My extremely late thoughts on The God Complex

I JUST finished watching it (two times in a row, hey that’s the only way ok), I feel the need to comment on it since it was an A+ episode. 

I like how this episode and the previous episode synchronized with each other, in ‘The Girl Who Waited’ she had faith in him; she had faith that he was going to come back, then that turned into bitterness and hatred. In this episode he makes her shatter the faith she has in him (so in a way, something like that won’t happen again. one less person) His speech was long due, at least I think it was and there was truth in it, you can’t ignore that. 

The comment Rory made that The Doctor picked up on and said was phrased in past tense, I think that is when the audience knew their adventures were coming to an end. It’s a shame too, right when I was starting to like Amy.

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When The Doctor looked in his room I thought that most likey his greatest fear was death. In the episode it was obvious, he had to come into terms that death is inevitable. Second time around watching it though, I heard him say ‘of course, WHO else’ so that leads me to think that maybe his greatest fear is himself. Add that with self-loathing, no one else hates The Doctor more than himself. Maybe he is afriad of how far he’ll go/he can go. ** I really want this whole thing to expand some more, The Doctor is always the most interesting character.

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I knew Amara Karan was going to be in the episode so I was really excited since she’s so fantastic (funny story: the first film I saw her in was The Darjeeling Limited and her name in there was Rita too aha oh.) 

-I wish she didn’t die, I was really hopeful but knew she would die, imagine: Amara Karan in Doctor Who, ugh that would have been so great. This would be one of the times I would ask time to rewrite itself PLEASE AND THANK YOU!!! 

Howie made me really sad, I didn’t like that he died too. The small story (it made an impression though) around his fear was upsetting.

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I picked up on the doctor calling Amy ‘Amy Williams’ the second time I watched the scene. The way I see it, it was The Doctor detaching himself from her, basically giving Amy her life back -goes with the whole ‘losing faith’ in The Doctor thing. 

The ending was really perfect, it wasn’t over dramatic or underplayed. I mean hey we know they’ll be back but it was a really lovely send off. Poor Rory and his champagne

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The idea of fears and everyone having their own room is such an interesting concept, I’ve been putting myself in that scenario for a while just thinking, “what could be my biggest fear?”

YOU ONLY NOTICE THINGS WHEN YOU WATCH IT THE SECOND TIME AROUND. 

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other things / quick thoughts:

• he ate an apple, doesn’t he hate apples? 
• “it’s okay, we’re nice” omg
• rubik’s cube, ok man.
• is it really that easy for Amy to lose faith in The Doctor, in 2 minutes. okay cool.
• “…old school motto: resistance is exhausting”
• he ate the fish
• the ventriloquist dummies were really cool
• you can pull so many parallels from this episode

I want to start quoting here but then I’d start talking about each quote so I’m going to stop. Okay then.