OFFICIAL PICSPAM FRIDAY POST: DAY OF THE MOON
OFFICIAL PICSPAM SUNDAY MONDAY FRIDAY POST: DAY OF THE MOON
Greetings, gentlebeings! Yes, this is late. And it will probably be Monday here before I finish coding it. Friday I had a belated Cinco de Mayo party start much earlier than I expected it to, and then Saturday... was Saturday... so here we are. I blame the excessive size of this spam on the fact that THERE WAS TOO MUCH GOING ON IN THIS EPISODE FOR BREVITY TO BE POSSIBLE. AND I EVEN OMITTED TWENTY-SOMETHING SCREENCAPS WHILE IN THE PROCESS OF WRITING THIS POST.
Excuse me while I sing in the general direction of Toby Haynes: "Have I told you lately that I love you..."
"...have I told you there's no one else above you..."
I am including this screenshot because I looked at it and went, "Wow, she kinda looks like me there! ...too bad it's blurred."
"...you fill my heart with gladness, take away all my sadness..."
"Seriously, don't come any closer. I haven't changed out of these clothes for three months."
Canton doesn't care. BECAUSE HE'S A BOSS.
Wait, since when did they follow Canton up a flight of stairs in that warehouse? SHENANIGANS!
I loved how the Silent was all "CANNNNNTOOOONNNNNN". Sort of like that voice intoning "WIIIIIIIINSTOOOOOOOON" in Ghostbusters 2.
You know, I don't think the Groom Lake area actually has salt flats, and those sorta look like salt flats... but whatever, bro. I'm not such a snob that I can't deal with "artistic license".
The signs say DO NOT APPROACH THE PRISONER. Canton is approaching the prisoner. Again, because he's a BOSS.
It's Jesus Doctor! And he actually sort of looks like Jesus this time! You know, with the hair and the beard. (See: Tinkerbell Jesus Doctor, Last of the Time Lords, The.)
Man, all he did to answer the Doctor was smirk very slightly and tilt his head to one side. And it was badass. Where have you been all my life, Mark Sheppard?
I thought this was legitimately creepy.
Does anyone know if this is period accurate? :D
So while Amy and Rory are running around the desert getting progressively filthier, River is swanning around New York City in evening wear? Bitch.
"Hey, what's a pretty woman like you doing in a place like this?"
"CANTON, YOU COCKBLOCKER!"
I find myself wondering if she heard the TARDIS materializing down below. If it even was, since Canton hadn't yet informed the Doctor that she'd chosen to throw herself off a building. (Don't you just hate time travel?)
Exhibit A: Time passing slowly, in the correct order.
NO. FUCK NO. I sort of have a thing about heights so this shot kind of made me want to hurl.
Exhibit B: "progressively filthier". That is... a lot of dirt. And tally marks. And his left hand looks sort of fried. So, Rory, what have you been up to for three months and some change?
I absolutely did not spend an inordinate amount of time staring at Rory's open collar here. (And if I'd known what we were going to get treated to in yesterday's episode, I really wouldn't have not spent all that time staring at his open collar. Woof.)
"Oh, you killed them. That's just great."
Proof that Canton totally worked in the precursor to Fox Mulder's one-man department at the FBI: he doesn't bat an eye at this awesome space technology.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you: the Doctor kissing Rory on the head. I think this is all my fandom dreams crossed off the list now, save for Amy and Rory getting a happy ending.
Okay, this is just obscene. WHY ARE YOU GOING TO WEAR SUSPENDERS IF THEY'RE THAT STRETCHY?!
Also, you can't tell me no one accidentally clocked themselves on the invisible TARDIS during all those weeks of captivity.
Amy, you look way way way too good for having spent God knows how long inside a body bag. Just saying.
So I know this fell flat for some people, but I loved it. I'm like, so did she woosh right through the console room on her way to the swimming pool? That would have made for a hilarious visual, IMHO.
Thankfully, the Doctor managed to avoid landing in the salt marsh.
If this was Team TARDIS for the rest of eternity, there wouldn't be any complaints from my seat in the peanut gallery.
"River, as soon as we get back in the TARDIS, you are cutting his hair."
YOU MEAN WE'RE ONLY JUST NOW GETTING TO THE OPENING CREDITS?! FFFUUUUU- (Not gonna lie, I will always grin like a dork every time I see Arthur's name here.)
When did this turn into an episode of The X-Files?
"Ow, asshole! A little warning would have been nice!"
"FOR FUCKING REAL!"
"YEAH HI TOTALLY HORNING IN ON THIS ABSOLUTELY NOT SUSPICIOUS-LOOKING POWWOW YOU TWO ARE HAVING. 'SUP?"
"Oh, for fuck's sake."
"Don't let him anywhere near your boyfriend, Canton. You'll never feel secure in your own skin EVER AGAIN."
The Doctor looks entirely too pleased with himself about the giant horse pill he's been injecting into everyone's palms. Their overreactions are justified.
"I have no idea why I'm doing this, but I like it anyway. What?"
"Is he asking to join our foursome?" (On a more serious note, me likey the blocking here.)
"Is this the part where I don't blink? Because OH DEAR GOD WHAT IS THAT THING."
I would like to express my sincere relief that this asshole was not actually on the TARDIS.
"Wait, so all our bedroom roleplaying games were actually post-hypnotically suggested by a bunch of perverted Silence?"
"Agents Mulder and Scully, FBI." Only Mulder is shorter than Scully, neither of them are really skeptics, and it's, you know, 1969 instead of 1993.
Can we take a moment to give some props to Kerry Shale here? He massively creeped me out. Also, I was going to posit the theory that no one in the South actually talks like he did anymore, that the accent he used was like some sort of Old School genteel old money accent... but then I saw a lady interviewed on the local news who had that same exact accent. And she was obviously neither genteel nor of old money. Oh well.
OH THAT'S NICE.
"Crap, parents came home early--"
This is legitimately nice. I was impressed. Nice work, FX guys.
FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK
OH NO. FUCK THIS. FUCK YOU, MOFFAT. I HAVE TO LOOK FOR THOSE BITCHES ON MY CEILING NOW?!
"Quit shining that flashlight in my sockets, woman! Can't you see I'm trying to sleep?"
The Doctor is too fabulous for such mundane things as security.
But Nixon is more fabulous than the Doctor, because his own theme song plays every time he walks through a door. (Seriously, funniest thing ever. I salute you, Murray Gold.)
The Presidential brofist.
"Yeah, uh, about breaking into Apollo 11..."
"I'm getting you back for this, asshole."
"This is one of those moments I was talking about, where you just want to slap him?"
"Sorry, what? I was too preoccupied with being a child at a science exhibit." Seriously, the second-funniest thing about this scene for me (after Nixon's theme song) was watching Rory move around in the background.
"Oh, balls."
You know, as smooth recoveries go, this actually wasn't all that bad. Considering.
OKAY WHAT THE HELL IS THIS ABOUT. SERIOUSLY. I got nothing. (Well, I have some things, but they don't answer the question.) It was like, "and randomly: a David Lynch moment!"
MORE THINGS I GOT NOTHING ON:
I know, Amy. This series is frequently making me feel the same way and it's only just started.
"Hi! Just popping in to check up on you!"
"I brought some friends, is that okay?"
"Also, would you be interested in a free issue of Watchtower Magazine?" (I probably got that wrong.)
Canton is uninterested in joining the Jehovah's Witnesses.
"Welcome to Earf!" /ID4
"Honey, Canton's on the phone, he says Amy fell down the well again..."
"Yeah, yeah, fine, I'll do whatever you say. It's not like I'm the fucking President of the United States or anything."
Previously, on The X-Files... (no, really, I love this shot. Bless you Toby Haynes and Stephan Persson.)
Would anyone like to explain to me why the little girl is now hiding instead of yelling for help?
Oh my god. Setting aside the fact that Arthur Darvill looks ridiculously good in Sixties wear, I got chills during his little speech here. It was like... he was slipping into a Lone Centurion mindset for a second, or something. And given that he can remember all of that, I guess it's quite possible that he actually was. Yikes. :/
"Amy, you could not possibly have picked a less opportune moment to ask me to come and save you. PLEASE STOP ACCIDENTALLY MAKING ME THE BAD GUY. I SWEAR I DON'T DO IT ON PURPOSE, RORY."
YOU GUYS! SILENCE HAS FALLEN AND IT CAN'T GET UP! (Yeah, I know, I'm not the first person to make that joke, try the veal anyway.)
You know what this means? Nixon's taken a trip on the TARDIS. Twice. (Why does that make me want to giggle uncontrollably.)
Jesus Christ that is the nastiest catheter tube ever. Also, I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE, PROPS DEPARTMENT. (Hint: check out the Geiger counter--or whatever that is--for a running production in-joke.)
You know what else this means? That Silent took a trip in the TARDIS, too. Damn there's a lot of stuff we didn't see happen in this episode. I wonder what they did with him after this. Probably dissected him For Science.
Also, someone had to teach Canton how to use Amy's phone. Right?
Additionally, either Amy's phone has received the old jiggery-pokery, or that device runs on AT&T. Or whoever.
The Doctor gets all up in Rory's personal space.
I'm pretty sure this is Rory's "Doctor, you are an emotional idiot" face.
This shot is a bit freakily reminiscent of the scene in Vampires of Venice where they're in the gondola going to sneak into the Calvierri compound, no?
"Your hospitality leaves something to be desired, sir."
"Come on, just one kiss? A little one? Please?"
"Uh, boss...?"
"What the hell? I thought we were going to save Amy, not visit Aickman Road!"
That awkward moment when Rory might find himself wishing he still had a gun in his hand.
"Bitch, who invited you? This isn't a block party!"
In the 51st century, you can have sex merely by rubbing up against someone else's back. Trufax.
"Seriously, guys? There's a time and a place for that and this is not it!"
"Let's not roleplay saving me from the aliens for a while, yeah?"
LIVE FROM THE SURFACE OF THE FUCKING MOON. That seriously boggles me. I bet we'd be broadcasting from the surface of Mars by now if the government still gave a shit.
"Hey, want to watch my new TV show?"
"Not really, no. We were sort of busy IN CASE YOU DIDN'T NOTICE."
DAMMIT, STEVE!
"BOO-FUCKING-YAH, BITCHES!"
I love how angry those two guys look. Instead of, you know, "what the hell, dude, HOLY SHIT OH MY GOD THERE'S AN ALIEN IN HERE" which I feel would be a more appropriate reaction in this circumstance.
"Who, me? Uh, yeah, don't mind me, I was just heading for the exit, I'll be on my way now..."
"For the uninitiated? This is not my kissy face."
I know this gets said a lot about Toby Haynes episodes, but can we just take a moment to appreciate how cinematic this shot is? (Also, FUCK YEAH LENS FLARE.)
Emperor Palpatine before his morning coffee.
Gratuitous badassery + sort-of-gratuitous cleavage = I thought I was straight?
"Have you ever met Steven Spielberg and George Lucas? Because I'm starting to think they based Indiana Jones on you."
BEST. EVER.
"Holy shit."
"You seriously thought I meant the Doctor? He's back there pirouetting like a dork, trying to impress River. You make fun of that, you don't fall in love with it."
Hot kiss is hot. Also, Rory's wearing a Superdry jacket.
This was just somehow adorable as all hell.
Aaaaaaaaand the Doctor feels left out.
"This is a moment where you feel like you should slap him, but you don't, because he's being so clueless it's actually cute."
"My place, eight o'clock?" BABY CANTON COME BACK
Stuart Milligan, please stop making me sort of want to hug Richard Nixon and go "d'awwwwwwwww".
"Seriously, don't ask me questions about the future. Because then I have to get awkward."
The Presidential tongue shot.
Canton is so badass, he comes out to the leader of the free world like it ain't no thang.
This is River, totally making sex eyes at the Doctor.
But, since he's the Doctor, he doesn't exactly cotton on.
AND THE SHIPPERS REJOICED.
"Wait, what just happened? I liked it but I'm not sure if that's allowed."
"Hold that thought, I'm going to go ask Amy and Rory for advice on what to do next..."
OH GOD HER FACE.
"Can we PLEASE not talk about the pregnancy thing? Yeah, I thought I might be, and then The Silence post-hypnotically suggested I tell you something and I fucked up and thought it was that because the alternative was TELLING YOU YOU FUCKING DIED. Okay? I'm pretty sure that's it."
OH GOD HIS FACE.
"A Time Head? What the hell is a Time Head? AMELIA YOU DID NOT LEARN BASIC BIOLOGY DID YOU CROSS-SPECIES FERTILIZATION NEVER WORKS. Unless you're a donkey. Or something. AND ANYWAY THERE WAS NO CROSS-SPECIES ANYTHING SO..."
NO SERIOUSLY HIS FACE.
"Rory, you sort of became Captain Obvious when you didn't come right back with those coupling thingies and horn in on the conversation like you did approximately twelve zillion screencaps ago."
"WELL COME AT ME, THEN!"
"Doctor, you're not invited."
Can we please have cute growly-voiced Rory more often? As opposed to insecure dying-every-fucking-week Rory? That'd be great. Thanks.
"Amy, he's ignoring the giant pink elephant in the room. But we should probably let it slide this time, because we just sidestepped the other pink elephant too."
Introducing a brand-new option for pregnancy tests: POGATIVE.
Isn't this like the... fourth? fifth? ending to this episode?
"So I've spent six months taking a walk up the Eastern Seaboard for some unknown reason, getting filthy, and dying for another unknown reason, but it's cool, I got this..."
Audience: WHADDA FUCK?!? (c) Angry Who Fan
"I'M NEVER DOING DRUGS AGAIN"
No seriously, WHADDA FUCK? I got nothing on this, either. THE MYSTERY, IT BURNS.
Screencaps, as always, by pineapple_sky.