Doctor Who (2005)

The Big Bang (2)

Season 5, Episode 13, Aired 6/26/10

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Location: Multiple locations, primarily Stone Henge, UK, Earth
''Date: Multiple dates, from 102AD, through 2010, to 5145
''Enemies: The Stone Dalek
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''The Doctor is gone, the TARDIS has been destroyed, and the universe is collapsing. The only hope for all reality is a little girl who still believes in stars.moreless

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Matt Smith

The Doctor
Karen Gillan

Amy Pond
Alex Kingston

River Song

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I'm flabbergasted!

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By midelburg, Nov 22, 2011 Report Abuse

This was a fast paced episode. In fact, so fast paced I failed to understand what was going on. I suppose the rift in Amy's wall was some sort of dimensional rift in space and time which created some interesting hullabaloo. The Doctor picked an exceptionally perky little tart named Amy Pond to help him in his madness. The first episode, or two, I spent mainly checking Amy out because I thought she was REALLY sexy.

In this episode we had an enigmatic woman who seems to come to the Doctor's rescue time and again. I believe she was called Riversong! I'm not sure the Doctor knows precisely who she is as well because he asked: are you my wife, or what? She just pops up out of no where! Maybe she is Billie Piper morphed into a different body who knows. She seems to LOVE the doctor because she was constantly calling him her love, etc., etc. The Doctor obviously has a crush on Amy, but she loves a goofy goober and would give her life for him. A touching scene towards the end of this episode had the goofy man Amy loves (WITH ALL HER HEART) shoot her in the gut as she is admonishing him to accept who he is!!! Of course the Doctor saves the day by telling the goofy man to put his sonic screw driver in his pocket in the Pandora's Box which saves the day in the future! For those of you who may ask what this all means, it means running all over the place and having one heck of a wedding party for Amy in the last few minutes. I must say the writers need to introduce NEW monsters and aliens into the plot. ALRIGHT alreadyno more of those cute little Dilaks! I would also like K-9 to take some kind of leading role. I would like to see MUCH more of AMY! Wowwhat a babe! I would definitely keep the goofy goober guy. He seemed deeply troubled when he shot Amy in the gut and killed her. That was exceptional acting! He also apologized when he dragged the VERY pregnant Amy up the stairs by the hair in the nightmare episode. This has been a great year and can't wait until next season!!moreless

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As quiet nothingness begins to swallow what's left of the universe, the Doctor is in for his most troublesome adventure. Can the Doctor and his companions River, Amy and Auton Rory break the Silence that's fallen?moreless

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By 10thdoctorfan, Oct 22, 2011 Report Abuse

The Doctor is out of Pandorica prison for good behavior, but before he can enjoy himself, he must set up the paradoxical events for/throughout the episode. Thanks to the Alliance, the Doctor was protected from erasure during the Tardis BOOM due to the Pandorica's properties of keeping its prisoner alive.
However, in the future 1996, young Ameila releases Amy from it thanks to her DNA being extrapolated into it and healing the half-dead Amy.
One has to wonder what was River meaning when she said, 'I'm sorry my love.'
Yet another clue as to who river is.
The Stone Dalek FEARED HER, proving she is without some of the Doctor moral passion imbued in her.
Follow the ending of this episode, an unknown adventure toke place before 'Death of the Doctor' and 'A Christmas Carol', in whihc an egyptian godess got lose on the outerspace oriant express, in which 'Mr and Mrs Pond' began thier Honeymoon.moreless

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Amazing.

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By MastaAwesome, Oct 22, 2011 Report Abuse

It was an excellent ending that made really made me anxious for season 6. The fez scene was delightful, and Matt Smith's dance at the wedding was hilarious. Everyone who ever hated the Doctor tries to imprison him, since he can't be killed, and he manages to break free.

A lot of people commented that the paradoxes were illogical. However, when you think about it, the entire universe is ceasing to exist. The whole of reality is collapsing. "Reality" is much less likely to restrain things like paradoxes. In any case, the paradoxes in this episode were no different from the paradoxes in "Blink" or "Time Crash", except that these paradoxes are more excusable since the whole of reality is ceasing to have ever existed.moreless

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Still watchable but getting a little bit OTT and far fetched in places to wow audiences.

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By AgentAlbertross, Oct 22, 2011 Report Abuse

So we come to the end of a new season with a new Doctor and a new producer. This two parter was still entertaining but was little far fetched for my taste in places. I mean the whole of Dr Who's enemies concocting a plot to put him in that chair was a little bit unbelievable - why don't they just get together again in the future and put an end to him once and for all if they can colaborate so easily. If Amy's boyfriend was a plastic man all along - I think the Doctor and Amy would have noticed! I thought the ending was emotional though and managed to rescue the story at the end. I was hoping that Moffet would be the new classic seasons Philip Hinchcliffe in terms of leaning to a more adult based story telling but this hasn't been the case. Most of this seasons episodes have been enjoyable to watch but to better each season Dr Who resembles Sydney Newmans/Russell T Davies original less and less. He's now some mysterious super being and the show is decending into a blown up comic strip.moreless

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Will the Doctor survive the Big Bang...

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By dcpgaus, Oct 22, 2011 Report Abuse

This episode is a disappointing end to this series. The previous episode built up the tension to the max with all the aliens aligned against the Doctor and they put him in the box for all eternity. At the same time, Amy is dying, Rory is plastic man and River is caught in a time-loop. Wow!

But then all this goes up in smoke. The Doctor jumps in/out of his timeline at a drop of a hat, Amy doesn't die, River is miraculously rescued and lots of nonsense is spouted about the second big bang where the Doctor will die a second time in this episode (he already died once but no, then he didn't!!!). Do they ever really explain about the crack in time and Amy's connection to it - or the Doctor's. Did Amy really never ask where her parents were all this time ? Amy is now with plastic Rory with a gun for a hand ? The Doctor always dances at weddings - since when ? And siftybastard is right - the Doctor always said he couldn't cross his own timeline to save somebody (ie Rose's dad or actually anyone who died) - so this really reduces the interest of the viewer if a death isn't really a death anymore.moreless

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Trivia
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- After Amy's wedding reception, River asked the Doctor if he danced. Then she states that he always dances at weddings. However, this may only be true for the 11th Doctor and possibly his future generations. In The Runaway Bride at Donna's wedding reception, the 10th Doctor not only didn't dance he stood at the bar just looking around the room. Though Donna didn't get married, it was still a wedding reception and he had no interest in dancing. Edit
- For no apparent reason, the Doctor puts on a fez and takes hold of a mop. This appears to be a nod to the classic series episode "Silver Nemesis", where, while rifling through Queen Elizabeth II's treasure store, the then Doctor (Sylvester McCoy) suddenly pops out from behind a pillar wearing a fez, and holding a mop up in front of his face like a moustache. Edit
- Production Error; At the end of the episode when the Doctor enters the TARDIS, before the shot is cut away from, you can see people moving around and opening the TARDIS doors, yet in the next shot when Amy and Rory enter, the door was closed Edit
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- Featured Music: Crazy Little Thing Called Love (Michael Bublé) You Give Me Something (James Morrison) Edit
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- Amy Pond: Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue. (The TARDIS appears) Edit
- Rory: What are they? The Doctor: History has collapsed. Whole races have been deleted from existence. These are just like afterimages. Echoes, fossils in time, the footprints of the neverwhere. Edit
- The Doctor: When you wake up, you'll have a mom and dad. And you won't even remember me. Well, you'll remember me a little. I'll be a story in your head. That's okay. We're all stories in the end. Just make it a good one, eh? Because it was, you know. It was the best. A daft old man who stole a magic box. Anyway, did I ever tell you that i stole it. Well, I borrowed it, I was always going to take it back. Oh, that box. Amy... you'll dream about that box. It'll never leave you. Big and little at the same time. Brand new and ancient and the bluest blue ever. And the times we had, eh? We had, never. In your dreams, I'll still be there. The Doctor and Amy Pond. And days that never came. Edit
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