits that every vidder on earth wants, but I think the floating was the same length in the preview from last week as it was in the actual episode.

I just finished Children of Earth last night and then went straight on to watch this, so my squee was muted, but on the other hand, I think this episode was kind of a refutation of the disaster-movie, everybody-does-terrible-things tone that Who took increasingly as the Tenth Doctor went on, so that was nice for me. In conclusion: yay show. And yay Amy, with her crazy eyes and crime skills and looking pretty while covered in whale sick. You know, in the stills I can't get over the fact that Amy's Very Pretty and Eleven is Very Homely, but when they're both in motion it stops being distracting, on both counts.