Doctor Who: Flesh and Stone revisited...

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I notice that people watching this episode tend to be very, very quiet while it is on.

1. I am coming to like River Song very much. If I go back and watch the first part again, will I again find her annoyingly smug? She really does seem to be on the Doctor's side in this one, and fond of him, too. So I liked her. I also like her better as a felon than a know-it-all archeologist.
   
   
2. I like the notion that the Doctor was, as Amy things, running away from River.
   
   
3. Is he going to somehow have to change the timeline to solve the exploding timeline problem? He's done it once. Some people think that might be the source of the problem.
   
   
4. So now we all look forward to the end of the world on June 26, 2010. Or maybe just a wedding. At least they solved the mystery of what year Amy comes from. This one.
   
   I thought the end of the world was supposed to be December 21, 2012.
   
   Oh, wait. Time can be changed.
   
   
5. The Angels don't scare me so much, but it was incredibly scary when the soldiers were going into the light and their memories disappeared when they did.
   
   
6. There is something about this - about the crack in the world and Amy's role in it - that reminds me of the Bad Wolf theme.
   
   
7. Loved Octavian more than ever, and no wonder: this time I recognized him as Iain Glen.
   
   
8. The Angels spilling out through the hole in time reminds me of the Daleks and Cybermen falling into the Void in Doomsday.
   
   
9. I'm glad that the Doctor hasn't said "geronimo" lately.
   
   
10. Everyone seems to think River Song killed the Doctor. I'm trying to think of alternative possibilities and I'm coming up blank.
    
    
11. Seems to me they contradicted themselves regarding the nature of the Angels. In "Blink", looking at the Angels made it impossible for them to move; it was a quantum event, and it was the act of being seen that made them motionless. In "Flesh and Stone", all that was necessary was for the Angels to think they were being seen; not the same thing at all. Perhaps they changed, or perhaps the Doctor was mistaken in "Blink". I rather like the discrepancy.
    
    
12. Amy in this episode was a little more of a damsel in distress than I like, but it didn't bother me. I just like it when Amy is the clever one.
    
    
13. I loved, totally loved, the Doctor's delivery of some of his lines. Almost Ecclestonesque.
    
    
14. How often does the Doctor say, "This is important?" I love it when he does that.
    
    
15. Love it that Octavian calls the Doctor "sir".
    
    
16. Nice teleporter effect when River Song is taken up at the end.
    
    
17. I like the moment when Amy Pond said, "I want to go home," and some very complex micro-expressions cross the Doctor's face. While the TARDIS is making its lovely old wooshing sound again.
    
    
18. What are all those photos on Amy's wall?
    
    
19. Every time I hear Amy say "Do you comfort a lot of people on the night before their wedding?" I hear it as "Do you come for a lot of people on the night before their wedding?"
    
    
20. "It's been a while?" Heh.
    
    
21. I like to think he doesn't push her away very quickly.
    
    
22. I love Amy's shoes. I love the Doctor's shoes, too - they make up for his terrible tie, a little bit - but I love Amy's shoes even more.