tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9521276084360088872024-03-13T13:01:05.379-04:00Just A Girl Geek!Put up your feet and read all about the thoughts and opinions of a forty-ish girl geek!Christinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05031334667645073887noreply@blogger.comBlogger223125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-952127608436008887.post-56534545535584707762015-11-24T01:36:00.002-05:002015-11-24T01:36:57.459-05:00Just A Girl Geek! Episode 3<iframe frameborder="no" height="450" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/234463148&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true" width="100%"></iframe>
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**SPOILER WARNING**
In episode 3 of Just A Girl Geek, I get a little animated as I discuss Reign (00:59), The Flash (1:36), Agents of SHIELD (2:31), The Vampire Diaries (3:00). Grey's Anatomy (3:38), Scandal (4:51), How To Get Away With Murder (5:54), Jessica Jones (6:05), Supergirl (10:20), Doctor Who (11:36), The Walking Dead (14:41), and Entertainment News (15:27).
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In this episode I discuss Supergirl (00:37), The Flash (3:07), Agents of SHIELD (4:29), Scream Queens (5:21), Blindspot (6:46), Arrow (7:40), Code Black (7:50), Grey's Anatomy (8:55), Scandal (11:18), The Vampire Diaries (11:58), How To Get Away With Murder (12:55), Doctor Who (13:38), and entertainment news (17:17).</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Also mentioned in this episode is The Televixen. Please visit thetelevixen.com. </span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Theme song by Marian Call. mariancall.bandcamp.com</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Corrections: The Doctor Who episodes mentions should be called The Zygon Invasion and The Zygon Inversion.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This week on the Gilmore Girls watch, we're up to The Deer Hunter.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In this episode, Rory gets a D on her first big paper, so she and Lorelai stay up studying for a week to prepare her for her big Shakespeare test.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Unfortunately, they both sleep in on the day of the test, and Rory gets hit by a deer while driving Lorelai's car on the way to school. That makes her too late to take the test. Yes, you heard that right. She gets hit by a deer.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">She argues with her teacher, and when he doesn't allow her to join her classmates in taking the test, she loses it. She (finally!) calls out both Paris and Tristan, and she's sent to the office.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Lorelai is called, and when she arrives and learns that Rory wasn't allowed to take the test, SHE loses it on both Mr. Medina, and the headmaster, Mr. Charleston. Mr. Charleston sends the women home with orders to give serious thought about whether or not Rory belongs at Chilton.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Rory and Lorelai have a heart to heart, and Rory chooses to stay at the prep school. She knows that once she catches up with the other students, she'll start to shine again.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Meanwhile, Sookie is having her own issues. The inn's restaurant gets a great review in a local magazine, but Sookie focuses on the fact that the reviewer called her risotto, "fine". Just fine won't do for her.</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Sookie does some sleuthing and figures out that the reviewer had paired the wrong wine with the risotto. </span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Sookie finds the reviewers address, goes to his house, and in a very weird scene, makes the reviewer eat her newly prepared risotto with the proper glass of wine. </span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It's a weird scene because Sookie never once looks at the reviewer--she actually keeps her back to the guy the whole time she's talking to him, and stares off at nothing. Because of this, we also never get to see his face.</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I don't know if this was because he's going to be someone important in the future and we need to be surprised about that, or if it was just an oddly (and stupidly, imo) written scene.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">There's also some obvious chemistry between Lorelai and Mr. Medina, and I'm going to guess they start dating, making things awkward for Rory. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So, another mostly boring episode. And this time, I didn't even get enough Michel to make it worthwhile.</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Come on, Gilmore Girls! You're killin' me here! Please, please, get better!</span><br />
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<br />Christinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05031334667645073887noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-952127608436008887.post-89857563905866712882015-10-22T06:30:00.000-04:002015-10-22T06:30:00.066-04:00Christina Watches: Gilmore Girls S01 E3<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Welcome back to my "Gilmore Girls" watch! This time it's <i>Kill Me Now</i>. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In this episode, Rory has to choose a sport to play at school, and so she goes golfing with her grandfather to learn the game.</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Along the way they bond, and they actually have a great time together.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Lorelai, on the other hand, is planning a huge double-twin wedding at the inn, and when she hears that Rory and Richard actually had fun together, she gets jealous and petty. She starts a fight with Rory about boob sizes, which, of course, is resolved before the episode ends.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Michel is his usual grumpy self, and I actually laughed out loud three or four times during this episode because of him. He gets some awesome lines.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Sookie is another great background player, and her banter with Jackson is adorable and amusing.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In the end, everyone learnt a valuable lesson, and I've learnt that the show is slowly improving and finding it's stride. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">However, I still feel like I'm waiting for something to happen....anything, really. I'm not yet emotionally invested, and that's very important for me when it comes to TV shows.</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I'm also not yet in love with the main characters. I hope something happens soon to fix that.</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I know, I know, it's only episode 3...but if I compare this to other shows I love, like Grey's Anatomy, Veronica Mars, or Friday Night Lights, by now I was already completely hooked and invested in the show.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Will that happen soon with Gilmore Girls? I truly hope so. I want to feel the way you all did when you watched it for the first time!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Until next time!</span>Christinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05031334667645073887noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-952127608436008887.post-18580671140455393472015-10-21T18:30:00.000-04:002015-10-21T18:30:00.402-04:00Christina Watches: Gilmore Girls S01 E2<br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Welcome to episode 2 of my "Gilmore Girls" watch, <i>The Lorelais' First Day At Chilton</i>!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In this episode, Lorelai oversleeps on Rory's first day at her new school, which sets off a bad day domino effect.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Because she's slept in, she can't make it to the dry cleaners first to pick up her nice clothes. She has to resort to wearing a "Daisy Duke" outfit to meet the headmaster at Chilton. Great first impression!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">To make things worse, Emily, who is apparently a good friend of the new headmaster's, has also decided to lend her support to Rory by showing up at Chilton. Lorelai is not only horribly dressed, but more nervous and awkward than usual. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Once she's actually able to get to class, Rory notices that she's already made an enemy. Paris, the current smarty-pants "it" girl was able to steal Rory's school file. After reading that Rory is smart, motivated, and possibly after a job with the school paper--Paris's territory--jealousy rears its ugly head.</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And to make things even worse, Rory accidentally ruins Paris's history project when she knocks it out of Paris's arms.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The boys of Chilton don't seem to be much better. The rich hottie, Tristan (played by current hottie, Chad Michael Murray!), weirdly insists on calling Rory, "Mary", which Lorelai later explains is because of Rory's "virginal" demeanor.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Lorelai herself isn't having the greatest day. Emily calls her numerous times, telling Lorelai she'd like to buy Rory's school clothes, a school parking spot...a car...</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">While she means well, Lorelai finally blows up at her. She wants to do it all herself, and she doesn't need her parents help, thank you very much!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We also get to know a teeny bit more about our background players:</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Michel is as French and sassy as ever.</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Sookie is as endearing as she is a death trap.</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Lane desperately wants to be a normal kid, but her very overprotective mother constantly gets in the way.</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Miss Patty, the chain-smoking dance teacher seems to be a town staple.</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Drella, the slightly-rude harpist that Lorelai hired to play in the lobby of the inn.</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Babette, the hillybilly neighbour (played by legend, Sally Struthers!).</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And in some possible foreshadowing, Luke comes across as a wee bit jealous when one of the Chilton dads asks Lorelai out. Surprisingly, considering how promiscuously she comes across, Lorelai declines the offer. She's more worried about Rory's rep than in her own. I feel like this will be a trend throughout the show. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">While the second episode was better, it's still a very slow-moving show. Literally EVERYONE is full of sass, and that gets on my nerves. One or two characters, okay. Everyone? Just stop.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But I can tell that it's still trying to find its feet, and it has huge potential, so I'll keep watching. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Can someone who's seen the series please let me know how soon it gets GOOD? ;)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">See y'all next time!</span><br />
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<br />Christinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05031334667645073887noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-952127608436008887.post-36309440431515683892015-10-20T16:28:00.000-04:002015-10-20T16:30:34.535-04:00Christina Watches: Gilmore Girls S01 E1<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Hello, and welcome to what I hope will be a new series of posts here on Just A Girl Geek!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">Many moons ago, I put up a poll and some of you voted for the next teen show you wanted me to watch, and blog about, from the beginning.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Well, with many apologies, I threw that poll out the window. Now, I may go back one day and blog about the show you all chose....but today is not that day.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">Yesterday, huge news hit the interwebs when it was announced that Netflix would be reviving Gilmore Girls. I've been meaning to watch the show forever, and this feels like a great opportunity to finally write about a show from the very beginning.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">Please understand that I don't have a timeline here. I may go weeks between posts about Gilmore Girls. Life happens. I know you all understand. But I do hope you'll stay with me as I watch, write, laugh and yeah, definitely cry over Rory, Lorelai, and the seven seasons of their lives.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">So, let's begin with the pilot!</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">In episode 1, we're obviously introduced to the cast of many characters. There's Lorelai, the fun, beautiful, young, open and moderately successful mom. Lorelai runs an inn.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Rory, the 16 year old daughter of Lorelai.</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Sookie, the incredibly clumsy cook that works at the inn.</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Lane, Rory's best friend.</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Michel, the French, and absolutely hilarious desk clerk that works for Lorelai.</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Luke, the health nut who owns the diner Lorelai and Rory frequent.</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Dean, the hot boy that crushes on Rory.</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And Emily and Richard, Lorelai's rich, and estranged, parents.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">Of course, I may have some of these characters wrong. I've only watched one episode, and I'm guessing what most of their roles are.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">So! In episode one, Rory is accepted into a very expensive prep school, and Lorelai has to ask her parents for help with the tuition.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Her parents agrees to pay, on one condition: they must be a bigger part of their daughter, and their granddaughters, lives.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">It's explained that Lorelai had Rory very young, at age 16, and a mysterious baby daddy named Christopher is somehow still in the picture.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Lorelai's parents were none too pleased when she didn't marry Christopher, and this, along with the teenage pregnancy, is what caused the rift between them.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">Meanwhile, Rory, at first very excited to have gotten into Chilton Prep school, meets a new boy at her soon-to-be old school and has second thoughts about leaving.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">By the end, Rory realizes the sacrifices Lorelai has has to make to send her to the prep school, and she agrees to go.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">My first impressions of Gilmore Girls is that it's a very dated show. There are tons of late '90s/early 2000s pop culture mentions, and the music is also classic.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I absolutely love Michel, and I hope he sticks around for the duration.</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Jared Padalecki is absolutely adorable as Dean--and it's so hilarious that his character is named Dean.</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I've already fallen in love with Lorelai--I can relate to her on so many levels that it's kinda spooky.</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I like Rory as well, but I feel like it's going to take me a few more episodes to get to know who she is and why I need to love her.To be honest, if I didn't know from friends and reviews and Emmy nods that Gilmore Girls is a great, must-see show, I don't think I would have continued past the pilot.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">But most shows have a rough first season. Buffy comes to mind, as does Supernatural. And so I'll stick with it, and I hope you do too.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">See you all next time!</span></span><br />
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right?! I mean, MAISIE WILLIAMS is guest starring! I just hope we haven’t
worked it up to be bigger than it is. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">Clara is floating in space (wearing Ten’s spacesuit,
I might add!), with a space-spider crawling up her leg. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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around her, just in the nick of time…oops, but out of the frying pan and into
the fire!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">When he they land, they’re surrounded by Vikings who
draw their swords and break the sonic sunglasses!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">Queue the opening credits…which aren’t nearly as
rocking as they were last week!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">A Viking village; The hero Vikings return, with a
chained Doctor and Clara in tow. But the Doctor has a plan, as he keeps telling
Clara….Riiiiiight.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">Maisie Williams greets the heroes as they return.
She’d had a nightmare that they’d all died. But yay, they’re all okay. A Viking
gives her half of the broken sonic sunglasses.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">The Doctor stares at her. Does he know her? He says
he doesn’t but….Hmm…<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">The Doctor breaks out of the chains and tries to
scare the primitive Vikings with a deep voice and a yoyo. He says he’s Odin…Um,
and then Odin appears in the sky, so….whoops.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">Odin sends huge mechanical welder-type dudes down to
take the strongest Vikings to Valhalla.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">Clara gets to Ashildr (Maisie William’s character)
and tells her how to open her chains with the sonic sunglasses. The welders see
the technology being used and take both Clara and Ashildr.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">Valhalla is apparently a metal room, and if you try
to leave it, you get vaporized. So, yay?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">They have no choice but to leave when the walls of
the room start to get smaller and push them into the corridor where the vaporizer
is. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">The Vikings are all vaporized, but Clara and Ashildr
get through the door on the other end. Odin arrives and asks about the sonic
sunglasses. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">Clara realizes that Odin hasn’t killed them because
he’s worried about their advanced tech, and he may not win the fight against
their people if he starts one.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">Odin then drinks a yummy juice of testosterone from
the warriors he just killed. Mmmm…testosterone…<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">Clara almost has him talked out of fighting, but
Ashildr’s anger gets in the way as she challenges him to war for what he’s done
to her people. D’oh!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">They make a date to have a nice war the next day,
and then he changes his face to…something we don’t get to see. Yet! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">The Doctor is reading his diary as Odin sends Clara
and Ashildr back to the village. Um what is that diary?!? Since when is that a
thing?!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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race called the Mire. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">The Doctor tries to convince the rest of the village
to flee, but they decide to stay and fight. Of course.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">A baby starts to cry, and the Doctor translates. It’s
absolutely heartbreaking. Wonderful writing by Matheson and Moffat so far.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">The Doctor leaves. He won’t help them fight a war.
The earth is safe, humanity isn’t in danger. It’s just one village….and this is
sounding awfully familiar. Just one village. Just one person…Like Pompeii? Like
Donna asking to save just one? Whoa…<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">The Doctor tries to explain to Clara that if he
saves this one village, the Mire will return like ripples in a pond.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">The baby starts crying again, and Clara makes him
translate. He does, and again it’s heartbreaking. The baby says something about
fire and water…Again, I’m reminded of Pompeii. Is this purposeful??<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">The Doctor has decided to stay. Clara knows before
he says so because the baby stops crying. Babies can sense danger, and I
suppose there’s less danger now that he’s staying to help.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">The Doctor begins to train them in sword fighting—and
he gives them new names! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">He trains them with wooden swords, and then gives
them real swords…which starts a domino effect when one of them faints and a
horse starts a fire in the village. It’s a really hilariously written scene. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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tired of always having to watch out for her. She’s tired of him never having a
plan until he’s almost killed. So…they’re kind of at a stalemate, then.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">The Doctor enters Ashildr’s tent, where she’s
fighting a wooden puppet. They talk, and she tells him she knows they’re all
going to die. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">The Doctor tells her she should leave, and in a very
touching scene, she explains that, although she knows she’s different…although
everyone there knows she’s different from them, she’s loved. It’s her place in
the world. For her, leaving would be death itself.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">Her father enters and promises to keep her safe.
Through the window, they all see Lofty taking his baby to the boat house. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Fire in the water! I have no idea what it means yet, but his excitement is
always so contagious! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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involves the electric eels that the village has in the boat house…Yeah, I don’t
get it either. Let’s watch as they prepare the plan!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">Okay, that was fun! But now, WAR!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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a merry party has begun! Lofty is playing the ring toss, and he tosses a ring
at one of the mechanical welders. After the welder grabs the ring, we see that it’s
attached to a copper wire (where did they get copper wire?!), which is attached
to the eel barrels. The welders are electrocuted, while others are broken apart
by very strong magnets! </span></span></div>
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CREEPY ALIENS FULL OF TEETH-FACES!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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helmets, and it’s Ashildr’s time to shine! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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party! It’s HUGE and ANGRY!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Odin by himself. The snake turns into one of Ashildr’s wooden puppets—I guess
she was able to project what she wanted them to see into their minds with the
helmet?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Doctor threatens to send it out into the universe, destroying the Mire’s
reputation. I mean, no one would really be afraid of them if they’re shown
running from wooden dragons and fishermen, right?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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leaves with its tail between its legs. But not before promising that “we haven’t
seen the last of him”, or some such.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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but she doesn’t respond from beneath the helmet. They pull it off the girl, and
find that she’s dead.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">Her heart failed, and the Doctor realizes that it’s
his fault. He plugged her into the helmet and “used her up like a battery”.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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people. And then…something happens.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">Flashbacks to the first time he saw his new face. Reflections in the water. “Who frowned me this
face?” What is happening? Why do I have goosebumps?! WHY AM I ALMOST CRYING?!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">He knows why he chose his face! HE KNOWS! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">OKAY, WAIT. WAIT. I CAN’T SEE. I CAN’T SEE THROUGH
MY TEARS TO EVEN WRITE. I CAN’T BELIEVE THIS IS HAPPENING. I’M LITERALLY
SOBBING. UGLY TEARS. YOU GUYS, HALP ME. I CAN’T.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">POMPEII. DONNA. MY BELOVED DONNA. I KNEW IT. I SAW
IT DIDN’T I?! DIDN’T I SAY IT UP THERE?! POMPEII!!!!! HIS FACE! TEN! AHHHHHHHHHH
MY HEART!!!!!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">I’M SORRY I’M SCREAMING. I CAN’T SEEM TO STOP. I
STILL CAN’T SEE VERY WELL THROUGH THESE TEARS.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">His face. He chose the face he did…the face of Caecilius
to REMIND HIM that HE’S THE GOD DAMN DOCTOR, AND HE SAVES PEOPLE. Like Donna
had to remind him so long ago! MY SWEET, SWEET DONNA. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">The Doctor runs to where Ashildr is lying. He takes
a medical kit from the Mire helmet and reprograms it. It dissolves into Ashildr’s
forehead, and starts to repair her. She wakes! She’s alive!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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gives a second medical kit to her father to give to, “Whoever she wants”. Which
means “to whomever she can stand being with for eternity”. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">Oh, this is going to
come back to haunt him forever. And it’s wonderful! I can see her being an
enemy way down the line, right? Like, ten thousand years from now, when she’s
half-insane from losing everyone she loves over and over and over...Er, is that
dark? Yeah, that’s dark. Funny, how my mind works…heh…Um…<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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explains to Clara what he’s done to Ashildr.
He was angry, emotional. He wonders he he’s made a terrible mistake.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">And, oh my god. There’s more. THERE’S MORE. He
explains that now, in a way, because of the alien tech inside of her, Ashildr
is now, A HYBRID. A HYBRID, YOU GUYS!
DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT THAT MEANS!?!?!?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">Okay, okay! Let’s go back to Davros. Remember? What
did he say? Something about a prophesy on Gallifrey? A prophesy about a HYBRID
RACE?!?!?!?!?!!? YOU GUYS! WE THOUGHT THAT MEANT A DALEK/TIMELORD HYBRID! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">Did the Doctor just make the prophesy come true?! A
human/Mire hybrid instead?!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">AND THAT ENDING!!! I TOLD YOU! I TOLD YOU SHE GOES
EVIL! Look at her poor face. Look at how
it goes from happy, to curious, to sad, to EVIL, as the world revolves and eventually
explodes around her. I LOVE THIS! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">Guys, this season is so far blowing it out of the
park! The last three episodes have been great! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">The Doctor: “I’m not actually police, that’s just
what it says on the box.”</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">The Doctor: “No, no, not Vikings! I’m not in the
mood for Vikings!”</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">The Doctor: “People talk about premonition as if it’s
something strange; it’s not. It’s just remembering in the wrong direction.”</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;"><br /></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">The Doctor: “When I say jump, you say ‘How high?”.
Unless it’s across a gap of some kind, which of course means you jump horizontally.”</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;"><br /></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">The Doctor: “Why has Lofty stolen a baby?!”</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;"><br /></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">Clara: “What’s happened?! Have you trapped your
finger in something again?”</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">Donna: “Just someone. Not the whole town. Just save
someone.”</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">The Doctor: “I’M THE DOCTOR, AND I SAVE PEOPLE. AND
IF ANYONE HAPPENS TO BE LISTENING, ANYONE WITH ANY KIND OF A PROBLEM WITH THAT,
TO HELL WITH YOU!”</span></span></li>
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next time!</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">HI OKAY FORGET THE SMALL TALK THE DOCTOR IS A GHOST
AND WE NEED TO FIND OUT HOW THAT HAPPENED AND HOW HE GETS FIXED! HERE WE GO!
(If you have no idea wtf I’m talking about, please read my previous Doctor Who
recap) <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">We open with the Doctor breaking the fourth wall and
telling us a story about Beethoven: Imagine a time traveller was a huge fan of
Beethoven, and had gone back to visit the musician. But when he goes back, he
realizes that Beethoven has never been born. So the time traveller publishes
all of Beethoven’s music himself. So who really created the music? Hmm..…and
then we go right into a rocking-awesome opening credits! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">…I have no idea what that has to do with the Doctor
being a ghost, but it was pretty damn awesome!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">The Doctor, O’Donnell and Bennett have landed in
1980. As O’Donnell summarizes, pre-Harold Saxon, pre-Minister of War…Minister
of War? The Doctor begins to ask, but thinks better of it. He’ll find out soon
enough. And I hope we do, too!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">The trio comes across the alien craft. It’s wide
open, and the alien is still inside. The Doctor tells the others that the craft
is actually a hearse. The suspension chamber is still on the craft, as is the
power cell. And there’s no writing on the wall.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">Up runs black-eyed dude, but he’s alive, with no
black eyes. Now he’s like a little moleman! And he’s a funeral director. He’s
come to earth to bury the alien on the craft, who he calls the Fisher King. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">Back to the future (Ha! See what I did there?!),
Clara, Cass and Lunn watch the ghost-Doctor through the glass. Cass realizes
that the ghost-Doctor is saying something different than the other ghosts. He’s
repeating all of their names, over and over. Moran, Pritchard, Prentiss, O’Donnell,
Clara… (NOT Lunn! Interesting!)… But who’s Prentiss? That’s not a name we know
yet!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">Clara’s phone rings, and it’s the Doctor, calling
from the future. Clara tells him that he’s a ghost outside the base. The Doctor
realizes that he has to die. Fixed point, I guess? I’m not 100% sure why,
really. But okay. He has to die.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">Clara argues. He’s given her “something else to be”,
and he can’t die and take that away. He says there are rules and he can’t
change them (since when?!). He tells Clara he’ll do what he can.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">In the past, Moleman enters the ship. The Fisher
King is gone, and the writing is on the wall! A shadow appears, and we cut to
the Doctor, Bennett and O’Donnell on the TARDIS. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">The Doctor is still talking to Clara. She notices
that the ghost-Doctor’s coat is torn on the shoulder, and she also tells him
that what the ghost-Doctor is saying is different. The Doctor explains that
Prentiss is Moleman. Then ghost-Doctor walks through the wall and into the
base!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">Ghost-Doctor goes to the panel and opens the safe
room, letting out the other ghosts. The Doctor wants to talk to ghost-him. He
tries, and the ghost-Doctor’s message changes. He now says, “The chamber will
open tonight.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">The Doctor tells Clara to get into the safe room, to
not let the phone out of her sight. It won’t work in the faraday cage, so she’s
to leave it outside and go out to answer it if it rings. The Doctor needs to
know exactly what his ghost is doing at all times. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">The Doctor, Bennett and O’Donnell leave the TARDIS,
only to find Moleman dead in the alien craft, and the writing on the wall. The
Fisher King did it himself. He took the suspension chamber into the church.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">Suddenly, there’s a loud roar! The trio runs back
for the TARDIS, but they’re cut off! They get split up and hide. The Fisher
King is HUGE! I mean, MASSIVE! It finds O’Donnell, and she dies in Bennett’s arms.
<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">Bennett questions the Doctor about the list. Who’s
next? Ghost-Doctor has been repeating the names in order of their deaths…and
CLARA is next! AHHHH!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">Clara watches out the window at the phone. O’Donnell’s
ghost pops up in front of her, just outside the faraday cage. O’Donnell takes
Clara’s phone and walks off.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">The Doctor and Bennett are back on the TARDIS, and
the Doctor plans to break the rules. He’s going back to the base to save Clara,
and to not die. But the TARDIS has other ideas. The cloister bell sounds, and
they land right back in 1980--only now they’re 30 minutes backwards! He’s
locked in his own time stream! The TARDIS won’t let him leave, and now they
have to wait until time catches up with them. Seeing both Doctors in the same
timeline reminds me of “Father’s Day”. God, that was a heartbreaking episode. Uh,
sorry. I wandered a bit there…<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">Bennett wants to save Prentiss and O’Donnell, but
the Doctor won’t allow it. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">On the base, Clara is doing her own deducing. She
realizes that the ghosts won’t hurt Lunn because he’s never seen the words on
the craft. He should be safe to go get the phone. Cass argues against it, but Lunn agrees to
go.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">On Earth, Bennett tries to run out to save O’Donnell,
but the Doctor stops him. They wrestle briefly, and the Doctor’s coat is
ripped. He sends Bennett back to the TARDIS, and he goes by himself to face the
Fisher King.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">The Doctor goes into the church, and, of course,
into the creepy church basement. The suspension chamber is open. The Doctor
speaks to someone in the dark. He tells the Fisher King, I guess? what he’s seen in the future. Death, ghosts. The
Fisher King wants the ghosts. He wants many ghosts; enough to make an armada
and wake him from his sleep.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">On the base, the suspension chamber lights up, and
begins to beep. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">Lunn is in a corridor, and the ghosts find him. They
surround him, but don’t attack. Clara was right. They aren’t interested in him.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">On earth, the Doctor questions the Fisher King; what
will happen when his people arrive?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">The Fisher King will drain the oceans and put the
human in chains.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">The Doctor tells the Fisher King that the earth is
protected. By him!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">The reply? “Yes. One man, lost in time.” Well when
you put it that way….gulp.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">On the base, Lunn grabs the phone, but the ghosts
lock him in, away from the others.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">The Fisher King finally shows himself, and he’s
huge, but also UGLY! BLECH.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">On earth, Cass and Clara decide to go find Lunn. They
get separated when Cass decides to go off on her own. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">Moran stalks Cass, dragging an axe behind him. It’s
creepy as hell, because she can’t hear the sound of it dragging along the
floor!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">The Doctor and the Fisher King bicker a bit, until
the Doctor gives one of his speeches and tells the Fisher King how horrible he
is and that, “this is where your story ends.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">And on the base, the suspension chamber does more
beeping and lighting.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">THIS IS INTENSE, YOU GUYS! The damn axe dragging,
and then silence when Cass is shown, and then noise again with the axe and
Moran…I CAN’T HANDLE THIS.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">BUT OH MY GOD SHE KNEELS AND FEELS THE VIBRATION IN
THE FLOOR WITH HER HAND. AND SHE DUCKS OUT OF THE WAY JUST IN TIME! YOU GO,
CASS!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">Cass runs, and finds Clara!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">Um, and then confusion? The Doctor can’t be killed
and used as a beacon because he “got rid of the words”? No one will die; no one
is coming to save the Fisher King. Wut?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">Clara and Cass get to Lunn, but it’s a trap. The
ghosts come through the walls. The trio runs back to the faraday cage.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">On Earth, OH MY GOD THE DOCTOR LIES YOU GUYS! I
FORGOT! I NEED TO NOT FORGET THAT! HAHAHAHAHAHA!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">The Doctor LIED to the Fisher King! Of course the
words are still there! Of course he still has them in his mind! And the Doctor
has also taken the power cell! HE EXPLODES THE DAMN DAM! THE DOCTOR DID IT ALL
ALONG! OH MY GOD!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">The TARDIS starts to leave with Bennett inside! It's going back to the future! (HA, I did it again!)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">The
dam is bursting! Water is flooding the base! The water hits the Fisher King full force! He's dead! The flood has taken him!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">In the future, Clara, Lunn and Cass run into the
room where the suspension chamber is! The ghosts are upon them! The chamber
opens! OUT POPS THE DOCTOR! HE WAS IN
THE SUSPENSION CHAMBER!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">They all run into the computer room! The Doctor
inserts his sonic glasses into the computer! The Fisher King is roaring! The
ghosts leave and walk away, answering the Fisher King’s call! They go into the
faraday cage, and it’s the ghost-Doctor roaring! He called the ghosts away! The
Doctor locks the ghosts in the faraday cage!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">…omg, I can’t breathe. This is insane.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">With everyone now safe, and Clara wearing the sonic sunglasses,
the Doctor explains that his ghost was a hologram beamed through the sonic
glasses. He uses the glasses to erase the words from Clara and Cass. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">Bennett watches the ghosts in the cage and asks what
will happen to them. The Doctor explains that UNIT will take them away in the
cage and destroy the alien craft.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">Bennett makes Lunn tell Cass how he feels about her.
It’s too late for him and O’Donnell, and he doesn’t want Lunn to suffer the
same fate. D’aww.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">Lunn does it, and Cass kisses him. D’AWW!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">Back on the TARDIS, the Doctor explains how he told
himself to do all the things he did; get into the chamber, protect Clara…but
omg it’s so complicated and confusing.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">AND WE’RE BACK TO BEETHOVEN OH MY GAWD WHITHOUSE,
YOU BLOODY GENIUS! WHO CREATED BEETHOVEN’S FIFTH? WHEN DID THE DOCTOR FIRST
HAVE THE IDEAS TO PLANT THE WORDS HIS GHOSTS SAID?!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">…and then that little knowing smirk and shrug to the
camera! HA!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">Okay, you guys, I LOVED the second part of this
two-parter! The first part was good, but this was a really good episode! Great
writing, great story, not too many huge plot-holes! We may almost be back on
track here!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">Um, so I forgot to do my favourite lines. SORRY, I
WAS A LITTLE BUSY WITH THE WHOLE GHOST-DOCTOR THING!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">I’ll remember next time. See you soon!</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Christinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05031334667645073887noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-952127608436008887.post-84074062989725529082015-10-16T16:07:00.001-04:002015-10-16T16:10:57.122-04:00Doctor Who: Under the Lake<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Okay guys, we’re going to try something different
from here on out. If you’ve followed the other shows I’ve recapped, you may be
familiar with my saying that they’re more of a reaction, less a recap. I
usually like to write as I watch, which often leads to the use of ALL CAPS as I
scream at the show I’m writing about, a few light (or not so light) cursing,
and tons of ???’s and !!!’s.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">With Doctor Who, I do things differently. I watch
the show once with no interruptions, and take it all in. Then I watch it again,
and I write my recap during that second watch. I do things this way with Doctor
Who because it’s such a meaty and often confusing show, I don’t want to miss
anything. I want to make sure I catch every word so you all don’t miss anything
either.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Sadly, because there’s so much great TV to watch
these days, and so little time for me to watch it, I’m gonna switch things up.
My Doctor Who recaps are now going to be reactions. I promise to TRY not to
miss anything, but if I do, please forgive me. And keep an eye on this post
throughout the week, as edits may occur as I think of more theories and post
them, or realize something important I missed. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We open about a hundred years in the future, on an
underwater base. I love the diversity of the cast this week, and having the
show’s first deaf guest star is a really fantastic addition. Well done, Mr. Whithouse!
(he’s the writer of this episode, and a fan favourite. Yay)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">So, on the underwater base, they discover a craft of
some sort. How it was missed before is mystifying to them all. Oh! Creepy black-eyes
dude is seen reflected in some glass! Okay, this is getting interesting…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">On the strange craft they discover strange writing.
One of them mentions that the material used has never before been seen on
earth. So…aliens?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Suddenly the weird ghost-guy appears and attacks one
of the crew. There’s an explosion, and another of the crew members dies in the
blast. The rest are able to get away from the fire. Once they’re all safe
behind a closed door, they turn to see the ghost of their former crew
member…and the creepy guy with the black eyes! We cut to the opening credits as
the ghosts loom over the surviving crew members.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Three days later, the TARDIS appears on the
abandoned underwater base. The Doctor is speaking to her—the TARDIS, I mean.
Apparently she’s not happy, and he’s trying to figure out why. Clara wants to go back to the fun exploring,
but the TARDIS isn’t having it. She’s brought them here for a reason…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">As they explore, the Doctor and Clara discover signs of a recent struggle in the mess hall,
but no bodies. They explore further, and come across the ghosts of the
black-eyed guy and the crew member, Moran. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The ghosts come very close and examine Clara and the
Doctor, but they don’t seem to mean any harm. The Doctor smirks gleefully, as
the game is afoot!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The ghosts wander down the corridor, and the Doctor
and Clara follow. They enter the room that holds the strange alien craft, and
the ghosts have disappeared. They explore the small craft. The Doctor sees the
alien writing, but he can’t read it because the TARDIS hasn’t translated it.
Curiouser and curiouser…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The ghosts reappear and seem to be speaking, but no
words can be heard. This is some creepy sh!t right here!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The ghosts suddenly go on the attack, walking
through walls and floors to get to Clara and the Doctor! Their lips continue to
move, but still no sound is heard.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">As they run, they find the rest of the crew held up
in a secure room. The Doctor and Clara gladly join them and introduce
themselves. The Doctor uses his psychic paper, and the crew realizes he’s from
UNIT (hahaha!), and apparently so are they!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Doctor tries to listen to Cass as she signs, but
he can’t. The TARDIS still isn’t translating! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The crew explains about the weird alien ship, about
Moran dying. The Doctor explains that the black-eyed guy is from the planet
Tivoli(?), but they’re not usually a violent people. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The crew explains that the ghosts can’t get into the
safe room where they’re held up. They go on to tell the Doctor and Clara that
the base used to be a military training base, but years and years ago a nearby
dam burst and flooded the whole thing. There’s also apparently a massive oil
reservoir underneath it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The lights change and the base automatically
switches from night to day mode. Being so far underwater, the daylight is
simulated. Oddly enough, the ghosts only come out at night. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The crew gives the Doctor and Clara the low-down on
the base and situation, and the Doctor eloquently sums things up, “So we’re
fighting an unknown homicidal force that has taken the form of your commanding
officer and a cowardly alien, underwater, in a nuclear reactor.” Yup, sounds
about right!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Doctor realizes that the alien ship must have
the answers, and he examines it. He notices that some things have been
removed…namely a suspension chamber and a power cell.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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won’t allow it, saying it “isn’t safe”. This is the second time she’s said this
to him. Hmm…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Doctor sums up what he knows about Moran and the
black-eyed guy and realizes they’re ghosts! And he’s pretty stinkin’ excited
about that!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And then Clara whispers something about “cards” to
the Doctor. She rifles through some cue cards from his pocket and chooses the
appropriate one. The Doctor reads the card and gives a grave speech about being
sorry for their loss and doing and he can to help solve the mystery. It’s
pretty damn hilarious. I love that Clara has put cue cards in his pocket so he
can actually pretend he has a heart! Hahaha! Also, y’all should make sure to
pause and read all of the cards. They’re damn funny.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Doctor gives a speech about how cool it is that
people are now able to come back from the grave, and he has a ton of questions
he’d like to ask them. This all seems a bit heartless, considering that Clara
only lost Danny a few months ago…I mean, I’m assuming months because she’s not
much older…I suppose it could be years. But still…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Oh! Suddenly, the base goes into night mode too
early, and the TARDIS sounds her cloister bell! The Doctor and Clara enter the
TARDIS, and she’s all moody and full of steam. She apparently wants to leave…so
the Doctor put her handbrake on. That makes everything okay again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Doctor stops her to give a speech about not going native, and there can only be
one him, blah blah. He then says that he felt he had to say something because
he has duty of care, and he’d like to stop now. I mean, at least he’s trying to
have a heart, right?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And then poor Pritchard is caught and drowned by the
ghosts. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Everyone on the base is separated as some try to
grab supplies, and others try to figure out how to get back into day mode. Why
haven’t they just been trying to figure that out every day? Just keep the base
on day mode all the time? Err, suspension of belief. Right. Sorry.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Clara and Lunn see Pritchard, who had been missing
up until that point. He’s standing with his back to them…and then they see his
body float by outside. Uhoh, ghost! Pritchard-Ghost grabs a metal chair—the
Doctor has noticed that they can only move metal objects—and goes in for the
attack. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and the ghost disappears. See my rant about day mode above. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The crew gathers, and Cass wants to abandon the
base. The ghosts are learning to use it against them—turning day mode off and
opening hatches. The Doctor, of course, wants to stay. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">O’Donnell calls for help, but topside has already
sent a rescue sub. Someone else has already called them! It had to have been
the ghosts! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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base under quarantine. No one is going anywhere!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Doctor makes O’Donnell put the base back into
night mode Clara and Lunn try to lead the ghosts to the point the Doctor has
given them, but the ghosts unexpectedly separate when Clara and Lunn do! Clara
gets safe, but Lunn is cornered! BUT HE HAS NEVER SEEN THE WRITING ON THE ALIEN
CRAFT! CASS KEPT HIM SAFE! WHOA!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Doctor leads the ghosts into the safe room using
a hologram of Clara as bait. The ghosts are trapped in the safe room.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Doctor enters the room so Cass can get a better
look at the ghosts through his sonic sunglasses camera-thing. He wants her to
read their lips. She does, and the ghosts are saying, “The dark, the sword,
forsaken, temple.” The Doctor is confused, and then he calls for a map. He
works out that they’re giving him coordinates. The ghosts are trying to beam
out coordinates and more ghosts means more beaming.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to the former base’s church, but he doesn’t know why the ghosts are beaming
them out. He convinces everyone to stay and help him solve the mystery.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the church, and figure out why the coordinates lead there. They find the
suspended animation chamber from the alien craft… And this was my face:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Okay, and then I got a little lost. I’ma try to
explain this as best I can…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the writing in the craft. He realizes the writing is the coordinates, and that
none of them were surprised when they heard the coordinates because they’d
already seen them when they looked at the writing. Got that? Okay, good. Me neither. ;)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Okay, so the words get stuck in your brain after you
see them, and they stay there, even after death. The ghosts beam out the
coordinates while the pilot/weird alien/whatever? Sleeps in the animation
chamber and waits for its friends to come rescue it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Suddenly, the ghosts tamper with the computer and
start to flood the base! Everyone needs to get to the TARDIS, and they have 30
seconds to do so! A flood door comes down, and Clara and the Doctor are
separated! Clara, Lunn and Cass are safe where they are, and the Doctor tells
them through the com that he’s going to bring the TARDIS back to when the alien
craft landed, so that he can understand what happened and why it’s happening.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Doctor and two crew members leave in the TARDIS,
as Clara, Lunn and Cass look at something out the window of the base….It’s a
new ghost. IT’S THE EFFING DOCTOR HE’S A GHOST OH MY GODDDDDDDDDDD WHAT IS
HAPPENING?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">HFGFKGFYAUGFJHEHFGUKGLGRLGHFFGRGBVJKMN CLIFFHANGER!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Guys, GUYS! STAY CALM! I’ma get on watching Before
the Flood ASAP because now I’m DYING. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Oh, right.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> My favourite lines. Here they are!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Doctor: “So who’s in charge now? I need to know
who to ignore.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Doctor: “Anything else I should know? Anyone got
a peanut allergy or something?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Doctor: “Yes, well, there was no such thing as
socks, or smart phones, and badgers until there suddenly were.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Okay, so Clara is hanging upside down, and she isn’t dead. Neither is Missy. But we knew that, right?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Missy tells Clara a story about the Doctor — and the costume changes are really great here — with no TARDIS. He’s being stalked by invisible assassins, he’s surrounded, close to death. And Missy wants Clara to tell her how he escaped. Clara answers the question correctly, and Missy explains that that’s exactly how she and Clara got away. So, that answers that question, tied up with a neat little bow! Oh, except for the vampire monkeys. But that’s another story!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Missy and Clara plot to save the Doctor from Davros and an army of Daleks … with a pointy stick.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Back in Davros’s sick room, the Doctor threatens Davros with a Dalek gun. Then he apparently rips Davros right out of his chair and leaves him for dead on the floor. And then climbs into said chair. WHAT THE EFF IS EVEN GOING ON. I’m supposed to believe that the Doctor would just kill Davros in cold blood like that? SERIOUSLY?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Oh, and then the Daleks exterminate the Doctor. But he’s okay. Because he’s the Doctor. And also Davros’s chair has a force field.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Over near the Dalek sewers — yeah, Daleks have sewers. Who knew?! — Missy pushes Clara in to see how far down they go. It was actually a very comical moment. Clara is pretty mad, and she threatens Missy with the pointy stick. Missy explains that the Dalek sewer is also the Dalek graveyard. Eww.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In the sewer, Clara and Missy hear the Doctor’s speech about wanting Clara back alive. It’s very touching. But stupid Davros has to ruin it by being not-dead. JEEZ, this guy NEVER DIES. Suddenly, the Doctor is covered in snakes because Sarf apparently put snakes in Davros’s chair one day, for this exact reason, I guess?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Missy AGAIN tricks Clara into being bait for the Daleks — Clara’s kind of naïve, isn’t she? — and Missy kills the Dalek that comes to investigate the sewer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Doctor wakes in Davros’s chamber again, and Davros talks. And talks. And talks. We get a peek at Snake-Guy, and he’s now changed into a bunch of cables. Um. O…kay?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In Davros’s chamber, MOAR TALKING. Davros explains that he’s connected to the life force of every Dalek, and that they all have respect and mercy for him. The Doctor now realizes that by touching the cables, he could kill every single Dalek. He could commit genocide, and Davros pushed him to do it. Because, duh, snake cables.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Doctor refuses, and in a wonderful scene, explains why. He came to help Davros because he’s sick and he asked, and because he doesn’t want to just be some “old Timelord who ran away.” He wants to be The Doctor. He wants to do what the Doctor does. Save people. Even if that person is evil old Davros.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In the Dalek, Clara becomes a Dalek. She learns to control it with her brain, and Missy locks her inside. It’s then that she learns that she can no longer say her own name. Oh, and if she gets emotional, she automatically starts shooting. Also, most feelings make her yell, “Exterminate!”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So here’s my major grief with this: WHY DIDN’T WE KNOW THIS BEFORE?! Is this new?! The Doctor has talked to Daleks before, and this has never, EVER been mentioned. WHY? Ugh, sorry. It just really bothers me. It’s like the writers are making stuff up — and making it canon! — just to make the plot of one episode fit together. We have 50 years of Dalek background, and this was never a part of it! Okay, okay … shutting up now.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Davros wants to know why the Doctor ran with the TARDIS. The Doctor puts on his shades, because he’s cool, I guess? They banter some more. The Doctor tells Davros that Gallifrey didn’t burn. That he brought it back, but he’s not sure where he put it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Davros changes tactics and plays the good guy. He actually *cries* and then opens his ACTUAL eyes so he can look at the Doctor. Davros tells the Doctor to do everything he can to protect his people, as Davros protected his. He asks the Doctor if he’s a good man. Then they have a laugh when Davros makes a joke. I mean, it’s a really, really great scene. Davros says he wants to see the sun one last time with his own eyes. Welp, that does it, and the Doctor is now going to do all he can to keep Davros alive to see one more sunrise.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Meanwhile, Dalek-Clara gets Missy up to the Dalek hand-out room. I assume that’s what it is because it has, like, twenty Daleks just hanging out in it at all times.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Doctor decides to use a little bit of regeneration energy (OH MY GOD IT DOESN’T WORK THAT WAY AT ALL WTF?!?!?!?!) to keep Davros alive for the sunrise. Of course, that backfires because, duh, Snake-Guy is the cables! So Snake-Guy keeps the Doctor attached to the cables and sucks a ton of regeneration energy through the cables and into Davros.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In the Dalek hang-out, Missy is about to give up Clara when the Daleks start to glow with the energy flowing into them through Davros. Missy runs off to find the Doctor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Davros mentions a prophecy that was on Gallifrey, about a hybrid race. He asks the Doctor if that’s what he ran from. His part in the coming of the hybrid; Half Dalek, half Timelord.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Missy enters the room and blasts the cables. The Doctor is detached, but the Daleks wake up renewed and more powerful than ever. Davros is also feeling just fine now, thanks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">BUT WHOOPS, NOT SO FAST, FOLKS!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Doctor knew what was happening, and he LET IT HAPPEN! HE PULLED THE OL’ SWITCHEROO, GUYS! The regeneration energy also went down into the sewers, and woke up generations of Daleks that are now REALLY ticked off.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As he’s running, the Doctor runs into Dalek-Clara, and she, of course, can’t tell him who she is. It just keeps saying, “I AM A DALEK, I AM A DALEK.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Missy tells the Doctor that it’s the Dalek that killed Clara. The Dalek begs for mercy. The Doctor realizes that it’s Clara inside, and he tells Missy to run. Missy runs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Doctor gets Clara out of the Dalek casing, and he reassembles the TARDIS with his new sonic glasses. And that’s all I’m going to say about the sonic sunglasses.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Doctor realizes after he and Clara are safe that it was HE who taught the Daleks mercy, through Davros, when he SAVED the boy in the field! He goes back and shoots off of the handmines, and takes young Davros home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So the first time I watched this episode, right after it aired three weeks ago, I hated it. But on second watch, I guess it wasn’t totally horrible.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I hated the stupid Dalek Clara bit, and I’m not even going to mention the sonic sunglasses, but I didn’t HATE it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I just wish Moffat et al. would leave the classics alone. Let the canon lie, and stop changing huge stories to suit their own episodes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I didn’t have a ton of favourite lines, so here are the two I liked:</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Davros: “I hope you are grateful. It wasn’t easy to procure, and very nearly unique, of course. You should feel privileged. The only other chair on Skaro.”</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Doctor: “I’m just a bloke in a box! Telling stories!”</span></li>
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EXCITED! I have such high hopes for this season, seeing as it’s (OMG SPOILERS!)
Jenna’s last as a companion. I’m not at all a Clara fan (although I adore
Jenna), but I truly hope she gets the send-off she deserves. And now, on to the
premiere!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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where he doesn’t belong. The soldier follows, and they both get caught in a “hand
mine”. Good god, that’s some creepy stuff right there. Eye-hands that suck you
underground. NOPE.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #4c1130;">After the soldier is sucked beneath the earth, the
Doctor randomly shows up in the field. Apparently he was looking for a
bookshop, and he ended up on the battlefield. The Doctor tries to help the boy
and tosses his sonic screwdriver over. He asks the boys’ name, and the boy
replies, “Davros.” OH MY GODDDDDDDD WHAT WHAT WHAAAAAAT?!? WHAT IS HAPPENING??
HOW….WHO…..WHAT?!?!?!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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conflicted. He’s not sure what to do. I mean, this child will grow up to create
the most evil beings in all of time and space. They will destroy planets,
commit genocide, start the Time War that kills off the Time Lords…Of course; I’m
talking about the Daleks. What would YOU do?<br />
Queue opening credits!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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invisible Segway is searching for the Doctor. He asks around the universe; In
the Maldovarium, on the Shadow Proclamation, and finally on Karn, where he
leaves a message. Davros is dying, and wants to see the Doctor one last time. “Davros
knows. Davros remembers.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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he still has the Doctor’s sonic screwdriver! Davros tells the snake-guy to find
the Doctor’s friends. That’s the sure way to find the man himself. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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something odd out the window. A plane is just hanging in the sky. We find out
that it’s all planes, all over the world. They’re just frozen in the sky, and
Clara dashes off to UNIT HQ to help out.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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message from someone who wants the Doctor’s attention. Queue Missy, texting her
favourite song on the Doctor’s private UNIT channel! She summons UNIT and Clara
to a parley. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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confession dial—a Timelord will—with his closest friend. Clara assumes the
confession is meant for her, but NOPE! It’s Missy he’s left it to. The girls have a chat, Missy proves her continued
evilness by killing a couple of UNIT agents, and Clara convinces Missy to
unfreeze the planes. They hunker down with UNIT and try to figure out where the
Doctor would go to have a last hurrah. It’s pinpointed to 1138AD, and off go
Clara and Missy with the help of Missy’s vortex manipulator. She slips another
on Clara’s wrist, and syncs it to her own. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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an EPIC entrance, playing the Doctor Who theme song on an electric guitar while
wearing sunglasses and riding on top of a tank! It’s bloody beautiful! He makes
a few really bad dad jokes, plays “Pretty Woman”, hugs Clara, and leads a “dude”
chant. It really is a fun, adorable scene. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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snake-guy shows up in the arena. Missy and Clara led him right to the Doctor.
Snake-guy literally turns into a snake, explains that Davros knows and
remembers, and tosses the sonic screwdriver onto the ground. In a flashback,
the Doctor remembers leaving young Davros alone on the battlefield. He just
gets into his TARDIS and leaves. Poor kid. </span></span></div>
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The Doctor agrees to go with the snake-guy. Clara and Missy ain’t havin’ that,
and despite the protests of the Doctor, they’re also taken along to see Davros.
Bors is then revealed to be a Dalek slave, and he finds the TARDIS. The Daleks
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Clara who Davros is and how he made the Daleks. They enter Davros’s hospital
ship, and the Doctor is led away to see the man himself. As he exits, the
Doctor says one word, “Gravity.” Missy explains to Clara that the gravity is
more like a planet than a ship. She easily breaks her restraints, and the two
take a walk outside.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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flashbacks of former Doctors and his run-ins with Davros. We see the Sixth, Seventh
and Tenth Doctors, and most importantly, we see the Fourth. His words ring
clear, “If someone who knew the future had pointed out a child to you, and told
you that that child would grow up totally evil, to be a ruthless dictator who
would destroy millions of lives. Could you really kill that child?” So, um…wow.
Nice, nice callback, Mr. Moffat. That was really wonderfully done. And the
point is made to our most recent Twelfth Doctor. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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with Davros inside, both realize at the same time where they are. Davros has
brought them back to Skaro, where it all began. Where else would Davros go to
die? The Doctor is trapped in Davros’s chamber, and Missy and Clara are brought
into a room with the TARDIS. It’s full of Daleks…all different types of Daleks
from many different episodes. Missy tries to get them to keep her alive by
telling them that they need her. It doesn’t work. She is exterminated. The
Doctor begs Davros to save Clara. Clara runs. It doesn’t help. She is also
exterminated. The Doctor is devastated. Davros wants to hear the Doctor say it
just once, “Compassion is wrong.” And the Daleks begin to destroy the TARDIS.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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The Doctor has returned, and he’s going to save his friends, the only way he
can…with extermination! And a Dalek gun! WHOA! CLIFFHANGER!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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JEEZ.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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dead, right? Remember the vortex manipulators? Clara’s is synced to Missy’s? They
got out safe for sure. And how about young Davros? Do you think the Doctor is
going to kill him? No way, dudes. He’s totally going to shoot a path through
the hand mine. Teach compassion by showing compassion, right?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Is the TARDIS okay? (I’m gonna say yeah. No way can Dalek guns destroy that old
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wish it had been a regular episode, and not a premiere. I expect more from
premieres. I expect…well, I expect The Eleventh Hour, or Rose, or Smith and
Jones, or Partners in Crime. I expect huge, massive, brilliant, fun premieres,
and this one was just okay. However, I enjoyed this one way more than Deep
Breath, so we’re already taking a step in the right direction this season.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Missy: “Okay, cutting to the chase: not dead, back, big surprise, nevermind.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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the night he stole the moon and the president’s wife. Since he was a little
girl. One of those was a lie, can you guess which one?”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #4c1130;">Bors: “Dude! What is that?!”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #4c1130;">The Doctor: “When do I not see you?”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #4c1130;">The Doctor: “I spent all day yesterday in a bow tie.
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #4c1130;">The Doctor: “Davros is my arch-enemy. Why would I
want to talk to him?”<br />
Missy: “But, wait, hang on a minute. *Davros* is your arch-enemy now?”<br />
The Doctor: “Hush!”<br />
Missy: “I’ll scratch his eye out.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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and I’m so glad I’m able to share my thoughts and theories here with you guys.
Until next week!</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">With two days to go before the big show, I finally found time to post my Oscar picks! 'cause I know how y'all wait for my picks every year, right? RIGHT?!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Okay, first up, supporting actress:</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Patricia Arquette</b>.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">BOOM, that was easy!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Next, supporting actor:</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>J.K. Simmons</b>. No contest. He KILLED IT. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Another easy one, yay!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Best actress: </span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Julianne Moore</b>. My god, she was brilliant. So were Reese and Felicity, but Julianne would get my vote. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Man, these are easy this year!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Best actor: </span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Okay, this one is tough. Michael Keaton will probably win it, but Bradley Cooper was crazy-good and could win if the vote is split. Of course, my heart is with my boyfriend <b>EDDIE REDMAYNE</b>. (SHUTUPHEISTOOMYBOYFRIENDSHUTUP), so I'm choosing him.</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Guys, he WAS Stephen Hawking. He was absolutely wonderful. I lub him.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Writing, adapted screenplay:</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Whiplash</b>. God damn I loved that movie.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Writing, original screenplay: </span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Boyhood</b>. It's too unconventional to not win.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Best Director: </span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Richard Linklater</b>. His movie was so out-of-the-box. The Academy loves that crap.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Best animated movie:</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>The LEGO Movie</b>. I don't care that it wasn't nominated. It should win.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Best movie:</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Birdman</b>. I think they'll give Linklater the directing Oscar, but give Birdman the picture. I'd LOVE to see Whiplash win because it was ny favourite of all the nominated movies, but that'll never happen. Not in a year so full of brilliance.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And there you have it! My picks for 2015! I'd love to hear your picks and thoughts on mine!</span><br />
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<br />Christinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05031334667645073887noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-952127608436008887.post-13822250054555473092015-01-15T16:48:00.001-05:002015-01-15T16:48:14.754-05:00Book Review: Owl and the Japanese Circus by Kristi Charish<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Author: Kristi Charish<br />Published by: Simon and Schuster Canada<br />Publish date: January 2015<br />Pages: 432</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Series: The Adventures of Owl, book 1</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Huge thank you to Simon and Schuster Canada for providing this book for review!</span><br />
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<i><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Ex-archaeology grad student turned international antiquities thief, Alix—better known now as Owl—has one rule. No supernatural jobs. Ever. Until she crosses paths with Mr. Kurosawa, a red dragon who owns and runs the Japanese Circus Casino in Las Vegas. He insists Owl retrieve an artifact stolen three thousand years ago, and makes her an offer she can’t refuse: he’ll get rid of a pack of vampires that want her dead. A dragon is about the only entity on the planet that can deliver on Owl’s vampire problem – and let’s face it, dragons are known to eat the odd thief.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Owl retraces the steps of Mr. Kurosawa’s ancient thief from Japan to Bali with the help of her best friend, Nadya, and an attractive mercenary. As it turns out though, finding the scroll is the least of her worries. When she figures out one of Mr. Kurosawa’s trusted advisors is orchestrating a plan to use a weapon powerful enough to wipe out a city, things go to hell in a hand basket fast…and Owl has to pick sides.</span></i><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Wow. WOW. You guys, this book! It totally came in out of nowhere and made me fall in love with it! </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Owl, guys. OWL. She's amazing! She's tough and flawed and hilarious, and I adore her. Her vampire-sniffing cat, Captain, is awesome, and I kept looking at my own huge-bellied cat and asking him, "WTF, dude, you can't even jump onto the damn windowsill without falling!"</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Rynn is dreamy, and what little romance there is in OatJC (yeah, I shortened it. Big whoop. Wanna fight about it?) is done well and tastefully. Y'all know that I'm not a fan of a ton of romance in my books. ;)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Nadya is another really great character, and the type of best friend everyone wants to have. Smart, tech-savvy, with the ability to keep up with your drinking! </span><br />
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<span style="color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">One of the best parts about this book is the unique twists on the monsters! Vampires aren't just your run-of-the-mill vamps, and Ms. Charish also includes some lesser-used baddies like naga and ghouls and demons. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">But the best part of this book--and it was tough to pick one best part because I really loved this book. I mean, I stayed up until 5 frickin' am reading it one night--was the epilogue. Man, I wish I could say more, but I LOVED THAT ENDING. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Seriously, if you're a fan of Indiana Jones, constant action, snipe, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Supernatural or archaeology, you're going to love <a href="http://books.simonandschuster.com/Owl-and-the-Japanese-Circus/Kristi-Charish/9781476794990" target="_blank">Owl and the Japanese Circus</a>.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">READ IT.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Bring on book two!</span></span></span>Christinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05031334667645073887noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-952127608436008887.post-73095607684024470882015-01-15T01:53:00.002-05:002015-01-15T01:53:42.462-05:00POLL: How about a teen drama first watch?So I have this idea. I'm apparently in a teen drama phase, which began with my first watch of Veronica Mars.<br />
Now, I WISH I'd had this idea when I started VM, because holy hell, I'd love to write about this show. However, since I'm now halfway through season 2, that's not gonna happen.<br />
But there are a bazillion other shows to choose from, which is why I've made this poll!<br />
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I propose a weekly recap/reaction post as I watch each episode for the first time. You can all join along--I figure one episode a week is doable for most people--and comment as you like. If its your first watch, your comments can also be reactions, thought, etc. If it's a rewatch for you, you can comment on my reaction, tell us about your reaction when you first saw the episode, etc.<br />
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So! You're probably wondering which shows I have in mind. Welp, here they are!<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">400 pages<br />Published by Gallery Books (Simon & Schuster Canada) on January 13, 2015<br />Huge thanks to Simon & Schuster Canada for providing this copy for review!</span><br />
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<i>A strange plague called the ’Gets is decimating humanity on a global scale. It causes people to forget—small things at first, like where they left their keys…then the not-so-small things like how to drive, or the letters of the alphabet. Then their bodies forget how to function involuntarily…and there is no cure. But now, far below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, deep in the Marianas Trench, an heretofore unknown substance hailed as “ambrosia” has been discovered—a universal healer, from initial reports. It may just be the key to a universal cure. In order to study this phenomenon, a special research lab, the Trieste, has been built eight miles under the sea’s surface. But now the station is incommunicado, and it’s up to a brave few to descend through the lightless fathoms in hopes of unraveling the mysteries lurking at those crushing depths…and perhaps to encounter an evil blacker than anything one could possibly imagine.</i><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Welp, I didn't like this one nearly as much as I did <a href="http://justagirlgeek.blogspot.ca/2014/02/book-review-troop-by-nick-cutter.html" target="_blank">The Troop</a>. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">The Deep, while suspenseful and creepy, lags in the middle, and it was tough to keep reading through. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">It did have its scary bits, and if you're at all claustrophobic, or afraid of what may lurk in deep water, you'll probably find parts of this book pretty scary.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Again in The Deep, Mr. Cutter goes for the jugular when it comes to creepy, gross and disturbing. He definitely succeeds by leaps and bounds in that department. There were a few times when I had to put the book down and take a break for a few hours just to get the disturbing images out of my head! In my opinion, this is a GOOD thing. I love dark, disturbing, creepy and gross. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">But frankly, I would have preferred a full book about the 'Gets, rather than this Abyss/It mash-up wannabe. The 'Gets sounded really interesting, and the blurb on the back led me to believe that we'd learn more about that than we did.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">I do recommend The Deep. If you liked The Troop, and enjoy dark, creepy thrillers, this is right up your alley. </span><br />
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I WAS VERY WRONG. Bah.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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liked this episode and it’s driving me nuts! Hooray! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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and the Wardrobe, and The Snowmen, but it definitely wasn’t my favourite. I
think maybe I liked it much more until it reached a certain point, and then I
felt a little let down. I’ll let you know which point that was when I get to it
in this recap. ;)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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that we finally see the Doctor we’ve been waiting all season to see. The man
we’ve come to know and love over (at least) the last eight seasons. The man
full of wonder and magic, fun and joy, and who has a special innocence and
child-like glee. I absolutely teared-up when he was driving the sleigh. THIS is
the Doctor I miss so much, and I truly hope to see him more often in series 9.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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slumber. She finds her way to the roof, where she finds Santa has crashed his
sleigh. Santa bickers with his two elves (do you recognize Dan Starkey out of
his Sontaran costume?) when we hear an old familiar sound…the TARDIS lands on
the rooftop. The Doctor pops out, Clara enters the blue box, Santa and the
Doctor bicker, and the Doctor and Clara take off on their adventure.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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scientist is trying to walk through a room full of monsters. These monsters,
called “dream crabs”, grab on to your face, yes, exactly like <i>Alien</i>. Also, they make you dream while
they kill you. As long as you’re not thinking about them, they stay asleep and
you’re safe. The scientist, Shona, dances her way through the room. It’s
hilariously awesome. Enter the Doctor and Clara. The monsters awake, and the
Doctor tries to distract Clara from thinking about them by mentioning Danny.
Clara comes clean—after slapping the Doctor (again with the slapping?), and
tells him Danny is dead. The monsters attack, but PHEW! Santa and his elves
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real or not, Santa and the Doctor explain dream crabs, and Santa brings in a
dead one. Of course, it’s not dead….but that’s a long story. Santa continues to
explain his existence… he’s played wonderfully by Nick Frost, by the way. A
real highlight of the episode, and the Doctor comes clean to Clara and tells
her he never found Gallifrey. Camera footage shows the Doctor exactly how the
dream crabs got onto the base, and he sends Clara off to get a thing. She’s
attacked by a dream crab. WHAT A SURPRISE. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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WHAT. WHAAAAT?! Yeah, so this is probably where I’m supposed to cry, and I
usually would, wouldn’t I? I mean, I’m hugely emotional and I cry at
everything…but Moffat, dude, you’re trying too hard here. See, Danny already
had a wonderful, perfect send-off, and we didn’t need this. This cheapened the way
he died, and, honestly, I’m a bit miffed that he was brought back for this
episode. So, no. Sorry. This dream was a huge fail for me. NEXT!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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dream, but in the end he has to allow a dream crab (can I just mention that I
keep typing ‘dream crab’ to ‘dream crap’, and that’s hilariously accurate?) to
attach itself to him so that he can enter her dream. There’s more Danny
fanwank, but eventually both the Doctor and Clara are able to safely exit the
dream. NOPE. Y’see, it’s a dream in a dream in a dream in a, WELCOME TO
INCEPTION YOU GUISE WHERE’S LEO DICAPRIO WHEN YOU NEED HIM?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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explains that they never survived the first attack; Santa never saved them.
He’s not actually real. He’s something their minds made up to try to protect
them from turning into mush. Santa and his elves confirm that, and he explains
how they can wake up.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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…not. They ‘wake’ still on the polar base, and the Doctor says a quick goodbye
to the polar crew as he enters the TARDIS. He prepares to leave when Clara asks him how
Santa could have been on her roof. This gives him his usual epiphany. The
sleepers—the ones in the base that have been taken over by the dream crabs—are
them; the people on the base. But they’re not actually on the base. (Oh my god
I’m not even making sense) They’re scattered all over the world, and have been
networked into the same dream. And then Professor Albert dies. Oh, he was
played by Michael Troughton, by the way. Is that name familiar? If not, Google
it. Go on, I’ll wait………….SEE?! HOW COOL IS THAT?! </span><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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WHO YOU GONNA CALL?! Santa saves the day! They all climb into Santa’s sleigh,
and here’s the scene I just loved. The Doctor’s utter glee while driving was
beautiful! “Look at me, look! I’m riding a sleigh! I’m riding a sleigh!” I
missed the happy so much!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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remember their actual life. Each wakes in their own time, and none remembers
anything about the dream. It’s a bit sad. (But who the hell is Dave?!)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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you know which point was a let-down? We’re here. </span></span></div>
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Clara. Clara, who chooses to stay on the sleigh long after she should. The
Doctor finds her and saves her from the dream crab, but she’s old. He’s been
away for 62 years, and Clara had a long, full life without him. She looks
happy, and this would have been a perfect goodbye for Clara. I cried. This is
exactly as it should be. This is perfect. This is wonderful. Dying of old age
after a wonderful life, some of it while traveling through time and space with
a daft old mad man with a box. What could be better than that? But, nope.
That’s too perfect, I guess. Moffat wasn’t ready to leave Clara behind yet, and
so, with Santa’s help, the Doctor is allowed to go back to save young Clara.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Doctor, apparently for a whole new series, as reported by the BBC earlier
today. (</span><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-30602537"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-30602537</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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longest-running companion of the new series, with at least 3 seasons under her
belt. And the episode was…good. It was good. I enjoyed most of it. It was ten
minutes too long, and I definitely could have seen Shona as the new companion.
As always, I have hope for the new season. I always do. I love this show, and I
love Capaldi. I remember what this show once meant to me, and I long to feel
those feelings again.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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see you back here in 2015 for <i>The
Magician’s Apprentice!<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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frustrated, not stunned….but satisfied.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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killed it. She IS the Master. Jenna was great, Samuel was brilliant, and Capaldi
was….well, Capaldi was The Doctor. Absolute perfection. As finales go, this was
okay. Better than some, not as good as others. I thought the storyline itself
was a bit clunky, but the heartstring-tugs more than made up for that. I know
some of you are going to absolutely HATE that they turned the Brig into a
Cyberman, but I thought it was brilliant and wonderful and a really fantastic
tribute to the man. Yes, I bawled. That salute? BAWLED.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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die, and I understand why it had to be Osgood, but I’m still upset about it.
She kind of represented the fangirl/boy in all of us. I really, really liked
her. And to kill her right after she’d been asked to travel with the Doctor?
Ugh, heartbreaking. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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well” when talking about Clara, and why the heck did her accent change all of a
sudden for no reason at all? She just wanted to sound like the Doctor, I guess?
How did Missy even know about Clara? The reasons here seemed very weak. Was it
just me?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;">The Clara-themed opening credit scene (what? You didn’t
notice that her eyes had replaced Capaldi’s there?!) was a nice tribute, IF she’s
really leaving the show...which I’m not yet convinced of.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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wasted, in my opinion, much like poor Danny. To have such a meager existence through
the whole series, just to be sacrificed at the end…it seems like such a waste.
I liked Danny’s character a lot, and I wish more had come of him.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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it? I wonder how the wee Whovians took to that. Dark Water, falling from the
sky to resurrect the dead and make them Cybermen…and again, poor Danny. Poor,
poor, Danny. If he had to be killed off, it really was in a wonderful way (“<i>I will burn</i>”), for a wonderful reason,
and oh my god, what he did at the end? When he sent back to boy instead of
coming home himself? I DIED. So, although a wasted character, he did do much
good, and he will be remembered. I guess that’s pretty important too, right?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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insane (<i>“This is our secret girl plan.”</i>)<i>,</i> scary (“<i>Bananas</i>.”), sad (“<i>I need my friend
back.</i>”)…ugh, I just loved her. I LOVED her, just as much as I loved Simm’s
Master. Hell, maybe even MORE than I loved Simm’s Master! And I’m REALLY glad
she’s not dead!<br />
…oh, you didn’t catch that? Yeah, after Cyber-Brig (BEST MOMENT SO MUCH
SOBBING) shoots her, but before she dies, Missy teleports outta there. At least
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we haven’t seen the last of the Master!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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of the Brig…Saving the Doctor’s soul, saving his daughter from certain death, there
in the darkest hour…Moffat, you softie. Where does Cyber-Brig go? I really hope
they let it lie now. I thought Eleven’s phone call was a fine goodbye to him,
but this tops that, and now it should be done. But that salute…oh, that salute.
That was just really, really well done. Thanks, Moffat, for this little bit of
fanwankery.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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find Gallifrey at the coordinates that Missy gave him…that was heartbreaking.
Empty space, nothing but stars, and Capaldi nails the Doctor’s pain and anger
and sorrow. Damn you, Missy!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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another, and part ways. Although I’m certain that we haven’t seen the last of
Clara. I’m 1000% certain she’s back in the Christmas special, and I’m 990%
certain that she’ll have a small child in tow—the one I *still* think she’s
pregnant with at the end of this episode; Danny’s child. The Christmas special
will be Clara’s final farewell, and she’ll get a proper send-off, like she
deserves. This one was too…small. Companions ALWAYS get a big send off, right?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Doctor enters the restaurant at the end. Now, I rewound it and listened a bunch
of times, and I SWEAR that she’s drumming the Master’s theme on that damn
tabletop!<br />
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Or did Missy just say the one thing she knew would hurt the Doctor?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Perhaps we’ll see a new, regenerated Master, ruling Gallifery? Or will it be
about the Doctor’s journey to find his home, and the finale will be him finally
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“It can’t end like that. She’s not all right.”</span></span></div>
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plays Strax, is one of Santa’s elves near the end there, is that possible
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Well then. I'm still stunned. I truly have no idea how to feel about what I just watched. I mean, as episodes go, this one was average. Why does it take Danny's death for the Doctor to visit the afterlife? Of all the people he's lost--Adric, The Brig, Amy and Rory--why is Danny's death the one that makes him decide to have a gander? Ugh, nope. NOPE.<br />
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But that reveal, you guys. THAT F**KING MISSY REVEAL. WITH THE DRUMS AND EVERYTHING.<br />
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I honestly thought it was too obvious. I honestly thought that all of you that thought Missy = Master were crazy because it's just *too* obvious. But for once, Moffat went obvious, and I'm not sure whether I'm okay with that.<br />
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Michelle Gomez, who plays Missy, is a great Master. Holy crap, do I call her Missy or the Master now? I DON'T KNOW. Regardless, Missy, the character, is great. I have no issues with her actress, although I truly hope we get to see a John Simm regeneration ("Whoa, new vagina. Weird.").<br />
IF this is an incarnation of the Master that's after Simm. Of course, if could be from BEFORE Professor Yana. He's had a long life, and we haven't seen anywhere near all of it yet. How effing brilliant would it be if the events of the next few episodes lead to Missy regenerating into Yana and fob-watching himself?! OH MY GOD WHY AM I NOT WRITING FOR THIS SHOW I'M DAMN BRILLIANT.<br />
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Regardless, I'm still pretty confused, so I guess everything will be wrapped up in the finale? Was Missy the woman in the shop? What did she mean by, "My Clara" and "I chose well" and "I like his accent, I think I'll keep it"?<br />
Did Missy somehow choose Clara as a companion for the Doctor? How, and why?<br />
How did she escape Gallifrey? How is she back on earth? Who's Seb? Does the Master now have a companion?<br />
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Lets move onto Danny--by the way TOTALLY CALLED HIS DEATH LAST WEEK. Will Danny stay dead? Will Danny be turned into a Cyberman? Seeing the reflection of the boy Danny killed in the iPad just as Danny was about to push "delete"; what effect will that have on Danny? Will he keep his feelings, and become a Cyberman who feels and remembers? I'ma go with that theory. CyberDanny with feels. Man, it was sad to find out that he'd unknowingly killed a kid...and then that kid came back and wanted to see him in death...so, so dark. So, so sad.<br />
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What about Clara? Holy hell, I hated her in this episode. HATED. HATED SO MUCH. Okay, she and Danny have been dating for a few months, right? Poor Danny dies. SO CLARA EFFING BLACKMAILS HER BEST FRIEND AND A MAN SHE'S KNOWN FOR YEARS AND THREATENS TO TAKE HIM AWAY FROM HIS HOME (the TARDIS) AND TRAP HIM ON EARTH FOREVER BECAUSE HE WON'T CROSS THE TIMESTREAM AND SAVE A BOY?!?! WHAT?!?!?!??!?!<br />
Yeah, I HATED that. A LOT. I don't care if it was all a dream--wtf was that all about anyway, a dream sequence?! Yeah, THAT'S not overused at all.<br />
Also, why does the Doctor need the TARDIS keys, exactly? He can open the door with a snap of his fingers. Or a kick to the door, as we've seen this season.<br />
If Missy was the woman in the shop, wouldn't Clara recognize her now? Unless she used a disguise, I suppose...<br />
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This was a very dark episode. Like, incredibly dark. In Britain, Doctor Who is still very much considered a show for kids. This episode was NOT for kids. Most of this season wasn't for kids, but most especially this episode. The 3 words--Don't cremate me.<br />
My god. So disturbing. So dark. It almost hurt to watch some of this episode, and I worry for those viewers that have suffered a recent loss.<br />
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How did the Doctor not know Missy was a Timelord? I thought Timelords could detect each other? Did he know when Missy had the Doctor feel her, er...hearts?<br />
How will he cope with the return of the Master? Will this lead them back to Gallifrey? OH MY GOD PLEASE LET SERIES 9 BE GETTING BACK TO AND FINDING GALLIFREY.<br />
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What's going to happen with the Cybermen? Are all dead and buried people going to rise up? "All the graves of the planet earth are about to give birth." Can you imagine if the Doctor encountered a Cyberman that called him "Raggedy Man"? OH MY GOD I SHOULD TOTALLY WRITE FOR THIS SHOW, CYBER-AMY WOULD BE AMAZING.<br />
How will the Cyber army be defeated? I bet Danny will have something to do with it.<br />
Will Danny then be allowed to come back to life somehow? Will he and Clara get their happily ever after? I still think Clara is pregnant...Is that the reason for the odd phone call that got Danny killed in the first place? Or will CyberDanny kill Clara? Would that make the Doctor change things, and bring Clara back? Make it so that CyberDanny never existed, and Danny never died? Will that be Danny's "bad day"? The day he killed Clara? I HAVE ENTIRELY TOO MANY THEORIES. MY BRAIN IS MUSH RIGHT NOW.<br />
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...or is Missy lying? Is she really the Master? Moffat lies...Maybe it's Seb. Maybe it's Missy. Maybe its neither.<br />
And what the hell does the Master have to do with Cybermen? What is the Nethersphere?! Why are they using the dead to make Cybermen?!<br />
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And who the hell is Dr. Skarosa? SKAROsa. SKARO....sa. I HAVE NO FREAKING IDEA. I NEED TO GO LIE DOWN NOW. MY BRAIN HURTS. OKAY, BYE.<br />
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<br />Christinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05031334667645073887noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-952127608436008887.post-18078163737534811442014-10-25T22:44:00.004-04:002014-10-25T22:50:29.434-04:00Doctor Who: Season 8<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I'm mad, you guys. Really, really mad. Many of you have noticed that I'm not recapping Doctor Who lately. A lot of that is because life got in my way for awhile, but a lot of it is also because, frankly, I just don't give a crap. Me, one of the biggest Doctor Who fans around, doesn't. Give. A crap. About Doctor Who. WHAT IS HAPPENING?!</span><br />
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I'm tried of mediocre, I'm tired of silly, I'm tired of poor writing and plot holes and ignoring and/or rewriting Doctor Who canon and lore. This is so far from the Doctor Who that I fell in love with, that it might as well be a whole different show. Capaldi is being wasted, and it pisses me off.</span><br />
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Murder on the Orient Express? Mediocre. Slightly scary, neat monster. The rest was forgettable.</span><br />
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Flatline? Tripe. Hated it. The story was stupid. Clara was great.</span><br />
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In the Forest of the Night? An episode of Sarah Jane Adventures without Sarah Jane (RIP, Lis). Again, mediocre, silly. WTF was with the end? Where the hell did the sister even come from? Most of it made zero sense. It was pointless.</span><br />
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I'm afraid of what the 2-part finale will bring. Will we get a <i>Listen</i>, or a <i>Kill the Moon</i>? I don't know, but I really, really want it to be good.</span><br />
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So, sorry, you guys. Thanks for understanding.</span><br />
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Oh, and for the record? I think Danny dies which makes Clara turn against the Doctor in the finale. I also still say she might be Missy. Miss C, y'know? Missy. Clara from the future, or from another timeline or something.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But Missy could also be a personification of the Doctor himself. She does call Clara, "My Clara", like he does, along with all the other hints about the accent, how she chose Clara, etc.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So, I dunno. But Danny's gonna die, I guarantee it. ;)</span><br />
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<br />Christinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05031334667645073887noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-952127608436008887.post-57431970185330326872014-10-06T00:00:00.000-04:002014-10-06T00:00:07.551-04:00Doctor Who: Kill The Moon<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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WATCH?! That was horrible! HORRIBLE! That was like, right there with <i>Fear Her</i> and <i>Love and Monsters.</i> That was SO, SO BAD, YOU GUYS. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Look, I get that <i>Doctor
Who</i> is science fiction. I get that. I watch it every week, and I suspend
belief all the time. He’s an alien with two hearts that travels time and space
in a blue box, and I believe that. I allow my brain to accept that as truth
when I watch <i>Doctor Who</i>. But this?!
This is unacceptable. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">First, you can’t just change science! If the moon’s
mass changed even slightly, the world would be completely screwed up. Also,
even if it popped out of existence for just a few seconds, like it did at the
end of this episode, again, the world would be completely screwed.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Second, this episode just changed a TON of </span></span><i style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Doctor Who</i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> canon, </span></span><span style="line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">didn'</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">t? Am I wrong</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">?
What about to UNIT’s Moonbase?! What about the travel to Mars? How can the
space program have stopped in 2039 according to this episode, and was going on
just fine from 2041 onward in </span><i style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Waters of
Mars</i><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">? And according to web pages seen in </span><i style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Waters of Mars</i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">, numerous lunar missions happened, including ten
German missions and Project Pit Stop, which built a </span></span><span style="line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">refueling</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> station on the
moon.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I AM SO CONFUSED.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Oh, and don’t even get me started on the egg thing,
the OH MY GOD LOOK A NEW MOON WAS LAID BY A NEWBORN ALIEN THE EXACT SAME SIZE
AS THE EGG IS JUST LAID IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE LAST MOON HATCHED SO EVERYTHING
IS OKAY AND COMPLETELY BACK TO NORMAL, and how mean and, yeah, I’m gonna go
there, abusive and controlling the Doctor is to Clara in this episode. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">On the moon in 2049, Clara contacts earth to ask for
help with a decision. The Doctor is gone, and possibly not coming back.
Courtney is with her. A life hangs in the balance, and they have 45 minutes to
decide what to do…<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Jump backwards in time, to Coal Hill School. Clara
tells the Doctor that he told Courtney she’s not special. Courtney has been
acting up since, and Clara wants him to fix it. Seriously? I mean…seriously? I honestly
don’t even know how to comment on how stupid that is…<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Clara and the Doctor enter the TARDIS, and Courtney
is already there. How? Does she have a key? He never just leaves it open….except
this on time, I guess? Courtney whines about not being special, and the Doctor
decides to take her to the moon.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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filled with nuclear bombs. It crash lands on the moon. The Doctor explains to
his companions and the shuttle’s crew that gravity is broken, and the moon has
gained mass. ….what? Just….what? How would the moon suddenly gain mass. Like,
suddenly, all of a sudden?! WAT.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So, the crew is going to explode the moon, because
it’s gotten fat. That’s what the bombs are for. WHAT. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">They all go explore a moon mine that’s covered in
cobwebs. WHAT?!? One of the crew goes off to arm the bombs. The moon mine was
abandoned ten years ago. No one knows what happened to the crew. No one could
get up to the moon because they had no shuttles. Or rockets. OR FRICKING
ANYTHING, ANYWHERE?! WHAT?!?!?!? So it took them ten years to get a shuttle out
of a museum and go see what happened to the moon miners. Guys, we’re eleven
minutes in and I feel like my head is going to explode…<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The moon miners are discovered dead, and another of
the crew goes off alone to get some power on. I WONDER WHO’S GONNA DIE IN THIS
EPISODE?!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The power comes back on, but it’s unreliable and
flashes in and out spookily. The Doctor examines the miner’s data and realizes
that the moon is coming apart. ….WHAT?!?!?!?!?!?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Outside, the astronaut that went to arm the bombs is
killed by something unseen. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Back in the mining compound, something is skittering
around in the dark. It’s an alien spider-thing, and it attacks the astronaut
that was trying to get the power on when he enters the room. Courtney gets separated
from the Doctor and Clara when the door between them closes. She suddenly goes
floating through the air. Gravity fails…but why is the spider not floating?
WHY??<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Gravity comes back, and the spider almost attacks
Courtney, but she sprays and kills it with the Windex she just happens to have
packed in her spacesuit backpack. WHAT?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!??!?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Doctor explains that the spiders are actually
huge single-celled germs. So…what about the webs? WHAT IS EVEN HAPPENING?!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He also explains that Courtney floated because the
mass of the moon shifted. It’s an unstable mass. I CAN’T EVEN…<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Courtney asks to go home, and the Doctor and Clara
argue about it. He puts Courtney into the TARDIS for safe-keeping. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Clara mentions having been in the future and remembering
seeing the moon. The Doctor explains—he explains a lot this episode—that there
are some things he can’t see. Grey areas when big things are decided. He can’t
tell what happens to the moon because what happens hasn’t been decided yet.
Which means it’s up to them to decide. …..wut?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Doctor, Clara and the remaining astronaut find
more dead miners outside, and the Doctor is attacked by a germ. He saves
himself, and they see hundreds of germs hiding in a moon cave. And then he
discovers amniotic fluid on the moon, and jumps into a moon crater. WHAT?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Courtney is bored and putting moon pictures on
Tumblr, and Clara watches the shuttle—with the TARDIS aboard—fall into a crater
during a moonquake. Courtney is fine, and uses a disc to eventually bring the
TARDIS back to the Doctor.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Doctor returns from his trip into the crater,
and explains that the moon isn’t breaking apart. The moon is hatching. The moon
is an egg. And that was when I literally said out loud in my empty living room,
“Oh for f**cking sh** this is ridiculous.” I almost turned it off, you guys.
That’s NEVER happened before. Not for the scribble monster, not for the stupid
oral sex with pavement that has a face joke…but this? This was almost it for
me. It’s only because you guys are relying on me that I continued. THIS IS MY
SACRIFICE FOR YOU, DEAR READERS! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So for a hundred billion years, the moon has been an
egg, growing and preparing to hatch. The spiders are bacteria on a living
organism. Got it? Okay.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The astronaut wants to know how to kill it…and here’s
where the anti-abortion debate begins. The Doctor, Clara and Courtney argue for
the life, and the astronaut argues for the lives of billions on earth, which is
pointless, because in both situations, EVERYONE IS GOING TO DIE ANYWAY! Human
beings can’t freaking survive without the moon! ARGH. And, no. That’s all I’m
going to say about the apparent anti-abortion message in this episode.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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do, and he refuses. “It’s not my earth, not my moon.” Because, y’know, he’s
never, ever before made a decision to save the earth. Never, ever, ever.
WHAT?!?!?!?!??!?!????!?!!!!??!!??!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And then he leaves in the TARDIS. He leaves them to
make the decision on their own. He LEAVES IN THE TARDIS AND ABANDONS HIS BEST
FRIEND ON A MOON THAT’S INCREDIBLY UNSTABLE AND ABOUT TO BREAK APART. HE LEAVES
HIS BEST. FRIEND. That’s it. My mind has exploded. I literally cannot even
comprehend this anymore. IS THIS EVEN <i>DOCTOR
WHO</i> ANYMORE?! WAT IS THIS SHOW?!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The two women fight about what to do; Clara wants to
let the egg hatch, the astronaut wants to destroy it. The astronaut arms the
bombs, and gives them an hour to make a final decision. Clara broadcasts to
earth and asks them to help make the decision. She tells them that if they want
to destroy the egg, they should turn their lights off. If they want to let it
live, they should leave their lights on. All of the lights on earth go off. I’m
not going to bring up how unlikely that is. Nope, not even gonna.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Clara almost listens to the people on earth…almost.
But she presses the abort button on the bombs just in time. Just as she does,
the TARDIS returns and the Doctor orders them all inside.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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hatch. A huge dragon-thing flies away. The Doctor looks into the timelines—and this
is pretty much the only cool part in the whole episode—and tells them what
happens to humankind in the future, and then he tells Courtney she’s special,
but in his own words.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">AND THEN THE NEWBORN DRAGON-THING LAYS AN EGG
EXACTLY THE SAME SIZE, SHAPE AND MASS AS THE OLD EGG, AND BIGGER THAN IT’S OWN
FREAKING BODY WAS, AND TOTALLY MAKES THIS WHOLE FREAKING EPISODE COMPLETELY
SILLY AND POINTLESS WHAAAAAAAAAT?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Doctor drops everyone off, but Clara stays. She’s
angry. Much more angry that we’ve ever seen her. She threatens to smack him so
hard he’ll regenerate. I’m not okay with that line at all. That’s not an okay
line. Why is that an okay line? That’s a disturbing line, especially because of
the way it’s delivered. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Doctor explains that he had faith in Clara
making the right choice and that Courtney will now become president of the US,
which is impossible, because she’s English, but I guess the writers don’t care
about the US Constitution. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Clara, now crying angry tears, is done. She’s just
done with him, and his patronizing, disrespectful ways. And, for once, I’m on
Clara’s side here. He was borderline abusive in this episode, and I’m not at
all impressed with this. There’s being dark, which is what I was looking
forward to with Capaldi’s Doctor, and then there’s being an abusive,
controlling, patronizing asshole. The writers crossed that line with this
episode, and they need to fix it, fast. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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back. She’s done. The Doctor leaves.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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it’s happened. The Doctor has pushed Clara too far. Clara explains everything. Danny is really brilliant in this
particular scene, and I’m pretty sure I fell in love with him here, you guys.
Danny mentions that he’s had a bad day, and Clara goes home to look at the moon…<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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to hear yours. Am I being too harsh? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">-What was Danny’s bad day? I’m of two minds on that.
1) It’s the anniversary of the day he killed the civilian—and I think it was a
female civilian, by the way. Or 2) He’s just returned from a future trip with
the Doctor where something bad happened, and was brought back to this timeline
to comfort Clara for some reason.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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trailer. No way is she done. That’s just some nice editing by the trailer
creators. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Directly after I finished watching The Caretaker, I thought I’d enjoyed it. It
was fun, amusing, light, and reminded me a bit of The Lodger, an episode I
love. But after sleeping on it, the small nit-picky things started to add up in
my brain, and I realized that I didn’t like it as much as I thought I did. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Nit-picky things like the way the Doctor treats
Clara sometimes. Why does he have to constantly insult her appearance? That’s
not funny anymore. The Danny/Clara romance. Yep, I’m going back to that again.
I just wish it wasn’t there. The new character, Courtney. Omg, I hate her. I
really hope she gets better because I don’t think I can put up with her for
very long (and if one of my theories is correct—see below—I may not have to.
WINK, WINK). We’ve just seen this
before, y’know? The companion with the boyfriend who has to hide her adventures
from him. Like Rose and Mickey. Like Amy and Rory. Why do we have to do this
again?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So this was just another okay episode for me. But
okay is better than ‘meh’. It was enjoyable, it was fun, it did have some
amusing bits. It just wasn’t a home run, fantastic, can’t beat this, ever
episode for me.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We open with a sweaty Doctor and companion chained
up on a hot planet. They’re bickering about how they’re going to get free. And
then a bunch of quick flashes—On a date with Danny, who notices that Clara is
much more tanned than she was—Flash--the Doctor in the TARDIS beckons to Clara
and mentions fish people—Flash--in a cab with Danny, Clara is very wet and has
seaweed in her hair—and it continues in this manner for a few more flashes. I’m
dizzy now. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So, yeah, basically Clara is having a hard time
trying to have a normal dating life while travelling through all of time and
space. Fortunately, the Doctor has decided that he needs to go undercover for a
while, and Clara can’t go with him. They have a finger-snapping TARDIS-door-opening
argument, and Clara exits. I guess she’ll, “See him when she sees him.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">At Coal Hill School—and by the way, this would have
been a PERFECT episode for an Ian Chesterton cameo. It makes me sad that they
didn’t add one—Clara and Danny arrive separately, at the same time. The new
character, Courtney, is on the steps, giggling at them. Danny and Clara discuss
how busy Clara’s been lately, and she promises that the next few days are all
about him. Unfortunately, that’s a lie…<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">At a staff meeting, a new caretaker is introduced.
His name is John Smith, but most people call him The Doctor…<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Clara gets the Doctor alone and confronts him. He
won’t tell her why he’s there…yet. But there is a River mention, which is fun.
It’s often difficult to remember that this is the same man that *is* still
married to River Song!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Outside, a police officer hears a noise and enters
an abandoned building…full of mannequins. We see those a lot in Doctor Who,
don’t we? Pesky autons. But this time, it’s not the mannequins we have to worry
about. It’s a skittering, robotic alien thing, and it kills the police officer.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">At the school, Clara finds the Doctor…eventually. As
she makes her way to him, she’s stopped by students and teachers alike, and
Courtney is one of them. Courtney says…something?...to Clara. I can’t
understand what it is she says, even after rewinding and turning the volume way
up. Neither can Clara, apparently. Since it happens more than once, I’m
guessing it’s important, and we’ll hear more of it in upcoming episodes? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Doctor is attempting to fix something, and Danny
is watching on. Clara eavesdrops as the Doctor insults Danny. We’re again shown
that the Doctor isn’t at all fond of soldiers. Yet another thing that will be
explained, eventually? Danny leaves, and Clara brings up his last name; Pink.
She tries to remind the Doctor of another Pink they recently met, and he
doesn’t remember at all. Is he lying? Hmm.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Doctor places a small blinking device inside the
electrical box and asks Clara about her boyfriend. Clara is immediately stopped
by a teacher who looks pretty much exactly like the Eleventh Doctor, complete
with an adorable mop of hair and a bow tie. Of course, our new Doctor assumes
that this is the boyfriend.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We now go into a small montage of the Doctor doing
his caretaker duties and placing small blinking devices around the school, and of
Clara doing her teacher duties. In a hilarious scene, the Doctor sees Clara
disciplining a couple of student, and whistles a familiar line from Pink
Floyd’s “Another Brick in the Wall” at her. I loved that little touch.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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hidden the TARDIS. Courtney enters, looking for paper towels. She inquires
about the blue box, and about the green glow that was coming from inside the
box. The Doctor brushes her off, and as she exits and Clara enters, Courtney
again says something to Clara that I can’t understand at all. Is it in a
different language, or am I just bad at hearing the accent?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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searching for an alien—a Skovox Blitzer, one of the deadliest creatures in the
galaxy. He then brings out a new toy—a watch of invisibility! …so where was
this when he’s needed it a thousand times before?! Are we just creating new
tech for the purpose of one story again?! This watch will probably never be
seen after this episode. Ugh. UGH. I hate that.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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catch the Skovox—he’s going to activate the blinky things, keep it from
scanning him with the watch of invisibility, and suck it into a time vortex.
Easy-peasy!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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a miscommunication. He’s actually talking about the Eleven doppleganger, and
she thinks he means Danny. He says that he likes the boyfriend, and essentially
approves because he thinks she’s pretty much dating his former self. Um. Wat.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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hunts for the Doctor, and Danny finds blinky things. The Doctor, while
invisible, finds the Skovox. It chases him into the school, where Danny sees
them. Danny is almost killed by the Skovox, Clara finds them both and tries to
pull Danny to safety. The Doctor gets the Skovox into the time portal, yells at
Danny for deactivating the blinky things, and Danny finally realizes that something
isn’t right here…<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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days. And now they need a new plan, because it saw the Doctor, and it’ll kill
him on sight. Danny—who the Doctor now calls P.E.—questions Clara. He
understands that she’s a space woman. Clara says it’s all a play…apparently she
thinks her boyfriend is an idiot.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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The Doctor denies that for a while, and Clara admits that she loves Danny. The
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alien, and that they’re time travellers. She shows him the TARDIS, and now
Danny is in the elite “I know the Doctor club.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Doctor denies that. He’s absolutely lying. Earlier he said that the Skovox was
there because it was attracted to the arton energy. Only one thing creates
arton energy. The TARDIS. It’s because of the Doctor’s frequent travels to
London that the Skovox decided to visit.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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rudely forces both Clara and Danny to leave. Clara takes Danny home, where she
explains everything. She tells him that
she travels with the Doctor because of the things she sees and feels. Danny
is—understandably—very upset. Clara has lied to him for months. Yet, I can also
understand Clara’s thinking. How do you explain time travelling to a muggle?
Tough spot to be in, Clara.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Danny. They’re going to hide him so that he can see that she interacts exactly
the same way with the Doctor as she’s described to him already. Because he
doesn’t trust her, I guess? This is a tricksy plan, and I don’t like it at all.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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bicker. The Doctor calls her bluff—he knows Danny is there--and Danny shows
himself. This is when Danny goes off on the Doctor, and y’know, I think I like
it. The Doctor has been such a jackass to Danny—and to Clara—and Danny finally
calls him on it. Danny treats the Doctor as he would treat an officer; with
respect, and as an authority figure. The Doctor hates it and gets yelly. He
kicks Danny out of the TARDIS, and Clara leaves with him.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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The Doctor tells her, and shows her exactly what it is. So, um….what? Okay,
then. I guess we’re just going to tell anyone about it, then? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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he says he’ll let her know. He may have a vacancy,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Surprisingly, the Skovox returns early; much earlier
than expected. And during parents night. The Doctor, looking very
ghostbuster-like, beckons to Clara. He needs assistance. Danny sees the Doctor
beckoning, and follows. The Doctor screams at him a bit, and then tells Clara
what she needs to do.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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tell her that that’s what she is. Eleven would never have done that.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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follows them both, and saves the world with some quick thinking and acrobatics
when the Doctor’s plan fails and the Skovox initiates its self-destruct. The
Doctor finally makes the Skovox shut down, and the threat is over.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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and Courtney is with him in the TARDIS. She’s not big on space travel, and
pukes.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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talking. Danny mentions things that are some huge foreshadowing. That’s the
only reason that I can think of for the whole scene. Danny says that the Doctor
will push her to do things that she’d never think of doing. Clara tells Danny
that she trusts him. Danny makes her promise to tell him if the Doctor ever
pushes her too far. If she breaks that promise, they’re over. So…what’s the Doctor going to do that pushes
Clara too far, and makes her lie to Danny about it? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And, finally, we get another glimpse at Missy and
the promise land. The police officer that the Skovox killed early on is telling
a new gentleman what happened to him. This part of the promise land—also called
the Nethersphere--looks very different. It’s a plain white corridor, with while
furniture. The Police officer exclaims, “God.” The man—is he supposed to be
like St. Peter at the pearly gates?—says, “She’s a bit busy now”, and out comes
Missy. So, Missy is God? That’s what we’re led to believe. Interesting plot
development!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So that was a fun episode, with many funny lines,
but it mostly fell flat for me. However, I do have a few theories that came
from this episode!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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and theories:<o:p></o:p></span></span></u></b></div>
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still up for debate.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">-What’s the pin on the lapel of the new intake guy
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">-Why are the people who end up in the Nethersphere
there? Why them, specifically? Is it because their deaths are all caused by the
Doctor?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">-Why is Courtney important? Is she just a plot
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“So you recognize me then.”<br />
“You’re wearing a different coat!”<br />
“Saw straight through that.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“The walls need sponging, and there’s a sinister
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“The door. It says, keep out.”<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Crocodileopolis. They worship a big crocodile
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REALLY liked it! It was fun, and fast-paced, and I loved the characters, and
the plot, and the whole story! What a fun, brilliant episode! It feels like
this season has taken a complete 180 degree turn and I love it! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Now, even the best, most amazing episodes of Doctor
Who are tough to recap. I worry about leaving important things out, and they
often get so long that people are too intimidated to read it….kinda like last
week’s!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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not because it’s a top ten type of episode—although it is so, so good! This
episode was just really, really dense. There was so much going on, and I’m
afraid I’m going to leave something out!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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in a way, I found it much more dark and disturbing than Listen was. The Teller
is a terrifying creature!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Doctor wants to spend time with Clara, but she
has another date with Danny. I love her outfit, by the way. Sorry, had to
mention it. It’s cute. ;)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Unfortunately—or fortunately?—the TARDIS phone
starts to ring. Only a few people in the universe have that number, including
some woman in a shop. Again, a mention about that woman! Interesting…<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Doctor answers the phone, and, POOF!, he and
Clara are suddenly sitting at a table holding memory worms! You guys remember
memory worms, right? They eat memories, and now the Doctor, Clara, and the two strangers
at the table have no idea where they are, or why they’re there.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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the memory wipe, and it gives a little bit of info about the strangers. Psi is
an augmented human, and Saibra, as we find out a bit later, is a shape-shifter.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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rob the most secure bank in the galaxy, that bank security is after them, and
that everything they need to know is in a case in front of them.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In another part of the bank, Miss. Delphox gets a
call from the bank security, who have apparently touched the memory worms…<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Miss. Delphox calls for ‘the Teller’. Oooh, what’s
that precious? What’s The Teller?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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a former bank robber, and Saibra can change form into anyone she touches. Well
that’s handy, innit?!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Saibra shifts into a bank customer, and the heist
begins! In the bank, they come across Miss Delphox and The Teller. He’s frickin’
terrifying, but that’s some damn good CGI/make-up effects! So The Teller can
scan people’s thoughts for lies and guilt, and then he wipes their memories,
leaving their skull disgustingly concave. It’s freakin’ gross! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Doctor and Friends enter another part of the
bank, and Psi pulls up a bank schematic. The Doctor finds a bomb in another
case, and blows up the floor; although it doesn’t exactly blow up. The bomb is a
dimensional shift bomb, and it just displaces the, er…matter, I guess? The
Doctor easily puts the floor back the way it was after they’ve all climbed
through, and security has no idea where they’ve gone.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Miss Delphox has realized that the dude the Teller erased wasn’t actually the
right target. MAN THAT’S GOTTA SUCK! Now he’s got a dented head and no memory,
all because of a mistake!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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architect, and the Doctor explains that the reason their memories had to be
wiped is because, well, the more they know, the more guilt they’ll feel. The
more guilt they feel, the louder they project that guilt, which means the
Teller can hear them, and find them. SO that’s a neat explanation!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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off, and Clara stays with Psi as the Doctor and Saibra go to investigate. Psi
tells Clara that he wiped his own memory to prevent anyone finding out about
his friends and family during an interrogation. Well that’s sad. Now the guy
has no idea who his family is! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Doctor tells Saibra that the things that were in
the case were an “exit strategy”. Saibra tells the Doctor that no one can touch
her. If they do, she’ll transform, and no one wants to see their own eyes
looking back at them. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Team Not-Dead meet back up and they find memory
wiped people in a cell. So, ew.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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another area. They find themselves in the room where the Teller’s, um…cell?
Box? Prison…is located. The Teller is in forced hibernation, but then it locks
on to Clara’s mind. She needs to keep her mind blank, but it wakes up anyway.
The team runs, but the Teller then locks on to Saibra. The Doctor knows she’s
doomed, and so he gives her one of the ‘exit strategy’ things. Basically, it’s painless,
instant death. Saibra takes it, but firsts he calls the Doctor a ‘good man’.
Isn’t that a theme this season? Hmm.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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pocket. The team hears the Teller
coming, and the Doctor tells them they need to split up. Before they do, he
gives Psi an ‘exit strategy’. Here’s another big hint that the Twelfth Doctor
is so not the Eleventh. Eleven would never split up from Clara, right? Of
course right. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Psi saves her life by downloading dozens of thieves and
villains into himself. Didja catch a glimpse of those faces? See any familiar?
HOW ABOUT CAPTAIN JOHN FRICKIN’ HART FROM TORCHWOOD! I also saw a weevil, a
Slitheen, an Ice Warrior, the Trickster, a Sensorite, the Sheriff from <i>A Town Called Mercy</i>…that was a ton of
great nods to previous episodes!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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RIP, Psi. I really liked you!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The bank vault fails to open, and then a solar storm
happens. This makes the Doctor realize that this isn’t just a bank heist; it’s
a time travel heist. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The vault unlocks, and Clara and the Doctor use the
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In one box, for Psi, was a circuit that would give
him his memories back. In the second box, a gene suppressant for Saibra, that
would make her normal. For Clara and the Doctor? Well, their item is in the
personal vault. Unfortunately, the Teller finds them before they can get to it.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It takes them to Miss Delphox, who orders them
killed, and then takes the Teller back to its prison.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">BUT GUYS, PSI AND SAIBRA AREN’T EVEN DEAD OH MY
GODDDDD I’M SO HAPPY! Saibra has changed her face, and Psi takes off his
helmet! They were the guards all along, hooray! Apparently the ‘exit strategy’
takes them to a ship in orbit?! WHAT?!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Doctor gives Psi and Saibra their rewards from
the vault, and Team Not-Dead makes their way to the private vault. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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And she looks exactly like Miss Delphox. Apparently she clones herself to
ensure she gets the best security. Whoa, weird. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> The Director
is going to kill her clone, and this causes the Doctor to have one of his
epiphanies—I do love those—He realizes that HE IS THE ARCHITECT! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He gives the Director his TELEPHONE NUMBER, YOU
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Doctor realizes that there were 6 exit
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The Teller arrives, and the Doctor allows it to go through his memories. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Doctor remembers everything. The Director, now
old and with many regrets, was the one that called him and asked him to rob the
bank. He remembers picking up Psi and Saibra, placing the cases, being the
architect. THIS IS BRILLIANT, YOU GUYS. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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to do what he wants to do…and the Teller opens the private vault. Inside is
another Teller. A mate, chained to the wall, and now free. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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this was always a rescue mission, not a bank heist. BEST EVER, RIGHT?!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He takes the Tellers to a quiet planet where they
can be alone forever.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">On the TARDIS, Team Not-Dead bonds over Chinese, and
then they say goodbye. I really, really hope we see them again. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Such a great episode, right?! I just really liked
it. I didn’t have to think too much, and it was just fun!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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and theories:<o:p></o:p></span></span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">-Again no mention of the big season plot. Aside from
the woman in the shop line.<br />
-Will we see Psi and Saibra again? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Still don’t understand why you’re in charge.”<br />
“Basically it’s the eyebrows.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Shut up. Everybody, just, just shut up. Shut up,
just shut up, shut up, shut up shutity shut up up up.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Big scarf. Bow tie. Bit embarrassing. What do you
think of the new look? I was going for minimalism, but I think I came out with
magician.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Of course I’m kidding. It’s a time machine, not a
miracle worker.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Okay, watch the trailer for <i>The Caretaker</i> now, guys! JOHN FRICKIN’ SMITH! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">YOU GUYS. I feel like I’ve been waiting YEARS for
this episode! OH WAIT, I HAVE! Not since series five’s <i>Vincent and the Doctor</i> have I been this impressed, this touched,
this emotional, and this much in love with Doctor Who. THIS WAS AN AMAZING
EPISODE. MOFFAT IS BACK, BAYBEE. THE MAN IS A GENIUS. I’M SO SORRY I FORGOT
THAT. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I mean, to tie in the War Doctor’s barn with this
episode is just BRILLIANT! And Capaldi! MY GOD, CAPALDI! He KILLED IT in this
episode! If you weren’t sure about him as the Doctor before, you HAVE to be
now! He epitomized everything the Doctor is, and it was beautiful!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And if you missed it, Moffat went right back to
episode one, <i>The Unearthly Child</i>,
when Clara said, “Fear makes a companion of us all.” The very First Doctor said
that exact same thing to Barbara. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Isn’t that just perfect? Damn, I love it when
Moffat does this to me! I’d let myself forget how he can make me feel! I LOVE
STEVEN MOFFAT, YOU GUYS. DON’T LET ME FORGET AGAIN. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This is going to be an instant classic, and it’s now
easily in my top five favourite episodes!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">QUICK, LET US DISCUSS THIS THING OF BEAUTY! *queue
angels singing*<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“<b><i>Listen</i></b>”, is how we open, and listen
is what we’ll do. The Doctor meditates on the top of the TARDIS as it floats
above a planet—earth?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Inside the TARDIS, the Doctor wonders to himself why
we talk out loud when we’re alone. He believes it’s because we’re never alone.
How scary is THAT thought?!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He maintains that there’s perfect hunting, perfect
defense…so why no perfect hiding? I mean, we’d never know if there was a
creature that was the perfect hider, right? So…he wants to find it, of course!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He puts his chalk down as he talks to himself…or to
whatever may be listening…but when he reaches for it again, it’s gone. We then
see it on the floor, where it rolls into his foot. As he stands and glances at
the empty chalkboard—it’s not empty anymore. The word, “Listen” is written….<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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horrible date with Danny. Okay, I’ma say this: I wish there didn’t have to be a
romance in this show. Why is it that as soon as the Doctor regenerated into
someone older, they had to add a handsome younger love interest for Clara? Ugh.
Regardless, here he is, and I do like him. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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first. Then they both stick their feet further and further into their mouths,
and they just fight. Like, a lot. About everything. It’s weird.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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hiding in her bedroom at home. He needs Clara for a “thing”, and she joins him
in the TARDIS. He explains his theory
about a silent, hidden companion. What if no one is ever alone? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He shows her the “listen” written on the chalkboard.
Clara says it looks like his handwriting. However, he says he doesn’t remember
writing it…<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He then explains about a certain nightmare everyone
has; waking alone, in the dark. Putting your feet on the floor, and someone
from under your bed grabbing your ankle…Doesn’t everyone have this dream? The Doctor
has, Clara has, hell, even <i>I</i> have!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">To find out when Clara has had this dream, the
Doctor links her with the TARDIS. I didn’t know that could be done. Neat.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Clara needs to focus on when she had the dream, but
her phone rings as she’s trying to concentrate. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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in the right place. It’s a children’s home, in the mid-90s. The year is right.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Doctor goes inside, and tells Clara to wait inside
the TARDIS. Instead, she looks up to see a boy in a window. He calls to her,
and they talk. He tells her his name is Rupert Pink, but that he wants to
change it….Yup, she’s landed in DANNY’s childhood, not her own! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">She sneaks inside to talk little Rupert-Danny as the
Doctor is speaking to the night watchman (OH, HAI PSYCHIC PAPER!). <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As Clara bonds with scared little Rupert under his
bed, the springs creak as if someone sits on it. When they emerge, the
bedspread takes the form of a person. THIS PART IS SO FREAKING CREEPY. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Doctor has been watching from the chair, where
he was trying to find Waldo in a book. Apparently Waldo, who’s called Wally in
the UK, ISN’T in every book. WHAT THE HELL?!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He tells Rupert that being scared is like having a
superpower. It makes a person stronger, faster, smarter, and the being scared
is absolutely okay.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He guides them to the window. He tells Rupert and
Clara to turn their backs on the thing under the bedspread; to not look at it,
and to promise to never look at it. The bedspread monster pulls the bedspread
off—we only get a blurry glimpse of what’s underneath—and then it runs out the
door. DAT WAS THE CREEPIEST BEDSPREAD I’VE EVER SEEN.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Clara helps Rupert feel braver by using plastic
soldiers. She places them so that they’ll watch over him as he sleeps. Rupert
calls the head soldier, “Dan the soldier man”. The Doctor puts Rupert to sleep,
and the two leave his timeline.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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TARDIS landed at Rupert’s dream instead of Clara’s. Clara lies/doesn’t tell him, and the Doctor
mentions that Rupert won’t remember a thing because he gave the child a dream
about being, “Dan the soldier man”. So, um, the Doctor pretty much made Danny
Pink who he is. Ha!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Clara has the Doctor take her back to the end of her
date with Danny, and she goes back in to try to fix things. She fails, but this
time Danny’s the one who storms off, because he knows that Clara is lying
about, well, pretty much everything.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Oddly, a man in a spacesuit, complete with full face
mask—much like the Doctor’s familiar orange spacesuit!—beckons to Clara from
the kitchen of the restaurant. Clara follows, where she finds, not the Doctor
in the suit, but a man who looks exactly like Danny! The Doctor enters and
explains that the man is Orson Pink, and he’s from one hundred years into her
future. The Doctor has used some of
Clara’s psychic whatever stuff, and that brought him to Orson. So Orson must
have something to do with Clara’s timeline. HAHAHAHA! Okay, so we’re supposed
to think Clara and Danny have kids, hmm? That’s adorable!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Doctor brings Clara back to where he found Orson—the
end of the universe. No, not like in Utopia, a different end of the universe.
The TARDIS isn’t supposed to go there, but he’d turned the safeguards off to
bring them into Clara’s past earlier.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Doctor explains that Orson is the very first
time traveller, but he was over shot. Like, way over shot. He’s been stranded
for 6 months, and the Doctor promises to take him home. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Doctor tells Orson that the TARDIS needs to
recharge, and so they need to stay where they are for one night. Orson doesn’t
like that idea.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Clara puts him into the TARDIS to be safe, and from
his bag falls a small toy soldier. Yep, it’s Dan the Soldier Man! A family
heirloom that brings luck, as Orson explains.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Orson tells Clara that time travel runs in the family.
According to a story, one of his great-grandparents was a time traveller. Orson
gives the toy soldier to Clara.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Outside the TARDIS, Clara and the Doctor wait for
whatever Orson was afraid of. Orson’s ship starts to make noise, clangs and
bangs, and the Doctor explains them away. Temperature changes, pressure
changes, systems switching to low power…But, of course, he doesn’t believe
that.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Suddenly, there’s a knocking on the hatch—or is it
the hull cooling? The Doctor needs to see, and unlocks the hatch. He orders
Clara into the TARDIS, but he stays. He has to know…<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Clara watches on the TARDIS viewer, which craps out
as she watches. An alarm on Orson’s ship goes off. The hull has been breached.
The Doctor holds on for dear life as things are sucked out. Orson grabs him and
pulls him into the TARDIS.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Doctor was hit on the head, and he’s
unconscious. The cloister bell rings as the TARDIS shakes, and Clara once again
joins with the TARDIS to try to get them home. They land, and Clara exits to
see where they are.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It’s a barn full of hay. In a bed in a small loft, a
child is crying. As she’s about to comfort the child, a man and woman enter,
and Clara hides beneath the bed. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The man and woman remark on the crying child, and
why he sleeps in the barn. The child doesn’t want anyone to hear that he cries.
The woman tells the child that he’s welcome to sleep in the house, and that he’s
not alone. As they leave, the man says that the boy can’t just run away and cry
all the time if he wants to join the army. The woman says that the boy doesn’t
want to join the army, and the man says, “Well he’s not going to the academy,
is he? He’ll never make a Time Lord.” Right around here is when I started screaming.
Like, literally screaming, “OH MY GOD OH MY GOD WHAT IS EVEN HAPPENING THAT’S,
WHAT, OH MY GODDDDDDDD”. My dogs freaked out. It was horrible. I scared the
whole house. And then I started crying.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Doctor in the TARDIS wakes, and yells for Clara.
The boy hears, and calls out a, “Hello?” Clara has also realized who the crying boy is,
and as the boy puts his feet on the floor, she grabs his ankle. SHE GRABS HIS
FREAKING ANKLE. SHE’S THE DREAM, YOU GUYS. IT WAS HER ALL ALONG! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">She realizes what she’s done, and she tells the boy
it’s all a dream. The boy lies back down in his bed, and Clara comforts him. We
never get to see his face, which I’m VERY okay with, and she tells him to
listen. She tells him she knows he’s afraid, and that being afraid is alright.
Fear is a superpower that makes you cleverer, and stronger. And one day, he’s
going to come back to this barn, (YOU GUYS, I’M SOBBING NOW. I CAN’T EVEN……MOFFAT,
YOU DAMN GENIUS.) and he’s going to be very afraid. As we see the War Doctor
walking to the barn—because when you’re afraid, you often go to the place that’s
comforting and familiar and safe—Clara tells him that, on that day, if he’s
very wise, and very strong, fear doesn’t have to make him cruel or cowardly, fear
can make him kind. Clara tells him there’s nothing under the bed, or in the
dark, and she tells him that it’s okay to be afraid. He’s always going to be
afraid, but fear is like a constant companion. It’s always there, and that’s
okay, because fear can bring people together, and fear can bring people home.
And she leaves him Dan the Soldier Man so that he remembers that, “Fear makes
companions of us all.” (SOBBING. JUST UGLY, UGLY SOBBING. THE SAME THING ONE
SAID TO BARBARA. THE SAME FREAKING THING. EXACT WORDS. EXACT!)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">On the TARDIS, the Doctor asks where they are. Clara
tells him to leave; to just not look, and leave. He doesn’t like it, but trusts
her, and leaves. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Then Clara hugs the Doctor, and he’s against the hugging.
And I’m still freaking crying, but now I’m laugh-crying. It’s a huge mess. I’m
a blubbering fool. It’s awesome. I love it.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Then Clara rings the bell at Danny’s, and the two
make up, and smooch. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">IT WAS THE SAME FREAKING BARN YOU GUYS. THE.SAME.
BARN. AHHHHHHHHH THAT’S SO PERFECT. THAT WAS PERFECT WRITING. THAT WAS PERFECT
EVERYTHING. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Okay, so who else is sure that Dan the Soldier Man
is going to come into play again very soon, when both Danny and the Doctor pull
him out of their pockets?! Ha!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Now, I’m hearing some grumbling about this episode.
Some say that it’s all about Clara, again, (It’s so not), and many just didn’t understand
it. To those of you that feel this way, please watch it again. Please. If you
still feel this way, than I guess you’re probably a Moffat-hating person, and
there’s nothing I can say to change your mind.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">To those of you who loved it, my kindred spirits, I
adore you. You get it, and you get me. I heart you guys! ♥<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I’ve also heard a few people asking these questions:<br />
-Who was under the sheet?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> It was just a
kid playing a joke. Another student trying to play a trick on Rupert. Nothing
more, nothing less.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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-Who moved the chalk? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">No one, it fell. Stuff falls. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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-Who made the noises? <br />
No one, it was exactly the things the Doctor said it was. Pressure,
temperature. Houses creak, spaceships clang. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Regardless, <b>who
cares</b>?! Like in the episode, <i>Midnight</i>,
not knowing makes it scarier!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">-Clara is now all over the Doctor’s timeline, right
from his childhood. However, he never actually sees her this time, so I have no
problem with that. Yes, this makes Clara a very important companion. Perhaps
the most important. Again, I have no problem with this. It doesn’t change how I
feel about her, for better or worse.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">-Why did the Doctor suddenly think this all up? I
guess because he’s 2000 years old, a bit mad, and seemingly has been off travelling
on his own, without Clara, for a while? I guess it doesn’t really matter, does
it? It made for a great frickin’ story.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">-Why was the TARDIS able to land on time-locked
Gallifrey? I think for a couple of reasons. 1) The safeguards were off. 2)
Gallifrey itself isn’t time locked. Only Gallifrey during the Time War is. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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boy in the bed wasn’t the Doctor, but the Master as a child. To those I say, “WHAT
THE ACTUAL F**K?! What show were you watching, because it sure wasn’t this
episode!”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">-No Missy/Promised Land in this episode. I’m okay
with that, too.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Why do you have three mirrors? Why don’t you just
turn your head?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">What’s wrong with your face, it’s all eyes, why are
you all eyes?! Get them under control!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">She’s doing to all eyes thing, it’s because her face
is so wide, she needs three mirrors.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">What’s that in the mirror, or the corner of your
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Footsteps following, but never passing by,<br />
Perhaps they’re all just waiting, <br />
Perhaps when we’re all dead, <br />
Out they’ll come a’slithering,<br />
From underneath the bed.<br />
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Okay, now go watch the trailer for <i>Time
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A fun, light-hearted romp. That’s the way this episode will be described. And I guess it was. I mean, it’s amusing, if kinda boring. The banter between Robin and the Doctor, while funny at first, got old and tired quickly.</span><br />
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I’m still waiting to be knocked off my feet. I really miss episodes like Blink, 42, Turn Left, Silence in the Library, Human Nature…When do we get those types of episodes back?</span><br />
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I have HUGE hopes for next week’s Listen. The things I’m hearing put it on par, or even above the previously mentioned episodes. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I truly hope so, because, man, I really miss the show I fell in love with.</span><br />
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Okay, on to Robot of Sherwood.</span><br />
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The Doctor asks Clara where she wants to go, and out of all of time and space, she chooses Sherwood forest. She wants to meet Robin Hood. Of course, the Doctor tells her that Robin Hood wasn’t a real person, but he takes her to the forest in 1190-ish AD anyway.</span><br />
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The Doctor is proven wrong when an arrow finds its way into the door of the TARDIS, and a rather attractive man presents himself as Robin Hood.</span><br />
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Robin decides that he wants the TARDIS, and he and the Doctor fight for it. The Doctor brandishes a…spoon? And Robin uses his sword.</span><br />
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Clara watches on gleefully, wearing a gorgeous red dress. And may I say that Mr. Gatiss, the writer of this episode, finally does Clara some justice? I enjoyed the way she was written, and I feel that she’s finally showing some strength and character! Well done, my good man!</span><br />
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The Doctor wins the spoon-fight, but he’s knocked into the water when Robin comes up behind him. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Meanwhile, the evil Sheriff of Nottingham is kidnapping maidens, stealing gold, and killing townspeople. Y’know, like evil Sheriff’s do. </span><br />
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Robin brings Clara and the Doctor to the Merry Hideout, and introduces them to his Merry Men. The Doctor spends that time trying to prove that the men aren’t actually real. I think it’s supposed to be funny? I didn’t find it funny.</span><br />
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Robin tells Clara about the Sheriff, Prince John, and the loss of his lands, titles, and his love, Marian. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Doctor comments on how warm and green Sherwood Forest is, considering it’s autumn. What are you getting at, Doctor? Hmm.</span><br />
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Robin, the Doctor, Clara and the Merry Men attend an archery contest, to win a golden arrow. No one actually wins the contest because they all just keep shooting arrows into the previous arrow and splitting the arrows….that’s a lot of arrows. And then the Doctor explodes the target with the sonic screwdriver. And then the Doctor, Clara and Robin are found out and tossed into the dungeons. But before that, Robin slices an arm off a knight, and discovers that it’s a robot. Did anyone else yell at the screen, “IT’S JUST A FLESH WOUND!”? </span><br />
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Also, the robots shoot frickin’ laser beams out of their frickin’ heads, and they kill a labourer who’s working in the gold-counting-melting place as the kidnapped maiden cries. Who else figured out that she’s Maid Marian? Yaaaaay, we’re awesome at guessing stuff!</span><br />
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In the dungeon, the Doctor and Robin bicker, and this is by far the best part of the episode. Yes, it’s cheesy and corny, but it’s also frickin’ hilarious…at least until it gets boring.</span><br />
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Clara finally gets fed up and screams for them to shut up. IT’S ABOUT FRICKIN’ TIME.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">After Clara finds out the neither of them have a plan—and good on her for calling out the over-use of the sonic screwdriver!—she’s taken to the Sheriff, because she’s quite obviously the true ringleader of the group.</span><br />
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Back with the labourers, we see that only gold is being melted down and crafted into…something.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In the dungeon, Robin comes up with a plan that gets them out of there. It fails, for the most part, but they do get free, eventually. This really wasn’t a funny or interesting bit. That’s why I’m glossing over it. </span><br />
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Clara does some good guesswork and flattery, and wheedles the story out of the Sheriff. He tells her that he witnessed a spaceship crash and the robots promised him that he would rule the world if he helped them get their ship back up and running. </span><br />
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The Doctor and Robin find the spaceship, and the Doctor discovers that it was headed for ‘The Promised Land’. Well. Isn’t that a freaking coincidence! </span><br />
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The engines are damaged and leaking radiation, which is why the forest is still sunny and green. The Doctor even says that the Sheriff and Robin himself are illusions, created by the ship to blend in.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Now, here’s a sweet and touching bit. As the Doctor is showing Robin the ship’s memory banks, they see a wonderful thing—a photo of the Second Doctor, Patrick Troughton, before he was the Doctor! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Yes, he played Robin Hood before he was in Doctor Who! Patrick Troughton himself is now a part of Doctor Who canon, haha! </span><br />
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As Robin and the Doctor argue about whether or not Robin is real, the Sheriff, Clara and the robot knights enter the ship. To escape, Robin grabs Clara and jumps out the window and into the water below. </span><br />
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As the Doctor talks to the Sheriff, he realizes why they need the gold—they’re making a matrix out of gold, and that will help the ship to fly again. Oooookay. I’m gonna have to take their word for that, because it pretty much makes no sense to me at all.</span><br />
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The Doctor warns the Sheriff that there’s too much damage, and that he’s “stoking a giant bomb”. And then he’s knocked out.</span><br />
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He wakes with the labourers, and Maid Marian, who we’re not supposed to know is Maid Marian. The engines are starting, but the Doctor knows they don’t have enough power to make orbit. If the Sheriff tries to fly the ship, it’ll explode and wipe out most of England.</span><br />
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The labourers begin a revolt, and use gold platters to reflect the frickin’ laser beams back onto the robot knights, destroying them. The labourers all escape, and Marian kisses the Doctor’s cheek to thank him. His reaction is very sweet. He still doesn’t seem to realize that he IS a hero.</span><br />
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Clara wakes in the forest, with Robin and the Merry Men. She tells Robin everything she knows about the legend of Robin Hood. </span><br />
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The Sheriff appears and he and the Doctor banter. The Doctor tries to explain about the exploding thing, and mentions fake Robin Hood. The Sheriff denies that Robin is a robot, and the man himself shows up to save the day. </span><br />
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Robin and the Sheriff fight and Robin uses the Doctor’s move on the Sheriff. The Sheriff falls to his death into the molten gold. </span><br />
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The Doctor, Clara and Robin escape the ship just before it takes flight. The Doctor knows there’s no way the ship will make it into orbit, and the three of them work together shoot the golden arrow—which the merry men happen to have on them—into the ship. WHY THE HELL DID THAT EVEN WORK NONE OF THIS MAKES ANY SENSE.</span><br />
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Regardless of why it works, the ship makes it into orbit, where it promptly explodes. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">With the world saved, Clara says goodbye to Robin. And then the Doctor says goodbye to Robin after Robin says some nice, touching words and stuff. </span><br />
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The Doctor enters the TARDIS and tells Clara he’s leaving a present for Robin…iThe TARDIS dematerializes, and there’s Maid Marian. D’AWW, YOU GUYS TWU WUV! Then there’s smooching, and arrows shot into the air, and THE END.</span><br />
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So, yeah. This was better than the first two episodes, but still pretty meh.</span><br />
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But guys. GUYS. DID YOU EVEN SEE THAT FRICKIN’ TRAILER FOR NEXT WEEK?!?! OH MY GOOOOODDDDDDDDDDD. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Guys, this could be the big one. THIS COULD BE IT. THE BEST SINCE BLINK. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I HAVE HOPE!</span><br />
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Robot of Sherwood was very much like Deep Breath—Robots from the future, trying to repair ship to get to the Promised Land.</span><br />
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What was the Doctor calculating on the chalkboard at the beginning?</span><br />
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Why are the robots trying to get to the Promised Land? </span><br />
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What and where is the Promised Land?!</span><br />
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Who is Missy?! Could she be Clara? (*gasp!*)</span><br />
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“And do people ever punch you in the face when you do that?”</span><br />
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“When did you start believing in impossible heroes?” </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Don’t you know?”</span><br />
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“Shut it, Hoody.”</span><br />
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The whole first dungeon scene between Robin and the Doctor.</span><br />
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See you all next week, for what I hope is the BEST EPISODE, EVAR! </span><br />
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