50. The Day of the Doctor

THE DAY IS HERE, EVERYBODY. THE DAY IS HERE. The moment we have all been waiting so patiently for (hopefully), the day that we has been the constant topic of conversation and the most anticipated day of 2013–certainly the most anticipated day for Doctor Who, period–has AT LONG LAST arrived!!

Gracious, I’m getting crazy butterflies just sitting here writing this. It’s going to take me WEEKS to recover from this episode. It was POSITIVELY SPLENDIFEROUS!! Absolutely perfect in EVERY SINGLE WAY POSSIBLE! Steven Moffat!! WELL DONE, SIR! You GENIUS!!! How do you keep being so brilliant?? This is Moffat’s best episode to date! It really is! The story was MAGNIFICENT and all the Doctors together…AAAGGGHHH! It was just fantastic!

So! Premise of the story! It’s the end of the Time War for John Hurt’s Doctor, and he’s trying to decide whether to destroy Gallifrey or not. He stole a machine called The Moment that he was going to use to perform the deed. Suddenly, the “conscience” of the machine comes to life, in the form of Rose Tyler, and she takes him into his future to see what kind of man he’ll be in the future, after he’s destroyed Gallifrey.

Blimey, there’s SO MUCH to talk about! So Clara and the Doctor are still on a tentative schedule, as far as time traveling goes. Meaning Clara doesn’t live in the TARDIS with the Doctor 24/7 like Rose, Martha and Donna did. She apparently has a new job as a teacher. I didn’t quite catch if she liked the job. It sounded like she didn’t, but again, didn’t catch what she said.

The opening title!! I LOVED IT!! The words “Matt Smith” comes up on the screen as he flies by hanging on to the TARDIS. It was priceless! XD

Can I just say how BOSS Gallifreyan paintings are?? Of COURSE they would be bigger on the inside, hence the whole 3-D effect. That’s going to look SO COOL at the cinema in 3-D! That’s probably the thing I’m looking forward to the most when my sister and I go to see it on the big screen.

I don’t know how Moffat came up with the idea to go with the whole Doctor and Elizabeth I story, but it was a GREAT idea! They were quite an amusing couple. Bess was absolutely infatuated with Ten, but Ten didn’t seem completely enthusiastic about the whole thing. The fact that he couldn’t tell her apart from the Zygon was a clue, I think, that their whole relationship was a mistake.

Okay, Zygons are absolutely terrifying! They’re shapeshifters, I guess. They can take the form of any living thing and assimilate their personalities, so as to avoid discovery. Things got confusing very quickly. They’re the perfect “Moffat monster” and I’m VERY surprised that Moffat hasn’t brought them in sooner. He could do so many evil things with those creatures. Oh dear…

So this is the story of how all three of the Doctors came together. I guess it was The Moment that created those time fissures, tears in reality, that enabled them all to be together. THE FEZ RETURNED! AGAIN!!! And it was absolutely FANTASTIC to see Ten put it on! Tee hee! John Hurt had the opportunity to put the fez on. I was sitting there on the couch saying, “Put the fez on, John. JAWN!! Put on the fez!” But he never did. You had ONE opportunity, John. ONE! :p

I LOVED John Hurt’s Doctor SO MUCH!! He was TERRIFIC. Just…perfectly terrific! His character was actually a bit unexpected for me. I was expecting him to be this really grim and gruff Doctor, but he actually had a good bit of “twinkle” in him too. And it was wonderful!! He was serious enough to be the show stealer we know him to be (he really does steal the spotlight with just a look), but he also still had that playful, childlike side to him. Oh goodness! I loved him!!

And Ten and Eleven together…oh my goodness! There couldn’t have been a better pairing. They played off each other so well, and it was so interesting to watch the differences and similarities between them, all in the same scene. Ten and Eleven are so similar, but they’re also VERY, VERY different. It looked like Matt Smith and David Tennant had a blast acting together.

One thing the episode did NOT do was explain WHY ON EARTH THE MOMENT’S “CONSCIENCE” LOOKED LIKE ROSE! It was very evident that we were not seeing Rose Tyler, but somebody else entirely. Which makes sense ’cause I’ve heard Moffat isn’t a Rose Tyler fan. So I applaud him for indulging the fans with Billie Piper coming back. But at the same time, he couldn’t have Rose Tyler in there, ’cause he doesn’t like her, so he went all clever with her character and gave her a completely different role that I don’t understand, to be honest. Is she supposed to be Bad Wolf? The Moment is supposed to be Bad Wolf? How can that be? If anyone can shed any light–theories, anything–to help us understand. ‘Cause I was completely confused. But I liked her character, whoever she was! She was kinda like Idris in The Doctor’s Wife.

That scene in the Tower of London with the door was priceless!! It’s SO like the Doctor to spend hours and hours, potentially, on a door, trying to figure out how to open it, despite the fact that sonic screwdrivers don’t work on wood, only to find that the door is actually unlocked. Classic!! That made my life so much! XD

Was anyone else almost crying when John Hurt’s Doctor went back to Gallifrey, and Ten and Eleven joined him to push the “big red button”? They decided to be there too so he wouldn’t have to do it alone. MY FEELS!!! It was heartbreaking!! They all were going to be part of the darkest day of the Doctor’s life. His home, his family, his friends, everything that was familiar to him, everything he grew up with he was on the brink of annihilating.

Except…a thing happened.

Who was it who had the idea? Clara? Ten? Eleven? All of them? I don’t remember who it was ’cause I was caught up in the moment (PUN! Haha! Anyway…), but someone came up with the BRILLIANT idea to throw in a little surprise for the Daleks. One last battle maneuver in the Time War. Freeze Gallifrey in, what was it, a time lock or a parallel universe, that would make the planet disappear and make the Daleks THINK that it was destroyed.

GALLIFREY WOULD BE SAFE. In a nutshell.

GALLIFREY WOULD BE SAFE.

Before I go on, I have a point I’d like to talk about. The Day of the Doctor wasn’t a typical Moffat episode where there’s one HUGE mindblowing thing at the end. Instead, there was a series of little mindblowing things scattered here and there all over the episode. It was a lot of fun! The first mindblowing thing was where we find out that the Zygons were the things that got out of the paintings and THEY were what was under the sheets in that one room. A VERY The Time of Angels moment!

The next moment was with the whole door scene, where John Hurt’s Doctor was talking about software on the sonic screwdriver, and how it would take centuries to download. But of course, since they were all there, Eleven being himself centuries older than John Hurt, has had time for the software to download, and it was actually completed on his screwdriver!  That was one of those gradual realization moments, and it was fantastic!

(I AM going somewhere with this, by the way. Just so you know.)

There was another mindblowing moment that was more of a “OF COURSE!” moment with the painting. I had a feeling that the two names for it, “No More” and “Gallifrey Falls”, would amount to something, but I didn’t know what it would be. Then the curator came along and put the two titles together: “Gallifrey Falls No More”. OF COURSE! Of course, the two titles could be put together! And it makes a beautiful title, I must say!

There’s different types of mindblowing moments with Moffat, I’m realizing. :p

And finally, the last one was with freezing Gallifrey. With just three TARDISes, it would be impossible, but with multiple TARDISes, they could do it. Now again, I was caught up in the moment, so I didn’t catch how all the Doctors were there with their TARDIS. But there they were, all of them there to save their home planet.

Nine was there. NINE WAS THERE!! I squealed in pure delight. HE WAS THERE!! I was as happy as can be.

But THEN…

TWELVE!!! THE TWELFTH DOCTOR!!! ASDFGHJKLKJHGFDSA!!!

I literally SCREAMED at the television. The kind of scream that you instantly regret because it was so loud and ridiculous. XD BUT HE WAS THERE!!! OH MAH WORD!!! I was hoping, and secretly suspecting, that we would catch a sneak peek of Twelve here in the 50th. I saw a post on Facebook that got my suspicions up. AND THEN IT HAPPENED!! It was definitely my favorite part of the episode. 😀

So I had gotten everything out of the episode I wanted. WELLLLL, almost everything. We got all the classic Doctors into the episode, in a way, which was something I was secretly hoping Moffat would do. But we were so close, SO CLOSE, to seeing a Hurt-to-Eccleston regeneration! It was there! It was happening! But we didn’t get to see it all the way through. 😦 Oh well. I’m just glad that, again, Moffat indulged the fans, because I’m almost certain that he’s heard that the fans have been crying out for a regeneration scene.

We got to see Tom Baker at the end of the episode too! That was just a fun scene ’cause we didn’t know who it was going to be showing up. It was great. 🙂

I liked how the story covered the Doctor’s tracks in this episode. Since they all weren’t supposed to be there, whenever they left, they would forget what happened there. Since the Daleks believed that Gallifrey was destroyed, so would the Doctor. Simple as that. Nothing complicated. It makes perfect sense. Nine was the aggressive Doctor he was because he actually thought he had killed everyone. But he didn’t. It’s actually kind of a good thing he didn’t remember because if that secret got out, that Gallifrey wasn’t destroyed and was still out there, the results could be catastrophic!

Moffat was NOT kidding when he said that this episode changes all of Doctor Who from here on out. Gallifrey’s out there! It’s not destroyed, the Doctor still has a home and everyone is still alive. SO. MUCH. YUS. EVERYTHING changes from here! It means the Doctor has to go out there and find Gallifrey again. Twelve, that’s going to be your job! 😉 Oh my goodness, I’m SO EXCITED!!! We’re possibly going to be actually seeing episodes ON GALLIFREY next series! HOW COOL IS THAT!!! Oh, it’s going to be beautiful to watch!

Okay, what was your favorite part of the episode? Any thoughts that you have?

I was so excited afterwards, so full of joy that I was shaking! Actually shaking! A new type of reaction to Doctor Who for me. :p I CAN’T WAIT to see it again on Monday at the movie theater! It’s going to be AMAZING!!

A million thanks to you, Steven Moffat, and everyone else who helped make this 50th anniversary episode. You truly performed wonders with it, and it couldn’t have been more perfect. You are GENIUSES, the lot of you! 🙂

HAPPY 50TH ANNIVERSARY, DOCTOR WHO!!!! ❤ ❤

49. An Adventure in Space and Time

Second to last post, everybody! Tomorrow’s the big day! TOMORROW!! IT’S ACTUALLY TOMORROW! EEEEEK!!! I can’t believe it’s finally only HOURS away now! Oh goodness, I don’t know if I’ll be able to sleep tonight!

I literally JUST came in from watching the new movie An Adventure in Space and Time, and I’m trying to fight my feels. It’s really hard to not burst into tears right now. OH, THE FEELS!!!

Okay, okay, calm the feels. Calm the feels. Breathe. I’ve got a blog to write. Oh dear.

OH MY GOODNESS, the movie was SO GOOD!! It was absolutely brilliant! Well done, Mark Gatiss. WELL. DONE. I’ve heard so many good things about this movie on Facebook, a lot of good reviews, and they were all true! This was an absolutely fantastic movie, in every sense of the word.

The movie was basically about how Doctor Who got all started. We were transported back into 1960s England, and we got to watch the idea for Doctor Who develop. Albeit a dramatized version, but I’ve heard it’s a pretty accurate story. Head of drama Sydney Newman was looking around for something new to do for television, and someone came up with the idea to do a new sci-fi show. The idea brewed in Newman’s head for a little while, and he eventually came up with an alien called the Doctor, who looks like a human and travels through space and time in a police box that’s really a spaceship. And thus the plot was born. He hired his once production assistant, Verity Lambert, to be producer for the show, and a young man named Waris Hussein to be director. The movie shows how this pairing worked together to create the show that has sprung into the phenomenon it is today.

I had no idea just how much blood, sweat and tears went into getting Doctor Who started! I mean, every new show has its early-on issues, but Doctor Who especially had many obstacles to overcome. For one thing, they had to convince William Hartnell to actually be in it. And Verity Lambert was a new thing for BBC I guess, to be a woman producer so that took some getting used to for them. And the studio they started out in was absolutely rubbish. The sprinklers turned on whenever it got too hot in the studio, making shooting extremely difficult, especially with all the lights on and all that. The first shoot itself had its own problems too, with the doors to the TARDIS opening mid-take and cameras not functioning.

Even with all that trouble, with all the work everyone went through to just soldier through it all, Sydney Newman was still not impressed with the pilot episode. It was too scary, he claimed, and the Doctor didn’t have enough “twinkle”, as they called it. So after they had already put together a whole episode, the studio had to go through it ALL OVER AGAIN and start from scratch.

AND THEN, the announcement about President Kennedy’s assassination came on right in the middle of the episode when it was aired, so part of the episode was cut off! So they had to air the episode again the following week. Good gracious! What does one have to do to get a TV episode out there?

At long last, however, Doctor Who was out, and it slowly built into a massive success. Children all over England fell in love with this new alien, the Doctor. And the brand new monsters called the Daleks were a big hit especially.

It was really interesting seeing the creation of the Daleks. Apparently, Sydney Newman didn’t approve of them at first! He didn’t want the normal BEMs, as he called them, in his show. Bug Eyed Monsters. Verity was very firm about giving them a go, though, so they went along with it. And it ended up being probably being the biggest push for the show, it looked like.

The creation of the TARDIS was interesting to watch too. I hadn’t heard anything about how the the design for the TARDIS came to be. Turns out it was just kind of thrown together at the spur of the moment. But it was a brilliant design, and look at the beauty it has become!

I REALLY liked Verity, by the way. The woman behind everything. She was the tough producer who didn’t care that everyone looked down at her at first because she was a woman. She didn’t let other people’s opinions of her get in the way of her work and she just kept moving on. I loved it!

David Bradley as William Hartnell. I can’t even begin to explain how ABSOLUTELY PERFECT he was for the role! He looks JUST like the man himself, I’m not even kidding! GENIUS casting! And I heard that Bradley portrayed Hartnell very accurately, so that made it all the better. It was just wonderful! Almost seemed like Hartnell was with us again. 🙂

THE END WAS ABSOLUTELY HEARTBREAKING!!! Oh my WORD!! Those were THE MOST sudden, unanticipated feels I’ve EVER had in my LIFE! The movie was going on so peacefully! Just this calm, pleasant movie that was just starting to wind down. It was getting sad at the end because Hartnell’s health was deteriorating, and his regeneration was coming up. You felt for him, you really did, because Hartnell loved the show with all his heart and he was wanting to do more. It was sad, but nothing out of the ordinary sadness.

Then he said, “I don’t want to go.”

BAM! Sudden feels, RIGHT in the heart! The exact same words Ten said before he left. OH! It was terrible! I started crying on the spot.

But that’s not all. It got worse.

At the very end, right as Hartnell was getting ready to shoot his last scene, he looked up and there in front of him was Eleven, helping him at the TARDIS in his last moments. Hartnell saw his future as the Doctor, and he knew that the show was going to continue on. And he was the one who started it all.

Oh goodness! I’m crying right now all over again. It was such a beautiful scene. ❤

Man, it was a BIG surprise to see Matt Smith there! But it was a truly BEAUTIFUL scene. Absolutely perfect! Very fitting. Oh, it was SUCH  a good movie!! Beautifully written and brilliantly cast! What did you guys think of it?

If this movie doesn’t get you excited for tomorrow, I don’t know what will!

ASDFGHJKLKJHGFDSA!!!!

TOMORROW.

GUYS.

TOMORROW’S THE BIG DAY!!! We’re going to FINALLY find out who this mysterious new Doctor is!

GET EXCITED, EVERYBODY!!!

AAAAAAGGGGGGHHHH!!!! I CAN’T WAIT!!! The biggest day for Doctor Who yet!

Thank you, Mr. Hartnell, SO MUCH for getting all this started. This all wouldn’t be here without you. ❤ ❤

48. The Crossing

We’ve reached post #48 today! Only two more to go! Woot woot!! 😀 And we’re at November 20th today. We’re…we’re into the 20’s! WE ONLY HAVE THREE DAYS UNTIL THE DAY OF THE DOCTOR!!!! Oh my goodness!! Oh goodness! Katelyn, calm your nerves!

I’m trying, I really am!

But more than anything, I’m trying to delay writing this blog post, because I REALLY don’t want to write it! Last night’s episode of Person of Interest was HORRIBLE! Horrible meaning heartbreaking. IT WAS THE SADDEST EPISODE TO DATE, I’M NOT EVEN KIDDING! I…I don’t know what to do with myself! I can’t believe what they did!! Not only was it completely unexpected, but it was THE WORST unexpected thing imaginable! Just…NOOOOOOO!!!!

Why was it so sad, you may ask? Well, let me tell you the story. So Reese and Carter are on their way to take Quinn to the FBI building to put him in custody. As can be expected, HR is NOT happy in the least! So they have pretty much all of New York City on lockdown, all their cops dispatched, in order to find the trio. It reminded me a little bit of the end of 3:10 to Yuma. So Reese and Carter are on a DREADFULLY perilous journey here, which makes Reese’s number coming up hardly impossible. Finch sends in Fusco and Shaw to assist if assistance is needed. And unfortunately, Fusco gets caught. This is where the teaser clips we’ve been seeing came into play. So Finch is torn between keeping Reese and Carter safe or rescuing Fusco.

Even though Reese has been in many situations where he’s trapped in a building with few options for escape, this scenario was completely different because it was stinkin’ HR that was after him! Ruthless bunch they are. And on top of that, he and Carter are low on ammo, making any form of attack OR defense nearly impossible. I must say Reese came up with a really clever solution for storing Quinn away while he and Carter waited for daytime. When you’re in a morgue with a prisoner, what are ya gonna do? Put the prisoner in the drawer.

Putting Quinn away didn’t really help things much at all, however. HR was still after Reese and Carter. Enter Finch to try to save the day! He’s so adorable when he tries to play Reese’s part! He doesn’t like getting involved with violence, so every time he has to do something like Reese would do, like use a taser, like he did in this episode, he almost always apologizes to the victim. “I’m really not very good at this.” Dawww! Good on ya, Finch! You’re such a good friend!

And can I just say, I admire Finch’s fortitude SO MUCH, when it comes to Root. No matter how she tries to persuade him, no matter how convincing she sounds at times, Finch doesn’t, for one moment, let his guard down. He always reminds himself that her methods involve hurting people, something Finch does not support. And even in as bad a situation as THIS–a situation when he actually calls Reese by his real name, John (we know things are REALLY bad when Finch calls him John)–he didn’t listen to Root’s attempts to try to talk her way out. And I was afraid he was going to let her out! I was sitting there on the couch thinking, “Don’t do it, Finch. DON’T. DO IT.” And thank goodness, he didn’t! I don’t care if Reese is in danger, even in real danger of being killed, Root should NOT be let out! I applaud Finch so much for staying strong.

And I have just as much admiration for Fusco. That man is made of STEEL! He was punched in the stomach, slapped across the face and even had SEVERAL fingers broken, and STILL, he didn’t back down! He even lied about where the safety deposit box was. AND EVEN WHEN THEY THREATENED TO KILL HIS SON, EVEN WHEN THEY WERE POINTING A GUN AT HIS BOY’S FACE, he stayed true to his friend, Carter, and didn’t break. That takes a man of CHARACTER to be able to stand under that kind of pressure!

His goodbye to his son was heartbreaking, though. I almost cried. And then out of nowhere it seemed, just when all hope was lost, Shaw came in and took care of things. The show was getting SO INTENSE that I nearly forgot about Shaw! But she came in and saved the day. I nearly lost it at that moment. OH, THE FEELS!

AND THEN, just in case no one watching the show was already convinced of how boss Fusco is, after the phone call was over, he took out the guy watching him, even with his broken fingers. He was able to get out of his handcuffs since his fingers were broken. I was actually thinking about that during the show. I was like, “You know, he should be able to get out of those handcuffs now. He can maneuver much easier through them with mangled fingers.” And that’s what ended up happening! So Fusco didn’t die after all! The trailers misled us! AND HOW GLAD I AM FOR THAT!!

But that still leaves Reese and Carter. They’re nowhere near out of the woods yet. And while they were waiting there in the morgue, a COMPLETELY, UTTERLY UNFORSEEABLE thing happened.

Um…so Reese and Carter. As a ship. Um…I don’t know. I really don’t know. I don’t know if I ship it. There’s been ABSOLUTELY ZERO show of affection WHATSOEVER in the show–I’m NOT kidding, no hint AT ALL–so it was a VERY big shock! Up to this point, their relationship has appeared to be purely professional. But I guess it wasn’t! But you know, I can see it working. If the show built a little bit more on the romantic aspect of their relationship, it could work.

Almost by magic, it seemed, everything all worked out in the end! Carter got Quinn to the FBI building, he was put in custody, Carter was even made detective again (YES!!!) and Fusco was on the mend. Reese ended up being arrested, but it was SO MUCH better than being shot by HR.

Could things REALLY end this perfectly?

NOPE! There’s still one episode left in this three parter. I reminded myself to not get comfortable.

Great. How was the show going to ruin our lives now?

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

NOT CARTER. NOT. CARTER!!!

REALLY?!? REALLY??

NOOOOO!!! HOW COULD THEY DO THIS???? HOW COULD THEY KILL HER????

WHY was she not wearing a vest, I want to know?? She’s a detective, she’s always been smart enough to always be wearing her Kevlar vest.

BUT TODAY SHE WASN’T, APPARENTLY!

And that JERK Simmons…oh, I am fuming. I. Am FUMING at him!!

But not so much as I’m purely shocked about Carter. I…I CAN’T! I can’t believe it! I LOVED HER!! She was one of my favorite characters!! HOW COULD THEY DO THIS?? She had JUST gotten her job back as detective, she had her son and now a relationship with Reese to develop. She was at least half of the heart of the show and she had so much to live for! How are we supposed to go on without her??

The trailers misled us. They COMPLETELY misled us! It looked like Fusco was the one who was leaving, but we got something MUCH worse!

I…I just can’t believe it!! I got that emotionally dead feeling you get after watching something like Doomsday or the show finale of BBC’s Robin Hood. After the episode was over, I literally just sat there, bemoaning the show’s new existence at the television. It took me forever to find the strength to get up, and I couldn’t talk for at least half an hour.

AND THEN, not just looking at it from my perspective, but shifting over to Reese’s point of view, makes it a hundred times worse. He had FINALLY found someone else, after his first love had been killed, and SHE ended up being killed as well! I can’t even IMAGINE the utter heartbreak he’s experiencing. It’s bad enough to lose one person you love, but to have it happen TWICE…oh, it’s so painful to think about!

And that makes me think about how this might affect Finch and Reese’s relationship. Will it change anything to have Reese know that Finch had the option of letting Root go and there would have been a chance that none of this would have happened? From the looks of the next episode, it looks like nothing really has affected their friendship, but Reese looks absolutely dreadful!

Yeah. After ALL THAT, we still have one more episode to go through! Good gracious, WHAT is going to happen next? Person of Interest, you STAY AWAY from Finch! Touch Finch again, and there will be ME to answer to!

Okay, the more I talk, the sadder I get. I need to stop. How on earth is the show supposed to go on without Carter? There needs to be some sort of support group for all this LOL! It’s just too traumatizing. Hopefully, the next episode will have a happier ending.

Rest in peace, Detective Carter. You will be greatly missed.

47. Tales from the TARDIS

47 posts down, only 3 more to go!! AND WE HAVE TOM BAKER DAYS UNTIL THE DAY OF THE DOCTOR!!! WOO HOO!! This week is going by WAY too slow for me! I keep thinking it’s like Thursday or Friday, but then I check the calendar for the 10th time and it’s still the beginning of the week.

Well, I’m rather enjoying Doctor Who Takeover Week! Anyone else? It had a VERY good kick off yesterday, with Tales from the TARDIS and The Science of Doctor Who, the latter which I didn’t watch because I’m not a science person, but we saw a bit of the beginning and it was fun. But I’m really excited to talk about what we saw on Tales from the TARDIS last night. I’m also going to slip in a little bit of Who news at the end because why not? :p

I didn’t really know what to expect from this documentary, Tales from the TARDIS. I remember reading the description when BBC America released the Takeover Week schedule, but I kinda forgot it. XD So my family and I went in, not really knowing what was coming. But it was a really fun and VERY interesting show!

The main people talking in the documentary were Tom Baker, Peter Davison, Colin Baker, David Tennant and Matt Smith. Five of our Doctors. A few of the companions joined in later, but it was primarily the Doctors. And they just gave some of their input on the different sections the documentary covered.

It all started out talking about regenerations. A very appropriate first topic, since it’s at the forefront of all our minds with Matt Smith leaving. They showed Matt Smith’s very first take as the Doctor!! And it was REALLY cool to watch! Poor Matt was so nervous! And he had every right to be! He was a first for Doctor Who, being the youngest actor to play the Doctor. But of course, we all know he did brilliantly! His first take even was REALLY good!

They showed tidbits of some of the other Doctor’s regenerations, and I had to sit there, shut my eyes and cover my ears ’cause I didn’t want to know any spoilers. XD

The next bit was about how the actors were offered the part of the Doctor. Tom Baker’s story was particularly interesting because he said at the time, he was out of work and looking for a job. All of a sudden, he was offered to play the Doctor. If I remember correctly, Tom Baker didn’t know much about Doctor Who before. But the part was work for him so he accepted. Little did he know what he was getting himself into! He said the day after he was cast, his face was on the front page of the newspaper, with the story taking up about an eighth of a page. I think he realized that day just how big of a thing Doctor Who was, and he ended up being the longest-running Doctor to date.

Peter Davison’s story was interesting too because at HIS time, HE was the youngest Doctor. Or he was GOING to be, if he accepted the role. Thankfully, he did, and now he has nothing to worry about, with being the youngest. :p

I might be going out of order here, but I think the next section was about the Doctor’s clothes. I feel so bad for Colin Baker that he didn’t get the kind of outfit he wanted! Apparently, what he wanted as Six’s costume was what Nine ended up getting. It’s a funny but sad story. And then it was fun hearing the story of the infamous scarf, which was created entirely by accident. It was just fun hearing all the stories behind the choices of each Doctor’s clothes.

The companion bit was interesting. I loved seeing Carole Ann Ford and hearing about her memories in the TARDIS with William Hartnell. She said that she and Hartnell would mark all the switches and buttons with a felt-tip marker so they would remember which switch/button was which. That was important to Hartnell, apparently, and I agree with him. We got to hear from other previous companions too, such as Freema Agyeman and Karen Gillan, along with some of the Classic Who companions.

The documentary also talked about a couple of non-human characters from the show, specifically K-9 and the Daleks. K-9 really hasn’t changed at all since the old days, and I love it! And it was fun hearing a little bit about how the whole Dalek voice thing works, behind the scenes. I would love to sit in on a Doctor Who reading for an episode with Daleks in it because Nicholas Briggs sits there with his machine doohickey and does the voice for the Daleks right there in the reading! It would be so cool to hear!

I think that’s about it for the documentary. Moving on to another bit of Takeover Week, the marathons have begun on BBC America. Dun dun DUUUUN!! :p Anyways, the first series started today. Fun little story here, my mom, brother and I headed off to Cross Fit earlier today, and when we left, The Unquiet Dead was playing. We went to Cross Fit and I didn’t think much else of Doctor Who because I was busy suffering and working out. :p Anyways, so the class lasted about an hour, and just as we were driving back up our road, I calculated the time and what episode would be on. I suddenly realized that it would be on World War Three by then. And we all know what that means: the best line in the entire first series, possibly even the show.

“I could save the world, but lose you.”

❤

Suddenly, I was really anxious to get inside the house to see if I was right, if it was World War Three that was on. Lo and behold, I WAS RIGHT! YUS!!

So then I had to stay and see what part of the episode it was on. I was REALLY hoping to see this scene! A commercial break was going on so I had to wait a little bit. The next time it came on, it was RIGHT before this scene! So I got to see it. ❤ It was an awesome moment! 😀

Switching gears again, completely deviating from Takeover Week now, I have another little story for you all.

So on Facebook, there was word going around of a new issue of Doctor Who Magazine. It was the BIG 50th anniversary edition, full of little posters and other goodies. A MUST HAVE for all Whovians. It was released on November 14th, so the article said. My family was oot and aboot on Sunday, and we stopped by Barnes and Noble. Me being the Doctor Who enthusiast I am, I made a beeline for the magazine section and I was gonna get me one of them super special 50th anniversary magazines. Didn’t see it there. WELLLL, the Doctor Who Magazine was there, but it said nothing about the 50th anniversary on it. Truth be told, I didn’t remember what the cover for the 50th anniversary magazine looked like. I spent probably 5 minutes browsing through the magazine, seeing if it had those poster things in it. It didn’t. The SFX Magazine was there, and it had 50th anniversary art on it. Maybe that was the one. It wasn’t. After much deliberation, I decided to go ahead and just buy the magazine. Even if it’s not the one I wanted, it’s still the Doctor Who Magazine. It’s gonna have cool stuff in it.

So when we got home, I looked up online what the 50th anniversary magazine looked like. This is what it’s supposed to look like:

This is the one I got:

Apparently, America’s a couple months behind in the Doctor Who Magazine. The 50th anniversary magazine is issue 467. The one I got is issue 465. The one about the new Second Doctor episodes hasn’t even come out yet. So this magazine came out in September in the UK and it’s just been released here in America. So we’re probably not going to get this 50th anniversary one until January.

*sigh* Oh well. At least we’ll get it.

So there’s THAT story.

I think that’s all the Who news I have for today. Next time you’ll be hearing about Doctor Who will be about An Adventure in Space and Time. I’M SO EXCITED!!! All throughout the Takeover Week, they keep playing the trailer, and I think they’re just trying to kill us with excitement and IT’S WORKING! It looks SO GOOD!! Aaagghh, I can’t wait!

Talk to you all later!

46. Think Lovely Thoughts

46 posts down, only FOUR more to go! FIVE DAYS UNTIL THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF DOCTOR WHO!!! This anticipation is probably going to kill me, even before we reach Saturday. Oh my goodness! The Doctor Who takeover of BBC America probably isn’t helping the anxious excitement either. :p

Maybe talking about something else would help take my mind off of War Doctors and fezzes…temporarily, anyways. How about yesterday’s episode of Once Upon a Time, guys?? Wasn’t it INSANE!! This episode had probably one of THE WORST cliffhangers ever created for the show! I’d rank it right up there with the season 1 finale. WHAT’S GONNA HAPPEN NEXT??

We’re reaching the end of our time in Neverland, it seems. For real now LOL! Up to this point, it’s been all, “Hey, we FINALLY have a solution to save Henry! Oh, wait. Bummer! That didn’t work out so well. Guess we’re still stuck here.” But now, it actually looks like the quest might be really drawing to a close…ish.

So Pan is taking Henry to Skull Rock to “save magic” in Neverland, that’s allegedly disappearing. Emma and the gang, led by Tinker Bell, happen upon Pan’s camp, where Wendy is. There they learn that Pan has taken Henry and that he’s been apparently lying to him about the whole magic crisis. All Peter Pan wants is to have Henry’s heart. Why would he want Henry’s heart? To attain immortality. Somehow, Peter Pan, combined with the heart of the truest believer, equals an immortal Peter Pan. And from what we’ve seen and judged of Pan’s character, immortality’s not a good thing. So Emma, Neal, Regina and Rumplestiltskin set out to Skull Rock to get Henry, while Hook and Tinker Bell stay behind on the island with Wendy.

We also got another Rumplestiltskin flashback! What’s not to love about a Rumplestiltskin flashback? And what’s better than a Rumplestiltskin flashback (other than Rumbelle flashbacks)? A flashback to his childhood! I was always wondering if we would get to see exactly what Rumplestiltskin’s father was like. We’ve heard a lot about him, how he was a coward and all, and I’ve been secretly hoping that we would get some background on him. And we did! He ended up not being AS cowardly as I thought he would be. At the beginning, anyways. It was very evident, though, that he was not a good father for Rumplestiltskin, even though he had a great accent. :p He gambled all the time, and he had no regular source of income. Not a very stable environment for a young boy.

I got a bit confused as to what exactly Neverland was supposed to be. It was a figment of Rumple’s father’s imagination? He just thought it up? I don’t have a problem with that, but I just didn’t quite catch what kind of land it was actually supposed to be. Well, regardless, the initial concept of Neverland was pretty cool! A land where you could just think anything into existence. We all could have bacon or Tom Hiddleston anytime we want if we lived in Neverland! I’ll just let that sink in. :p

Back in present-day Neverland, the trick that Emma or Regina came up with for getting past the protection spell was really cool. I really don’t remember who was the first one to bring it up, but it was REALLY smart! Also, just the concept of putting up a spell that only people with no shadows can go through? That in itself is brilliant!

To be perfectly honest, as amazing as this episode was, it was also one of the most predictable ones I have seen so far in the show. I don’t know if it’s because I’ve watched so many Steven Moffat shows that I can see plot twists coming or what, but I saw everything coming that the episode threw at us, all the surprises. I knew Rumplestiltskin was somehow going to end up in the Pandorica Pandora’s Box ’cause that’s one of the only things that would have created more tension in the show. And I most definitely saw the lovely expansion of the good ol’ family tree coming. You know what I’m talking about.

Peter Pan is Henry’s great grandfather.

The foreshadowing in the episode for it was unable to miss. Rumplestiltskin’s father kept lamenting about how he wasn’t able to fly on the island. The only way he could do it? Become young again. And did it seem that someone REALLY important was missing from Neverland when Rumplestiltskin and his dad came? Yep. It was because Pan wasn’t there yet. So because of Rumplestiltskin’s father’s determination to be able to control the island, there wasn’t much else left for him to do but to manipulate the magic on the island to make him young. Bam! Peter Pan.

Oh, how wonderful the Once Upon a Time family tree has become! It just keeps getting crazier and crazier. Pretty soon, we could be expecting the seven dwarves to all be Henry’s brothers. :p

There is one thing that’s confusing me and my family, though. Who’s the shadow? We were all under the impression that it was Peter Pan’s shadow, but it was obviously there before even Peter Pan was. So what does that mean? Is it like a ghost of someone who was there before?

Um. So Henry did it. He…actually did it. He gave his heart to Peter Pan. Really? I thought he was smarter than that. I mean, he knows, EVERYONE KNOWS, that you automatically trust your parents more than you do someone who you’ve only known for a few days. Although Peter Pan did bring up a crushing but true point that his family all have lied to him at some point. There was a streak of truth in that. But still, it was a twisted truth, and I can’t believe Henry fell for it! And now he’s dead.

AND NOW WE HAVE TO WAIT TWO STINKIN’ WEEKS TO FIND OUT WHAT HAPPENS NEXT!! ADKDFA!! What?? That was one of THE WORST cliffhangers in all of Once Upon a Time, and you’re putting the hiatus THERE??

Actually, I’m kinda really glad that it’s happening now, because of the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who. Saturday’s the big day and then Monday’s the day my sister and I are going to see it in theaters. Having a Once Upon a Time episode right in the middle of all that would throw off the mood quite a bit, I think. So the two week hiatus is actually kind of a good thing.

My sister informs me that this might not be the only hiatus we’ll be experiencing in the show. Once Upon a Time may pull a Doctor Who series 7 on us. Meaning that they’re going to be having a split series. It wouldn’t be happening until like 3 or 4 episodes from now, but once the season breaks, if it does, it won’t be back until like March. It’s just rumors, mind you, but if it’s true, I’m going to be VERY upset. What’s up with this sudden appeal for split series? Why does everyone seem to want to do it these days? Don’t they know it nearly KILLS the fans with having to wait to see the rest of the show? I don’t like it! I hope it is all just rumors.

Right, so what did you all think of yesterday’s episode? What do you think of the new addition to the family tree? Have any theories on how Emma and the gang will defeat Pan this time?

Well, as I mentioned earlier, Doctor Who has been taking over BBC America, and I’m going to be blogging about some of the shows they’re doing. Tomorrow, I’m going to blog about tonight’s Tales from the TARDIS. You might not see it until Wednesday because I might have to blog about it after Person of Interest, which ends around 11, and that means it’ll most likely be well after midnight when the post is actually published. I don’t know, I might be able to do it sometime during the day, but we’ll see. Just keep an eye out for it.

Good night, everybody! Hope you all have fun during this Doctor Who week!

45. One Week More!

*insert One Day More music here* :p

We’ve reached 45 posts, guys! 5 more posts to go and we’ve got ONE. WEEK. Until the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who!!! The big countdown has begun! I don’t know if I can take it! Every time I think about it, I get butterflies in my stomach! AAAGGGHHH!!

We’ve had quite a busy week in the Whoniverse! Sadly, we didn’t get another trailer for The Day of the Doctor. Apparently, BBC gave them all to us in one go! So the second trailer we got last week was supposed to be released Sunday. But that makes sense, not having anymore trailers. Three trailers would be a bit much for ONE episode!

So we didn’t get another trailer, but we DID get the HIGHLY anticipated minisode, titled The Night of the Doctor. It was supposed to be released today, but as it’s seemed to be the case for everything Day of the Doctor, it was let out early. It came out on Thursday, I believe it was.

I actually have an interesting story to tell you all about my experience with the minisode, but before we get into that, I want to let everyone know that I WILL be talking about spoilers from the minisode. If you haven’t seen the minisode and you don’t want to know about it, DON’T READ PAST THIS PARAGRAPH. For those of you who haven’t seen the minisode and you DO want to read about it, watch the video before reading further. Here it is in all its glory. Enjoy!

I KNOW, RIGHT?!?!?! HOW INCREDIBLY FANTASTIC IN EVERY SINGLE WAY POSSIBLE WAS THAT!! THE EIGHTH DOCTOR IS BACK!!! I can’t! I can’t even…it’s just too wonderful for words. ASDFGHJKL!!!!

Okay, I have to tell you guys my story of how I came to watch this. It’s not a happy story, but hopefully some of you had the same thing happen, so you’ll know you’re not on your own with this.

So I was scrolling through Facebook, the morning of the release. I was scrolling down and I saw that the minisode was out. I told myself that I would come back to it, once I had gone through all my feed. By the time I was done, new stories had come up on my feed, so I took a look at them when I got back up to the top. One of the articles that was there was along the lines of “Paul McGann returns as the Doctor.”

AFDKA!! WHAT?!? WHAT?!?

Surprise. RUINED.

I’m a sentimental person so I like being surprised and mindblown, and I HATE spoilers!! So when I saw that, my heart immediately shattered. I had missed out on the surprise factor!! It was completely ruined!! I couldn’t believe it!

I probably should have known better, though, considering it IS the Internet and things get out pretty fast. I should have seen it coming. But I didn’t. So I knew ahead of time who the mystery Doctor was going to be before I watched the minisode. *pout face*

But still, PAUL MCGANN! One of my favorite Doctors ever!!! 😀 I was that more excited to watch it! So I woke up my sister at like 8:30 in the morning, and we watched the minisode on my bed.

“I AM a doctor. Just not the one you were expecting.” *giggles* That was the most beautiful line in the entire 6 minutes! But of course, the whole thing was just full of clever lines.

Oh, it was wonderful seeing dear Eight again! Of COURSE he’d be the Doctor to be in the minisode! It makes complete sense! Since it looks like we’re going into the Doctor’s past with the 50th anniversary, it’s only logical that we have a past Doctor for the minisode.

The beginning of it was going really well! The Doctor was about to save Cass from crashing, but then he showed her the TARDIS and she instantly refused to be saved. Because the Doctor is a Time Lord, and at that time, the Time War was raging; and that meant the Time Lords were beginning to go bonkers. It must have been REALLY bad for Cass to actually prefer dying to being rescued by the Doctor. And what’s even more striking is that the Doctor actually stayed and tried to get her to come with him instead of just getting back in the TARDIS. He ended up crashing with her. And he technically died. When your ship crashes, there isn’t much time for regeneration.

What I’m starting to wonder now, as I’m typing this is what happened to the TARDIS when the ship crashed? I’m assuming it ditched the ship because it sensed it was in danger. Hmmmm…

So the ship crashed onto a planet that the Doctor has been to before, apparently, in Classic Who. I wouldn’t know anything about it because I haven’t watched very much of Classic Who yet, but I bet all Classic Whovians were REALLY excited to see the return of the Sisterhood of Karn. Interesting race they were.

So the Doctor actually died in the crash. He was really dead. But the Sisterhood was able to revive him for 4 minutes. And they began asking him to fight in the Time War, essentially. Up to this point, the Doctor had been purposefully staying out of the War because it had nothing to do with him. He sounded pretty adamant about keeping his distance from it too. But the Sisterhood eventually managed to convince him to fight, and what I’m wondering is what got the Doctor to change his mind? It seemed like a pretty fast decision he made, but he was so sure of himself before that he didn’t want to fight. It was probably when the woman asked him how many more people he would allow to die. The Doctor hates death, and there is nothing that makes him feel more guilty than people he becomes associated with dying because of him. So that’s what I think made him change his mind so fast. But since Eight had only minutes left to live, the Sisterhood concocted elixirs to enable him to regenerate.

So…Eight had an artificial regeneration? I didn’t even know that was possible. Those elixirs must be REALLY hardcore stuff! Things got REALLY confusing after he regenerated. He regenerated into John Hurt, so what does that make John Hurt’s Doctor? Steven Moffat has said that he’s definitely not an 8.5 Doctor, but he also said that the number of the regenerations stays the same. How is that possible? Maybe it’s because of the fact that it was an artificial regeneration, so maybe it doesn’t count in the main regeneration count? I don’t know. We have seven days until we find out what’s going on.

So this whole minisode was released back on Thursday, which just happened to actually be Paul McGann’s birthday!! HOW COOL IS THAT!! To “return” to Doctor Who, in a sense, on your birthday? Apparently, the release came as a surprise to him too. He wasn’t expecting the minisode to come out on his birthday. What an amazing birthday present. 🙂

Paul McGann was VERY tricksy with us Whovians! He told us that he wasn’t going to be in the 50th anniversary! He failed to mention the fine print. It makes me wonder if maybe Christopher Eccleston is hiding something from us too. Wouldn’t it be absolutely loverly and fantastic if we got to the end of The Day of the Doctor and we got to see John Hurt regenerate into Christopher Eccleston?? So many of our prayers would be answered! I have extremely high doubts it would happen, considering Eccleston’s policy on returning to older roles. But one can still hope! Oh, it would be FANTASTIC!

Also, in light of Paul McGann’s “return” to Doctor Who, speculation has been going around that this whole minisode doubled as a test to see what the reaction would be to Eight’s return. As in Moffat/BBC was testing the waters to see if a series could be possible for McGann. It’s just speculation, it’s not for real, but HOW UTTERLY AMAZING WOULD THAT BE?? A prequel series for Eight? I think the Whoniverse would explode out of sheer excitement! I know I would!

So yeah. Paul McGann!! AAAAGGGGHHHH!!! I’m beside myself with excitement!

Now what else do we have to talk about?

This past weekend was Children in Need, and a preview clip for the 50th anniversary was released in honor of it. The farthest I go in seeing previews of anything Doctor Who is the trailers, so I didn’t watch the preview, for fear of spoilers. If you guys haven’t seen it yet, but you’ve been meaning to because you don’t care about spoilers, and you insist on me providing the clip for you, well FINE! Here you go! :p

I’m assuming that’s the link. There wasn’t anything from the BBC channel. So if that’s not the right one, I apologize. But yeah, I got nothing to say about it ’cause I didn’t watch it, but I DID see a picture of Ten wearing the fez, and I just nearly went all dead bug again. :p It made my life!

Moving on to another subject now, we have some new Capaldi news that was just released today. Moffat is working now on Peter Capaldi’s first script, and they’re set to start filming in the December/January timeframe. ASDFGHJKL!! Gracious!! So soon! I’m definitely not complaining, though! There IS one downside, though, that we MIGHT be facing. We’re possibly going to be dealing with the Split Series Torture again, next series. Meaning we’ll have half a series, a few months hiatus, have another half series later on, wait a few more months and then have the Christmas special. I don’t know about you guys, but I REALLY hope that doesn’t happen again! I HATED the split series for series 7! It was literally torture. The only good news about a split series is that we could possibly be looking in to a late spring/early summer 2014 release for series 8. So we wouldn’t have to wait THAT long for the beginning. And that would be AWESOME!! I’m not sure what the release time would be for a straight-through series. I’m assuming it would be around fall. We’ll be getting more definite information as time goes along.

Well! After having composed the longest blog post to date, I think that about wraps it up for this week’s Who news. Goodness, if the post for the 6 minute minisode is this long, how long is it going to be for the 50th anniversary? Yikes! :p

Well, I must away to bed. Have fun for the next six days, with Doctor Who taking over BBC America! I’ll be staying busy next week, blogging about my thoughts on some of the shows that’ll be playing. It’s going to be CRAZY next week! Like I’m going to literally be posting something every day, and I think I’m only getting one day off as a break. It’s going to be fun, though. 😀

All right. Talk to you all later! Keep it together as best as you can, as the big day approaches. Cheers!

44. World War Z

44 posts down, 6 more to go! So close!! And we have Paul McGann days until The Day of the Doctor!!! It’s starting to become unreal, now that we’re so close to the big day. OH MY GOODNESS!!

Okay, so in my last post I asked which post you would like to read first. Most popular vote was a post for World War Z.

Pronounced “zed” not “zee” ’cause I’m turning British. :p

UGH!! So I have to talk about zombies now! *whine*

I don’t like zombies.

Really.

Seriously.

In all honesty.

I DON’T like zombies.

I don’t even remember when I first heard about this movie, but I remember first hearing the title and thinking, “Oooo! That sounds cool! What’s it about?” Then I heard what it was about, and I went “Ew.” Dropped all interest in watching the movie right then and there.

No interest. WHATSOEVER.

I’m not a zombie fan.

And I’m not a Brad Pitt fan.

So there’s no point. I just passed on it.

Weeeell then August 4th came around…

And I was introduced to a brand new actor.

His name was Peter Capaldi.

And I liked him right from the start.

And what do you do when you meet a new actor that you fall instantly in love with?

You IMDb-stalk him.

So there I were on IMDb, reading about who this fantastic bloke was who was going to be playing our dear Twelfth Doctor. And I casually scrolled down the list of movies, TV shows, what have you that he’s been in. Right near the top of the list was World War Z. He was playing a W.H.O. doctor.

BAM! Instant interest in the movie. I had to see it! And eventually, we did!

Yes. The only reason I watched World War Z was for Peter Capaldi.

THE ONLY REASON.

I’m not kidding. There was NO other appeal to the movie for me whatsoever!

*SIGH* I suppose I should actually do some sort of review for this movie. Even though I don’t really want to, ’cause I didn’t like it and there was very little that I was impressed with.

The plot is actually a pretty simple one. A former United Nations employee named Gerry Lane, played by Brad Pitt, is suddenly recruited back into work when a strange phenomenon begins taking place. Some sort of virus has gotten out–a virus that causes people to turn into animals, in a way. Those who are infected start going berserk. Once they catch the virus, they start going after others who haven’t been infected and they jump on them, attack them–anything they have to do to bite them and infect them. It’s almost like instinct for them. They HAVE to infect others. And they will do absolutely ANYTHING to get to a healthy person. Kick down doors, come crashing through windows, stand in front of oncoming cars. It’s gruesome. So it’s up to Gerry and the United Nations to figure out how to cure this epidemic.

I honestly DID NOT like this movie. In case you couldn’t tell already LOL! I just don’t like zombies. They’re not only completely unrealistic, but also just REALLY, REALLY terrifying! They’re right up there with werewolves. If it weren’t for the zombie factor, and they were replaced with, I don’t know, evil aliens or something, then I could do it. Just ANYTHING but zombies! *shudders*

Granted, the movie had some GREAT action in it! It had very exciting bits. The movie pretty much BEGINS with the whole beginning of the zombie apocalypse. It was just BAM! Within the first ten minutes, ZOMBIES! It was intense! So from an action movie point of view, the movie definitely delivered!

Also, the beginning concept for the virus was extremely clever, I thought. It was speculated early on in the movie that the virus was some sort of strain of rabies. That TOTALLY makes sense! People going all mindlessly violent and attacking other people, who immediately get sick. It’s pretty similar to rabies. So it was like human rabies. THAT was clever! I really enjoyed that concept.

But still. The zombies were stinkin’ terrifying! I have never been so disturbed in all my life by a movie. Not even Doctor Who could prepare me for World War Z. The first time we see a person be converted in the movie, all I could do was just sit there on the couch and gape in absolute horror, like I was watching a Mayan human sacrifice ceremony. It was just ghastly! And the way the zombies move, and the sounds they make, and their teeth. *shudders* It was so disturbing!! I was nearly ready to just give up on the movie, 15 minutes in. And it just kept getting worse as the movie went on.

WHY WAS I WATCHING THIS MOVIE?? WHY???

AT LONG LAST, Capaldi showed up. He didn’t come in until around the last act, and he probably had a total of ten minutes of screen time. But even though he had a small role, he gave a great performance! It was all worth it in the end. We got to see him shout a bit too, which we know the Doctor does a lot of. So we got to see a little sneak peek of the Doctor there. 😀

The solution to the zombie problem was NOT what I thought it was going to be! I was pleasantly surprised. My solution kind of went along the line of the zombies being attracted to noises. The people we noticed who weren’t attacked by the zombies were just standing still as the zombies ran past them. That got me thinking that maybe the trick was to not freak out when you see the zombies and just stand still, and maybe that’s what keeps them from attacking you. But that wasn’t the case. I’m not going to tell you what the cure was, because of spoilers. But it was clever! Definitely not a thought that would have crossed my mind.

So do you like zombies? Do you like action movies? Do you like Brad Pitt? Then World War Z is just the movie for you! Brad Pitt actually did a pretty good job in this movie. I heard something about him saying that he wouldn’t have done this movie if the story wasn’t original enough. So the fact that he did this movie is saying something. It really is an original movie. It has new stuff in it that hasn’t been done before. So that’s something. Just for my part, it was too much for me and I personally didn’t care for it. It’s a wonder I didn’t have any nightmares after watching it.

PETER CAPALDI, THE THINGS I GO THROUGH FOR YOU!!! :p

43. Endgame

43 posts, guys! We’re so close to the end! Only 7 more posts to go, and we have David Tennant ten days until the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who!!! I can barely stand it! It’s just the week after this coming Saturday!! ASDFGHJKL!!!!

Oh, it’s such an exciting thought, and I don’t want to get it out of my head because Person of Interest has gotten CRAZY!! Last night’s episode was really one of the craziest episodes ever, and that’s saying A LOT for Person of Interest! And I know it’s all just building up to that AWFUL climax we keep seeing in the trailers. *whine* I don’t want to talk about it! Because of how sad it’s going to be. But I must.

So the beginning of the episode went a bit over my head, and I didn’t entirely understand what was going on. Something about drugs. And the Machine sending out THIRTY-EIGHT numbers. !!!! That’s the most numbers the Machine has EVER spit out in the history of the show! All of them are police officers, or so it seems. Finch assumes that since they know some of them are HR that ALL the numbers must be from HR. While this is all happening, Carter is beginning to act on her research that she’s been collecting on HR. She moves in to start taking it down, but discretely because she’s VERY clever! She gets a Russian drugs dealer named Yugorov? I’m assuming that’s how his name is spelled. *checks IMDb* YUS!! It’s right! Anyway, she plots out a whole series of events to make it look as if HR intercepted one of Yugorov’s drug deals, make it look like Yugorov tried to kill the head of HR and then hang the whole drug deal on the head of HR and have him arrested. It’s an EXTREMELY delicate situation!

I can’t stress enough how STRESSFUL this episode was! My adrenaline was going the entire time! Carter was doing all this REALLY cool, but REALLY stupid stuff, and she was going to be killed, I just knew it! If it wasn’t her, it would be Fusco. Nothing’s happened to him yet, but we all know it’s coming.

My heart shattered at the very beginning of the episode, when it was showing clips from the Machine of what happened in last week’s episode. The Machine confirmed that Laskey was dead. NOOOO!! He’s really gone, then. It’s just unfair. So unfair!

38 numbers! Oh my word! There’s NO WAY Finch and Reese would be able to save that many people! They’ve had difficulties with two people so THIRTY-EIGHT would literally be a nightmare! Yikes!

On the bright side of things, we got another flashback episode, and this time it was Carter’s! And it wasn’t just about some random part of her life, it was about her and her husband, I guess he was? I was always wondering where Taylor’s dad was. What he was like and what happened to him. I was under the impression that he died or something, but it turned out to be a bit worse, in my opinion. Taylor’s dad, Paul, was apparently a soldier too, just like Carter used to be, and he’s still dealing with PTSD, making him very unstable. It’s gotten to the point where it’s not safe for Taylor to be around him. As much as I don’t like angry characters, I felt bad for Paul because he was obviously struggling and he didn’t want to be because he wanted to be with Taylor. And it was so sad to see his face after he and Carter had that fight and he realized he had done something wrong. It was really heartwarming, though, to see later that he was trying his best to become a better person. I hope we get to see more of him.

*sigh* Okay, we gotta talk about Carter now. WHAT IS SHE THINKING? WHAT IS CARTER THINKING?? I mean, yeah, HR is terrible, it needs to be taken down, but here’s Carter thinking she can do it all by herself! And what’s worse, she’s on a cold, hard REVENGE trip! She’s not just doing this for Beecher anymore, she’s got the guilt of Laskey on her conscience now too and she wants to get back at HR BAD! I have to hand it to her, Carter’s SMART! One of THE SMARTEST characters ever created in television history. But HR might just be her match. One member of HR at a time we know she can deal with, but going up against ALL of HR, she’s seriously outnumbered, in both number and cleverness. Because every single member of HR is as sharp and quick as Carter’s pistol. And in the back of her mind, we can tell that she’s doubting that she can do it by herself, but she also keeps telling herself that she HAS to do it on her own. She’s the one who started this and she doesn’t want anyone else getting hurt.

Carter…just no!

Honestly, I was shocked to find out that Carter was the one who shot down the truck. At the beginning of the episode, it looked like Reese. ‘Cause as Finch put it, that’s something Reese would have done. But NOPE! Plot twist! It was Carter. And that just added a whole other layer to the story. The whole pitting-the-Russians-and-HR-against-each-other trick was all handled with GREAT skill, I must say.

HOWEVER. It all crashed and burned when we found out that the judge Carter called was in fact part of HR. And then Alonzo Quinn was there at the judge’s house waiting for her. My heart sunk at that moment. She was done for. Really. Done for. There was no hope. THE HEAD OF HR was there, and she was unarmed and unprepared. She never even called Reese.

Or did she?

SHE DID! PRAISE. THE LORD! I have never been more relieved to see Reese in my entire life! That was WAY too close! WAY too close! I really was afraid that Carter had called no one, except Taylor. I was preparing myself to see her go. And then drown in my self-made lake of tears. But THANK GOODNESS Reese was there! Of course he’d be there! Reese is always there to save the day!

But who will be there to save him?

UUUUGGGGHHHH!!! NEXT WEEK’S EPISODE!! UUUGGGHHH, I can’t take it!! Now HR’s after HIM! Reese’s number is the next number the Machine gives out. This has never happened before. WELLLLL, Reese has been in imminent danger before, but not so much as to have the Machine give out his number.

I’m NOT okay with this!! We’ve already dealt with fire with Carter here, and we know Fusco’s having his coming, but NOT REESE!! PLEASE, NOT REESE! For the love of all that’s good, NOT REESE! He stands almost no chance with the ruthless HR. IS THAT WHY FUSCO DIES AT THE END?! Because Reese is captured by HR and he’s not able to save the day? But then there’s Shaw. Why wouldn’t Shaw be able to save him?? GUYS. I’M NOT LIKING THIS! It’s going downhill WAY too fast! I can’t bear to see this all happen! *sobs* I don’t want next week to be here!

AND I DON’T WANT TO SEE ROOT LET OUT, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES! I don’t care how desperate the situation is, she CAN’T be let out! Don’t do it, Finch! Don’t. Do it!

We might need to have some type of support system for fans of the show here LOL! This is getting BAD! Are you guys anywhere near this traumatized?

All right, enough of this trauma, I need to ask you all a question about the blog now. I’m having a bit of a debate over which post I should do next. Since I’m having a hard time deciding, why don’t you guys choose? Which would you rather read: a post about the new Maleficent trailer or a movie post about World War Z? I can’t do both this week because it’ll throw off my 50 post schedule, but whichever one I don’t do this week, I’ll definitely do after the challenge is over. So the question is which one would you like to read first? It’s totally up to you. I don’t care which one it is. 🙂

Cheers!

42. Dark Hollow

This is the 42nd post of the 50 post challenge, making it only 8 more to go until we reach 50! Yay! We have TWELVE. DAYS. To go until The Day of the Doctor is here!!! Or Capaldi days, if you count with Doctors, like I do. :3

First and foremost, Happy Veterans Day to all my American readers! And if I understood the Facebook and Tumblr posts right, Remembrance Day was yesterday for the UK, and it’s pretty much the same holiday. Happy Belated Remembrance Day to you all! Never forget all those brave soldiers who sacrificed themselves to protect our countries. They are heroes, in the truest sense of the word. We honor them all.

Yesterday also marked a new episode for Once Upon a Time. And it was a great episode! We FINALLY got to return to Storybrooke and see a little bit of what life has been like on their side of the story. And most importantly, we got to see Belle again!! Oh, how we’ve missed her!

So in yesterday’s episode, Ariel is on her quest to go to Storybrooke and fetch the object that Rumplestiltskin sent her to get. It’s important to note that at the beginning of the season, *David Tennant voice* WELLLLL, technically at the end of the previous season, Rumplestiltskin left a spell with Belle that he instructed her to use as soon as the Jolly Roger was gone. It was a cloaking spell that would protect Storybrooke from more people like Tamara and what’s his face…*checks IMDb* Greg from finding the town. Unfortunately, JUST as they were speaking, more people from outside Storybrooke were in fact on their way, and they got in RIGHT as the spell covered the town. Great. Just great. And to make things better, these new outsiders are also after what Rumplestiltskin is after. And they’re not leaving Storybrooke until they destroy whatever it is. And back in Neverland, Emma, Neal and Hook set off to catch Peter Pan’s shadow and Charming and Snow go to find Tinker Bell again. The plot thickens.

Starting at the beginning of the story, I’m just as disgusted as Grumpy was when Happy brought up that things have been better, technically, around Storybrooke, since Charming and Snow had left. But he did have a point. With Charming, Snow and Regina out of the picture, things have been a lot more peaceful in the town. It would be. But at the same time, they don’t have their king and queen. They can’t expect the peace to last long.

Aaaand enter Ariel. She’s very faithful in her mission and she doesn’t hesitate to find Belle. And she ended up coming at just the right time too. Belle was beginning to worry about Rumplestiltskin, regretting that she didn’t go with him. Poor Belle! But then Ariel comes and tells her that Rumplestiltskin has a task for her. Happy day for Belle! Things are going pretty smoothly with the whole mission, then, yeah?

Well, no. ‘Cause these two new intruders are out to get the Pandorica Pandora’s Box, and they actually mean to destroy it! Yup. They’re bad guys. Definitely bad guys. They tied up Ariel and Belle. They pointed a gun at them. They’re bad guys.

Okay, honestly, WHO saw THAT coming with the two guys? Nobody, right?? IT WAS MICHAEL AND JOHN!! MICHAEL AND JOHN DARLING!! THAT was an EXTREMELY clever plot twist there! Brilliant! Oh, but where’s their sister, Wendy? Certainly not in that other box/cage thing that was next to Neal’s that was supposed to be for Tiger Lily? :p

Actually, it was.

And that was pretty clever too. Of course it would be Wendy! Should’ve seen that coming!

And now that we’ve made the transition to Neverland, let’s talk about this Phantom of the Opera love triangle complex going on. It was really awkward having Hook come along with Emma and Neal on the quest to get Pan’s shadow. Yes, he knows the island, but at the same time, Henry’s not his son. He has no place interfering with Emma and Neal trying to get their son back. And that really was NOT a smart move that Hook made, telling Neal about the kiss. That was a bit of Hook’s old pirate self coming back.

But you know what? I LOVED how Emma handled it all! Her character just makes my life! She’s not influenced by emotion like most female characters are. She’s focused on one thing, and one thing alone, and that has always been to get Henry. Her feelings for Neal and possibly Hook are not going to get in the way of that. AND THEN! I LOVE THIS! Even when the writers throw her into the classic situation of “Oh no! Your two crushes are in danger! You can’t save both at the same time! Which one are you going to choose?” She STILL doesn’t sway! She’s still focused on Henry and she’s able to use the magic skills she learned from Regina in the previous episode to catch Pan’s shadow…and coincidentally stop the attack on both Hook and Neal as well. I LOVE IT! Emma Swan is just so boss!

And then at long last, Charming and Snow had their much needed discussion. I think this is the angriest we’ve seen the couple, certainly the toughest argument we’ve seen them have. But I’m so glad it happened, and everything’s okay between them now. Yay!!

Peter Pan is such a sly thing! His repertoire of tricks is endless! Just when we think he couldn’t possibly do anything else, he brings another trick out that ruins everything. It’s almost a no-win situation. I’m not entirely sure what’s going on with the whole Henry bit of the story. Pan’s claiming that magic is running out in Neverland and Henry needs to save it? Well, that’s what Pan’s saying, but we all know that he rarely means what he says, when he’s talking to Henry. We have yet to find out what he’s up to.

The ending with Rumplestiltskin, Ariel and Regina was just beautiful! “Tell Belle I love her.” *heart shatters in a million pieces* Even when Rumplestiltskin and Belle are literally worlds apart, they still have a strong connection. Just…just…ALL THE RUMBELLE!!! I can hardly stand it!

I don’t entirely remember what was on the sneak peek for next week’s episode. Probably because I was thinking of Rumbelle. :p But things are just going to keep getting crazier and crazier from here. I’m excited to see what happens!

What about you guys? What did you think of the episode?

Ugh, I’m dreading tomorrow SO MUCH! It’s the first episode of the heartbreaking 3 parter Person of Interest event thing. It’s going to be terrible, I just know it! Uuuuggghhh! Tomorrow must come, though. And…and we must see it through. I’ll talk to you guys on Wednesday. Maybe. If I haven’t drowned in my tears by that time. :p

41. John Hurt, Bad Wolf and Fezzes, Oh My!

41 posts down, 9 more to go. We’re in the single digits now! Yay!! And we have two weeks, TWO. WEEKS. until The Day of the Doctor airs all over the world!!

Speaking of The Day of the Doctor…

IT’S FINALLY HERE!!! THE TRAILER!! IT’S OUT!!! OUR WAITING HAS FINALLY COME TO AN END!!!

Actually, we got two different trailers. One that was actually leaked last night and another much longer one that’s from BBC One. It’s all felt like a volcano kind of. The trailers have been held back from us for so long, to the point of the fandom almost bursting. And now that they’re being released, all of a sudden it’s like an explosion, and it’s like, “Oh, here! Have not one, but TWO trailers! AND another one is coming out tomorrow!” It’s absolutely fantastic! Our waiting has definitely payed off. 🙂

Okay, raise of hands, how many of you watched the leaked trailer last night? No need to feel ashamed. Actually, I kinda do a little bit ’cause we only had a few hours left to wait. I could have waited a few more hours to watch it. But at the same time NOPE! There’s no chance I was going to wait, and I mostly regret nothing, having watched it early. Besides, all my other Whovian friends had seen it anyway, so WHY NOT. :p

My sister informed me that actually the trailer had been leaked out earlier, but BBC was ONTO them! Faster than the Vashta Nerada on a chicken leg! As soon as they saw any trailers of any sort being leaked, they would pounce on them and take them down. It was absolutely ferocious! But I love how BBC really tried to not get any spoilers out ahead of time.

Okay, Katelyn. Shut up! We’ve got important things to talk about! VERY important things!

Okay, let’s talk about these GORGEOUS beauties!

First beauty:

So it looks like a good deal of the episode is going to be about the Time War. I almost started crying seeing Gallifrey at war. These are Gallifrey’s last days. This is the darkest moment of the Doctor’s life, and it’s going to be positively terrible seeing it happen. It’ll be like Spock watching Vulcan being destroyed, except here we’re going to be on the planet and see everything actually happen. It’s an extremely heartbreaking thought, but at the same time VERY intriguing because it’s obviously been a crucial part of the Doctor’s life, but we’ve only heard him talk about it. Now we get to see what actually happened, what led him to destroy the whole planet.

That red jewel thing that’s called The Moment, from what I’ve heard. I’m assuming that’s what finishes everything. The big, threatening button that must NEVER be pushed under ANY circumstance. Wow, that just made The Christmas Invasion really sad! Let’s change subjects.

THE FEZ!!! The fez is returning! Again! And it looks like Ten quite approves of it. But why wouldn’t he? Fezzes are cool! And both he and Eleven are wearing glasses in that scene! SO CUTE!! I loved it!

And then there’s the whole Rose thing. BAD WOLF! BAD WOLF, BAD WOLF, BAD WOLF, BAD WOLF! Her eyes were glowing! She was Bad Wolf!! I wonder what that means? Does it mean she has something to do with the destruction of Gallifrey, since as Bad Wolf she can destroy everything? Or maybe she gets rid of all the Daleks again. Who knows? We’ll just have to wait and see.

We didn’t see much of Clara in the trailer. We just see her push some type of button and then she vanishes. Hmmm…

Okay. We gotta talk about John Hurt now. Honestly, I think he’s the thing I’m most looking forward to in the 50th anniversary. Who is he??

I instantly loved him as the Doctor, just after seeing him in The Name of the Doctor. But then I heard him talk in the trailer and my inner fangirl went berserk. He SOUNDS like the Doctor! “I’m looking for the Doctor.” The way he says it! HE’S PERFECT. ABSOLUTELY PERFECT. Steven Moffat said in an article that John Hurt can steal the show with just his eyes. I BELIEVE IT. I mean, just look at him! All he has to do is just BE THERE and you can see all the age and pain the Doctor has experienced in his eyes. It’s absolutely beautiful! Just…JOHN HURT!!! I CAN’T WAIT!!!

All this happened within 41 seconds.

I had to literally tell myself to breathe after watching the trailer! My lungs ceased to function by the time I saw John Hurt and from then on. By the time the trailer was over, I was literally speechless and flailing my hands like a dying bug.

Then my sister and I watched it again.

And again.

And I’m certain I watched it at least 3 or 4 times that night before going to bed.

All in all, I’ve probably watched the trailer like 10 times since yesterday. And it’s beautiful every time.

Then today, because the excitement of that first trailer wasn’t enough, BBC released ANOTHER trailer!

 

*dies*

It’s a lot longer than the other trailer, but it’s pretty similar to the other one. But it did have a few other scenes. Eleven showing Ten the new sonic screwdriver and Ten seeing the new TARDIS.

“Oh! You’ve redecorated! I don’t like it.” WHAT?!?! Eleven and I made the same face when Ten said that. D: He seemed to like the sonic screwdriver, though. Ten’s face! Tee hee! XD

Oh my goodness, it all had me having giggling fits–gigging fits almost as bad as the day when Peter Capaldi was announced as the next Doctor.

This picture haunts me SO MUCH, though:

It’s that moment. The fateful moment when the Doctor ends the War and destroys his home. And the look on the Doctor’s face! He’s dreading it so much! He looks so sad, like he knows he has no other option. It’s gonna be a tear jerker!

So those were the first two trailers that have been released.  Apparently tomorrow, BBC is releasing the trailer that was shown at this year’s Comic-Con. More epicness is on the way!

I think that about wraps it up for the trailer bit. I failed to mention this at the beginning of the post, but for the month of November at least, Saturdays are going to be Doctor Who days–days when I talk about any Whoniverse news. Up until the 50th anniversary. It might continue after that. I’m not sure yet.

So as far as this week’s news goes, there’s a BUNCH of stuff going on, so pay attention! :p

First, foremost and most important! Air times have been announced for The Day of the Doctor! It’s coming on at 7:50 pm for the UK, which makes the time 2:50 ET/1:50 pm C for us Americans. I’ve heard that it’s also running with no commercials! So we get to have a completely uninterrupted 75 minutes of feels! Oh, happy day!! :p

Second, BBC America is doing what they’re calling a Doctor Who Takeover week, where practically everything they’re going to be playing is Doctor Who. YUS!! The schedule for everything that’s going to be playing, INCLUDING AN ADVENTURE IN SPACE AND TIME, is right here .

Also, there’s going to be a minisode, apparently? The news wasn’t all that clear, but the main thing I caught was that it’s happening on the 16th. It didn’t mention BBC America, but it did say something about being posted on YouTube, so keep your eyes open. Word is that another Doctor’s going to be in it. A DOCTOR OTHER THAN TEN, ELEVEN OR JOHN HURT. Theories are flying around left and right. Some people are saying McGann, others are saying Eccleston. My theory is that it’s going to actually be Capaldi, but we’ll see, once it comes out.

No new word of Peter Capaldi, by the way, sadly, but I’m sure he’s just as thrilled about the 50th anniversary as we are. Everything’s kind of slowed down on his part, while the 50th is going on, but I’m sure once December kicks in, there will be PLENTY of new goodies!

Well, I think that’s about it for now. Happy compulsive trailer watching! :p Be on the lookout for the new trailer tomorrow! Vale!