N-S6E3: The Curse of the Black Spot

Another episode all over the place.

I did like how it was mostly self-contained, only bringing up new questions for occurrences already in the series, such as the cyborg woman.  She seems to be connected to sleep and dreams, as the first time she appeared, she said something to the effect of “she’s only dreaming” and this time appeared as Amy was coming out of sleep.

Beyond that, I don’t know what to speculate about her.  There's talk that she's Amy's midwife, but the question remains when that happens and why the TARDIS is freaking out over it.  There's a theory that Amy gave birth while the Silence were there and hence can't remember it... but then what was everyone else doing in the 9 months that happened in?  Time will tell.

I’ve heard talk that Avery appears earlier in the series but am not sure when; if it’s true, this episode probably ties up older loose ends or provides background.  I look forward to finding him again.

I will admit I had a couple squee moments in this episode, mostly based on the previously posted theory.  When the Doctor tries to operate the TARDIS and has to abandon ship, one of his last options to coax her to work is “We could try stroking her and singing her a song.”  I think it might have worked.  Also, when he found her in the space ship…

EDIT: Feebas, am I listening to myself?  "Singing her a SONG?"

He was quite happy, almost too happy.  But what I want to know is if the TARDIS just got confused because of the shared space or if it’s sick.  I’d really like to see something come up in the future about the TARDIS being sick – I’m sure someone will make the love-sick connection.

I was torn with Rory.  While they did a wonderful job making the episode a tear-jerker, I’m really getting tired of Rory dying-only-not-really and being brought back.  If he really had drowned (one, he should have been able to swim), he wouldn’t have come around on his own after Amy gave up on her (fail) CPR (two, CPR doesn’t work that way).

Either kill him or leave him be, don’t keep killing him and bringing him back.

Amy’s pregnancy seems to be more aggressively indecisive.  I hope that comes to a head pretty quick here.

Couple thoughts:
-What universe are they currently in?  They didn't return to the proper one at the end of the episode.  If they don't make a show of jumping back through their reflections at some point, I'm going to start preparing my 'told you so' for the rest of this series.  It would be pretty lame to base the rest of the series off a parallel universe, though, so I'm really hoping I'm wrong.

-Suddenly we find ourselves able to pop between universes that are pressed up against each other.  I'd really rather not have Rose start making appearances again.

Neil Gaiman's "The Doctor's Wife" next week.  We'll see how that goes.  Looks like we'll have a cameo by cthulhu, too (Ood?).