long time no post

so it has been way more than a wee since I last posted and i know that a very huge episode of doctor who has been and gone in that amount of time but it has taken me this long to really let it all sink in. now i'm just waiting for the dvd to come out so i can watch it all again from the beginning right through to it's epic conclusion. I'm going to stop posting spoiler alert type alerts because i figure by now if you've been reading this blog you can basically expect that i'm going to be discussing doctor who among other things and that if you're planning on watching it and don't want the shock and surprise to be ruined then you really would be reading some other dumb blog that discusses hum drum existence and the millions of pictures that are posted of what that person wore on a particular day and why. "i wore floral stockings today because i'm soooo kooky. lol. don't you just love irony?" you'll get none of that here and if it's what you're looking for then leave now. If you are looking for something a bit different, what i would describe as the existential crisis faced by a nerdy girl trying to fit in with the in crowd [because let's face it, i did used to manage one of the hottest bands in australia right now and helped them find a manager who could take them to the top, I have been a columnist at a weekly magazine since four days after my last high school exam, i did an internship with the people who manage gotye, little red and the temper trap and organise the laneway music festival for a year and a half and after one year of volunteering i have moved my way up from lowly usher to office guru having awkwardly sexy water cooler moments with the executive director of the melbourne international film festival. if all that doesn't equate to the cool or "in" crowd then I don't know what does, and a watch with the TARDIS on it doesn't exactly blend in.]
so, the last episode. we decided that a party was in order and due to lovely girl's proximity to the boys gig on the same night [which was cancelled] but we decided to keep it at lovely girl's house anyway. i spent the better part of saturday baking and decorating a cake like a TARDIS. it was the most beautiful cake i have ever seen. i almost didn't want to eat it. and lovely girl made us all bow ties to wear and then made cookies shaped like bow ties for us all to eat. yum. so we arrived pretty early due to my crappy train time's meaning i was either a bit over an hour early or about 15 minutes late, and i am not the kind of person, as you could probably tell, who would miss the beginning of something so important. so we decided we needed some tea because tea is very british and doctor who is very british and we ate the biscuits and some cheese. then when it was time and everyone had arrived we sat down around the tv in our tweed jackets, bow ties and matt smith inspired boots and got ready for quite an adventure.
so, we left off with the doctor locked in a box called the pandorica which was made by all his greatest enemies who had teamed up in an alliance against him and he couldn't get out, rory the plastic bot thing had shot amy and she was dying in his arms while he cried and river was stuck in the TARDIS which was about to explode sucking all of time and space and reality and history and the future and everything that had ever been and ever would be into the cracks in the universe and the only person who could save everyone was stuck in a big old box.
but the nature of time being as it is, and the doctor being a time travelling time lord means that things aren't always necessarily linear, and as much as he tries to always keep everything as it is meant to be [for he has been to the future and knows what it is meant to be like but with all the inspiring the dalek's to time travel and what not] things are not always as they seem. so, we open in the future where young amy as we first met her is going through life believing in stars eve though they are just a myth. [i know, what, but all of time and space and reality is collapsing, and as we saw at the end of last week, the stars were the first to go] then we go to where we left off with rory crying over amy's body and all of a sudden, poof, the doctor appears out of thin air wearing a fez and carrying a mop. later we find out how he was doing this seeing as how he was stuck in a box, but rory now has the sonic screwdriver and goes to release the doctor. not quite sure how he initially got the sonic screwdriver to rory as, how did he actually initially get out of the box in order to time travel to rory with his time vortex manipulator thing to give him the screwdriver that would allow him to get him out of the pandorica in the first place. so, amy is not dead and we know this because the future fez wearing doctor tells us so. he also tells us that amy won't be able to be saved until a smidgeon of her living dna touches the pandorica while half dead her is inside. and how will that happen? rory asks cleverly. well, basically the pandorica will keep her alive as she is for as long as necessary, which is approximately 2000 years in the future when amy is little amy as we first met her and has only been alive for a few short years and can be lead to the museum where the pandorica is being displayed, touch it, and release amy, alive and well and as baben' a 22 year old as ever. but that's 2000 years in the future, how can we make sure the pandorica is safe and well and in the right place in 2000 years, so much could happen in that amount of time and we know already what the future holds. but wait, we have an immortal plastic rory in love with amy right here, and he's dressed up like a roman soldier and has a gun in his fingers. he can protect her. and that's what he does, for 2000 years rory makes sure amy is safe and can be reawakened. naw. i did shed a little tear at this point and then was so close to full on weeping when he appeared out of the shadows after a story about the mysterious soldier looking after the mysterious box throughout history, but then disappearing after he was seen dragging the box through the flames during the london blitz. obviously at this point one would be forgiven for thinking the man was dead as he was made out of plastic and would have melted in the flames, but it turned out he was a security guard at the museum, still looking after the box. and here we all are, up to speed, doctor, amy, rory and little rory all alive and well 2000 years in the future after the doctor was first put in the pandorica and everything around them is fading away. but amy wasn't the only thing reawakened when the pandorica opened. the pandorica after all is a sort of life support system and it keeps things in its air stream safe from harm and protects history and all that, and being that this is a rather unusual museum, what with a pandorica and such in it on display, it also has a dalek on display which, having caught a whiff of open pandorica, is momentarily bought back to life, but without enough power to really do any harm. enough to make the doctor stumble into a display and pick up a fez and pop it on his head. then when he is thinking on his feet about how he is going to save everything now that everyone is fine he stumbles upon a mop and is about to throw it away when rory's expert memory jumps in a tells him that was how he looked when he time travelled all those years ago to tell rory to put the sonic screwdriver in amy's pocket and to put her in the pandorica and get him out. so he hits his wrist device and disappears back to that moment then pops back to the museum. then he asks little amy how she new to go to the museum and she shows him a not, so he writes her another one and pops it through the mail flap on her door the day before. that's when i first noticed his hat, the first time that happened, and i got excited because he's gotten even quirkier and more amazing, experimenting with hat's, what a genius.
anyway, all this popping in and out continues. he realises the sun is actually the TARDIS exploding and that's what the earth has been the last to go, because the exploding TARDIS kept it warm for all those years and river has been stuck inside in a continuous loop doing the same thing over and over for 2000 years and so the doctor pops in to save her and bring her back then the dalek appears, a little bit charged. firstly though river asks about the doctor's hat and he replies "fez's are cool" as only the doctor can, to which amy grabs it off his head and river shoots it. so they get back inside and think they're safe for the moment because the dalek is still running on low power and will need to reload his energy and the doctor says they have 4 minutes and he knows this because when future him popped in and died in front of them all he told him that the dalek shot him and he subsequently tells the other that he will die by the dalek's hand[? i guess they don't really have hands. pointer?] in four minutes. when this occurs he pops back to tell past him what previous future him told him and then we're back on track with amy and rory and river as little amy has been sucked up in the cracks. so after river destroys the dalek they go looking for where they know the doctor's body fell, but it's gone. they were of course a diversion and he took the time to go and set himself up in the pandorica with his time space manipulator attached and is planning to fly it into the TARDIS and create the second big bang and everyone will wake up where they're meant to be and he will have never existed.
ah, i hear you saying "but the doctor once said that that which can be remembered will not be forgotten". yes but of course this is different because he is the doctor and will be on the wrong side of the cracks when they close and will never have even been born. so as the cracks are closing he is rewound to all the times and places where the crack appeared and watching them close. he uses this opportunity to tell amy something very important while her eyes are closed and she is in the forrest surrounded by weeping angel's. this occurred in the actual weeping angel's episode but we know now that it wasn't happening in the time line of the weeping angel's episode and it is why the kiss on amy's forehead was so loving and out of place because they didn't really know each other, i mean not the way the doctor knew rose tyler, that's why it seemed out of place. anyway, he eventually appears in amy's childhood bedroom where he first discovered the crack in her wall and he tells her the story of the TARDIS while she sleeps, a mystical machine the the doctor has been borrowing for quite some time. he meant to return it of course, he is an honourable man, but with the time war and everything, he just got a little carried away. a great big blue box that is new and at the same time old, it's constantly changing on the inside and remaining a constant on the outside. then he crawls through the crack and disappears from existence. then we're ten years in the future and amy is waking up on her wedding day, having remembered her parents she was able to bring them back [for as you know she was bought up by her aunt as her parents died when she was very young] and she is getting ready to marry rory who is no long a plastic cyborg man but just normal plain old rory. at the reception amy receives a book, a blank book that was left by a strange lady. amy is confused and rory reminds her that on your wedding day people give you presents, even if they don't make sense, and this one was like that old saying as it was old, and blue and all of the sudden amy stands up and starts screaming for the doctor. then rory remembers as well and the TARDIS appears in the middle of the dance floor and the doctor pops out decked out in wedding attire.
they dance and have fun and then river shows up to get her time vortex manipulator thing back and then disappears again as she does, leaving the doctor guessing as to what's to come. then amy and rory come out and get in the TARDIS and are off on their next adventure.
so that's a basic overview of the final episode. very basic, but i tell you all this to highlight that there are still a lot of questions to be answered. for instance, the silence. in the very first episode that white ghost alien thing that came through the crack in amy's wall and got inside the bodies of people like that weird lady and the creepy twins said that the pandorica would open and the silence would fall. we know from the brief moment moffat the genius was on confidential that the silence is a something or a someone as he kept referring to it as them and it, but we still don't know what it is and the pandorica has been opened. we also don't know who river song is and why she is so important to the doctor in the future. i can't help but think she may have something to do with what the face of boe told the doctor in his dying breath that he was "not alone" which made me think that there are other time lords sill out there like there are a million dalek's appearing throughout time and space despite the doctor thinking they were all dead from the time war just like all the time lords were, except for him. we know that moffat has grand designs and you can start to link things based on what is said and done in the episodes that he writes as opposed to those written by others. i have a feeling then that river is perhaps another time lord. i haven't worked out if she's evil yet or not but that's what i think. she also doesn't deny or confirm if she is married and if she is married to the doctor or not, if she kills him or what exactly she has to do with him at all. she calls him sweetie so there may be something intimate going on, we don't know yet. this little twist may lead to an explanation of susan though, which i would like, because it has been 47 years and we still don't know how or why the doctor has a grand daughter. we also still don't know why amy is so important, i mean the fact that she had the crack in her wall and the universe was pouring into her head as she dreamt is important to the whole exploding TARDIS conundrum, and the something old something new something borrowed something blue caper was integral to saving the doctor, but why did he land in her garden when she was a child after he first regenerated from david tennant into matt smith? we still don't know. and why did the alliance use her memories to trap the doctor? this we also do not know. i mean it may have had something to do with the fact that she was his companion, but it could have been going on for way longer than that. we don't know. really really can't wait for the christmas episode and the next season. i've said it time and time again, moffat is a genius and i absolutely love love loved this season of doctor who. the whole season. there weren't any crappy annoying episodes, i didn't have to work at liking matt smith's doctor, everything was perfect and nerdy and wonderful.
back to catching up now. i've stall warted a bit with the millions of birthday's i have had and now working at the film festival, haven't had a hell of a lot of time to sit down and watch an ep of doctor who, but i am about three discs into the third season of the new series where the doctor goes adventuring with martha, whom i love. i mean i feel bad about rose and everything but the doctor has left behind companion's so many times he ought to just move on and be a bit more grateful that a baben' doctor in training has agreed to go adventuring with him.
i'll speak more about old doctor who catch up ep's later as i am also still watching the william hartnell eps as well and must discuss properly.