Blink

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How scary were those angel things? Especially the montage at the end suggesting that any statue is potentially one. I think I'll tell my 8-year-old Who fan friend to stop the tape before that bit. (he's planning to tape watch it sometime that isn't just before his bedtime :) ) I wasn't behind the sofa, but I did hide my eyes behind a cushion when Sally and Laurence are in the basement and the light starts to flicker.

Quantum monsters! They aren't there if you're looking at them! Schrödinger's monsters! And the way the Doctor tricked them into looking at each other for ever was veeery clever. I wonder how the TARDIS did that thing where Sally and Laurence were left behind, and how did she know where to find the Doctor?

It was massively better than Love and Monsters, in no small part because the guest characters got at least a chance of having a life, even if it was in the past, as opposed to becoming trapped in a paving stone.

He seems to have gone through a lot of emergency protocols. I wonder if this one was put in place after GitF'ace.

I loved the Easter-egg!Doctor with his half of the conversation, and Laurence the geek (Laurence Nightingale, groan) saving the world by taking down the conversation—in shorthand!—because he wanted to post it on the internet. Hey, Sally, nothing wrong with the internet, I bet you have a Myspace. Although there was nothing to say that it was set in 2007 as opposed to, say, 1999, was there? Geeks are the best people to go on bizarre adventures because they can help you out with the Exposition Bits if you're the Doctor (Oooh, a parallel universe!) and explain about DVDs and look at creepy statues without blinking if you're the pretty screaming girl.

The windows are the wrong size! The Moff has evidently been hanging out on Outpost Gallifrey. Or spent a bit of time on Usenet (86547-post threads on the length of a Super Star Destroyer or winged/wingless Balrogs, ah, my adolescence!)

Why does no one ever go to the police? This episode was a bit meta sometimes. Oh, lovely Moff. (And huzzah for inline spellchecking, because I always type epsiode.)

Sally giving him the transcript, a lovely time paradox, or to quote the wonderfully articulate Time Lord, timey-wimey...stuff. There's something about a story that feeds in on its own tail, isn't there?

I would like to know what the Doctor and Martha were doing with that archery stuff. I wonder will it ever make it into a book or if it's too mad (I hear the sound of a hundred fanfics being spawned).

Somebody's evidently quite fond of the moon landings. Oh, poor Martha, first a maid and now a shop girl, no wonder she's a bit annoyed. I note the Doctor didn't seem to get himself a job, too busy building timey-wimey detectors no doubt.

I loved DT and the Moff geeking out in Television Centre in their Paisley accents (narrative burrden, I LOL'D). And little kids send their fanfiction in to Rusty. We get wise and post it on LiveJournal. Although, wait a minute, if the ficcing kids are going to be running the next incarnation of it, does that mean the new series is a sort of fanon of the old one? That could explain a few things, actually.

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the new series is a sort of fanon of the old one? That could explain a few things, actually.

*Nods* Like the retconning of Sarah, and the way everyone falls in love with the doctor....

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Yes, that's sort of what I was thinking of. Because if half the writers wanted to be the Doctor...Y HALO THAR MARY SUEZ.

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We need more people like the Brigadier, who like and respect but don't always agree with or even totally trust him.

In fact, we need more Old Skool type companions, and less of the subtextual It iz be eternal luf time naow?

O God, now I've caught the macro virus.

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Donna was a bit good that way but she didn't stay long enough. And she was right, he does need someone to stop him, not a yes-woman. I'd be interested to see what happens if he goes Oncoming Storm in front of Martha.

MACROZ B ETTIN UR BRANEZ.

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The windows are the wrong size! The Moff has evidently spent a bit of time on Usenet, where one can find 86547 post threads on the length of a Super star Destroyer.

I fell over laughing at that bit - there have indeed been threads on Outpost Gallifrey complaining about the TARDIS windows being the wrong size.

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Someone knows fandom. I LOL'd.

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It's a mongolian Hunting bow, and I would give my right arm to have one like that. And Martha had a qiver full of traditionaly fletched arrows. Gah, Want so bad!

And agreed, this eppisode scared the shit out of me.

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Oh, archery pr0n. I admit to admiration even though all I can achieve in that direction is a black and blue forearm.

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You need a bracer, and a long one, I used to whack myself something silly with my bow string when I was about 10, but as soon as I found the long bracer I was sorted.

I don't get to shoot now because of work (boo!) and would buy one in a shot if I had a spare £200 and could go out more often. Heck I miss my bow I'd be happy to go out and shoot him more often, let alone a new one.

If your interested in archery try www.nfas.net and you may be able to find a club near you who do starter courses etc.

Sorry, huge archery nut here. And appologies if this goes through twice. Yahoo's playing up.