tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9987513.post2023731560859133505..comments2024-03-17T11:05:22.464+00:00Comments on The Life And Opinions of Andrew Rilstone: Fish Custard (9)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9987513.post-74277326049756590712010-06-18T19:13:20.256+01:002010-06-18T19:13:20.256+01:00there were very few successful parodies of Doctor ...<i>there were very few successful parodies of Doctor Who. The series undercuts itself so shamelessly that there's no point in a comedian doing so. As early as 1964 Crackerjack had done a sketch featuring Peter Glaze as a dotty old man called Doctor What who lived in a post-box.</i><br /><br />if only Crackerjack had survived long enough to do a take on the Crack<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otbbCqBKEZc" rel="nofollow">This one's</a> a bit better.Gavin Burrowshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16347163260510316959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9987513.post-46501216204294391502010-06-18T18:55:09.700+01:002010-06-18T18:55:09.700+01:00Funnily enough, this episode stopped that train of...Funnily enough, this episode <i>stopped</i> that train of thought in me! Up till then I’d been fairly convinced everything was going to be some kind of dream Amy was having. (The crack first appears above her bed, after all.) I was also vaguely toying with Leadworth as some kind of imagined consensus reality with the monsters outside of it, which was breaking down around Amy and her raggedy Doctor fixation, but... <i>some</i> kind of dream reality!<br /><br />But after this I figured that they wouldn’t be so audacious as to put a dream scene within a dream scene.<br /><br />Besides, up to here all the emphasis was upon <i>Amy</i> and the crack, but things later seemed to shift to the Doctor. (Bits of the Tardis being found in it and all.) And we know a motley array of his old adversaries turn up for the finale, about which Amy is presumably amnesiac.Gavin Burrowshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16347163260510316959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9987513.post-55303366908964596802010-06-18T00:01:41.421+01:002010-06-18T00:01:41.421+01:00I've been thinking this for a while too. The w...I've been thinking this for a while too. The whole 'and it was all a dream' trope is such an obvious McGuffin that it's just the sort of thing that Moffat would 'hide in plain sight' (sorry I've been watching a lot of Hitchcock recently). The Crackin Time and Space being a cosmic red herring. But somehow I don't think he'll dare. besides if this was all Amy's or the Doctor's dream where does that take us for Maffat's season Two? No, he wouldn't dare...would he?Antonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13208516649489381959noreply@blogger.com