Free time shouldn't be something taken for granted
HI WORLD. It's been a while, which I largely blame a lot on having finals. Finals week was probably one of the worst weeks I've ever had in a long time, but whatever. Done is done and I'll be home tomorrow and I have a lot of junk. And a lot of trash, and packing really does suck.
On another note, the two parter of Doctor Who! I thought about how to do this, since there is SO MUCH that goes on in both of these episodes, so I settled for just scribbling down ideas and comments as I watched it. Or rewatched. Spoilers ahead, lots of them for TIA/DoTM and other episodes that aren't out yet and a lot of questions. LOTS.
So, the Doctor's been around for two months with no companions, just being completely ridiculous? Wasn't the whole point of him having companions to keep him interested and not bored, or did he just decide to do as Ten did and go without companions for a short while? I mean, look how well that went for Ten- but that was Ten, who was much more angsty and emotional and still kind of fresh out of the Time War...
Future!Doctor dies. Hurm. It looks like a pretty thorough death, minus the whole Master route, but I don't think that it'd be his style. There'd be no point in calling everyone there unless he felt as if they could change something, but it seems like he knew about the Silents which means that the whole revolution had already happened since Canton was there, which meant that the Silent on the shore couldn't have been there and the astronaut couldn't have been the little girl either? Augh, timey whimey. He seems to have known that he was going to die, which makes me feel like there's an subplot of some sort to the whole affair...It could do with the aborted time line talk that's been wandering around, but River indicates that you can't just alter the past just like that, since it breaks the rules of causality.
Also, I wasn't entirely sure how the astronaut was supposed to be impossible. Maybe I missed something.
The TARDIS-control room thing has me really puzzled. Does that imply that the Silents accidentally lost their spaceship at some point in time, or that they are capable of time travel or something else entirely?
I wonder if the Silents had meant for Amy to tell the Doctor that she was pregnant, or if he was dead?
And, onto Day of the Moon aka the episode that answers questions with a hell of a lot more questions. Firstly, how Canton faked Amy/Rory dying, and where did Area-51 get their hands on 'zero balance dwarf star alloy'? They had just discovered space travel!
The scary and nasty Silents want...a spacesuit. I'm confused- did they build the interior of the spacesuit, or did they just use the shape of the spacesuit because it was a handy container? Cause it seems like a really convoluted way to just find a suit for a little girl.
That whole orphanage sequence was just really creepy. Really, really creepy. Especially when we find out that Silents sleep like bats; but how do they do that exactly?
So this is where it gets really tricky, with the picture of Amy with the girl. It'd imply that Amy was the mother, but how can that be? Amy herself later denies that she's pregnant, and there's only that one picture which would imply that the girl wasn't raised by Amy/didn't have a firm connection to her. I'm also a little puzzled of how the girl got away and out of the suit, if the Silents wanted her so badly. Or was having Amy a suitable replacement for whatever they were trying to do?
I kept thinking poor Rory throughout the episode; he finally did get some characterization, though! Having to compete with the Doctor doesn't sound like it'd be a pleasant experience.
The phrase 'Silence will fall' doesn't make sense in lieu with the Silents. Silence will fall, we are the Silence, implying that they will fall which doesn't really make any sense at all? And what on earth did they mean when they told Amy that she would bring the Silence? Bring it where and from what?
When did the Doctor get so comfortable with guns, or having his companions shoot others (and practically start bragging about it)? And then there's the whole sequence with the you should kill us on sight aka the Doctor triggering genocide against the Silents. However I look at it, it really is nothing short of turning every human being into a potential murderer to carry out a quite bloody mission- complete and utter extermination of an alien species (albeit, only within the occupancy of Earth). What bothered me was that he didn't even give a chance for them to surrender, to even leave peacefully. He didn't give them any choice in the matter before he blithely ordered all of humanity to kill them.
And he didn't seem in the least bothered by his utter and blatant manipulation of the entire human race as a means to commit genocide which would keep his hands clean, tidy and neat. Not in the smallest sense. Er, wait. This is the Doctor we're talking about here, right? You know, the one who advocates peace and refuses to bear arms and weapons and hates war.
Yeah. I think that point stands for itself.
Then River goes back to prison, which isn't very secure apparently. But she stays there for a promise she made (possibly to earn her pardon?). That seems like a fairly flimsy reason to stay there.
And what happens next I'm calling the Schrodinger baby. She thought she was pregnant, but she's not really, but the TARDIS seems to be saying that she's somehow pregnant/not pregnant all at once? But, how on earth does that work?
The little girl regenerates. What. WHAT.
Okay, logically looking at this: the little girl regenerates. This doesn't mean that she has to be a Time Lady (see the case of Jenny- she didn't regenerate). Being able to regenerate is something separate from having Time Lord DNA, methinks, but I could be wrong on this. Which leaves something from the TARDIS messing around with the baby, or something as such? Or the Silents, because they seemed to be interested in Amy for whatever reason. But why did the Silents want her in the first place?
More random thoughts/questions for me to write down before I forget them-
Who River Song is. Maybe she's that little girl, which would make her Amy's daughter. Which makes me really, really confused as to how that could happen.
The Doctor dying. There's been talk about this with spoilers and mentions of an 'aborted timeline' where the Doctor died...but. How can you an abort a timeline? We know that the Doctor managed to reboot the universe, which could could theoretically as aborting one timeline where the universe ended...
The Silence doesn't seem like it's the same thing as the Silents. Not in the least, mostly because the Silence is referred to as an event of sorts, whereas the Silents seem to be set on bring about letting the Silence fall? Assuming that the Doctor is right on his flashback of the fish people from Vampires of Venice, did the Silents come out of the cracks in time? But how could they, if there's nothing but void space on the other side? Also, why are they so interested in Amy? And why don't they ever kill the Doctor, when they have more than enough chances to?
And eye-patch lady seems to be a Madame Korvian(sp?) who has some role in episode 7? But why would she be showing up in 1969 of all places?
But that's all of the thoughts that I had on the matter.
Lastly, HAPPY SUPER LATE BIRTHDAY anna_sg1 ! YOU REALLY NEED TO WATCH DOCTOR WHO AND GAME OF THRONES :D
- Research is a going; I think we've permanently lost our group leader due to an slight misunderstanding, by which I mean a very nasty confrontation that I had to sit through. I'm not really sure where our post bac has gone off to, which really just leaves me and one other. Which is fine, except we may have opened Pandora's box.
- On the research note, I shall be doing that selfsame thing at school from June 13-July 29 (here's to hoping that my grant proposal actually does go through, cause aughh). I'm going to be so bored and sick of my research by the end of week 1 and I'm betting I'll be watching a lot of shows due to the huge amount of free time. It's actually getting somewhere, finally
- DANCE WITH DRAGONS IS FINISHED
- Also on that note, the TV adaptation of Game of Thrones is very, very pretty. And very well done, so far (not that I've seen ep. 3 yet). My only gripe with it so far would've been the ending of the first episode, where Drogo and Dany consummate their marriage :|
- Osama bin Laden is dead, apparently. Obama gave a very nice speech on it- what bothered me is how people responded, especially the ones who celebrated around the capital. I understand that he's become the iconic figure of evil and all of that. Personally, I feel rather indifferent about the whole affair, but what did bother me is how people made it to be such a spectacle, like it was a holiday or something worth celebrating. It felt like we were celebrating murder.
- HAVING FREE TIME IS AMAZING :D This also means that I can actually sit down and write things, and it feels amazing to be able to just write things that aren't proposals or lab reports or papers.
On another note, the two parter of Doctor Who! I thought about how to do this, since there is SO MUCH that goes on in both of these episodes, so I settled for just scribbling down ideas and comments as I watched it. Or rewatched. Spoilers ahead, lots of them for TIA/DoTM and other episodes that aren't out yet and a lot of questions. LOTS.
So, the Doctor's been around for two months with no companions, just being completely ridiculous? Wasn't the whole point of him having companions to keep him interested and not bored, or did he just decide to do as Ten did and go without companions for a short while? I mean, look how well that went for Ten- but that was Ten, who was much more angsty and emotional and still kind of fresh out of the Time War...
Future!Doctor dies. Hurm. It looks like a pretty thorough death, minus the whole Master route, but I don't think that it'd be his style. There'd be no point in calling everyone there unless he felt as if they could change something, but it seems like he knew about the Silents which means that the whole revolution had already happened since Canton was there, which meant that the Silent on the shore couldn't have been there and the astronaut couldn't have been the little girl either? Augh, timey whimey. He seems to have known that he was going to die, which makes me feel like there's an subplot of some sort to the whole affair...It could do with the aborted time line talk that's been wandering around, but River indicates that you can't just alter the past just like that, since it breaks the rules of causality.
Also, I wasn't entirely sure how the astronaut was supposed to be impossible. Maybe I missed something.
The TARDIS-control room thing has me really puzzled. Does that imply that the Silents accidentally lost their spaceship at some point in time, or that they are capable of time travel or something else entirely?
I wonder if the Silents had meant for Amy to tell the Doctor that she was pregnant, or if he was dead?
And, onto Day of the Moon aka the episode that answers questions with a hell of a lot more questions. Firstly, how Canton faked Amy/Rory dying, and where did Area-51 get their hands on 'zero balance dwarf star alloy'? They had just discovered space travel!
The scary and nasty Silents want...a spacesuit. I'm confused- did they build the interior of the spacesuit, or did they just use the shape of the spacesuit because it was a handy container? Cause it seems like a really convoluted way to just find a suit for a little girl.
That whole orphanage sequence was just really creepy. Really, really creepy. Especially when we find out that Silents sleep like bats; but how do they do that exactly?
So this is where it gets really tricky, with the picture of Amy with the girl. It'd imply that Amy was the mother, but how can that be? Amy herself later denies that she's pregnant, and there's only that one picture which would imply that the girl wasn't raised by Amy/didn't have a firm connection to her. I'm also a little puzzled of how the girl got away and out of the suit, if the Silents wanted her so badly. Or was having Amy a suitable replacement for whatever they were trying to do?
I kept thinking poor Rory throughout the episode; he finally did get some characterization, though! Having to compete with the Doctor doesn't sound like it'd be a pleasant experience.
The phrase 'Silence will fall' doesn't make sense in lieu with the Silents. Silence will fall, we are the Silence, implying that they will fall which doesn't really make any sense at all? And what on earth did they mean when they told Amy that she would bring the Silence? Bring it where and from what?
When did the Doctor get so comfortable with guns, or having his companions shoot others (and practically start bragging about it)? And then there's the whole sequence with the you should kill us on sight aka the Doctor triggering genocide against the Silents. However I look at it, it really is nothing short of turning every human being into a potential murderer to carry out a quite bloody mission- complete and utter extermination of an alien species (albeit, only within the occupancy of Earth). What bothered me was that he didn't even give a chance for them to surrender, to even leave peacefully. He didn't give them any choice in the matter before he blithely ordered all of humanity to kill them.
And he didn't seem in the least bothered by his utter and blatant manipulation of the entire human race as a means to commit genocide which would keep his hands clean, tidy and neat. Not in the smallest sense. Er, wait. This is the Doctor we're talking about here, right? You know, the one who advocates peace and refuses to bear arms and weapons and hates war.
Yeah. I think that point stands for itself.
Then River goes back to prison, which isn't very secure apparently. But she stays there for a promise she made (possibly to earn her pardon?). That seems like a fairly flimsy reason to stay there.
And what happens next I'm calling the Schrodinger baby. She thought she was pregnant, but she's not really, but the TARDIS seems to be saying that she's somehow pregnant/not pregnant all at once? But, how on earth does that work?
The little girl regenerates. What. WHAT.
Okay, logically looking at this: the little girl regenerates. This doesn't mean that she has to be a Time Lady (see the case of Jenny- she didn't regenerate). Being able to regenerate is something separate from having Time Lord DNA, methinks, but I could be wrong on this. Which leaves something from the TARDIS messing around with the baby, or something as such? Or the Silents, because they seemed to be interested in Amy for whatever reason. But why did the Silents want her in the first place?
More random thoughts/questions for me to write down before I forget them-
Who River Song is. Maybe she's that little girl, which would make her Amy's daughter. Which makes me really, really confused as to how that could happen.
The Doctor dying. There's been talk about this with spoilers and mentions of an 'aborted timeline' where the Doctor died...but. How can you an abort a timeline? We know that the Doctor managed to reboot the universe, which could could theoretically as aborting one timeline where the universe ended...
The Silence doesn't seem like it's the same thing as the Silents. Not in the least, mostly because the Silence is referred to as an event of sorts, whereas the Silents seem to be set on bring about letting the Silence fall? Assuming that the Doctor is right on his flashback of the fish people from Vampires of Venice, did the Silents come out of the cracks in time? But how could they, if there's nothing but void space on the other side? Also, why are they so interested in Amy? And why don't they ever kill the Doctor, when they have more than enough chances to?
And eye-patch lady seems to be a Madame Korvian(sp?) who has some role in episode 7? But why would she be showing up in 1969 of all places?
But that's all of the thoughts that I had on the matter.
Lastly, HAPPY SUPER LATE BIRTHDAY anna_sg1 ! YOU REALLY NEED TO WATCH DOCTOR WHO AND GAME OF THRONES :D