The Hungry Earth - Reaction Post
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Here be spoilers, natch.
- We're a decade in the future - and oh, look! we're in Wales!
- Blimey, is this the Third Doctor era or the Eleventh? The start of this episode is pretty Inferno-ish (big drill digging up something unexpected/nasty - been there before).
- Of course, Mr Night Shift doesn't bother to either leave a note or ring someone before he goes to investigate the weirdness and then gets himself sucked into the Earth. *sigh*
- The Doctor says the ground feels weird. Weird how, exactly?
- And then he notices patches of blue grass.
- And *then* he spots Rory and Amy's future selves waving at him. But *are* they? What if they're not from a decade in the future, what if they're timeline crossing, eh, eh??
- Rory takes Amy's engagement ring and puts it in the TARDIS. Is this significant, or just a plot device to separate him from Amy and the Doctor?
- And now he's been mistaken for someone else (did anyone catch who Ambrose thought Rory was?)
- Well of course the Doctor's not going to let a little thing like a padlocked gate stop him entering the Authorised Personnel only area!
- Bleugh! The Doctor's eating the grass. Amy asks if he's always been this disgusting, and he says it's quite recent (since Ten, really!)
- Yikes! Amy's being sucked into the Earth. She starts to say to the Doctor "Tell Rory" but doesn't finish the sentence. I half expected her to say "Oh, he knows" (glad she didn't! Not least because I'm not sure he does...)
- Eliot's a Holmes fan. Nice one! And he thinks the graves are eating people. Smart kid.
- The Doctor: Excuse me, I am making sense, you're just not keeping up.
Ooh snippy!
- The Doctor tells Tony that the blue grass wasn't an "X marks the spot" but a warning to stay away.
- Uh-oh! A red forcefield dome's just gone up around their immediate vicinity, that can't be good!
- Rory's FINALLY noticed that Amy's not with the Doctor - bit slow there, mister!
- The Doctor to Rory: Come on, please. I need you alongside me.
- The Doctor tells Eliot that the monsters are afraid of him, after telling him that he ran away from home, and that he misses it 'so much' (did I hear that right?)
- And now the interior of the forcefield dome's gone dark. Eep!
- The Doctor: Oi! Don't diss the sonic. (Rory's right though, it is a bit rubbish that it doesn't work on wood!)
- Dear gods! Since when have Silurians had enormously long tongues? (They didn't in 'Doctor Who and the Silurians'; haven't got around to watching 'Warriors of the Deep' yet.)
- The Doctor's wearing night vision sunglasses? That's actually kinda cool!
- Oh nice manoeuvre, the Doctor acting as bait to the Silurian, and then zapping it with the fire extinguisher, and then Rory leaping out of the back of Ambrose's Meals on Wheels van to help capture it.
- The Silurian's shushing Amy?! LOL
- The Doctor takes off the Silurian's mask, and then tells her that she's beautiful (reminds me of Ten talking to the Clockwork Robot in 'Girl in the Fireplace').
- The Doctor: I do hate to monologue. (Er, since when?! He loves the sound of his own voice, and always has!)
- Claiming to be the last of your species is known as the Klempari Defence in an interrogation situation.
- The Doctor tells Alaya he knows how it sits in the hearts to be the last of one's species. Again, though, he's matter of fact.
- Haha! The Doctor's refering to the Silurians as 'Eocenes' as well as Homo Reptilius and Silurians. (That harks back to letters post-Doctor Who and the Silurians which pointed out that 'Silurians' was an inaccurate name.)
- Alaya calls the humans 'vermin' and the Doctor objects, saying 'they're really very nice'. (Except when we're not, of course!)
- I'd say Nasreen's got a bad case of hero worship going on!
- Yikes! The TARDIS is being sucked down into the earth...
- And another yikes, 'cos apparently Tony's been infected by the Silurian's tongue.
- LOL at Nasreen pinging the Doctor's brace!
- Nasreen: It's like this is every day to you.
Doctor: Not every day - every other day.
- That doesn't look like 'one small tribe, maybe a dozen or less'!!
That's made me nostalgic, because now I want to go and watch 'Inferno' and 'Doctor Who and the Silurians'!
Here be spoilers, natch.
- We're a decade in the future - and oh, look! we're in Wales!
- Blimey, is this the Third Doctor era or the Eleventh? The start of this episode is pretty Inferno-ish (big drill digging up something unexpected/nasty - been there before).
- Of course, Mr Night Shift doesn't bother to either leave a note or ring someone before he goes to investigate the weirdness and then gets himself sucked into the Earth. *sigh*
- The Doctor says the ground feels weird. Weird how, exactly?
- And then he notices patches of blue grass.
- And *then* he spots Rory and Amy's future selves waving at him. But *are* they? What if they're not from a decade in the future, what if they're timeline crossing, eh, eh??
- Rory takes Amy's engagement ring and puts it in the TARDIS. Is this significant, or just a plot device to separate him from Amy and the Doctor?
- And now he's been mistaken for someone else (did anyone catch who Ambrose thought Rory was?)
- Well of course the Doctor's not going to let a little thing like a padlocked gate stop him entering the Authorised Personnel only area!
- Bleugh! The Doctor's eating the grass. Amy asks if he's always been this disgusting, and he says it's quite recent (since Ten, really!)
- Yikes! Amy's being sucked into the Earth. She starts to say to the Doctor "Tell Rory" but doesn't finish the sentence. I half expected her to say "Oh, he knows" (glad she didn't! Not least because I'm not sure he does...)
- Eliot's a Holmes fan. Nice one! And he thinks the graves are eating people. Smart kid.
- The Doctor: Excuse me, I am making sense, you're just not keeping up.
Ooh snippy!
- The Doctor tells Tony that the blue grass wasn't an "X marks the spot" but a warning to stay away.
- Uh-oh! A red forcefield dome's just gone up around their immediate vicinity, that can't be good!
- Rory's FINALLY noticed that Amy's not with the Doctor - bit slow there, mister!
- The Doctor to Rory: Come on, please. I need you alongside me.
- The Doctor tells Eliot that the monsters are afraid of him, after telling him that he ran away from home, and that he misses it 'so much' (did I hear that right?)
- And now the interior of the forcefield dome's gone dark. Eep!
- The Doctor: Oi! Don't diss the sonic. (Rory's right though, it is a bit rubbish that it doesn't work on wood!)
- Dear gods! Since when have Silurians had enormously long tongues? (They didn't in 'Doctor Who and the Silurians'; haven't got around to watching 'Warriors of the Deep' yet.)
- The Doctor's wearing night vision sunglasses? That's actually kinda cool!
- Oh nice manoeuvre, the Doctor acting as bait to the Silurian, and then zapping it with the fire extinguisher, and then Rory leaping out of the back of Ambrose's Meals on Wheels van to help capture it.
- The Silurian's shushing Amy?! LOL
- The Doctor takes off the Silurian's mask, and then tells her that she's beautiful (reminds me of Ten talking to the Clockwork Robot in 'Girl in the Fireplace').
- The Doctor: I do hate to monologue. (Er, since when?! He loves the sound of his own voice, and always has!)
- Claiming to be the last of your species is known as the Klempari Defence in an interrogation situation.
- The Doctor tells Alaya he knows how it sits in the hearts to be the last of one's species. Again, though, he's matter of fact.
- Haha! The Doctor's refering to the Silurians as 'Eocenes' as well as Homo Reptilius and Silurians. (That harks back to letters post-Doctor Who and the Silurians which pointed out that 'Silurians' was an inaccurate name.)
- Alaya calls the humans 'vermin' and the Doctor objects, saying 'they're really very nice'. (Except when we're not, of course!)
- I'd say Nasreen's got a bad case of hero worship going on!
- Yikes! The TARDIS is being sucked down into the earth...
- And another yikes, 'cos apparently Tony's been infected by the Silurian's tongue.
- LOL at Nasreen pinging the Doctor's brace!
- Nasreen: It's like this is every day to you.
Doctor: Not every day - every other day.
- That doesn't look like 'one small tribe, maybe a dozen or less'!!
That's made me nostalgic, because now I want to go and watch 'Inferno' and 'Doctor Who and the Silurians'!