iirc, he got blasted back towards the crack, so the light touched him almost immediately. Then the Doctor told Amy not to touch him, maybe based on the idea that the light tends to act a bit like electricity, and will flow into/around any touching bodies? Dunno, something like that.

Best way to appreciate Davison? Have the Baker-Davison reincarnation be the first one you see, and have it blow your fragile young mind.

This is neither a complaint nor a spoiler
I love Matt Smith (didn't expect to), Amy, and most of the new episodes. Even the ones I didn't adore (space whale, WWII daleks) were still fun to watch. However, I haven't yet seen one that I know I'll want to watch again, and show to people who need to understand what's so…

Let's see: Houston to Hawaii, eh? Space, then? And yet, in the physics dept rather than the IfA… I'm guessing ANITA. Do I get any points?

DM: Sounds like the right attitude!

BE, you make me laugh. Laugh, then weep. Inconsolably.

Dorian Mode - I'm in Hawaii. What brings you out to our little dot in the Pacific?

[shakes fist]
BARROWMAN!!!

i++ and IP, thanks for your thoughtful posts. I can't respond properly (I'm taking my dog to the vet for the last time, so the themes of friendship and acceptance of death are a little too close right now), but the time you took to respond to my questions is greatly appreciated.

Educate me
As a member of Team Disappointed, I'm willing to accept the idea that I didn't really get the show at the thematic level. I mean, I can certainly see what the themes are: faith vs. reason, the pros and cons of free will, what looks like evil from the outside might actually be complex motivations and/or a…

Pinky speaks the truth.

Poor Aaron gets a shittier deal than Jack's nonexistent son. He loses years of his life, getting sucked back to babyhood from toddlerdom before going to the glowy place.

Oooh, I went to bed and missed all the fireworks.

Multi-way cop out
It doesn't matter what happens on the island, even if you die, because you end up in the alternaverse/purgatory. Oh, and it doesn't matter what happens in the alternaverse, because you get to go on to heaven with your buddies. Nothing matters. Island sinks, island doesn't sink; Smokey escapes, Smokey…

@Duncan Disorderly: The problem is that we've seen her death, so every other Doctor-River interaction has to be with a *younger* River - tricky if you have to stick with the same actress. Yes, in a show like this the writers could find a loophole (she's a Time Lord or a shapeshifter) or hope that audiences will accept…

The Cash Man: She's too big a plotline to retain (how will they manage the same actress interacting with future incarnations?). If River Song's sacrifice wraps up the crack-in-time story arc a season or two from now, I wouldn't call it a waste. But yeah, I also like the idea that River's a con artist of a sort, and…

Repeating comments made waaay at the end of the last episode:

prediction for the series, SPOILERS for part II
River Song is toast, probably by falling through a crack, for practical reasons (the taller-ghost-Walt problem). They've given her an intricate future history with many incarnations of the Doctor, committing all future showrunners to incorporate River Song into their…

Cheese: Fair enough. My objection was more to how it was presented, I guess. There were cheerful city port sounds, then *nothing*, with echoes of nothing. Anyone would think that was a very scary thing, and the Doctor would/should hop right back out of the TARDIS to investigate. I think it was the presentation that…

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