Reaction Post: DW 6.12 - Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end
Dear Mr. Moffat,
Say what you will about Anne Rice, but I will admire her for one thing. At the start of one of her (too many) Vampire Lestat novels, she introduced a dog. And shortly thereafter, she had a brilliant paragraph where she told us that nothing was going to happen to the dog. The dog would not become a vampire, would not get lost, would not save a child from drowning, would not be anything but a happy dog at the end of the book. In short, that we the readers did not have to worry about the fate of the dog.
Let me tell you, Mr. Moffat, I for one read that paragraph and breathed a sigh of relief.
So, the next time you introduce us to a baby, would you kindly have some kind of rolling title go over the screen which tells us that the baby will be FINE at the end of the episode? Because that way, I won't spend the entire hour worried about the baby, and not so much about paying attention to the plot, which I didn't quite catch, but apparently involved yet another alien being buried in the center of the Earth.
(Which of course must be incorrect, because really, how many aliens can you fit in the center of the Earth? We're up to, what, six now?)
Sincerely,
Me
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Dear Andrew,
No, your name is not Stormaggeddeon, Lord of the Dark.
Love,
Mommy
p.s. You'll note that my name is not "Not Cat".
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The New and Improved Dream Theory of Doctor Who
1. Melody Pond's attempt to kill the Doctor in 1938 Berlin is taken to be successful, as witnessed by the Time Agents in the Pond-bot. Because she attends university as River Song, however, it takes some time for the law to catch up to her, giving her enough time to get her doctorate.
2. Rose Tyler, after having lived a long and fruitful life with Cloen in the other dimension, returns to exact her revenge on the Doctor for having the gall to leave her on the beach with not only Cloen, but her mother. However, something in the transfer between worlds goes awry, and she loses an eye and gains a new hairdo. Also an eyepatch.
3. Rose Tyler, who is now known as Madame Eyepatch, hooks up with the Silence and in true SuperEvilPerson fashion, comes up with a seriously convoluted and complex scheme to kidnap Melody Pond and program her to kill the Doctor, then save the Doctor, then fall for the Doctor, before finally shoving the poor woman into a spacesuit in order to kill the Doctor again. She will undoubtedly have a nice long monologue in which she starts extemporizing this entire process while the Doctor unties his bonds or does whatever he needs to do in order to free himself.
4. Unfortunately, Rose doesn't realize that the Doctor has taken up cloning as a hobby, and the Doctor River shoots is Plastic!Doctor. Who probably also wears an eyepatch at some point, since apparently, Eyepatches are Cool.