Alas, that's a fake.. Ryan Reynolds will be playing GL [link]

Damn! I had heard the Ryan Reynolds thing, and was hoping this was the real deal.

I've just seen Victory of the Daleks. I wonder if the colors were chosen to resemble bumper cars as a nod to their first appearance when the dalek city was a big bumper car track. I'm still liking the new series but this is the first episode I deleted immediately after watching while I'm still saving the other two. Next week- Alex Kingston, yay!

I'm pretty psyched about Ryan Reynolds as GL. I love Nathan Fillion, but I think he's outside the window.

DW: wow, they took Amy's fucked-up-ness and dialed it to eleven, didn't they? I saw none of that coming, and want to scream possession or something, because, well, beyond her being comfortable enough to ogle his naked ass, I saw no signs of infatuation up to this point. Room for the writers to take it there? Yeah, what with the childhood obsession and the adult hanging on to the dolls. But as for her actual adult interactions with the doctor? NSM.

Saw the US Who with the multicolored Daleks. I fully accept 11 as the Doctor, but I'm still kind of meh about him. I don't really dislike him, but he does kind of bore me. I was looking at the clock waiting for the end and I don't think I've ever done that before. Think Amy Pond is great though.

I wasnt sure if it was the fact that it was 11 or that it was the Daleks - again. I don't know why they don't just zap him out of existence when they see him. Okay, this bunch, yes because they needed him, but why didn't the progenitors just exterminate.

why didn't the progenitors just exterminate.

They were monologuing!

I do think the Dalek ep. was the weakest of the series so far. It gets better.

"Flesh and Stone": absolutely stonking ep. I was either on the edge of the sofa or behind it most of the time. I read a review saying it was weaker than Time of Angels but can't agree at all. Poor Amy with her eyes shut in the forest... yikes. When the Angels disappeared I did think myself thinking, "scary things running away, that's never good". Which is a Buffy quote, isn't it ?

Anyone else think that the man River kills is the Doctor? I thought that was quite heavily signposted .

Yes, Amy really is that messed up. I don't think she's actually that attracted to the Doctor as wanting to run away from the wedding, so to speak. Next week should be interesting .

My one reservation with the crack thing is that it makes Amy a bit too Donna-ish for my liking, sort of "it's been about you all along". But we'll see how it pans out .

Hey, Fullmetal Alchemist 2: Brotherhood is showing in English dubs on Adult Swim. Where do we discuss?

Guardian Liveblog of "Flesh and Stone":

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(Full of spoilers, obviously).

Contains this interesting observation in the comments:

4. She [River Song] didn't kill the doctor. Recall last week, she learnt to pilot the TARDIS from 'the best man [she] ever knew' and the doctor was 'busy that day' .

DW: I'm glad that they brought out the nature of the crack and its connection to Amy this early. Now the question isn't so much 'what is the crack?' but ' what caused it?' and 'what do we do about it?' The fact that reality is in danger of being erased makes me think of the Nothing in The Neverending Story in some ways.

To me, Amy's jumping the Doctor did not read as romantic attraction at all, but as a) another way of avoiding the wedding and b) an aftereffect of all the scary stuff she had just been through. I'm with Fiona in that I'm a little worried that this is turning out to make Amy like Donna 2.0, but so far, I'm inclined to trust Moffat to handle things well.

Ooh, Fiona, that is an interesting observation. Also, a friend of mine and I were talking about just that, and thought that Octavian's reactions to the Doctor and the nature of his threats to River would have been different if the Doctor had been the victim. Speaking of Octavian, his death scene was fabulous. Like the Doctor, I do wish we'd gotten to know him better.