I guess the Bonanza version was root cellaring?
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.
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Same with The Big Valley. Thrown from horse, drowned in river, shot by hitherto unknown enemy . . . Hooking up with a Cartwright or Barkley boy was fatal. Winchester love interests don't do too well, either.
Neither do Winchester friends, casual acquaintances or passing strangers. Get within 100 yards of a Winchester, and the odds of your dying in the next few seconds rise drastically. Of course if you are already in trouble, your odds of rescue also rise drastically.
Wow, I'm still amazed how Who can start these episodes that seem so throwaway and yet make them deeply significant to the series (I'm looking at you, way too many Xmas episodes). I wish we'd gotten a little more hint that Clara and Danny were that far along in a relationship, but still cool, and disturbing that she basically lied to him about what was going down.
I will say, beyond the Fridgey-nature of Sara's death, the other thing that bugs me is the way she seemed caught off guard at getting shot. You'd think a trained assassin in a universe where sufficiently badass people can catch arrows would be able to take some sort of effort to defend herself in the time someone she was looking directly at took to pull an arrow from a quiver, knock it, raise the bow and fire. (This is under the assumption that her reaction to seeing someone with bow already drawn and arrow knocked would not be to say "What are you doing here?") A bow is a big, obvious weapon if you're close enough to have a conversation.
I was pleasantly surprised by Who tonight, I really enjoyed it. It could be my love of the Orient Express.
I still don't like the crazy, absent minded, ruthless Doctor (the conversations with himself, etc.). Or the jilted boyfriend bit. But, more episodes like tonight's, I'm in.
the conversations with himself
That part threw me off. But I liked all his other curmudgeonly bits quite a bit.
Or the jilted boyfriend bit.
I'm suddenly envisioning a series of Who that's a cross between Who and Gone Girl. I'm not sure how I feel about that except I want to see a fic.
ETA - Oh, wait, wasn't that basically the last season with ALL the Ponds?
OK, watching Graham Norton and can someone explain to me why Hugh Grant looks almost no different than he did in Lair of the White Worm, apart from a few crinkles, and Peter Capalidi, who looked younger than Hugh in that movie by my recollection, now looks at least 10 years older? Portrait in the attic or what?
The comment someone made upthread about how old the last doctor's eyes were how young this one's are still applies. In fact I'm earwormed with a Dylan song:
I was so much older then.
I'm younger than that now.