The Doctor: If I don't like your plan, it will end.
Mr. Finch: Fascinating. Your people were peaceful to the point of indolence. You seem to be something new. Would you declare war on us, Doctor?
The Doctor: I'm so old now. I used to have so much mercy. You get one warning. That was it.

Caught the end of "School Reunion" on BBCA yesterday..... ( Read more... )

Rewatched "Family of Blood."  I think because, the first time I watched it, I was so thoroughly offended.  Hmm.  Guess what?  Not much less offended, second time around.

I really hate the portrayal of the Doctor in this one.  He's a complete shit--for all the blonde kid's random announcement that "he's wonderful."  Yeah?  Prove it, kid.  The ( Read more... )

An odd collision happened:  the other day, I threw "Silence in the Library"/"Forest of the Dead" into the DVD player and watched for about the millionth time, and I just thoroughly enjoyed how wonderful those episodes are, and I was thinking over some of the elements of the story and the connections to DW5....and how there was so much to look ( Read more... )

*sigh*  Last thing I expected, watching DW5, was to become a shipper.... ;)  I think it's happened.  "I WAS NOT EXPECTING THIS!" as the Doctor would say.

http://community.livejournal.com/doctoreleven/379354.html

Very nicely done essay on Doctor/River....and I heartily concur.  In the comments, the poster who wrote the literary analysis of DW5 also ( Read more... )

An early rumor/spoiler/promise for DW6 is that River Song's backstory finally gets told--River's timeline comes around to the point that she meets the Doctor for the first time, although he will already know her.  Sort of a reversal of their positions in "Silence in the Library ( Read more... )