N-S6E9: Night Terrors

This episode is the reason I'm so far behind on posting.  The most meh episode I've seen.  It's got a few stand-out lines, but there's really nothing worth talking about.  Even the confidential had to half-fill itself with stuff completely unrelated to the episode to use its time.

Little things:
Mention of Jim.  Does he happen to be a fish?

For some reason "pantophobia" greatly amused me.

Quotes!

I absolutely loved that they made fun of themselves with Rory in this episode.  They recognized that they've killed him off far too often and let him be exasperated about it.

Rory: “Augh.  We’re dead, aren’t we?  We’re dead - again.”

Rory: “This is probably 1700-and-something.”

Amy: “Yay, my favorite year.”

Doctor: “No, not in the cupboard, why not in there, George?”

Because someone forgot to let Hitler out.  Seriously.  There's too many opportunities to remind people that Hitler's still in the cupboard.

Rory: “This is weird.”

Amy: “Says the time-travelling nurse.”

Doctor: “Stupid Doctor.”  -whacks self in the head-  “Ow.”

My favorite quote from the episode (and one of two things worth watching it for, in my opinion):

Doctor: “I’m not just a professional, I’m the Doctor.  It means I’ve come a long way to get here, Alex, a very long way.  George sent a message, a distress call if you’d like, and whatever’s inside that cupboard is so terrible, so powerful that it amplified the fears of an ordinary little boy across all the barriers of time and space.  Through crimson stars and silent stars and tumbling nebulas like oceans set on fire.  Through empires of glass and civilizations made of pure thought and a whole terrible, wonderful universe of impossibilities.  You see these eyes, they’re old eyes and one thing I can tell you, Alex: Monsters are real.”

Alex: “You’re not from social services, are you?”

Doctor: “He’s a Tenza, remember, he’ll be whatever you want him to be.”

Now there’s a power to abuse.  With how much influence parents have over children already and how they destroy an individual's sense of self with their expectations, that's really sending a message.  I guess George is going to be perfect, then.

And of course, the nursery rhyme.  Because it's not full of plot, nope, not at all.

“Tick tock goes the clock

And now what shall we play?

Tick tock goes the clock

Now summer's gone away.

Tick tock goes the clock

And what then shall we see?

Tick tock until the day

That thou shalt marry me.

Tick tock goes the clock

And all the years they fly.

Tick tock and all too soon,

You and I must die.

Tick tock goes the clock

We laughed at fate and mourned her

Tick tock goes the clock,

Even for the Doctor.

Tick tock goes the clock

He cradled her and he rocked her.

Tick tock goes the clock,

Even for the Doctor...”

Things to think about:

-What’s with the glass eye?  Is it Madame Kovarian's?  Did she hide it away so she could wear that blasted eye patch?