Doctor Who

I was really unsure at first but I ended up enjoying it a lot. The silly amounts of badassery gave off some scary Davies-era finale vibes but I didn't feel nearly as ashamed afterward. Some genuinely wonderful moments. I especially loved the Doctor's big reveal. They dont' show him at all the first 20 minutes and then yippee! there he is!

River's identity was exactly what everyone thought but you know, I'm totally fine with it. If it had been anything else at this point it would have just seemed silly. And they did the reveal pretty wonderfully I thought. Though the part with the crib made me think for about 30 seconds that she might be the Doctor's mother. :shock: Glad that wasn't the case.

If we are now to believe that she was also the little girl (the time tot!) from "Day of the Moon", then that opens up a whole new can of worms.

Now that that's over with, let's kill Hitler! Why not!
 
Yeah, I thought about the mom aspect, too. Then the Doctor doing the kissy thing (hilarious) made it even creepier at the time. :lol:
 
You guys did watch past the credits, didn't you?

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The avi I downloaded cut it off but I did get a chance to see that. I'm just curious if it's only a reminder of what happened at the beginning of the season or actually teasing some new crazy twist. I'm assuming the former.
 
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So I caught A GOOD MAN GOES TO WAR and... well it was just plain awesome.

Firstly, the one thing I didn't care for was that River told them who she was. It kinda irked me because it just brings up a kind of, "well, why didn't she say sooner?" I really think the Doctor should've looked in the crib, sadly picked up the leaf-thingy and realised and then told Rory and Amy.

But I really am digging the reveal and it is insanely smart from a production point-of-view.

Think about it: River Song is part-Timelord. This means she can regenerate (which we know) which means other actresses can play her. River and the Doctor can show up any number of times and their affair can continue and they can interact with each other again and again with neither Matt Smith nor Alex Kingston. What's more, there's a lot to indicate that possibly Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill won't be in season seven. Another, brand new actress, can play River and be the Doctor's companion for season 7. It also means that previous Doctors could have met River Song and she didn't look like Kingston which is why the tenth Doctor didn't recognize her.

This is a terrific idea. River started off as someone who on the one hand, had a huge romance with the Doctor but we knew we'd only see half a dozen episodes with her, to a character who can reappear any number of times if you consider that River Song could be hundreds of years old. Very excited.

Also, while the smart money is that River is the astronaut that killed the Doctor ("A worse day is coming for me", "I killed the best man") I'm still not sure because of her genuine surprise. And Rory is now a real contender for "the best man" she ever knew. But if she killed the Doctor then it's a nice symmetry that she knew how the Doctor would die and the Doctor knew how she would die.

I can't wait to see how Madam Kovarian is related to the Silence and what the purpose of the suit is. Revealing River as their daughter really brings up a bunch more questions, and this is good. The good arcing-mystery series writers pay off their mysteries regularly because they know the best is yet to come. BABYLON 5 did it, and even HEROES did it for it's first two seasons. The Silence and Kovarian are still such enormous mysteries.

And of course... LET'S KILL HITLER.

It just can't get any better.

I was geeking horrendously at Heroes Con about the new DOCTOR WHO (even got a Matt Smith head sketch from Adam Hughes) and everyone is loving it.
 
River has already been played by three actresses; Kingston, the baby, and the little girl. If River regenerates and therefore, looks different, and if she's long-lived, say, up to 300 hundred years, it is completely possible for her to be played by other actresses. All we know is that Kingston starts in the Stormcage. That would mean that if Kingston plays River when she gets into the Stormcage, any time before she's imprisoned is fair game for other actresses, and if another actress is the River that gets imprisoned, then you can say she's been in the Stormcage for however long you want.

Considering Kingston's age and we know the Doctor meets her as a young girl (and he can't have a relationship with the Time Tot) it's entirely conceivable that there must be another actress to play the River the Doctor has a torrid love affair with. And that actress will be of companion age.
 
The Doctor's dead too.

But I'm sure a lot of stuff can happen in between the two.

Did you see how thick their diaries are?
 
Is that a euphemism?

As for the whole she could be a companion age and all that, I agree, it could be fantastic, brilliant and astounding, or it could fall flat on it's face. But that's life.

One thing you should remember or realize for the first time, female Timelords, according to the previous seasons, can regenerate how they want. It's been implied male's could as well, just never did or want too.
 
No, it's not a euphamism.

Also, I think Kingston performed the voice for the mainframe of the Headless Monks. If true, it's either a red herring or foreshadowing...
 
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I am currently watching old Doctor Who for the first time, inspired by the AV Club's new series on it. They are starting off with the first of each Doctor's stories, but I'm not sure if I'm going to personally stick with that. I've already skipped over "An Unearthly Child" (I'm sure I'll watch it at some point) and watched the next two, "Tomb of the Cybermen" and "Spearhead from Space". It's certainly a bit slow and the effects are obviously dated but I'm really amazed at how well the Doctor himself holds up. Troughton's Doctor is so clearly the same Doctor I've loved so much in the revived series, it's incredible. Moving on to Tom Baker's first stories tonight.
 
I'm waiting for something official from Moffat and/or the BBC.

EDIT: From Moffat's twitter –

Steven Moffat said:
Dr Who: misquotes and misunderstandings. But I'm not being bounced into announcing the cool stuff before we're ready. Hush, and patience.
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Moffatt has already said that there will be 14 episodes next season, and Matt Smith will be in all of them. "No full season" almost certainly means they'll be splitting those episodes between fall 2012 and spring 2013, like they're doing this season but starting later in the year. Just means it'll be a bit of a longer wait. It's the same reason they're splitting the season this year: the ratings apparently dropped last year in the second half of the season as it stretched into the summer. People have been responding to this news like they said the show was cancelled.
 
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