• Welcome! The TrekBBS is the number one place to chat about Star Trek with like-minded fans.
    If you are not already a member then please register an account and join in the discussion!

5x09 Cold Blood (Grading/Discussion) SPOILERS!!!

What do you think about the episode?


  • Total voters
    115
Obviously you didn't concentrate on Rory hard enough as the episode was airing that he was removed from your memories when he was erased from time by the crack.

No great loss.
 
This show seems very keen on using forgetting stuff as a way of not dealing with the consequences of events. So we've killed off Rory, and wiped it from Amy's mind so that she can carry on next week as if nothing had happened. So... what was the point of him existing in the first place again? A totally inconsequential character death with little or no emotional impact at all. And how does Rory never having existed fit with the timeline of the last couple of episodes in which he played a role in the plot, and which needed to happen to get to this point?

I don't understand how anyone could watch that and come to that conclusion? Why is it difficult to see this is simply another beat in a series long storyline?

Is the modern audience really so mentally slow they need obvious things spelling out to them?

From the evidence here, I'd say yes. That, or they want to link plot points to inconsequential things that they want to hold onto (i.e. Ten's regen, or anything at all from the RTD era, having anything whatsoever to do with the crack, etc.)

It's amazing. Moffat's ongoing, recurring theme is the whole wibbly-wobbly-phrase thing, where time is not linear. Yet, there are fans who simply refuse to wrap their heads around the concept, and instead insist on "seeing patterns in things that aren't there" (to quote the 8th Doctor).

Meanwhile, fantastic episode. Anyone who says otherwise is a whiny twat. :angel:

And Rory will be back. :techman:
 
I hope so. I think I'm one of the few here who actually liked Rory.

Very cool to have the TARDIS wreckage in the crack.

I'm curious to how this will all play out.
 
I've gotten really intregued with this whole Crack thing. Even intregued enough to go back to Eleventh Hour and find the clip where Prisoner 0 said stuff about Pandorica opening and the Crack being something to a greater thing going on with the universe. I've got to wonder if Prisoner 0 is coming back. Who would have thought such an inconsequential character ended up so important. I might even watch this season again after it ends. Going through it once might make one miss a ton of things. I still don't think it's the best season, but hopefully this Crack storyline ends well because it's the best Storyline Doctor Who has done since 2005 (When I started watching).
 
If you're going to be speculating about new characters, could you PLEASE have the decency to use spoiler tags? :scream:
The hell?

<looks up at the title of the thread>

"Re: 5x09 Cold Blood (Grading/Discussion) SPOILERS!!!"

Yeah, thought so.

"Humor. It is a difficult concept."

Aw, now, give Checkmate his due. He's simply pointing out that it's okay to talk about spoilers for this supposedly new Rory character since this is a spoilers thread.
 
You assume 10 regenned in 2005. He left Rose in 2005, flew up and out. To when we don't know. Plus the regen powered TARDIS explosion could have brought the TARDIS up to 2010 then plummet it back to Earth and in time to 7 year old Amy's time.
If you look at the TARDIS in the first episode, before it rebuilt itself, you can see that the door is still intact. Here for instance (click on the picture to enlarge it). It's 11's TARDIS that explodes.

I hope so. I think I'm one of the few here who actually liked Rory.
Aw, I was getting to like him too. He saved the Doctor's life, how can you not like him?
 
Another plus point for this episode was Stpehen Moore. Is he really 72 now.
Everyone from Hitchhikers Guide is frozen in time in my memory.
 
Yes, it is obvious the TARDIS explodes at some point in the future

I'm not joking either, think about it, what if they are all in some kind of computer generated program, and the Doctor doesn't know it, he could be trapped
 
I'd rather be a whiny twat than the kind of braindead moron who found that episode anything other than embarrassing.

...

Oh hang on, I forgot the emoticon that makes a statement like that acceptable.

:angel:
 
If you're going to be speculating about new characters, could you PLEASE have the decency to use spoiler tags? :scream:
The hell?

<looks up at the title of the thread>

"Re: 5x09 Cold Blood (Grading/Discussion) SPOILERS!!!"

Yeah, thought so.

But doesn't that mean something like "spoilers up to and including 5x09"?
And since we did not see that Rory guy in the first nine episode or have him mentioned, this guy is probably mentioned in a spoiler tu a yet unaired episode - and it's not OK to talk about that.


;) :D
 
Meanwhile, fantastic episode. Anyone who says otherwise is a whiny twat. :angel:

That'll be me, then. :angel:

Yup, put me down for a Whiny Twat badge. I apologise for wanting a character death in an episode to have some kind of vague impact, and having a vague promise of future revelations does not compensate for that, sorry. "Rory will be back" doesn't do it either as it renders the event even more undone and pointless - just how many times is Rory going to be resurrected? And I adore the posters telling others they're mentally slow then happily writing off any kind of inconsistency as 'wibbly wobbly, timey wimey' - I think Moffat's best contribution to his own success on this show may well have been inventing that all encompassing get-out clause.
 
^I don't see how there was no impact??? He didn't just die, he didn't even exist. Upon death the best any of us can hope for is that our contribution to society, to those we loved, is remembered. McCoy is right in TWOK, he's really not gone as long as we remember him.

Well nobody does remember him, aside from the Doctor. Personally I found that way more shocking than someone just dying.
 
If you are not already a member then please register an account and join in the discussion!

Sign up / Register


Back
Top