OFFICIAL PICSPAM FRIDAY POST: A GOOD MAN GOES TO WAR
OFFICIAL PICSPAM FRIDAY POST: A GOOD MAN GOES TO WAR
Greetings, gentlebeings! It is Friday! (Or it was when I started typing this post!) And one of us is actually posting Picspam Friday! I apologize for my massive fail on that front; first there was getting ready for Dragon*Con, and then there was Dragon*Con itself, and then there was post-Dragon*Con. (If you have ever been to a con, you probably sympathize with the "post-" part.)
Also, I apologize for the size of this spam. There was just too damn much going on in this episode.
Meanwhile, on Demon's Run...
No thought given to the other half of Melody's parentage, I see. Though I ain't particularly mad, since Madame Kovarian and company probably really don't give a shit about Rory. They probably don't give a shit about Amy, either, aside from her being the person carrying Melody.
Can we talk about how beautifully this was shot?
Okay, either the Mill just likes reusing CG effects, or that fucking nebula out there has some kind of significance.
GUISE! YOU KNOW WHAT THIS MEANS? THE DOCTOR TAUGHT RORY HOW TO USE THE SONIC SCREWDRIVER! (This made me absurdly gleeful.)
The Cyberleader is not pleased with how this hand of sabaac is going.
Karen, how is it that you manage to look so gorgeous, even when Amy is supposed to be without makeup and vaguely unwashed?
I fucking cheered, guys. (Am I the only person who expected it to be Rory all through Amy's bait-and-switch speech?)
Cool guys don't look at explosions.
OH MY GOD IT'S A SNOWSPEEDER *is taken out back and shot*
"The Holy Roman Empire: Neither holy nor Roman."
SHE FUCKING ATE JACK THE RIPPER. I was nearly slain by the awesome.
Why are people in the fortieth century wearing nineteenth century French clothing? Who cares? It's awesome! (Also, I keep misreading that name as "Zarathustra".)
We haven't had any entries in the Matt Smith Resembles Peter Davison contest for a while, but in the meantime, I submit that the French dude here bears a striking resemblance to Pertwee-era Nicholas Courtney.
Also, sometimes cool guys walk towards explosions, too.
Haters gonna hate, etc etc etc
Anyone else ever wish this silhouette would appear on their doorstep? No? Just me, then?
(River does, but not for the reasons we'd expect out of her...)
"...why are you looking at me like that? You're making me nervous as all hell."
Holy shit does he ever look like his Eleventh Hour derpy self here.
"YES, I know I look ridiculous, you didn't need to point it out to me..."
You know, if it weren't for that whole pesky regeneration thing, I'd say that River definitely looks like her father's daughter. (Also: the hedgehog hair returneth!)
Man, I seriously thought he was about to go all Lone Centurion on her for a moment. Brrr.
I want every single one of those hanging lamps.
I love Dorium. He's like a blue, English-speaking Jabba the Hutt.
"I'm old! I'm fat! I'm blue!" Best line ever or best line ever?
SO. FUCKING. WRONG. And nasty.
"Hey, did we remember to set the DVR? I've been trying to catch up on old episodes of JAG..."
"HAI GUISE!"
"Oh fu--"
For some reason, this screencap makes me think of the Seventh Doctor's "Pull the trigger. End my life" speech. Probably because Eleven is smiling down the barrel of a gun.
"Okay, what say we ditch this joint..."
PHWOAR REPTILES. (Seriously. Give them a spinoff. I would watch that shit like burning. It'd be like those historical dramas the BBC loves so much, but with an awesome twist!)
I swear they're Nazgul. With lightsabers.
OKAY HOW DID THE DOCTOR GET THE SPACE SPITFIRES THERE?!
"This is rapidly becoming awkwardsauce."
I want to nominate this, right here, as Rory's most badass moment to date. Kovarian's basically like "bitch, you think you can take me?" and he just smiles.
THEN THIS FUCKING HAPPENED. I may have sort of screamed at my computer monitor.
Is anyone else besides me bothered by the fact that his hair constantly looks like it's about to poke him in the eye?
Amy is angry and armed with a... dental implement... AND SHE'S NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE.
Ladies and gentlemen, Arthur Darvill Rory Williams holding a baby.
This scene, though.
Rory, "cool" probably went out the window the moment you laid eyes on your daughter. It's okay... aren't most new dads sort of like this?
The Doctor walks in on a frankly HAWT reunion kiss, and gets grossed out. You fucking hypocrite, you.
"You. Crazy uncle person. Get in here. Now." (I bet they would have made him Melody's godfather or something, if he hadn't turned out to be their future maybe-son-in-law.)
Ladies and gentlemen, Matt Smith the Doctor pointing and grinning at a baby. That Arthur Darvill Rory Williams is still holding.
One day, those twins are going to watch this, and look at each other, and say, "So which one of us is that?" "Not a clue, man."
Congratulations on your face, Matthew.
AND AGAIN.
I adore this look Rory gives Strax and Jenny as they report in. I also adore that they're reporting in to him, like he's really the Doctor's second-in-command or something.
Has Dan Starkey always been this fabulous when appearing as a Sontaran?
"Yeah, that's... um... great, but... your lactic fluid is not getting anywhere even remotely near my child... I think I need to go vomit now..."
Am I the only person not even remotely bothered by the habit Eleven has taken up of asking Rory for permission to hug Amy, and Rory's responses to it? It's a joke, guys. Bros joke like that.
I'm also not even remotely bothered by their reactions to first thinking the Doctor meant Melody was his, and then their relief that he meant the cot was his. It's not some tacit admission of guilt on Amy's part or Rory being insecure again. I mean, come on, guys. They travel in time and space. They've seen and experienced some weird shit. Amy probably had some weird shit done to her while she was pregnant and captive. There's probably a good possibility that The Bad Guys could have somehow made Melody the Doctor's kid without him and Amy ever so much as touching each other. IT'S FUTURE SPACE SCIENCE. ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE. /end semi-rant
"Amy and Rory? Having sex on my TARDIS? HOW DARE YOU. THAT IS UNPOSSIBLE."
"Yeah, uh-huh. Sure."
That dawning moment of comprehension we all live for.
"You're so Scottish!" Holy crap I cannot love these two more.
RORY KISSING MELODY. I CAN'T.
"DORIUM, GET YOUR OLD FAT BLUE ASS BACK HERE RIGHT NOW WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU EVEN THINK YOU'RE DOING--"
Guys. RORY IS DUAL-WIELDING A MELEE WEAPON AND A RANGED WEAPON. AND HE'S A HEALER. YOU CAN'T DO THAT. IT'S NOT ALLOWED. *cue Rory Williams is the new Chuck Norris jokes*
Wait wait wait HOW IS SHE DOING THAT. That's not a window opening in a wall! It's a... hologram?
Much like Mace Windu before him, Strax is not going to go out like a punk.
"FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK I LEFT THE STOVE ON"
I give you: The Lone Centurion. (I'll be in my bunk.)
THAT'S RIGHT MELODY POND YOU GLARE AT THAT EYE-PATCHED BITCH I DON'T CARE IF YOU'RE ACTUALLY A GANGER AT THE MOMENT THAT'S STILL YOU IN THERE
I have nothing funny to say about this.
"Yeah... we know."
"I have... majorly fucked this up, haven't I."
The nurse who became a warrior, and the warrior who became a nurse. I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE, MOFFAT.
THIS SHOT. I liked how Moffat chose Jenny to be the empathetic one, sitting with her. She sort of has to be empathetic by nature, I mean... if she's got no problem shacking up with a lizard woman who eats people, in VICTORIAN ENGLAND...
I find myself wondering what that misguided nimrod on Tumblr who decided that Amy is a bad companion because she chose Rory over the Doctor thought about this scene. Heh.
Karen and Arthur continue to give--cinematic? Picturesque?--hugs.
Oh god, this whole scene. Eleven trying to make Lorna smile in her last moments and after she dies, it becoming obvious that he hasn't met her yet. MY CREYS.
"Hey, I heard this is where the party's at?"
"Hold the phone, I thought you said you couldn't be here!"
"Begging your damn pardon?"
"THIS IS NOT MY FUCKING FAULT!"
"Uh, yeah the fuck it is, son."
"Well, fuck you, man."
"Holy shit, is she actually going to tell him who she is? Seriously? For real?"
"OH MY GOD! SHE'S HIS BABY MAMA!"
The Doctor makes an 'eep' noise.
"Are you guys going to share with the class or not? Because we no habla Meaningful Looks."
"Wait, so you're--and we--and they're--oh, crap--"
"We have no idea why we're smiling."
"EVERYBODY CHILL THE FUCK OUT, I GOT THIS"
I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE AGAIN, MOFFAT
Rory would really like some answers too, but seriously doesn't think picking up a gun whilst distraught is a good way to go about getting them...
Can we talk about how beautiful Alex Kingston is right here? (Also, how very fucking nervous River must have been?)
This has been a Mid Season WHAM Episode. Thank you for watching.
Now it is Saturday! Which means it is Doctor Who Day! Bring on The God Complex! (Why do I keep thinking it's Closing Time?)
Screencaps, as always, by pineapple_sky.
Greetings, gentlebeings! It is Friday! (Or it was when I started typing this post!) And one of us is actually posting Picspam Friday! I apologize for my massive fail on that front; first there was getting ready for Dragon*Con, and then there was Dragon*Con itself, and then there was post-Dragon*Con. (If you have ever been to a con, you probably sympathize with the "post-" part.)
Also, I apologize for the size of this spam. There was just too damn much going on in this episode.
Meanwhile, on Demon's Run...
No thought given to the other half of Melody's parentage, I see. Though I ain't particularly mad, since Madame Kovarian and company probably really don't give a shit about Rory. They probably don't give a shit about Amy, either, aside from her being the person carrying Melody.
Can we talk about how beautifully this was shot?
Okay, either the Mill just likes reusing CG effects, or that fucking nebula out there has some kind of significance.
GUISE! YOU KNOW WHAT THIS MEANS? THE DOCTOR TAUGHT RORY HOW TO USE THE SONIC SCREWDRIVER! (This made me absurdly gleeful.)
The Cyberleader is not pleased with how this hand of sabaac is going.
Karen, how is it that you manage to look so gorgeous, even when Amy is supposed to be without makeup and vaguely unwashed?
I fucking cheered, guys. (Am I the only person who expected it to be Rory all through Amy's bait-and-switch speech?)
Cool guys don't look at explosions.
OH MY GOD IT'S A SNOWSPEEDER *is taken out back and shot*
"The Holy Roman Empire: Neither holy nor Roman."
SHE FUCKING ATE JACK THE RIPPER. I was nearly slain by the awesome.
Why are people in the fortieth century wearing nineteenth century French clothing? Who cares? It's awesome! (Also, I keep misreading that name as "Zarathustra".)
We haven't had any entries in the Matt Smith Resembles Peter Davison contest for a while, but in the meantime, I submit that the French dude here bears a striking resemblance to Pertwee-era Nicholas Courtney.
Also, sometimes cool guys walk towards explosions, too.
Haters gonna hate, etc etc etc
Anyone else ever wish this silhouette would appear on their doorstep? No? Just me, then?
(River does, but not for the reasons we'd expect out of her...)
"...why are you looking at me like that? You're making me nervous as all hell."
Holy shit does he ever look like his Eleventh Hour derpy self here.
"YES, I know I look ridiculous, you didn't need to point it out to me..."
You know, if it weren't for that whole pesky regeneration thing, I'd say that River definitely looks like her father's daughter. (Also: the hedgehog hair returneth!)
Man, I seriously thought he was about to go all Lone Centurion on her for a moment. Brrr.
I want every single one of those hanging lamps.
I love Dorium. He's like a blue, English-speaking Jabba the Hutt.
"I'm old! I'm fat! I'm blue!" Best line ever or best line ever?
SO. FUCKING. WRONG. And nasty.
"Hey, did we remember to set the DVR? I've been trying to catch up on old episodes of JAG..."
"HAI GUISE!"
"Oh fu--"
For some reason, this screencap makes me think of the Seventh Doctor's "Pull the trigger. End my life" speech. Probably because Eleven is smiling down the barrel of a gun.
"Okay, what say we ditch this joint..."
PHWOAR REPTILES. (Seriously. Give them a spinoff. I would watch that shit like burning. It'd be like those historical dramas the BBC loves so much, but with an awesome twist!)
I swear they're Nazgul. With lightsabers.
OKAY HOW DID THE DOCTOR GET THE SPACE SPITFIRES THERE?!
"This is rapidly becoming awkwardsauce."
I want to nominate this, right here, as Rory's most badass moment to date. Kovarian's basically like "bitch, you think you can take me?" and he just smiles.
THEN THIS FUCKING HAPPENED. I may have sort of screamed at my computer monitor.
Is anyone else besides me bothered by the fact that his hair constantly looks like it's about to poke him in the eye?
Amy is angry and armed with a... dental implement... AND SHE'S NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE.
Ladies and gentlemen, Arthur Darvill Rory Williams holding a baby.
This scene, though.
Rory, "cool" probably went out the window the moment you laid eyes on your daughter. It's okay... aren't most new dads sort of like this?
The Doctor walks in on a frankly HAWT reunion kiss, and gets grossed out. You fucking hypocrite, you.
"You. Crazy uncle person. Get in here. Now." (I bet they would have made him Melody's godfather or something, if he hadn't turned out to be their future maybe-son-in-law.)
Ladies and gentlemen, Matt Smith the Doctor pointing and grinning at a baby. That Arthur Darvill Rory Williams is still holding.
One day, those twins are going to watch this, and look at each other, and say, "So which one of us is that?" "Not a clue, man."
Congratulations on your face, Matthew.
AND AGAIN.
I adore this look Rory gives Strax and Jenny as they report in. I also adore that they're reporting in to him, like he's really the Doctor's second-in-command or something.
Has Dan Starkey always been this fabulous when appearing as a Sontaran?
"Yeah, that's... um... great, but... your lactic fluid is not getting anywhere even remotely near my child... I think I need to go vomit now..."
Am I the only person not even remotely bothered by the habit Eleven has taken up of asking Rory for permission to hug Amy, and Rory's responses to it? It's a joke, guys. Bros joke like that.
I'm also not even remotely bothered by their reactions to first thinking the Doctor meant Melody was his, and then their relief that he meant the cot was his. It's not some tacit admission of guilt on Amy's part or Rory being insecure again. I mean, come on, guys. They travel in time and space. They've seen and experienced some weird shit. Amy probably had some weird shit done to her while she was pregnant and captive. There's probably a good possibility that The Bad Guys could have somehow made Melody the Doctor's kid without him and Amy ever so much as touching each other. IT'S FUTURE SPACE SCIENCE. ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE. /end semi-rant
"Amy and Rory? Having sex on my TARDIS? HOW DARE YOU. THAT IS UNPOSSIBLE."
"Yeah, uh-huh. Sure."
That dawning moment of comprehension we all live for.
"You're so Scottish!" Holy crap I cannot love these two more.
RORY KISSING MELODY. I CAN'T.
"DORIUM, GET YOUR OLD FAT BLUE ASS BACK HERE RIGHT NOW WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU EVEN THINK YOU'RE DOING--"
Guys. RORY IS DUAL-WIELDING A MELEE WEAPON AND A RANGED WEAPON. AND HE'S A HEALER. YOU CAN'T DO THAT. IT'S NOT ALLOWED. *cue Rory Williams is the new Chuck Norris jokes*
Wait wait wait HOW IS SHE DOING THAT. That's not a window opening in a wall! It's a... hologram?
Much like Mace Windu before him, Strax is not going to go out like a punk.
"FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK I LEFT THE STOVE ON"
I give you: The Lone Centurion. (I'll be in my bunk.)
THAT'S RIGHT MELODY POND YOU GLARE AT THAT EYE-PATCHED BITCH I DON'T CARE IF YOU'RE ACTUALLY A GANGER AT THE MOMENT THAT'S STILL YOU IN THERE
I have nothing funny to say about this.
"Yeah... we know."
"I have... majorly fucked this up, haven't I."
The nurse who became a warrior, and the warrior who became a nurse. I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE, MOFFAT.
THIS SHOT. I liked how Moffat chose Jenny to be the empathetic one, sitting with her. She sort of has to be empathetic by nature, I mean... if she's got no problem shacking up with a lizard woman who eats people, in VICTORIAN ENGLAND...
I find myself wondering what that misguided nimrod on Tumblr who decided that Amy is a bad companion because she chose Rory over the Doctor thought about this scene. Heh.
Karen and Arthur continue to give--cinematic? Picturesque?--hugs.
Oh god, this whole scene. Eleven trying to make Lorna smile in her last moments and after she dies, it becoming obvious that he hasn't met her yet. MY CREYS.
"Hey, I heard this is where the party's at?"
"Hold the phone, I thought you said you couldn't be here!"
"Begging your damn pardon?"
"THIS IS NOT MY FUCKING FAULT!"
"Uh, yeah the fuck it is, son."
"Well, fuck you, man."
"Holy shit, is she actually going to tell him who she is? Seriously? For real?"
"OH MY GOD! SHE'S HIS BABY MAMA!"
The Doctor makes an 'eep' noise.
"Are you guys going to share with the class or not? Because we no habla Meaningful Looks."
"Wait, so you're--and we--and they're--oh, crap--"
"We have no idea why we're smiling."
"EVERYBODY CHILL THE FUCK OUT, I GOT THIS"
I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE AGAIN, MOFFAT
Rory would really like some answers too, but seriously doesn't think picking up a gun whilst distraught is a good way to go about getting them...
Can we talk about how beautiful Alex Kingston is right here? (Also, how very fucking nervous River must have been?)
This has been a Mid Season WHAM Episode. Thank you for watching.
Now it is Saturday! Which means it is Doctor Who Day! Bring on The God Complex! (Why do I keep thinking it's Closing Time?)
Screencaps, as always, by pineapple_sky.