DJFKLJSKJF;AKFJKDSJFA; FIRST EPISODE


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THAT WAS SO AWESOME


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Wait'll you get a load of Part Two.

Interesting way to start the next season, I must say.

I also like that they gave a nice sendoff to miss Sladen as well near the end.

I didn't see any send-off? I only saw the first part though. I was really excited about it, though it does bother me how "Americans" in Doctor Who, never have American accents. I love Crowley/Badger as much as the next girl, true, and seeing him all FBI'd makes me happy, but still.

Americans. We're cheap and plentiful.

Unless a film studio is obsessed with casting a big-name star, it's uncommon anymore for Americans to get cast in British, Irish, or Aussie roles because there are so many actors over here from those countries that they're playing American characters on TV. And when an American star is cast as one of these nationalities for a film, they're usually given extensive vocal training.

On the other hand, very few aspiring American actors are going to go abroad to seek work. Yes, they'll go to England for a specific project, but not just to hit the bricks and go on auditions. And if they're over there for one project, they're not likely to be available for others. Therefore, if someone in, say, Cardiff needs a couple dozen actors to play Americans, most for no more than one or two days, they're not likely going to find that many good, appropriate, and available Americans already in the UK. So they can either hire British actors to fake the accent, or they can pay to fly a whole bunch over from the US, put them up for a couple nights, and fly them all back again.

*grabs the train and pulls it back onto the tracks*

Right then.

The first 10 minutes were like "Wait, what?" And then the last 10 were "What the hell is going on here?"

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	Monsters that you can't remember once you aren't looking. And I thought the Weeping Angels were damn scary. If I have nightmares, I blame Moffat.

Spotts, I'm with you. The Silence terrified me beyond all belief. And how everything kept jumping to them forgetting, and then with Amy

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And the marks appearing on her face and the message and oh gawd I just wanted to crawl behind the couch. Eff you Moffat, how are you so damn scary? Genuinely scary too, not just make your skin crawl scary. And then the little girl! WTF?! WTF IS THIS?! WHAT?! Is she a Time Lord? Did traveling in the TARDIS kind of contaminate the womb or something? I'm so confused! And that's Amy and Rory's baby for sure, but they don't remember her? WTF?! Does she remember them? And that guy at the orphanage, that poor guy who couldn't remember five minutes to the next thanks to the aliens. He frightened me pretty badly too. Where is Moffat going with this? What are the theories? Anybody? I think the TARDIS made her Time Lord-ish, or something. And Amy is pregnant still, but also not-pregnant. That is so weird. How did the Doctor not realize that time-traveling might do weird shit to humans?

Are we going to have to spoiler-tag everything? Or can this be a Warning: Spoilers thread?

Because Rory is awesome. He waited a thousand years for Amy, guarding her. That's possibly the most romantic thing ever on Doctor Who.

Oh boy, this season is looking even better than the last. I swear the Silence has been haunting me in my dreams, it's like Slenderman all over again.

(the doctor knows her more and more)

Perhaps I phrased that the wrong way round, since Moffat can only write River's timeline in one direction. I didn't see any reaction previously to all the little things that are going away, nor do I see any reaction to all the little things that are becoming new. The opposite timelines thing is a neat conceit, but for whatever reason it's not being acted convincingly.

Okay, so who else saw the twist ending of the Ghost Ship coming a mile away? Not a bad premise but I mean... Eccleston already got that twist.

Yeah, "everybody lives" is getting really tiresome and not-so-very-heartwarming-anymore. It isn't special if it happens every other week.

I did like the episode, even if it was a bit cheesey in spots. But I kept expecting to see Jack Sparrow stagger around a corner and start angling to try and keep all the treasure himself or something.