Cold Blood
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torkell"I do not recognise your authority at this time"
"Well then. You must shoot me."
They just had to go and ruin it, didn't they? The Doctor has organised the first official meeting between the lizards and the humans, the participants are slowly working out how they can fit it all together, and then the lizard commander busts in ready to start shooting. At the same time the party upstairs Tazer their hostage to death. Idiots, the lot of 'em.
I did like the reference back to the fixed points in time - we first saw that with Waters of Mars, where the death of the main character was a fixed point of the universe. The Doctor makes a big thing of how this isn't one of those fixed points, and so making it work is entirely up to them.
There's something seriously screwy going on with the canon in this series - given that they don't think humanity is ready for the lizard race, that implies that most if not all of the alien visitations from the past few series haven't happened. The hospital badge with the wrong date is looking more and more like a production goof (especially as the date when all this mess started is shown in-universe to be the 26th - the date of the final episode), so it's not just that the date has been moved round. Here's a random theory: if the Tardis really does explode (which looks likely, based on the shrapnel), then the explosion undoes everything that the Doctor has achieved with the Tardis. He gets eaten from existence by the cracks, and so do all his actions.
Speaking of the cracks, they're definitely getting more menacing, and interacting more with the universe. They seem rather picky too - it ate Rory out of existence, but ignored the Doctor when he stuck his hand in. Interesting piece of shrapnel - the strong implication is that the Tardis exploded. I guessed something similar in a comment elsewhere, though my theory was more a "travelling through time leaves holes behind" than "Tardis fall down go boom". Interestingly they've already referenced/foreshadowed blowing up the Tardis in Amy's Choice
One last thought - what happened to the ring? Rory very carefully put it in a special holder thing in the Tardis, and it's still there. So what's in it? Is it going to trigger a sort-of Bad Wolf moment in Amy?
"Well then. You must shoot me."
They just had to go and ruin it, didn't they? The Doctor has organised the first official meeting between the lizards and the humans, the participants are slowly working out how they can fit it all together, and then the lizard commander busts in ready to start shooting. At the same time the party upstairs Tazer their hostage to death. Idiots, the lot of 'em.
I did like the reference back to the fixed points in time - we first saw that with Waters of Mars, where the death of the main character was a fixed point of the universe. The Doctor makes a big thing of how this isn't one of those fixed points, and so making it work is entirely up to them.
There's something seriously screwy going on with the canon in this series - given that they don't think humanity is ready for the lizard race, that implies that most if not all of the alien visitations from the past few series haven't happened. The hospital badge with the wrong date is looking more and more like a production goof (especially as the date when all this mess started is shown in-universe to be the 26th - the date of the final episode), so it's not just that the date has been moved round. Here's a random theory: if the Tardis really does explode (which looks likely, based on the shrapnel), then the explosion undoes everything that the Doctor has achieved with the Tardis. He gets eaten from existence by the cracks, and so do all his actions.
Speaking of the cracks, they're definitely getting more menacing, and interacting more with the universe. They seem rather picky too - it ate Rory out of existence, but ignored the Doctor when he stuck his hand in. Interesting piece of shrapnel - the strong implication is that the Tardis exploded. I guessed something similar in a comment elsewhere, though my theory was more a "travelling through time leaves holes behind" than "Tardis fall down go boom". Interestingly they've already referenced/foreshadowed blowing up the Tardis in Amy's Choice
One last thought - what happened to the ring? Rory very carefully put it in a special holder thing in the Tardis, and it's still there. So what's in it? Is it going to trigger a sort-of Bad Wolf moment in Amy?
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Date: 2010-06-11 11:03 pm (UTC)Odd, I don't remember any of that! And it's exactly the sort of inconsistency that I normally love to obsess over and make theories about. At the very least it proves that the production team isn't above messing around with the audience, which is good to know.
>>The real hints for the series
I would add "The Doctor in the Tardis doesn't know" to the list, as I'm sure it's been mentioned a few times this series. As has that "How is it a duck pond if there aren't any ducks?" business, but I can't see how that could be relevant to anything. I do so want the theory that a Future!Doctor has been travelling around in the background of this series to be true, though that's looking less and less likely as we approach the finale. Speaking of the silence at the end of the universe, what do you make of the silence at the end of the Vampires of Venice?
>>On the cracks
These are pretty much my exact thoughts, though I think of the silence as less "anti-time" and more "outside" of space/time, so stuff gets sucked into it the same way air gets sucked out of a spaceship when an airlock is opened. The retconning of series 1-4 means that the cracks must be spread throughout space/time, as opposed to following around Amy or the Tardis or whatever, which is what the series seems to be implying so far. Ugh, confused.
>>The cracks in TBB and VOTD
I thought those cracks were pretty small or at least thinner than those in FaS/CB? For a while I assumed they were instances of the "benign" cracks that simply link space/time, and so would be more or less harmless. But then in Cold Blood the Doctor said that the cracks were getting bigger, so I guess they could be early instances of silence!cracks. In either case, the silency cracks seem to only be eating people (though the mental image I'm now getting of millions of earthworms flying towards the underground crack from Cold Blood is pretty amusing) so Starship UK is safe, and we know that a crack hasn't eaten the major players of WW2 London because surely Amy would be affected?
Having said that.. perhaps the trigger for the finale is that those cracks start getting all serious business, Amy starts Back to the Future-ing all over the place and the Doctor finds out that Starship UK disappeared under mysterious circumstances.
And now I will stop as I'm starting to ramble, my apologies.
By this point I'm sure I've spent more time analysing this bloody series than the writers have. I need to get me one of those "life" things I've heard so much about.
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