Doctor Who: The Impossible Astronaut
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eve11Yay, now I get to see/hear all the bits I missed at the screening! Including:
- "I thought it would taste more like the gums" -- a brit thing? Not gums like teeth and gums? Something else, I'm assuming.
- Right, my "be afraid of TV monsters" button must be broken, at least in Doctor Who. I guess Doctor Who monsters don't scare me. The silence are creepy but more mysterious than anything. The Weeping Angels startled me a bit in Blink but I was never really afraid of them. Odd, because when I was little I was afraid of every single monster in Scoobie Doo, I was afraid of watching Josie and the Pussycats (NO idea why), and I was terrified of Don Music from Sesame Street. But yeah, creepy guys in suits, okay. Perhaps it was all those years of being and X-phile. Mutations and grossness and twisting of the human body etc (The Fly, that one Big Finish audio with Seven, Ace and Benny)... those freak me out a bit, and the only Moffat monster that scared me was when the WWII Doctor turned into a gas-mask zombie; the grotesque aspect of it. The Silence: I want to know what their deal is, but I won't be hiding behind the sofa anytime soon.
- "It's okay, I know it's you." He points at the ground and then looks like he's resigning himself to being shot by the astronaut. ARG who is the astronaut? D says he thinks maybe the Doctor spawned off another alternate version of himself and he had to reconcile them somehow. I thought it might be River Song but if so then why would River shoot the astronaut and/or not know what was going on? Puzzly puzzle pieces here. And a heartwrenching scene all around. (Except for the fact that as the camera angles change you can see that the Doctor changes position--arm out then arm at his side--while dead. Bit of a glitch, that.)
- Mark Sheppard's Dad has just as cool of a voice as Mark Sheppard.
- Arg, burning pyre! Am so sad! And the music sounds so like the sad stuff at the end of Doomsday too, with the strumming pain base and the haunting singing. *wails*
- I really get the idea that the Doctor knows more than he's letting on here. First off, he's 909 or so he says, which is a year past what he was in series 5 right? He was 907. And I think he might have already known Canton Everett Delaware, or at least recognizes the name.
- "Hippie!" "Archeaologist." Ahahaha! And I love the way they transition between the TARDIS and the bar. Very smooth.
- Hey, the TARDIS can turn invisible! And it's canon apparently; the Doctor says it's been a long while since he's done it... as Patrick Troughton, in the Invasion, I believe.
- I LOVE the Oval Office scene to teeny tiny bits. Especially, "The legs, the nose, and Mrs. Robinson." And how he bangs his head into the invisible TARDIS, and how Delaware takes him down and "River make her blue again!" and "Do not compliment the intruder!" and well, all of it.
- Poor Peterson though. Totally outmatched.
- I love that he actually needs street level maps covering all of Florida, and a SWAT team. I figured that was just a throwaway line being as it's one we've seen from very early trailers :D
- "Also.... there's another lead I'm following." Oh Doctor, what do you really know about what's going on? Why do I get the feeling you've encountered Canton Everett Delaware III before?
- So much going on with memory in Moffat's world.
- "Your five minutes are up." "Yeah, and where's my fez?"
- Silents are creepier when you don't see them close up. Why does he blow up that lady? And is it just me or does she look like she's throwing her arms out in a regeneration-pose?
- "You will tell the Doctor what he must know, and what he must never know!" "How do you know about that?" Amy, Amy, Amy, why do I get the feeling that the pregnancy thing is the "thing the Doctor must never know," and not what happened by the lake? And why would a pregnancy be something the Doctor must never know? ARG, PUZZLE PIECES.
- "It's here! The Spaceman's here! It's gonna get me! It's gonna eat me!" WTF????
- "Lovely fellas. Two of them fancied me." Ha, I love name-dropping Doctor.
- "And Doctor Song, you've got that face on again." "What face?" "The 'He's hot when he's clever' face." "This is my normal face." "Yes it is." "Oh, shut up." "Not a chance." I love them so much!
- "Brave heart, Canton." :D "How long have Scotland Yard had this?" :D :D :D
- "life signs?" "Nothing that's showing up." "Those are the worst kind!"
- "I'm quite the screamer." At the screening the audience exploded into cheers at that. LOL we didn't even need the "there's a spoiler for you!" bit; didn't even hear it until I rewatched. And then, "I think he means the possible alien invasion..." Oh, Doctor. Don't flirt if you aren't going to back it up!
- Silents dress in suits but live in tunnels. Weird. They also have rather... um... phallic hands.
- "Hang on River. I'm coming too." Oh Rory. And yes, I am shallow, and yes his arms are hawt.
- River gets sick the same way Amy does. They are the only two. WTH? It's not a pregnancy that's making them sick? Or are they both preggers? Or ... or... what???
- "You and the Doctor; I can kind of picture it." And then there is a nice scene between Rory and River, but it invokes questions for me. Because, I don't think that River and the Doctor have been going exactly a back-to-front, timeline-wise. It doesn't make sense. Otherwise River wouldn't have to sync her diary all the time. And aside from the fact that in the Library ep she tells him he took her out right before then and gave her his sonic screwdriver and such (making me think that it's a future Doctor that does this but it can't be in the back-to-front line, unless Tennant did it the very next time he saw her, which I suppose is possible), and the idea that she needs a "spotter's guide" to distinguish between the different Doctors and is unnerved when he "goes all babyface on" her in Time of Angels. It makes me think that it is more complicated than back-to-front. I also think that something that is not strictly linear (be it reverse linear or regular linear) is more interesting anyway. And well, maybe in River's timeline now they are still going back to front, but will start skipping around later on in her timeline.
- "And I think it's going to kill me." This makes me wonder, is River some kind of memory bank or something? Is she somehow holding on to the Doctor's timeline so it can be re-made, like Amy kind of was at the end of the Big Bang. Obviously somehow we are going to have to undo the whole death of the Doctor, in order to you know, not kill the franchise. But the way she says it, there is the slightest hint there that maybe it's not an emotional thing. Or it's partly an emotional thing, but would River have ended up "killed" at the end of her timeline with the Doctor anyway? Hm. I am rambling. Most likely am wrong, of course. Curse you, Moffat.
- The Silents are building a TARDIS!!! That is the Lodger TARDIS. Yes it is. Of course neither Rory nor River were around in the Lodger to see it. Only the Doctor.
- Arg, something sneaking up on Rory! Aaaaa! What happened to him?
- "That's Classified." "Classified by whom?" "God knows." LOL Canton the FBI govvy would totally ask that. And the answer is NEVER SIMPLE.
- Amy gets sick again. What? Is it the kid? But the kid wasn't in the Oval office.
- Why does the Doctor look like he's seen the astronaut before? Maybe I'm reading into it. But there is a puzzle piece missing. A few of them. What did Amy and Rory do in those 2 months? Why would it be important that the Doctor know Amy's preggers? What was the Doctor doing in tracking down the Silents for possibly an entire year, and then possibly also running from them for 200? Why do I get the feeling that this mystery is going to go back farther than we might originally think?
I had to wait a whole 15 minutes or so to watch part 2. Not envying you all a week.
- "I thought it would taste more like the gums" -- a brit thing? Not gums like teeth and gums? Something else, I'm assuming.
- Right, my "be afraid of TV monsters" button must be broken, at least in Doctor Who. I guess Doctor Who monsters don't scare me. The silence are creepy but more mysterious than anything. The Weeping Angels startled me a bit in Blink but I was never really afraid of them. Odd, because when I was little I was afraid of every single monster in Scoobie Doo, I was afraid of watching Josie and the Pussycats (NO idea why), and I was terrified of Don Music from Sesame Street. But yeah, creepy guys in suits, okay. Perhaps it was all those years of being and X-phile. Mutations and grossness and twisting of the human body etc (The Fly, that one Big Finish audio with Seven, Ace and Benny)... those freak me out a bit, and the only Moffat monster that scared me was when the WWII Doctor turned into a gas-mask zombie; the grotesque aspect of it. The Silence: I want to know what their deal is, but I won't be hiding behind the sofa anytime soon.
- "It's okay, I know it's you." He points at the ground and then looks like he's resigning himself to being shot by the astronaut. ARG who is the astronaut? D says he thinks maybe the Doctor spawned off another alternate version of himself and he had to reconcile them somehow. I thought it might be River Song but if so then why would River shoot the astronaut and/or not know what was going on? Puzzly puzzle pieces here. And a heartwrenching scene all around. (Except for the fact that as the camera angles change you can see that the Doctor changes position--arm out then arm at his side--while dead. Bit of a glitch, that.)
- Mark Sheppard's Dad has just as cool of a voice as Mark Sheppard.
- Arg, burning pyre! Am so sad! And the music sounds so like the sad stuff at the end of Doomsday too, with the strumming pain base and the haunting singing. *wails*
- I really get the idea that the Doctor knows more than he's letting on here. First off, he's 909 or so he says, which is a year past what he was in series 5 right? He was 907. And I think he might have already known Canton Everett Delaware, or at least recognizes the name.
- "Hippie!" "Archeaologist." Ahahaha! And I love the way they transition between the TARDIS and the bar. Very smooth.
- Hey, the TARDIS can turn invisible! And it's canon apparently; the Doctor says it's been a long while since he's done it... as Patrick Troughton, in the Invasion, I believe.
- I LOVE the Oval Office scene to teeny tiny bits. Especially, "The legs, the nose, and Mrs. Robinson." And how he bangs his head into the invisible TARDIS, and how Delaware takes him down and "River make her blue again!" and "Do not compliment the intruder!" and well, all of it.
- Poor Peterson though. Totally outmatched.
- I love that he actually needs street level maps covering all of Florida, and a SWAT team. I figured that was just a throwaway line being as it's one we've seen from very early trailers :D
- "Also.... there's another lead I'm following." Oh Doctor, what do you really know about what's going on? Why do I get the feeling you've encountered Canton Everett Delaware III before?
- So much going on with memory in Moffat's world.
- "Your five minutes are up." "Yeah, and where's my fez?"
- Silents are creepier when you don't see them close up. Why does he blow up that lady? And is it just me or does she look like she's throwing her arms out in a regeneration-pose?
- "You will tell the Doctor what he must know, and what he must never know!" "How do you know about that?" Amy, Amy, Amy, why do I get the feeling that the pregnancy thing is the "thing the Doctor must never know," and not what happened by the lake? And why would a pregnancy be something the Doctor must never know? ARG, PUZZLE PIECES.
- "It's here! The Spaceman's here! It's gonna get me! It's gonna eat me!" WTF????
- "Lovely fellas. Two of them fancied me." Ha, I love name-dropping Doctor.
- "And Doctor Song, you've got that face on again." "What face?" "The 'He's hot when he's clever' face." "This is my normal face." "Yes it is." "Oh, shut up." "Not a chance." I love them so much!
- "Brave heart, Canton." :D "How long have Scotland Yard had this?" :D :D :D
- "life signs?" "Nothing that's showing up." "Those are the worst kind!"
- "I'm quite the screamer." At the screening the audience exploded into cheers at that. LOL we didn't even need the "there's a spoiler for you!" bit; didn't even hear it until I rewatched. And then, "I think he means the possible alien invasion..." Oh, Doctor. Don't flirt if you aren't going to back it up!
- Silents dress in suits but live in tunnels. Weird. They also have rather... um... phallic hands.
- "Hang on River. I'm coming too." Oh Rory. And yes, I am shallow, and yes his arms are hawt.
- River gets sick the same way Amy does. They are the only two. WTH? It's not a pregnancy that's making them sick? Or are they both preggers? Or ... or... what???
- "You and the Doctor; I can kind of picture it." And then there is a nice scene between Rory and River, but it invokes questions for me. Because, I don't think that River and the Doctor have been going exactly a back-to-front, timeline-wise. It doesn't make sense. Otherwise River wouldn't have to sync her diary all the time. And aside from the fact that in the Library ep she tells him he took her out right before then and gave her his sonic screwdriver and such (making me think that it's a future Doctor that does this but it can't be in the back-to-front line, unless Tennant did it the very next time he saw her, which I suppose is possible), and the idea that she needs a "spotter's guide" to distinguish between the different Doctors and is unnerved when he "goes all babyface on" her in Time of Angels. It makes me think that it is more complicated than back-to-front. I also think that something that is not strictly linear (be it reverse linear or regular linear) is more interesting anyway. And well, maybe in River's timeline now they are still going back to front, but will start skipping around later on in her timeline.
- "And I think it's going to kill me." This makes me wonder, is River some kind of memory bank or something? Is she somehow holding on to the Doctor's timeline so it can be re-made, like Amy kind of was at the end of the Big Bang. Obviously somehow we are going to have to undo the whole death of the Doctor, in order to you know, not kill the franchise. But the way she says it, there is the slightest hint there that maybe it's not an emotional thing. Or it's partly an emotional thing, but would River have ended up "killed" at the end of her timeline with the Doctor anyway? Hm. I am rambling. Most likely am wrong, of course. Curse you, Moffat.
- The Silents are building a TARDIS!!! That is the Lodger TARDIS. Yes it is. Of course neither Rory nor River were around in the Lodger to see it. Only the Doctor.
- Arg, something sneaking up on Rory! Aaaaa! What happened to him?
- "That's Classified." "Classified by whom?" "God knows." LOL Canton the FBI govvy would totally ask that. And the answer is NEVER SIMPLE.
- Amy gets sick again. What? Is it the kid? But the kid wasn't in the Oval office.
- Why does the Doctor look like he's seen the astronaut before? Maybe I'm reading into it. But there is a puzzle piece missing. A few of them. What did Amy and Rory do in those 2 months? Why would it be important that the Doctor know Amy's preggers? What was the Doctor doing in tracking down the Silents for possibly an entire year, and then possibly also running from them for 200? Why do I get the feeling that this mystery is going to go back farther than we might originally think?
I had to wait a whole 15 minutes or so to watch part 2. Not envying you all a week.
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Date: 2011-04-25 01:45 am (UTC)