A-ha! I remembered this time AND WordPress SHALL NOT EAT THIS POST. It’s time for us to come together ’round the world to liveblog the sixth series of Doctor Who. This fourth episode, written by the fabulous Neil Gaiman, is titled “The Doctor’s Wife,” which makes me want to pee my pants and punch myself in the face at the exact same time. LET’S DO THIS.
omg omg omg omg WE HAVE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR THIS MOMENT FOR SO LONG!
I won’t use an image from the show, for those who don’t want to be spoiled.
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.
SEE ALL OF YOU TOMORROW!!!!
"You call me 'Sexy'"
"Only when we're alone…"
Go Rory!
OMG RORY YOU SO SMART
IT'S AM. THE DAMN COMPUTER IS AM.
SO GLAD I'm not the only one who had that thought. I even read I Have No Mouth a few hours before it showed.
this is late BUT THANK YOU!!! I AM SO GLAD I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO THOUGHT OF THAT!!
oh god poor tardislady ;_____________;
oh god
OH GOD
epic dr music. She called them her 'sisters'
All those people who wanted to see more of the TARDIS interior in the new series are getting their wish.
THEY'RE BUILDING A TARDIS AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
"MY Doctor." 😀 TARDIS is awesome.
This does weirdly mean that the TARDIS has now kissed the Doctor. Mmm. That should fuel some weird fanfic and drawings. I await them contently.
"Rory…hold my hand." They are so cute even at moments like this <3
Doctor slapping himself is strangely fun.
"I'm a madman with a box WITHOUT A BOX!"
Even more fuel for TARDIS/Doctor fic, "Sexy." Also, if the junkyard is TARDIS stuff, WHY IS THERE A WASHING MACHINE. Do Timelords have lots of washing?
"I had a PE teacher just like you." ME TOO, RORY. CURSE PE TEACHERS. I USED TO CRY WHEN WE HAD TO DO FOOTBALL, I WAS SO FEEBLE AND WEAK AND I PREFERRED MUCHLY ENGLISH.
Washing machine is a TARDIS that the chameleon thing never wore off of. 🙂 I had to look it up.
EVERY SINGLE THEORY OF MINE BEING PROVEN. Love you, NEIL.
She is right Doctor, she is very right.
oh god plz don't die QAQ
LOL WHAT COULD GO WRONG
OH GOD THIS IS AWFUL ARG ARG ARG
By which I mean the situation not the episode.
RORY OMG QAQ
"Oh my beautiful idiot!" Lovely!
"I always took you where you needed to be." Go TARDIS!
Haha the junkyard is kind of where old silly BBC props go to die <3 What is that thing the Doctor is pulling, oh Doctor Who.
RORY! ;-; WHY DOES ALL THE SAD HAPPEN TO RORY.
OH GOD NIGHTMARES FOREVER
RORY! NO RORY!
Why does every writer torture Rory?
"Oh, my beautiful idiot."
Is she… vworping? She's vworping.
Dark with a double dose of Dark. Don;t give in amy, it;s messing with you Rory's FINE HE'S FINE, SEE, HE;S FINE.
New rule, Rory has to fake!die every single episode now
This is the first episode in which it wasn't annoying though!
I saw a picture somewhere on tumblr, I don't remember where, that was a poof of the Social Network poster except with Rory that said "You don't get to be a companion without dying a few times". I wish I remembered where it was…
Do you mean this?
http://lindsheyhey.tumblr.com/post/5384442079/so-…
oh shit what the fuck is going on
Rory's the pretty one. lol!
i'VE GOT ABOUT 30 NOW. I'm loving this.
MOE TARDIS IS MOE.
Delight = their wedding OMGNEDDAFJK;SD OLD CONTROL ROOM
NINE/TEN'S CONSOLE! HOW I'VE MISSED YOU!
Oh good lord that was horrific and it was all her mind, House is so evil Neil Gaiman what is your mind, really.
"The pretty one?" Bahaha.
OH SWEET LORD that was a small, terrifying segment there that made my chest hurt STOP DOING THIS TO ME, WRITERS.
FUCK AMY HURRY HURRY HURRY phew stop making my chest hurt with tension guys
"Did you wish really hard?" Ha ha ha!
Best funny line. 😀
Haha, "Did you wish…REALLY hard?"
TARDIS dying. The House is awful and I hate it. I am so anxious.
FOREST OMG
There she goes. And I LOVE the dr being awesome
Outside you're massive but inside you're jsut SO SMALL.
Beautiful beautiful special effects this episode. 😀
eeeeeeeeee = basically the noise I have been making this whole episode
"Did you wish really hard?"
"Oh, shut up, not like that." ahahaha, writers <3
That looks quite like the Mastermind chair there… hm. My mind just constructed some strange alternate universe where they play Mastermind to escape and the Doctor's subject is Gallifrey. Perhaps I am more ill than I thought and am just going loopy. I can now smell Chinese food, I am probably just going bonkers.
NO. I LOVE YOU HUMAN!TARDIS
CRYING ;____;
SDFSZDGDSDFSG STOP CRYING DOCTOR MY HEART CANNOT TAKE IT
Matt Smith's lip tremble deserves its own comment. Here it is.
YES. <3
Hell to the fuck damn YES.
… this is the first comment I've up-voted simply for excellent use of profanity.
OH, a bit teary here.
Bunk beds! OMG!
Tee Hee, "can we delete the bunk beds?" No wonder the pregnancy is uncertain!
You'd be surprised what you can do with a bunk-bed 😉
I'm with the Doctor on this one. It's a bed with a ladder! XD
omg all my happy tears
That was brilliant. I always knew that the Tardis was 'alive' and she loved him and I have proof.. Now to go through and upvote awesome people!
Okay I decided not to liveblog, wanted to focus on watching it. I may be clinging to the toy TARDIS I keep on my desk rn.
NEIL GAIMAN PLEASE COME BACK AND WRITE MOAR EPISODES!
Thank you, Neil Gaiman, thank you!
The effect for the TARDIS is absolutely beautiful, those prettyful glowing lights <3
The last few moments of House were kind of narmy but I care none, he had a beautiful gravelly voice.
"Alive. I'm…alive." And now I am tearing up, and I only just stopped having the cries from reading the third Pellinor book. And the Doctor is tearing up and that possibly just destroyed me guh and Amy ENDLESS SAD
"The only water in the forest is the river." Oh goodness now I really want to know what this means! Ugh and I expect we will not get payoff until I have randomly completely forgotten it and then it will sneak up on me.
THE DOCTOR LIKES BUNKBEDS! I SLEPT IN A BUNKBED FOR ABOUT TEN YEARS DOCTOR AND I HAD THINGS PINNED TO THE LADDER AND THE TOP HAD A SHELF WHICH WAS JUST RELICS AND WEIRD AND WONDERFUL THINGS THAT I FORGOT ABOUT FOR YEARS INCLUDING A RANDOM GLASS WITH RIBENA THAT HAD BEEN THERE FOR SO LONG IT DRIED UP AND A SOCK POPPET MADE OUT OF A REAL SOCK THAT I MADE WHEN I WAS SEVEN AND TOYS MY PARENTS PLAYED WITH THERE AND what I am saying is lots of caps lock but bunkbeds for life Doctor, I still miss mine even though the ladder was falling off and going up it was a terrible, life threatening experience and I always hit my head on the ceiling, every time, and I would discover random pairs of underpants underneath the covers that I genuinely did not remember putting there.
Now I am very nostalgic. I only lost my bunkbed in December, it has not been long.
BUNK BED APPRECIATION CAPSLOCK THREAD, Y/Y?
I miss my bunk bed. I had the whole of the top of my sister's wardrobe as a bedside table and it was always covered in books and random scraps of paper. And bowls. Which was precarious. We also had another set of bunk beds which we shared, they were the kind you can separate out into two beds, and we separated them and put them back together so many times that by the end the whole thing would sway each time the other one breathed. AND THIS WAS REASSURING EVEN THOUGH IT PROBABLY SHOULD HAVE BEEN TERRIFYING.
Also I think 99% of my first-ever Harry Potter reads (and subsequent rereads) happened on one or another of those three bunks ;_;
Haha, my sister reads Mark Watches too so I guess she'll see this. Hi! 😀
OH YES THIS IS BEAUTIFUL
I have a double bed now but it's just not the same, man. I used to curl up in the space between my bunkbed and wardrobe on top of a pile of stuffed toys and read. Aw, I bet I wouldn't fit now.
Aren't the ladders serious hazards? Mine would career about when you tried to climb it. I had stickers all over and old stuff everywhere–my best friend's mam works for Millenium, the company that makes the DW monsters and shiz, and I got to go once and run wild in the warehouse with her and I received some postcards of Eccleston that went up on my headboard. (I also tried on a fake pregnancy belly, hee, and found a freaky plastic baby!) And there was breeding ground underneath the bed, because my theory when it comes to cleaning up is SHOVE IT UNDER THE BED.
I wonder if there are any bunkbed gifs… THERE SHOULD BE.
Hi to your sister! *wave*
Yes I have a double bed now too. I often end up with various combinations of boyfriend/toddler/cat/various plastic trains in there with me so I suppose a bunk bed would be a bit cramped now.
Mine was right next to the window and when there was too much crap on the floor to put the ladder up I would just climb onto the windowsill and jump up into bed that way.
I want to buy my 2.5 year old a bunk bed with a slide 😀
Sounds fun :O I generally sleep with at least two stuffed toys and plural books. I frequently wake up on the books with a lovely imprint on my face.
My window leads to a flat roof. I was forbidden to go out as a child, and thus got stuck there quite often. I used to climb up my bunkbed by the back just for fun, and the entire thing would sway worryingly. Bunkbeds are really accidents waiting to happen, when you think about it.
:O!! If you do that and I turn up outside your window, do not be afraid. I will just want to monopolise the slide and trade bunkbed stories.
Long time luker, now de-lurking to say OMG PELLINOR IS ONE OF MY FAVOURITE THINGS.
Just wait till you read book four!
agreed! I dont know too many people who've read them but they are amazing books!
Oooh I love them too, they are gorgeous books. I'm rereading them now. Sometimes I skip book three because it always has me in floods of tears but I figured I should this time, I owe it to Hem and his leap in character development
AND ZELIKA
AND JURIKEN and now I am tearing up already ;-;
I went up on a bunk bed for a sleepover one time. Someone else came up… aaaaand then the top bunk fell down onto the bottom bunk. Fucking scary.
Anway that's my bunk bed story.
"The only water in the forest is the river."
Anyone else thinking of River Song? And the Forest of the Dead?
Just me?
House is Castor/Zeus from Tron:Legacy. Tru fax.
I sleep in a bunkbed whenever i go home for breaks. I hate hitting my head on the ceiling but the worst is when centipeads get into the house can crawl across the ceiling above my head. Other then that its fantastic.
I loved that, really well played Neil Gaiman. Doctor/TARDIS remain the true OTP of this show. <3
Doctor/TARDIS forever
Jus some random thoughts! What a fun episode! Ha! The amount of Doctor/Tardis fanfics is gonna explode after this! The scene when the Doctor introduced the Tradis to Amy and Rory was hilarious XD!
A: "…did you wish really hard?"
T: "Hello, I'm Sexy."
And what does the mysterious "the only water in the forrest id the river" mean?.
Surely….the crackpot theory of River actually being a river can't be true…?
Also…the Doctor looks cute when he cries :D!
I'm thinking it is River, but Human!Tardis just speaks strangely. She did throughout the rest of the episode 🙂
oh god this is officially my favourite episode ever
Didn't liveblog but, oh my god, Neil Gaiman, I never raise my expectations too high with you!That was perfect, really perfect! And i'd be lying if i said I didn't tear up at least twice. And Nine/Ten's TARDIS CONTROLS! *sniffs*
(But, goddammit, Rory DIED AGAIN! NOT 100% REAL THIS TIME BUT I SAW IT! Poor guy cannot catch a break…XD)
Doctor/TARDIS is the best ship in any universe.
WE PUT A SHIP IN YO' SHIP SO YOU CAN– /shot
This needs a gif now.
TRUER WORDS HAVE NEVER BEEN SPOKEN!
Doctor/TADRIS OTP IS CANON <3
cannot upvote this enough
THIS IS ABSOLUTE TRUTH
DOCTOR/TARDIS IS CANON!
OTP FOREVER AND EVER
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Watching confidential now.
Confidential is awesome.
loving the Dr/TARDIS montage.
Doctor/TARDIS fanvid on Confidential making me :3 :3 :3
Love that Confidential has a montage of the Doctor and the Tardis to 'you sexy thing'!
"I stole myself a Timelord"
Neil Gaiman, please narrate ALL THE THINGS to me ever.
Bunkbed fun aside, I adored this episode. I loved how it ran, how it fit together, how it looked and the music. It just all fit together like the most glorious puzzle. Last episode…it wasn't bad, but there was something weird about it that I couldn't quite figure out. Perhaps it was the timing, or the sudden reveals, I don't know, it just didn't quite sit with me.
This one ran lovely, though, with enough comedy and tense moments. Yay Neil Gaiman!
I totally agree, it was a fantastic return to form after last week's…kind of 'meh' episode.
Neil Gaiman TARDIS tour = awesome.
Brilliant episode, just one small thing I would have liked to see. They should have gone to Hartnells tardis console and when they were in it, it should have turned black and white with no explanation
That would have been neat!
They'd have had to have passed through though, having that room deleted would have been a shame.
I mentioned I'd have lliked to see the control room they used being a 'classic' one- would have been a nice nod. Mind you, they still have 10's, so I guess it was eaier
Probably still had ten's control room laying about the shop and maybe they didn't want or couldn't afford to rebuild one of the older ones?
This was great. I wish Neil Gaiman could write all the non Moffat episodes
Best Episode EVER
Oh look! It;'s A Quarry|!
The Doctor and the TARDIS. MY BRAIN IS FULL OF FILTH RIGHT NOW. JSYK.
Did the patchwork bloke remind anyone of the Igors from Terry Pratchetts stuff? Other stuff I liked was the broken tardis junkyard being full of giant spaceships because their chameleon circuits are broken. Also the Tardis thinking of Rory as "the pretty one" was adorable, lucky the Doctor didn't tell him or he might have started dressing up and being coquettish in the control room.
The Finnish Monster is really terrifying, but the Bosnian one was just odd.
As an American temporarily living in Scotland, I should be really excited to be watching my very first (and probably last) Eurovision contest ever. But it just can't measure up to the ancient love story I just saw.
Just here to say three cheers to Americans in Scotland who love Doctor Who and read Mark Watches!
Guys, guys…
WE GOT TO SEE MORE OF THE TARDIS INTERIOR. Granted, it was the hallways and the archived Coral, but… progress!
AND DOCTOR/TARDIS OTP. Or is it Doctor/Sexy now?
Fantastic episode.
Not sure what I'm happier about, the confirmation of Doctor/Tardis or the triumphant return of Rory's Marty McFly vests.
I just finished watching. I'm not really coherent right now, so let's just say that, well, it filled me with warmth and pleasure.
I just want to draw hearts around the episode and hug it and I have collapsed on my bed in contentment.
Can we officially call the TARDIS a character now? Hope so, i've always considered her as a character.
I <3 the TARDIS/Idris.
OMG guys! I'm rewatching it right now, when Idris burns up you can hear her whisper "i love you." Squee.
I am shipping The Doctor/The TARDIS/Idris pretty damn hard right now!
I expect many, many gorgeous graphics and gifs from the internet in the next couple days. Beautiful visuals, beautiful dialogue, beautiful acting all around. Get on that, internet.
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Soul esplosion about now….
……………..beautiful. Epic. Incredible.
There are only single word sentences to describe this episode. Loved it.
(ok that was a two word sentence, but still!)
Okay, I'm just randomly making posts now when I feel like it, but one thing I have have have to mention:
IT IS NOW CANON THAT A TIME LORD CAN BECOME A TIME LADY YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
I shrieked when he said that. I was so excite to hear it said out loud by the Doctor. The door is now open for the Doctor to become a female. YES!
I'm making my shortlist of actresses right now.
Judi Dench, Emma Thompson, Tilda Swinton, Cate Blanchett, Carey Mulligan…
Emma Thompson would be SMASHING as the Doctor. She could pull it off without breaking her stride.
Yes, however– I also think it was implied that to do that you need to be good enough at regenerating to CONTROL your regeneration… and apparently the Doctor actually really sucks at regenerating. That's why he can't just be a ginger if he wants to.
I honestly don't think they'll change the Doctor to a woman, but it's nice that the option is apparently there.
I wouldn't be so optimistic. I don't think they'll ever make Doctor female. And frankly, I wouldn't want them to. It would look weird and contrived and the sort of "we'll make him a female just because we can".
I hated, hated, hated it. Come on this was terrible where the hell was eye-patch lady?
Just kidding. Doctor/TARDIS OTP
Oh my god I thought you were serious for like 5 seconds and I freaked! "HOW THE HELL CAN SOMEONE NOT LI-oh… oh I see."
Me, every time I get a new episode of Who:
http://youtu.be/P3ALwKeSEYs
Random, but, I've discovered the "speech" function on my Mac, and it's hilarious. It recognizes certain netspeak. It reads "OMG" correctly as Oh My God" and it's even funnier if I have it set to read really fast. XD
Well, I've just come back from my Eurovision party! It's midnight, and I have to be up at 4am tomorrow to go to work!
So I should just go to bed and get a couple of hours rest…OH WHO AM I KIDDING DOCTOR WHO TIME BABY!
…it's possible I'm a little drunk. But in the finest traditions of one late to a liveblog party, I shall blog all in one post. LET'S GOOOOOO!
– Oooh this is very Burton-esque. I think it's just because the woman reminds me of HBC
– OOD! Who is…their nephew? eh?
– "I've got mail" I get that face whenever I get an email 😛
– OMG Ouroboros! It's like Scully's tattoo what is wrong with me this isn't The X Files
– NOOO don't use up the swimming pool!
– SHE STOLE THE TARDIS' SOUL. WHAT.
– "Your chin is hilarious!"
– ooooh creepy timelord message!
– Is it weird that I find the asteroid's voice kind of hot?
– Oh god they lure Timelords there? That's awful…
– Oh shit she's wearing his arm. The Doctor is gonna be SO PISSED. RUN!
– LOL the TARDIS is a ditzy bitey lady!
– "MY TARDIS?" "My doctor."
– Oh no, sexy voice is in the Tardis!
– Orangey girl! Bless you Tardis
– OMG WE ARE FINALLY SEEING MORE OF THE INSIDE OF THE TARDIS THIS IS SO EPIC.
– AND TERRIFYING. D:
– "She's a woman, and she's my Tardis." "Did you wish reallly hard?"
– FUCK YEAH TARDIS.
– :'(
– :'(
– :'(
– "The only water in a forest is a river" Reference to River Song y/y???
In conclusion…Doctor/Tardis OTP.
😀
sexy voice=Michael Sheen
Oooh. Note to self: hunt down things with Michael Sheen in them.
Whaaaa? Like, Michael Sheen who played David Frost in Frost/Nixon?
– "The only water in a forest is a river" Reference to River Song y/y???
Glad I wasn't the only one to think that. I was starting to think I was crazy or was just wearing my "I <3 River" glasses too much. haha.
The moment I saw the episode title my mind just went "RiverRiverRiverRiverRiverRiverRiverRiverRiverRiverRiverRiverWhereIsMyRiver?" and then I realized they were talking about the TARDIS. Who is totes his wife.
…TARDIS/Doctor/River OTP.
When reading that comment I instantly envisioned the sunglasses River was wearing at the beginning of 'The Time of Angels' 😛
It most definitely is!! Silence in the Library where River dies (we think- no one ever really dies in science fiction) the books were "the forest" of the vashta nerada. And then there was the Forest of the Dead with the Weeping Angels and River got to show her BAMF self…. so intrigued to see how this plays out!!!
I love this comment. I appluad the drunkeness.
Note to you: do drunken comments more often!!! 😀
"- OMG Ouroboros! It's like Scully's tattoo what is wrong with me this isn't The X Files"
No it's FullMetal Alchemist and The Corsair is a homunculus.
OMG it makes perfect sense! They do have multiple lives, after all…
Although, now I have weird urge to make a fan video of the Doctor/TARDIS ship to the song that just won Eurovision…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgE3bDH647M
LISTEN TO IT AND TELL ME IT DOESN'T TOTALLY WORK.
oh gods I haven't slept in so long
I come bearing pictographic evidence that Gaiman seems to be right about the doors:
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Am I the only who thinking that REAL police boxes look … a little bit weird? Like, they're not in the right shade of blue, and too bulky, and… well, they actually the same size on the inside.
Cool…OOD and more time lords…hope there are more time lords.
Pity…no more time lords!
It's Tim Burton styled…kind of cool though.
I AM SO HAPPY THEY EXPLAINED THE DOORS! Because every now and then the doors open to the outside (see season 5 opener for instance) and it was annoying me! 😀
This episode made me laugh (lots) and cry and was such great fun! I loved it! Doctor/TARDIS OTP! Come on! It's canon now! 😀
All in all, Neil Gaiman + Moffat = awesome. It's a fact now.
Cool….timey wimey stuff…
from within the TARDIS that is…
I just noticed Amy and Rory's wedding rings when they were hammering on the door for each other, and an "awwe" moment interrupted all the many other things I am feeling at this moment
Why always pick on Rory though?
What mind fuckery is this!
You sexy thing!
Ten's Tardis!!!!! <3
Well, and Nine's too
Did you wish REALLY HARD…
No I don't want Sexy to die 🙁 I really like her
TEN MINUTES 'TIL DOCTOR WHO TIME.
Wow…Like this episode…
Bunkbeds are cool
OOD.
IT BEGINS!
With glowy greenness and IS THAT AN OOD AND WHAT IS GOING ON???
… WTF? This is classic Gaiman, it's already fucked up!
WTF? New souls? New Timelords??