Moffatt was on Radio 2 talking about how he was plotting out the Christmas special and the next series, so I think we're good!
Of course the rest of the series could be about the Master (called Dr Master, PhDeath) after the Dr buys it
― Brakhage, Tuesday, 26 April 2011 00:03 (thirteen years ago) link
lol
― VegemiteGrrl, Tuesday, 26 April 2011 00:04 (thirteen years ago) link
MOFFAT
― it always seems to have dick smith in it (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 26 April 2011 00:09 (thirteen years ago) link
Moffatt Moffet Moffett Mofett Mofatt MOFFAT
― it always seems to have dick smith in it (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 26 April 2011 00:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Ahhh hah ha I stand stricken through
― Brakhage, Tuesday, 26 April 2011 00:19 (thirteen years ago) link
CAST HIM OUT
― VegemiteGrrl, Tuesday, 26 April 2011 01:00 (thirteen years ago) link
except Batman doesn't die until after Batman RIP. It's, erm, like the end of Final Crisis and then the alternating issues of Batman & Robin #9-16 and Return Of Bruce Wayne #1-6. Or something.
― Unusatralian (sic), Tuesday, 26 April 2011 02:17 (thirteen years ago) link
well, my uncle was a federal agent in the late 60s but he didn't work at the White House
He wouldn't happen to be a contestant on Survivor this season, would he?
― Matt Groening's Cousin (Leee), Tuesday, 26 April 2011 02:18 (thirteen years ago) link
except Batman doesn't die until after Batman RIP. It's, erm, like
actually if they let this mystery stand until the end of the second half-series, it's TOTALLY like the first three stories in B&R just getting on with the new status quo and letting the mystery build!
― Unusatralian (sic), Tuesday, 26 April 2011 07:11 (thirteen years ago) link
Got a feeling that the whole Nixon thing was an elaborate excuse for showing the Doctor with his feet up on the desk in the Oval Office.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 26 April 2011 08:57 (thirteen years ago) link
How does River shoot the Stetson off the Doctor's head from the other side of the road, behind Rory?
― Unusatralian (sic), Tuesday, 26 April 2011 09:11 (thirteen years ago) link
With mad skillz?
― I am leader of the sheeple (captain rosie), Tuesday, 26 April 2011 09:31 (thirteen years ago) link
there was a string on his hat that someone behind the camera pulled.
― koogs, Tuesday, 26 April 2011 09:53 (thirteen years ago) link
the bullet was a miniature TARDIS
river used a bullet that curved through space
the doctor knocked it off himself because river missed and he didn't want her to feel bad
the universe is curved, duh
― they call him (remy bean), Tuesday, 26 April 2011 16:13 (thirteen years ago) link
*ahem*...spoilers.
― scotstvo, Tuesday, 26 April 2011 17:26 (thirteen years ago) link
Lol
― I am leader of the sheeple (captain rosie), Tuesday, 26 April 2011 17:29 (thirteen years ago) link
so fckng stoked u guyz
― gainfully trˆᴥˆlled (blueski), Saturday, 30 April 2011 16:22 (twelve years ago) link
SO GOOD. Thought pantomime Nixon was jokes. The Silence were great. I wasn't sure it was all going to hold together but I try not to care about that kind of thing too much so it all seemed ok to me. Next episode looks a bit silly.
― Genuflection X (oppet), Saturday, 30 April 2011 17:52 (twelve years ago) link
I remained sceptical about the first one but I loved loved loved that.
― emil.y, Saturday, 30 April 2011 17:58 (twelve years ago) link
loved the first half but think it kinda lost it a bit after that as it became clear they weren't really going to reveal anything much of note :/
― gainfully trˆᴥˆlled (blueski), Saturday, 30 April 2011 18:07 (twelve years ago) link
i mean explain not reveal ;)
― gainfully trˆᴥˆlled (blueski), Saturday, 30 April 2011 18:08 (twelve years ago) link
Reminded me of Ghost Light (this isn't a good thing).
― JimD, Saturday, 30 April 2011 21:40 (twelve years ago) link
(oh and jesus, that pre-credits sequence! Moffat just seems to be addicted to killing main characters then having them turn out fine, and the more he does it the more he destroys any sense of actual danger).
― JimD, Saturday, 30 April 2011 21:43 (twelve years ago) link
But he does it so well!
So, are we automatically meant to think small child = daughter of amy and the doctor?
― standing on the shoulders of pissants (ledge), Saturday, 30 April 2011 22:15 (twelve years ago) link
why not daughter of amy + rory?
― Mordy, Saturday, 30 April 2011 22:17 (twelve years ago) link
Because it had timelord power?
― emil.y, Saturday, 30 April 2011 22:17 (twelve years ago) link
that shit made no sense at all. great stuff, though.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Saturday, 30 April 2011 22:30 (twelve years ago) link
though we've just been given amy's worry that her and rory's baby might end up having 'a time head' because of her tardisposure?
― górecki's zygotic mynci (c sharp major), Saturday, 30 April 2011 22:34 (twelve years ago) link
OK so there must be weird shit ahoy if babby is conceived in the Tardis, but the pregnancy itself appears to be in a state of flux.
― a modest broposal (suzy), Saturday, 30 April 2011 22:38 (twelve years ago) link
Maybe she gave him some time head.
― offee is for losers only, do you not c? (Abbbottt), Saturday, 30 April 2011 23:01 (twelve years ago) link
she's schrodinger's baby
― Mordy, Saturday, 30 April 2011 23:04 (twelve years ago) link
LOVED this
― it always seems to have dick smith in it (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 1 May 2011 00:03 (twelve years ago) link
amy's child has a time head, obv....
― No pop, no style -- all simply (Viceroy), Sunday, 1 May 2011 01:54 (twelve years ago) link
damn i should try reading the thread first...
― No pop, no style -- all simply (Viceroy), Sunday, 1 May 2011 01:56 (twelve years ago) link
^ at last [xpost]
― wicked Nome King, brah (sic), Sunday, 1 May 2011 01:57 (twelve years ago) link
so the reason that ship in The Lodger was abandoned was because the humans rose up and killed The Silence, right?
― Gukbe, Sunday, 1 May 2011 02:12 (twelve years ago) link
I still think the proto-tardis in the lodger was something else, related tech but reconstructed by something other than The Silence. Honestly, I think Omega might be behind it but that's just a pet theory.
― No pop, no style -- all simply (Viceroy), Sunday, 1 May 2011 02:16 (twelve years ago) link
no, the Silence are still around, as per last episode at the lake
presumably their numbers have been thinned though
― wicked Nome King, brah (sic), Sunday, 1 May 2011 02:24 (twelve years ago) link
has this been posted? someone going through moments in the last season that the silence might be responsible for: http://westofserenity.tumblr.com/post/4444644536
― Mordy, Sunday, 1 May 2011 02:30 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6wczbYfip4
― Mordy, Sunday, 1 May 2011 02:34 (twelve years ago) link
okay I have no idea wtf happened but that was pretty exciting/scary/cool
still floating the idea that River is somehow Amys daughter. no idea how the fuck to even make it hold water, but it *sounds* cool, lol
although: I have to give a cockpunch to Moff for that sideways Tardis swimming pool bullshit.
― VegemiteGrrl, Sunday, 1 May 2011 06:19 (twelve years ago) link
so sad when River realized this was the last kiss she would ever share with the doctor b/c it was the first he had with her
― Mordy, Sunday, 1 May 2011 06:25 (twelve years ago) link
Alex Kingston is HOT btw
― it always seems to have dick smith in it (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 1 May 2011 06:28 (twelve years ago) link
oh yes, Dr. Elizabeth Corday
― Mordy, Sunday, 1 May 2011 06:30 (twelve years ago) link
TARDIS being reconfigurable has been a thing since at least 1980 and shown multiple times in the current series
― wicked Nome King, brah (sic), Sunday, 1 May 2011 06:55 (twelve years ago) link
Dont care, that one was DUMB
― VegemiteGrrl, Sunday, 1 May 2011 07:00 (twelve years ago) link
it was FUN
― wicked Nome King, brah (sic), Sunday, 1 May 2011 07:05 (twelve years ago) link
the one thing that really annoyed me about this on first watch [ :D ɐɥ ɐɥ obɐ sʎɐp ɹnoɟ] was that at the end of ep 1, the space suit was clearly one kid on another kid's shoulders, trying to look too grown up and tough to mess with - the clunky walk, the hands not being able to move - and this careful reading was proven INCORRECT
― I have some kind of staph infection, and the only prescription is IALEX (sic), Sunday, 1 May 2011 07:21 (twelve years ago) link
The whole thing seemed kind of like a big improv game, like someone else had made the trailer we saw last week with all the cool things in it--Doctor in a straitjacket with a beard (looking very like Jeremy Davies)! Walls with GET OUT written on them! Amy and Rory and River with writing all over them! River diving off a building!--and handed it to the people who make the actual programme and said "now get out of this in 45 minutes". So it was all a bit too frantic. Any one of those things on its own could have been the cool centrepiece image of a whole episode.
That said, I thought that Team Tardis gelled really well this episode. I'm not really looking forward to piratey hijinks next week, except that I always look forward to Hugh Bonneville.
― trishyb, Sunday, 1 May 2011 08:45 (twelve years ago) link
The writing-on-face device is exceptionally effective in cranking up the suspense. Amy would be mark-free, then she'd turn her head and turn back and her face would suddenly be covered in marks and you'd be OHHHH SHIIIIT
― it always seems to have dick smith in it (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 1 May 2011 08:54 (twelve years ago) link