The introduction was very fun. And the Sontaran movie etiquette video!
I want this before every movie!
My monocular vision is well known and I have to say that the 2D presentation was plenty swoopy enough to make me queasy.
We use the latest in scientific technology and state-of-the-art weaponry and you, if I understand correctly, poke them with a sharp stick.
Dr. Walsh ,'Potential'
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.
beekaytee - Nov 26, 2013 1:13:49 pm PST #24014 of 30001
Compassionately intolerant
billytea - Nov 26, 2013 1:38:53 pm PST #24015 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
The introduction was very fun. And the Sontaran movie etiquette video!
I've just gone back and started watching the Jenna-Louise Coleman adventures, including the Christmas special. Strax is hilarious, and if I hadn't just changed my tagline, I would be tagging him right now. "I have declared war on the Moon!"
aurelia - Nov 26, 2013 8:51:44 pm PST #24016 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
I want one!
Oh, *that's* what I left off my wish list!
Toddson - Nov 27, 2013 9:02:39 am PST #24017 of 30001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Sleepy Hollow: during the Katrina giving birth scene I expected something awful to happen - kind of Rosemary's Baby horrible. And I was expecting the kind abolitionist to turn out to be nothing of the sort - that maybe all the happy employees were actually being kept in place and on the job with either black magic or physical punishment.
It was kind of disconcerting to see none of that.
Connie Neil - Nov 27, 2013 9:40:07 am PST #24018 of 30001
brillig
Good people doing good! What mad plot twists will they come up with next!
Toddson - Nov 27, 2013 9:41:51 am PST #24019 of 30001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
But the good abolitionist got killed by the tree-demon, so I guess my worst expectations weren't completely unfulfilled.
Connie Neil - Nov 27, 2013 9:43:08 am PST #24020 of 30001
brillig
Well, tree-demon was playing Angry Birds on the house, so he was able to get in.
People! When constructing your Keep The Evil Out hexes, don't depend on easily breakable materials!
Theodosia - Nov 27, 2013 9:47:17 am PST #24021 of 30001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
A chainsaw would have cleared that up right fast.
Matt the Bruins fan - Nov 27, 2013 11:25:45 am PST #24022 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I was kind of laughing about Abbie using her gun against the tree demon. The axe was much more sensible!
§ ita § - Nov 27, 2013 4:20:31 pm PST #24023 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I thought this an interesting article about Moffat's lack of understanding of grief and its impact on Who. He does indeed have a lot of hysterically upset people, but not that many dead ones. And when it comes to the impact of resurrection, Kripke's got him in volume * impact, and Whedon's got him on just sheet gutpunch. I think I spend more time going WTF than thinking "that was a cruel and unusual resurrection that is affecting the show's plot and/or characters".
I know things will resettle the further I get from the article (that's the problem with Who--I have awful recency impact), but it does kinda read like the costs are being refunded as he goes. Not hard to think that after this weekend.
What is the price beyond "Some of mes have to not know the truth" and "Now I have to go find them!!!"? Per person, that's really cheap. But doesn't add extra sobs to re-viewing of Nine, which would be my favourite outcome. Maybe if Clara had bit it...or something.
Recency. I need to try and remember the episode better. I did kinda think "that turned out well!" which should be less and less what I think of new Who. When the Ponds were sent back irretrievably in time, my main reaction was "STOP WHINING, TIME LORD."
Huh. I feel I'm catching up with people.