Okay, so as I mentioned in a previous post, my love for Doctor Who deserves a dedicated entry. Honestly, I'm about as obsessed with Doctor Who as I am with Harry Potter.
It's pretty serious.
Disclaimer this post is going to live up to my 'Gleefully Geeky' title, so if you're not interested, I'll forgive you if you stop reading. BUT YOU TOTALLY SHOULD! Also, 'Spoilers'.
Anyway, the new series started last week, and oh my goodness is it rocking my socks! Now, my obsession with Who started almost a year ago, and since then I've been through every episode of the new series at least 3 times, as well as watching any 'Classic' Who that's available on Netflix Instant.
For those of you not familiar with the show, Wikipedia it, I don't have time to rehash old episodes, I need to gush about the new ones!
Series 6 has opened with as many cliffhangers and action as previous two-part series finales! First, the Doctor dies at the hand of a mysterious astronaut, only to find out that scene was from 200 years in his future. Then we meet The Silence, easily the scariest mosters on Doctor Who to date. Basically, they've been inhabiting the planet since the dawn of time, except no one remembers because you forget them as soon as you're done looking at them.
Then we meet the mysterious astronaut, only to find out it's a little girl, who Amy immediately shoots. I mean, duh, she thinks the girl is going to kill the Doctor 200 years in his future. It's only natural.
So this was all part 1 of the premiere, part 2 gets even better! Amy tracks down the orphanage where the little girl lived - only to find a room with pictures of the girl and a picture of Amy holding a baby! What the what?
Then, we get to the part where the Doctor cleverly stops The Silence, obviously. BUT we also notice that the The Silence's spaceship is the broken ship from last series' episode 'The Lodger'. Shut the front door, how does this tie in?!
But then, in the final few minutes of the show, we see the little girl again stumbling through an alley. She tells a homeless guy she's dying, but it's OK because it's rather easy for her to fix it. And she regenerates - the little girl is a frakkin' TIME LORD?!
So what does this all mean? Amy had mentioned that she was pregnant to the Doctor, but then told him it was a false alarm. BUT none of them can really remember the time they spent on Earth learning about The Silence, so what happened during that time? And why did she tell the Doctor before Rory?
And there's been subtle hints back to The Silence in the Library, an episode from series four. It's where we first met River Song, and where people were being 'saved' from the Vashta Nerada, which meant that their consciousness was saved into a virtual reality where they lived out their lives. But time was sped up, with people jumping through parts of their day and having the memories 'filled in' later. Kind of the opposite of The Silence, but this has got to tie in some way!
Seriously, friends of mine, start watching Doctor Who so I can have someone to hypothesize with!!
Series 6 has opened with as many cliffhangers and action as previous two-part series finales! First, the Doctor dies at the hand of a mysterious astronaut, only to find out that scene was from 200 years in his future. Then we meet The Silence, easily the scariest mosters on Doctor Who to date. Basically, they've been inhabiting the planet since the dawn of time, except no one remembers because you forget them as soon as you're done looking at them.
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| The Silence, creepy, right? |
Then we meet the mysterious astronaut, only to find out it's a little girl, who Amy immediately shoots. I mean, duh, she thinks the girl is going to kill the Doctor 200 years in his future. It's only natural.
So this was all part 1 of the premiere, part 2 gets even better! Amy tracks down the orphanage where the little girl lived - only to find a room with pictures of the girl and a picture of Amy holding a baby! What the what?
Then, we get to the part where the Doctor cleverly stops The Silence, obviously. BUT we also notice that the The Silence's spaceship is the broken ship from last series' episode 'The Lodger'. Shut the front door, how does this tie in?!
But then, in the final few minutes of the show, we see the little girl again stumbling through an alley. She tells a homeless guy she's dying, but it's OK because it's rather easy for her to fix it. And she regenerates - the little girl is a frakkin' TIME LORD?!
So what does this all mean? Amy had mentioned that she was pregnant to the Doctor, but then told him it was a false alarm. BUT none of them can really remember the time they spent on Earth learning about The Silence, so what happened during that time? And why did she tell the Doctor before Rory?
And there's been subtle hints back to The Silence in the Library, an episode from series four. It's where we first met River Song, and where people were being 'saved' from the Vashta Nerada, which meant that their consciousness was saved into a virtual reality where they lived out their lives. But time was sped up, with people jumping through parts of their day and having the memories 'filled in' later. Kind of the opposite of The Silence, but this has got to tie in some way!
Seriously, friends of mine, start watching Doctor Who so I can have someone to hypothesize with!!
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