Long Day Out In The Rain and Notes on the Who Trailer (SPOILERS!)

I started out this morning early. Went to Parker and Otis and had a lovely sesame-seed bagel, and then I walked round and got presents for Sara's birthday next month (I have to ship them so I wanted to get them now.)

Then I went to the public library, met the head children's librarian. Sat in on storytime. I really liked the place and the people and I think I'll like volunteering there.

Then I walked the other way and went to the Indian restaurant I've been trying to get to for a month. The food was good; but I was disappointed to find out that the rogan josh isn't made till later. Damn. Now I'll have to go BACK.

THEN I went to Whole Foods and bought some stuff for stuff.

By the time I got back, I had literally been in the rain for HOURS. Right now I'm sitting here wrapped in a blanket in a sweatshirt trying to get the last of me warm again. I was wet clean through all my clothes and had to shuck them into the basket.

I also lost my cell phone somewhere here and I need to find it. Scuse me.

Oh, dippy me. I had them in my wet jeans that are hanging in the bathroom. At least I found it. Ha!

I'm going to sit here and snack on these things until someone interrupts me.

Ta,
Bec

PS: I have seen one of the newest trailers for Doctor Who, and boy oh boy are we in for it this year...





SPOILERS MAJOR!





There is rampant and justified speculation going on about a particular bit of the trailer, as everyone has seen the previous TARDIS desktop theme and a blinding light which people are hoping means that Ten may be returning. It's a possibility; Tennant's doctor was a much-loved figure and since he's given Eleven a year to establish himself, it wouldn't be TOO far-fetched to see him return.

If and when it happens, of course, I will be crying buckets.

The SECOND thing that I will hash on about is River's statement about the Doctor. She says something to the effect that he will rise as high as he ever has, and then he will fall.

What I get from this is, the Doctor will rise up. Something good will happen to him, something majorly, awesomely good that gives him an opportunity to stop running and maybe settle down with River and maybe even have a couple of Time Tots. It'll look like the end of his TARDIS days, the end of his travels. Maybe he's offered a deal with some form of the devil and even he can't see around it and takes the deal, not knowing what it will cost him in the end.

Either Amy or Rory won't agree with it and will advise that he do something else. The Doctor will probably send her and him home in anger.

Then something, a small thing probably, will screw up that balance and throw him back into the fray, where he loses something so vital and so precious that it will send him almost back to where Ten was when he lost Rose (I mean suicidal when I say that, and if you don't believe me go back and watch the first 7 episodes of Series 3 and watch him attempt to kill himself a dozen times. For such a tough guy, at least one of his hearts stopped TWICE in TWO episodes?) I would assume he gets so high and mighty and aloof that when the carpet's ripped out from under him, he's going to plunge into one hell of a depression. The only way for him to put his life back together will be River. Remember that Donna, not Martha, put Ten back at least close to where he had been in the earlier part of his life. River will do something similar.

Recall that our favorite Time Lord can't STOP running. If he does there isn't much point to this show, now is there? He HAS to run. He HAS to flee something in the dark that he's frightened of. If he stops, he will probably kill himself (as Matt Smith has stated before) because the darkness in his soul will catch up with him.

In other words, 'saint happening.

Also:

Amy shoots someone even though she clearly doesn't want to and doesn't see it coming. She's reacting. The Doctor tried to stop her but couldn't get there fast enough.

River and the Doctor kiss (duh.)

The Evil Voice that says they've killed hundreds of Time Lords is, I would assume, the same voice that we heard at the end of last year. I've narrowed it down to Omega, Davros, or the Valeyard.

Davros makes the most sense; he HAS killed hundreds of Time Lords. But Davros also already knows what happened in the Time War, so why would he claim it? Wouldn't he do better to taunt the Doctor with how many beings HE managed to off?

Omega is a good choice; we're not that familiar with him as he's very old-school and he'd be a great enemy for future years. But did Omega kill hundreds of his own people? It's a possibility. Remember that he was angry at the Time Lords for mistreating him and he might want to retaliate against them.

The Valeyard is an interesting choice, but why he wouldn't claim that he'd killed all the Time Lords is a mystery. If he's the Doctor in evil form, shouldn't he know EVERYTHING and more of the Doctor's history (and future as well?)

Rassilon and the Master haven't killed hundreds of Time Lords so I ruled them both out here, never mind the fact that we saw both of them Christmas before last.

Add to all of this that Neil Gaiman, may he live forever, has written an episode of Who this year (my little geek heart goes major Daleks bang bang TARDIS BOOOOOOOM here) and is rumored to have brought back somebody from War Games. That would be the end of Two's era.

Yeah.

Someone we haven't seen for, oh, 42 YEARS?

I am having a happy dance.

I vote for Time Lord! Can't be the War Chief. Isn't he the Master? Didn't I just give a very decent explanation as to WHY it can't be the Master?

This all makes sense unless Moffat whips out a brand new evil that we've never seen before, and in which case you can throw all the stuff I just said about the bad guys OUT the window.