Doctor Who: Flesh and Stone

[fajrdrako]

I watched Doctor Who 5x05 "Flesh and Stone" this evening. I was watching it with Yolande. We were both enrapt when at the very most tense and climactic moment, explodedtea came in and sat on the remote and the show disappeared into a screen full of static.

Not explodedtea's greatest moment.

We then sorted out the remote and watch the end.

1. I liked River Song a little better this time, maybe because she seemed to be playing fewer games with the Doctor - to be more on his side, rather than wanting to put something over on him. I liked it that they ended as friends, and I liked the handcuffs. I can think of only one other friend of the Doctor who regularly has handcuffs, and uses them.
   
   
2. Are we supposed to believe that the "good man" whom River killed was a future version of the Doctor?
   
   
3. They didn't say River Song was a Time Agent but they didn't say she wasn't. I said something about that afterwards, when maaseru was there, and she asked the time-honoured question, "What's the difference between a Time Lord and a Time Agent?"
   
   I said, "A Time Lord is an alien from the planet Gallifrey. A Time Lord is a smart-ass human who travels in time and works for the Time Agency in the 51st century."
   
   It's not her fault. She just isn't a fan.
   
   
4. I really liked "Flesh and Stone"; more than "The Time of Angels". I wished Amy had a more active role, but I loved what they did with her - especially the scene where she couldn't see, and the Bishop's men kept disappearing from time.
   
   
5. So Amy came on to the Doctor and he tried the "I'm nine hundred years old" excuse. I wonder how/where this will develop. It bothered me when Ten brushed off Martha; this bothers me less. I'm not sure why. Maybe because Amy seems less vulnerable and less serious.
   
   
6. I liked the upside-down playing-with-gravity bits.
   
   
7. I liked the way the Angels were handled and disposed of, but I still don't find them very scary. They were scarier in "Blink".
   
   
8. I liked the way the story segued from "the Angels are terrible creatures" to having the Angels sidelined as the lesser threat - and vulnerable to the same danger as the humans.
   
   
9. Loved the Bishop's last scene.
   
   
10. I liked the scene where the Doctor was talking to Bob the Angel.
    
    
11. I like the way Eleven monologues to himself with an audience. I like the way he says things meaning "I have to fix this problem but I don't think it's possible so I'll have to think of a way, though I've no idea what I'll think of."
    
    
12. I love the running gag about Rory and Amy's "good-looking friend" who isn't Rory. Will Amy maybe end up marrying Jeff, the one who likes Internet porn?