so almost at the season ender then?

Yup. Done as of next Tuesday.

Bill Nighy was the museum docent.

OK, that makes a LOT more sense. Didn't recognize him there either, but at least I can connect him mentally.

i found some of the accents on that show hard to understand at times, but i still adore it. especially Sam.

Thank goodness for subtitles. Though sometimes I still have no idea what they're saying. I'm in the middle of episode 2 and totally in love but I already had a thing for Simm so it's not surprising.

"Do you remember people? You used to be one."

heh

The soundtrack is so very awesome but some of this stuff I had no idea went this far back. I can't believe Dark Side of the Moon is older than my roommate.

Sam is given messages by the girl off Test Card F, who comes out of the television with her clown doll. At the end of the series, she can also be seen running down the street and switching off the television from the inside. ("Ashes to Ashes" also refers to her with the clown motif.) The real life Test Card girl, Carole Hersee is estimated to have been on British television for 70,000 hours, equivalent to nearly eight years, and so is in the "Guinness Book of World Records" for the longest television appearance in history.

I pretty much echo everyone else on UK DW: I loved the causality-loop time-jumping ("I wear a fez now. Fezzes are cool."), I loved Amy in the Pandorica, I loved Rory waiting 2,000 years for her, I loved "Geronimo" for some reason, I LOVED that the jacketed Doctor in the Angels episode really WAS what everyone theorized, I somehow loved the shit out of "Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue," and I really loved that Moffat set up an actual multi-season arc.

I guess Rory's badge and the nineties cars really WERE just production errors, then? And I suppose we are to assume that the crack in time ate the ducks in the duck pond, just like it ate Amy's family?

Oh, that's a good one P-C. Yup, I think you're probably right.

US Doctor Who: Loved it! The actor who played Vincent was simply brilliant in the role.

A mini-guide to the artwork featured in the episode.

And Seven is my second-favorite Classic-era Doctor. He brought the mysterious and enigmatic side of the Doctor out in a really wonderful way. Also, he had Ace as his companion, who's in my top three Classic companions (with Tegan and Sarah Jane).

io9 reveiw of US Doctor Who:

Doctor Who proves that art and compassion both remain mysteries

The reviewer thinks this is the best episode of the season so far. And I totally agree with this:

And then there's the ending, which is one of the most amazingly brave things I've ever seen. It could so easily have been a horrible, cheesy disaster — the Doctor takes Van Gogh forward to the present, so he can see how much people come to admire him. But it doesn't feel cheap at all — it's the artist's ultimate dream come to life, being able to see yourself admired by strangers long after you're gone. A kind of immortality. I can't imagine watching the scene where Nighy explains Van Gogh's stature to the artist himself without getting choked up.

Matt Smith and Orbital, Glastonbury 2010.

Um, I love him?