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Series: Life, as witnessed by Rory Williams
Part two: Loose ends

 A few weeks later, people started to ask about Mels’ absence. They couldn’t tell them  - they had no idea where or rather when she was -, so they just shrugged and said: ‘Somewhere out there, wandering. You know what she’s like.’

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Next:

Her first visit

 ‘Mother,’ River spoke indulgently, ‘The Pandorica, that’s just a myth!’ The ‘Right?’ remained unspoken, but could easily be read from her face.

Amy just smiled infuriatingly.

About the ep:

I like the ep, but the ending not so much. 

As much as I liked the individual backgrounds (seeing Shaz and Chris die such pointless deaths was hard, and Ray"s suicide: just harsh :s), and Alex final story (I died at 9.06), the ending with Gene staying behind was less satisfying. It seemed like they were saying: well it"s really all about Gene, so who cares about Sam or Alex. I liked the idea of Gene still not being over his death (was him seeing his younger self and startling at the end a sign that he" starting to forget already?), but it was executed wrong. 

I also appreciated that the religious scenery was kept ambiguous. You could interprete the elevator going down as going to hell and Keat"s awful hissing as hellish sounds, but it was never stated as a fact. So you can still choose not to go with Heaven-Hell. Although it was laid on pretty thick with the white light in Nelson"s bar, but yeah.

The part in Lancastershire, with Gene"s quiet confession was just beautiful. I really felt for him, young sod, 20 years-old, dying such a pointless death. I can really see why someone like that would like to keep living on in his own fantasy world. Same for Chris and Shaz: such stupid ways to go. With Ray, well he"s finally proved to himself he isn"t useless, so that"s nice too. All of their stories got a good conclusion.

That"s why Alex" passing on seemed so strange to me I think. She only just died (I guess that"s what the watch means? - she"s still living in that second?) and she hasn"t had the time to come to terms with that, I think. Or Molly. She got over it way too quick. All right, she never needed that extra moment of aha-erlebnis, like the others... but still.

I would have preferred to have seen her choosing to stay, like Sam. Perhaps in seven years they could have passed on together, Gene finally having grown up. (Seriously, the insinuation is that he still acts like a 19 year old, why doesn"t he get the chance to learn?)

So all in all: great series, lovely season, perfect episode, but next time I watch, I"m pressing stop right after Ray, Shaz and Chris enter the pub :)

 Back to part one.

Title: A Brave New World

Rating: R

Show: Legend of the Seeker

Pairing:  Cara/Dahlia, Richard/Kahlan
Spoilers: Set after 2x20 Eternity. Also mentions the faith the teasers for 2X21 spell out for Dahlia. 
Summary: Exactly three months after the final battle Cara awakens, herself again. What has happened and can she cope living in this brave new world?
Author's Notes: First I would like to apologize in advance for any bad spelling. Tomorrow I leave on vacation and this absolutely needed to go up before the new episode on Saturday and canon messes with my ideas again. This is what I think should happen after 2x20.
Warning: Character Death (see teaser for 2x21 and you'll know who.)

Another warning: there will be children involved in the storyline.

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A2A is a brilliant series. I have never, never ever, squeed out loud when watching a tv-series. When Alex communicated to young-dead-copper this Friday, I almost screamed with joy!

There are so many layers to this series. For me it started out as a nice show to relax, to see a modern woman reacting to being stuck in the mysoginist police force of the eighties. I also watched Life on Mars for broadly the same reasons. The humoristic onliners were a good bonus. 

Then it started to be something more. You could see there was something going on in the background. I started to wonder if Alex was in a coma, back in time, or something else, ... whereas with Sam in LOM I never truly cared: I just wanted to see the show. And then Series 3 happened, with all the Heaven/Hell/Purgatory symbolism... I'm a sucker for those. 

So I went online and looked for theories. I found them, mostly on livejournal. (If you're wondering why you never saw me: I'm a die-hard lurker and way to shy to comment on other people's posts). And I love most of them even though I don't agree with all of them.

Now, with the season finale within hand reach, I find I need to put my thoughts to paper, to keep making sense of it. So this is it: