I'm pretty sure April Fools day is leaping whimsically up to the top of my favorite holidays, just because of all of the silly thing various websites do in celebration. I'm out of town at the moment, so I can't (rather, refuse to) tell myself I should be doing something productive. I'm taking my opportunity to spout my excitement! Today is actually Easter, and it's spring break, and yesterday the first episode of the Eleventh Doctor's season of Doctor Who came out (in Britain, and online worldwide) and I've seen it already, and they are going to continue weekly! Joyousness! (Why is my spell check not telling me that's wrong? Is joyousness actually a word?) So yeah, this entry was inspired by the spouting I've already done on Facebook. I'm going to put down all that I wrote on there, on here, and then add some more. If you don't like Doctor Who, (you're crazy! Just kidding) you might not wish to read this.
My original status: Matt Smith's first line as the 11th Doctor in his first full episode: "*grunt* *grunt* *gasp* Ahhhhhh! *grunt*"
Follow-up comments.
The new theme is quite different, featuring lightning bolts and hellfire and the new names and logo. I'm anxious already.
about an hour ago ·
"Beans are evil. Bad, bad beans." This Doctor is petulant and picky. He doesn't like apples (blasphemy!), yogurt, bacon, beans, bread and butter, carrots? Whiny young fellow.
about an hour ago ·
Does this little girl have parents or what? I suspect she's Amy Pond, but I've been avoiding spoilers... Plus - Fishsticks and custard? Wasn't "I hate pears" enough?
about an hour ago ·
This episode is already kinda creepy... well done Stephen Moffat, if you're involved. I'm thinkin' I was right in my last comment.
about an hour ago ·
Except she doesn't have parents.
about an hour ago ·
Okay he is gooood. Stephan Moffat, you have done it again. I had to cover my mouth to keep from screaming and waking my mum and sis. Why do I always watch these at night?
about an hour ago ·
Hehe "I'm a kissogram!"
about an hour ago ·
Apparently the "What? What? WHAT?!?" Got passed down.
about an hour ago ·
"Twelve years!" "You hit me with a cricket bat!" "Twelve years!" "A cricket bat!" "Twelve years, and four psychiatrists!" "oh." "I kept biting them." "Why?" "They said you weren't real."
about an hour ago ·
"I'm the Doctor, I'm worse than everybody's aunt."
about an hour ago ·
This is just chock full of super duper quotes! "Fantastic! I've got twenty minutes to save the world, and I've got a post office. And it's shut."
about an hour ago ·
Okay, he was weird looking before, and now he's kinda pretty? I guess he must be growing on me.
about an hour ago ·
I'm really curious about the "Raggedy Doctor" cartoons everyone's talking about.
about an hour ago ·
Now that's an entrance. Next time I go to a party I'm crawling in the window via firetruck ladder.
56 minutes ago ·
Hehe "The Doctor will see you now" and she didn't turn her back.
47 minutes ago ·
I paused it right before I get to see the TARDIS's new interior... I better get to see it, or I will be very disappointed. Here goes. *unpause*
44 minutes ago ·
He said "Oh you sexy thing." Now if I don't get to see it I will cry.
43 minutes ago ·
"Yeah, it's cool. Bow ties are cool!" "Are you from another planet?" "Yeah." "'Kay."
40 minutes ago ·
And I haven't seen it yet! Prepare for hysterics!
40 minutes ago ·
Okay she got to see it before me! I have you Amy Pond! Friggin show it to me!
38 minutes ago ·
Guh.
32 minutes ago ·
Weeping Angels and Cybermen and Daleks and new things and she was going to get married? and whaen does this come back? I guess he's okay.
31 minutes ago ·
The theme has an entirely new, epic melody weaving in and the original ooo-ooo-oooooooo... thingy is more beeeyooweeyooweeyoo (wahwah effectish) than before, sorta skipping the first "ooo." Not sure if I agree with all the updates, but I'm certainly in suspense.
So I guess it's about 6 1/2 days until the next episode? And then another week 'till the next, which will be when this episode airs in good ol' America. We are always behind on everything, fashions and fads, great television, and I'm getting side tracked. My point is, back to regular, once a week showing of Doctor Who? I am excited beyond belief. So much so that I feel I must eat something.
See, the thing about the Weeping Angels returning is weird and exciting, but the thing about River Song returning is just weird to me. She recognized the Doctor and implied that he was in the same regeneration when she first met him. I'm pretty sure. She just said "You look young" or something, not "What's the deal with your face?" just "Why are you pretending not to recognize me?" not "Your soul seems familiar, but your body is a stranger." If she said those exact words, though, I think they would be all over the place. Cool line, that. Anyway, this is enough speculation for ye olde Facebook.
PS When I wrote "I have you Amy Pond" I meant "hate." I was slightly impassioned and hasty. On that note though, it's good that there doesn't seem to be blossoming romance between the two, just an old childhood obsession. Then again...
a moment ago ·
Alright, that's all of it, minus a comment from a friend and my reply. Keepin' it anonymous! Except for the fact that NOW I'VE LINKED TWO OF MY CYBER ALTER EGOS! Someone might find out my secret blogging identity now. Anyway, begin speculation.
There's gonna be Daleks in London in World War II. What a perfect parallel, as they are like monstrous overzealous Nazis themselves. And Winston Churchill! Cool. Except the episode is called Victory of the Daleks, which follows the "____ of the Daleks" title formula, but is a bit more worrisome. The Daleks are never supposed to win! And beautiful vampire girls. In Venice. I hope they don't fall into any pits of cliche. But Venice is pretty neat. [I am seriously hungry] I'm not a big fan of the new Doctor's new outfit, but, as I now know where it came from, it is more interesting at least. And bowties are kinda cool. [My sister is talking in her sleep] But really? Tweed? [Quote in head, pounding on skull. Alright, you can come out. "Who da man?"] I just paused to flash back to Moffat's previous stories. A lot of them have a chant type thing. In The Empty Child and The Doctor Dances, it's "Are you my mummy?" and it's terrifying. In Silence in the Library and Forest of the Dead, it's both "Hey! Who turned out the lights?" and also "Donna Noble has left the Library. Donna Noble has been saved." And those are darn creepy too. In Blink, it's arguably "Don't blink" but that's pushing it. In this one, it's the "Prisoner Zero has escaped" or whatever. Not sure what you'd call the technique, but Moffat has mastered the art of creeping us out with a single repeated sentence. I think RTD tried to copy it with the drumbeat thing, and it worked pretty well. Well, it's darn late, and I haven't written much, but I must sleep now. Tata! (It's a quarter to four)
