Friday, December 31, 2010

The best fan video I have seen in a long long time.

This video, to me, is on a par with the Tenth Doctor's Musical, which you should watch if you haven't already.

I may be hugely biased because they used "This is Gallifrey", which is my favourite soundtrack song EVER, but...just watch.

Happy New Year.

Monday, December 27, 2010

In which I review A Christmas Carol: the Series 5 Christmas Special

Christmas just wouldn't be Christmas without the TARDIS. Last night I got my (poncho-wearing) boys over, put a fresh log on the fire, lit up the Christmas tree and took a trip with the Doctor on my new HD TV. And, of course, here are my thoughts on our evening in Sardicktown.

SPOILERS BEWARE THERE BE SPOILERS IN THESE WATERS

THIS IS A SPOILER SHARK




Long story short: I liked it. 7/10.

Short story long: It started off with a bang. I squeed SO HARD when I saw the Trek-ish bridge and the special effects. Not only was it amazing to finally get to watch DW on an honest-to-God TV (as opposed to my 13" MacBook) but the effects themselves far outmatched any I've ever seen on the show. 

So the beginning was great - we saw a crashing ship, "Come along Pond", and a brilliantly bitter Dumbledore Michael Gambon as Scrooge. And then it got slow. Maybe it's just because I was watching it with commercial breaks for the first time, but the urgency of the crashing ship just didn't cut it while the Doctor was off gallivanting through Christmas Eve after Christmas Eve and gabbling on about pretty fishies. Amy and Rory on a burning space liner just seemed so disconnected from the Doctor's romps through Kazran's past. Not saying this is a bad thing per se - Christmas specials are not supposed to have the same suspenseful vibe as regular episodes, anyway - but it just seemed weird and peripheral to the entire story.

Speaking of which, the story itself was paper-thin in places. Obviously the Christmas Carol theme took precedence over any timey-wimey stuff, but still - the Doctor rewriting memories as the present Kazran remembers them? I mean, the duality of the timelines gave me a headache in itself. And how ethical is it exactly for the Doctor to just decide to do that to someone? I mean, can you imagine what it must be like to have someone changing your memories at this second, knowing there's nothing you can do about it? Yes, it was to save his humanity and the 4003 people on the ship. But...maybe I'm reading too much into this, but I don't like that.

Also, the ending of the story was obvious from a mile off. Abigail can sing, the space fishies like singing, singing helps stabilize the cloud layer and save the ship, therefore Abigail has to come out one last time and sing to save the ship. 

Alsoalso, what on Earth (or what on Sardicktown) happened to the whole don't-touch-yourself-from-another-point-in-your-own-timeline thing? I know the Moff ignores a lot of RTD's canon, but seriously, we all remember this:

GODDAMMIT ROSE
But these are all picky critiques. At the end of the day, I liked it. It was chock-full of great lines ("900 years of time and space and I never met someone who wasn't important"), it was Christmassy as a Yule log warming by the fire next to a pine tree, and the Christmas Eves with Kazran and Abigail were very sweet. 

Things I liked: 
- "Mommy, why are Amy and Rory in costumes?" "They're...they're just playing games, darling." "What kind of games?" "Er...grownup games."
- Space shark. Nuff said.
- Katherine Jenkins. Mediocre acting at best, but she tried well and was very sweet. Great voice, too.
- Young Kazran. Hello.
- The Doctor marrying Marilyn Monroe.
- "It’s either kiss her or go and design a new kind of screwdriver. Don’t make my mistakes.”
- Special effects, obviously.
- Michael Gambon in a very obvious fake moustache.
Things I disliked:
- Does it always have to be father issues?
- Yes, we know Abigail's going to have some tragedy. No really, we do. No really, you do not have to keep hammering that in.
- Jesus, Doctor, I love your one-liners, but you could talk a wee bit slower and not make me hunt through Megavideo for all the quotes I missed.
- Not enough Pond.
Overall: 7/10
Best Christmas special of the lot, nice and cozy, looking forward SO HARD TO SERIES 6 LIKE YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW.

Hope you all had a very Merry Smithmas!

Saturday, December 25, 2010

MERRY SMITHMAS EVERYONE

AND A TENNANTY NEW YEAR

OR SOMETHING


I will blag about the Christmas Special tomorrow.

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

A big fat River Song speculation post.

River goddamn Song. What a frustratingly enigmatic woman. I love her, I really do, but every time she says "Spoilers!" in that sing-song voice, I want to...well, I want to speculate for another two hours, really. 

I love this gif.


So that's what I do.

Here, in no particular order, are my thoughts on a bunch of different River Song fan theories that I've picked up on the Pointless Waste of Time forum, the Digital Spy forum, and other places. (Yes, I'm a dork.)

1). River Song is the Doctor's wife.

 I've started with the most obvious one, which (to me) means that it has to be the least likely one. This theory has been bandied around so much that Amy even jokes about it in Series 5: "Are you two married in the future? She's very...'heel, boy'". Well, River may be very 'heel, boy', but unless the Moff likes to indulge in some pretty convoluted reverse psychology, I highly doubt this is actually it.

That doesn't preclude the possibility of River and the Doctor getting their smooches on, though. I mean, really...

Come on now.
2). River Song is a later regen of the Doctor.

Unless the Doctor becomes enough of a narcissist to be attracted to himself - and, to be honest, that's not entirely impossible - I wouldn't put money on this.  And it's not just because of the romancey stuff (eww cooties). I dunno, I don't think the Doctor would have a female regeneration at all. A lot of fans seem to want that, but...he doesn't show any signs of being from a hermaphroditic species, and a lot of his experiences are uniquely male (read: Rose). 

I wouldn't mind seeing a female Time Lord sometime though. I keep hearing about the Rani - how about we see some of her?

3). River Song is Amy from the future.

Now this one I do like. The big clue that a lot of people seem to focus on is the aquatic theme of both their names: "River" Song, Amy "Pond". When River first meets Amy in Time of the Angels, she says "Oh, you are good" - she seems to have a high degree of respect and awareness of Amy as a companion, more than she ever had in her interaction with Donna. Amy's and the Doctor's ambiguously pseudo-romantic bits (basically Amy wanting to bone him, not marry him) could very well fit with River's wifey-but-not-really vibe. 

And - this is my favourite bit - this would explain my one big problem with the end of Big Bang, where River gave Amy her TARDIS diary, even though she wouldn't have remembered the Doctor/met Amy/known why the blankness of the diary was significant at all. Because if River is Amy, then she's special, and she has the power to remember the Doctor. Sure, there would be another couple tiny holes, but I'd be satisfied with wibbley-wobbley timey-wimey for those.

Also, read the text under Amy's picture. River can fly the TARDIS even better than the Doctor can.

God damn, the more I think about this the more I like it. If I'm right YOU READ IT HERE, FOLKS.

Cue the timeline-crossing slashfic.
4). River Song is the Doctor's daughter.

Refer to #1 and add a big "EWWWWWWW".

5). River Song is the Doctor's mother.

Refer to #1 and add a big "NO NO NO".

6). River Song is a personification of the TARDIS.

Now this is interesting. I came across this on Digital Spy and had to blink and read again, because my first instinct was "LOLWUT". Then I read this:

"The Tardis is female. The Doctor talks to it like a wife or partner. (Thanks dear). When Churchill calls the Tardis, River gets the call.
River knows more about how the Tardis works than the Doctor (blue boringers)" (from a Digital Spy forum member)

Obviously I can't take credit for any speculation about this, but it does make a strange kind of sense. There are alternate explanations for every statement up there, but still. I like it a hell of a lot more than "River is the Doctor's daughter/wife", anyway. Yeuch. 

What do you think? Did I miss out anything?

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Brighly coloured socks.

As part of my annoyingly enthusiastic countdown to the Christmas Special (five days till it airs in Canada, folks!) here are some interviews with Matt Smith (the Doctor), Karen Gillan (Amy), Katherine Jenkins (Abigail), and Arthur Darvill (Rory) of A Christmas Carol. Courtesy of Doctor Who TV.

PS - Just TRY and tell me that Karen Gillan is not the most adorable thing. Seriously, she is my new girl crush.

Enjoy!





Arthur Darvill's text interview can be found here.

Sunday, December 19, 2010

Get your tissues out.

50 reasons to ship the (Tenth) Doctor and Rose:

1-25 

26-50 

My personal favourite?

"33.  The first and the last smiles that the tenth Doctor ever gives are both to Rose.  When he first comes into the world, Rose is by his side, and will remain there as long as she possibly can, and he smiles blissfully at her.  Because even in his new body, he loves her to pieces.  Then, when knows he’s dying, he visits all of the people he cared about in this body.  But Rose is lost, Rose is happy, Rose is in a parallel universe without him yet still with him.  He wouldn’t upset her happiness even if he could, but he still couldn’t die without seeing her one final time.  So, as his last trip before he falls, he goes to see Rose before she even knew him.  He loves her so much that, despite how heartbreaking is it for him, he has to see some version of Rose, any version of Rose, before he dies.  And he smiles at her.  The last thing he does before he goes is smile.  And the last smile that those lips ever form is at Rose."

Also: For #40, if you don't see it, look in the lower right corner.
I think I'll just weep silently into my study notes now.

(reposted from Whospam)

WHAT IS THIS CREATION I MUST HAVE IT NOW

A Who fan on Youtube created this absolutely pants-melting mashup of Doctor Who and Star Wars:




I have to say, the sight of the Doctor wielding a lightsaber made me pass out for a moment due to sheer fansqueecitement. DEAR GOD I WOULD WATCH THIS, I WOULD WATCH THIS SO HARD.

Friday, December 17, 2010

Test your new Who knowledge.

I got 71/73. Can you beat me? And which are the ones you missed?

(I'm extremely ashamed to say I missed Blink and The Doctor's Daughter.)

Anyway, if you're like me and want to avoid work at all costs, take this Sporcle quiz.

And don't forget to tell me what you got in the comments!

Season's greetings from the best people.

Words cannot express how much I love this. 

Also, Karen Gillan sounds like she's got quite the set of pipes, doesn't she? When she's not trying to be awful, obviously.

Alsoalso, Arthur Darvill can work those keys.

Alsoalsoalso, Matt Smith...is Matt Smith.

Enjoy.



(thanks Pidge!)

Thursday, December 16, 2010

What I meant by gratuitous.

I love each and every last one of you who read this, including the one person in Guernsey (do you know where Guernsey is? I didn't, until I looked at my stats and Googled it) who probably just stumbled on here from "Next Blog" and kept right on going.

So I feel bad that I haven't posted in 48 hours. What can I say, nothing can dampen the spirit of a rabid Whovian but finals.

If you've seen my About page you know where this is going.


Yes.

Also, speaking of my About page, there is a distinction I made there that I feel compelled to explain, steeped as it is in gender stereotypes (sorry).

Fanboy (n): A geek about the subject (TV show, movie, book, etc.) in particular who knows random bits of trivia and yells at the screen about minor continuity errors.

Fangirl (n): Someone who is a fan of the subject (TV show, movie, book etc.) simply because of a physical infatuation with one of the characters.

So for example, if I go "WHAT WHY ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT THE DUCKS YOU KNOW THEY HAVE TO COME BACK IN SERIES 6 AS THE MONSTERS BECAUSE THEY WERE NEVER SATISFACTORILY EXPLAINED IN THIS EPISODE", that is a fanboyish thing to say. If I go "ASJDFKL;AJSDFKL; TENNANT'S ARSE I WANT IT IN MY PUDDING CUP WITH A STRAW", that is a fangirlish thing to say.

This may not be very coherent but I was discussing this with my housemate the other day.

Anyway, I promise there's a real post coming soon. I have it all planned out and everything. I just need to piss away my life on microeconomics and international relations review first.

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

3 clips from A Christmas Carol.

From the wonderful people, again, at Doctor Who TV.

This is looking awesome so far. I can't tell you how excited I am to sit at home with a mug of hot chocolate and my best friend and watch Doctor Who - for the first time - on an actual, honest-to-God, bigger-than-a-13-inch-laptop TV.

Yes it's gonna have commercial breaks...and yes, the American version (which is the best I get, being in Canada and all) will apparently be "trimmed" to fit US viewing time standards. But still. 

Anyway, here you go!

 





Monday, December 13, 2010

Preview and clip of A Christmas Carol.

Doctor Who + the bridge of a spaceship that looks rather Trekkie = COMPLETE NERDBONER FANGASM

And of course Scrooge is going to be "the big important person who saves the world".




(Via Doctor Who TV)

Sunday, December 12, 2010

HOW DID NO ONE THINK OF THIS.


SERIOUSLY, HOW.

(Reposted from fuckyeahdrwho

PS. I am so sorry for the concentration of 4chan in this post. Let me make up for it with some dancing Ood.


PPS. I just wanted an excuse to include that gif, actually. 

The true origins of the Sontarans.

I never even saw it coming.

 

Saturday, December 11, 2010

In which I rant about the Daleks.

I've been wondering how to phrase this. For a while I thought I was just experiencing different little bits and pieces of dissatisfaction, but I just rewatched the Series 1 finale recently and it made me feel fear - true fear - of the Daleks. Which I then realized was something I have not felt in a LONG time, and that means there is something wrong here.

So here I'm going to try and articulate my growing distaste for the Daleks as Who villains, which runs slightly deeper than the whole "taste the rainbow of extermination!" shit that's been bugging pretty much every Who fan I know.

Though, valid reason for Dalekhate is valid.
Now, I don't know anything much about the old Who and how they portrayed the Daleks, but my first introduction to them was in the series 1 episode of new Who, "Dalek". 

GODDAMMIT ROSE
 Just look at that manipulative motherfucker. It reads her in an instant and sees that she's a sappy, weak little human whose sympathies can be played on in order to get her timey-wimey power and blast its way out of its prison. And yes, okay, it did spare her life later on, but only in exchange for its own release. 

Being a new Who fan, and not knowing anything about the Daleks, my first introduction - the blue light glowing in the darkness, the ever-compassionate Doctor's almost maniacal glee at seeing this creature powerless and imprisoned - packed a hell of a punch. What creature could be so evil that even the Doctor would kill it before thinking twice? I was hooked. (It probably helped that I'm a huge fan of the Borg, so the whole I AM A CREATURE WITHOUT EMOTION I NEED ORDERS TO KILL really helped my nerdboner.)

So time went on, and I knew that for all its "last Dalek in the universe omfg" plot device crap, we'd see the Daleks again in some form or other. And I was excited. Sure enough, Series 1 saw their return with a heart-pounding finale that took all the menace of that one lone Dalek, multiplied it by an entire fleet, and added a chillingly insane Emperor into the mix.

"HAIL THE DOCTOR, THE GREAT EXTERMINATOR!"
The Daleks of the fleet were already killing left, right and centre. Just the sight of their little red figures moving up decks on the computer screen was enough to make my palms sweaty. And then you have this fuck you to organized religion insane leader with delusions of glory that still knows how to push the Doctor's buttons, to make him squirm over his own conscience. See, that's what made the Daleks great villains. They knew the Doctor better than his heroic companions ever could, and they reached inside him and twisted his goddamn hearts until he bled. When the Doctor fought the Daleks, he fought himself. 

Then Rose and the great deus ex machina - I mean TARDIS heart - saved the day, but whatever. You knew they'd find a way to come back; no villain that great gets beaten that easily.

And sure enough, yup, the Series 2 finale had them. Except they were...fighting the Cybermen? Okay, sure. And they had a weird spinoff cult? All right. And an Ark that could release a Dalek army? Okay.

And that was the problem. That's when they started being "okay". The first big problem, I think, were the names. You can't give a Dalek a name; what makes them terrifying is that they are nameless. And then you can't go the opposite route, and make them supremely nameless as an entire battle fleet whizzes out one little machine, because then it's just a CGI swarm. Sure, the fleet in the Series 1 finale was a CGI swarm as well, but there was a large group of them that interacted with the Doctor, so you got that whole interplay. Here, your brain was just telling you "look, it's just another big sci-fi army that goes pew pew and makes shit blow up". So I just settled back to watch the fireworks. They didn't hold any individual terror for me - if anything, the shit-my-pants award for that episode went to the Cybermen. But that's a story for a different post.

I'm not going to dwell on Series 3, partly because Martha is a useless sack of expressionless nothing and because we had this, which I think speaks for itself:

NO.
So...that happened. And then this happened:

*flail* *gigglemumble* *tentacleflick*
 And all the while, the Daleks went from "terrifying" to "ridiculous". I think the show even started to realize that, with Donna sending all the Daleks spinning like bumper cars in the Series 4 finale. They became a joke with every additional misguided attempt to give them "depth" and "soul". First with giving them names, all the way back to the Cult of Skaro in Series 2, and then taking away the leader's shell to show the almost intimately private workings of his diseased mind in Series 4. (I refuse to mention the "I'm a real boy!" bullshit that was the Human Dalek of Series 3.) 

So basically, the problem was: over the past four years, as they've developed the character of the Doctor and each of his companions, they've also developed the "character" of the Daleks. And I know that's important; after all, no self-respecting dramatic TV show gets by without development of its villains as well as its heroes (and don't try and tell me Doctor Who isn't a drama, for all its sciencey wibbley-wobbley timey-wimey). But if you're going to make a villain that is terrifying in its very inhumanity, develop it all you want - just quit trying to make it human. Because that takes away something precious. And when I see a Dalek on screen and my first instinct is to giggle, you're doing something very wrong.




Though if this is wrong, I don't wanna be right.

"It's a magic yarn, a magic Christmas fable."

Snippet of some interviews about this year's Christmas Special, courtesy of Doctor Who TV.
What is up with Arthur Darvill's sunglasses?

Friday, December 10, 2010

Harmonicas are cool.

Matt Smith is awesome in America, plays harmonica, talks about girls:



Edit: Yes, I know the formatting's weird. Sorry. I guess my design doesn't accommodate posts that are bigger on the inside.

thank you thank you I'll be here all week 

Cute, minimalist posters.

This one is my favourite:

 Here's the rest of them, if you're interested.

Duck ponds without ducks.

I thought about this briefly in the first episode. Then a reference to it came back in Flesh and Stone. Then...silence.

What the hell is the meaning of the duck pond without ducks? And will it come back?


This thread in the Digital Spy forums has some interesting theories.

I love a man who gets excited about his own fictional headwear creation.

In today's breaking news, Steven Moffat is adorable.

 

Suck on my sunglasses

I meant to do a lovely long post today about either my thoughts on the evolution of the Daleks throughout the new series or a rundown of the new series finales from best to worst but instead I wrote a Political Theory exam and came home and watched Doctor Who at the Proms and nerdgasmed all over my chair.

It has to be sent to the cleaners now.

This will take some explaining.

Anyway, I felt bad for not posting anything today, so here is some comfort cheesecake:

Thursday, December 9, 2010

The triumph of intellect and romance over brute force and cynicism

...Is pretty much the best description of DW I have ever heard.



These little snippets are keeping me alive until I can watch and review the Christmas special.

Your Cheesecake of the Day

You know what you want to do? You want to see David Tennant being terribly offensive, quite ridiculously funny, rather sexy - and also talking about penis jokes.

And if you don't want to see that, this is basically what you missed.


That's your gratuitous fangirl bullshit du jour. Goodnight.

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Doctor Who - Firefly Opening

So this happened, and I just about died from multiple fangasms.



Thanks, Jonny!

In which I review the Series 5 finale (SPOILERS)

This will probably be old hat to many/all of you, but I just finished catching up with Series 5 so gimme a break. Anyway, here are my thoughts on The Pandorica Opens/The Big Bang.



The Pandorica Opens

Great opener. Right in the beginning we see a mysterious painting, characters from throughout the series, and River Song. Moffat's setting us up for something big, but he's also raising the bar pretty damn high - this better be good if I'm already on the edge of my seat before the theme song.

And it is good. Granted, a couple of little things bother me like they always do - does Eleven really have to do so much grandstanding at Stonehenge when he's yelling at all the spaceships? I suppose I could let this slide though - as we've seen in Time of Angels and The Eleventh Hour, he's given to these long dramatic speeches. Too often I feel like I've got to sit and wait them out, though. I promise I won't be a Tennant fangirl, but in my mind, Ten's "The laws of time are mine, and they will obey me!" gives me shivers more than any of Eleven's long-winded rambles.
Also, it's never satisfactorily explained how Eleven knew the Pandorica would be at Stonehenge. His transition from "It's just a fairytale!" to "LET'S ALL RIDE TO STONEHENGE" rings a little implausible to me. I think the coordinates on the painting were Stonehenge, but if so, why would River say that they wouldn't be able to find the Pandorica on a map? I dunno, that part just seems weird. BUT WHATEVER YAY STONEHENGE

Anyway, these are minor things. The rest of the episode is fantastic - it grabs you by the collar and doesn't let go. The plot is set up - but it isn't actually the plot you think it is! It's all a trap, pulled out of Amy's memories! RORY IS BACK PLEASE LET HIM STAY and oh God he's killed Amy but she's not actually dead and the Doctor's locked up forever! Brilliant. The revelation with River standing in Amy's house as she looks at Amy's childhood books is, in my opinion, the best and most chilling part of the episode, and that's including when Rory shoots Amy (although that's because you know she can't be dead - not with a whole half of the two-parter left, anyway).

Also, can I just mention how glad I am that the goddamn Skittle Daleks only appeared for about five minutes? At first I thought they would be the big plot point of the finale and I was ready to throw my computer out the window. But they showed up for just long enough to help explain the plot twist as the Doctor was shoved into the Pandorica, and then helpfully got turned into stone. I hope that's the last of them, though it probably won't be.

Finally, honourable mention to the disembodied Cyberman who managed to be scarier than the put-together models ever were (with the possible exception of Rise of the Cybermen).



The Big Bang

And another great opening, in which we see little Amelia Pond in an exact replay of the very first sce- wait, what? No crack? No Doctor? And no stars? Something very fishy is going on here, and I am very excited. Then a trip to the museum from a mysterious note (which HAS to be in the Doctor's writing or I will eat my hat) and an encounter with the Pandorica, nearly 2,000 years later, roped off in a star exhibit. Little Amy Pond touches the box, it starts to open, and I am so excited to see what will happen in this reimagining of her first meeting with the Doc- wait, what? Older Amy, who is alive? "This is where it gets complicated," she says to her younger self, and all I can do is mutely nod in agreement.

I won't go into depth recapping the rest of the episode, since there are too many twists and turns (some of them which I still need to figure out a bit more, having only watched it twice now) but let me just say that almost all of these twists are done absolutely BRILLIANTLY. Also, the vortex manipulator makes me pee with excitement. I adore that kind of paradoxical, jumpy, close time-travel - it's done extremely wittily, and the manipulator (which could have been a mediocre go-to plot fixer, like the sonic screwdriver) actually facilitates even more twists and turns, being a genuinely good plot device.

Highlights:
- Rory. Rory, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I admit, you always came off a little  annoying in the earlier episodes - I was resigned to thinking of you as another Mickey - but god damn, if I can ever get someone to wait two years, let alone 2,000 years for me, I'll consider myself lucky. In fact, the whole reunion of Rory and Amy was done pretty much flawlessly, with a gratuitous kiss in the museum (with hilarious commentary by the Doctor) and a renewed closeness of chemistry afterward, which was really lacking in Amy's Choice where she chose his love in the first place.
- River Song. River has the best delivery for badass lines: "It died." There was something really poignant about the Dalek begging her for mercy, and I loved it. Take notes, little miss "I'm the bloody Queen, mate".
- The Doctor's rewind. This was my favourite part, hands down, of the entire two-part finale. We see him going back to Amy in the forest of Flesh and Stone, holding her hands, telling her to remember him, kissing her forehead. This beautiful piece of chemistry, which never made sense in the context of Flesh and Stone, finally fits. I am so happy, because it was a lovely scene that was always ruined for me because of its lack of continuity (which is finally explained). Then we see Eleven going back to little seven-year old Amelia Pond's bedroom, while she was waiting for him in the first place, telling her a lovely little story about the TARDIS and kissing her goodnight. "I hate repeats," he murmurs sadly, and you can't help but wipe a little tear from your eye (though, as with Amy, you know he's going to come back).



Lowlights: (though not really lowlights so much as confusing points)
- River's giving the diary to Amy at her wedding. If no one remembers the Doctor, how does River's diary even exist at all, and how would she know to give it to Amy? She doesn't know who Amy is, because she doesn't know who the Doctor is. I really hope this gets explained next series.
- Amy's insistence on kissing the Doctor. God damn it, I just had my heart melt for her and Rory, and I understand love is a complicated thing and all, but if we have to run through this everloving fuckery again I will break something. Come to think of it, her spat of horniness never really got properly explained in Series 5 either - the Doctor took her on a trip with Rory, and she finally chose him in Amy's Choice, but we never find out if her attempt to wheel the Doctor was a case of pre-wedding jitters or something more. I am so tired of this ongoing portrayal of the Doctor as a romantic Holy Grail for his companions. We did it with Rose, we did it (in a tired way) with Martha, and we seemed to have gotten rid of it with Donna. Why are we bringing this up again? Can't we keep that lovely brother-sister chemistry going and forget about trying to snap his suspenders off? Jesus.

Anyway, all in all, this was a completely phenomenal series finale and (I would dare say) the best Doctor Who series finale I have ever seen, including the series 2 and 4 finales from the RTD era. The mediocrity of the season - with its unrealistic dialogue, clunky emotional development, and over-orchestration - was more than made up for in this glorious two-hour rollercoaster. True, there are points that confuse and disappoint me, but I'm waiting for Series 6 to fix them - because I know you can do that, Mr. Moffat.

Score: 9/10

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

EXTERMIKNIT! EXTERMIKNIT!

Hello, world! This is not going to be a TOTALLY useless first post. I think it is pretty clear that this is a Doctor Who fanblog, and so in true fanblog fashion I am going to show you...knitting.

Yes.

Here are some knitted Daleks.