DW 4.08

Another creepy as all get out episode, with a cliffhanger! Grrr. Don't wanna wait.

The time conundrum reminds me a little of the Time Traveler's Wife. The first time he meets his wife, she's been meeting him for ten years of her life. Her line is inexorably forward, while his is herky jerky. Any time she meets him, it will always be in her present. For him, it can be past or future, only tangentially his present, too.

Juliebird, I think you've got the right of it. She said at one point, let's compare diaries. It leads you to believe that while they know one another well, they don't live together. They have to have an external way of comparing timelines. Which also leads you to believe that she may know him as more than one of the Doctors. All future doctors to this one, but not this, not yet anyway.

Sail, I had the same literary thought. Which also makes me think that she's gonna die and he goes into whatever relationship they have knowing how it's going to end.

I think the little girl is not real, that her whole world is a construction. Although there's also the issue of the dude whose family built the thing, which is an odd connection if it's not significant.

Nice call on the biography section, Julie. It would make sense with the books on the shelves when Callie (this is what I'm calling the little girl) was messing with the VCR. And the record being "saving" someone.

On a prop note, I want a notebook like River's. It can replace my french fry one when it's full.

All the names are a bit literary, lyrical, literal, something.

Did anyone else watch Heatstroke? It had more than Wayne Pygram from Farscape but I have to say that I wasn't seeing DB Sweeney/Danica McKellar.

(I can't believe that the IMDB entry doesn't mention WP - he was all over the Sciffy ads for the movie, so much so that I was surprised that DB Sweeney was the actual star.)

Canadian preview for the next BSG.

TW coming back to BBC1 in Spring of 09 but is only greenlit for 5 hours:

"We've decided to do a five-part mini-series, one big story that will run during one week," says Gardner, adding, "I wanted to make a really big noise about the show."

Oh, I'll give her a big noise.

Huh. Is that in lieu of a third season? Is it not doing well? Or does that mean it is doing well? Television works differently over there.

That's their 3rd season.

wtf, Auntie Beeb? Five episodes? WTF?

I'm presently watching Torchwood Season 2, and enjoying it quite a lot. (Have just watched the episode with The Big DW Guest Star and The Unfortunate Ending.)

Cool DW 4x08 speculation from the TWoP thread: "You've got a brain the size of a planet, and suddenly you're all alone with little to do and nobody to talk to for a whole century. So you do what the Toclafane did: you regress yourself to a child, and transport yourself to 21st-century England--only for you, it's just a self-imposed virtual reality. It's a way to stay close to sane and close to happy.

"Now imagine you're building the library. Problem with a computer the size of a planet: how can you possibly maintain it? How can you make alterations, or fix problems? You'd need a really powerful diagnostic computer, and you'd need it to be nearby. So you hollow out a great big moon, build it inside that, and and put it in orbit.

"The diagnostic computer is simpler, and more stable. It's stayed aware of what's going on, but it let CAL have its fantasy. But now there are lives at stake, so it's projected an avatar of itself into CAL's world to gently pull it back to reality. Naturally, it came in the form of Dr. Moon, psychiatrist."