Rory is just the best.
Two steaming cups of chocolate goodness. Courtesy of whomever I swiped it from out of the cupboard.
Ben ,'The Killer In Me'
Boxed Set, Vol. V: Just a Hint of Denial and a Dash of Retcon
A topic for the discussion of Doctor Who, Arrow, and The Flash. Beware possible invasions of iZombie, Sleepy Hollow, or pretty much any other "genre" (read: sci fi, superhero, or fantasy) show that captures our fancy. Expect adult content and discussion of the Big Gay Sex.
Marvel superheroes are discussed over at the MCU thread.
Whitefont all unaired in the U.S. ep discussion, identifying it as such, and including the show and ep title in blackfont.
Blackfont is allowed after the show has aired on the east coast.
This is NOT a general TV discussion thread.
Dana - Aug 27, 2011 7:03:03 pm PDT #17901 of 30001
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
tommyrot - Aug 27, 2011 7:26:58 pm PDT #17902 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Anyone else find that animated AT&T Doctor Who thing annoying?
chrismg - Aug 28, 2011 8:38:51 am PDT #17903 of 30001
"...and then Legolas and the Hulk destroy the entire Greek army." - Penny Arcade
So, I'm slightly iffy on the latest Who, but I did realize a couple things:
First, the reason things concluded that way? was to close off the possibility of regeneration energy shenanigans being the solution to the Doctor's death. We've seen it do crazy stuff before, and Moffat knew the fans would be bugging him about that.
Second, I'm now less sure about River/Melody being in the spacesuit at Lake Silencio. It doesn't seem to fit her timeline now, with her working out the "kill the Doctor" compulsion Mara Jade-style. Unless the Silence capture her and put her back in the spacesuit after when we see her here.
What if the Silence and Mme. Kovarion knew when and where and how the Doctor died, and tried to set it up so they were responsible?
DebetEsse - Aug 28, 2011 8:47:56 am PDT #17904 of 30001
Woe to the fucking wicked.
I would also say, chris, that it was necessary to make the library episodes work, otherwise River would have been able to regenerate, rather than be trapped in the mainframe (Can I just say that, knowing her now, that seems like a fairly awful fate? The Doctor is really good at saving people in really horrible-for-them ways. Guilt, indeed.)
The person in the space suit was clearly a little girl, so it can't be after this in her timeline, since she can't regenerate again.
I think The Question will end up being important. Not sure how, yet. If The Answer After The Silence is 42, I believe that that will not, in fact, be awesome.
Polter-Cow - Aug 28, 2011 8:49:36 am PDT #17905 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
The person in the space suit was clearly a little girl
The person in the space suit in Florida was clearly a little girl (Melody). The person in the space suit at Lake Silencio, we never saw.
DebetEsse - Aug 28, 2011 9:43:16 am PDT #17906 of 30001
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Ooooh, fair point.
chrismg - Aug 28, 2011 10:37:46 am PDT #17907 of 30001
"...and then Legolas and the Hulk destroy the entire Greek army." - Penny Arcade
Also, if the Doctor couldn't survive by regenerating(which was explicitly stated), likely River couldn't either.
Juliebird - Aug 28, 2011 1:17:04 pm PDT #17908 of 30001
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
Would Divine discussion belong here?
At 10 EST tonight a new web series begins. Stars (co-stars?) Misha Collins. Sounds like there's supernatural elements.
Kate P. - Aug 28, 2011 4:21:25 pm PDT #17909 of 30001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Wow. I don't quite know how I feel about that episode of Doctor Who. A whole lot of WTF moments, but not much that adds up to real character development or forwarding of the plot. I did kind of like that they just left Hitler in a closet.
DebetEsse - Aug 28, 2011 4:37:57 pm PDT #17910 of 30001
Woe to the fucking wicked.
I think it might have been that the writers wanted to get off of the Melody-River plotline, so they needed to wrap this section of that up in one episode (Find Melody! Oh, we did. And now she's grown up and needs her space...'kay...). That way, they can go have other adventures.
That they put themselves there in the first place is a whole other thing.
I also have deeply mixed feelings about the choices they made around the inter-racial regeneration.