The Edge Of Destruction
Series 1
Title - The Edge Of Destruction
Production Code - C
Story # - 003
Episodes:
"The Edge Of Destruction"
"The Brink Of Disaster"
Doctor - 1st - William Hartnell
We've crashed. Everyone is hurt. As they all wake up in various states of confusion, the TARDIS doors are inexplicably open. Could something have gotten in?
The Doctor is injured, but carries on, trying to figure out where they've landed. Susan, though, has a momentary memory lapse and tries to attack Ian and isn't acting like herself.
Could something have gotten in - and be in Susan?
And why is everyone fighting with each other?
We have a mystery on our hands, and one that could be very dangerous. Something is messing with the TARDIS and everyone in it.
It's interesting to see a story completed in only two episodes rather than four or five. Is it wrong to say that sometimes those longer arcs have seemed, well, too long? Drawn out to fill the episodes?
This is the first time we get the feeling that the ship isn't just a machine - the TARDIS is alive, in it's own way. It tries to tell them that something is going wrong - but that doesn't necessarily come across as evidently as the show would like you to believe. The "fast return switch" seems like a bit of a left field explanation as to what caused the problem in the first place. The "clues" the TARDIS gave are about as clear as mud. Until Susan and Barbara explain it, I didn't understand why they both screamed when seeing the clock. And why exactly did they need to be fighting with each other? Yes, it does resolve the story nicely so that we see the Doctor actually apologizing to Barbara for how he acted and we see the four of them are friends, but I wonder if there was another way to have gotten them to work together.
I also get the sense that the Doctor really is still learning how this ship works. He knows the knobs and switches alright, but doesn't seem to know that it is alive and can think for itself - yet this is something in NewWho that is very evident and considered obvious. "She" is just as alive as the Doctor is. His TARDIS, her TimeLord. One example of how the concept of the TARDIS has evolved over the last 50 years.
The Edge Of Destruction: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Edge_of_Destruction
Now I have a decision to make - do I watch the recreated fourth arc, "Marco Polo," or do I skip it and keep watching the episodes whose videos are still available?
Wednesday, July 24, 2013
Wednesday, July 17, 2013
Foreshadowing: Part...Whatever (Four...I think)
Ok so things in my Real Life have been busy. HORRORS! LOL This is probably the first time I've had to sit and properly watch a full episode in a while. In fact, its been a few weeks since I watched the first episode mentioned here, Vincent and the Doctor, and the second, The Lodger.
There are a few things of note for foreshadowing here between these eps but most of this entry is just things I've noticed or that seem like they might be of some note later on in my rewatch, or just thoughts I've had while watching the eps.
Vincent And The Doctor
21.) We start with Amy not knowing why the Doc is being "so nice" to her. The viewer knows, however that she still doesn't remember anything about Rory or what happened to him, thanks to the crack in the wall. The Doc IS being nice to her.
But anyone else catch that she's not flirting with the Doc (or Vincent) anymore?
And we do have a moment where the Doc forgets himself and says Amy, Rory...and she's all Who?
Another little bit, more of a theme beginning this season, is the Doc mentioning getting old. We have multiple shots of the 1st Doc, Hartnell, in little places like the library card in Vampires in Venice. Here when the Doc digs out his gadget to identify the monster, it sees his face and prints out Hartnell's image, then shows Troughton's. When he realizes that he made a mistake in not recognizing that the creature is blind, which is why it got left behind, he calls himself stupid...and says he's growing old.
Obviously with the 50th coming up later this year, we can see mentions of it going all the way back to Moffatt's and Smith's first season.
Once again an ep that isn't overall plot advancement, but this time more about feelings...or the ones Amy lacks at the moment.
Btw, I absolutely hate their pronunciation of Van Gogh. Look I know its supposedly "correct" but its still annoying when no one else in the world really says it that way...
The Lodger
(Starting with an interesting note here - there is a shot of Amy in the TARDIS alone at 0:40 (or so) that is an upshot of the console room. Not seen this angle before and those rings at the top of the center console...we'll see them later in the S7.2 redesign...just a detail I noticed. Not important LOL)
22) Throughout the episode, we see/get all sorts of references to Smith being the 11th Doctor - from the fact that this is the 11th episode of the season to the number on the jersey he wears to the very literal of the Doctor telling Craig that he is the "Eleventh" (So for future reference, whatever a certain new character may turn out to be, he is NOT going to be among those numbered regenerations. Eleven is CLEARLY established as ELEVEN.)
(MATT IN A TOWEL ALERT!! I REPEAT MATT SMITH IN NOTHING BUT A TOWEL ALERT!!)
(Oh and the Doctor speaks Cat btw...)
(And oh Sweetie...you do know you don't need to headbutt to transfer info between minds? Poor Craig! But then again the Madame was able to see into places you didn't intend when you were more gentle with her...)
Okay finally something else.
23.) The 2nd floor. That shouldn't be there. Looks like someone has built themselves a Time Engine and is trying to go...somewhere. But who? And why? Will we ever get that answer?
Yet ANOTHER note - a bit has been made about how the Doctor gave Amy a key but then took it away...though seemingly she and Rory can come and go from the TARDIS at will, so there must be a key involved, or the TARDIS just lets them in. Or whatever. So its cute to note that at the end of the episode, as the Doc is trying to quietly leave the flat, Craig stops him and gives HIM back the keys to the place he was trying to leave. Gives him the knowledge that he's got more friends here on Earth than he realizes :)
24.) AGAIN! A CRACK! This time behind the refrigerator in Craig's flat.
25.) And...BAM! Amy finds the engagement ring in the Doctor's coat pocket. This after making a crack about him being a matchmaker. This very obviously stirs something in her head, though what, we don't know. But she finally realizes SOMETHING is...off.
Gonna stop here because...well...BIG things are about to happen!
There are a few things of note for foreshadowing here between these eps but most of this entry is just things I've noticed or that seem like they might be of some note later on in my rewatch, or just thoughts I've had while watching the eps.
Vincent And The Doctor
(Starting with an interesting note here - there is a shot of Amy in the TARDIS alone at 0:40 (or so) that is an upshot of the console room. Not seen this angle before and those rings at the top of the center console...we'll see them later in the S7.2 redesign...just a detail I noticed. Not important LOL)
22) Throughout the episode, we see/get all sorts of references to Smith being the 11th Doctor - from the fact that this is the 11th episode of the season to the number on the jersey he wears to the very literal of the Doctor telling Craig that he is the "Eleventh" (So for future reference, whatever a certain new character may turn out to be, he is NOT going to be among those numbered regenerations. Eleven is CLEARLY established as ELEVEN.)
(MATT IN A TOWEL ALERT!! I REPEAT MATT SMITH IN NOTHING BUT A TOWEL ALERT!!)
(Oh and the Doctor speaks Cat btw...)
(And oh Sweetie...you do know you don't need to headbutt to transfer info between minds? Poor Craig! But then again the Madame was able to see into places you didn't intend when you were more gentle with her...)
Okay finally something else.
23.) The 2nd floor. That shouldn't be there. Looks like someone has built themselves a Time Engine and is trying to go...somewhere. But who? And why? Will we ever get that answer?
Yet ANOTHER note - a bit has been made about how the Doctor gave Amy a key but then took it away...though seemingly she and Rory can come and go from the TARDIS at will, so there must be a key involved, or the TARDIS just lets them in. Or whatever. So its cute to note that at the end of the episode, as the Doc is trying to quietly leave the flat, Craig stops him and gives HIM back the keys to the place he was trying to leave. Gives him the knowledge that he's got more friends here on Earth than he realizes :)
24.) AGAIN! A CRACK! This time behind the refrigerator in Craig's flat.
25.) And...BAM! Amy finds the engagement ring in the Doctor's coat pocket. This after making a crack about him being a matchmaker. This very obviously stirs something in her head, though what, we don't know. But she finally realizes SOMETHING is...off.
Gonna stop here because...well...BIG things are about to happen!
Friday, June 14, 2013
Foreshadowing: Part 3
Moving right along...
This whole idea is on Moffat's foreshadowing. Yes I know that he doesn't write all the episodes in the series but as the show runner, his hand is a guiding force in everything, so in a way it's still all his. This is another reason why I've chosen not to go back to those episodes from the RTD era unless absolutely necessary. Starting with this series, the show is all Moffat's.
Vampires In Venice
This episode if more about getting Amy back to focusing on Rory than much else. We'll see that to in the next episode, Amy's Choice.
14.) We have our first mention of the Silence. The aliens here fled the Silence thru a crack in time and ended up in 15th century Earth, Venice. These Silence...we'll get to know them better as we go...
Amy's Choice
15.) This whole episode is a payoff in who Amy really "chooses" to be with, the Doctor or Rory. In the end, she wants and gets both.
Oh, and Rory dies. (But only in the dream world. But...)
16.) This is the interesting bit - in this episode, the trio is at the hands of someone calling himself the "Dream Lord" We, the viewer, don't necessarily get who exactly he really is, and depending on how long you've been a fan, I bet there are a few ideas flowing, the Master or the Valeyard being first on the list. When the Doctor tells him "There's one only person that hates me as much as you do..." we get that sense he knows exactly who this "Dream Lord" is. He also notes that he's not sure how this person or being is even "here" meaning about to communicate and manipulate their realities. Now, if like me, you are watching this episode having see the series 7.2 finale, this is going to send massive ALARM bells ringing in your brain. O.M.G. Here we have for the first time (for the new series) this possibility of there being parts of the Doctor's personality that are cut off in some fashion, but that can still affect time and space. This "Dream Lord" is a dark side of the Doctor. Its part of his personality, albeit one that he doesn't let to the surface much, mostly likely because of what it represents. Throws a new light on that last minute of the 7.2 finale, doesn't it? Heck, we even have the taunt to Amy of the fact that she doesn't even know the Doctor's real name!!
Granted, this "Dream Lord" was all just a bit psychic pollen knocking around in the Doctor's head...but still. If there are parts of him like that in his head...are there others? Is this were Hurt's character will come from?
The Hungry Earth
A lot of what we get here will be paid off in the next episode, Cold Blood. This is one of the fewer 2-part episodes of the Moffat era. They are rather stand alone in the series as a whole, with the exception of what happens at the end of Cold Blood. The foreshadowing mostly relates to the second part of the story - Amy waving at what is possibly herself, Rory saying she should leave her ring in the TARDIS, Amy being taken underground, Nasreen and Tony's feelings for each other, who will eventually kill the Silurian - and this really isn't the true foreshadowing like we've been tracking, just parts of the plot. In a few ways, I almost wonder if what happens at the end of Cold Blood wasn't almost a tack-on, like this elements were what was needed to advance the story and they couldn't find a place for them in another story.
17.) Rory makes Amy leave her ring in the TARDIS - I'm only adding it here because that one little bit will become significant later in the series.
Cold Blood
18.) We see a crack. A BIG one. Bigger than before. And this time, the Doctor says there must be shrapnel because all these cracks are from an explosion, one big enough to cause the cracks in all of space and time. He actually goes and sticks his hand into it - because YES that is totally safe for the Time Lord - and pulls out...something steaming and very hot. That something? A piece of the TARDIS sign.
OH BOY
19. and 20.) Rory the hero - Reztac is still kicking, because she needs her revenge. She aims for the Doctor, but Rory steps in the way and is hurt...and dies. Because we need any more feels.
And then...because of course there is more...he gets sucked into the crack, which will erase him from Amy's memory. She can remember the clerics who were sucked into the crack on the ship but this is her own history changing.
And the Doctor leaves him.
Pardon me while my heart is TORN IN TWO.
And, try as he might, the Doctor can't get Amy to keep Rory in her memory for very long. We humans have such trouble with that...
Back out on the hill, she waves to her other self, though for an instant she thinks she saw something else, but the thought is fleeting.
Except...not everything of Rory has been erased.
Because there is the engagement ring, safe in it's box.
(Also to note this all happens while the TARDIS had landed in a graveyard. We'll be back in one eventually...)
(And is it me or is the color of the piece of the TARDIS that was pulled from the crack more like the blue of 9/10's TARDIS? Or is that just because it was a piece that was smoke damaged? Looks to me like the more gray-blue than the current more royal blue...)
This is a double number because Rory's death and remembering him are part of the same thing, but the also things that will be dealt with and have meaning separately later.
This whole idea is on Moffat's foreshadowing. Yes I know that he doesn't write all the episodes in the series but as the show runner, his hand is a guiding force in everything, so in a way it's still all his. This is another reason why I've chosen not to go back to those episodes from the RTD era unless absolutely necessary. Starting with this series, the show is all Moffat's.
Vampires In Venice
This episode if more about getting Amy back to focusing on Rory than much else. We'll see that to in the next episode, Amy's Choice.
14.) We have our first mention of the Silence. The aliens here fled the Silence thru a crack in time and ended up in 15th century Earth, Venice. These Silence...we'll get to know them better as we go...
Amy's Choice
15.) This whole episode is a payoff in who Amy really "chooses" to be with, the Doctor or Rory. In the end, she wants and gets both.
Oh, and Rory dies. (But only in the dream world. But...)
16.) This is the interesting bit - in this episode, the trio is at the hands of someone calling himself the "Dream Lord" We, the viewer, don't necessarily get who exactly he really is, and depending on how long you've been a fan, I bet there are a few ideas flowing, the Master or the Valeyard being first on the list. When the Doctor tells him "There's one only person that hates me as much as you do..." we get that sense he knows exactly who this "Dream Lord" is. He also notes that he's not sure how this person or being is even "here" meaning about to communicate and manipulate their realities. Now, if like me, you are watching this episode having see the series 7.2 finale, this is going to send massive ALARM bells ringing in your brain. O.M.G. Here we have for the first time (for the new series) this possibility of there being parts of the Doctor's personality that are cut off in some fashion, but that can still affect time and space. This "Dream Lord" is a dark side of the Doctor. Its part of his personality, albeit one that he doesn't let to the surface much, mostly likely because of what it represents. Throws a new light on that last minute of the 7.2 finale, doesn't it? Heck, we even have the taunt to Amy of the fact that she doesn't even know the Doctor's real name!!
Granted, this "Dream Lord" was all just a bit psychic pollen knocking around in the Doctor's head...but still. If there are parts of him like that in his head...are there others? Is this were Hurt's character will come from?
The Hungry Earth
A lot of what we get here will be paid off in the next episode, Cold Blood. This is one of the fewer 2-part episodes of the Moffat era. They are rather stand alone in the series as a whole, with the exception of what happens at the end of Cold Blood. The foreshadowing mostly relates to the second part of the story - Amy waving at what is possibly herself, Rory saying she should leave her ring in the TARDIS, Amy being taken underground, Nasreen and Tony's feelings for each other, who will eventually kill the Silurian - and this really isn't the true foreshadowing like we've been tracking, just parts of the plot. In a few ways, I almost wonder if what happens at the end of Cold Blood wasn't almost a tack-on, like this elements were what was needed to advance the story and they couldn't find a place for them in another story.
17.) Rory makes Amy leave her ring in the TARDIS - I'm only adding it here because that one little bit will become significant later in the series.
Cold Blood
18.) We see a crack. A BIG one. Bigger than before. And this time, the Doctor says there must be shrapnel because all these cracks are from an explosion, one big enough to cause the cracks in all of space and time. He actually goes and sticks his hand into it - because YES that is totally safe for the Time Lord - and pulls out...something steaming and very hot. That something? A piece of the TARDIS sign.
OH BOY
19. and 20.) Rory the hero - Reztac is still kicking, because she needs her revenge. She aims for the Doctor, but Rory steps in the way and is hurt...and dies. Because we need any more feels.
And then...because of course there is more...he gets sucked into the crack, which will erase him from Amy's memory. She can remember the clerics who were sucked into the crack on the ship but this is her own history changing.
And the Doctor leaves him.
Pardon me while my heart is TORN IN TWO.
And, try as he might, the Doctor can't get Amy to keep Rory in her memory for very long. We humans have such trouble with that...
Back out on the hill, she waves to her other self, though for an instant she thinks she saw something else, but the thought is fleeting.
Except...not everything of Rory has been erased.
Because there is the engagement ring, safe in it's box.
(Also to note this all happens while the TARDIS had landed in a graveyard. We'll be back in one eventually...)
(And is it me or is the color of the piece of the TARDIS that was pulled from the crack more like the blue of 9/10's TARDIS? Or is that just because it was a piece that was smoke damaged? Looks to me like the more gray-blue than the current more royal blue...)
This is a double number because Rory's death and remembering him are part of the same thing, but the also things that will be dealt with and have meaning separately later.
Wednesday, June 5, 2013
Foreshadowing: Part 2
Ok here we go. A few more possible clues to the future in the past ;)
Victory Of The Daleks
5.) Here we have the beginnings of an overall theme for Moffat's run so far - remembering. In this case, Amy can't remember any of the events from the Battle of Canary Wharf. She SHOULD remember the huge Dalek/Cyberman invasion and know immediately what Daleks are as soon as Winston shows them an "Ironside" but she doesn't.
This will come back later thru this season and all the "cracks" in time but then the entirety of series 7.2 is all about the Doctor remembering his past. Plus all those quips about his past and former companions throughout series 7.
The Time Of Angels
6.) Here we go with the insanity that is River's timeline. We are at the crash of the Byzantium, which she mentions to 10 in the Library. Plus we have all the little things like River knowing how to pilot the TARDIS and "park" it...oh and the Doctor introducing Amy to River...because ya know THAT wont seem at all weird later on...LOL
There are way too many things that happen with River that we see or hear of later on that from now on I'm only going to stick to major things...
(side note - River looking thru the journal mentions about having the pocket guide to the Doctor - pics of all his faces. Makes one wonder how many incarnations she's actually met - or did they think she might hop further back than 10? Or has she seen future him? I still think 11 is HER Doc tho...)
7.) Like all of Amy's questioning just who River is and how she can talk to the Doctor the way she does - 'She's kinda like ya know "Heel boy. She's Mrs Doctor from the future, isn't she? Is she gonna be your wife one day?" "Yes."' Even now at the end of series 7, we all aren't too sure just how this all worked out. But for better or for worse, the Doctor and River are a item...we just won't get to see a lot of it. Which is honestly rather sad, I think, because for most of the time, the Doctor is still very much a wide-eyed teenager in love when it comes to River. Its very cute to see them together. I really think Alex Kingston was done a disservice by not being made a full on series regular. Would've been nice to have a whole season with her and the Doctor alone, especially given who exactly the River Song character ends up being. Which leads to my next point...
7.1) (Cause its only an observation) I don't get the feeling that the River we see here knows exactly who Amy is to her. They've only just been introduced. I'll have to keep my eye out for a sign when she does figure it out...
8.) Another big reveal about River - that she's apparently in prison for something, something that if the Doctor finds out about, he may decide not to help the clerics destroy the angel. This is a big reveal about River, one that will continue to have meaning for her character all the way through series 6.
Flesh And Stone
9.) We have a crack again. The Doctor tells the angels that its the fire at the end of the universe. What's really going on, he's still working out, but he's leaning toward something to do with a Really Big Bang. We have the Doctor trying to get Amy to remember what he told her when she was little. We also have the clerics disappearing, being so completely gone that the others, besides Amy, don't remember them at all. The crack also swallows the Angels. Retconing at as plot device ladies and gentleman...
10.) And now we find out about River - that the Bishop released her from the Stormcage Containment Facility, though we aren't told why, just that she is in his custody until they've accomplished their mission and she'll get her pardon. The Doctor seems...intrigued that she was in Stormcage. Maybe even a bit turned on? He even whispers it back to her with a smirk when the Bishop walks away. Eventually, as the Bishop is dying, he reveals that River isn't to be trusted, that she killed a man, a hero to many.
11.) The Doctor figures out here that the crack in time is what caused there to be no ducks in the pond, why Amy doesn't remember the Daleks and Cybermen. That it will keep going till everything is gone. This crack closes because it gets fed the Angels, but the explosion is still happening somewhere.
(Interesting note here that in 11's first episode with River, he downright yells at her, twice, when they are trying to save Amy. This Doctor doesn't usually get that upset, mad yes, but screaming? Not so much. And who does he scream at? The one person that will take it - River.)
12.) Cute bit - River to the Doctor - "You, me, handcuffs. Must it always end this way?" Well River sure wouldn't mind ;) They are very flirty here. He may not know all about her yet, but he seems to be enjoying it so far...
We do have him questioning just who it was she killed, but of course she won't say. She does tell him that he'll see her soon, when the Pandorica opens. He whispers to her "That's a fairytale!" She replies, "Aren't we all?" with a smirk and a laugh. Big foreshadowing here, because the endgame of all of this is that Pandorica box...
13.) At the end, Amy finally admits that she's been running from something too - her wedding to Rory. She tries to make a pass a the Doctor, thinking that maybe he is really what she wants, which of course he wants no part of! She does get quite a good snog in tho! The Doc finally realizes that for whatever reason, she and her wedding day are at the center of everything, and that he needs to make sure it happens.
(This past weekend, I was a volunteer at the local Wizard World Comic Con and had a chance to talk to tons of people about WHO. Was a GREAT time for me to be able to let lose in this new fandom and meet so many people, new fans and old, and hear all the talk. Someone mentioned that the Moffat really has been foreshadowing all the way back to his first episode of the new series with the 9th Doctor. I pondered on this for a while (see what I did there? PONDered....LOL) and I've decided for the purposes of this blog I'm trying, I won't go all the way back to anything before SatL/FotD unless we come across something directly related. There's already so many episodes to get thru (the whole of 3 series worth!) and I'm thinking I'd like to be as done as I can before we get the to the 50th and then Matt's departure from the show, which seems to be set for the Christmas Special. But as always, PLEASE feel free to leave me a comment if I've missed something or you think I'm completely off the mark! This whole endeavor was really just some where for me to let out all of my LOOK!! OMG!!! LOOOOOK!!! moments as I re-watch the episodes (And maybe to see if I wasn't the only one who's had the same thoughts) so I know I will miss tons of stuff along the way.)
Thanks for reading!
Victory Of The Daleks
5.) Here we have the beginnings of an overall theme for Moffat's run so far - remembering. In this case, Amy can't remember any of the events from the Battle of Canary Wharf. She SHOULD remember the huge Dalek/Cyberman invasion and know immediately what Daleks are as soon as Winston shows them an "Ironside" but she doesn't.
This will come back later thru this season and all the "cracks" in time but then the entirety of series 7.2 is all about the Doctor remembering his past. Plus all those quips about his past and former companions throughout series 7.
The Time Of Angels
6.) Here we go with the insanity that is River's timeline. We are at the crash of the Byzantium, which she mentions to 10 in the Library. Plus we have all the little things like River knowing how to pilot the TARDIS and "park" it...oh and the Doctor introducing Amy to River...because ya know THAT wont seem at all weird later on...LOL
There are way too many things that happen with River that we see or hear of later on that from now on I'm only going to stick to major things...
(side note - River looking thru the journal mentions about having the pocket guide to the Doctor - pics of all his faces. Makes one wonder how many incarnations she's actually met - or did they think she might hop further back than 10? Or has she seen future him? I still think 11 is HER Doc tho...)
7.) Like all of Amy's questioning just who River is and how she can talk to the Doctor the way she does - 'She's kinda like ya know "Heel boy. She's Mrs Doctor from the future, isn't she? Is she gonna be your wife one day?" "Yes."' Even now at the end of series 7, we all aren't too sure just how this all worked out. But for better or for worse, the Doctor and River are a item...we just won't get to see a lot of it. Which is honestly rather sad, I think, because for most of the time, the Doctor is still very much a wide-eyed teenager in love when it comes to River. Its very cute to see them together. I really think Alex Kingston was done a disservice by not being made a full on series regular. Would've been nice to have a whole season with her and the Doctor alone, especially given who exactly the River Song character ends up being. Which leads to my next point...
7.1) (Cause its only an observation) I don't get the feeling that the River we see here knows exactly who Amy is to her. They've only just been introduced. I'll have to keep my eye out for a sign when she does figure it out...
8.) Another big reveal about River - that she's apparently in prison for something, something that if the Doctor finds out about, he may decide not to help the clerics destroy the angel. This is a big reveal about River, one that will continue to have meaning for her character all the way through series 6.
Flesh And Stone
9.) We have a crack again. The Doctor tells the angels that its the fire at the end of the universe. What's really going on, he's still working out, but he's leaning toward something to do with a Really Big Bang. We have the Doctor trying to get Amy to remember what he told her when she was little. We also have the clerics disappearing, being so completely gone that the others, besides Amy, don't remember them at all. The crack also swallows the Angels. Retconing at as plot device ladies and gentleman...
10.) And now we find out about River - that the Bishop released her from the Stormcage Containment Facility, though we aren't told why, just that she is in his custody until they've accomplished their mission and she'll get her pardon. The Doctor seems...intrigued that she was in Stormcage. Maybe even a bit turned on? He even whispers it back to her with a smirk when the Bishop walks away. Eventually, as the Bishop is dying, he reveals that River isn't to be trusted, that she killed a man, a hero to many.
11.) The Doctor figures out here that the crack in time is what caused there to be no ducks in the pond, why Amy doesn't remember the Daleks and Cybermen. That it will keep going till everything is gone. This crack closes because it gets fed the Angels, but the explosion is still happening somewhere.
(Interesting note here that in 11's first episode with River, he downright yells at her, twice, when they are trying to save Amy. This Doctor doesn't usually get that upset, mad yes, but screaming? Not so much. And who does he scream at? The one person that will take it - River.)
12.) Cute bit - River to the Doctor - "You, me, handcuffs. Must it always end this way?" Well River sure wouldn't mind ;) They are very flirty here. He may not know all about her yet, but he seems to be enjoying it so far...
We do have him questioning just who it was she killed, but of course she won't say. She does tell him that he'll see her soon, when the Pandorica opens. He whispers to her "That's a fairytale!" She replies, "Aren't we all?" with a smirk and a laugh. Big foreshadowing here, because the endgame of all of this is that Pandorica box...
13.) At the end, Amy finally admits that she's been running from something too - her wedding to Rory. She tries to make a pass a the Doctor, thinking that maybe he is really what she wants, which of course he wants no part of! She does get quite a good snog in tho! The Doc finally realizes that for whatever reason, she and her wedding day are at the center of everything, and that he needs to make sure it happens.
(This past weekend, I was a volunteer at the local Wizard World Comic Con and had a chance to talk to tons of people about WHO. Was a GREAT time for me to be able to let lose in this new fandom and meet so many people, new fans and old, and hear all the talk. Someone mentioned that the Moffat really has been foreshadowing all the way back to his first episode of the new series with the 9th Doctor. I pondered on this for a while (see what I did there? PONDered....LOL) and I've decided for the purposes of this blog I'm trying, I won't go all the way back to anything before SatL/FotD unless we come across something directly related. There's already so many episodes to get thru (the whole of 3 series worth!) and I'm thinking I'd like to be as done as I can before we get the to the 50th and then Matt's departure from the show, which seems to be set for the Christmas Special. But as always, PLEASE feel free to leave me a comment if I've missed something or you think I'm completely off the mark! This whole endeavor was really just some where for me to let out all of my LOOK!! OMG!!! LOOOOOK!!! moments as I re-watch the episodes (And maybe to see if I wasn't the only one who's had the same thoughts) so I know I will miss tons of stuff along the way.)
Thanks for reading!
Saturday, June 1, 2013
The Fandom, The News, and that Sexy TARDIS...
So I haven't been able to get back to this since I started because I've been enjoying the Wizard World Philadelphia Comic Con since Wed. Specifically I've been a volunteer with the cosplay groups at the Cosplay stage where they took loads and loads of photos of all the awesome costumes and had some fighting demos from some groups like Klingons, Jedi, even some real weapons demo with katanas and swords. I've gotten to see so many different costumes and fandoms all in one place!
And oh did I mention I've hung out with the sexiest blue box a girl could ever want? Right there! She is UNBELIEVABLE. I feel like I'm in the presence of the lady herself, like I've been taken to the set to see her in Cardiff. I get the name Sexy. She totally is! (Her 10 cosplayer owner isn't too bad either ;) She's even got a Rory the Roman and a Rose and 11 and River!) I've met tons of Doctors and companions and big doctors and old doctors and little doctors and little daleks and well been scared by a really excellent looking Dalek too! (Let me tell you, try staring down that eye stalk. OMG. *EEEK!!*)
I've talked to old fans and even a few newbies like me and have heard every theory about every storyline and about how people became fans and everything in between. I've also had my 11 sonic screwdriver with me and even had a bowtie and braces today! (Going full 11 tomorrow for our photoshoot!) I've even been given some new insight into my thoughts on Moffat's foreshadowing - looks like I might need to start all the way back at the beginning...
But this whole time everyone has been amazing. I'm a new fan? WELCOME! Feel the WHO love! Are you going all the way back to Series 1 in '63? AWESOME!! I'm not sure my coming into this fandom could've happened at a better time. I've gotten to spend this whole weekend living in a dream and getting to talk WHO the whole time. And it gets better cause I'm going to get to meet Captain Jack at the end of all this! (Seriously could I be more nervous? Wait...don't answer that.) It's been worth the hours of standing, guiding lines, directing walking traffic, going hoarse repeating myself a million times, walking a 100,000 miles through the convention center.
And now we apparently face a tough road ahead. The Doctor will be regenerating sooner than most everyone expected based on the information we had. (Though looking back? Um...what was that about foreshadowing? Yeah we should've seen the truth a few weeks ago. Guess none of us really wanted to accept it...)
When I had the chance to finally sit and think about this news for the first time something dawned on me. I've never been able to pick Matt Smith or David Tennant or Christopher Eccelston as "MY" Doctor, though I've leaned toward Smith and Tennant most often, it almost depends on the day you talk to me...and what episode I just watched. Now I know why I can't pick. Because Chris, David, Matt - they are ALL "MY" Doctor. All three of them. I watched because I was curious (and ok that day I was bored). I KEPT watching because of Chris. Then David. Then Matt. They drew me in. Every part of them. Each has had their own take on the Doctor and has left his own mark on the role that has captivated audiences for 50 years now. And whoever next gets that opportunity will do the same.
They will make it their own.
And we will watch.
(And gripe. Yes, you know we will!)
And we will all be Whovians together.
(BTW keep watching here. I'll post up pics from the photoshoot, as well as my own with Mr. Barrowman, and as many of that sexy TARDIS lady as I can!)
And oh did I mention I've hung out with the sexiest blue box a girl could ever want? Right there! She is UNBELIEVABLE. I feel like I'm in the presence of the lady herself, like I've been taken to the set to see her in Cardiff. I get the name Sexy. She totally is! (Her 10 cosplayer owner isn't too bad either ;) She's even got a Rory the Roman and a Rose and 11 and River!) I've met tons of Doctors and companions and big doctors and old doctors and little doctors and little daleks and well been scared by a really excellent looking Dalek too! (Let me tell you, try staring down that eye stalk. OMG. *EEEK!!*)
I've talked to old fans and even a few newbies like me and have heard every theory about every storyline and about how people became fans and everything in between. I've also had my 11 sonic screwdriver with me and even had a bowtie and braces today! (Going full 11 tomorrow for our photoshoot!) I've even been given some new insight into my thoughts on Moffat's foreshadowing - looks like I might need to start all the way back at the beginning...
But this whole time everyone has been amazing. I'm a new fan? WELCOME! Feel the WHO love! Are you going all the way back to Series 1 in '63? AWESOME!! I'm not sure my coming into this fandom could've happened at a better time. I've gotten to spend this whole weekend living in a dream and getting to talk WHO the whole time. And it gets better cause I'm going to get to meet Captain Jack at the end of all this! (Seriously could I be more nervous? Wait...don't answer that.) It's been worth the hours of standing, guiding lines, directing walking traffic, going hoarse repeating myself a million times, walking a 100,000 miles through the convention center.
And now we apparently face a tough road ahead. The Doctor will be regenerating sooner than most everyone expected based on the information we had. (Though looking back? Um...what was that about foreshadowing? Yeah we should've seen the truth a few weeks ago. Guess none of us really wanted to accept it...)
When I had the chance to finally sit and think about this news for the first time something dawned on me. I've never been able to pick Matt Smith or David Tennant or Christopher Eccelston as "MY" Doctor, though I've leaned toward Smith and Tennant most often, it almost depends on the day you talk to me...and what episode I just watched. Now I know why I can't pick. Because Chris, David, Matt - they are ALL "MY" Doctor. All three of them. I watched because I was curious (and ok that day I was bored). I KEPT watching because of Chris. Then David. Then Matt. They drew me in. Every part of them. Each has had their own take on the Doctor and has left his own mark on the role that has captivated audiences for 50 years now. And whoever next gets that opportunity will do the same.
They will make it their own.
And we will watch.
(And gripe. Yes, you know we will!)
And we will all be Whovians together.
(BTW keep watching here. I'll post up pics from the photoshoot, as well as my own with Mr. Barrowman, and as many of that sexy TARDIS lady as I can!)
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
Foreshadowing?
Ok so I originally intended this blog to only be about my thoughts as I went through the original Doctor Who episodes. But now that we've come to the end of series 7 and have seen what can probably be assumed to be the end of the story of Amy Pond, Rory Williams, and their daughter River Song (nee Melody Pond) and their travels with the 11th Doctor, I keep having some thoughts I just can't keep to myself.
We currently wait on bated breath for the 50th anniversary episode, the 2013 Christmas episode, and series 8.
Part of filling the time in the next 180 or so days I figured would be best spent re-watching the entirety of the current WHO series, right back to that first episode from 2005, "Rose".
Now we all know that the current show runner Steven Moffat has been involved with the production of the show since it's inception in '05. We've also come to know that current WHO, in general, likes to use little clues, sometimes ones that aren't even noticeable till very much later, throughout it's episodes to do a bit of foreshadowing. Davies and Moffat have both done this trick. One small example - in "Partners In Crime" - we see a little logo sticker on a taxi and on other cars that says ATMOS. This will eventually be part of the plot in a future episode that same season.
While we all know Rule #1 - The Doctor Lies, and we all know that Moffat LOVES to follow Rule #1, we all agree he can be believed when he said that he has been planting clues to future story lines and details about the Doctor and his companions for a LONG time. (Though this could be because we WANT to believe him because...reasons, but I'm gonna go with TRUTH on this one...)
Right now I've hit the beginning of series 5 in my re-watch, the beginning of Moffat's tenure as showrunner and not just part of the creative team. And already I have going through my head ideas of clues he may have planted since his first day!
Someone has even said that he planted a clue way back before he was in charge of the show - the title for the first episode he wrote that included River Song, the episode where we meet her, was called "Silence In The Library." SILENCE! If you've seen the show since then, you know that word and River will be connected again...
(Thanks Anthony!)
So I'm gonna keep a tally of things that could pan out to be clues - or could be just be utter nonsense. PLEASE if you have any others that I miss as I watch each episode, let me know! I'm pretty sure I've missed things since my first watch was a fast-paced binge fest...
(I'm going with serious things and silly bits too here)
0.) Our first episode with a member of the Pond family, River Song, nee Melody Pond, is titled "Silence In The Library." "Silence" will later come to be the name of some baddies that the Doctor and the Ponds fight who have their own agenda for our Doctor.
Eleventh Hour -
1.) Amy handcuffs the Doctor to the radiator when after she knocks him out with the cricket bat. Handcuffs? Like mother like daughter? LOL
2.) We've been hearing the phrase "Silence Will Fall" since 11's first episode! And now, even after battling them, and hearing more prophesy about them, we still don't know if they've "fallen" or quite where they are...
The Beast Below
3.) When talking about what happened to his people, the Time Lords, he says "I'd love to forget, every last bit of it. But I don't. Not ever." - Ok this one HAS got to do with our now revealed John Hurt as "The Doctor" We all know the Doctor has been running away from things, quite likely the so far unseen Time War and having to time lock his entire race away from reality and has been at times emotional and depressed about what happened and what he had to do. (I personally think this is where we will see Hurt's character come in - and 8.5 or 9th or whichever incarnation or part of himself that he's buried as far deep as he can because the whole thing is more painful than he can handle. Please don't flame me here for this thought or start quoting about the Valeyard. I've heard the theories. This is what I like to think best fits. 'K?) This leads into the next point...
4.) When thinking he will have to essentially kill the star whale with a lobotomy to be able to allow Starship UK and all the people living on it to continue, he makes the comment about how he should "find a different name for myself" because hurting the poor creature is not something that a Doctor should do, even if it's the right thing. Hello John "Not-in-the-name-of-the-Doctor" Hurt? Good grief. Was the Moff going there from the beginning? Holy fish sticks.
We currently wait on bated breath for the 50th anniversary episode, the 2013 Christmas episode, and series 8.
Part of filling the time in the next 180 or so days I figured would be best spent re-watching the entirety of the current WHO series, right back to that first episode from 2005, "Rose".
Now we all know that the current show runner Steven Moffat has been involved with the production of the show since it's inception in '05. We've also come to know that current WHO, in general, likes to use little clues, sometimes ones that aren't even noticeable till very much later, throughout it's episodes to do a bit of foreshadowing. Davies and Moffat have both done this trick. One small example - in "Partners In Crime" - we see a little logo sticker on a taxi and on other cars that says ATMOS. This will eventually be part of the plot in a future episode that same season.
While we all know Rule #1 - The Doctor Lies, and we all know that Moffat LOVES to follow Rule #1, we all agree he can be believed when he said that he has been planting clues to future story lines and details about the Doctor and his companions for a LONG time. (Though this could be because we WANT to believe him because...reasons, but I'm gonna go with TRUTH on this one...)
Right now I've hit the beginning of series 5 in my re-watch, the beginning of Moffat's tenure as showrunner and not just part of the creative team. And already I have going through my head ideas of clues he may have planted since his first day!
Someone has even said that he planted a clue way back before he was in charge of the show - the title for the first episode he wrote that included River Song, the episode where we meet her, was called "Silence In The Library." SILENCE! If you've seen the show since then, you know that word and River will be connected again...
(Thanks Anthony!)
So I'm gonna keep a tally of things that could pan out to be clues - or could be just be utter nonsense. PLEASE if you have any others that I miss as I watch each episode, let me know! I'm pretty sure I've missed things since my first watch was a fast-paced binge fest...
(I'm going with serious things and silly bits too here)
0.) Our first episode with a member of the Pond family, River Song, nee Melody Pond, is titled "Silence In The Library." "Silence" will later come to be the name of some baddies that the Doctor and the Ponds fight who have their own agenda for our Doctor.
Eleventh Hour -
1.) Amy handcuffs the Doctor to the radiator when after she knocks him out with the cricket bat. Handcuffs? Like mother like daughter? LOL
2.) We've been hearing the phrase "Silence Will Fall" since 11's first episode! And now, even after battling them, and hearing more prophesy about them, we still don't know if they've "fallen" or quite where they are...
The Beast Below
3.) When talking about what happened to his people, the Time Lords, he says "I'd love to forget, every last bit of it. But I don't. Not ever." - Ok this one HAS got to do with our now revealed John Hurt as "The Doctor" We all know the Doctor has been running away from things, quite likely the so far unseen Time War and having to time lock his entire race away from reality and has been at times emotional and depressed about what happened and what he had to do. (I personally think this is where we will see Hurt's character come in - and 8.5 or 9th or whichever incarnation or part of himself that he's buried as far deep as he can because the whole thing is more painful than he can handle. Please don't flame me here for this thought or start quoting about the Valeyard. I've heard the theories. This is what I like to think best fits. 'K?) This leads into the next point...
4.) When thinking he will have to essentially kill the star whale with a lobotomy to be able to allow Starship UK and all the people living on it to continue, he makes the comment about how he should "find a different name for myself" because hurting the poor creature is not something that a Doctor should do, even if it's the right thing. Hello John "Not-in-the-name-of-the-Doctor" Hurt? Good grief. Was the Moff going there from the beginning? Holy fish sticks.
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
The Daleks
Series 1
Title - The Daleks
Production Code - B
Story # - 002
Episodes -
"The Dead Planet"
"The Survivors"
"The Escape"
"The Ambush"
"The Expedition"
"The Ordeal"
"The Rescue"
Title - The Daleks
Production Code - B
Story # - 002
Episodes -
"The Dead Planet"
"The Survivors"
"The Escape"
"The Ambush"
"The Expedition"
"The Ordeal"
"The Rescue"
Doctor - 1st - William Hartnell
So...
now we are getting somewhere. Time AND Space. A different planet.
Seems we've landed on a planet in a forest that is petrified - more than that, everything from the trees and plants are made of stone. The carefullest touch is required to handle a flower, lest it crumble. Our first look at alien beauty.
now we are getting somewhere. Time AND Space. A different planet.
Seems we've landed on a planet in a forest that is petrified - more than that, everything from the trees and plants are made of stone. The carefullest touch is required to handle a flower, lest it crumble. Our first look at alien beauty.
*cue weird noise and Susan screaming*
*grabs ear plugs*
*grabs ear plugs*
Love the food machine. A very real (and a really never discussed) necessity!
While the Doctor is rather pompous and a bit of a bully, I like that he wanted to stay and investigate the empty city. Isnt that part of the whole point of time/space travel? To see stuff?
At the end of "The Dead Planet" we see Barbara being attacked by...something.
Say hello to the Daleks.
They believe they are the race that should be living on the planet and that the others, the Thals, should be destroyed. But the Thals are pacifistic. They do not fight, but try to survive on the surface.
This is the classic struggle between races, one that doesn't fail to touch every genre of fiction. We know that the idea of aliens, the idea of other creatures that have the same types of values like we do - love, hope, family, peace - exist somewhere out there beyond our little star. All of these stories are metaphors for the class and race struggles that our world constantly faces.
The Daleks are also a metaphor for how each race sees itself. They believe they are the better race, that the Thals are the race that are mutated abominations. Yet to the Doctor and companions, and to the viewer, it is obvious that the still human-like Thals are not the mutations, but the creatures living in metal housings, the Daleks, are.
The Thals want to try to work out a peace. But the Daleks are set on destruction. They plot an ambush for the Thals.
It takes convincing to make the Thals change their minds about needing to fight the Daleks. Ian has to threaten the Thals history records and then the people themselves before the agree to action. (The leader slugs Ian for the threat LOL)
"What is more important? To not fight and die or to fight and live?"
"My conclusions is this - there is no indignity in being afraid to die but there is a terrible shame in being afraid to live."
The Daleks want the anti radiation drugs for themselves but quickly discover once they have them that they need the radiation to survive, and need more of it soon. But how to do that? Another neutron bomb...which will kill everyone on the surface. They eventually decide that will take too long...so lets just overload our nuclear reactors.
It's interesting to note that according to the Thals histories they show the Doctor, they were once the warriors and have indeed gone through mutations and evolution but that evolution has come full circle and they are human-like again. (I laugh that Ian uses the word human when talking to the Thals about themselves. Must be that TARDIS jingo in them already, being able to speak the alien language ;) )
Side Note: At one point, while first being held by the Daleks, Susan, Barbara, Ian and the Doctor devise a plan to get escape. Part of which involves capturing a dalek, opening it up, removing the creature inside it, and then Ian GETTING INSIDE the hull/shell. My reaction -
[[[[Really? You want to get in that thing Ian? After you saw what had been in it? YUCK!!]]]]
Because like in any story, the whole reason they all originally left the TARDIS was of course a ruse on the Doctor's part so of course the little part they had to "fix" gets taken from them so that when they escape they have to go back to get it or the TARDIS really won't work.
The Doctor, the companions, and the Thal decide to attack the city from two sides - head on attacking their ways of detection (and being a diversion) and the others going through a swamp and caves to attack from behind, which is undefended. Action ensues.
When at last the Doctor and Susan are captured by the Daleks while trying to mess up their lines of communication, he learns of their want to annihilate the Thal. Here we see the beginning of the Doctor's hate of the Daleks because of how hell bent they are on destruction and the beginnings of one of his greatest enemies.
They are of course able to stop the Daleks from causing their reactors to overload and leak the radiation. We have our first defeat of the Daleks. It wont be the last.
So ok I guess I really am a current tv viewer. The whole thing felt a bit long to me. Seven, 25 minute episodes could've and these days would have probably been a tighter story, if they even did the schedule that way. Though it is nice to have this format of one episode leading to another, so unlike most shows of today.
The Daleks - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daleks
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
The Unearthly Child
Series 1
Title - The Unearthly Child
Production Code - A
Story # - 001
Production Code - A
Story # - 001
Episodes:
"The Unearthly Child"
"The Cave Of Skulls"
"The Forest Of Fear"
"The Firemaker"
Doctor - 1st - William Hartnell
Someone posted a link so I followed it. Through a TON of crappy sites wanting to download mal ware or get my email address for spam. Not fun.
Did eventually find dailymotion.com and discovered the 4 episodes of The Unearthly Child were available.
Now I've already seen a few episodes from other stories and other Doctors (not including all the revived series stuff) but I've been looking into either getting discs from Netflix or finding the episodes that are available online somewhere and doing this all properly - watching from the very beginning, in order, as many episodes as I can find. It makes me incredibly sad to know that the BBC just tossed things back in the day. Hindsight is 20/20 though, right?
So...the story.
We get a fairly good idea, and pretty quickly too I'd say, about three of our four characters who it seems will be on the show. The pair caring teachers, Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright, worried about their teen student, Susan Foreman, who seems to be very smart in some things but not others, like knowing a lot of history and being able to read a book on the French Revolution in one night but not knowing how to correctly make change for a British pound.
We get to met The Doctor, whom Susan refers to as "Grandfather", who comes across as a bit of a crafty old gent, though a rather private person, who initially doesn't want to get involved with the teachers. He also has a rather...aristocratic air about him, from thinking that anything of the TARDIS's workings would be above these people or later, initially not wanting to help with an injured man but instead would rather be about collecting his samples of the planet/era where they are.
But Susan seems to be lacking a bit. Sure she is apparently rather clever and smart about loads of things and she can scream very well but...that's it. I don't know, it might just be me, but for the whole arc that's all she seems to be. Like the only reason she is there is as the excuse to put the teachers with the Doctor and get them into the TARDIS so we can see that its smaller on the outside. (See what I did there? LOL)
Now aside from the whole Time And Relative Dimension In Space - TARDIS (thanks Susan) time travel thing, this is more historical fiction than science fiction. But then from what I'm told a main goal of the show as a whole was about education. So ok I guess.
Since I'm coming at this as a fan of the current series, my reaction to older episodes will be clouded and not true, never-seen-this-before type reactions. Overall it wasn't bad (if a bit dated though that can't be helped - and how many current shows will that be said about in 40 years?)
We travel back to the time of early humanoids (we don't actually ever know if we've left Earth, but I guess the assumption is that we haven't) still living in caves and the whole hunter/gatherer routine. A time where making fire is power. Our travelers, two of whom were hijacked into coming along, are captured by the natives who see them as strange and dangerous. Fights ensue about who is or should be in charge and claims of the Doctor making fire "in his hands" - lighting his pipe with a match - and what to do with the strangers.
And of course all done in monosyllables and grunts and all very caveman.
After fights and grunts and making of fire and finally getting away, we are all safe and basically sound and back in the TARDIS and off to someplace/time new - this time a world that doesn't seem to still be Earth, so I guess that means we get official aliens next time! But oh the cliffe!
(This is the neat bit of the whole serials thing - every episode leads to the next with some little cliffhanger and the next episode usually features a 3 or 4 second redo of the end of the last episode)
Suffice it to say I think had this been the pilot that aired in this time, I could see it going well or totally tanking, and that's if it ever got produced. I'm fairly sure they'd want to jazz it up with more science-y tech-y stuff today. I also don't think it would've survived with its serials format - which is why in the new series' they've ditched that idea. It would be an interesting premise for this time period though. Something that hasn't been done in such a long time. But then it might mean it would get cancelled all the faster.
Not bad. Not great. A little meh.
Can someone give me earplugs to drown out the piercing screams from Susan and Barbara? Cause those are gonna get old.
The Unearthly Child
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Unearthly_Child
William Hartnell
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Hartnell
The Unearthly Child
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Unearthly_Child
William Hartnell
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Hartnell
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Doctor Who?
Hi.
My name is Becky.
And I'm a Whovian.
My first real taste was sometime on or about April 15, 2013 though I was aware of my taste for British sci-fi a long, long time ago - I've been a Hitchhikker since I was 13 and had my drink of Douglas Adams.
It's really not surprising that I'd find myself in this state, though surprising that its taken this long for it to happen. I've grown up knowing The Doctor existed but I never found him, even after a close encounter last May/June with his many clones...and the clones of his friends and enemies...even a copy of his ship!
But I guess I was bored these weeks ago and needed something to do...having about a month before watched the first 5 episodes of the current series 7 on a whim when there was nothing else to do. I saw that there were episodes available for streaming on Netflix so I decided why not, what could it hurt. Worst I could do was not like it. No big deal.
Eight days later I had caught up to the most recent current episode and had even begun to watch the short-lived Torchwood spin-off with Captain Jack Harkness, cause...I just had too. Plus John Barrowman is hot. Just wish he were straight! And omg that ass...
I've liked Facebook pages for David Tennant and Matt Smith (though I can't decide who's hotter...) and I've liked pages for the show and I've even joined an FB group to gibber on about it. Because I'm not doing that enough to drive my mother nuts. (Poor woman thought she was done with the fandom thing once Twilight was "over." HA!) I've friended a guy I met last year at WWCC who is a Ten cosplayer. And liked the page of some chick that designs tees and cosplays Rose. I've had a million crazy theories about whoever the hell this Clara chick is.
I've contemplated cosplaying Rose or Donna at the con this year.
I've gone and bought loose tea done in flavors reminiscent of the current Doctors and companions. LOOSE. TEA. I DON'T DRINK THAT MUCH TEA. EVAR. The first thing in the fandom I own is TEA. Kinda...ironic. Even thinking about buying a bit of one of the Captain Jack blends to give to Barrowman in June. Reminds me I need to see about affording that pic...
Already read 2 books based on the characters and have purchased the first 4 new-for-the-50th anniversary books.
And I think there's a t-shirt coming soon...
So now I find myself deciding to give the original episodes a proper go and in the proper order and am searching out as many as I can find online, though already 2 weeks ago I sat and figured out what discs Netflix has and the order to get them in through Series 10...
Oh and in my short 3 weeks as a Whovian, I've already gotten one other person hooked...and possibly a second!
I figured since I'm writing the blog for the Oscar Best Pictures, which is slow going having to wait for the discs and then needed to use those for the regular movie nights, I may as well write this one too, documenting thoughts or reactions to all of this Who I'm about to watch. Will be interesting to see if my feelings for Ten/Tennant and Eleven/Smith change...though given Smith looks like someone I know and whom I'm HOH for...don't think that's gonna happen ;)
But you never know.
This is The Doctor after all.
Feel free to comment on these musings as we Journey Thru Time And Relative Dimension In Space with The Doctor. Doctor Who?
The Name Of This Blog
I went thru more names and urls than I want to think about for this blog but kept coming back to thoughts of always being with the Doctor. So that's what I stuck with, hence the background, found here - http://wallpoper.com/wallpaper/text-tardis-345895
I had to tweak it a little to fit Blogger's size limits but other than that it's as I found it.
While the Doctor may have times when he is physically alone, without his companions or the woman he loves, he is never truly alone. All we as Whovians go on every adventure with him and will do so until he can no longer regenerate.
We will be his companions whenever he asks
We love our Madman
Our Raggedy Man
Our Last Time Lord
Our Doctor
(no matter what face he's currently wearing, though we admit we like some better than others...LOL)
I had to tweak it a little to fit Blogger's size limits but other than that it's as I found it.
While the Doctor may have times when he is physically alone, without his companions or the woman he loves, he is never truly alone. All we as Whovians go on every adventure with him and will do so until he can no longer regenerate.
We will be his companions whenever he asks
We love our Madman
Our Raggedy Man
Our Last Time Lord
Our Doctor
(no matter what face he's currently wearing, though we admit we like some better than others...LOL)
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