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New Who S6 E2 (Spoilers) - Day of the Moon
The rest of this entry will be under a cut -- very spoilery. If you haven't seen "The Impossible Astronaut" and "Day of the Moon" (episodes 1 and 2 of series 6 of Doctor Who) proceed at your own risk. Thank you.
I really liked "Day of the Moon" but it was very, very scary. Monsters that you forget the second you turn away and are no longer looking at them -- very scary, like conceptually that's extremely frightening - you could encounter one of these things and never know it. And, also, The Silents having the ability to manipulate and control behavior -- also terrifying.
Though the second part didn't have as many questions as part one, I still have some. And, I'm really hooked into Matt Smith's second season. I hope everything pays off.
First -- no one, at least no one on camera (not River, not Rory, nobody) seemed to notice that the underground lair of The Silent looked like a TARDIS. I noticed this right away -- and I don't think it's an accident of similar designs.
Second, I happened to be watching "The Lodger" this morning (still working through the S 5 DVDs) and the spaceship on top of the house looked IDENTICAL to the one we see underground and the one where Amy is held prisoner. I don't think this is an accident, either. I think it's probably the first spaceship that landed on Earth piloted there by The Silent, whatever they are -- though I have a theory on that.
Are the Silent -Time Lords? Time Lords that escaped the Time War? Time Lords from an alternate or parallel history? (Remember how the Doctor first describes the crack "two universes that should never have touched but did"?) Being Time Lords would explain why you forget them the minute you see them -- they exist outside of Time, therefore how could you remember a point of Time that doesn't exist? It also would explain why the Doctor can't see them either -- usually something mental that affects humans, like a perception filter, wouldn't affect the Doctor.
Oddly enough, the speech by the Silent describing themselves -- woven in the history of the Earth, there at every major event from the first making of fire and the wheel to the present -- could ALSO describe the Doctor. Scary, isn't it?
The 10th Doctor (Tennant) mentioned something called "The Nightmare Child" in his rants about the Time War. I think this child that we hear about in "Day of the Moon" might be "The Nightmare Child" -- and a cross between a human and a Time Lord, specifically Amy and possibly, the Doctor (tho' I don't think the Doctor would have his way with Amy intentionally). Or, another possibility, is that somehow The Silent took Amy's child and raised it as their own.
The orphanage looked a lot like a run-down version of Amy's house, too -- and Amy seemed to recognize it. When Amy and Rory investigated the orphanage -- they both seemed much older, especially Amy. And marks kept appearing on Amy while she was in the same room in the house -- indicating time jumps. Amy's life doesn't seem to make sense, and this is the second time the Doctor tells her this -- I think it has something to do with her being a time traveller -- and more than just a companion to the Doctor.
There also seems to be some sort of weird connection between Amy and Dr River Song -- I think it's possible Amy is River's mother (this possibility was discussed in a recent chat I was in).
The child at the end that REGENERATED -- Who is she? Is she Amy's child? If so, is the Doctor the child's father? Is the child RIVER?
The Doctor kissing River and River's reaction was very, very sad -- and it makes me want to see "Silence in the Library"/"Forest of the Dead" again. It seems like just possibly -- River's now seen the Doctor's death; and the Doctor's seen River's. Eeeep.
Did you notice the Doctor opening the TARDIS doors with a snap of his fingers? This was something River mentioned he could do, and Tennant's Dr didn't believe her (tho' he does it at the end of "Forest of the Dead").
Who's the astronaut that "killed" the Doctor? Is it the child? Is it River? If it's River -- did the Doctor tell her to do it? If so -- why? The Doctor that died at the very beginning of "The Impossible Astronaut" was over 200 years older than the Doctor we know. Think about that -- and we've seen Time Lords go batty before (Rassilon, Omega, The Master, The Rani, Borusa, Rassilon) -- in "Trial" the Valeyard is said to be a future incarnation of the Doctor (tho' this is later disproved as a trick by the Master and the Matrix). There's been speculation for years that the Master is more than a dark-side of the Doctor -- he's the Doctor's future.
I cannot wait to see the rest of the season.
--Olivia
I really liked "Day of the Moon" but it was very, very scary. Monsters that you forget the second you turn away and are no longer looking at them -- very scary, like conceptually that's extremely frightening - you could encounter one of these things and never know it. And, also, The Silents having the ability to manipulate and control behavior -- also terrifying.
Though the second part didn't have as many questions as part one, I still have some. And, I'm really hooked into Matt Smith's second season. I hope everything pays off.
First -- no one, at least no one on camera (not River, not Rory, nobody) seemed to notice that the underground lair of The Silent looked like a TARDIS. I noticed this right away -- and I don't think it's an accident of similar designs.
Second, I happened to be watching "The Lodger" this morning (still working through the S 5 DVDs) and the spaceship on top of the house looked IDENTICAL to the one we see underground and the one where Amy is held prisoner. I don't think this is an accident, either. I think it's probably the first spaceship that landed on Earth piloted there by The Silent, whatever they are -- though I have a theory on that.
Are the Silent -Time Lords? Time Lords that escaped the Time War? Time Lords from an alternate or parallel history? (Remember how the Doctor first describes the crack "two universes that should never have touched but did"?) Being Time Lords would explain why you forget them the minute you see them -- they exist outside of Time, therefore how could you remember a point of Time that doesn't exist? It also would explain why the Doctor can't see them either -- usually something mental that affects humans, like a perception filter, wouldn't affect the Doctor.
Oddly enough, the speech by the Silent describing themselves -- woven in the history of the Earth, there at every major event from the first making of fire and the wheel to the present -- could ALSO describe the Doctor. Scary, isn't it?
The 10th Doctor (Tennant) mentioned something called "The Nightmare Child" in his rants about the Time War. I think this child that we hear about in "Day of the Moon" might be "The Nightmare Child" -- and a cross between a human and a Time Lord, specifically Amy and possibly, the Doctor (tho' I don't think the Doctor would have his way with Amy intentionally). Or, another possibility, is that somehow The Silent took Amy's child and raised it as their own.
The orphanage looked a lot like a run-down version of Amy's house, too -- and Amy seemed to recognize it. When Amy and Rory investigated the orphanage -- they both seemed much older, especially Amy. And marks kept appearing on Amy while she was in the same room in the house -- indicating time jumps. Amy's life doesn't seem to make sense, and this is the second time the Doctor tells her this -- I think it has something to do with her being a time traveller -- and more than just a companion to the Doctor.
There also seems to be some sort of weird connection between Amy and Dr River Song -- I think it's possible Amy is River's mother (this possibility was discussed in a recent chat I was in).
The child at the end that REGENERATED -- Who is she? Is she Amy's child? If so, is the Doctor the child's father? Is the child RIVER?
The Doctor kissing River and River's reaction was very, very sad -- and it makes me want to see "Silence in the Library"/"Forest of the Dead" again. It seems like just possibly -- River's now seen the Doctor's death; and the Doctor's seen River's. Eeeep.
Did you notice the Doctor opening the TARDIS doors with a snap of his fingers? This was something River mentioned he could do, and Tennant's Dr didn't believe her (tho' he does it at the end of "Forest of the Dead").
Who's the astronaut that "killed" the Doctor? Is it the child? Is it River? If it's River -- did the Doctor tell her to do it? If so -- why? The Doctor that died at the very beginning of "The Impossible Astronaut" was over 200 years older than the Doctor we know. Think about that -- and we've seen Time Lords go batty before (Rassilon, Omega, The Master, The Rani, Borusa, Rassilon) -- in "Trial" the Valeyard is said to be a future incarnation of the Doctor (tho' this is later disproved as a trick by the Master and the Matrix). There's been speculation for years that the Master is more than a dark-side of the Doctor -- he's the Doctor's future.
I cannot wait to see the rest of the season.
--Olivia