The Angels Take the Ponds...

It takes a lot to get me to cry for a tv show or a movie, but Doctor Who managed to do just that last night.  And I never even loved Amy all that much.  I didn't dislike her, but I just never really connected with her terribly closely.  Whatever your feelings for the Ponds, though, I think it'd be hard not to admit that Moffat created the perfect farewell for them.

There were a few things that were a bit predictable in the episode.  I could see some of the plot points coming beforehand, which is fairly unusual for the show, but that didn't make it any less enjoyable.  In fact, I loved pretty much everything about it.  Except River's fedora.  I wasn't a fan of that.  I also did take mild offense when Rory told the Doctor that he's the only person who could be attracted to characters in a book because pretty much all of my major crushes have been on fictional characters.

The set-up as a detective noir story was fantastic.  I'm a sucker for that kind of thing.  I love the dark atmosphere it gave to the story we already knew was going to be heartbreaking.  As if the angels weren't scary enough on their own, it added another level of creepiness.

I loved the fact that the Angels were back to their time zapping hunting ways again.  I somehow find that even more scary than the way that they killed people in the "The Time of the Angels."  There were so many throwbacks to "Blink" (one of my favorite episodes of all time) in the show last night that I was enjoying myself so much that I almost forgot that there was major sadness on the horizon.  Plus, now I get to be terrified of the Statue of Liberty too, so I'm super excited about that.

My only real question with the episode is the part about the TARDIS not being able to go back to 1930s New York.  In series three, the Doctor and Martha visited New York during the Great Depression in "Daleks in Manhattan."  I'm not sure exactly which year that was, but it would've had to be sometime during the '30s.  So now I'm trying to figure out whether the time problem applies only to 1938 and beyond.  If so, why was he able to land the TARDIS perfectly fine in 2012.  Maybe I'm over-thinking it.

At any rate, I thought it was the perfect goodbye to the Ponds in a sad, but sort of happy way.  I'm super excited for the Christmas special and finding out more about Oswin/Clara and how she meets the Doctor.  There are so many great things to come and I can't wait to see how the dynamics change with the Doctor starting a relationship with a new companion.