Oh, look at that title. Look at that title. Tonight is going to be the very best. ALLOW US TO LIVEBLOG DOCTOR WHOÂ AND FLAIL TOGETHER. No, seriously, the title alone excites me.
No, seriously, the title alone makes me excited. Oh god, I love Amy and Rory so much.
No spoilery images for me!
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.
The review for “The Girl Who Waited” will go up on Monday, and then I’ll continue watching Battlestar Galactica. I’m also rather excited because I now have cable in my new apartment, which means I get to watch it live on BBC America! THIS IS WEIRD, I DON’T UNDERSTAND THE THINGS I AM FEELING.
See y’all tonight!
'jetison the karaoke bar'
OH GOD SOMETHING WILL HAPPEN TO OLD!AMY
…wait there's a karaoke bar on the TARDIS?
'And jettisoned the karaoke bar'
Sexy might be able to maintain it, but somehow I don't think she would like it very much.
I can just hear Rory thinking: threesome
And then he starts worrying about cheating on his wife with his wife?
Forget Rory. Given that past Children in Need mini-episode, I could hear Amys thinking about it.
if this episode ends with future Amy conveniently dying, I'll be annoyed.
I really hope they can make multiple Amy's live and work.
Totally what I was gunning for too.
"It's not rocket science, it's just quantum physics"
ROFL the macarena? Oh Amy
Changing history through the power of dance.
dying at the macarena
the macarena is Rory and Amy's first kiss song. Glorious.
I love everything about them so much.
Well. This is not awkward at all.
Lol, awkward much?
… AWKWARD
Yeah, not happy.
'Go for the shins'
Love you so much Amy.
Lensflare makes stuff epic.
GO AMY! PWNING THE HANDBOTS!
Well it's clear River got her BAMFness from her mam.
IDK Amy never punched Hitler in the face.
(Personally I think River is got nothing but pure BAMF DNA from
bothall three of her parents.)Both parents, I think. Three if you count the TARDIS. Its just an epic family all together.
This.
AMY NOOOOOO
Future!Amy. Just. Fucking . GO.
Pffff, yeah, a painting, that'll work.
Future Amy why aren't you following.
…oh no…NO NO NO DOCTOR HOW COULD YOU?!
Ffffffffff, DOCTOR WHAT THE FUCK.
OH MY GOD DOCTOR NO WHY ARE YOU DOING THAT OPEN THE DOORS
what
Doctor? What?!!!!!!!
Wait. Ohmygod this is cruel.
Ohhh that's just nasty, Doctor.
WHAT THE F, DOCTOR?
Noooooooooooo! Don't do that! Don't kill future Amy!
no
Oh Eleventy, you can be such a bastard.
Oh god old!Amy and her hand on the window. Stop doing this to me.
I knew he would do this.
Rule Number 1: The Doctor lies.
Nope. Not crying. Not crying at all.
The Doctor is such a Slytherin.
Hey, hey, hey! I'm a Slytherin on Pottermore, we're not all meanie weenies, you know! 😛
Oh Rory and Amy, you are too good to be put in these situations.
Old!Amy going down with her head held high like the true BAMF she is.
this is the most horrible thing
tears forever
This is probably my favourite episode of season 6.5 so far.
Agreed. I didn't think they'd beat the 'Doctor's Wife' but this was pretty amazing.
I just want the Ponds to be happy. Is that so hard?
So it seems. 🙁 🙁 🙁
Oh god I love this episode
Hogwarts stairs! More creepy puppets!
CLOWNS AND ANGELS? ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME???
OH GOD PUPPETS ASWELL??? D===
Creepy nursery rhymes!
Well next week looks like a creepy one.
BOOOYAH, WEEPING ANGELS NEXT WEEK. PARTY TIME.
On an related note, I'm crying. Old! Amy made me cry.
Wow, that episode was AWESOME!
Excellent episode. That was amazing.
OH MY GOD.
My father had BBCA turned off and DID NOT SEE FIT TO INFORM ME OF IT HALF A WEEK AGO.
I have to wait until someone puts it on the internet.
What.
D: I HAVE ALL THE TEARS.
Try BBCiplayer? If you're in England…I'm not sure if it works anywhere else.
Yeah, I'm in America, so….
D:
WHY WOULD HE DO THIS TO YOU?
I HAVE NO IDEA.
Try searching tumblr or checking here later and you should find downloads or streams depending on what you prefer.
Thank you!
Interesting peacoat there Amy.
*watched Confidential* Karen doesn't know how to swim or drive? Weird.
The swimming is odd, the driving not so much. I only finally passed my test this year at 27.
Admittedly I did start learning at 17 and took a few cracks at the test before saying SCREW YOU DVLA and giving it a break for 8 years…
I can't drive at all. I live in a fairly good place for commuting so I've never felt the need to bother.
I've only really bitten the bullet and done it so I can go back to uni and in case I need to taxi my mum to any hospital appointments where she gets sedated and can't drive herself.
Why don't we have Trek transporters yet?
The UK is so gloriously densely populated, that public transport is actually a fully viable, lifelong travel-mode choice. Lots of Brits are in the same seat as Karen, and I wish North America could be as cavalier about being unable to drive.
She's the same age as me and I can't drive. Can only swim because I taught myself to at 18… and then I haven't been for about 3 years now so last time I went I was actually clinging to the side and barely able to do half a length :$ I seem to have forgotten how to tread water as well.
For a country which is such a small island we have pretty crap swimming programmes in most of our schools.
How does Karen Gillan manage to make a racing helmet the sexiest accessory ever?
Oh God Confidential, look at Karen's little alarmed out of her skull face!
Hallo, fellow watchers <3
I didn't liveblog today because I was on a sort of date! With a Very Nice Boy! He's very sweet and we sat in a café for two hours without moving, just talking, and he bought me a milkshake, so next time I will buy something for him, and we went back to mine and watched strange youtube videos for hours and talked and had fun~ I'm very excited about this, so I felt the need to share, sorry for babbling 😀
I adored this episode, I thought it was crisp and timed, excellently pulled off and beautifully acted as well as looking gorgeous. Will be one I'd love to rewatch again and again and again :3 I'll retire to dreams of rainbows and puppy-dogs and Very Nice Boys and over-excitable happiness now, I hope y'all had great days as well!
Awww. Important question first though: Does he like Who?
:O I shall have to ask! I'm seeing him again Monday, I will report back.
If he doesn't like it already, MAKE HIM LIKE IT
Ooooh, hope things continue to go well with the Very Nice Boy!
Thank you very much~ 😀
I was having such a good time I didn't even notice I'd missed Doctor Who. This was pretty much how I measured it.
Anyone else feel like "the Doctor will rise higher than ever before and then fall so much further" hasn't actually happened at all yet? I thought this way back at the end of "A Good Man Goes to War" as well, disarming an army in 2 minutes or whatever is impressive but hardly "rising higher than ever before" for the Doctor and finding out your best friends child has been kidnapped, being sad about it for 20 seconds before finding out it's all ok after all and running off to save the day isn't really his "darkest day" either. I feel like Rory in this episode has had a glimpse of what a "darkest day" will really entail for the Doctor.
My god. I don't think I've ever gotten this emotional over a Doctor Who episode.
The only other episode I can remember feeling this emotional over was Father's Day. That one just puts me in tears.
I think the only one that's made me cry more is Vincent and the Doctor.
OH GOD I JUST FINISHED WATCHING IT ALL THE TEARS AKSDJF;ALJKSDF;ASJDFL;ASJDF;LASJDFL;AJ
(I still don't get why they couldn't wait for Amy to come out of the TARDIS before they went into the room or why they didn't tell Amy to press the green button or why she didn't ask??? I WOULD HAVE BE SPARED ALL THE TEARS! And Old!Amy's hair must be magical because she has no gray hair at all)
I loved it, I really did.
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Upvote for Simon, if I could, another upvote for Buzzcocks.
When he quit Buzzcocks I was ruined. I watched some of the guest hosts, but it just wasn't the same.
I'm not finished with the episode yet but this bit of dialogue:
"You're asking me to defy time itself for a boy?"
"You're Amy. He's Rory. Yes I am."
MY HEART!
For those who say Karen can't act I don't know what show you're watching.
ROOOOORYYYYY, you should know by now, you always specify which button to press!
Yeah, but you live out your life IN A WHITE BOX, with NOTHING TO DO. Doctor, that isn't very appealing.
NERD GLASSES! Damn those hipsters for stealing nerd glasses!
"This isn't fair! You're turning me into you." ;____________________________;
This abandoned factory was where the filmed the Starship UK stuff last season, I think.
OOOOOO, garden is pretty.
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HAAA, someone got married in that garden statue type place on Don't Tell The Bride.
OHMAHGAWD, Old!Amy.
Though they should have given her grey hair. Maybe the power of the ginge was great enough that it was able to hold out.
And now she hates the Doctor D: But who could blame her after everything that's happend.
I'm also really liking the BG music in this episode.
"I care that we didn't grow old together."
"Don't touch me."
MY CREYS
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"I've forgotten how much you loved me."
"If you love me. Don't let me in. I don't wanna die."
"I'm giving you my days." "I'm so sorry."
"Show me Earth. Show me home."
I haven't cried like this since the Christmas episode.
I want a Rory. Why can't I have a Rory.
I'm going to be alone forever.
All of the tears. ALL OF THE TEARS.
THE ROBOT'S NAME IS ROOOORRRRRYYYYYYYYYYY. GUH.
I just love how socially awkward Old!Amy is, I guess when you spend 36 years with killer robots as your only company it's bound to happen.
YAY! Rory is the damsel in distress and Amy is saving his ass!
Though I do find this Choose The Amy You Want To Save business a bit… wonky?
I am going to avoid tumblr until Doctor Who airs on BBC America by distracting myself with BACK-TO-BACK SEASON 2 EPISODES OF BSG ON BBC AMERICA, WOO!
OH MY GOD NEXT WEEKS!!
THE WEEPING ANGELS! DOLLS/PUPPETS!
Hairy-beast thing??
BRING IT!
Finally! They call the Doctor out on some of his reckless endangerment bullshit.
"Rory's the most beautiful man I've ever met."
"I'm going to pull time apart for you!"
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Oh! I just noticed the giant nose drawn on the Robot Rory, HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.
Ok, now that she's making him promise to take her as well, Old!Amy is definitely going down in a heroic sacrifice.
First kiss while doing the Macarena? Oh, the romance.
My heart has been broken into a million pieces and nothing is beautiful and everything hurts.
(this episode was amazing.)
I HAVE THE MOST OUT THERE THEORY IN ALL OF THEORYDOM afsfsfsfs. Actually it's a theory I discarded and this episode has now resurrected it. Guess I'm going to theories abound on Monday!
Do you know whats even more disturbing about Amy's 36 years alone, she said very early in the episode that she hadn't felt the need to eat for a week. We never see her eat in her hideout or any food anywhere in the complex so maybe she didn't eat (or sleep possibly?) for 36 years even just for the sensation. 🙁
So, a million times better than Let's Kill Hitler and an improvement on Night Terrors!
And that dark look from the Doctor at the end was interesting.
NEXT WEEK looks interesting too! I wonder if it's something along the lines of each person has a room in this hotel that holds their personal deepest, darkest fear. In which case, FUCKING TERRIFYING.
I like this doctor. He’s the youngest to date but sometimes he looks so old. He plays it young but he’s an old man and he’s lived though some hard decisions and it’s affected him. And it’s why he needs companions, to pull him back from the ledge sometimes.
He’s not evil, he just not a god and people expect him to be. This is where the damage comes from, people expecting him to be more than he is.
Also forget every other companion ever, Amy & Rory are the be all and end all <3
I'M SO EXCITED ASLDJKFALSKFJ
Two thoughts:
1. OMG Fucking amazing.
2. All the awards for Karen Gillian.
Ten minutes for me!
Guys, I have new Internet service! No more Hughesnet! No more 200MB a day limit! I CAN WATCH YOUTUBE VIDS! I could STREAM this ep if I needed to! I AM SO HAPPY.
None of this makes me prepared for Doctor Who, I'm sure.
WOO I FINALLY GET TO BE HERE FOR A LIVEBLOG
LET'S ROCK~
Liveblog time!
So excite!
A planet full of Starbucks? Oh God, no.
A planet full of Starbucks?
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I can't tell you what I'm thinking right now.
Very sleek, iPod-esqe set-up. Also, damn, Karen Gillan looks lovely.
Awesome stuff looks awesome….
Oh, Doctor, you KNOW Sexy is going to take you where you NEED to be, not where you WANT TO be! 😀
WTF magnifying mirror?
Wow you could fry giant ants with that thing!
"Time's gone wobbly!"
HOLY- HUMAN-SIZED TURRETS FROM PORTAL!
Nah, if they were the turrets they would be both much kinder ("I don't blame you") and kill you by filling you with bullets, not needles.
Only just finished the opener and already interested as hell? Doctor Who, you've done it again.
Poor Amy, becoming a damsel in distress. A badass one mind you, but still.
a magnifying glass should not be this creepy….:(
WHAT THE FUCK TIME IS ALL WONKY
"like SatNav"
Lulz.
WHAT IS THIS?
No! Doctor don't put her on her own.
Awww, best leaving message ever.
"Rory, I love you."
Is this the first time we've heard her actually SAY it?
Nope, she said it in The Big Bang, and in Let's Kill Hitler. And I think in Night Terrors as well?
Yeah, she says it all the time, mostly since her revelation moment in Amy's Choice
Rory in glasses again. <3333