Im stunned and very very veeeerrryyy pleased with this episode. Im happy that the TARDIS family (Rory/Amy/The Doctor are back together. I really didnt care for the episodes without Rory(Arthur Darvill)because they felt more random clash of history and weirdness than real TimeLord adventures. I did, however like the VincentVanGoh episode-but this is beside the point.
This final episode was very clever, bringing together many characters and places from previous episodes and tying them together in an amazing way!
After the conclusion of “The Rebel Flesh” with Amy being atomized showing she was, and had been, “flesh”(for some time) also revealing that the woman in the eye patch was her actual reality bleeding into her flesh bodys mind. This settiing up the finale and in true Dr. Who style leaves us with more questions than answers!
As the episode opens we find that Amy iss pregnant and starts to conceive as soon as she is awoken into her real body. As soon as she has her daughter Melody, she is taken from her mother by the woman in the eye patch seen inseveral previous episodes. Meanwhile Rory and The Doctor are travelling in the TARDIS in a bid to rally importyant figures in their history to help rescue AMY and find what they want with her and her offspring.—-Finally we see Rory approach River Song in her prison returning to her cell.
As he explains the situation she states that it is her birthday and that she isnt able to accompany him until much late in the turn of events in Demons Run,where this is all taking place-(Demons Run, Where a Good Man Goes To War).She also says two other peculiar things-
1 “Today The Doctor will rise higher than ever before, and then fall much lower”
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2 “Today is the day The Doctor will find out who I am”
With these statements Rory leaves frustrated and then enters and asks for his wife and proceeds to find Amy and his child both safe.
The evil in this episode “overseeing” the operation to stop the doctor are headless monks(stated by Lorna as meaning they follow their hearts not their heads because their heads are the bodys center of doubt)-that actually turn out to be headless.
The doctor appears and with the help of his lizrd-ish friend and her maid-Jenny slips away and causes the army and monks to fight eachother.
After this is over River appears only to be yelled at by the doctor for being late. However, River (in a very good much needed argument) proceeds to tell the doctor how he needed to think about what he had just done. That the universe was starting to equate him with a weapon. The old meaning of doctor was wiseman and healer, but already in the Gamma Forests and other places in the stars his name meant warrior and his reputation was rapidly changing. This realization subdues the doctopr as he realizes the fight in Demons Run was for the control of the new time lord baby of Amys and Rorys because of his reputation of frightening status.
At this point (eye-patch lady) he recieves a message saying that he had been fooled again by the same trick that had brought them all there at that point. Suddenly Amys baby reverts to flesh form and dissolves in her arms.
Amy attacks the doctor blaming him for all that had happened and for once NO ONE not even River backs him up. They keep Amy and Rory from killing the doctor(barely) . He demands that River Song tells him who she is. While touching his old crib she simply says I am. After which The Doctors mood is restored and he leaves in a hurry apparently to make arrangements to have them retrieve Melody Pond.
After the Doctor has left Amy wants to know what he had just discovered about River. She tells amy to read the writing in Lornas language that had been sewn on cloth for the baby. Amy says she already knows what her daughters name is “Melody Pond” As the TARDIS starts to translate the writing for AMY River tells her that in Lornas home there is no word for pond only river. And that her baby was Melody River.
Leading to the big reveal that standing in front of her parents was a full grown Melody Pond/River Song and that she was their daughter.
Coming next- LETS KILL HITLER- Thanks for reading If I missed anything comment and let me know. Its late and this was hurried but I think I covered most. Happy Watching! 23 months ago