Hello, Watchers! Let us all gather ’round our television sets or our computers to witness the fifth episode of the sixth series of Doctor Who. Now this particular episode, titled “The Rebel Flesh,” is about something! And has characters! And that is all I know! So get your live blogging fingers ready!
I am just excited to see this rather fine shirt/bow tie combo myself.
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.
Enjoy!
THEORIES ABOUND:
Calling it now: Snowglobe = 3D Glasses in "Doomsday"
"I never thought I'd have to say that again." XD Oh, I love Matt Smith's face so much.
And the TARDIS is being melted. Ffffuu-
HOLY SHIT THE TARDIS.
Why does the TARDIS keep disappearing and such this series?
AFTER she said she didn't like it and shit. Siriusly Doctor you are a sucky husband.
LEARN FROM RORY. HE KNOWS.
Of COURSE the TARDIS would get caught in an acid leak.
I can't understand half of what they're saying.
"For want of a better word, OWWWW" Rory, ILU!
Why hello there Doctor Who, nice to see you this evening, and may I just say what the hell just happened.
also MUSE MUSE MUSE MUSE MUSE MUSE
"A lot can go wrong in an hour."
Best summary of Doctor Who.
"I thought I was going to die." "Welcome to my world."
My love for Rory stands.
Well then, the Gangers have gone out of control. This is why we shouldn't play around as gods.
Oh, gross!
HOLY SHIIIIIIIIIT RUN RORY.
OH MY GODS THAT WAS FREAKY.
Two weeks till the next episode? Ffff.
I know, right? DX
I'm already upset about this season being split into two parts.
NGL, that Insider clip was a bit spoilery. 🙁
I find it amusing that BBCA is advertising "Blade Runner" during this episode.
I just watched the end. The last minute or so?:
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Nice Tarzan yell there.
"Trust me, I'm a doctor."
Oh?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B11DvIu3j90
Awww… Rory's got a little friend there 🙂
What does the Doctor know about the Flesh?
Doctor, what did you do???
"No more wandering off."
And then he does so himself.
WHY does Australia have to be one whole week behind the UK and the US?? Gahhh.
Lips in the Flesh? HOSHIIII….
NO! NOT SEXY!!
This. XD
They all look like Voldemort…
No, no RoryxGanger!Jenny. Do not want.
"Amy's a lucky girl."
"Yeeeeaaaah, she is."
XD GOOD FOR YOU, RORY!
What the HELL is up with Eye Patch???
Love the powers of diplomacy, Doc.
Why is it saying "all new episode on June 4" when the next episode is scheduled for May 28?
BBC America isn't showing a new episode next week because of Memorial Day. Which means we're going to be a week behind the UK.
Instead we get a marathon of all of season six up until this episode.
Oh right right right right right. Forgot completely. Thanks!
And now I'm wondering about how this will affect the liveblogging/reviewing schedule.
Yeeeeeeah. I'll totally be downloading the episode offline still. XD *REFUSES TO BE BEHIND!*
"Make a football team." And he'd do it too 🙂
The Gangers are gaining souls? Whut.
Oh, please don't do anything to ruin the Doctor's plan, lady. That never works out.
Too late for that.
You know, the Doctor was actually getting somewhere with these people – and Cleaves shows up to ruin everything.
"Oh that is so typically me."
One power-mad woman and everything becomes "Us vs. Them" Never mind that everyone was starting to get along just fine a mere two minutes ago…
IS THAT WHAT I THINK IT IS??? "Trust me…." HOLY SHIT.
I THINK IT IS!!! (ugh…)
IT IS OH GODS.
To tell the truth, I expected this from the moment he stuck his hand in it. Because OF COURSE HE WOULD.
Ganger!Doctor. Massive case of DNW right there.
DDDD:
AHHH – CREEPY GANGER!JENNIFER ON THE CEILING!!!
"We're fighting ourselves?" Mmm… yeah, pretty much.
GANGER!DOCTOR?? WHUT??
Doctor vs Doctor? Can't wait two weeks for that.
There better be loads of Rory the Roman backstory next week. I mean, that's the direction this is going, right? Right? <i Look this is all I want in life right now, Moff. Please discuss this. i>
Boo I fail at italics.
It's:
< i > italics < /i >
…but without the spaces. 😛
Thanks. I forgot the extra "> <"
So going into this, I guessed that it would be a two-parter, just because we've had two one-parters in a row now, so we were kind of due for a punch to the face. But I still was NOT prepared for the theme music when it started playing. I yelled at the screen and scared the cat that was napping in my lap.
I'm really looking forward to part two.
Two. Weeks. TWO WEEKS! That is faaaaaaaaaaaaar too long — I cannot wait!
It's going to air in the UK next week as usual; if you are able to use the BBC player or whatever it is that streams the episode, you can probably watch it there.
Rape jokes are never, ever welcome here. I'm deleting this.
I just want to say, this is an awesome policy. So many sites which allow language, sexual content etc just skip straight over rape jokes like they are no worse than anything else. Um, no.
Yes, I am in love with the policies at this site.
Of course. I apologise for my ignorance and lack of foresight, although I realise that doesn't make up for what I did.
I didn't like it all that much. And I couldn't hear half of what they were saying. The accents and the Doc talking too fast. Kind of boring too, except Ganger!Doctor.
Am I the only one who can't understand a word these people are saying? 🙁 ACCENTS, YOU HAS THEM.
I can understand them perfectly fine. It's only a northern accent. It's not that hard tbh
I have trouble understanding the accents, too, especially in this epsidoe. That is why I usually have to watch it several times before I catch it all. Closed captioning works great.
I tend to find that people from America find it hard to understand northern accents as opposed to British people who can understand them fine. Not sure really why…
Though maybe I'm generalising too much, I don't even know if you two are from America and the other person isn't 🙂
Northern accents are not much on USian TV, while London and Queen's English-type accents are what basically everyone british we see on TV here has.
I don't have trouble with the northern – maybe because I have friends from yorkshire with *really* broad accents so I'm used to it – but I do have some trouble with the welsh ones on Torchwood >_>
Even Brits have trouble with Welsh sometimes – it can be nearly unintelligible depending on the speaker!
Accents: everybody has them.
It was really hard at the beginning, but it made more sense as the episode went on.
I was born and raised in the rural American south, but I've watched so much British television that I can understand most accents, but with some (mostly Northern and Welsh) I have to try a bit harder. It's a bit confusing to try to both understand them and follow along, though. But this is what re-watches are for!
I didn't have a problem with the accents so much, but they did seem to be speaking more softly than usual, or maybe the audio for the dialogue was dialed down. Either way, I did kind of want to watch this with captioning.
“I thought I was going to die.”
“Welcome to my world"
RORY YOU LEGEND.
I'll be honest, I didn't love this episode. :/
When is a dark corridor a good thing? WHEN ITS DOCTOR WHO TIME.
They look like cockroaches, don’t they.
They’re funny. Ah well, you’re dying. Too bad.
LIGHTS.
What? He’s alive? Clone?
WELL THAT’S NOT CREEPY AT ALL. [/sarcasm]
Lol… muse.
The doctor is really obsessing over the pregnancy, isn’t he?
Solar Tsunami. THAT’S AWESOME.
Lol way to take the only seat Amy.
Behold! A Cockeral!
HE HAS A SNOW GLOBE IN HIS POCKET. Cool.
The lighting so far is creepy!
Gnaw, kiss it better Amy <3
‘I’m telling you, when something runs towards you, its never a nice thing’
So the psychic paper repaired itself? Or it was only broken when he was lying about his maturity?
DOCTOR WHAT ARE YOU DOING? DON’T PUT YOUR HAND IN IT.
This Jennifer chick seems suspicious.
So, it’s basically the same concept as Avatar, cept with clones instead of smurf people?
Ugh, totally creepy.
Leader chick is a bitch.
So… where are they? Think I missed it.
“Amy, breathe.” “Yeah… um, thanks, I’ll try.” Lol wat?
You okay doctor? Gnaw, cute Amy and Rory
“A lot can go wrong in an hour.” YOU MEAN EVERY OTHER EPISODE, yeah?
“I thought I was going to die.” “Welcome to my world.” THANK YOU RORY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They’re all the gangers, aren’t they?
CREEPY SNAKE HEAD
DOCTOR WHY YOU FORGET RORY? 🙁 🙁
Lol their half forms look like they’ve been voldemortasized.
“I’m a great parker” SURE YOU AAAAAARE
EVERYTHING HE DOES MAKES ME WANT RORY. He’s such a sweetheart <3
“Trust me” Doctor Ganger approaching, yes?
“Amy’s a lucky girl.” “Yeeeeeaaah she is.” DAMN STRAIGHT RORY.
EYEPATCH LADY.
NEEEEEECK
Okay, I feel for these guys, this is WEIRD.
NO RORY YOU WILL GET KILLED. AGAIN.
BAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Volde-Doctor
Eh… that was okay. Weird, but okay. Doctor's Wife was much more awesome.
Lol their half forms look like they’ve been voldemortasized.
I KNOW. And then ganger!Jennifer is all "I'll take care of the spare one" lololol
Lol way to take the only seat Amy.
I found it funny because in the DW Confidential for last week's episode, Karen was annoyed that Matt was using the chair in the old Tardis for the part where gravity was turned off, because her and Arthur were on the floor, which is apparently sort of painful to be on like that, because it's crate like. She found it unfair. So, for her to be the one going for the chair, made me laugh. Payback. haha.
This seems a LOT like The Hungry Earth…and I was, um, not-so-fond of that two-parter. Least favorite episodes of series 5, I think. *sighs*
Yeah, I thought that too. I think I like this more than The Hungry Earth, though. This episode, at least, was more engaging.
I agree, but I like it more than the Hungry Earth. Plus, we're being set up for Ganger Doctor which should be amusing, if nothing else.
Rewatching this, it's clear that the Doctor has his own agenda here. He deliberately sonics the vat twice and clearly knows something about what's going on. One mark for the theory that the Doctor was listening in when River Amy and Rory were talking in Episode One and just might be making himself a duplicate to do the dying thing for him.
I agree with this. I think the Doctor went to that island to make a duplicate. And we saw the duplicate die in the first episode. It all fits.
And he was trying to get rid of Amy and Rory before the storm hit the tardis.
Makes aweful sense, even if its painfully pragmatic of him. (And the Ganger would know that he was just a sheep up for slaughter and…well, moral implications are rife.)
I dunno… that seems waaaaaaaay too easy
I don't think Eleven knew that he would die when he made the Ganger. I do think, though, that Ganger!Doctor will find out about the Doctor's death and decide to be the one to die — after 200 years of enjoying life, though.
That would definitely explain where the hell the TARDIS was!
I would think the Ganger would only be a superficial replication. I don't think it could replicate Time Lord DNA and go through regeneration, as the Doctor we saw get shot on the beach clearly did. I was totally down with the idea of the Ganger getting shot, but whether or not it can BECOME a Time Lord is veering me ever so slightly away from the idea.
Does it make me a bad person if I paused the episode about ten minutes from the end and never really cared enough to finish it?
Yes but no problem your ganger can watch it for you.
Real life true facts: I have a best friend who looks just about enough like me that we can be mistaken for each other at a distance. We also have the same shoe/clothes size.
And we call each other dopplegangers.
OH SHI–
I used to have a doppelgänger at school. She was a year younger than me and I never spoke to her but we looked SO alike. Different hair but pretty much the same face. It was really awkward when we passed in a corridor, because we'd look all suspiciously at each other. 😛
Okay, I JUST clicked onto why Rory is so sympathetic about Jennifer and the rest of them feeling 'real' but not being the real one.
D'oh.
Slow tonight am I.
Don't feel bad, it took me until I read this comment to get it!
*facepalm*
Whew. I could have easily have not realized this until next week.
Now I can pretend I knew all along. Thanks!
Oh hello I totally didn't twig to that.
Oh yeah. And that sneezing is totally suspicious as well 😀
Nothing on Doctor Who is innocant or can be ignored – that's a FACT, therefore I'm calling it 🙂
The sneezing thing MEANS SOMETHING.
I think the sneezing is a way to tell the real people apart from the gangers or something…either way, its a Chekov's Gun.
OH MY GOD IT'S THE NESTENE
This episode was great, you're gonna love it. I hope it's not long until it airs where you are.
Doctor Who Theme Song played on Two Tesla Coils:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKHnSNwFBrc
XD
Aliens are already duplicating the technology http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdrqdW4Miao&fe…
Oh, I saw a version of that video with Adam Savage from Mythbusters in the metal box. It was awesome!
Starting next week, BBC America will be one week behind BBC Doctor Who.
I sense a disturbance in the
forceLiveblog.I was completely shocked when that turned out to be true!
OMG! I finally have internet again so I can watch Doctor Who!
What's going on?
I wish I could turn lights on just by saying "Lights".
That's why you don't shove people, even playfully. Especially when working.
Huh, what?
*hugs the opening credits on the astral plane because she missed it so much*
They're playing darts on the Tardis? Awesome.
Another red plaid shirt! Amy, I'm taking you shopping!
That doesn't look good.
Pipes that say "Danger" are never good.
I'm with Rory. Run away, not towards.
Doctor, don't touch things. Touching things always leads to troubles.
I'm so confused, that I'm finding it difficult to liveblog. I just… what?
Oh no… there's acid by the Tardis… is the Tardis melting? Or sinking?
I'm with Rory. Owwww.
Oh, Rory. I want to hug you.
That wasn't creepy at all… *twitch*
You be nice to Rory! Both of you.
What? I'm confused.
Oh Amy. Love your dedication, but do be careful.
I think the Doctor should start handcuffing Amy and Rory together. Can't get separated from your buddy if you're handcuffed together.
Poor Tardis.
Oh Doctor! Be careful!
I don't like creepy faced things.
I just want to hug you Rory.
(on a side note, I loved it on Saturday when everyone else was tweeting "End of the World this, End of the world That" Arthur tweeted "Going to see my nan." It was so cute.)
What is going on with that eye patch lady. I just… why?
That's a very lovely jacket, Amy. Just sayin'.
Okay, now Amy, Rory, stick together. Got it?!
I don't know why I am so annoyed with Amy wearing plaid. Well, it's not the plaid itself. It's the constant of the red/pink plaid. I have a favourite colour, too, but I've not bought all my shirts in that colour. Especially not the same style in the same colour. I need to take Amy shopping for some new clothes.
Rory! Stop running off, damn you!
DO! NOT! WANT! I'll keep the pretty faced Doctor, thank you very much!
Crap. Now I need a Tardis so I can skip ahead to Saturday. It's going to be a long week, full of creep faces haunting my dreams.
Just trying to work out how to post pictures…don't mind this post. 😛
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That is why the internet exists. I live in the states, but my cable provider doesn't have BBC America, so I have to watch it online. And I usually end up watching a version from BBC (I didn't know until I read through the liveblogs that BBC America had a stupid intro). This is where I get my links from.
Oh, I know. I've got my own sources for episodes, but I still find the schedule annoying. They're airing a marathon of all the other episodes on Memorial Day, so clearly they expect someone to be watching Doctor Who… why not just air the new episode after all the others?
That is rather ridiculous of them.
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