Silence in the Library

[owl]

Oooh, it's L-Space! Well, almost. It's a giant alien planet-library!

And the Doctor can tell where he is by the magic licked finger.

"Very you, always death at the end." Oh, dear, Donna's becoming cynical.

I liked the way the Doctor actually used the word 'spoilers' to explain why Donna wasn't allowed to read the books from the future. and then he had the tables turned on him later, hah. And he's bad at keeping her away from plot developments, heh.

I actually wondered were the million million lifeforms the books themselves. Seems not.

Stay out of the shadows. Eeeek. And the mysterious shadow with nothing to cast it...

"It doesn't do wood?" Donna for the win, kicking in the door! Door skills!

And the creepy child is actually a security camera.

Oooh, archeologists. What was all that about the company owning their experience? Yuck. Yay for them simultaneously tearing up the contracts.

Almost all species have an irrational fear of the dark. Except it's not irrational. Aaaaaaah! Vashta Nerada has a nice creepy sound too.

The Doctor slags off archaeology and River Song calls him 'Pretty boy'! And she has a book on him. That he's not allowed to read. And she thinks he's so young!

Oh, dear, Donna asked why she wasn't travelling with the Doctor in the future. He's a thousand years old, take a wild guess. But I fear she may die, because river looked upset when she worked out who Donna was.

How scary is that ghosting? The last seconds looping and looping....poor Donna having to go and deal with it.

Creepy small child again. What is it with the Moff and creepy small children? So the child isn't just in the security bot thing, she is the library?

Oh, what's up with the psychiatrist? 'Your nightmares are all real'. Aaaaghh I'm glad I'm not watching this when I'm eight or something.

Saved: I do not think that word means what you think it means. Saved to some sort of neural storage? The Doctor did say that the planet's core was a giant hard drive.

Freak-the-hell-out moments: Things with teeth lurking in the dark. The dead girl's voice speaking at the start of the ghosting. The 'you've got two shadows' line. The walking skeleton with the lower part of the skull lit up by the helmet light. Those node things with the real dead faces on them.

Noooo Donna! Ok, she's going to get out of this, yes? The Doctor shouldn't have sent her back to the TARDIS, she could have looked after herself ok with the rest of them.

Comments

[yubsie]

I predict a lot of "Mummy, Daddy, can I sleep with you?" tonight. :p (Of course, timezones, it's already happened :p)

[owl]

Hah, yes. Even the BBC announcers know this, and tell us to get behind our sofas.

[alysbowie.livejournal.com]

Moffat had better not kill Donna. That'd piss me right off.

And Colin Salmon FTW!!

[owl]

I don't think it'll be the Moff. I think it'll be RTD, in the finale, with the plot hammer.

[richenda.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure about the books - why and how did the little girl's remote throw them?
Isn't she more than the security camera? CAL/HAL?
Why were the TV programmes 21st century and the phone a dial phone. and why couldn't the other people hear the phone?

[owl]

Yeah, I think the little girl is the central computer.

[ankaret.livejournal.com]

Hah, someone else thought it was 'saved to hard disk'! I missed much of the beginning through Peter and I snarking that they probably had a million million bacteria on their skin and in their intestines between them, though now I come to think about it Time Lords probably do something about that so that they don't end up accidentally killing every planet they visit with the Gallifreyan version of rampant shapechanger-adapted strep throat.

I *heart* River Song and want her to come back again and again - I think she's a much more plausible love interest than Reinette, and I like the way she's got pretty-boy back-footed.

[owl]

The TARDIS fixes the bacteria *handwave*

I like River Song too, but I fear she is DOOMED.