Oh, and have we been doing THAT lately.
We have trod into the dreaded Shop, the room that mortals and angels would fear to tread into...because you couldn't, not for the longest time. That's because while everything around it was cleaned up, it was always ignored. Too much, too big, too intimidating.
But the angels could probably walk in there now. We have, quite recently. It's getting there (although we're a long way from done.) We're impatiently waiting for the scrap guys to take away the metal and then we can move the wood onto the trailer and THEN we can get the green truck out of the shop and really, really set to cleaning.
Yeah. Loooong way to go.
Fed the one dog and she's licking her feet clean. The other dog is crashed out by the couch someplace. Might go to bed in a half-hour-all this cleaning stuff is exhausting.
Ta,
Bec
30.6.10
27.6.10
Wrapping Up Numero 5
Here's my take on the last episode Doctor Who Series 5. Not what anyone was expecting I suppose...
SPOILER LINE
1. River
We still don't know who she is. She didn't shoot him/whoever (yet) although she did shoot his STUPID fez (Amy chucked it and River used the thing for target practice.) She says he's going to find out soon, which probably means next series (yay.) In a complicated twist of events, he said, "Honey, I'm home," so he's warming to the idea of being married to a crazy person (like she isn't.) Interesting that she didn't try to talk him out of tossing the Pandorica into the TARDIS explosion to fix the Universe-she knew it would reset things and obviously he would do it despite her so there was no point in wasting breath arguing about it.
2. Pandorica
The Doctor was in the Pandorica. Rory, after punching the Doctor in the face (!) was told by the Doctor in the future (I might as well explain that Eleven is wearing a Vortex Manipulator like Jack's and he's bopping all over the place with the damn thing) to go get him out and stuff Amy in there. He did that, and guarded Amy's semi-tomb for the next 1900 years (remember he's plastic!) Hence the love story that lasted thousands of years...(sneaky Moffat.) Her future little self gets her out and the Doctor bounces around and passes notes to Little Ames like a five year-old whose had too many Pixie Sticks (personal experience here) and steals her drink for her future self because she's thirsty. Then he gets shot and tells himself something, throwing himself into the Pandorica because it has restorative properties and keeps waking up Daleks who shoot the Doctor (if your head isn't hurting yet it should be. Have you been paying attention?)
THEN he throws the Pandorica INTO the TARDIS explosion and fixes things, although it takes him out of time. He's on the other side of the crack like he never was ever. 'Cept on Amy's wedding day (I assume Rory has lost his plasticine properties because of the fix) when she sees River and gets the blue book and REMEMBERS. EVERYTHING. And as Amy climbs over the table in her wedding dress, he comes back in a suit and tie that went out of style before cars were probably invented (a sense of fashion is absent entirely with this Doctor, not that it was really present in any of the other ten incarnations) and dances to my favorite Queen song like a dork (damn. Too bad his last two lives COULD dance well. I have been SPOILED!) I assume that the only people who remember it properly are Amy and Rory and River and the Doctor since Amy's parents weren't in this the first time around.
And so we get our happy ending, Rory's Mr. Pond (oh yes he is!) and off we go into the wild blue Box of Yonder with the three of them....EXCEPT...
3. Whoever that damn voice was
We didn't find out. At all. Nothing! I can assume that River saying "it all changes" when he finds out who she really is and stuff would be when. Probably end of next series, round about this time next year. Maybe Moffat's long-term plan to bring back the Time Lords? Or it is Davros?
And so, that is it! No more Who till Christmas! When Merlin Series 3 starts I'll start in on that, but that won't be till the last couple of weeks of September so it'll be a wait.
Ta,
Bec
SPOILER LINE
1. River
We still don't know who she is. She didn't shoot him/whoever (yet) although she did shoot his STUPID fez (Amy chucked it and River used the thing for target practice.) She says he's going to find out soon, which probably means next series (yay.) In a complicated twist of events, he said, "Honey, I'm home," so he's warming to the idea of being married to a crazy person (like she isn't.) Interesting that she didn't try to talk him out of tossing the Pandorica into the TARDIS explosion to fix the Universe-she knew it would reset things and obviously he would do it despite her so there was no point in wasting breath arguing about it.
2. Pandorica
The Doctor was in the Pandorica. Rory, after punching the Doctor in the face (!) was told by the Doctor in the future (I might as well explain that Eleven is wearing a Vortex Manipulator like Jack's and he's bopping all over the place with the damn thing) to go get him out and stuff Amy in there. He did that, and guarded Amy's semi-tomb for the next 1900 years (remember he's plastic!) Hence the love story that lasted thousands of years...(sneaky Moffat.) Her future little self gets her out and the Doctor bounces around and passes notes to Little Ames like a five year-old whose had too many Pixie Sticks (personal experience here) and steals her drink for her future self because she's thirsty. Then he gets shot and tells himself something, throwing himself into the Pandorica because it has restorative properties and keeps waking up Daleks who shoot the Doctor (if your head isn't hurting yet it should be. Have you been paying attention?)
THEN he throws the Pandorica INTO the TARDIS explosion and fixes things, although it takes him out of time. He's on the other side of the crack like he never was ever. 'Cept on Amy's wedding day (I assume Rory has lost his plasticine properties because of the fix) when she sees River and gets the blue book and REMEMBERS. EVERYTHING. And as Amy climbs over the table in her wedding dress, he comes back in a suit and tie that went out of style before cars were probably invented (a sense of fashion is absent entirely with this Doctor, not that it was really present in any of the other ten incarnations) and dances to my favorite Queen song like a dork (damn. Too bad his last two lives COULD dance well. I have been SPOILED!) I assume that the only people who remember it properly are Amy and Rory and River and the Doctor since Amy's parents weren't in this the first time around.
And so we get our happy ending, Rory's Mr. Pond (oh yes he is!) and off we go into the wild blue Box of Yonder with the three of them....EXCEPT...
3. Whoever that damn voice was
We didn't find out. At all. Nothing! I can assume that River saying "it all changes" when he finds out who she really is and stuff would be when. Probably end of next series, round about this time next year. Maybe Moffat's long-term plan to bring back the Time Lords? Or it is Davros?
And so, that is it! No more Who till Christmas! When Merlin Series 3 starts I'll start in on that, but that won't be till the last couple of weeks of September so it'll be a wait.
Ta,
Bec
22.6.10
Notes!
Some notes on what I think will happen in the next Who episode. I will put a little spoiler line down first and then go completely and utterly mad.
SPOILER LINE
Ahem!
First off, we know that the Doctor, River, and Amy make it. Rory is probably, most likely dead. Here's the problem with him-he ceased to exist when the light took him. The only reason he's around now is because of the Nestene Consciousness using Amy's memory of him and creating him. When the Consciousness departs, what will be left of Rory?
River was already in jail for killing the very good man (still don't know who but still suspect the Doctor is it). The Stormcage was a jail cell block in the year 5145. I have the feeling we are NOT going to find out who she really is this year-I don't honestly think there's enough time to deal with it in between the Doctor saving the entire universe and all that bit. Also recall that River's going to have to go BACK to prison if and when the Universe gets fixed.
What's kind of a little confusing here is River knows his name from college-Theta Sigma. The name isn't something that he throws around and it's odd that she knows it. Did she go to the Prydonian Academy with him? Is she Romana or the Rani? Or did she learn this because she seems to have borrowed some of his deepest, darkest secrets (like his real name) to bother him with in future?
She's no ordinary lady, but Time Lord is still looking too far to step. Could anyone handle all those memories of his being transferred to their minds without dying or going insane?
And then there's this: Recall, if you can, back in episode 1. It was a long time ago, I know, but try. There was a moment where little Amy was sitting on her suitcase, staring at the ground in despair because the Doctor overshot and didn't come back in 5 minutes like he said he would. And then she hears those brakes squealing and looks up, her face glowing with happiness...
And then we cut away to something else. Nothing ever comes of the scene. We never see him land.
AH-HA!
I think, though I don't know, that we may see him land in Episode 13. Though I'll grant, how the heck he gets his TARDIS back is beyond me. I think the little girl is the key to the problem and he's going back to change things around.
The voice that we heard is probably whoever built the Pandorica prison in the first place, and who may have caused the cracks. Clearly it's a man, clearly an older man. Since Davros usually liked to show up and be in the middle of the riot he was causing and since we saw him at the end of Donna's time in the TARDIS I don't believe it's him. I would be willing to bet it's not Rassilon, because why on Earth wouldn't Moffat use Tim Dalton again (and so we would immediately recognize the voice.) Besides the fact that Rassilon just showed up at the end of Ten's life. So not him.
So if it's not Davros, and it's not Rassilon, who is it? I wouldn't put it past Moffat to pull up a character from ages ago (and when I say ages I mean decades and Doctors ago) so Omega and the War Chief are currently sitting at the top of my short list of whose voice that was.
It's got to be someone who knows the Doctor inside and out, who can trick him into a spot where he would be cornered, where his enemies would be fooled into thinking it was a good idea to lock him up in a box. It has to be someone in control of time, who knows everything about it, who could manipulate it and bend it and have it at his will. And so it has to be a Time Lord, someone who slipped through the timelock and is causing problems for the Doctor.
These are important male villain Time Lords from the past who could have built the Pandorica:
* The Meddling Monk (supposedly helped build Stonehenge but totally stupid Time Lord as well...)
* The Master (unlikely because we just saw him last series as villain)
* Omega (most likely Time Lord on this list)
* Rassilon (unlikely as we saw him last series as villain)
* Morbius (suffered severe brain damage last time he was around and had no real body to speak of)
* The War Chief (hasn't shown up since Two was around and may have turned into the Master)
* The Valeyard (Future incarnation of the Doctor himself causing problems?)
Annnnnnd: The Doctor himself in a different incarnation, not the Valeyard but knowing that at this point he needs to lock himself in a box and cause changes in the Universe. Unlikely, but hey-this is the Happy Theory Land, where all theories are allowed to frolic.
Theories abound. Anyone got a few to add?
Ta,
Bec
PS: I'm just going to toss my crazed mad freaky opinions up here instead of making a new post. Tomorrow is IT!
1. River will be holding a gun. She will not shoot the Doctor (because she should have already done it. Unless the timeline changes. In which case she will shoot the Doctor.) Here's the deal-if River winds up earlier in her timeline than she's supposed to come round, that means she shoots him. If the River we saw get blown up in the TARDIS reappears, then she doesn't because she was supposedly already in prison for the crime. But I feel the shooting is not happening now, because if she KILLED him, then the lawpeople would have a reason to arrest her. It'd be pretty damned easy to determine if she KILLED him, right? Unless they fake out the lawmen and he pretends to be dead like he did with the Carrionites.
Or maybe she's getting re-arrested because she escaped prison and the law is coming to take her away, ha ha.
2. Rory will die. I can't seem to find a way to rescue the poor bloke so I'm 85% sure he's a dead man. Unless the timeline changes. In which case he won't die at all.
Wait, did I just use the word "bloke" again?
Never mind. Back to the thinking stuff.
3. Amy will live. (Um, yeah. This is right up there with the Doctor will live, River will live, and the stars will turn back on in this episode.)
4. Amelia will release the Doctor from his prison (the Earth hasn't ceased to exist-I believe it's just been cast into darkness. Whether this means that Amelia will still exist in her own timeline or whether she has to step across the cracks in the Universe to save him, I have no bloody idea.
5. At least ONE Time Lord besides the Doctor will show up because there was a woman cast as one on the list of people in the episode. Probably an extra since she doesn't have a name (unless they're being sneaky again. Maybe it's that one from last year that we thought was the Doctor's mum and we're going to find out who she is, finally.) I predict there will be TWO and Moffat's tried very hard to keep whoever it is off the list so it wouldn't be given away. Because if there was someone cast as Omega or something it'd give away the whole damn thing and we'd all be terribly disappointed.
6. "Big Bang" doesn't refer to the beginning of the Universe-too darn easy. Moffat likes his puzzles and confusing the truth. It clearly refers to River holding that blasted gun on whoever she's holding it on, therefore creating a bang in the whole of time and space.
Maybe.
7. The Doctor's going to need more centuries worth of therapy (he needs at least a couple hundred already) to get past being stuck in the Super Timelord Containment Pandorica box for 1900 years. Maybe he and Jack should start a support group (Buried Alive for 2 Millenia Anonymous?) Let's hope that it slowed his sense of time and space so it only feels like a few minutes until he gets out-I don't think I can deal with him being any crazier in this incarnation...
8. The voice is either Omega (maybe), the War Chief (kinda unlikely) or Davros (probably not, but I had to put what a lot of people are thinking.) I don't think Davros is that smart, honestly, and I don't think he knows THAT much about time and space (he's a geneticist, remember) to be able to set up a scenario/trap/prison for his greatest enemy and all that. Even with the Daleks' (no idea how to punctuate that at ALL) help (and since they hated him last time around they're not on his side or willing to work with him) he probably wouldn't be able to set up the intricate series of events that have led us to this point.
I still say we're dealing with someone majorly in control of Time and Space and who knows the Doctor inside out and backwards. Someone who can make a box completely inescapable for the universe's brainiest and sneakiest and slipperiest being. He's the Doctor, for heaven's sake. He's escaped every single situation they've ever stuck him in-locks usually can't stop him or slow him down for more than a couple of minutes (and they DID lock him in with his sonic screwdriver, so he might be able to bust through a couple of those things if he's not knocked to Peru/totally senseless by A) the loss of the TARDIS or B) the loss of his connection with Time and Space.)
When River examined the Pandorica, she saw a whole HEAP of locks and blocks and timeholds...everything whoever made it could throw at him to stop him getting out anytime soon. He can't get out on his own on this one-who do you think could make a box like this?
A theory is like a good salad. There are a lot of bits and I like them tossed with a nice tasty dressing. Have fun until all is revealed tomorrow!
Ta,
Bec
SPOILER LINE
Ahem!
First off, we know that the Doctor, River, and Amy make it. Rory is probably, most likely dead. Here's the problem with him-he ceased to exist when the light took him. The only reason he's around now is because of the Nestene Consciousness using Amy's memory of him and creating him. When the Consciousness departs, what will be left of Rory?
River was already in jail for killing the very good man (still don't know who but still suspect the Doctor is it). The Stormcage was a jail cell block in the year 5145. I have the feeling we are NOT going to find out who she really is this year-I don't honestly think there's enough time to deal with it in between the Doctor saving the entire universe and all that bit. Also recall that River's going to have to go BACK to prison if and when the Universe gets fixed.
What's kind of a little confusing here is River knows his name from college-Theta Sigma. The name isn't something that he throws around and it's odd that she knows it. Did she go to the Prydonian Academy with him? Is she Romana or the Rani? Or did she learn this because she seems to have borrowed some of his deepest, darkest secrets (like his real name) to bother him with in future?
She's no ordinary lady, but Time Lord is still looking too far to step. Could anyone handle all those memories of his being transferred to their minds without dying or going insane?
And then there's this: Recall, if you can, back in episode 1. It was a long time ago, I know, but try. There was a moment where little Amy was sitting on her suitcase, staring at the ground in despair because the Doctor overshot and didn't come back in 5 minutes like he said he would. And then she hears those brakes squealing and looks up, her face glowing with happiness...
And then we cut away to something else. Nothing ever comes of the scene. We never see him land.
AH-HA!
I think, though I don't know, that we may see him land in Episode 13. Though I'll grant, how the heck he gets his TARDIS back is beyond me. I think the little girl is the key to the problem and he's going back to change things around.
The voice that we heard is probably whoever built the Pandorica prison in the first place, and who may have caused the cracks. Clearly it's a man, clearly an older man. Since Davros usually liked to show up and be in the middle of the riot he was causing and since we saw him at the end of Donna's time in the TARDIS I don't believe it's him. I would be willing to bet it's not Rassilon, because why on Earth wouldn't Moffat use Tim Dalton again (and so we would immediately recognize the voice.) Besides the fact that Rassilon just showed up at the end of Ten's life. So not him.
So if it's not Davros, and it's not Rassilon, who is it? I wouldn't put it past Moffat to pull up a character from ages ago (and when I say ages I mean decades and Doctors ago) so Omega and the War Chief are currently sitting at the top of my short list of whose voice that was.
It's got to be someone who knows the Doctor inside and out, who can trick him into a spot where he would be cornered, where his enemies would be fooled into thinking it was a good idea to lock him up in a box. It has to be someone in control of time, who knows everything about it, who could manipulate it and bend it and have it at his will. And so it has to be a Time Lord, someone who slipped through the timelock and is causing problems for the Doctor.
These are important male villain Time Lords from the past who could have built the Pandorica:
* The Meddling Monk (supposedly helped build Stonehenge but totally stupid Time Lord as well...)
* The Master (unlikely because we just saw him last series as villain)
* Omega (most likely Time Lord on this list)
* Rassilon (unlikely as we saw him last series as villain)
* Morbius (suffered severe brain damage last time he was around and had no real body to speak of)
* The War Chief (hasn't shown up since Two was around and may have turned into the Master)
* The Valeyard (Future incarnation of the Doctor himself causing problems?)
Annnnnnd: The Doctor himself in a different incarnation, not the Valeyard but knowing that at this point he needs to lock himself in a box and cause changes in the Universe. Unlikely, but hey-this is the Happy Theory Land, where all theories are allowed to frolic.
Theories abound. Anyone got a few to add?
Ta,
Bec
PS: I'm just going to toss my crazed mad freaky opinions up here instead of making a new post. Tomorrow is IT!
1. River will be holding a gun. She will not shoot the Doctor (because she should have already done it. Unless the timeline changes. In which case she will shoot the Doctor.) Here's the deal-if River winds up earlier in her timeline than she's supposed to come round, that means she shoots him. If the River we saw get blown up in the TARDIS reappears, then she doesn't because she was supposedly already in prison for the crime. But I feel the shooting is not happening now, because if she KILLED him, then the lawpeople would have a reason to arrest her. It'd be pretty damned easy to determine if she KILLED him, right? Unless they fake out the lawmen and he pretends to be dead like he did with the Carrionites.
Or maybe she's getting re-arrested because she escaped prison and the law is coming to take her away, ha ha.
2. Rory will die. I can't seem to find a way to rescue the poor bloke so I'm 85% sure he's a dead man. Unless the timeline changes. In which case he won't die at all.
Wait, did I just use the word "bloke" again?
Never mind. Back to the thinking stuff.
3. Amy will live. (Um, yeah. This is right up there with the Doctor will live, River will live, and the stars will turn back on in this episode.)
4. Amelia will release the Doctor from his prison (the Earth hasn't ceased to exist-I believe it's just been cast into darkness. Whether this means that Amelia will still exist in her own timeline or whether she has to step across the cracks in the Universe to save him, I have no bloody idea.
5. At least ONE Time Lord besides the Doctor will show up because there was a woman cast as one on the list of people in the episode. Probably an extra since she doesn't have a name (unless they're being sneaky again. Maybe it's that one from last year that we thought was the Doctor's mum and we're going to find out who she is, finally.) I predict there will be TWO and Moffat's tried very hard to keep whoever it is off the list so it wouldn't be given away. Because if there was someone cast as Omega or something it'd give away the whole damn thing and we'd all be terribly disappointed.
6. "Big Bang" doesn't refer to the beginning of the Universe-too darn easy. Moffat likes his puzzles and confusing the truth. It clearly refers to River holding that blasted gun on whoever she's holding it on, therefore creating a bang in the whole of time and space.
Maybe.
7. The Doctor's going to need more centuries worth of therapy (he needs at least a couple hundred already) to get past being stuck in the Super Timelord Containment Pandorica box for 1900 years. Maybe he and Jack should start a support group (Buried Alive for 2 Millenia Anonymous?) Let's hope that it slowed his sense of time and space so it only feels like a few minutes until he gets out-I don't think I can deal with him being any crazier in this incarnation...
8. The voice is either Omega (maybe), the War Chief (kinda unlikely) or Davros (probably not, but I had to put what a lot of people are thinking.) I don't think Davros is that smart, honestly, and I don't think he knows THAT much about time and space (he's a geneticist, remember) to be able to set up a scenario/trap/prison for his greatest enemy and all that. Even with the Daleks' (no idea how to punctuate that at ALL) help (and since they hated him last time around they're not on his side or willing to work with him) he probably wouldn't be able to set up the intricate series of events that have led us to this point.
I still say we're dealing with someone majorly in control of Time and Space and who knows the Doctor inside out and backwards. Someone who can make a box completely inescapable for the universe's brainiest and sneakiest and slipperiest being. He's the Doctor, for heaven's sake. He's escaped every single situation they've ever stuck him in-locks usually can't stop him or slow him down for more than a couple of minutes (and they DID lock him in with his sonic screwdriver, so he might be able to bust through a couple of those things if he's not knocked to Peru/totally senseless by A) the loss of the TARDIS or B) the loss of his connection with Time and Space.)
When River examined the Pandorica, she saw a whole HEAP of locks and blocks and timeholds...everything whoever made it could throw at him to stop him getting out anytime soon. He can't get out on his own on this one-who do you think could make a box like this?
A theory is like a good salad. There are a lot of bits and I like them tossed with a nice tasty dressing. Have fun until all is revealed tomorrow!
Ta,
Bec
20.6.10
Sigh.
Was doing a rather lovely job of cleaning up downstairs when I was held up by my dad and an accidental faceful of sawdust. Right in the eyes (and I have GLASSES on.) What an aim. I'm still getting the wood bits out.
So I stopped cleaning and went back to watching the too-short video of Eleven I found this morning. Three times.
I tried to deny it. I tried to ignore it. I even tried to say 10 was always going to be my Doctor. And in a way, I still miss him pretty badly.
But at the moment, Eleven is really winning me over. Last night sealed the deal, mostly when he stood on a rock and basically told the bad guys to let someone else do the conquering first. And reminded them of how many times he had kicked their asses.
That's my Time Lord-remind them of why they're terrified of you in the first place.
Wish I could have inserted a line in there about him threatening to blow up the Daleks with a jammie dodger biscuit the last time they came around...didn't particularly like the episode but THAT moment was just completely a Doctor Who thing.
Sigh.
Here I go again.
Ta,
Bec
So I stopped cleaning and went back to watching the too-short video of Eleven I found this morning. Three times.
I tried to deny it. I tried to ignore it. I even tried to say 10 was always going to be my Doctor. And in a way, I still miss him pretty badly.
But at the moment, Eleven is really winning me over. Last night sealed the deal, mostly when he stood on a rock and basically told the bad guys to let someone else do the conquering first. And reminded them of how many times he had kicked their asses.
That's my Time Lord-remind them of why they're terrified of you in the first place.
Wish I could have inserted a line in there about him threatening to blow up the Daleks with a jammie dodger biscuit the last time they came around...didn't particularly like the episode but THAT moment was just completely a Doctor Who thing.
Sigh.
Here I go again.
Ta,
Bec
19.6.10
DAMN IT!
I just watched episode 12 of Doctor Who.
Hence the swearing.
If you've seen it, you know the cussing is COMPLETELY JUSTIFIED.
SPOILER LINE. BECAUSE YOU'RE GOING TO WANT ONE SO BADLY.
Okay, so starting with Van Gogh painting the TARDIS going poom.
River gets out of jail, writes HELLO SWEETIE and the Greek symbols of the Doctor's name (Theta Sigma-ha ha ha) and coordinates and takes the painting from 5125 to the Doctor in Roman-era Britain.
He's horrified. As anyone would be.
The Pandorica WAS under Stonehenge (sometimes I AM good)
Good wizards always wind up being the Doctor. Yeah, cause he's supposed to be MERLIN...
And then every bad guy and gal that the head writer could yank UP starts appearing in the sky above Stonehenge to take whatever's in the big locky thing downstairs hostage.
Rory appears as a non-dead Roman. Who remembers Amy. Who doesn't remember him.
Why can't love ever, ever be easy?
Anyhow, River doing flying things with the TARDIS and she's having problems with it. And someone is claiming the loudspeakers in the ship and causing CRACKS across the SCREEN and saying SILENCE WILL FALL and bloody hell, that sounds like Davros if I'm not mistaken.
But I could be.
Romans are not Romans and yes, they are Nestene Consciousness mannequin robots of shooty deathness. Which is bad.
Rory is too. Oh suck.
HA HA! HE DID TEACH HER HOW TO FLY THE TARDIS! I KNEW IT! I KNEW IT! HOW ELSE COULD SHE HAVE LEARNED?
River makes a connection with Amy and apparently someone's been taking her memories for some sort of lure for the Doctor...more on that in a minute...
Okay, so Ames remembers Rory, which sucks because about 14 seconds later his little hand gun (no pun intended here) whips out and shoots her to death. Oops.
Meanwhile, River's unable to debark from the TARDIS and it's probably going to explode. Which sucks.
And every single bad guy from every single era of Wholand is appearing to (you're going to LOVE this one) lock the poor snared-by-his-bestest-ginger-buddy's-borrowed-memories Doctor in the Pandorica (which is a big fat jail cell) to save the rest of the Universe from him.
And so the TARDIS explodes.
And the Universe ends.
And the Earth dissolves.
Isn't there supposed to be a THIRTEENTH EPISODE HERE, PEOPLE?
Oh ta,
Bec
Hence the swearing.
If you've seen it, you know the cussing is COMPLETELY JUSTIFIED.
SPOILER LINE. BECAUSE YOU'RE GOING TO WANT ONE SO BADLY.
Okay, so starting with Van Gogh painting the TARDIS going poom.
River gets out of jail, writes HELLO SWEETIE and the Greek symbols of the Doctor's name (Theta Sigma-ha ha ha) and coordinates and takes the painting from 5125 to the Doctor in Roman-era Britain.
He's horrified. As anyone would be.
The Pandorica WAS under Stonehenge (sometimes I AM good)
Good wizards always wind up being the Doctor. Yeah, cause he's supposed to be MERLIN...
And then every bad guy and gal that the head writer could yank UP starts appearing in the sky above Stonehenge to take whatever's in the big locky thing downstairs hostage.
Rory appears as a non-dead Roman. Who remembers Amy. Who doesn't remember him.
Why can't love ever, ever be easy?
Anyhow, River doing flying things with the TARDIS and she's having problems with it. And someone is claiming the loudspeakers in the ship and causing CRACKS across the SCREEN and saying SILENCE WILL FALL and bloody hell, that sounds like Davros if I'm not mistaken.
But I could be.
Romans are not Romans and yes, they are Nestene Consciousness mannequin robots of shooty deathness. Which is bad.
Rory is too. Oh suck.
HA HA! HE DID TEACH HER HOW TO FLY THE TARDIS! I KNEW IT! I KNEW IT! HOW ELSE COULD SHE HAVE LEARNED?
River makes a connection with Amy and apparently someone's been taking her memories for some sort of lure for the Doctor...more on that in a minute...
Okay, so Ames remembers Rory, which sucks because about 14 seconds later his little hand gun (no pun intended here) whips out and shoots her to death. Oops.
Meanwhile, River's unable to debark from the TARDIS and it's probably going to explode. Which sucks.
And every single bad guy from every single era of Wholand is appearing to (you're going to LOVE this one) lock the poor snared-by-his-bestest-ginger-buddy's-borrowed-memories Doctor in the Pandorica (which is a big fat jail cell) to save the rest of the Universe from him.
And so the TARDIS explodes.
And the Universe ends.
And the Earth dissolves.
Isn't there supposed to be a THIRTEENTH EPISODE HERE, PEOPLE?
Oh ta,
Bec
16.6.10
11 Weeks of Who!
Updates on the last three weeks of Who-don't know why I missed them but I did...Also, I am going to put all the important details of the other weeks here, in order, so that they are in one place.
SPOILER LINE
Episode 1: Eleventh Hour
Starting 14 years ago would mean this episode starts in 1996, spends a lot of time in 2008, and ends in 2010.
Questions:
Duck pond with no ducks?
The universe is cracked. Pandorica will open. Silence will fall. (What the hell does this mean?) The Doctor certainly doesn't seem to know-or if he has he's forgotten.
How does the TARDIS key get into the Doctor's pocket?
Cracks: One in Amy's wall in 1996, one on the TARDIS screen in 2010.
One thing I did NOT spot and that someone else did is Rory's ID. Rory is Amy's boyfriend in 2008 and he's her fiance in 2010. They've grown up together-she's known him all her life in Leadworth.
BUT something is NOT right with Rory's nurse ID, issued from the hospital.
(Ta to alienpanda for the sharp eyes)
NOTE THE DATE. 1990? We assume Rory is standing there 18 years later (in either 2007 or 2008.) Something is NOT right here. It's perfectly obvious to me (having had it pointed out) that there's more to Rory than meets the eye. And the Doctor knows more than he's letting on, since we only saw this ID in his mind's eye.
The head writer is a stickler for details-on the making of, the crew were placing postcards with the name of the town on them in card racks-so this isn't a mistake or a goof. The fact that the director focused on it for a long while in the Doctor's mind is another clue that this is terribly important.
Another thing that seems to bother some of the Who fans is the high amount of coma patients in the small town of Leadworth. They don't even have an airport-so why do they have at least 6 coma patients (may be more in the next room over that we couldnt' see) in a HOSPITAL no less? Wouldn't they have all been moved to a long-term care facility? I don't know how many coma patients an average town should have but 6 seems a tad high.
Episode 2: The Beast Below
How'd the Queen and her entourage know the Doctor was coming?
I thought Magpie got eaten by the Wire, so why is his business still around in the year 3295?
When did Amy record the message (my assumption is during the 20 minutes she doesn't remember.)
Okay, so the starwhale upchucks the Doctor and Amy-why aren't they dumped into space? It's fairly clear where the head is placed underneath the ship-maybe it deliberately hurled them into a room.
Cracks: In the Starship UK at the end (the year 3295).
The Poems:
(Recited by little girl in Vator at the beginning of the episode):
A horse and a man, above, below
One has a plan, but both must go
Mile after mile, above, beneath
One has a smile and one has teeth
Though the man above might say hello
Expect no love from the beast below.
(Recited by Amy at the end of the episode-I think it's clear what she's getting at but I'm putting it up here anyway):
In bed above we're deep asleep
While greater love lies further deep
This dream must end
This world must know
We all depend on the beast below.
Episode 3: Victory of the Daleks
The new Daleks shot the old ones away. This Doctor seems to get particularly pissed at the Daleks and just wants to make them dead (unlike the last one who made deals with them.) And since he spent a good 30 seconds pummeling one of them (as it decided he probably didn't want a cup of tea) I think we're seeing a tad more rage than we usually do out of the Doctor when it comes to these guys. I don't know why-all the Doctors have hated them, but this seemed a little more than just plain rage. I recall Nine and Ten handling them with distrust and certainly distaste, but they certainly wouldn't have lost it the way this one did. Great acting from Smith on this-I was impressed with him yet again.
Doctor showed up a month late-something's mucking with his time rotor. This is the third time!
Third Scottish joke in as many episodes? Coincidence?
Amy doesn't remember the Dalek invasion AT ALL. What the hell is going on?
Crack: In the wall at the end of the episode. Year was...hold on, 1940's. No specific date.
Episode 4: The Time of Angels
I want hallucinogenic lipstick like River has. That's awesome.
She seems a lot like a 1st season Jack here-anyone seeing similarities? She seems more ruthless, more uncouth, and a bit more reckless...plus, she just busted out of prison for murder and she's already flirting with the Doctor.
Question: Who'd she kill to get put into prison in the first place?
Question: What is that bit about the people no longer needing their dreams anymore? This sounds a hell of a lot like "everyone having bad dreams" from the end of Series 4...please, not again!
Question: Why the hell did they have her on the Byzantium to begin with?
Question: Why is she a doctor and not a professor yet? Seems a bit odd.
Question: They let her keep her hallucinogenic lipstick and the gun-blowtorch thing in jail, even though she was in trouble for MURDER?
Comment: Her and Jack Harkness are SO going to hit it off if and when they meet.
They've obviously been married (?) awhile already because she A) immediately knows who he is (but Moffat answered the possibly brewing paradox by saying that River has pics of all of his faces in the Spoilers Book, so there goes that problem.) B) can fly the TARDIS (and she didn't learn from him, that's for sure, but that scene reminded me heavily of Romana I and Four in the TARDIS when she flew it right and he didn't and so he ripped the page out of the TARDIS flying manual, and SHE called his ship old and then landed it perfectly. Very, very similar to that), C) River knows Old High Gallifreyan (he trusts her with something that precious or did she already know it?)
I also wrote down while watching this the first time through that he thinks they're married but she's been through all the firsties with him already, so she knows more than she's letting on (again.) She told Amy it's more complicated than that with him. This I am longing to hear...
I also wrote down that I thought she was A) Romana (but wasn't she trapped in E-Space or something?) or B) the Rani (unlikely as she was a total psycho, only showed up once, and she was more attracted to the Master anyway.) The fact that she knows Old High Gallifreyan and how to fly the TARDIS right is downright annoying.
BUT IF she WAS a Time Lord, he would KNOW it just by looking at her. The Time Lords were all connected in their minds, so she would connect to HIS if she WAS Romana. Unless she's covering something up there so that he doesn't find out too much too fast...she's not chameleon-arching because then she wouldn't know any of the stuff she does. She's not the product of a metacrisis (because that would kill a human.)
The angels were awesome, Amy was awesome, the Doctor was awesome. I screamed my way through this one thanks to those blasted statues.
Episode 5: Flesh and Stone
Second half of the Weeping Angels stuff.
Crack: In the hull of the Byzantium-the Doctor closes this particular crack up but probably doesn't fix the root problem, which he seems to believe is Amy.
River stuff:
She was in a thing called or a place called Stormcage, which I rightly assume is a pretty secure prison. She was there because she killed a man (which she admits to) and she says he was a very good man. She refused to tell the Doctor the man's identity and Father Octavian said that the Doctor would more than likely stop working with her if he knew who she really was.
This tells me it's probably the Doctor, since this episode had the running theme of "time can be rewritten." I suspect it's going to all get rewritten at the end of this series when he lives instead of dying.
River says she'll see him next at Pandorica (so it's a place and not an event) and he says that Pandorica is a fairy tale. Betcha it isn't NOW...
Prisoner Zero and River could be connected. What's to say that that was Prisoner Zero's true form? What's to say that she isn't part of the whole shebang that started at Episode 1?
PS: Another boost to that theory-take a look at this picture someone posted from the episode:
(thanks to the people over at digitalspy for the photo)
Is that an eye or are we seeing things? Is River Prisoner Zero? Does she know Prisoner Zero? Is Pandorica a Stormcage jail for criminals and when it opens a hell of a lot of bad people come out and start causing problems?
We still don't know what she is (besides a doctor and an alleged murderer of "good men") but my two theories from both weeks are 1. Spy working for the Church 2. Researcher/Archaeologist for the Church.
I noted this also: The clerics followed her lead despite knowing at least some of the details on who she is, and that bishop was willing to follow her lead despite knowing she was a criminal trying to win her pardon from custody (she did the Weeping Angel trip because she was trying to win her freedom.)
Episode 6: Vampires in Venice
Why is Amy so damn attracted to the Doctor? I'm beginning to think she's confused.
What's up with Rory and the very blank stare when he's standing in the TARDIS?
Rory=Mickey. Anyone else getting this vibe?
Mention of chasm by the lead space fish/vampire.
"In memory of the children lost to the silence..."
Crack info-some were tiny, some were as big as the sky. Through some of them you could see worlds and you could travel to other places, but the cracks would snap shut behind you.
Saturnine lost?
Rory hears silence but the Doctor hears a voice. Even after two runs over the spot I couldn't get WHAT was being said or WHO was shouting but that was definitely a voice.
Crack in the TARDIS keyhole. PS: Correction. The crack was apparently in the sunny blue sky ABOVE Venice at some point in the episode. We could see the Vortex in the keyhole. There is also another possible one in the dark clouds above Venice but we could be wrong about both of these (I would say the sunny sky one is more legit but remember that everything in the series is a potential clue)
Once again, Rory shows at least two instances of something being WRONG with him. First the blank stare when he was in the TARDIS-he didn't seem impressed at all but covered by saying he'd been studying up.
He also hears NOTHING when us and the Doctor hear something. How unusual.
This episode made BIG mention of the cracks and the possibility of zipping between them and getting stuck someplace.
And Amy is really, really needing to get her mind straight on either Doctor or Rory, cause she's driving them both nuts.
Episode 7: Amy's Choice
Amy's Choice.
I thought this was a pretty damn good episode.
First off, we DON'T find out who the father of the baby is (though I'm assuming since it really doesn't exist it's no one's.) One thing that bothered me was Amy not feeling much attached to her child, although that could be explained by 1) peril and 2) it was all a dream! By the time Rory "dies," she's decided that the world around her is a dream and so the child within her doesn't technically exist, but I would have wanted to see SOMETHING there...
Wonder if the aliens popping out of the old people were Prisoner Zero's captor's relations, because they certainly looked familiar. According to Whowiki they are Eknodine and they DO exist in the Whoniverse because the Doctor knew who they were. These could be related to the Atraxi from episode 1.
Lots of doors in the butcher shop. Does a butcher shop need that many damn doors?
And we find out at the end that it was all psychic pollen and made the Doctor make a Dreamlord and two false realities. Something about this just doesn't sit right-did he do this on purpose to drive Ames toward Rory? Because two episodes ago he SAID he was going to fix it and NOW he has. Hm. Convenient, no?
Once again, we see a possible manifestation of the Valeyard, or the "nasty charismatic world-smashing baddie that the Doctor is supposed to turn into around his 12th or 13th body and which he fears becoming." He showed a small hint of it last year in "Waters of Mars" when he decided he was in charge of time and space and could do as he pleased. It's the evil half of the Doctor, the demon with the face of an angel. He may look nice, but can manipulate and charm you into walking off a cliff or blowing up a planet. Hence, he's a lot frightening and not someone you want to let out.
Which would explain why when the Doctor saw him in the last seconds of this episode on the console of the TARDIS, he seemed afraid of him.
Apparently there's no break next week so see you for "Hungry Earth."
Now some clearing up! More spoilers here, some possibly for 12 and 13, so I'm going to put ANOTHER spoiler line to keep people safe from knowledge if they so choose.
I've been snooping around and stuff, pondering and sticking my pointy nose in places where it probably shouldn't be. And I found this:
(thanks to Cameron K McEwan over on Flickr for this one)
I dunno what it means, but some have supposed that Omega is returning. If you know your Who history, there were three greatest of the great Time Lords-Rassilon (who we saw at the end of last year's series) the Other (who the Doctor's supposed to be a reincarnation of) and Omega. Omega is apparently pretty damn bitter towards his own people (who technically no longer exist thanks to the Doctor) and it wouldn't be a far stretch for the Doctor and him to stand together and battle something pretty big, seeing as Omega might have gotten out of the time lock...
Omega was also apparently power-hungry at one point, which would put him at odds with the Doctor if he still feels the same.
Anyway, some other person supposed River's gonna just chuck the Doctor into a time crack and fix the whole problem. That's too easy, people-do you really think Moffat would make it that simple?
Episode 8: Hungry Earth
Amy and Rory see future versions of themselves in 2020. Really? I don't think so!
The Doctor put the blue grass in his mouth again and I was distinctly reminded of his last incarnation who put EVERYTHING in his mouth...oh, David I miss you sometimes...
The kid obviously is significant to the Silurians and possibly to their downfall because of his dyslexia, or they wouldn't have emphasized it so damned often.
Something about bioprogramming.
The Doctor calls for silence (significant?)
Clennparii defense is the defense of oneself by saying you're the last of a species. The Doctor was more than moderately insulted when the Silurian in captivity dared to claim this defense, since at this moment he IS the last of the Time Lords.
Of the three people left standing there, who would kill the Silurian? Rory, who's lost Amy to the ground? Ambrose who's lost her husband and son (where is that kid anyway-haven't seen him since he vanished), or Tony, who's been bitten and has the venom of the Silurians running through his system and has also lost his son-in-law and grandson to the ground?
Next week deals with time in flux and not fixed points.
Episode 9: Cold Blood
Crack in Silurian tunnels. Rory dies here. Doctor sticks an arm in and pulls out a chunk of toasted TARDIS doorsign-not good. Rory's body is absorbed by the light and Amy forgets he exists as a result.
Rory, however, cannot be dead as he appears in the finale. So there.
Best line? Squeaky bun time!
Episode 10: Vincent and the Doctor
The crows in Vincent's field painting look like cracks in time.
I assume the Krafayis was dropped by a crack in time.
Amy doesn't remember Rory, but she's still crying (at least according to Vincent). Does she still have something wrong with her eye (angel dust?) or is this her subconscious recalling Rory?
Episode 11: The Lodger
The time loop in this episode was caused by a localized effect because of a TARDIS sitting upstairs. Whose was it, why was it parked there and who built the thing?
Crack in apartment wall.
Thanks to the engagement ring she's carrying in her bag, Amy doesn't remember Rory but she knows the ring means something significant.
Cracks in the year 1580, 1941, 1996, two in 2010, 2020, 3295, and the 51st century.
The trailer for next week is full of stuff...lots of stuff.
Pandorica is a big damn box with a lock on it full of writing. I assume that the Pandorica is a big damn box with lots of bad, bad, bad stuff shoved in it and that someone is going to open it up and cause a major ruckus.
The time period appeared to be Roman or Dark Ages, thanks to the stupid red skirts and tents and armor. Also the Doctor was riding a horse.
The ship in space with everything headed towards it looked a lot like the one that just got vaporized last episode. Possibly the same one before it disappeared?
The Doctor mentions the Trickster and the Warrior. Tricksters have shown up a few times recently-there was the beetle on Donna's back in Series 4 and the whitefaced thing that tried to kill off Sarah Jane in her show. The Warrior could be the War Chief or Omega (if indeed it is a Time Lord we're facing here-and how could we not be with all these damn time cracks?)
That should be it. Everything is here for your perusal and mine. Have fun!
Ta,
Bec
SPOILER LINE
Episode 1: Eleventh Hour
Starting 14 years ago would mean this episode starts in 1996, spends a lot of time in 2008, and ends in 2010.
Questions:
Duck pond with no ducks?
The universe is cracked. Pandorica will open. Silence will fall. (What the hell does this mean?) The Doctor certainly doesn't seem to know-or if he has he's forgotten.
How does the TARDIS key get into the Doctor's pocket?
Cracks: One in Amy's wall in 1996, one on the TARDIS screen in 2010.
One thing I did NOT spot and that someone else did is Rory's ID. Rory is Amy's boyfriend in 2008 and he's her fiance in 2010. They've grown up together-she's known him all her life in Leadworth.
BUT something is NOT right with Rory's nurse ID, issued from the hospital.
(Ta to alienpanda for the sharp eyes)NOTE THE DATE. 1990? We assume Rory is standing there 18 years later (in either 2007 or 2008.) Something is NOT right here. It's perfectly obvious to me (having had it pointed out) that there's more to Rory than meets the eye. And the Doctor knows more than he's letting on, since we only saw this ID in his mind's eye.
The head writer is a stickler for details-on the making of, the crew were placing postcards with the name of the town on them in card racks-so this isn't a mistake or a goof. The fact that the director focused on it for a long while in the Doctor's mind is another clue that this is terribly important.
Another thing that seems to bother some of the Who fans is the high amount of coma patients in the small town of Leadworth. They don't even have an airport-so why do they have at least 6 coma patients (may be more in the next room over that we couldnt' see) in a HOSPITAL no less? Wouldn't they have all been moved to a long-term care facility? I don't know how many coma patients an average town should have but 6 seems a tad high.
Episode 2: The Beast Below
How'd the Queen and her entourage know the Doctor was coming?
I thought Magpie got eaten by the Wire, so why is his business still around in the year 3295?
When did Amy record the message (my assumption is during the 20 minutes she doesn't remember.)
Okay, so the starwhale upchucks the Doctor and Amy-why aren't they dumped into space? It's fairly clear where the head is placed underneath the ship-maybe it deliberately hurled them into a room.
Cracks: In the Starship UK at the end (the year 3295).
The Poems:
(Recited by little girl in Vator at the beginning of the episode):
A horse and a man, above, below
One has a plan, but both must go
Mile after mile, above, beneath
One has a smile and one has teeth
Though the man above might say hello
Expect no love from the beast below.
(Recited by Amy at the end of the episode-I think it's clear what she's getting at but I'm putting it up here anyway):
In bed above we're deep asleep
While greater love lies further deep
This dream must end
This world must know
We all depend on the beast below.
Episode 3: Victory of the Daleks
The new Daleks shot the old ones away. This Doctor seems to get particularly pissed at the Daleks and just wants to make them dead (unlike the last one who made deals with them.) And since he spent a good 30 seconds pummeling one of them (as it decided he probably didn't want a cup of tea) I think we're seeing a tad more rage than we usually do out of the Doctor when it comes to these guys. I don't know why-all the Doctors have hated them, but this seemed a little more than just plain rage. I recall Nine and Ten handling them with distrust and certainly distaste, but they certainly wouldn't have lost it the way this one did. Great acting from Smith on this-I was impressed with him yet again.
Doctor showed up a month late-something's mucking with his time rotor. This is the third time!
Third Scottish joke in as many episodes? Coincidence?
Amy doesn't remember the Dalek invasion AT ALL. What the hell is going on?
Crack: In the wall at the end of the episode. Year was...hold on, 1940's. No specific date.
Episode 4: The Time of Angels
I want hallucinogenic lipstick like River has. That's awesome.
She seems a lot like a 1st season Jack here-anyone seeing similarities? She seems more ruthless, more uncouth, and a bit more reckless...plus, she just busted out of prison for murder and she's already flirting with the Doctor.
Question: Who'd she kill to get put into prison in the first place?
Question: What is that bit about the people no longer needing their dreams anymore? This sounds a hell of a lot like "everyone having bad dreams" from the end of Series 4...please, not again!
Question: Why the hell did they have her on the Byzantium to begin with?
Question: Why is she a doctor and not a professor yet? Seems a bit odd.
Question: They let her keep her hallucinogenic lipstick and the gun-blowtorch thing in jail, even though she was in trouble for MURDER?
Comment: Her and Jack Harkness are SO going to hit it off if and when they meet.
They've obviously been married (?) awhile already because she A) immediately knows who he is (but Moffat answered the possibly brewing paradox by saying that River has pics of all of his faces in the Spoilers Book, so there goes that problem.) B) can fly the TARDIS (and she didn't learn from him, that's for sure, but that scene reminded me heavily of Romana I and Four in the TARDIS when she flew it right and he didn't and so he ripped the page out of the TARDIS flying manual, and SHE called his ship old and then landed it perfectly. Very, very similar to that), C) River knows Old High Gallifreyan (he trusts her with something that precious or did she already know it?)
I also wrote down while watching this the first time through that he thinks they're married but she's been through all the firsties with him already, so she knows more than she's letting on (again.) She told Amy it's more complicated than that with him. This I am longing to hear...
I also wrote down that I thought she was A) Romana (but wasn't she trapped in E-Space or something?) or B) the Rani (unlikely as she was a total psycho, only showed up once, and she was more attracted to the Master anyway.) The fact that she knows Old High Gallifreyan and how to fly the TARDIS right is downright annoying.
BUT IF she WAS a Time Lord, he would KNOW it just by looking at her. The Time Lords were all connected in their minds, so she would connect to HIS if she WAS Romana. Unless she's covering something up there so that he doesn't find out too much too fast...she's not chameleon-arching because then she wouldn't know any of the stuff she does. She's not the product of a metacrisis (because that would kill a human.)
The angels were awesome, Amy was awesome, the Doctor was awesome. I screamed my way through this one thanks to those blasted statues.
Episode 5: Flesh and Stone
Second half of the Weeping Angels stuff.
Crack: In the hull of the Byzantium-the Doctor closes this particular crack up but probably doesn't fix the root problem, which he seems to believe is Amy.
River stuff:
She was in a thing called or a place called Stormcage, which I rightly assume is a pretty secure prison. She was there because she killed a man (which she admits to) and she says he was a very good man. She refused to tell the Doctor the man's identity and Father Octavian said that the Doctor would more than likely stop working with her if he knew who she really was.
This tells me it's probably the Doctor, since this episode had the running theme of "time can be rewritten." I suspect it's going to all get rewritten at the end of this series when he lives instead of dying.
River says she'll see him next at Pandorica (so it's a place and not an event) and he says that Pandorica is a fairy tale. Betcha it isn't NOW...
Prisoner Zero and River could be connected. What's to say that that was Prisoner Zero's true form? What's to say that she isn't part of the whole shebang that started at Episode 1?
PS: Another boost to that theory-take a look at this picture someone posted from the episode:
(thanks to the people over at digitalspy for the photo)
Is that an eye or are we seeing things? Is River Prisoner Zero? Does she know Prisoner Zero? Is Pandorica a Stormcage jail for criminals and when it opens a hell of a lot of bad people come out and start causing problems?
We still don't know what she is (besides a doctor and an alleged murderer of "good men") but my two theories from both weeks are 1. Spy working for the Church 2. Researcher/Archaeologist for the Church.
I noted this also: The clerics followed her lead despite knowing at least some of the details on who she is, and that bishop was willing to follow her lead despite knowing she was a criminal trying to win her pardon from custody (she did the Weeping Angel trip because she was trying to win her freedom.)
Episode 6: Vampires in Venice
Why is Amy so damn attracted to the Doctor? I'm beginning to think she's confused.
What's up with Rory and the very blank stare when he's standing in the TARDIS?
Rory=Mickey. Anyone else getting this vibe?
Mention of chasm by the lead space fish/vampire.
"In memory of the children lost to the silence..."
Crack info-some were tiny, some were as big as the sky. Through some of them you could see worlds and you could travel to other places, but the cracks would snap shut behind you.
Saturnine lost?
Rory hears silence but the Doctor hears a voice. Even after two runs over the spot I couldn't get WHAT was being said or WHO was shouting but that was definitely a voice.
Crack in the TARDIS keyhole. PS: Correction. The crack was apparently in the sunny blue sky ABOVE Venice at some point in the episode. We could see the Vortex in the keyhole. There is also another possible one in the dark clouds above Venice but we could be wrong about both of these (I would say the sunny sky one is more legit but remember that everything in the series is a potential clue)
Once again, Rory shows at least two instances of something being WRONG with him. First the blank stare when he was in the TARDIS-he didn't seem impressed at all but covered by saying he'd been studying up.
He also hears NOTHING when us and the Doctor hear something. How unusual.
This episode made BIG mention of the cracks and the possibility of zipping between them and getting stuck someplace.
And Amy is really, really needing to get her mind straight on either Doctor or Rory, cause she's driving them both nuts.
Episode 7: Amy's Choice
Amy's Choice.
I thought this was a pretty damn good episode.
First off, we DON'T find out who the father of the baby is (though I'm assuming since it really doesn't exist it's no one's.) One thing that bothered me was Amy not feeling much attached to her child, although that could be explained by 1) peril and 2) it was all a dream! By the time Rory "dies," she's decided that the world around her is a dream and so the child within her doesn't technically exist, but I would have wanted to see SOMETHING there...
Wonder if the aliens popping out of the old people were Prisoner Zero's captor's relations, because they certainly looked familiar. According to Whowiki they are Eknodine and they DO exist in the Whoniverse because the Doctor knew who they were. These could be related to the Atraxi from episode 1.
Lots of doors in the butcher shop. Does a butcher shop need that many damn doors?
And we find out at the end that it was all psychic pollen and made the Doctor make a Dreamlord and two false realities. Something about this just doesn't sit right-did he do this on purpose to drive Ames toward Rory? Because two episodes ago he SAID he was going to fix it and NOW he has. Hm. Convenient, no?
Once again, we see a possible manifestation of the Valeyard, or the "nasty charismatic world-smashing baddie that the Doctor is supposed to turn into around his 12th or 13th body and which he fears becoming." He showed a small hint of it last year in "Waters of Mars" when he decided he was in charge of time and space and could do as he pleased. It's the evil half of the Doctor, the demon with the face of an angel. He may look nice, but can manipulate and charm you into walking off a cliff or blowing up a planet. Hence, he's a lot frightening and not someone you want to let out.
Which would explain why when the Doctor saw him in the last seconds of this episode on the console of the TARDIS, he seemed afraid of him.
Apparently there's no break next week so see you for "Hungry Earth."
Now some clearing up! More spoilers here, some possibly for 12 and 13, so I'm going to put ANOTHER spoiler line to keep people safe from knowledge if they so choose.
I've been snooping around and stuff, pondering and sticking my pointy nose in places where it probably shouldn't be. And I found this:
(thanks to Cameron K McEwan over on Flickr for this one)I dunno what it means, but some have supposed that Omega is returning. If you know your Who history, there were three greatest of the great Time Lords-Rassilon (who we saw at the end of last year's series) the Other (who the Doctor's supposed to be a reincarnation of) and Omega. Omega is apparently pretty damn bitter towards his own people (who technically no longer exist thanks to the Doctor) and it wouldn't be a far stretch for the Doctor and him to stand together and battle something pretty big, seeing as Omega might have gotten out of the time lock...
Omega was also apparently power-hungry at one point, which would put him at odds with the Doctor if he still feels the same.
Anyway, some other person supposed River's gonna just chuck the Doctor into a time crack and fix the whole problem. That's too easy, people-do you really think Moffat would make it that simple?
Episode 8: Hungry Earth
Amy and Rory see future versions of themselves in 2020. Really? I don't think so!
The Doctor put the blue grass in his mouth again and I was distinctly reminded of his last incarnation who put EVERYTHING in his mouth...oh, David I miss you sometimes...
The kid obviously is significant to the Silurians and possibly to their downfall because of his dyslexia, or they wouldn't have emphasized it so damned often.
Something about bioprogramming.
The Doctor calls for silence (significant?)
Clennparii defense is the defense of oneself by saying you're the last of a species. The Doctor was more than moderately insulted when the Silurian in captivity dared to claim this defense, since at this moment he IS the last of the Time Lords.
Of the three people left standing there, who would kill the Silurian? Rory, who's lost Amy to the ground? Ambrose who's lost her husband and son (where is that kid anyway-haven't seen him since he vanished), or Tony, who's been bitten and has the venom of the Silurians running through his system and has also lost his son-in-law and grandson to the ground?
Next week deals with time in flux and not fixed points.
Episode 9: Cold Blood
Crack in Silurian tunnels. Rory dies here. Doctor sticks an arm in and pulls out a chunk of toasted TARDIS doorsign-not good. Rory's body is absorbed by the light and Amy forgets he exists as a result.
Rory, however, cannot be dead as he appears in the finale. So there.
Best line? Squeaky bun time!
Episode 10: Vincent and the Doctor
The crows in Vincent's field painting look like cracks in time.
I assume the Krafayis was dropped by a crack in time.
Amy doesn't remember Rory, but she's still crying (at least according to Vincent). Does she still have something wrong with her eye (angel dust?) or is this her subconscious recalling Rory?
Episode 11: The Lodger
The time loop in this episode was caused by a localized effect because of a TARDIS sitting upstairs. Whose was it, why was it parked there and who built the thing?
Crack in apartment wall.
Thanks to the engagement ring she's carrying in her bag, Amy doesn't remember Rory but she knows the ring means something significant.
Cracks in the year 1580, 1941, 1996, two in 2010, 2020, 3295, and the 51st century.
The trailer for next week is full of stuff...lots of stuff.
Pandorica is a big damn box with a lock on it full of writing. I assume that the Pandorica is a big damn box with lots of bad, bad, bad stuff shoved in it and that someone is going to open it up and cause a major ruckus.
The time period appeared to be Roman or Dark Ages, thanks to the stupid red skirts and tents and armor. Also the Doctor was riding a horse.
The ship in space with everything headed towards it looked a lot like the one that just got vaporized last episode. Possibly the same one before it disappeared?
The Doctor mentions the Trickster and the Warrior. Tricksters have shown up a few times recently-there was the beetle on Donna's back in Series 4 and the whitefaced thing that tried to kill off Sarah Jane in her show. The Warrior could be the War Chief or Omega (if indeed it is a Time Lord we're facing here-and how could we not be with all these damn time cracks?)
That should be it. Everything is here for your perusal and mine. Have fun!
Ta,
Bec
11.6.10
Shifting Seas
As you can see, I have changed my background. Needed a change after three years.
Things are changing for me. Big time. The Master's school thing seems to have fallen through like a house of cards. I can't get them to give me a dorm room so that I can gain enough money to get a place.
So Master's school is out, and the apartment hunting has begun. I have found five this morning that I could look at. Applied for a couple of jobs. I can be out of here by the end of the month.
So, here we go. We'll see if I can manage this stuff.
Ta,
Bec
Things are changing for me. Big time. The Master's school thing seems to have fallen through like a house of cards. I can't get them to give me a dorm room so that I can gain enough money to get a place.
So Master's school is out, and the apartment hunting has begun. I have found five this morning that I could look at. Applied for a couple of jobs. I can be out of here by the end of the month.
So, here we go. We'll see if I can manage this stuff.
Ta,
Bec
2.6.10
Didn't Win
Didn't win the contest, but we have so many Hot Pockets in this house right now that we may have to start eating them by the gallon.
Or using them as bookmarks.
I'm hungry, so I'm going to go have a couple.
Ta,
Bec
Or using them as bookmarks.
I'm hungry, so I'm going to go have a couple.
Ta,
Bec
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