Steven Moffat gives us a piece of wonderfully written and performed episode that throws a big lasso over Series 5 while still leaving things open for Series 6, especially with the voice on the Tardis Console...
We find ourselves in 1996, a world in which there are no stars, and the world is kept warm by an exploding Tardis. There's a lot of time travel jumping about by The Doctor as well as complicated rules about the erasure of time. Basically a released Doctor in 1996 goes back and gives Rory his sonic screwdriver, to open the Pandorica, which does, and then they put dead Amy in the box, to wait 2000 years until 1996 in which The Doctor helps Young Amy to touch the Pandorica and heal Amy. Confused? It all works well while watching the episode, and there's a lot of this sort of time satisfaction abound; unresolved tit bits from previous episodes are resolved in clever ways and by the last (thankfully chronological) scene series, any serious fans that have watched the full series will have a big smile on their faces.
It's too complicated to explain. Far too complicated. But that's what makes it wonderful. I'm really looking forward to Christmas, and there's some brilliant stuff scheduled for next year. This has been a good year, hasn't it? Almost every story was a triumph, a bloody triumph. Thank you Who. Thank you.
Thanks.
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