I watched the Doctor Who Confidential and there was passing mention of something I didn't catch during the actual ep: Poor Rory has gone through most of his life in love with Amy, but he's always had to play second fiddle to her obsession with the Doctor, even role-playing as the Doctor on occasion. So what does he do with his life? He becomes a nurse!

Chuck: Hasn't Chuck ever heard of shooting someone to disarm and disable them? You don't HAVE to shoot to kill, you know; you can shoot someone in the legs for instance! Killing Shaw on the bridge at the end was understandable, but Chuck should have been able to disable him earlier, at the cafe.

Hasn't Chuck ever heard of shooting someone to disarm and disable them?

He is all superspy and stuff, but that's so not done in law enforcement, at least. Centre mass, baybee.

Hasn't Chuck ever heard of shooting someone to disarm and disable them? You don't HAVE to shoot to kill, you know; you can shoot someone in the legs for instance!

I KNOW. One of my favorite scenes in BSG was when whatsername shot whatsername in the kneecaps. Because WHY DON'T PEOPLE DO THAT MORE OFTEN.

Because WHY DON'T PEOPLE DO THAT MORE OFTEN.

Because it's really hard and you don't always get a second chance? Even the best marksmen I know wouldn't try that sort of chicanery in a life or death situation--and if it's not life or death, you shouldn't have put your finger on the trigger.

Yeah, that's true. Kneecap-shooting is difficult in the heat of combat. The BSG situation was different, and the kneecap-shooting was after the subject was already disarmed and it was intended to keep her from following. And that, I think, should totally be done more often.

Ugh. Remind me--who shot who? Kneecap shooting is completely barbaric and horrifying to me. If it was an unarmed victim, I'm assuming it was a Cylon, right?

Still, makes me shiver.

Yeah, I think it was D'Anna shooting Boomer or Boomer shooting D'Anna.

If not the kneecaps, I'm surprised people don't shoot people in the legs if they don't want them following them.

Because you're not supposed to shoot to wound. At least as far as standard gun training goes, you put your finger on the trigger to kill someone.

Unless you're Jack Bauer, of course. But it really strikes me as reprehensible behaviour and I much prefer the totally inaccurate choke out or knockout.

So it's okay if Chuck kills someone for her, just not if he kills in self-defense or for the country? It's nice that the will-they-won't-they is done with, but lady, come on.

And even though I'd read about the crap fight scene here, when I saw it I thought, damn, Routh can't fight for shit, why didn't they get a good double, and forgot everything I'd read here.

DW: there's this blog in Hebrew that analyze so beautifully the show that I'd wish you were able to read it. Tidbits from there: All in all, the guy says that the relationship between Amy and the Doctor is a father-daughter relationship and not a romantic one, and that when the Doctor missed 12 years, he didn't leave Amy there for this time - I froze her there. So even if she still acts as grown up, she isn't. And that allows kids to get into the show, and that the past 4 seasons of DW were anomaly, and the scene where the aliens are watching all of the past Doctors and Smith says he's the Doctor meant to say that he's a direct continue to them - that the show is a direct continue to the original DW. He also says that if 10 were like 5, then 11 is more like 7.

But I really needed to translate this paragraph from there: "Whenever something strange happened with RTD [on board], it was accompanied by the same silly scene of terrorized and shocked masses in the street pointing at the skies and screaming. It didn't happened with Moffat. When the entire world broadcasts a message to "prisoner zero" and the sun suddenly change its color, people don't start screaming horrified: they pull their cell phones and take a picture of it. Moffat's world is more cynical and fade, than the emotional and colorful world of RTD. But it's much more closer to the real world. And in order to experience the world as the Doctor sees it, we have to turn to Amelia Pond."