These are all very good questions, and you're right, him fixing his bowtie is great. I am definitely seeing some new 11 personality shining through.
I didn't really get Liz10... so she made the decision to ride the space whale, and then she chooses to forget? And instead her cabinet knows the truth and just gets on with it? Besides, everyone chooses to forget but everyone acts scared at the beginning--if they don't remember what are the afraid of? And why bother sending kids down below if they know nothing is going to happen to them?
(side note: that whale has a very small brain)
,,,Maybe I'll understand it better after I rewatch it.
In Liz Ten's message to herself, she says that forgetting will allow her to "be again the heart of this nation, untainted." I think she and this episode are operating under a romanticized version of monarchy where the queen is the spiritual leader, and if she were to go on ruling while knowing about the whale it would destroy her soul and turn Britain into something even more corrupt than the police state with conspiracy of amnesia that they already have. Only a few morally tainted people know the whole truth, and they use the Smilers to do much of the work. *shrug* It's not the most efficient system, but I guess it makes sense 1,300 years in the future
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The thing that amused me most about the episode was that the star whale was *totally* visible from outside the spaceship. If the TARDIS had just appeared, like, to the side of the starship UK instead of above it, they would have just seen that it was actually a giant island on top of a giant whale, instead of having to go to all the work of figuring it out.
Ha, good point! What a crazy random happenstance that they never bothered to look around the ship from the outside. ;)
What started bugging/amusing me after I wrote this post is that the Doctor and Amy are in the whale's mouth, able to see through between the teeth, and then are vomited out into a corridor. Yet when you look at the wide shots of the whale, the mouth opens into space! Why were they not vomited into space? How was there air in the whale's mouth in the first place?
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I didn't really get Liz10... so she made the decision to ride the space whale, and then she chooses to forget? And instead her cabinet knows the truth and just gets on with it? Besides, everyone chooses to forget but everyone acts scared at the beginning--if they don't remember what are the afraid of? And why bother sending kids down below if they know nothing is going to happen to them?
(side note: that whale has a very small brain)
,,,Maybe I'll understand it better after I rewatch it.
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What started bugging/amusing me after I wrote this post is that the Doctor and Amy are in the whale's mouth, able to see through between the teeth, and then are vomited out into a corridor. Yet when you look at the wide shots of the whale, the mouth opens into space! Why were they not vomited into space? How was there air in the whale's mouth in the first place?
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