Subject: You can find it on BBC's website.
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Posted on: 2013-11-25 05:14:00 UTC
Here's a link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01m3kfy
~Autumn
Subject: You can find it on BBC's website.
Author:
Posted on: 2013-11-25 05:14:00 UTC
Here's a link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01m3kfy
~Autumn
Well, this weekend was exciting for fandoms. The Day of the Doctor aired, season four of My Little Pony premiered, and Hunger Games: Catching Fire has its opening weekend. Yes, I know it opened on Thursday, but it still counts! So, in light of all this stuff, I want to know people's thoughts on these three events. How did they go? Were they any good? Was it fun? Tell us all!
Now, if you excuse me, I have to get to work. It's 1:40 now, and I have been going around having fun since 5:30. Got to live stream the pony premiere, and watch the Day of the Doctor in a theater for free. It was very, very fun.
Since she's a Time Lady - and thanks to Lily, has actually discussed the Time War with the Doctor - I figured she needed an opportunity to react to The Day of the Doctor. Fortunately, she's one of my two agents who like writing essays and the like - so I let her go at it.
And since I've chucked a 'spoilers' warning up there, I don't even have to hide the spoilerish title:
Gallifrey Stands - by Agent Morgan, DMS
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I found it rather interesting. Very hilarious. It's written and directed by Peter Davison, who played the Fifth Doctor. They managed to drag Sir Ian McKellan and Peter Jackson in, too, y'know, because Sylvester McCoy plays Radagast on a bunny sled in The Fangirl Magnet That Used To Be The Hobbit. And I suppose it's something to do with Sir Ian providing the voice of the Great Intelligence in The Snowmen too.
~Autumn
Where can I find it? It sounds hilarious!
-Aila
Here's a link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01m3kfy
~Autumn
Oh, and on a related note- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCW6m_V1zlc
I liked the bit where the three "Doctors" produced their John Barrowman CDs to get admitted into the Doctor Who Experience. That one was, as we all say, "lol".
It saddens me that some fans doesn't even know what Classic Who is. Eg. Ashley from OFWho by Kittythekatty (a fictional example, but there must be fangirls like her in the Real World). They were awesome, and I loved Four and Five very much.
~Autumn
PS, We get a glimpse of Sir Ian on the set of Dol Guldur(?). He seems to have a bit of "blood" on his forehead. Perhaps he was filming the attack on the Necromancer?
...but I am making plans to see Catching Fire with my mom... next weekend.
If I believe the critical buzz, it's that Catching Fire the movie is even better than the original Hunger Games movie. I mean, the first movie was really only competent, but it sounds like Catching Fire is really good. I'm personally looking forward to it as Catching Fire is my personal favorite book of the whole trilogy, and I'm really looking forward to seeing Jennifer Lawrence on screen again.
Also, Season 4 of MLP is something I'll need to get to. Eventually.
Didn't see most of the stuff but The Day of the Doctor! Man, Every Doctor ever! Gallifrey's destruction averted! Tenth and Eleventh! THE TIME WAR! *nerdgasm*
The Emperor Protects!
Zygons! ALL THE REFERENCES! Fezzes! Big Red Buttons! Clara being awesome! Kate Stewart! Bad Wolf!Moment Interface is lovely!
"Everybody lives, Rose! Just this once, everybody lives!"
I was actually jumping up and down when all the Doctors appeared to save Gallifrey. And there was this huge smile that just stuck to my face and wouldn't go away from them figuring out how to to use the Moment until the end of the episode. Also, why was that UNIT girl wearing Four's scarf? And Curator!Doctor was so YES! And I was laugh-crying when the War Doctor was saying goodbye to the other two.
"Great men are born of fire. It is the privilege of lesser men to light the flame."
-Aila
It's good that they'll give a direction for the next series. I'm very interested to see what happens.
Oh, and can I tell you how happy I am that
GALLIFREY
FALLS
NO
MORE
I don't have BBC Entertainment, Netflix isn't available here, and I so, so wanted to see that episode! And I didn't! Oh glod, why, Starhub, why? Why couldn't you have made Doctor Who available on a free channel?
*sobs*
~Autumn
But you know what would have been even more awesome? If they had done two versions of the movie.
Then, when people like us get together on the net to discuss it, half of us would be like 'It was sad but inevitable that the Doctor had to reaffirm his past decision.' And the other half would be like 'Dude, what are you talking about? He changed the past and saved the whole planet.'
That would be timey-wimey. :)
How would they determine which network/venue showed which version? They couldn't just transmit it to random stations with a fifty-fifty chance of either one showing up on any given television, because that's not how television transmission works. I suppose they could have one version on television and another on Internet livestreaming, but the former would probably massively outweigh the latter, and the gimmick would be not only lost, but figured out almost immediately.
And which would be canon? Both? It couldn't be both, because the retroactive resurrection of the Time Lords means that they will almost certainly be showing up again in future seasons, especially since Gallifrey not being blown up means the Master is still alive, while destroying Gallifrey on-screen more or less voids all chance of seeing any Time Lords again ever, unless one or two TARDIS out in the last few seconds before the time lock hits and renders that impossible. And if it was decided to be ambiguous which was the canon version, then nobody would even be able to mention the Time Lords again in future episodes, because the Doctor's response to that mention would be radically different depending on what happened, and we'd miss out on one of the bigger parts of the Doctor's personal lore.
If that was a "just for fun" hypothetical instead of an "I wonder what would happen if they did this" hypothetical, then I apologize for ruining said fun.
Oh, and speaking of retroactivity, Gallifrey not being destroyed finally closes a plot hole in the "You Are Not Alone" reveal from Ten's era. Namely, how would the Face of Boe have known about the Master?
It was presented as though, despite the Time Lords travelling across all of time and all of space, the only "actually alive" ones left were the Doctor and the Master, the latter of whom was disguised as a human at the end of the universe, hidden in such a way that not even the past selves of the Time Lords couldn't detect him. How would the Face of Boe know he was there? We can't say that he would have had information from when the Master was running around Earth in the 21st century, because all of the Master's activity was wiped from history when his paradox machine was destroyed, which also wipes out all possibility of the Face simply remembering that information from his time as Jack Harkness(if we're going with the Jack-is-the-Face-of-Boe route here and not the the-Face-of-Boe-is-a-member-of-a-different-species route), since Jack was the one who destroyed it and was right next to it when the temporal reboot happened, so we can't say he would have escaped its effects.
But, if most of the Time Lords are still alive, the Face wouldn't have needed to know about the Master. He could have just heard about the true fate of Gallifrey at some point in his long, long life, as well as the Doctor's belief that Gallifrey was destroyed, and then tried to use his last seconds to tell the Doctor what really happened. Of course, all he got out before his death were four cryptic words, but that falls true no matter what he was talking about, whether it would have been a warning about the Master or a message of hope about Gallifrey.
And somehow managed to forget that the vast majority of viewers of course would be seeing it at home.
And no, it was never a serious suggestion, more of a 'OMG, they could really mess with our heads that way!' But to avoid the problems with continuation that you point out, they could do a whole story arch about two different realities sprung from different decisions. But since we already know everything about one of those realities, it would probably not work well as s story.