In the second episode of the sixth series of Doctor Who, there are: prison, tally marks, leaps, swimming pools, body bags, a dam, something in the corner of your eye, President Nixon, a spaceship, and virtually all of this makes little sense when you put it all together. Intrigued? Then it’s time for Mark to watch Doctor Who.
I don’t think I have ever been so frustratingly confused by an episode of television in a long time. Maybe ever.
I’m not sure I enjoyed “Day of the Moon†a terribly large amount, but that’s not really because it was a bad thing to watch, or that it was poorly written or acted. But this episode was never meant to satisfy much of anything at all that was introduced in “The Impossible Astronaut,†and, knowing I’m now on the exact same page as each one of you, it literally hurts when I think of how long I’ll have to wait to have most of my questions from the premiere answered, on top of all the new ones introduced here in the second episode.
I can’t imagine what goes through someone’s head when they decide to follow up that shocker of an opener, where we watch a future version of the Doctor get murdered, with an episode where we watch River, Rory, and Amy “die†in the cold open as well. Steven Moffat, my head cannot take much more brain-meltage. Thank you in advance.
As the trio of time travelers are all hunted down and Amy and Rory are collected and returned to the Doctor, I was absolutely lost as to where this episode was going. Why were they all covered in tally marks in Sharpie? Why were they all in different parts of the world? What happened to make Canton Delaware III suddenly turn on all of them? Did The Silence do something to him?
Perhaps the most frightening of all is the prison that is built for the Doctor, a set of jet black bricks that seal perfectly together by some unnamed technology, designed to prevent any particle from getting in or out through those walls. What had happened, I thought, that made them all turn on this group? Was it because Amy shot that little girl?
Do you notice that my review is comprised of a large bulk of questions so far? It’s not going to stop from here on out, FYI.
Thankfully, Canton reveals that he is not some brainwashed, evil entity when the door to the black prison is sealed, and the plan is made clear: The prison was built to keep everyone else out. After saving River from her fall by allowing her to jump directly into the TARDIS’S swimming pool (BLESS YOU FOR FINALLY USING IT, MOFFAT), the information FINALLY starts flowing to our desperate ears. The tally marks are the count of the number of The Silence each person saw, since they forget them the second they turn away. I love the suggestion presented here that’s so much creepier than seeing them: The Silence are everywhere. They have been here for a long, long time. (Note: Rory had the most markings, correct? Poor dude. Ugh.)
The vast majority of “Day of the Moon†runs with this point and it’s one of the tensest (and strangest) episodes the show has ever given us. As if the tally marks weren’t already a pretty unsettling point for the show to focus on, the Doctor introduces yet another small detail that will probably plague my nightmares in the near future. He implants each of the occupants in the TARDIS with a miniature device that records sound when it is activated by the touch of a finger. He instructs them to activate the device when they see The Silence and immediately begin describing them so that they can start to attempt to identify what they look like.
Even on just that point alone, the Silence are one of the more unique creatures I’ve come across on a sci-fi show. Obviously, we know what these monsters look like, but because of the nature of their defense mechanism, no matter how many times they look at them, the characters will never remember a single detail about what they look like. That is so…frustrating and frightening! And I think a great deal of the reason why I wasn’t leaping with joy throughout “Day of the Moon†isn’t because this is not a brilliant slab of writing–for the most part, it truly is–but because the situation DRIVES ME UP A WALL. It’s an endless cycle of terror that IS CONSTANTLY FORGOTTEN. Brilliant, but honestly, it tests my patience.
You can even see the same sort of response in the Doctor, moreso than anyone else in this episode. He’s never faced an enemy that he can’t remember, that he doesn’t fully understand, that he cannot fight because he doesn’t even know when he last saw them. Now that is a really creepy thing to me, and Matt Smith deserves praise for the wonderful way he manages to convey this frustration amidst a lot of his goofy humor and his desperate need to save Amy.
The first example of this is in the scene in the TARDIS, just after he instructs his friends on how to record the Silence. Canton begins to awkwardly adjust the Doctor’s bow tie for no reason at all, and we realize that we, as the viewers, have also been tricked. What works so fantastically about this scene is that the way the scene is ordered, we never see the first time Canton spots the hologram of The Silence, because…well, we would have forgotten it. So we’re left completely off guard, since we probably all expected to see the recorders in use much later in the episode.
Moffat then adds ANOTHER LAYER OF CREEPY to The Silence by showing how they are able to use this weird perception filter as a form of post-hypnotic suggestion. During the moment that the brainwaves are being affected by The Silence, the Doctor tells Canton to turn around and straighten his bow tie, and once Canton does, he obeys the Doctor to a T without the slightest thought.
Yeah, who else understood The Silence EVEN LESS at this point?
As they all split up to investigate further into the world to find out more about The Silence, Amy’s story takes a bizarre and unbelievable turn for the strange. The pregnancy line from the end of “The Impossible Astronaut†is explained away by Amy early on in this episode, as she says she was just “mistaken.†I thought that the pain The Silence seemed to inflict on people (like River in that tunnel below the ground in Florida) was the explanation for that, but…well, I can’t talk about that yet! I’m getting ahead of myself.
Amy decides to tag along with Canton as the Doctor, Rory, and River head to NASA to do some unnamed project at the time. The two of them are investigating children’s homes near the site at the end of “The Impossible Astronaut,†and it’s clear that they’ve got the right house when they step inside and messages are sprawled in red throughout the house (blood???) and on the body of the strange, strange man who cares for the place. There are no children here, as the place is empty and was closed down two years before. But the man who runs the place believes that it is still 1967 and, like many details in “Day of the Moon,†this is left unexplained.
That’s ok. Because this house hides the worst secret ever and is easily the most frightening encounter with the Silence. As Amy separates from Canton to do more exploring (WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT), she encounters a door that locks itself. In an instant, the recorder in her hand is blinking, and it advises her to do exactly what the messages on the wall say: Get out. Discovering that she’s covered in tally marks and that her message to herself says that she thinks “they†are sleeping, Amy looks up in horror to the ceiling to find it COVERED WITH THE SILENCE, ALL OF THEM SLEEPING.
NO. NO, THANK YOU. Also, are they descendents of bats?
From this point on, I don’t know how to describe, yet alone explain what happens here. I don’t know what the room is with the woman with the eyepatch, and why the door changes, or why THERE IS A PHOTO OF AMY HOLDING A SMALL CHILD AMONGST THE PHOTOS OF THE GIRL FROM THE ASTRONAUT SUIT. What? WHAT?!?!?!?!?!
I DON’T UNDERSTAND. HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE. I THOUGHT AMY WASN’T PREGNANT. AND OH GOD, THERE ARE CREATURES IN THE ROOM AND SO IS THE GIRL IN THE ASTRONAUT SUIT AND THEN IT CUTS AWAY AND FFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
I don’t understand this house. I don’t understand why it’s there, and why that man is there, and why he thinks it is 1967, and why he needs to protect the “child,†and why that girl is inside of the spacesuit, and WHAT THE BLOODY HELL IS GOING ON.
I do know this: I am so glad someone shot one of those things. Bless your heart, Canton Delaware III. You make me proud to be an American.
LET’S MOVE ON TO THE DOCTOR. Everyone, he broke into the Columbia. Seriously, the Doctor is my favorite thing of all time forever and ever until the end of forever. And he’s right, there always seems to be that extra part left over.
This episode also utilizes Richard Nixon in a refreshingly hilarious way, because as frustrating and tense as “Day of the Moon†is, it really, truly needs some humor. Also, does Nixon count as a companion now??? THAT IS PRETTY AWESOME.
Exactly what the Doctor was doing at NASA is largely unexplained at the time, as expected, and there’s no time for such details when Canton notifies the Doctor that Amy has gone missing. When they find her recorder, which has defaulted to a live feed, my mind wandered to “Silence in the Library†and “The Time of Angels†/ “Forest of the Dead,†where a disconnected, distant voice was used for emotional tension. Out of all of them, though, this one (almost) proves to be the most heartbreaking. We got hints of it in the series six premiere, but for the remainder of this episode, I was pleased that so much of the emotional turmoil focused on Rory, whose life has been altered so dramatically by the appearance of the Doctor, and not always in the most positive ways. (I’m reminded of Rory’s scolding of the Doctor in “The Vampires of Venice†here.) He’s lost Amy YET AGAIN, and Arthur Darvill seriously knocks it out of the park in his scenes in this episode. You can see that he is just plain exhausted from all of this traveling, that he is tired and irritated by how often his wife seems to go missing or get into trouble. But this episode introduces a second subplot about how Rory believes that Amy will never feel for him in the same way that she feels about the Doctor. It really is heartbreaking to watch, and I think the scene in which the Doctor asks Rory about the two thousand years he waited for Amy is Rory’s best, a great slab of character growth and depth for him, and it gives me hope that we’ll see more of him in the future.
“Day of the Moon†largely corroborates a bunch of theories about where The Silence appeared in series five, from Prisoner Zero’s warning, to the message in “The Vampires of Venice, to the ship in “The Lodger‖!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!–and I think it’s safe to say the other appearances in “The Eleventh Hour†and “The Pandorica Opens†are intended to be hints towards The Silence. But, of course, I have questions: What does the girl in the suit have to do with The Silence? Why was her suit designed like that? Why do The Silence need Amy to “bring the silence†into the world? Why her specifically?
The end of “Day of the Moon†completes the details of the plan the Doctor had started at NASA earlier and fulfills his statement about more happening in 1969 than people could remember, and while this is immensely satisfying, I knew once the Doctor activated that hacked message from the wounded Silent that this episode was going to ignore the larger questions. I don’t think we’ve seen a series-long mythology so openly and blatantly addressed like this, but I can’t imagine anything else that could span series six than the gigantic set of mysteries unlocked in this epic two-parter. The Doctor manages to neutralize The Silence by using their ability of post-hypnotic suggestion against them–“You should kill us on sight‖but they are not definitively gone by any means. They must return to hiding instead, and surely there’s no better creature that could hide in plain sight quite like The Silence, right?
Just to state it plainly here in the review: River Song is an eternal badass, and I cheered when she gunned down so many of The Silence without breaking a sweat. I like cheering. Cheering is cool. I don’t get to do it often.
As the characters return to their lives, “Day of the Moon†continues to deliver more shocking revelations: Canton Delaware III is gay. (ABOUT FUCKING TIME THERE WERE SOME QUEER CHARACTERS IN MOFFAT’S WHO.) The Doctor and River share a (somewhat?) passionate kiss, and it’s drenched in heartbreak. The Doctor is surprised by the kiss, since it’s the first he’s ever received from her, but River realizes that, because of the nature of their time traveling lives, it’s her last from him.
Crying a river right now, y’all.
Back in the TARDIS, Rory realizes that in an earlier scene, Amy’s call outs to the man she loved were actually about him, which was the first time in all of “Day of the Moon†that I felt any sort of relief. Because NO THANK YOU to Amy falling for the Doctor and leaving Rory. I WILL FIGHT TO AVENGE RORY’S BROKEN HEART. And by “fight†I mean “yell on the Internet into a void.†Still, Rory has a point: Why didn’t Amy tell him she thought she was pregnant? Amy tries to rationalize this as worry, since she didn’t know if the TARDIS would give the child “multiple time heads.†(Which….ok, the first place my brain went was that old serial “City of Death†with Romana as a clock for a head in that drawing that stranger drew. SORRY I COULDN’T HELP IT.) I’m just worried about Rory and Amy’s relationship if she can’t trust Rory as much as she trusts the Doctor. Don’t get me wrong. The Doctor seems incredibly trustworthy to me, but it’s just a strange dynamic.
The final two moments of this episode are…..fun. First, the Doctor runs a pregnancy scan on Amy, and there’s no definitive result. OF COURSE. But let’s just talk about that final scene, far away in New York City, where the mysterious girl from the suit walks into an alley and tells a homeless man she is dying.
“…but that’s okay, because it’s easy to fix.â€
And with those words, SHE BEGINS TO REGENERATE.
My head. I can’t. I JUST CAN’T. HOW IS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE. WHAT THE HELL.
And throughout all this, I recognize that there was a LOT of good writing in “Day of the Moon,” some new character seeds spread about to explore all four of these characters, and the mythology of series six laid out bare for all of us to ponder and dissect. I love that. I really do. My desire to see more Doctor Who is absolutely cemented at this point, but, on its own, it was hard to watch this episode and appreciate some of the finer elements. So, aside from a few rare moments, I didn’t feel utter joy at the concept. I think that, in the future, once I know all of the details of this series’ arc, I’ll be able to revisit “Day of the Moon” and laugh and giggle and appreciate the pure joy of watching Moffat tease us with so many clues.
But for right now, all my brain is doing is this: ;AKLDFJS :I ;ALKSDHDFHKLS IOU#&!(@#$ RHJ DFDF:KLHJ FDUH UY AD DFLJHS U DFUHSDF JLDSKHDFHJS
THOUGHTS
- I love when the Doctor tells Nixon to say “Hi†to David Frost. LOL. SPOILERS.
- We haven’t seen the Doctor taste something to determine more information about it in a long time! I wonder what TARDIS blue tastes like.
- AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH THE DOCTOR WATCHED THE MOON LANDING FOUR TIMES IN “Blink†AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
- Again, this episode utilizes so many places in America quite well. But aside from the few scenes with Amy and Rory out in the desert, this episode is visually a much, much darker outing than the first one. THEMATIC CLUE Y/Y/Y/Y/Y/Y/Y
- “What kind of Doctor are you???” “Archaeologist.”
- “Safe? No, of course you’re not safe. There’s about a billion other things out there just waiting to burn your whole world. But if you want to pretend you’re safe just so you can sleep at night… Okay. You’re safe. But you’re not really.â€
- MY MIND HURTS. I don’t understand any of this at all WHHHHHHHHHYYYYYYYYYYYYY
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH THE DOCTOR WATCHED THE MOON LANDING FOUR TIMES IN “Blink” AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH"
Did anyone else notice that at the end of Blink, Sally Sparrow runs a shop selling stationary, cards, invites and notebooks? I'll bet there are TARDIS blue versions of everything.
HAS NOT SEEN THIS EPISODE OR THE PREVIOUS ONE SO DON'T SPOIL ME
I just wanted to warn everyone that the newest issue of Doctor Who Magazine has a lovely spoiler on it.
I found out the hard way
… Neil Gaiman ruined it on facebook….. by posting the cover after he himself had been spoiled.
I'm finding it really hard to think about the theory that Amy's baby is the little girl, mainly because she's American, but also, why would she be in 1969? But then the pictures… I don't know. One thing I'm absolutely convinced of is that the baby is not River – for one thing she looks NOTHING LIKE Amy or Rory.
Theories abound
One thing I did wonder about the baby though was perhaps the doctor has to die (or "die") to save the baby. Which could also link to the theories about the baby simultaneously existing and not existing due to time travel and there being two possible Amys, one pregnant, one not. Would Amy sacrifice her unborn child to save the Doctor though? And how would Rory react to that? Possibly that is a step too far for Rory-torturing!
Completely irrelevant theories abound, also, spoilers from S5 E2
I'm just catching up on season 5 since I didn't watch it the last time around and it strikes me how much like River Liz 10 is in The Beast Below. Just the whole knowing-the-doctor's-future-self thing ie hinting that she's more than a throwaway character, although maybe she is) and her general demeanour and (this is probably insane) the fact when she greeted the doctor, she called him "You bad bad boy" – in The Impossible Astronaut, he greets River with "You bad bad girl" just before the slap. Unconscious/conscious similarity there? But, she even looks a little like River. I wondered whether she could be some descendant of hers. (Which would be a little creepy since the doctor is hinted at having slept with both :/)
But anyway yeah that theory is probably insane and/or stupid. Possibly I'm just a leeetle obsessed with River…
I don't think the Doctor slept with Liz 10, but he definitely slept with Elizabeth I, thus the throwaway line about her nickname (the virgin queen) not being right anymore. That was what the 'bad bad boy' line was about.
THEORIES ABOUND
My current pet theory is that in the warehouse scene, after Amy shoots the astronaut girl, the Feds/CIA/whatever burst in under hypnotic suggestion from the Silents. Our Heroes (minus the Doctor) are sent on the run, perhaps because of all the stolen NASA equipment. But wait—the Doctor can use this! Under the guise of running away, Rory, Amy and River collect information about the Silents. This carries on for three months. Meanwhile, the Doctor pretends to be 'captured', while secretly giving Canton instructions on how to build an inescapable prison. But not for him; he wants it for the Silent he knows he'll need to obtain. He has three months to work out this plan, and I don't doubt that he could have come up with everything, including the moon landing gambit, in this time.
When Rory and the others are done collecting info, Canton goes out to collect them. The "Why don't you ask her?" line when Canton tosses down the photographs of Amy's arm hold a lot of significance if you assume that Canton is aware the whole time of what he's doing and what the Doctor's plotting.
As for the search at the orphanage for the girl, I think it's safe to say that the capture of a Silent was a secondary goal of the Doctor's all along. If his entire moon landing plan hinged on collecting that video data, he had to know he'd be able to speak to one at some point. The Doctor sets up the video feed, Canton injures and helps capture a Silent, and bam, they've got a ready-made prison to hold it in while they carry out the rest of their plot.
The show doesn't really allude as to how much the other agents knew about this plan, or whether they really believed they needed to capture the Doctor, or whether they were brainwashed, but it seems clear that Nixon never considered the Doctor an enemy. I still believe the other agents were at least somewhat convinced their mission to capture/kill the Doctor and his companions was real. Those are my main reasons for thinking it was an elaborate ruse. If you think about it, the Doctor's done exactly what the Silents do—he's used Area 51 and had them build him a nice, pretty cage. 🙂
I don't think they would be out finding information about them, it would be pretty useless right? they would always forget what they were saying to themselves and I'm sure the doctor would have figured this out. But maybe I'm wrong.
And why is the 'Why don't you ask her' line significant? Is it to show that Canton's got everyone and the plan can go forth? May have misunderstood sorry :s
About the creepy guy in the orphanage: I had a bit of fridge brilliance with this guy. The Silence live all up in that orphanage, right? So this guy is seeing them left and right. In fact, he sees them so often that HE LITERALLY HAS LOST 2+ YEARS OF MEMORY because he keeps stumbling onto them. That's… horrifying. Really, really horrifying. *Shuder*
Aughghghgh! That's good.. I hadn't read the wiki page, but I was thinking along those same lines. Gallifreyans are in the right time/place and get it through the "rite of passage" that is staring into the heart of the time vortex.
So, I think the baby is totally a "time lord" because of all the time energy that got mussed up in her while she was cooking. 😉
But if the kid is a Time Lord, wouldn't the Doctor have known that about her? Isn't he supposed to have ~Time Lord detection~powers?
I wish this would be resolved RIGHTNOW because I'm so confused it hurts.
I am very late to the party. Whatevs. I leave a comment for the lurkers to find anyway 🙂
This episode had me on the edge of my seat the whole time, and then left me there at the end. While I understand what you mean about it feeling unsatisfying, and I'm certainly not satisfied, I actually like that we're left with more questions than answers. The Silence are clearly the big series-arc, and I think their frightening qualities make them particularly suited to keep popping up and having an effect on the overall plot, without it seeming random and forced.
Okay, let's see. What are some ideas I have? JUST WARNING YOU, THERE ARE MANY AND THEY ARE A LITTLE JUMBLED:
-The tally markings on their bodies freak me the hell out. I really hate the idea of not knowing what's going on. When Amy looked into the window and suddenly she was covered in marks? baaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Can't handle.
-I'm not super confused about the man running the deserted orphanage. (My heart is breaking for this poor, broken man.) Or rather, I've got my theories/ideas, and they're working for me so far, so I'm assuming I'm right until I'm not. (Hahaha, which of course could be any time.)
It seems that the house is home base for the girl in the astronaut suit, and also possibly some kind of nursery for the Silence. Presumably the man is being used by the Silence to either care for the girl, or them, or both. And he's scared, but they're giving him instructions and then making him forget. I think the man has lost two years because he's constantly encountering the Silence, and forgetting, and through that he's forgetten enough time to think that it's still 1967. The writing I assume he's doing himself? The way I'm thinking about it is…we've seen how after one of our characters forget, they're disoriented for a short moment, like they know they've forgotten something and are trying to remember, and then they stop trying. I can imagine that if you were constantly forgetting, and trying to remember, and then forgetting, that "moment" of knowing something's not quite right might last longer, and he'd be scared and want to "get out". At the very least this explains his agitation and nervousness and jumpiness. Plus when he's got them in his sights he might be writing then, hoping that he'll see it and actually escape once he's forgotten them. I feel so awful for this guy.
-I LOVE BATS. BATS ARE NOT THAT CREEPY. THEY'RE CUTE.
BUT THE SILENCE ON THE CEILING IS JUST TERRIFYING. When we first saw them up there, through Amy's perspective, I knew it must be them, but I kind of couldn't tell what part of them I was looking at. Their faces were unrecognizable upside down in the dim lighting.
-Don't know what on earth is going on with the spacesuit. Are we supposed to have found out that the Silence made our whole space program/ moon landing happen because they needed one spacesuit that looked that particular way for this particular girl? WHATTTT???? Cannot comprehend.
-I LOVE RORY. I think it's sad that he's insecure, but I can also understand it. I think he knows very well that the Doctor is pretty awesome, and that Amy and the Doctor are very close. And so I think it's reasonable and realistic that he'd feel insecure. Although I hope that he is reassured.
-Okay. The baby. Initially, in ep 1 when Amy said she was pregnant, I was thinking, "oh no, not a pregnancy plot. Do not want."
But at this point, I'm just intrigued. What is going on? Too much and too disjointed for me to process at this time. Here goes.
1) Amy is pregnant. She shows some signs of pregnancy, but so does River. (ep 1)
2) Amy is not pregnant? Okay. False alarm! I was just sick cause I've been forgetting I'm terrified of terrible things all day, no biggie!
3) Amy finds a pic of her and a young toddler, amongst pics of Astronaut girl. Is Astronaut girl Amy's daughter?
4) Then Amy gets captured by the Silence and taken away to the sort-of-Tardis, similar to the one in the Lodger. She is told by the Silence that she will "Bring the silence" into the world…that sounds awfully like birth language to me. We didn't see much of her with the Silence here, the companions only hear it, and Amy can't remember it, because the Silence are there. But a significant amount of time has passed. Did they somehow impregnate her? Why do they need some kind of hybrid…to interact with humans in a new way? If so, is this the Astronaut girl? Can it be? Since Astronaut girl already exists when Amy is taken?
5) Alright, back on the Tardis, the scanner can't make up it's mind as to whether Amy is or is not pregnant. Schroedinger's baby? WHAT IS GOING ON?
a) Amy herself was worried about a "Time Head" baby being affected by the Tardis and time traveling. Could her unborn maybe-baby indeed have time-head and is therefore time traveling in and out of the womb, therefore the tardis monitor shows yes then no sometimes? Could be Rory's baby, just time-headed. Assuming Astro-Girl is this baby, somehow gone back in time (which would be possible, by this wacko theory), could maybe also explain regeneration? Part of time-headedness? Also, Any and Rory themselves having gone through the whole Pandorica/Big Band restart the universe thing could wreak funky things and lead to time-baby, maybe? (Found that idea in a comment by vikinhaw)
b) Another idea of course, is that it is the Doctor's baby–I don't like it. I think Moffat's just teasing us with that possibility. I think they truly are best friends and that's it and that's wonderful, and this one isn't goint to play out.
c) The Silence did impregnate her…how does this connect to Schroedinger's baby and regeneration? We don't actually know what type of creatures the Silence are. Do we know that Time Lords are the only aliens with regeneration capabilities? Maybe it's a Silence thing too. OR. They impregnate her, then option (a) happens because Amy is a Tardis traveler. OR. Similar effects to Tardis time-head, but with the sort-of-Tardis the Silence are apparently behind (in the Lodger and here). The room Amy was in when captured was inside the sort-of-Tardis, right? So perhaps being there/conceiving there led to some kind of Time-head for Schroedinger's baby effect. And again, assuming Astro-girl is this baby, it could also be involved in regeneration.
6) I've seen some people musing that Astro-girl is not Amy's maybe-baby, but could be River and the Doctor's child, thereby explaining the regeneration. Intriguing. And so far, I have not been able to wrap my mind around River's timeline/Doctor's timeline to my own satisfaction, so trying to think about this option too much isn't good for me.
-River and the Doctor's kiss was a nice break to get to be happy and cheer, until OH WAIT MORE HEARTBREAK. I still don't think their timelines can be literally opposite, but whatever, accepting that this is River's last kiss with the Doctor is too sad. I was a little luke-warm to them at first, but nope, now I love them and I just want them to be happy and instead we get all this sad tinging everything.
Well, that was huge. And really, especially being so late, more for the organization of my own thoughts than anything else.
I'm looking forward to a slightly lighter, fun Pirate Adventure. But I'm excited that it seems the Silence and the maybe-baby and the Astro-girl and the Doctor's death will be keeping us on our toes all season.
I don't see how their timelines can be literally opposite either. If that's the case the 2nd last time River saw the Doctor before she died would have to be with the Angels and Any, unless she met up with 11 sometime after he regenerated but before the 5th season started. HMM.
Orrrr Moffat could just be ignoring his own canon which wouldn't surprise me either.
Lol sorry if this was said 5000 times already. Sooo behind.
lurk, lurk. 😉
I agree with you about the Silence being well suited as recurring villains. You can have them appear (or not) in any episode, past or future, and since the characters forget them anyway, it doesn't need to be shown on screen until after the fact. Did that make sense? I know what I'm talking about anyway. 😛
Yes, I get what you mean, I think. I'm still impressed with the amount of planning ahead-how they were planted (and it was seen) last season. But also, yes. Moffat et al. can decide they needed to appear in some episode that they didn't appear in, and have us "flash back" to a scene we never actually saw, because it was forgotten! And it doesn't feel like cheating or a gimmick because it's so damn terrifying and confusing.
Conspiracy theorists would say that the US got the tech form the Roswell crash…
ETA: Why do I only see other replies ( for instance, ones that include Roswell) after I post mine? Sigh.
I'm incredibly late to this but I'm posting my thoughts anyways.
+Overall I liked this way better than part 1, much better dialogue too.
+Rory should wear more suits.
-I have really bad feelings about where the soap opera-y aspects of these episodes are going and ugh, I'm really not looking forward to seeing more of it.
+/-WTF River just kiss him every time you see him from now on PROBLEMS SOLVED.
+/-This season is so goth so far :/ It seems to be a trend in the RTD era where we have one happy season and one REALLY sad season. I don't know if Moffat is following this trend or not, but these episodes are not contained stories like last season, and just overall less fun despite a few light scenes. Personally I prefer the former when it comes to DW just cause this show doesn't really rely on some kind of internal logic and it makes trying to figure out mysteries a lot less fun. But hay I'd love to be proven wrong.
Post away fellow late comer!
Rory should wear so many suits! How dapper was he!?
I don't think River could just kiss him every time she saw him in her future though, if he was younger. He's creeped out enough by the fact she seems to know so much about him, if she suddenly started kissing him he'd be all WTF and push her away, most likely.
Although, still holding out hope for the singing towers scene <3
Well I wasn't being 100% serious because makeouts alone obviously won't resolve all of River's sadness about her relationship w the Doctor going backwards-though they don't hurt.
I disagree with your point though because the Doctor has shown he has no problems kissing people he barely knows.
There must be a Silent in my refrigerator, because I keep looking in there and forgetting what I saw.
Hahahaha, I do that all the time! I open it up and then realize I'm just standing there staring.
"Oh wait, Amy appears to be having a quantum pregnancy with Schrödinger's baby."
you are the best person ever.
I love the amount of community gifs you have.
I may steal.
Totally allowed because I stole them from others. Oops. haha. Love that show.
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Okay, so the gif of it above (or below depending on how you're reading the comments) made me remember a question I had:
WTF IS WITH THE LADY WITH THE EYE PATCH? So confusing.
I just had a bit of a Fridge Brilliance moment!
I'm sure everyone else worked this out ages ago, but I just realised – the messages to 'GET OUT' in the children's home were written by the guy working there. He kept seeing the Silence and leaving himself messages to escape the house, but forgetting afterwards!
I feel like such an idiot for not realising that at the time!
All I can say is that I watched this episode and then honest-to-Doctor had a nightmare where all it was was me doing mundane things and living my everyday life and then for approximately three seconds right at the end A RED LIGHT STARTED FLARING IN MY PALM and then I woke up.
;__;
why do you do this moffat why
Just saw the episode.
I'm torn between AAAAAAAAAAA-, DAMMIT MOFFAT, and OMGWTFBBQ.
I think I'll go with all three.
totally unrelated to Day of the Moon, but did anyone else notice that Funnybot (from South Park's latest episode) is actually a DALEK?!???
did matt and trey just give the Doctor a shout out? i think so! the plunger! the voice! EXTERMINATE!!!
"“Day of the Moon” continues to deliver more shocking revelations: Canton Delaware III is gay."
Didn't we already know this? I mean, I thought that's what was meant by his exchange with Amy last week, where he tells her he wanted to get married and she asks, "What, is that illegal?" and he goes "yes".
Interracial marriage used to be illegal in the States. I think that's the assumption the writers thought we would make. It's the assumption Nixon makes.
This episode has just aired in Australia.
My head hurts. I have no bloody idea what to think. I want to hug Rory. And that's all my mind can compute.
And now after reading some of these comments, I want Jack back too!
I NEVER THOUGHT OF THAT That is an interesting theory.
No Liveblog tonight for the Pirate Episode?
Well, not for us Brits, anyways. Oh, well. If it comes up before it airs elsewhere, we can rewatch on iPlayer and comment in near-real time.
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