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.
Friday, June 14, 2013
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!)
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