Somehow, the wait from the premiere of series six until episode two has seemed like an eternity. But after everything that happened in “The Impossible Astronaut,” I think the whole Internet is pretty much ready for the second half of the two-part opener. Join us, Doctor Who fans, in watching “Day of the Moon.”
MY GOD THIS WEEK HAS BEEN UNBEARABLE
WHO IS IN THAT SUIT
WHAT THE HELL ARE THE SILENCE
HOW ARE THEY GOING TO WRITE THEMSELVES OUT OF THE DOCTOR’S DEATH
WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON
Ok. Anyway. Liveblog time!!
This liveblog starts relative to you. So if it is airing on your television, start liveblogging away in the comments. Same for if you happen to be watching it online by less-than-legal means. (Though I would just time it with another time zone so you can comment with other people!) We already do this with Fringe and it works rather nicely. To avoid seeing spoilery comments regarding the episode from past livebloggers, I merely stay on the first page of comments and comment away, only going back after it’s over in order to comment on what other people said.
Sound fine? Just make sure not to post spoilers before this episode airs.
I am quite excited. I’m sure y’all are, too. As usual, the review for “Day of the Moon” will go up on Monday, May 1st.
Just finished watching holy fuck.
Main thoughts:
amy/rory forever EVERY EPISODE SHOULD HAVE THEM KISSING EVEN THE NON DOCTOR WHO SHOWS
Aw, Canton. Let's hope this is Moffat deciding to continue the gay agenda.
Doctor/River kissing omg I don't care I love it. And they have more kisses in his future. Fuck, River, last time she kisses the Doctor omg her face omg.
oh jesus Rory listening in omg 🙁
omg they're sad because he's dead
omg she's regenerating omg omg omg omg omg holy fuck. I was smiling hard with my hand on my mouth through that ending. Oh, Moffat. Such a tease.
Oh, also, since I saw River jumping off a building in the trailers, I've had this stuck in my head:
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Is that Carmen Sandiego??
Why yes it is. River stole the TARDIS painting, and picks locks? Totally a thief in another life. Or perhaps this one; who knows what Moff's up to.
OMG WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED?????? OMG
Love this exchange between Rory and River:
"So…what kind of Doctor are you?"
*River reflexively shoots at a silent without seeing it coming*
"Archaeolgy. Love a tomb!"
And also this one between the Doctor & River:
"What are you doing?"
"Helping!"
"You've got a screwdriver! Go buid a cabinet!"
Was that a reference to 9?! The cabinet thing I mean! If so, <3 you Moffat!
WHAT JUST HAPPENED?!? @_@ Moffat, you are so brilliant and simultaneously evil. I WANT TO KNOW WHAT'S WITH THE KID!!! Although I must say, that would be hilarious if she really /did/ just have a case of "Time head". XD Also, Tardis, y u no can tell if Amy is pregnant? D8 This whole thing is insane but awesome. I look forward to the rest of the series. <3
Hey, I'm totally having my own "hurry up and end"-moments here. This is cool. Almost like waiting for commercials to end. Or Don't Scare The Hare. What is that, anyway?
I want to know what this Hare is too…. It sounds strange, to say the least.
So glad the internet cooperated enough to allow me to download it! I am flailing so very, very hard right now. @.@
Reactions, in more or less chronological order: WTF > WHAT > WHAT > A39UARNFH'A][W-9UEJ2H2 > WHAT > OMG CANTON > WHAT > OH GOD OH GOD > WHAT > OMG > WTF > 92U3IH1NEQL > NOOOO > WTF > AW RORY > WHAT > AWESOME > WHAT > LMAO > OH GOD RIVER MY HEART > WHAT > WHAT > WHAT
So much love for River and her crazy escape. Yay for swimming pools 8D
Rory is the best. Period.
Amy I love you. Also plz cuddle Rory a bit, that boy deserves it.
Doctor doctor doctor next time you get kissed by River, try not to flail as much (also don't be a cause for wibble as;osnwwb you are nine hundred years old you should recognize heartbreak when you see it)
Moffat can Canton be a recurring character I want to see more of his badass self? The kid's still running around in your time, surely the Doctor will need to come back and enlist you and maybe your hubby to have Crazeh Awesome Adventures
Ponderings:
-could that kid maybe be a mindwiped Jenny after a regeneration?
-that pandorica-wannabe-box needs to come back later. just sayin'; i don't see the crazy impenetrable box not being put to nefarious use at some point
-did the Silence want to make Amy into the fake!TARDIS' pilot or what?
Oooh, mindwiped Jenny, I haven't heard that idea yet. But the way Jenny just flew off into the sunset I kind of suspected she might come back someday.
Yes! Starting!
wait what why is Amy running?
Utah! I've been there! I love the landscape. So gorgeou…omg men in suits! BODYBAG! WHAAAAAT
I've been there too. Isn't it gorgeous?
Utah is so beautiful! I love the national parks there (my favourites are all in Utah), and even just driving around, it's so incredibly gorgeous. I would totally watch a movie that only consists of hours of Utah scenery. ^^
WHAT
What are those marks? And more importantly, why the hell did they kill Amy? DID THEY REALLY JUST KILL AMY???
are we supposed to know the prisoner? please don't be a mysterious character to be introduced in flashbacks… Wait, that's the DOCTOR? Man, Matt Smith looks *strange* with a beard. STRANGE. But.. what. THis is all happening too fast!
And of course, River is still free. Hehe. I am somehow unsurprised.
Nooooo leave River alone 🙁 Yay for explanations. Makes sense, sort of.
River you are so awesome but… killing yourself is sort of NOT A GOOD IDEA
Whoa. Rory seems to have been around. Whoa. So. Many. Marks.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
That prison looks reaaally artificial.
WHAT
They're free? I mean, they're alive? Not that I'm complaining, but… WHAT?
Woohoo, swimming pool! Yay for River's signature method of travel! So much for "I won't always be there to catch you". ^__^
Doctor, please shave. PLEASE. You look weird.
Oh. Just realised that this was only the… pre-part of the show. I'm unprepared, aren't I?
Bedlam House!
Rory is actually pretty badass. How have I not noticed this before?
Also, I love how pretty much everything from the trailer has already been in the show so far. For how spoilery the it looked, it was pretty… nonspoilery. I guess.
Ooooh shiny flashy thing implanted in the hands!
WHY IS IT GLOWING (IT'S A REMEMBRALL!)
AhhhhhHHHHH WHY IS IT IN THE TARDIS
ooooh hologram I see. This is incredibly scary. So. Scary.
Woah. Amy, you are incredibly gorgeous. Very… film noir. AND THIS HOUSE oh GOD. DEAR GOD. The thunderstorm is so unnecessary it's already CREEPY AS HELL
oh god. Empty room. rockinghorse.
Ooooh Doctor, yayy =) He fixed a rocket. Of course he did. What else would he do.
…and so much for that happy moment.
OH GOD GET OUT AMY they're like extra creepy bats.. in suits PLEASE GET OUT
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek what are they DOING omg AMY
"Who was who?" – Never has forgetting something been so scary.
HA! :DDD "Welcome to America." Canton, I officially love you.
Oh no
oh no oh no oh no This is a reaaaaaaaally bad Library-flashback
please don't be a data ghost
Rory you are so adorable <3 <3 I love you. And I love your devotion to Amy. And how you took a level in badass. (Hm, guess I love the entire cast.)
Did President Nixon just step out of the perfect prison? LOL This show is amazing.
every single second that it seems like I have some idea what's going on, shit gets more weird.
This phone has an amazing video quality for a mobile.
oh god
amy what are you doing
poor rory 🙁 i'm going to cry, he looks so… just incredibly sad.
"We have no need of weapons."
"Welcome to America."
Oh man this show.
Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww! Crowning Moment of Heartwarming <3 "Just get your stupid face out of here"
Dare I suggest that the child isn't actually Amy's but River and Doctor's? I don't want it to be true, but it would explain Time Lordness…?
I like pondering this idea… But we know River is fast approaching the end of her time. So. Either she's already had this baby in her timeline. In which case why doesn't she recognize it? Plus she kills it. Or tries. Or. She hasn't, in which case it comes after this, and wouldn't she hesitate, because she'd know what happens?
Are we really continuing this stupid "Does Amy really love Rory or the Doctor" plot? Why.
Nah. That's just Rory being insecure.
I guess we are continuing the "'Does Amy really love me or the Doctor?' Rory wonders" plot.
omg omg the lodger holy shit
Shipping River/Eleven forever. Hopefully.
I like that the Silence's suit doesn't look like cloth. It's something almost pleathery and unnerving.
And yayy I am so glad that we have more Amy/Rory.
Was kind of expecting the reveal that Canton was gay, but still makes me happy. Badass gay FBI agent. We need more of those on TV.
Okay, so we have TimeKid wandering around, apparently being raised by the Silence? And Amy who forgot? And TimeKid may be Amy's because she apparently has Schroedinger's Pregnancy? I'm still not happy with the whole Pregnancy Drama stuff, but this at least makes it slightly more interesting.
Also, WTF happened to Amy during those days she was on the Silence ship? I wasn't expecting the Doctor to be all perfectly okay with "Oh, I can't remember stuff, feeling weird, la." Clearly there's something to it or else it wouldn't have been written as such a long time.
River Song. ;_; Kingston just killed me with that last scene. Holy shit. ALL THE TEARS. (And Eleven being all awkward was adorable too.)
Also, WTF happened to Amy during those days she was on the Silence ship? I wasn't expecting the Doctor to be all perfectly okay with "Oh, I can't remember stuff, feeling weird, la." Clearly there's something to it or else it wouldn't have been written as such a long time.
I was wondering the same thing, and my first guess, before we saw the girl regenerate, was that a Silent/the Silents had inpregnated Amy (for some reason???) and that the girl was somehow Amy's and theirs. Shudder?
But now with the regeneration I don't know.
But I definitely agree that something happened there and we will hopefully find out!! There seems a major theme with Amy and memory.
….aaaand now that all previous comments have been read, I will rewatch. Woohoo!
I WANT CANTON TO BE A COMPANION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
River Song is the space Indiana Jones!!!!
Well, duh.
I'm here for this and it's starting! So pumped!!
Woohoo, car chase!
OMGs IT'S STARTING I CAN'T WAIT WHAAAAAAAAT.
gorgeous scenery
July 20, 1969 is the moon landing, btw
Two months later? Canton?
Eww, she has to get in the body bag? or they're going to kill her.
Amy! What's with the hatch marks?
What the fuck? Did episode two just kill off Amy Pond when Episode 1 killed off the Doctor? HOW CAN THAT BE??
Eleven looks good as a hobo
I just finished watching it here in Canda and OH MY GOSH!!!!!!!!!!!! EPIIIIIC
That is all.
WHAT IS GOING ON CANTON SHOT AMY IS SHE DEAD OH GODS WHAT WHAT WHAT. THIS IS ALREADY AWFUL.
Bearded Doctor! Bodybags! Marks for Silent sightings! :O
AMY GOT SHOT? RIVER JUMPED? THIS EPISODE.
River, bringing the hotness, per usual.
ngh
They're counting!
Aha, so that's what the marks are for. STILL RIDICULOUSLY CREEPY.
BAMF to the BAMF BAMF power
It's like a throwack to when she jumped out of the spaceship!!
But this time the Doctor didn't get any message to go get her?
WHAT?? You're building me the perfect prison…didn't that already happen?
Dudes need to stop prisonifying the Doctor.
Never turns out well.
Except sometimes.
So true.
Tell them about the Pandorica, Doctor
I thought the Pandorica was the perfect prison? Maybe this is the prototype.
RIVER.
OH GODS RORY WHAT RORY RORY.
ALL I CAN DO IS FLAIL. D:
Poor Rory — I think he has the most hashmarks, yeah?
I also think he lasted the longest.
(I would be complaining that he's more BAMF than River, but then again, he was Roman and hiding with the Pandorica for like 2000 years, he has to have some skills, and I bet that Canton only tracked down one at a time. )
There's already way too many things going on for me to remember.
Wait, WHAT? WTF BODYBAGS!
RORY. WTAF????????
Rory!! So maybe the Doctor went back to prevent this somehow?
I really can not believe that within the first two episodes of the season, Moffatt has basically killed off all of the characters.
This is a man that loves to fuck with our minds.
Well he's doing a great job at that.
Yes. Even though they all ended up living (so far), and maybe partly because of it, of the way he jerks us around, he is certainly doing a great job at that.
OH THANK YOU BABY JESUS
WHAT THE HELLL???
AHRGOIH;LADJFOIVJ SADGIAO;RGKNAWEOI ZGVa
AND CANTON IS IN ON IT???
AND THE TARDIS IS THERE?? WHAT???
YES THEY AREEEEE GOING TO RESCUE RIVER!
Yay, Tardis! Always there to catch River!
Yay Canton! Advanced tech ftw! FUCK YES THIS EPISODE!
River is a Super BAMF b/c that takes TRUST.
…
Oh… oh DOCTOR. Oh CANTON. Oh BRILLIANCE.
"No, no, not Apollo 11, that would be silly. It's Neil Armstrong's foot."
Which is obviously not silly at all.
Neil Armstrong's foot? at an orphanage?
Hand implants?
Haha, he shaved off his scruffy beard pretty fast.
REVOLUTION! YAY!
THANKS DOCTOR/MOFFAT. NOW I WILL SLEEP VERY WELL.
RIGHT? I live alone and am rather susceptible to scares already, so this is just not helping at all.
I love the little tie moment.
A flashing light in my hand? I kinda…don't want that. It's a bit of an enemy attractor, no?
holy what it's in the tardis
oh my god, it's a hologram
Moff is so totally messing with us. Evil fing genius.
YESSSSSSSS
So the pregnancy was an implanted idea?
Possibly, although I've been thinking it's an assumption based on how seeing/forgetting them made Amy (and River) feel sick. Or maybe a bit of both?
I think a bit of both, I just want to cling on to the idea that the 1103-year-old Doctor was deliberately making fun of Amy, not just being his alien self.
Hahahahahaha,
…but you'll have to find her, I'm off to Nasa.
The one thing I don't like? I've never had to wait through commercials for Doctor Who before!!
WELL THAT'S NOT CREEPY
He must be seeing them, too!
Whoa, they can't even remember a image of it.
o.o Creepy man in a creepy house.
This guy is so weirdly confused. This episode is so awesomely directed already.
This place looks cozy. Bit of a fixer upper, but full of charm. I'll take it!
He's the one writing on the walls?
(You do sort of get the same motifs in Moffatt episodes, but he uses them so differently and effectively)
Ugggghhhh the rocking horse was rocking. This kind of lighting, scenery, etc makes me so so so so so nervous.
It also says "Leave Me" though, so someone else might be there. Unless he's warning other people.
I think he's trying to tell himself to leave to get out, but for some reason the Silents have him acting as their caretaker (why do they need this), or is he the girl's caretaker, and won't let him leave.
But a general warning can't be a bad thing either. Clearly no one should be inside this house.
Amy looks cute in a suit…totally relevant.
Oh, Doctor.
Hahahahaha, the Doctor's up in your spaceships, messing with your wiring.
Aw, shit.
Holy fuck, this is creepy.
MOTHERFUCKER
Oh hell no. NO.
WHAT IS THIS A NURSERY FOR SILENCE???
Ugh, they are slimy and chattering and on the ceiling!!!
O.O
THEY'RE ON THE CEILING WTF OMGs WHAT THE EVER LOVING HELL??
I HATE YOU, MOFFAT.
HAHAHAHA, The Doctor summons presidents. What of it??
People watching on BBCA right now : SPOILER WARNING DO NOT READ
Rewatch impressions:
– why were they running from the FBI? was it really necessary to wait several months, run around America and have the FBI hunt ("hunt"?) them? I mean, for reasons other than teasing viewers and providing scenery porn (not complaining about that part).
– "it's neil armstrong's foot" seems to be a very… set up line. it's funny and everything, and it sort of fits, but… I doubt that the Doctor would actually use it to describe his plan. And talking about the plan – how did he even plan that? It only worked because Canton shot that one Silent in the orphanage, and that didn't seem very deliberate at the time. No way did the Doctor anticipate that at the beginning of the episode. Or did I miss a time jump?
– the "breathing under your bed"-part is still scary the second time, and even more so when heard alone, in the middle of the night.
– Canton is seriously amazing and I desperately want him to be a recurring character.
– lol, I totally missed the Doctor biting his handcuffs on my first watch. 😀
– "The child must be cared for"- so I suppose the time kid was kidnapped and is extraspecial for some long-running plot of the Silence designed to take over the universe or something? the series just started, it can't be resolved yet.
– How did the Vampires of Venice run from the Silence? Or, how do they remember that they ran from the Silence? There has to be more to them…. Maybe they're an alliance or something, and the creepy things we saw here are only the… first part, prepping the planet. There is NO WAY that they only sent us to the moon so that they'd get a space suit for the time girl. There must have been more to it. They might have even planned for the Doctor to interfere.
– "This is their empire" – yeah well, I think it isn't. That would be too easy.
– I decided that the whole "Does Amy love Rory or the Doctor"-plotline in this episode was a one-time thing to tease Amy/Doctor-shippers.
– "We do your honour. You will bring the Silence." <– quantum-impregnated by the Silence?
– I do not want to see next week's episode. :/ Well, I do! But I'd rather learn more about time girl and River and quantum pregnancy. And I want more Canton.
Possible kid identities:
– daughter of Doctor/River, and Amy is in the picture because she's the godmother or something.
– Amy/Rory's daughter with timehead or something. Would explain Schrödinger's pregnancy, but is sort of too obvious.
– Amy/Doctor's daughter, in which case I will murder this show
– Jenny in a new regeneration, kidnapped by the Silence or something for their plot
– Jenny's daughter
– Or maybe something to do with Donna? Technically, she might even be an Alternate!Ten/Rose child who somehow managed to travel into this universe.
I'm personally hoping for the return of Jenny.
END SPOILERS
The running around America part I assumed was semi-necessary to properly ascertain how widespread the Silence was–and, as it turned out, a lot–kind of like testing the hypothesis. I mean, before that they might have suspected, but they didn't know.
About the vampires/everything that's running from the Silence, I'm tentatively deciding that the ones on Earth are stragglers that got cut off from the main pack, or some sort of sleeper cell that's under instructions to take things slow. What for, I don't even dare try to decide. Earth being not the empire itself, but part of it.
Actually, "to properly raise the kid to pilot fake/Lodger!TARDIS so they can have their own pet Time Lord" might be on top of my Ideas. It kind of goes with the TARDIS exploding in S5, since no TARDIS = the Silence having the monopoly over time-space travel, vortex manipulators notwithstanding. And they made Amy pregnant while they had her or something.
Watch Moffat completely destroy this in the space of the next episode.
Ooh, I like the sleeper cell idea. Andt he Silence could of course have told them to run and tell everyone that they're running from the Silence just so that they spread fear.
Now I'm wondering if the kid's escape was planned by the Silence. They had her for so long, she could be *full* of these pst-hypnotic suggestions!
And talking about those: when they told Amy in Episode 1 "You will tell the Doctor" – was that a post-hypnotic suggestion that made her tell him she's pregnant? Maybe that set something important in motion and was part of the plan as well…Like, if the kid is Amy's, she might not have had it unless she had talked about being pregnant that time. Or something. But don't know, I'm probably FAR off.
"Just a healthy American, sir!"
… woooooow.
"Well, sir, he did break into Apollo 11."
Doctor: ::mouths:: Sorry….
LOL DOCTOR.
"wooooow" what? XD
But did he leave tape on the door? GIVING NIXON IDEAS, DOCTOR?
HOLY SHIT THIS IS THE SCARIEST SHIT OF ALL TIME also rory in a suit omg "america salutes you" sdkljfhakjfhjdshjs
also rory needs to be my boyfriend jsyk AMY CAN COME TOO I DON'T MIND but omg
Okay, the scene with Amy in the orphanage bedroom, WILL GIVE ME HORRIFIC NIGHTMARES FOR ALL TIME EVEN WHEN I AM AWAKE.
M2. ESPECIALLY WHEN I'M AWAKE.
Way to go Rory. You are so adorkable.
Rory I love you you are too cute. (Want one for myselffffffff)
River and Rory look so awesome!
Yay Rory awkwardness! <3 forever.
AAAAAH AMY IN THE CREEPY ROOM oh god this shit is so fucked up
YES. CANNOT HANDLE AT ALL … especially how she suddenly has DOZENS of marks???
OH
NO
FUCKING
WAY
THAT PHOTO OF AMY WITH A BABY WHAT
"yeah. welcome to america." ASDJKFHAJHDSA F YEAH CANTON
Who on earth is that???