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Watch on YouTube

So this video. I should really, really dislike it. It uses still images instead of moving ones. It reuses footage. It uses text. So really, I should dislike it a lot.

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But it makes me laugh SO HARD!!!!! *lol* Tardis vworping for the win. ^_^;;;;

In other news, I had my camera with me on Tuesday (part of a project I'm working on for subrosa_tennis XDDD), and took a few pics of Central Park for the heck of it, and I really liked this one so I thought I'd share.



Also, 23 now. Surprisingly like 22. XDDD Cheers. ^_^

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[ladylore.livejournal.com]

*laughs hysterically* OMG that was fantastic!

And hey, Happy Birthday!! (belatedly...)

[lanerose]

I KNOW!!! ::died laughing:: Also, have you seen the latest episode yet? And/or did you watch Torchwood season 2 at all? Because AAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!! at both. AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!

And thanks! ♥

[drinian.org (from livejournal.com)]

The latest episode is... wow. But I don't think Julie watches cliffhangers before the ending is available. I have no clue how this one is going to end, but Russell Davies is going out with a bang. Needless to say, I hit up the DW forums and people are near-panicked.

This seems like as good a place as any to post this:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/popculture/988c/?cpg=ab

[lanerose]

::shrugs:: Not watching cliffhangers before the ending is out would be smart. XDD Meanwhile, I watched the episode as soon as it came out on youtube. XDDD

Do you really think it's going out with a bang? I... am actually pretty sure that I know how this one is going to end already, which makes it more of a whimper for me. Compared to Turn Left, this episode had very few surprises, and dragged out predictable scenes in a predictable manner. Mind you, I still loved it - hard not to, because getting all the characters I love together in one place is always going to be something I think of as fabulous - but I'd almost rather have had the surprise. Russell Davies is great about tying up the loose plot lines he leaves hanging, which is a rare and wonderful skill, but his plot lines showed a little too clearly for me this season. Bad Wolf at the end of Season One, Torchwood in Season Two, the Master in Season Three - those were seriously brilliant. I could remember them when I thought about it, could see where he'd hidden and woven it into the story, but I didn't see any of them coming until they hit. This season, though... well, I don't want to tell you what I'm 95% sure is going to happen now (though I'd be glad to throw it at you if you want) because it's so much less exciting to wait for the next episode sorta knowing what's going to happen.

Mind you, he could stun me, and next week at this time I could be saying, Russell Davies is a genius the likes of which I have never seen before. Definitely possible.

... but right know, I think his plot's showing. ;_;

Also, t-shirt? Made of win!

[drinian.org (from livejournal.com)]

SOME SPOILERS AHEAD

Actually, I think the best description I've seen of this was "fanwank." I'll be happy to see someone else take control of the series, although Moffat doesn't seem to be terribly concerned about continuity in his episodes.

I really can't see any way out of this finale that isn't either a complete deus ex machina or contrary to David Tennant's contractual obligations. But, then again, RTD does have a thing for dei ex machinae (cf. end of season 1, for a very literal instance).

Incidentally, the idea of arranging planets to create a perfectly balanced system was lifted from a Tom Baker serial, "The Pirate Planet," and indeed one of the 26 missing planets is Callufrax, site of most of the action in that story. The pirate planet itself was basically a gigantic, hollow planet that could materialize around a smaller planet and mine all of its valuable resources away. What on Earth the Daleks are planning to do is beyond me.

[lanerose]

"Fanwank"? Thanks. ^^;;;; I've since been thinking about it, though, and decided that even with an idea of what will be in the next episode, the how of it all is likely to still make "Who" really fascinating, so I've wound up excited for it again anyway. It interesting, too, because with any other author I'd assume that the plotlines would be dropped, and be disappointed about it. Yeah, double standard! XDDD /fail

Whether or not Moffat is concerned with continuity - at least, 10's continuity - is something that I'm pretty sure we won't have to worry about because -

SPECULATION / SPOILER WARNING

- I think RTD is about to de-canonize his canon. I watched season 4 a bit out of order, which is probably why I remembered Fires of Pompei so clearly while watching Turn Left and the Stolen Earth, but there's this one scene with two oracles in it, yeah? (::copy/pastes dialogue below::)

Auger: Doctor, she is returning.

Doctor: Who is, who's she?

Auger: And you, daughter of London - there is something on your back.

Donna: What's happening?

Soothsayer: Even the word Doctor is false. Your real name is hidden. It burns in the stars, in the Cascade of Medusa herself.

And well, I'm pretty sure you know where I'm thinking we're headed with that.

My biggest question is how much of his canon he's going to break. I think it'll probably drop at some point where Rose was present in one of the other universes, so my current guesses are the beginning of season 4 (maybe Donna dropping instead of managing to hang on to that wire in Partners in Crime?), or the beginning of season 3 (re: Turn Left Donna somehow drowning during Runaway Bride or just choosing to go with the Doctor in RB). After thinking about it, I realized the latter also explained how Rose could have no idea who Martha was but know about Donna and Jack still being alive - no idea which way it'll tilt for sure, and maybe the possibilities are wrong in the first place, but it'll be interesting.

I've also had a pet theory since Forests of the Dead that the Doctor didn't know his own name until River told it to him - that he'd forgotten it or what have you - and that the only way he could have told it to her was if the Time Lords somehow came back, which is why he was so surprised. Given the no longer time-locked Time War and the oracle at Pompei's words (Medusa Cascade ftw), I'm thinking there will also be some returning Time Lord action next episode. Incidentally, if Martha's never a companion, then the Master never dies, and given the rate at which Who likes to reuse villains, that does make a certain level of sense.

I had heard about Calufrax, actually, and there's theory running around about Donna as the Key of Time - - not sure I really buy into it, but could be. The Doctor mentioned something about the arrangement being like an engine, so I've been figuring Daleks after a power source. ::shrug:: Seems like something they'd do, either to take control of the universe or open the void and retrieve the other Daleks, etc., but I'm convinced beyond the telling that they will ultimately fail because using a deus ex machina and then having the bad guys win anyway is just lame (though unexpected!) beyond the telling, so I haven't worried about it in much detail.

... I think I'm going to repost this comment as an actual post, because now that I've typed it all up I kinda want to hear the f-list's opinions on it. XDDD /fail Sorry to babble at you~!!!

[drinian.org (from livejournal.com)]

Bravo, that's a far more ambitious approach than I took to the plot. To be honest, it's been bugging me for a while now that Doctor Who has written itself into a corner as regards some of its most important characters, not to mention that the Earth's timeline has begun diverging significantly from reality -- a big problem when your TV show can span 40 years or more of real time.

There are several ways out -- the Osterhagen Key (anagram of Earth's Gone?), this Mr. Copper Foundation, or some sort of additional sacrifice on Donna's part, which has certainly been more than hinted at.

But who shall the Doctor regenerate into?

[lanerose]

It has written itself into a corner, hasn't it? And sure, they're on the tenth Doctor and 40 years in, but that's almost more reason *not* to have final endings for the characters yet. Save destroying the Master for 13th regeneration! or something like that.

Ooo, Anagrams~!!! I hadn't considered that at all. I think - since UNIT's been holding it - that the Osterhagen Key may be a way to shift from one universe to another. That is, that it's somehow connected to why Rose was working with UNIT in Turn Left - maybe as a last ditch effort to collapse one universe in the hopes that another will survive. No ideas on the Mr. Copper Foundation (where did that come from?), but yeah~~ interesting!!!

And hmmm... I somehow wound up watching the cast of Doctor Who on The Weakest Link last night (old episode, cheers for youtube), and someone suggested Ann would make a fabulous next doctor. I'm actually really hoping that the next doctor isn't female - unlike a decent chunk of people on the Internet, because that sort of thing makes me want to scream about people doing it wrong - but I don't know beyond that. Thoughts?

Also, crack theory I read somewhere? Jack Harkness for 13 - because that's the thing about memory wipes, they're often a cover for memory replacements. ^_^

[drinian.org (from livejournal.com)]

More thoughts -- the phone number displayed so prominently is a non-functioning fake. And Mr. Copper is almost certainly the old fellow from the Titanic.

[lanerose]

I'd heard that about the phone number - pity they didn't get a real number and do something clever with it!

The thing about Mr. Copper is cool. I really need to watch that episode at some point. XDDD (::skipped the Christmas special the first time through::)

[drinian.org (from livejournal.com)]

Also, "fanwank" refers to RTD's style of writing.

[lanerose]

Ah. That too! XDD