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Post by paulpogue on Aug 30, 2011 18:23:15 GMT -8
Much to my amusement, the jacket looks a lot like the one Matt was wearing during his public appearances last year, such as Glastonbury, where he seemed to be deliberately playing up "Doctor goes Punk" as his persona.
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Post by jensaltmann on Sept 7, 2011 11:23:43 GMT -8
Fun fact: I got curious and googled the search terms "Rory Williams Badass."
My blog comes up as the third option.
I'd been wondering why I got that many Google hits. Now I know.
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Post by michaelpaciocco on Sept 10, 2011 9:00:00 GMT -8
OK, so overall, Torchwood: Miracle Day got a little weak in the second half (episodes 7,8 and the first half of 9 were a bit thin), but I was thoroughly entertained (even if I thought one twist stretched credulity and another I saw coming). I give it a cautious recommendation (and I believe it superior to "Children of Earth" if that's any help).
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Post by jensaltmann on Sept 11, 2011 8:50:11 GMT -8
I'm beginning to wonder if Rory is being set up.
As I understand it, this season is supposed to reset the Doctor, to create a new status quo where he will no longer be the feared legend that he is now.
Which is where his death from this season't opening ties in, of course.
But the way they're setting up Rory as the fierce warrior, the Last Centurion... I'm beginning to wonder how much of that is the Doctor manipulating things so that, while the peoples of the universe will no longer run away in fear at the mention of his name...
... they will run at the mention of The Last Centurion.
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Post by jarddavis on Sept 11, 2011 17:53:58 GMT -8
Amy Pond seems to have one hell of a grasp regarding Temporal Mechanics in The Girl Who Waited. Not to mention being pretty inventive for someone who's born on Earth. Able to build her own Sonic Probe, as it were.
Here's the thing. The more and more this season, goes, I'll admit, I'm not sure where it's going, but as we've seen...
The Religious Organization after the Doctor, uses the Omega symbol as it's crest.
Amy and Rory's daughter can regenerate. Or at least... could.
Amy has always been at least as on par with the Doctor, in inventiveness. Her being the one whole actually saved the day a few times in the first season. And Rory is , of course... a bad ass.
But the more these two travel around with the Doctor, the more and more capable they seem to become. But also, they're both regularly demonstrating talents above and beyond what we would normally see from a companion of the Doctor. Or, at least any of the previous companions who weren't... well... Time Lords.
Which brings me back to the Religious organization hunting the Doctor. Which uses the Omega symbol. Omega being one of the great heroes of the Time Lords. Who helped give them Time Travel...
Now, this is just whimsy on my part... but considering this is a time travel show... it would be interesting to see if where Moffat is going with all this is that Amy and Rory are in fact The ORIGINAL time lords, and that River is, in fact, Omega. And the whole thing is one giant paradox.
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Post by paulpogue on Sept 12, 2011 3:38:35 GMT -8
Moffat's always played around with it a bit, but this week really drove home the whole "Man, the Doctor is a DICK" thing, didn't it?
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Post by jkcarrier on Sept 12, 2011 6:16:57 GMT -8
it would be interesting to see if where Moffat is going with all this is that Amy and Rory are in fact The ORIGINAL time lords, and that River is, in fact, Omega. And the whole thing is one giant paradox. Ooh...which would make Amy and Rory the two "shamed" Time Lords in "The End of Time"?  Of course, this business of creating time-duplicates gives the Doctor another possible out for surviving his "death" at Lake Silencio. I have to wonder if, as with "The Rebel Flesh", he actually landed on the planet deliberately, so he could study the technology and possibly make use of it. |
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Post by paulpogue on Sept 12, 2011 9:48:06 GMT -8
If Amy and Rory turn out to be the Weeping Angel Time Lords, it retroactively forgives EVERYTHING that was wrong about Rusty's run on Who.
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Post by jensaltmann on Sept 16, 2011 12:04:27 GMT -8
Some thoughts about The Girl Who Waits:
- Samurai Amy is as badass as Rory
- The Doctor had better be afraid. Because after this, I can't see how Rory will trust him anymore. There will always be at least a piece of resentment within Rory regarding what happened in this episode, and we all know that Rory is more badass than the Doctor. RORY REMEMBERS.
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Post by paulpogue on Sept 16, 2011 13:53:02 GMT -8
I'm not sure Rory entirely trusts him now.
Mind you, you'd think they would remember Rule Number One by now, given how many times it's been both said and proven.
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Post by michaelpaciocco on Sept 24, 2011 7:05:49 GMT -8
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Post by michaelpaciocco on Sept 25, 2011 6:33:41 GMT -8
And now, another of my insane theories.
I'm remembering a bit from Larry Niven/John Byrne's "Green Lantern: Ganthet's Tale" from when I was a kid. For those of you who have not read it or do not know of it, the big reveal is that the Guardians are lying fuckers (not a surprise from recent reveals, I know). However, this staggering lie is actually based on a rare moment of Guardian competence...
Alright, so the Guardians realize they have enemies, and that said enemies are A) Powerful, B) Smart, and C) have the potential to travel in Time (Because this is the DCU and that's something that apparently even 20th century humans can do, albiet it badly and/or accidentally). So the Guardians want to prep for the inevitability that some jackass might go back in time and wipe out their species while they were in caves, decide to create the iconic image of "the hand grasping the galaxy" that's such a major part of DC cosmology - creating the Illusion that the Guardians were the ACTUAL CREATORS of THE UNIVERSE. Now, that ends up backfiring (you can look up how), but the theory is sound enough....
Now, how does this apply to Doctor Who? Well, let's say you're a Dalek or a Cyberman or a Sontaran or whatever. Suddenly the Doctor shows up, and you really really really want to kill him. Sounds simple enough....
Except that you know when the Doctor dies. In fact, everyone knows. It's a fixed moment in Time, one of the inviolable moments that cannot be altered. So you know going in that the Doctor is going to live - he has to live in order to die then.
Tactical Advantage: The Doctor.
So maybe, just maybe, the Doctor is taking advantage of his supposed "death" - he'll simply use the Silence's conspiracy to afford him some additional tactical advantage while removing the darker aspects of his legend as a "warrior".
Just a thought.
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Post by jensaltmann on Oct 2, 2011 2:53:47 GMT -8
The season finale -- not entirely as expeced, which made it even better. I particularly liked the sequence on top of the pyramid.
River: "I couldn't let you die..."
Doctor: "River, I have to."
River: "Shut up. I couldn't let you die not knowing how loved you are by everyone in the universe."
Almost made me cry.
Plus: Rory ascending to a new level of badass.
Amy: "Captain Williams, the eyepatch might activate any moment."
Rory: "It already did, Ma'am."
Amy also levelling up in badass:
Amy: "River didn't get all of that from you."
The final question that must never be asked or answered:
[spoilers]
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Post by michaelpaciocco on Oct 2, 2011 3:53:24 GMT -8
Yep, a good season finale. Funny, poignant, and hey, it advances plot points!
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Post by jensaltmann on Oct 2, 2011 5:16:44 GMT -8
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