Overview: Season Seven

Rounding things out, here is Season Seven's notes!

In case you missed it yesterday, I explained these posts thusly: I decided to jot down a few notes on each episode based on my memory alone. For the most part these thoughts/notes are mine and based on nothing but my memory and knowledge of specific episodes of Doctor Who, but Max occasionally chimes in and usually signs his notes.
This is the final of three posts. Season Six went up yesterday, Season Five the day before, and here is seven, also known as 7.1!
General notes:

• HUMANITY is a major theme. As the Doctor gets more God-like, he draws a thicker line between himself and the human race. Episodes that feature this theme are starred. *
• Any two-part episodes are considered as one unit. Their story line is split up, but their themes continue to develop and character arcs stretch from the beginning of one to the end of another
• We consider CHARACTERS over "Real-world" circumstances (for instance, rather than considering the fact that Tennant stepped in because Eccleston had to leave, we would look at Nine's departure in the storyline, and Ten's arrival.)
• Memory/forgetting is another important theme, in both Doctor Who and Peter Pan.

"The Doctor, The Widow and the Wardrobe"

• This episode makes me cry and I can't actually discuss it since I've only seen it once. Notably, Amy and Rory do not make appearances, because the Doctor has successfully left them behind (for now)

"Pond Life"

• These specials are...tricky and problematic, but helpful in tracking time between the end of season six and the beginning of Season Seven.

From here to the end of the season (Part One), the "real" order of events is HIGHLY up for debate.

"Asylum of the Daleks"

• Divorce story line, which is the stupidest in the universe.
• Doctor needs Amy to believe in him again, in herself and Rory.
• By the end, Doctor is erased from History--he's too big, has too much responsibility.
• Oswin Oswald. Where does she fit in, as an unsaveable "companion"?
• No River.

"Dinosaurs on a Spaceship"

• WHEN DOES THE DOCTOR SEND AMY AND RORY ON A HONEYMOON?
• Brian! Amy and Rory have "grown-up", they turned to Brian for help as opposed to the Doctor.
• Rory stands up for his father against the Robots
• Parallel moment between Doctor/Nefi and Doctor/Amy in "Flesh and Stone"--against the TARDIS kissing
• ANGRY DOCTOR IS SO ANGRY HE KILLS FILCH

"A Town Called Mercy"

• More angry Doctor
• Takes the Gun, wields it against gunslinger. 
• When does Peter finally kill Hook?
• Why doesn't the Doctor GET violent before this point (often?)--it's not that he DOESN'T, it's that he actively avoids taking violent action, because he knows what he is capable of doing (Genocide at the end of the Time War, etc.)
• How bad will things get if the Doctor goes out of control?
• Cliches in the story line that make my blood boil.
• Still no River.

"The Power of Three"

• Brian makes Doctor promise Amy and Rory will be safe.
• Decision-making--We Have to Stop living two lives (this also happens in "Asylum" but they come to a different conclusion
• The DOCTOR is the one who stays with THEM this time--total role reversal (the last lost boy comes home)
• Peter wants a mother after all.
• When Doctor married River, he solidified the Mother/son relationship between himself and Amy. She becomes his...official mother
• I want you all to know that in tiny letters under these notes, I wrote "Oh god this show is sick"

"The Angels Take Manhattan"

• Rory manages to die three more times before the end of the episode. WHO ARE YOU?
• "Never let him see you age"
• "I hate endings" but then the ending becomes the most important part of the story, and leads him back to the beginning
• On that note, what does the Doctor actually tell Tiny Amy? How much of her story line is actually altered?
• "We are all stories, in the end"
• Mother/father/husband titles used A LOT
• River is BACK and severely Jane-tastic. Tasked with taking care of the Doctor/Peter now that Amy/Wendy is growing up without being able to turn back, ever. 
• "Don't let him be alone"
• what happens to Peter when all the lost boys go back to London with Wendy?
• Doctor has been erased from history by Oswin...what's next?

That wraps up my season notes. The next time you hear from me, it will be when I've started taking specific notes on "Meetings", starting with "Rose" from season one!! Yaaay!

--Jen