Well as much as I'd like to hide the spoilers I guess the cat's out of the bag for the first half end of the season two part-er. Hell, if I know about it you can be sure everyone else has heard. Being the last to know just about everything has some advantages.
Well to sum up: the Pandorica was a great big mouse trap, with Amy's memories, including Rory, as the bait. Fearing the greatest warrior and trickster in the known universe the Doctor's enemies have allied together to defeat him once and for all. Ironically it is his very incarceration that lets a mysterious force take control of the TARDIS and destroy it. Taking every star in the universe with it in a massive shockwave.
Oh and Amy's dead.
Yep that sums up the cliffhanger at the end of the twelfth episode the internet has been awash with speculation. Ideas range from "It's all a dream, it has to be the work of the Dream Lord!" to "Amy regenerates, she's really the Doctor's daughter!" and even "It's all a plan by the Master!" Quite frankly I'll be surprised if it's any of those. First of all it isn't going to be a dream. No chance, this isn't Battlestar Galactica or Lost, we're going to get a explanation that makes sense and isn't a total cop out. On that note Amy's still got a role to play, she might be resurrected somehow, but that's not what I mean. The fact her life has so many unanswered questions is going to be VERY important. I just don't know what and that's what I'm waiting for.
This was, yet again, a fantastic episode, yes I do wonder how long Cybermen have been able to spit knock out darts and that whole sequence did feel like padding, but that was the only speed bump. What more than makes up for that is the wonderfully dark moment where the Doctor truly falls into the trap.
With all the ships of his greatest enemies flying around Stonehenge the Doctor, in an epic show of bravado, stands unarmed and alone slap bang in the middle of the greatest armada in all the universes. He forces them all to back down and retreat. Only the Doctor could do that and it's an epic moment. Right up until the twist ending, alright it wasn't much of a twist as even I saw it coming, but what I didn't see was the alliance. The Doctor isn't forcing them to back off, they're just waiting for the pandorica to do it's job. It's an epic moment that upon re-watching becomes a pivotal one, for all the wrong reasons.
One of the few complaints I've heard about the episode comes from how the Doctor finds out about it. We get a fun little opening where we visit all the Doctors previous encounters. Starting with Vincent VanGogh painting a warning, that's the key. The Alliance sends the message and while the TARDIS doesn't detect it the Doctor's friends do and they get it to him, but why doesn't he hear it earlier? Answer:- because the transmission happens as part of the Doctor's own timeline, and we follow that timeline. Simple, sort of. It is the same with Torchwood, it didn't happen or exist until it happened in the Doctor's timeline, even if that took him into the past. Time travel does that.
Another complaint is why some races, that don't really have a problem with the Doctor directly (Judoon and Silurian's for example), are involved. Sorry, but the universe is in danger, not just the Doctor's opponents. Of course they're going to do something about it. Like unite and use their combined knowledge and skill to build the ultimate prison. Don't forget the line about the amount of fear that went into building the Pandorica.
I won't go into Amy's death, mostly because I don't think it's the end of her story just yet and I'm going to do a massive review later, after season's end.
Which is next week, so roll on Saturday!
Oh...edit
I'm a bit irritatted that they used Pandoras Box to referance tha Doctor. I did that in Fan fiction three years ago!!!!!
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