Saturday squee post: The Power of Three

[randomgirl666.livejournal.com]

Posting this early because I'm going to be out and about later on. Post your reactions to Rory's pants "The Power of Three" here. Spoilers in the comments!

BBC1 - 7.30pm

Comments

[loolaa.livejournal.com]

I'm not quite sure how I felt about this episode. It seemed really interesting and exciting in the previews, but personally I found the episode itself maybe a little bit boring. An awful lot of time seemed to go by where nothing much happened. I think it had potential, but I'm fairly indifferent to that episode.

Can't wait until nest weeks though. CAN'T WAIT.

[randomgirl666.livejournal.com]

Quite liked it for the most part. The stuff with the cubes and the villain turned out to be a letdown and the shakri thing was a bit nonsensical, plus it was all sorted with a wave of the sonic screwdriver. But then it wasn't really about that, it was about Amy and Rory and how the Doctor fits into their lives and vice versa.

It was funny and a bit silly in places and that final "power of three" line at the end was inexcusably bad. But mostly, yeah, it was fun enough. NEXT WEEK THOUGH...ARGH! GASP!

[loolaa.livejournal.com]

But then it wasn't really about that, it was about Amy and Rory and how the Doctor fits into their lives and vice versa. I wonder if that's why I didn't take to the episode? I'm over Amy and Rory now. A new companion can't come soon enough. And I really hope the new one doesn't get married.

[randomgirl666.livejournal.com]

I still like Amy and Rory, although it's becoming obvious now there will be stuff unresolved if/when they peg it because there isn't time to deal with all that in one episode. (where's Rory's mum? how does it work with them and River? are there ducks in that duck pond?)

A lot of people are saying this was like an RTD episode and it was a bit, in both a good way and a bad way. It had all the zany stuff and the everyday life stuff and an Earth invasion which is all well and good but it also had a rushed resolution and everything fixed by the screwdriver. So that might be another thing that puts people off.

[loolaa.livejournal.com]

So this is the last episode before Christmas? After which there will be no more Amy and Rory? Do you think they will die/get displaced by Angels/whatever?

Now that you mention it, it was a bit like an RTD episode. The rushed resolution was disappointing.

Actually, I really liked the Brigadier's daughter. (At least I think that's who she was.) I hope we see a lot more of her.

[randomgirl666.livejournal.com]

Next week is Amy and Rory's last episode and also the last episode before xmas. And yeah, it's angel-related but I'm trying to avoid spoilers beyond that.

I liked the Brigadier's daughter too. I doubt they would bother getting Jemma Redgrave in for a one-off.

[rabiya-al-basri.livejournal.com]

See, I'm pretty damn sure that the plot of this week's episode was just an excuse for the power of three pun, and tbh that helps me forgive its absolute awfulness (the plot, not the pun).

Really it goes to show the dangers of basing an entire episode around a pun. I think if the cubes had been the expression of a deeper plot--rather than the deeper plot an excuse for the cubes--it would've worked a lot better.

I agree that wasn't really the point, but this episode *could have been so much more*. sigh.
.......Though I suppose if it had actually been an invasion it would've been a retread of Army of Ghosts.

[hilandmum.livejournal.com]

I'll be sad to see Amy and Rory go. There was so much more that could have been brought out. That being said, I'm ashamed to say that I zoned out about halfway through this episode. Dare I say that it bored me?

I liked the Brigadier's daughter. But the plot was so shopworn, same-old-same-old. I couldn't drum up any emotion. I didn't feel any tension. And I positively groaned at the last line!

[randomgirl666.livejournal.com]

"And I positively groaned at the last line!"

I'm trying to think of a worse line from Doctor Who history... and I'm struggling.

[rabiya-al-basri.livejournal.com]

Whereas I thought that last line was one of the few high points of an episode that promised big and failed to deliver.