Flesh and Stone

[teyla]

Hm. Sort of enjoyed the episode, but I didn't get any of the big tricks the Doctor pulled. Gravity? Walking like she can see? Communicator, angels, clergymen, what? Maybe I'm being dumb, but . . . why could the angels suddenly move when they were looking at one another? Why did Octavian not simply turn his head to the side and look at the angel until someone got a hammer and a chisel and got him out of there? Why the hell would it shut down Amy's vision center in her brain if she closed her eyes? And why would it stop the angels if she walked like she could see? Iiii dunno. Things just sort of happened, all the time, and it seemed like there should have been an explanation, but there somehow wasn't. Or maybe I missed it.

Part of it was maybe that I had no idea how that set was supposed to be laid out. So the spaceship was upside down? Or on its side? And the gravity was on, and sucked people to the hull of the spaceship but then let them stand up straight inside of the spaceship, and then got turned off and made the angels fall into the crack which was in the forest which was on its side because it was on the ship . . . I dunno. I got confused. Also, if the gravity was failing, and the door to the forest was open, and Amy and River and the Doctor were hanging from the console in the control room, how the hell did they get out of there? Because the crack might have been closed, but they were still hanging above a so-and-so-many-hundred feet drop, with failed gravity.

And if the angels fell into the crack, that meant that they never existed, which would have meant that the angel on the ship would have never existed, which would have meant that not only was it gone from Amy's head, it would also never have been the reason for that mission to start in the first place. Paradox. Also, Octavian should have been alive again. Was he? I looked for him, but didn't see him.

Anyway. I'm trying to make sense of it, but it's like trying to get that one cable separated from the ten bajillion others that you stuffed into your cable drawer without making sure they didn't get all tangled up. More or less impossible, and very frustrating.

APART FROM THE ISSUES I HAD WITH THE PLOT--ahem--I did like Eleven in this episode. I am starting to like him more and more. He's cute with River; I like how he totally gets a kick out of meeting her backwards. That's very Doctor. And wooh, River killed the Doctor. Or, you know, she did in this time line. I suppose she won't, really. I still like Alex Kingston, even though I'm still not really sure what to make of River.

Amy was alright in this episode. She didn't do much. I did like that they didn't let her manage to walk through the forest, because River was right, that would never have worked. But it did rob Amy of the one active thing she could have done in this episode. The scene in the end was sort of cute, but a bit random. I don't really see the chemistry between Amy and the Doctor--they're more like father and daughter, from the way their interaction has been built up, and Amy suddenly jumping the Doctor was a bit . . . what are you doing? They should give her something to wear that doesn't make her look like a 14-year-old. That might help, maybe.

I'm making it sound like I hated the episode. I didn't, really. I was just completely puzzled at the plot. The rest seemed alright. I like Eleven. He's working out. I think everyone is still sort of finding their feet. Although they're on episode five now; that excuse won't hold for much longer.


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