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!
LOL OMG THE DOCTOR COVERING HIS FACE
MATT SMITH YOU ARE TOO ADORABLE FOR WORDS
OMGs TEN'S GLASSES!!!! Only with a camera. BUT TEN'S GLASSES!!!!
"Rory-cam. Rescue Amy." XD XD
Return of the Brainy Specs!
Also, Doctor just called Rory "handsome". Bless.
Actually, I think he was calling himself handsome. Rory was looking at the Doctor with the specs, so the Doctor appeared on the screen behind Rory. He was looking at himself on the screen, calling himself handsome.
I think.
Either way, they both looked mighty fine in those specs.
Ah! That's possible. Either way, it is a cast full of handsome.
You don't know if it's safe or not? Doctor what are you doing?
So good so good so good
Roller Coaster Zone. My god, wants.
MY COMPARISON TO TURRETS IS GETTING MORE AND MORE APT.
O.O!!! Secondary delivery system is FRIGHTENING AS FUCK.
Woah, those robots are like human torrents. I'm worried now.
You guys this music is like blowing my mind by how good this is…
GUH. Glasses are VERY COOL. Oh, the pretty on this show. <3
"Do not be alarmed. This is a kindness." I AM ALARMED.
Man, the pacing in this episode is really nice. With Night Terrors, it was at the end of the episode before it felt like things started to pick up. Here, it's already getting exciting and dangerous and it's only 15 minutes in.
HOLODECKS
ROD SERLING WOULD BE PROUD
The atmosphere of this episode reminds me of The Macra Terror, but without the giant insects.
RUN AMY RUN
See Amy run
Is this a metaphor for something?
No! She should have picked the aquarium…
"Garden" is some Alice in Wonderland shit.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought this.
Far from, I made the same comment myself.
I WANT TO GO TO THAT GARDEN
Well, it has an aquarium, that's cool. I love aquariums…
THIS IS THE MOST AWESOME GARDEN EVER
IT'S LIKE OUT OF ALICE IN WONDERLAND OR SOME SHIT
<3 <3 <3
"Do not be alarmed, this is a kindness."
That just makes me more alarmed.
XD Lipstick? Amy's so resourceful.
Thanks, Moffat, I can't look at statues the same way ever again.
"Are they happy"?
RORY MY LOVE.
WHAT
AMY. OMGs. Where'd she find a katana?
"I waited for you."
Interesting role-reversal.
FOREVER AMAZING, AMY, I LOVE YOU
Rory waited longer; just saying, Amy, don't look so mad.
I think there's a difference though between voluntarily waiting 2000 years when you won't age and if you're careful not die and knowing the person you love will be there at the end and the Doctor'll be trying to fix everything, and being forced to wait 36 years growing old alone, a huge chunk of your life, constantly fighting and becoming convinced that the people you trusted are never coming for you.
Rory was pretty damn mad when Amy abandoned him for YEARS in the TARDIS. As psycicflower said, I think there's a difference between voluntarily waiting and being abandoned.
D: Amy… older Amy is scary….
BRB CRYING
AMY WITH A SWOOOOOOOOOOOOOORD
AND ELEVEN' SADFACE T_T
"I care that we didn't grow old together."
Oh, my heart.
"I don't care that you got old. I care that we didn't get old together."
<3.
How is Amy making all these things and knowing all these mechanical things? Interface? Can Interface teach her all of that?
DOCTOR YOU BETTER FIX THIS.
Can Amy have a sword all the time? Also she looks great. Fantastic makeup job.
Yes Amy, because a Sonic Probe is so different from a Sonic Screwdriver.
Obviously it is, because the Doctor has a sonic screwdriver, and she HATES the Doctor so she would never, ever have a sonic screwdriver. Obviously.
Ah, no. Trying to make a joke that didn't work so well.
Were not even halfway done with this 🙂 asdfjkl; asdfjkl;
What. What. What.
🙁
Also, where is my Rory? I want one.
What… what… did she… did she… OMGs AMY HAS A PET ROBOT AND SHE NAMED HIM RORY. LOLOLOLOLOLOL.
SHE DREW A FACE ON HIM. Oh, Amy…
Robo rory?lipstick?*sobs*
I APPROVE OF THE PUN
Also, she drew Rory's face on it. That is the best/worst thing ever. T_T
OMG they even did her hands. That is great attention to detail.
She can hardly even look at Rory. D: I am so sad.
"Anything beats a fez."
>> *totally isn't wearing a fez right now or anything*
Fezzes: they bring joy.
Will.not.cry.
Awkward romance. Poor Rory.
NOOOOO RORY!!!!!!
SHIT
SHIT SHIT SHIT
RORYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
"I need to borrow your brain a minute."
Doctor, that is not a comforting phrase.
"You told us to leave you a sign. She did. She waited."
Oh, my tears.
SO GOOD
The writing ;_;
This episode is gong to be heartbreaking, isn't it? ;_;
"Then I do not want to travel with you!"
O.O Oh, Rory. Understandable.
Angry!Rory is the best.
Rory doesn't want to travel with him? WHAT. The. FUCK.
Oh god, it's like they're in two different worlds like Will and Lyra ;_;
This episode, oh my god.
Upvote forever.
Also, tears.
"Three words: What about Rory?"
Well my heart is breaking.
I really want a robot!Rory. Like a lottttttttttt. They should start making those; they'd make so much money.
BIGGLES~
Also, Rory and bad haircuts seems to be a running theme.
So Amy, being a stubborn old bitch, stopped Rory and the Doctor from saving her… so… young Amy grows old and… grows up to hate the Doctor. Not her older self. Even though it's really her older self's fault. Because the Doctor and Rory COULD have gotten her out. But she stopped them.
…
Right.
That didn't happen in her past, because they never made contact with her.
But they did. She said she remembered it. She said she remembered standing there talking to her older self, and her older self refusing.
Let's not call her that word.
Gah, I'm sorry. I wasn't thinking. 🙁
Yeah, because not wanting to die…what a bitch.
"Rory's the most beautiful man I've ever met."
Me too, Amy. Me too.
So this music is fucking amazing.
Awwwh, the robot
Awww. Poor, neglected roboRory.
I LOVE THEM TOGETHER SO MUCH
TEARS RUNNING DOWN MY FACE FROM THAT CONVERSATION WITH THE TWO AMYS
Well, that was an awkward fade out.
Karen Gillan=BAFTA
AND THEN IT GOES INTO AMY'S THEME AND THERE'S THE RORYBOT AND I CAN'T SEE THE SCREEN ANYMORE
Amy Pond fucks with time and time likes it.
I'll take an Amy off your hands, Rory. Gladly.
"Two Amys, can that work?"
"I don't know, it's your marriage."
Love you too Doctor.
"Two Amys, together. Can that work?"
"I dunno, it's your marriage."
LOLOLOLOL.
(Yet, the Doctor does not look very confident….)
XDDDD Macarena what is this?
Macarena:)
TECHNOBABBLE AT LIGHTSPEED
MY EYES ARE CROSSING
… most important thought she's ever had, and she's doing the macarena. XD LOL.
Their first kiss was during the Macarena? Cutest couple ever.
I want to see this scene!!!
OMGs, he's talking to and about the TARDIS as if she's really his wife. XD HE CALLED HER DEAR.
This is so not going to work.
Well, that's rather bad.
DAMN IT ALL NO. NO NO.
there is no GIF to amazing enough to show how I feel
BADASS AMY SWORDING THINGS
BE STILL MY HEART
NOOOOOOOOOO YOU CAN'T CUT COMMERCIAL RIGHT THERE
GO RORY GO
Rory, did you just assault a Robot with the Mona Lisa?
And NO OLDER AMY NOOOOO
Don't be sad for the painting–the real Mona Lisa is tiny and painted on wood.
…which…might have actually done better damage than that big one printed on poster-paper…
…so, I don't know what the Apalapacians thought they had.
Ha, an art student friend of mine just came to town and unexpectedly knocked on my door about ten minutes before the end of the episode. He watched the end with me so I got the "the REAL Mona Lisa would have HURT" lecture first hand. 😀
Hahaha! This is always MY first thought too. Any time they show the Mona Lisa in TV or media (usually with some rich person being like 'haha I have the original!') it's shown as being a rather large painting, 18×24" or even bigger. But the real one's smaller than an 8×10/A4 size apparently.
I have a tiny hope that someday, someone will have done the research and present the "real" Mona Lisa in TV as being the appropriate size.
D: Doctor you jerk!
Can I randomly just say that I'm not a fan of these "The Best of…" shows. The ONLY reason is because, especially with "The Best of the Doctor," they're only focusing on Matt Smith's run as Eleven, Moffat's era. :/
Also, WTF Doctor. You asshole.
Oh, and the hand…
Rory smashing the robots with a picture frame. ^^.
nothing is beautiful and everything hurts
Roranicus Williams Pond. Raising the standard for all boyfriends ever.
I hate that the Doctor shoved the choice onto Rory. It was really unfair of him to do that and I am glad the Older!Amy helped him out with it. Eleven's face when he did it also got my foreshadowing senses tingling, is someone gonna have to chose a Doctor?
Unnatural aging seems to be a theme of this season: The Doctor grew a beard, Amy went through pregnancy without knowing it, Melody was raise by some creepy forgettable aliens and a man whos brain was toasted by said aliens, then she grew up again with her parents, and now Amy grew old in a creepy time hospital. Event the Christmas special had somebody with their growing up screwed up.
I have to disagree with you about the Doctor's actions. Honestly, I think he was justified but that's my opinion.
It is justified but that doesn't make it right.
Well I personally think he did the right thing but to each their own.
I think we're at a point where we've moved beyond the notion of there being one right and one wrong and more into a reeeeeally fucked up grey-area where every outcome is a little of both, so it's more like chosing the lesser of two evils.
Everything is beautiful and nothing hurts.