Oh. Oh, just wait for the pure joy that is going to be tonight’s episode of Doctor Who. I CANNOT WAIT. Let us all celebrate the livebloggy goodness of this show together!
Like Fringe last night, a wedding is preventing me from actually watching this particular episode of Doctor Who live, but I’ll be there in spirit with y’all. Do this episode right, will you?
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.
oh god i cannot wait to watch this OH GOD OH GOD
Awww everyone needs a snooze now
How does he know it's tomorrow?
You are breaking my heart DW…
HE CALLED IT BITEY. Awwwww.
rofl "Come Along Bitey"
Bitey is the greatest name for a thing with big teeth.
Maybe he keeps the blue paper in his pockets. That's why the new coat is here.
lol eleventy you put them to sleep with your angst
Awwww blue paper on the note.
Awww Craig going after him, with the babeh.
That tunnel has got to be super awkward for Cyberman to crawl through.
Do you think it's maybe a trap?
It's the Mondas cybermen!
NONONONONO
NUUUUU NOT CRAIG NOOOOO!
OH NO CRAIG
Please don't let Craig die. Please.
Craig! NO!
Well this is depressing…
ACK stock baby crying noises.
The alternative is getting the baby to actually cry, of course.
True, it's just stupidly distracting and I should really let it go.
Well as long as you find a colic-y one, you don't have to wait long…
Apparently they usually just splash water on them to make them cry.
CYBERCRAIG
DO NOT WANT
GO CRAIG!
ASPLODING HEADS!
ROFL Awwww
The Doctor is like, the best houseguest ever
Can we have more episodes of these three? PLEASE?
*flail* THE ENVELOPES!
THE STETSON OMG okay now I kind of hate River for killing it.
The Stetson. ;_;
Why is she knocking on her own door?
she forgot her keys
ALL PLUS ONES
I do wonder why there doesn't appear to be a doorbell. It must be hell with the post – they'd have to keep going down to the sorting office to pick up packages because it's unlikely they'd hear the doorknocking from upstairs. Blatantly.
Or is that just me?
Probably, I've lived in loads of houses without doorbells! Besides, they tend to leave the red card half the time without even bothering to knock now anyway.
Our doorbell stopped working ten years ago and we've never bothered to get it fixed. We manage OK.
AHAH "Doctor"
oh my god the envelopes
THE STETSON
my heart ;_;
ROFL "Doctor" oh Alfie
WHAT…HAI RIVER!
I REALLY LIKED HIS HAT
AAAAAAH KOVARIAN!
SILENCE
THERE'S A SILENCE BEHIND HER
SHIIIIIIT SILENCE "Your owners" WHUUUUTOMGAAAH Poor River
AHHHHH I KNEW THE SILENCE WEREN'T GONE
my brain oh my god my braaaain
NUUUUUUUUUUUUOMGAAAAAAAAH
Oh River *wibble*
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUU
It's so weird seeing a frightened River. I'm scared now.
Ohnoes
OH MY GOD NEXT WEEK
Well next week looks suitably bonkers
Someone HAS to make a remote controlled Bitey
Matt's glasses. MATT'S GLASSES.
I need to upvote this a million more times. Glasses = sexy.
OH GOD
WHAT THE SHIT
NOT PREPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARED
Auntie Mabel and Stormarmageddon ticked me every time they appeared on screen
You may be interested to know that there is already a facebook page for Stormageddon, Dark Lord of All
I love this fandom.
EVERYONE BEING ADORABLE ON CONFIDENTIAL!!!!!!
So Bitey and Stormageddon companions for series 7?
There a SEVEN different babies? HOW did I not notice?
Oh god this Confidential is going to kill me cuteness. BABEHS EVERYWHERE, PEOPLE BEING CUTE WITH BABEHS!
*hitting F5 every five minutes on the online-streaming website to see if the nice British pirates have done their sneaky work, yet*
OH GOD MARK. Your adverts are advertising Hotel Chocolat and I was just thinking I should go to the kitchen and get the chocolate I bought there the other day. WHAT IS GOING ON? Psychic webpage?
Recording is in and the episode is starting. 🙂
This is the bit where I say I'm fine.
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I speak baby. 🙂 Call back. 😀
Retail heeeeell.
Customers who just toss clothes on the fitting room floors like that — WORST MONSTERS IN THE UNIVERSE.
AH MAI GAWD DAT EPISODE
Wow, the awkwardness of the Doctor trying to be normal is more painful that I'd''ve thought it would be.
Okay, I've finally found myself a working link. Let's get Whovian.
FUCK YEAH CYBERMAN.
Okay so Karen and Arthur are still in the opening credits, so they HAVE to be coming back soon, right?
Mannequins!
RUN RANDOM RED-SHIRT! RUN!
Oh, God, the Doctor is so adorable.
"You've redecorated!"
"…it's a new house!"
A BABY!
Awww, they had a wittle baby. Try not to kill him, Doctor.
….interesting. Karen Gillian and Arthur Darvil still get top billing in the episode. Are they going to show up later? Or is this to CONFUSE ME?
I laugh every time the Doctor speaks baby. It is a delight to behold.
Not Mum, Not Mum and Peasants, why isn't there more of this?!?!
Matt Smith is so brilliant with children. Maybe its because his Doctor is both an old man and little kid at the same time.
UGH I wanted to name my baby Stormageddon; Dark Lord of All, but now it's just going to look like I was copying Doctor Who.
I wanted mine to be Bitey.
They actually gave him that says "The Doctor"? Quick, everyone, check your local toy shop! The Doctor might work there!
You're in the Doctor Who universe, Craig, nothing is ridiculous.
Also, is it just me, or have they been making lots of Star Trek references?
I love Star Trek references
Thank god I'm not the only one who noticed!
"You always win. You always survive."
….er. Awkward.
You know, the Doctor and Craig would make a cute couple. But they're not. That's okay; Who continues its support of LBGTQ!
Cybermat? Isn't that what the Doctor and his Ganger talked about in "The Almost People"? DID THEY KNOW?
….I think I need to go rewatch that episode now. Totally didn't pick up on that.
Oh. Oh.
Amy. Rory. ….autograph?
Sonic= Sound!
But very rarely does screwdriver= driving screws.
Does anyone else get the feeling the Doctor very nearly broke the fourth wall when he said "Probably not."? I can't tell if the glance was to the side or at the camera.
THAT CHILD. OH MY GOD.
ALFIE FOR NEXT COMPANION Y/Y ?
"I know, its not his fault he doesn't have mammary glands. No, neither do I."
That line slightly annoyed me, because if she was breastfeeding she wouldn't just be able to go away for a weekend like that with a baby that young. Minor detail though!
Bottled breast milk?
I assumed that's what she was numbering in the fridge.
Yeah, you can express, but that's not always that easy and you'd need a relatively big supply for a whole weekend, and also she'd basically have to express all weekend to keep *her* supply up, which would be annoying as hell and play havoc with your hormones, and unless you regularly give bottles it's hard to know in advance how much the baby will take, and… it's just unlikely that a breastfeeding mum would leave her baby for a whole weekend before a year or so unless it was something massively important. I said I was being pedantic!
I'm going to join you in being pedantic and ask why (besides making it convenient for the plot to progress) did Craig have to go to the store to buy milk? I don't think that baby is old enough to be drinking cow's milk. It could always be for Craig himself, but who leaves in the middle of an alien investigation to go get milk? The way he said it made it sound like he had to rush out and get it right away, like you would need to do for baby formula or something.
Because otherwise he wouldn't have milk for his tea and drinking tea is essential when trying to cope with an alien invasion.
ALL the upvotes
Haha, I love that that didn't even seem weird to me. I was just like, 'oh yeah, of course they need tea in the middle of this crisis, getting milk is the obvious priority here'.
So British.
Probably didn't factor in having the Doctor round and I guess the Doctor must be a huge tea drinking fiend, especially in a slightly stressful situation
Wanting breastmilk doesn't imply he's on it. He is a baby, after all.
They just need to get a Sontaran babysitter.
YOU DROPPED THE SCREWDRIVER?
Ahaaaa Doctor talking to himself! 😀
He talks to the TARDIS often enough, but actually talking to himself without being in the hearing of companions or others? Not something I recall seeing much of.
Need to get through a shielding of meta-static energy? There's an app for that.
(Also, good luck explaining the property damage to Sophie.)
LAMPS AND VEGETABLES. YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWN.
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NAMETAG.
This episode is officially a love-letter to everyone who has ever worked retail.
STOP TEASING US, DOCTOR. It might be tomorrow for you, but its a whole week for us.
So the plight of children and babies are the Doctor's kryptonite.
CRAIG IT'S ALWAYS BEEN YOU
BE STILL MY HEART
Random kind shoplady is really wonderful. She's probably dead by the end of the episode.
So….are Amy and Rory gonna swoop in and save the day?
But we still have ten minutes of an episode left…that's too long for the normal wrap up. What's going to happen?
This is exactly what I was thinking
Shop Lady is my favourite.
DOCTOR/TARDIS OTP.
I'D TRY THAT IN RED.
*tea-choke*
POOOOOOOOOOONDS.
omg wtf omg omg omg
NO DOCTOR WHY ARE YOU HIDING BEHIND A RACK STOP IT YOU'RE GOING TO MAKE ME SADFACE.