Monday, April 25, 2011

Mark Watches ‘Doctor Who’: S06E01 – The Impossible Astronaut

Over at Watches the review for 'The Impossible Astronaut' should be up soon.

Spoilers (and a starting a week of video game related vids) below.




There is five days until the new Doctor Who episode it out. I am going insane over this fact.

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Shamefully I've only watched it twice rather than the fifty times I'd usually have done by now. I was a bit distracted finishing Portal 2 yesterday and didn't rewatch (side note: OMFGPORTAL2 why so amazing?!). This needs to be corrected!

There is five days until the new Doctor Who episode it out. I am going insane over this fact.

Oh god why is it so faaaarrrr?
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It seems to be a bit of a Doctor Who tshirt day.
RIPT Apparel have the time vortex which has a little under 12 hours left for those interested.

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While Qwertee have a Bad Wolf tshirt and there's only 5 hours and a bit hours left to buy.

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I have such an emotional whiplash over the first ep of the season. I mean first everyone's back! Yay! Then WTF? Then yay, Doctor's okay! Then White House! With Nixon! Then a freak out over those creepy aliens (the costume/effects people outdid themselves on that one BTW) and then laughing with the Doctor and the poor secret service guy and then THAT ENDING. I'm exhausted just remembering it. My major questions:
1)That's the ship from the LODGER! What's that doing here?! What's it got to do with that ep now?!
2)Who the heck is that kid? My crazy theory is that it's Amy's daughter from the future. But I'm probably way off the mark on that one. Or am I?
3)Why do I have to wait a week for the next ep? Evil, Moffat. EVIL.
OMG just saw a trailer for the next episode! CAN NOT WAIT!!
COME ON MARK WHERE IS IT
2 replies · active 732 weeks ago
I hate moving. ;_; I feel like I got beaten up, I'm so sore. BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, INTERNET IS BACK AND I WAS ABLE TO WATCH THE PREMIERE ON SATURDAY NIGHT. AND MY BRAIN BLEW UP ABOUT EVERY FIVE MINUTES, IF THAT.

the suspense in waiting for next Saturday, aaaargh :(

ALSO WTF NOW I HAVE TO REWATCH THE LODGER (though I don't mind because that means SHOWER SCENE)
1 reply · active 732 weeks ago
So I have a question for people here on the spoiler blog. I hope this isn’t out of turn, but there are some articulate folks here whose opinions I value (and I've gotten the impression that there are quite a few River Song fans), so I’d love to hear people’s thoughts.

Reading through the comments on Mark’s review of Impossible Astronaut, I came across this article in Karen’s comment, which talks about River Song and why the author of the post thinks she’s a problematic character:
http://folklores.tumblr.com/post/4912435507/moffa...

Now, I’ve always loved the character of River Song for (among other things) her independence and self-sufficiency – it always seemed to me that she loved the Doctor, but also had her own rich, interesting life, her own identity, and didn’t define herself by him. Especially with her murder of the Dalek, where she seemed to reject being classified as just a companion of the Doctor: “I’m River Song. Check your records again.” But as much as I don’t want to agree with the article, I think it makes some valid points. I didn’t like River saying in Impossible Astronaut that she lived for her meetings with the Doctor – I hate to think of River as swallowed up and dependent on love from another person – and as the article points out, the quote about not fearing anything but the moment when he wouldn’t know her is also problematic, since it threatens to recontextualize all her SITL/FOTD heroism into something much less noble and more selfish. At this point I’m really wishing those bits didn’t exist (which is a pity since most of the Eleven/River stuff in this episode is wonderful), and I’m feeling kind of betrayed by the weakened characterization of such an awesome character.

But does it seem that way to you folks? I would love to hear other people’s impressions of that speech of River’s, and of the above article.
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