If the Valeyard is River's Doctor, I'll lol to death. Totally srs.

 

Just started watching this from season 1, and I have to say that so far I don't like the "second" doctor as much as I did the "first". I hope that doesn't kill the show for me. :/

 

Heh. Confusing on so many levels. By 'Season 1' I'm assuming you mean the 2005 restart and as such the ninth and tenth doctors? If so ten will probably grow on you.

 

I never really liked Ten, to be perfectly honest. Mostly because of the horrid writing.

It really says something when my favorite episode during his tenure as the Doctor was Blink, which barely featured him.

 

Was an incredibly written episode though. Though nine is far and away my favourite, ten and eleven grew on me faster than I expected.

 

Yeah, my fault. 2005 restart is where I started. I tried watching the old one, but couldn't get into it. That's why I put the "first" and "second" in quotes like I did. I know they aren't technically the first and second Doctors, but they are to me.

 

Really its the Moffat episodes that kick ass.

"Are you my mommy", "Don't blink", the Library where River was first introduced.

Madame de pomple... the french chick from the fire place.
Everything he has a hand in kicks ass. he was much more active in this 11th doctor which is why I like it so much.

 

Back on track- that's a good point.

I mean, it's terribly hard to deal with shit now that we have to consider the Silence. We can't trust that any character's motivation is his own (discounting the obviously unrelated characters from filler episodes), because a Silent could have done the creep-ah and mindjacked them.

The questions I want answered are these:

-Did the Silence exist before the Doctor 'recreated' the universe using the Pandorica?
-If so, were they involved in the Doctor's past adventures in any way?
-If not, were they behind the TARDIS' explosion last Series?


Again, the pseudo-TARDIS is really, really bugging me- so much so that I rewatched The Lodger to get a better look at it. Best guess, is that it's an alien craft that whoever was behind the cracks and the Silence maneuvered onto Earth- and this ties in with Schrodinger's Baby somehow.

Goddammit, Moffat.

 

I can hardly choose between them personally. They're all awesome in their own way, but if I had to choose... I guess I'd knock out Tennant's Doctor, simply because I never watched his whole run and he didn't have near as awesome a start as the other two, I was grinning through the end of The Eleventh Hour like a kid but I couldn't even bring myself to finish Tennant's debut.

I was pretty much set on hating Matt Smith and then I watched the first episode and simply couldn't help but love Eleven.

On this episode: Wow, just wow. Who at it's greatest. Now if only I don't have to sit here wondering just who the fuck that little girl is...

Also: I am so buying the OST.

 

This. You've got to admire the man; in the space of just over a season (less actually, if you discount the episodes that didn't directly touch on the arc plot last year) Moffat has pretty much eradicated canon issues. Out of character moment? A Silent did it. Continuity snarl up? A crack in reality did it.

1. I'd say so, personally. After all, the Doctor (as far as we can tell) had to recreate the universe because of the Silence. And we're led to believe that the rebooted universe is more or less an exact copy of the original version. On the other hand, I can see Moffat rubbing his hands with glee over the big resolution to the series creating the villains that caused the problem in the first place.
2. Probably not any further back than The Eleventh Hour, bar fans using the Silence/crack in reality excuse to handwave canon problems.
3. Presumably, given the creepy voice talking about 'Silence will fall' just before it exploded. The real question is, did they blow up the TARDIS because the Doctor caused them to be all but thrown off Earth in the past?

 

So about how the latest South Park episode did a Dalek spoof: Sauce

 

Im not sure if it's common knowledge or whatever, seeing as how Im just now watching Doctor Who from season one on Netflix at the moment. But yeah, Season 1 Episode 8- Fathers Day, while Rose and her father are in the car on the way to the chapel to watch the wedding, Rick Astley is playing on the radio. I think we've all been rick rolled D:!

 

1. Moffat would be that devious, fo' sho. But yeah. I know I'm pushing the something-not-the-Silence-aliens-was-behind-the-Cracks angle strongly, but that's the big question for me. The voice said "Silence will fall", and I can't shake the feeling that the aliens known as The Silence are only here to facilitate the actual falling of Silence, the issue of if they're doing it at the order of a hidden sinister being or not aside.

2. I'll admit, I didn't really care about this one as much as the other two questions. :awesome

3. Since the actor for Craig (the chubby bloke from The Lodger) is reportedly coming back for an episode during 2011 [sauce] (Wikipedia says he's coming back in Series 6), it's safe to assume that the pseudo-TARDIS in Florida, 1969, is either the real deal or a rebuilt version of the one in the aforementioned Series 5 episode. Given that the Doctor was able to identify himself as "Captain Troy Handsome of International Rescue" to the ship's computer in The Lodger, I'm inclined to think that the Silence hadn't truly gotten their hands into it at that point yet. But since whoever originally built it was supposedly trying to build their own TARDIS...

Of course, not knowing what The Silence want doesn't help any. We still don't know what their aims are, why they leech off of other sentient beings in the first place, their relation to the Creepy Voice (seriously, let's just call it that from now on), and that's not even considering what they're doing with their own sort-of TARDIS and the S.Baby.

Sometimes Moffat, I hate you for making my head spin. Dee. Fucking. Eight.

Okay. I'll bite.

Rickrolling is a fad that only started some time in 2007. They filmed Series 1 of the rebooted series during 04~05, and it aired in 2005.

Rick Astley's album was an international best selling album in '87, if you can believe it. It's more likely that they put the song in as a pop culture reference of the late 80's, given the setting.

/killjoy

 

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Oh snap. I thought he was talking about his actual mother but now there's another Time Lord?

/jizzed

/crosses fingers for the

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Valeyard

 

Pirates! And every single pirate trope ever invented! Great fun, if a little by the numbers.

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That woman with the eyepatch is going to get annoying if it isn't cleared up soon. Also, what happened to the pirate Toby cut? He's on the spaceship at the end, but we don't see him get Siren-ed, as far as I could tell.

Nice to see the hat collection expanded as well.

 

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I find eye patch woman to be creepy, tbh.

Also, I really hope someone isn't pulling the Doctors leg and ours by extension. Time Lords are long over due a proper return. It was only a few glorious minutes during the last episodes of the 10th Doctor.

Other then the fact that Pirates are awesome, there really wasn't much meat in this episode.

 

Something just occurred to me. If the future Doctor died, where's the future TARDIS?

 

Hmm, I wasn't really a fan of this weeks episode. I dunno, it just seemed... rather flat.