tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9987513.post1937943761489110661..comments2024-03-17T11:05:22.464+00:00Comments on The Life And Opinions of Andrew Rilstone: Fish Custard (11)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9987513.post-91395686591364150332010-06-23T15:40:09.800+01:002010-06-23T15:40:09.800+01:00Did you get my photos of the fish custard recipe, ...Did you get my photos of the fish custard recipe, by the way?Sam Dodsworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01534273379447820097noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9987513.post-72942556435631842632010-06-23T07:51:34.267+01:002010-06-23T07:51:34.267+01:00Also, I find Amy's behaviour is less about lov...Also, I find Amy's behaviour is less about love than fear of losing people: it has taken both of Rory's deaths so far (I really hope we get at least one more) to see Amy's fiercely devoted side really come out but it's the same fierceness that she showed when the Doctor was talking about Vincent topping himself.Greg Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02262613527028934169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9987513.post-58329413708703805352010-06-23T07:41:16.227+01:002010-06-23T07:41:16.227+01:00I'm thinking that part of Amy's behaviour ...I'm thinking that part of Amy's behaviour stems from the inference that she is as much a trap for the Doctor as the Pandorica was (and indeed as the Rorton was for her).<br /><br />But part is shoddy writing, yes. I think perhaps not all the writers were on the same page as to who really thought what about whom.Greg Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02262613527028934169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9987513.post-70818632426081595762010-06-23T07:26:31.769+01:002010-06-23T07:26:31.769+01:00The difference between using the Time Lords as Q a...The difference between using the Time Lords as Q as a device to set up a plot and using the Dream Lord as a similar device is that just because Amy says she loves Rory doesn't mean that I have to believe her. Any more than I believe that Rory could so fully have grokked the Doctor's nature and his dangers in the few hours he'd known him in "Vampires of Venice" (see also Amy at the end of "The Beast Below"). It's actually Rory and Amy who are being used as devices here, and they're the wrong kind of characters for that sort of thing. Or are supposed to be, anyway.<br /><br />Besides, it's clearly not a choice between Rory and the Doctor as romantic partners that Amy is being faced with. It's a choice between marriage and traveling with the Doctor on the TARDIS. What's keeping Amy from marrying Rory is the fact that she's deeply ambivalent about marriage in general and marriage to him in particular, so when that ambivalence is resolved by her realizing that, wait, yes, she does love him - after an entire episode in which her behavior towards him has remained the same brand of slightly fond exasperation most of us would consider too chilly in a best friend, much less a potential partner for life - I call bad writing.Abigail Nussbaumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08562462228380637583noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9987513.post-11754112594590248962010-06-22T22:59:59.806+01:002010-06-22T22:59:59.806+01:00Money still on Omega over Valeyard, if only becaus...Money still on Omega over Valeyard, if only because a cosmos that contains the Valeyard scarcely bears thinking about.Greg Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02262613527028934169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9987513.post-81584455736466311642010-06-22T22:17:49.564+01:002010-06-22T22:17:49.564+01:00Well, come to think of it, maybe that isn't mu...Well, come to think of it, maybe that isn't much weirder than what we did get in Planet of Spiders with K'anpo. I suppose it's possible.Andrew Stevenshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13453328821252013152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9987513.post-87328081689399309092010-06-22T17:58:01.272+01:002010-06-22T17:58:01.272+01:00I would be very surprised if the Dream Lord/Valeya...I would be very surprised if the Dream Lord/Valeyard/Evil Doctor wasn't the big villain in this season's final episode. (SPOILERS for episodes to date)<br /><br />--They've introduced him into the story quite elegantly, such that viewers of the new series but not the old will have no trouble understanding who he is. <br /><br />--The themes introduced in "The Pandorica Opens" include the idea that reality is not all it seems, and the idea of the doctor as a bad guy, which both sync up nicely with the Dream Lord. And if you're going to be trapped in a box for a long, long time, confronting your evil side seems like a logical thing to deal with, right? <br /><br />--There's been no explanation for why the TARDIS explodes; perhaps the Dream Lord took control of the Doctor's body while they were all passed out in "Amy's Choice", and programmed it to self-destruct at a later point? Maybe this whole episode was a distraction? <br /><br />--More nerdishly: there's been a pattern, one I believe I heard that the creators of the show intended, of each new season relying on a Big Bad that was introduced during the run of a subsequent Doctor, hence: <br /><br />Series one/First Doctor: Daleks<br />Series two/Second Doctor: Cybermen<br />Series three/Third Doctor: The Master<br />Series Four/Fourth Doctor: Davros<br />TV movies/Fifth Doctor: Rassilon<br /><br />The Valeyard, coming from the Sixth Doctor era, would mesh with this. <br /><br />Oh, and there's the fact that, technically speaking, the Doctor's on his second-last incarnation, right? So the Valeyard would be running out of opportunities to manifest himself as one of the Doctors, so it makes sense that he'd strike now. AND, given the strong hints that River might kill this Doctor at some point in the future, that adds extra urgency to this possibility.Pranksterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00676528953675160889noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9987513.post-48910130718826221122010-06-22T17:57:30.256+01:002010-06-22T17:57:30.256+01:00I should have resorted to my usual formula "T...I should have resorted to my usual formula "There is widely disseminated oral tradition to the effect that..."<br /><br />Wikipedia, which in many of the more relaxed parts of Bristol has supplanted the Guardian as the standard repositry of all wisdom and knowledge, states that the final story of Season 11 would (if not for Roger Delgado's sudden death) have been called "The Final Game" and would have written out the Master by revealing that he and the Doctor were different aspects of the same individual (the Id and the Superego, apparently.) Wikipedia refers us to http://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/lostaf.html which cites the same information, adding that the story was comissioned in Feb 1973. It cites an interview with Robert Sloman in Doctor Who Monthly #314. Since I don't have a set of back numbers of this esteemed organ, that's as much as I can say. Mr Sullivan implies that the idea for the story came from Barry Letts, and that it fitted in with his interest in Buddhism -- as did "Planet of the Spiders", the story which eventually replaced it. Obviously in the event the Master did not turn out to be the Doctor's Darksied, although in "Planet of Fire" he was stated to be the Doctor's own...argh!Andrew Rilstonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16934052271846235431noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9987513.post-40987378691746628172010-06-22T17:13:48.147+01:002010-06-22T17:13:48.147+01:00Perhaps more intriguingly, we are told that Barry ...<i>Perhaps more intriguingly, we are told that Barry Letts original plan was for the final Jon Pertwee story to have revealed that the Doctor and the Master were the same man.</i><br /><br />I don't think this is true. I can't honestly say I've even heard it before. Letts talks about his plans for the end of the Master on the Frontier in Space DVD and never mentioned anything like this. The idea frankly sounds a little crazy to me. I could see Robert Holmes coming up with something like this, but not Letts and Dicks.Andrew Stevenshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13453328821252013152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9987513.post-71871381442651834612010-06-22T13:59:23.445+01:002010-06-22T13:59:23.445+01:00This comment has been removed by the author.Salisburyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14693744385215450425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9987513.post-25168913187849737642010-06-22T13:10:25.308+01:002010-06-22T13:10:25.308+01:00I always thought that the Time Lords were best tho...I always thought that the Time Lords were best thought of this way: The Time Lords are to the Doctor as the Doctor is to ordinary people. Of course, they really only were that in Wargames/theonewiththeMaster/Genesis. <br /><br />But they were good in them - I loved the implication that they were much smarter and more powerful (didn't even need Tardii etc.)Greg Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02262613527028934169noreply@blogger.com