Time

This is a poem I wrote a while back. I was going to write a Doctor Who FanFiction about the Doctor giving River her diary and insert the poem into the story, but I doubt that it ill happen anymore. Here it is :)

Time.

Time can run

Away from us.

Time can make us feel

Guilty that we didn’t spend it

With one person.

Time can lengthen

Days needed

To be cut short.

Time can shorten

Moments that will be

Remembered for eternity.

Time can be

Our enemy: cruelly

Cutting lives short.

And Time can be

Our friend: giving us

Moments like these to treasure.

Until next time, Adios Amigos!

Geronimo! A Review of Doctor Who S06E07 - A Good Man Goes To War.

Well, I just loved this episode. How good was it! Actually, for me, it went really fast, I don’t know why, maybe because I was just waiting for River’s identity to be revealed.

I do have a few niggles, as I always do, one of them being River being Melody. Ok, the way they did it, and how it was written was brilliant, but I find the actual concept of her being Amy and Rory’s child really predictable. It’s Steven Moffat writing for goodness sake! I was expecting something really elaborate and beautifully crafted, not something so predictable. Also, why was River so scared of the Doctor finding out her identity? Perhaps it what the Doctor did on that day, and the courage that River had to bring up to go there to tell him that was the tough part – she had to suffer under his anger.

What I find curious about her identity is that she is part Time Lady. (On a side note, the amount of people who say she’s part Time Lord really pisses me off...SHE’S NOT A MAN) The Doctor must find her in America, after she has escaped the suit and told her about regeneration. Remember she says something like, “I’m dying. But it’s OK, I can fix that.” Therefore she must know about regeneration from someone, not the Silence, otherwise she would forget it. I am really curious about how many times she gets to regenerate, if so, she is really badass to last so long in her last body. Or she’s really careful to craftily make every monster in the universe scared of her. What also intrigues me is what the Doctor goes off to do when he leaved them. Does he go and do all those things that River said they did in Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead. Also, I am excited to find out where River was taken.

Another thing I thought of is, do you think that River can read Gallifreyan? Do you think that the Doctor taught her to read Gallifreyan and she was therefore able to read the Doctor’s name on his cot? Or do you think that she just identified it as Gallifreyan and the Doctor tells her late on. I personally think that it’s the latter reason, just because of what was said/shown in Silence in the Library.

It was really cool that the Doctor took River out for her birthday. You don’t catch onto it after just one watch, I had to watch it multiple times for me to realise that Melody/River was born on that day and the Doctor had remembered to take River out to see Stevie Wonder out of his time.

The Doctor speaks baby!

What year is it? I would presume that it is in the future due to the fact that the church ha moved on and supports gay marriage.

The Doctor really does have an endless supply of Sonic Screwdrivers. Rory had one and so did the Doctor.

RORY WAS BRILLIANT! He was always my favourite, but after last episode I was looking for some confirmation that he was actually a man and wasn’t trying to impress anyone – he was trying to save his wife and baby. He had my favourite line of the whole thing, “Oh God, I was going to be cool.”

I liked all the extra companions.

Lorna bucket – doesn’t everybody run with the Doctor. He might have had no idea who she was and in his mind went “Ok, I have no idea who the hell you are, but I have run with nearly every person that I’ve met, so I’ll say we ran a lot” ... Or if he hadn’t actually done that yet with Lorna so he just said that they ran, then went back into Lorna’s childhood and made her run.

Vestra and Jenny – two lesbians, one a Victorian London detective from underground and the other, a servant. You cannot get more awesome than that. And they had kick ass sword skills.

Commander Strax – a nurse Sontaran. Need I say more? My favourite of all the extra companions as his comments about breastfeeding Melody/River. Also, when he comments to Rory that he’s just a nurse, I feel that there should have been some dialogue between Rory and him saying that Rory is a nurse too.

Dorium – he’s old, he’s fat, he’s blue ... and apparently owes the Doctor a debt. (You could see a tiny flaw in the make up actually, the Blue kept on rubbing off his neck onto his collar to expose his skin... Oh well, you could just say that the blue people were diseased. In any case, it didn’t really matter once his head was chopped off) And Dorium had an awesome laugh.

I didn’t really like the Headless Monks, nor the cleric they converted. He was annoying. The Thin One was much more likable. The attack prayer was the best bit about them. I was kind of expecting something really creepy when Dorium’s head was cut off – perhaps see the stump twist into a knot.

I liked the Doctor’s playfulness when rescuing Amy, when he’s on loudspeaker and imitating the spit fires.

I thought that Karen Gillan’s acting was alright in this episode. She was pretty good for the majority of it, however in the bit where she notices the stars on the cot was completely crap. She didn’t sound convincing at all. Perhaps it was the script – the “Oh my God” was perhaps not needed.

I didn’t like Kovarian. I know that she’s a well respected actress and everything, but I just didn’t like how she portrayed her character – I didn’t really feel like she was bad. Perhaps it was the “PUSSSSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHH” from the last episode that put me off.

When the Doctor was escaping from the “Monk’s stage” and he uses the Sonic Screwdriver, the echo is really loud. Surely some clerics would hear him, or at least see him like Lorna did.

The use of Captain Avery and Toby was really short and I thought a bit pointless, they could have just targeted the ship with Spit Fires instead and been just as effective. Also, isn’t Toby meant to be connected to a life support system? I’m also thinking that they must have landed there somehow, so doesn’t that mean that the Siren should be there? She’s have a jolly good time with all the decapitated heads.

Is it just me, or did the boots of all the clerics/soldiers look like ugg boots?

I liked how they made the Doctor realise that he is as good as/better than a weapon. I also like how that the Doctor now knows that he can save River and so his confidence has been pepped up.

I loved the poem. In fact, I’m going to put it in here for good measure.

Demons run

When a good man goes to war.

Night will fall and drown the sun,

When a good man goes to war.

Friendship dies

And true love lies,

Night will fall,

And the dark will rise.

When a good man goes to war.

Demons run,

But count the cost.

The battle’s won,

But the child is lost.

Favourite Quotes

“Where is my wife!? Oh don’t give me those blank looks.” – Rory Williams

“He said, run.” / “Just run?” / “He said it a lot.” – Lorna Bucket/Thin One

“Why on earth are you wearing that?” / “The Doctor’s idea.” / “Of course, his rules of engagement. Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.” / “Look ridiculous.” / “Have you considered heels?” – River/ Rory

“Why would you need me?! I’m old! I’m fat! I’m blue!” – Dorium

“Can I borrow your gun?” / “Why?” / “Because I have a feeling about gonna keep talking.” – Amy/Lorna

“Don’t slump it’s bad for your spine.” Commander Strax

“Hello everyone! Guess who? Please, point a gun at me if it helps you relax, you’re only human.” – The Doctor

“No, Colonel Manton, I want you to tell your men to run away.” / “What?” / “Those words, run away. I want you to be famous for those exact words. I want people to call you Colonel Run Away. I want children laughing outside your door because they found the house of Colonel Run Away.” – The Doctor/Colonel Manton

“The anger of a good man is not a problem. Good men, have too many rules.” / “A good man doesn’t need rules. Today is not the day to find out why I have so many.” – Kovarian/The Doctor

“Who’s that!? Who’s there!? You better watch it because I am armed and really dangerous and, cross.” / “Yeah do you think I don’t know that?” – Amy/Rory

“They took her. Rory they took our baby away.” / “Now, Mrs Williams, that is never ever going to happen.” – Amy/Rory

“Crying Roman with a baby, definitely cool.” – Amy

“Ughhhh. Kissing and crying, I’ll be back in a bit.” – The Doctor

“Hello. Hello, uh, baby.” / “Melody.” / “Melody! Hello Melody Pond.” / “Melody Williams.” / “That’s a geography teacher. Melody Pond is a superhero.” – The Doctor/Amy/Rory

“Mm, yes I suppose she does smell nice. Never really sniffed her. Maybe I should give it a go.” – The Doctor

“Really, you should call her mummy, not big milk thing.” – The Doctor

“She doesn’t like the TARDIS noise. I asked him to turn something off, but it was all ‘but I don’t want to punch a hole in the Space-Time Continuum’.” - Amy

“Centurion, permission to hug?” / “Be aware, I do have a sword.” – The Doctor/Rory

“Anger is always the shortest distance to a mistake.” – Vestra

“Well how would I know, that’s all humany private stuff, they don’t put a up a balloon or anything!” – The Doctor

“It’s all running about, and sexy fish vampires and blowing up stuff, and Rory wasn’t even there at the beginning. Then he was dead. Then he didn’t exist. Then he was plastic. Then I had to reboot the whole universe, long story. So technically, the first time they were on the TARDIS together in this version of reality was on their w-” – The Doctor

“It’s strange. I’ve often dreamed of dying in combat. I’m not enjoying it, as much as I hoped.” – Commander Strax

“Well then soldier, how goes the day?” – River

Until next time, Adios Amigos!

Geronimo! A Review of Doctor Who S06E05&06 The Rebel Flesh & The Almost People.

I’m sorry I’m so late with my reviews! Blogger got blocked by my dad, so I had to wait until he was out to use the computer. I’m an expert at guessing passwords … And I wrote this before I saw A Good Man Goes to War, just saying…

Well, because I’m lazy and because of exams etc. I am reviewing the two Matthew Graham episodes in one. I have to say, the first episode was quite good, although I do have a few little niggles here and there. These were the annoying accents (GANG-ER not GANG-GUH) and the pile of cards that took a different form in the space of a second or two.

However, overall it was a pretty good episode. I quite liked Rory’s sympathetic scene towards Ganger-Jennifer and the hidden issue raised about right to life. Just so you know, this review is going to be mainly about the second part, Almost People, just because I can’t be bothered to review the first episode.

The second episode… I didn’t like the majority of it. I think I’m the only one amongst my friends who doesn’t like it. The dialogue between the two Doctor’s was really entertaining, but I found the rest of it full of production flaws which really made it unenjoyable. Don’t get me wrong, the majority of the storyline was good, but just the production was crap.

Likes

·         The Doctor’s idea of swapping shoes

·         Retro music in the TARDIS

·         Cleaves vs. Ganger Cleaves

·         Adam and Ganger Jimmy … nawwwww

·         Yowzer!

·         The cleverness of the Ganger Doctor. When he appears to be sonicing the transmission panel (Almost People), he is actually scanning Amy. He then concludes that Gangers give off different signals to humans

Dislikes

·         It was too easy to find the escape hatch. It also wasn’t much of an escape hatch. Imagine this: in the event of an emergency, the people are stuck in the chapel, and the only way that they can get out is through a hatch that is sealed by screws. So unless they have a instrument on them that can open the hatch and close it behind them, such as a Sonic Screwdriver, they are pretty much screwed.

·         Rory and Ganger Jennifer relationship: I really like Rory, but this episode was just bleh. I hated the bit where he is so gullible and volunteers to turn the wheel for the purpose of impressing Jennifer. It was just… ugh *shudders*

·         Ganger Jennifer changing for the first time – when she vomits up the “gunge” it doesn’t sound like she’s vomiting

·         Snake Jennifer/Ganger. It was stupid.

·         How thick is Rory? Seriously? He identified the limping Jennifer (ok, good) but straight afterwards the ganger lost the limp. Wouldn’t he notice?

·         The biggest thing I hated about the episode was the CGI of the semi-melted Flesh and Jennifer’s elongated mouth. The Flesh especially just looked like a drawing. It was terrible.

·         Amy’s pregnancy. It looked like she was about to shoot her baby out, into the green dot at the end of the thing that she was in.

·         The eye-patch lady. Ugh, she was annoying: “PUUUUUUSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHH”. If I ever give birth in a futuristic place like that I will reach up and punch my matron in the face if she ever does that to me.

·         Matt Smith’s double. You could tell that it looked nothing like him even though in confidential they said that the hair had to be perfect. It wasn’t perfect.

·         I didn’t like the scenario of the choking gas. They were in there for a good 30 seconds before they started to choke. Even though there was no visible sign of it, it would have still been in the air. And this was one instance that I just didn’t buy Matt Smith’s performance at all.

·         Dickens was a nobody character. He was given lines that could have easily been given to someone else. He was just kind of like a extra added in there to show the wimpy and susceptible side to humans/gangers. He didn’t even get a good goodbye line at the end. The story could have really done without him.

·         The line “Who are the real monsters?” was just vomit worthy.

·         The line “I am recognized, I’m Jennifer Lucas.” Not the actual line, but just how it was delivered. I didn’t really buy Sarah Smart’s performance through the whole episode.

Curious

·         Eyes in the wall

·         Why did the Doctor to feel the need to mention the Cybermats?

·         Amy told the Doctor of his death

·         The Ganger Doctor’s molecular memory can survive

·         The monster Jennifer Ganger reminded me of Coraline. More specifically, Coraline’s Other Mother.

·         The Doctor seems to have an endless supply of Sonic Screwdrivers and red balloons

·         Amy’s shoes change at the end of Almost People from Doc Martins to the same coloured sneakers

Quotes

·         “I’ve got to get to that cockerel before all hell breaks loose. Ha, never thought I’d say that again!” – The Doctor

·         “Nice barrel, very comfy, why not?” – The Doctor

·         “Oh great. That is so typically me.” – Ganger Cleaves

·         “I’m telling you, when something runs towards you, it’s never for a nice reason!” – Rory

·         “Yes it’s insane and it’s about to get even more insanerer. Is that a word?”

·         The beginning Doctor and Ganger Doctor scene

·         “Am I crazy Doctor?” / “Well you did want to plug your brain into the core of an entire planet just to hold its orbit and win a bet” – Ganger Doctor/Doctor

·         “Rory Pond! Roronicus Pondicus!” – The Doctor

·         “You’re one of us Doctor. *Clicks* Join the revolution. *Smiles*” – Ganger Jennifer

·         “If you’ve got a better plan I’m all ears. In fact, if we survive this I’ll take you to a planet where everyone is all ears” – Ganger Doctor

·         “I expect chocolate for breakfast. If you don’t feel sick by mid morning you’re not doing it right” – The Doctor

·         “My death arrives I suppose.” / “But this one we’re not invited to” / “Pardon?” / “Nothing. Your molecular memory can survive this you know, it may not be the end.” / “Well if I turn up to nick all your biscuits then you’ll know you’re right, won’t you?” – Ganger Doctor/Doctor

·         “And remember people died, don’t let that be in vain. Make what you say in that room count” – The Doctor

·         “I was going to drop you off for fish and chips first, but things happened and there was stuff and shenanigans. That’s a beautiful word, shenanigans.” - The Doctor

·         “Hello, I’m the Doctor. Why? No! We’ve moved on!” – Ganger Doctor (with 10^th Doctor voice)

·         “I’ve reversed the jelly baby of the neutron flow. I’m the would you like a, Doctor.” – Ganger Doctor

Overall, I found this episode less enjoyable then Curse of the Black Spot (I don’ know why people didn’t like CotBS, it was really good solid Who). Let’s just hope that next week is a better episode. Please Steven, we need it.

Until next time, Adios Amigos!