AWKWARD ZOMBIE

Okay why is 'telephone' filtered to 'piranha'?

Tree-Borgs.

Moffat is not pop flyin' about them.

BBC America's Day of the Moon trailer.

SPOILERS for some of series 6 ahead!
A trip to the Roman Empire seemed to be the agenda of the Series 6 finale. But can it ever be that simple?

The Doctor Who production team takes a few tips from Torchwood in "End of Days" with Roman centurions riding through the streets upon chariots that were certainly not built for this century, or Cardiff for that matter. Cardiff resident Quresh Miah caught some rather unusual filming going on, and this picture demonstrate the insanity of Team Moffat.

PIC 1

BUT! The filming of Doctor Who Series 6 has gotten even stranger and increasingly more like some strange splice between "The Big Bang" and Torchwood's "End of Days".

Here are some pics of filming of the finale:
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Pic 3 shows the unfortunately named actor who will play young Rory (left) - that's Ezekiel Wigglesworth.

As a consequence of the time travel experiments of the Silence, the score for Episode Thirteen now tallies up to Nazis, futuristic soldier men, Winston Churchill, the Roman Empire in Cardiff, and flying vermin dinosaurs. Of course, unlike this slew of crazy ideas, the concept of an aborted parallel world isn't at all new. "The Big Bang" previously explored the idea with a starless universe.

Spoilers that aren't for the finale:
Established science fiction scribe Neil Gaiman has been interviewed about his series 6 Doctor Who episode:
"The joy of my episode is that you get to realise how much of what's in the TARDIS is probably still in there somewhere!" He's referring to the fact that he got list made for him of "every part of the TARDIS that has ever been named and referenced throughout the entirety of 50 years of Doctor Who". The TARDIS plays a big part in the story.
But did Gaiman find it somewhat straitjacketing with a BBC budget?

"I don't think it's straitjacketing. It's part of what you do. The nature of the beast is that on the page you have infinite time and infinite cheddar. In reality... But there are things that happen for budget reasons that actually make things better.
In my episode I get to bring back a monster. I didn't plan to bring back a monster. I tried to create a completely new monster. But shortly before shooting it became very apparent that given the incredible amount of cheddar they were going to have to spend on my episode - they were taking other episodes behind the bike sheds, beating them up and taking their pocket cheddar - there came a point where they said, 'Look, we cannot stretch to doing this prosthetic stuff that you wanted, would you like a classic monster?' And I said, 'Well, actually you have this thing that would fit perfectly there, and we could do this to it, and it would make it work...'
So we got to take a Russell monster and bring it back, which made me incredibly pop flyin', in a weird way. It was a nice link between the Tennant era and the current era, and it was nice to bring it back and do something very different with it, turn it upside down."
In case you couldn't guess, the monster from RTD's era of Doctor Who is the Ood, seen in Series 6 trailers.

And now some possible spoilers for the future of Doctor Who:
Steven Moffat has suggested that John Simm could reprise his role as The Master. At a recent Doctor Who screening in New York, Moffat suggested that Simm could reappear in a future episode.

"After [his last appearance] he'd been saying, 'I think now that David [Tennant]'s left as the Doctor, I would have to leave the Master'. "He [later] pulled me aside and said, 'I didn't mean that! Look at me, I'm fit, I'm okay!'"

Moffat also dismissed the suggestion that Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch could replace Simm. "Benedict has to wait in line probably," he said.

And apparently BBC America did some weird info dump before the title sequence in The Impossible Astronaut.
View it here.
This is a BBCA only thing. It's sort of unnecessary, in my opinion, but they did a nice job with it, but after weeks of a brilliantly thorough promotional campaign, anyone who doesn't understand the premise at this point probably won't understand all they need to know in thirty seconds.

Doctor Who Monopoly.

Synopsis of The Doctor's Wife:


The trailer for the trailer of episode 3: The Curse of the Black Spot

Also Catherine Tate (Donna Noble) is one of the three candidates for replacing Steve Carell in The Office.
If she does replace him, I might start watching The Office.

Kind of a "blink and you'll miss it" kind of thing, but if you pay attention in The Impossible Astronaut you hear a Silence reference. Right after the Doctor interrupts the companion's discussion about telling him if he died, the distinct high-pitched sound played right before "Silence Will Fall." in The Pandorica Opens is played.
At 0:46 it's played.
The sound effect pops up a lot if you listen for it.

WELL
THEM SILENCE LASTED LONG
TOTALLY A RACE THATS LASTING THE ENTIRE SERIES CITATION
also moonlanding pictures and subliminal messages
fun fun fun
also TIMELORD KIDS 2: ELECTRIC BOOGALOO

Huh, I thought there'd be more discussion on this after two weeks of episodes. Oh well.
I don't know how well-distributed Confidential is, but I believe in the first one for this series there were some caravans that said 'Citation' on them. They're onto you!!!

And now for some crazy speculation:
Given the rather blatant similarities to the Last Supper at the picnic in ep. 1 I'd assume the astronaut is playing the proverbial Judas and will be one of Rory, Amy, or River (possibly River since we know she killed someone, even if it seems far too obvious for it to be the Doctor)
I suspect the Silents will reappear throughout this series. It's interesting that they were based off of that 'The Scream' painting.
The girl regenerating might be somehow related to the Doctor's daughter, since we don't really know of many other female Timelords (though I know there's someone called the Rani)
Oh Steven Moffat, you card...

SO BABY TIME LORD EHEHEHE. Possible relations to Susan, which would be fucking amazing and make Steven Moffat the best anything ever. In the TV series, Susan was left on 22nd century Earth. However, she supposedly stole the Master's TARDIS at some point (not canon), and therefore she may be alive still - no word on if she participated in the Time War or not. Mother of the little girl would NOT be Jenny because she is in the future with a space ship that isn't a time machine. It has to be the future, since it was Human VS. Hath in The Doctor's Daughter. Humans in space. The future. Possibly the Rani, but I doubt it.

And yes dem Silence will be around for the entire series I am sure of it. The only ones we've seen being killed were the ones River shot, the one the Oval Office black guy shot, and presumably the one that got beaten to death with beer bottles. There could be thousands of others hiding around.

The Silence Will Fall.
I think they are just predicting their own demise.

Also
HOLY CRAP THAT EPISODE WAS SO FUCKING AMAZING
FSNKJFNJKLDJFKL:JSD:LFJ
I felt so bad for River when her and the Doctor facebattled for the first/last time.
Also is Amy pregnant part with the Doctor giving a smirk since he saw the answer
THE KID TIMELORD!!
My current theory is that the kid is Amy's child.
During the episode when she finds the photo it shows her and a baby and she asks
"How can this be me?" I think the child is her daughter and was sent back in time, because
of the Tardis. Amy also seemed to recognize the kid.
I am not sure how the kid would get the regenerative powers of a Timelord.
My guess is that when Amy was pregnant the child really did have mutations from the time
traveling. The tardis has been shown to give its time powers to people or use the powers on them. Such as Rose and the one gas/fart alien lady.

My desktop.


Does anyone remember the strange scene in Day of the Moon when Amy is in the old orphanage looking for the little girl, and the slot in the door opens and we see a woman with a futuristic eyepatch? The woman who then comments "I think she's just dreaming..."? Well, she shows up again in episode 7, so remember her.

she shows up in this episode too
pirates
pirates everywhere

Ahhh... So much pirates. All in all, an alright episode.I enjoyed it. Though next episode looks just plain creepy
Can't wait~

The last time we saw Lucy Saxon, she was getting slow-roasted by the Master's nonsense electric-blue explosion in The End of Time. She had come to her end, fulfilling her character development by destroying the man who had driven her mad. But the infallible IMDb is reporting that Lucy Saxon will return in "A Good Man Goes to War". Now, this rumour approaches insanity, so take it with more than a few grains of salt.

The IMDb cast list credits all the regulars, including River Song and Dorium (the big blue man in The Pandorica Opens that River got her Vortex Manipulator from. "I said off the wrist!") It also mentions some obvious guest stars such as Marnix Van Den Broeke as the Silent, Nicholas Briggs voicing the Cybermen, Jimmy Vee dressed up once again as a monster (Moxx of Balhoon, Bannakaffalatta, the Space Pig, the Graske, etc. Anything short), and Neve McIntosh as a Silurian warrior. Oh, yes, and there's also... Alexandra Moen as Lucy Saxon?

Not only that, but Sydney Wade, the child actress who played the little girl in Day of the Moon is also listed as "Young Lucy Saxon". So could the little Time Girl from Day of the Moon in 1969 be Lucy Saxon in 2008? Is the Master coming back? Wade seems to be named "Cole", according to IMDb, though her last name might very well be "Pond".

Additionally, IMDb lists actress Catrin Stewart as Jenny from The Doctor's Daughter. This recasting isn't as unlikely as the Lucy Saxon rumour since Georgia Moffett (the lady who played Jenny) was pregnant and wouldn't have been available for filming. And Jenny has been expected (though not expectant) for years, especially since Steven Moffat intruded and asked RTD to let Jenny live at the end of her episode.

Just don't hold your breath for these rumors. The idea of a return for Lucy Saxon, and therefore probably the Master, raises more questions than it solves. It might explain why the Master wanted a wife in the first place, and if we see "The Doctor's Wife" this weekend, isn't it possible that we see the Master's wife in A Good Man Goes to War?

Ultimately, however, it is likely that this cast list is a consequence of IMDb's editing policy and the crazy theories of its users.

Who the fuck are you stop creeping us out sweet jesus.

That is Amelia Pond and she is scary as hell.



But seriously, that's Kovarian. She'll show up in A Good Man Goes to War.

re-watched day of the moon

oh my god

river song you give me the biggest boner

river for president