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!
FUUUUUUCK. I don't know how else it could have happened but… LYING TO AMY IS BAD. Any Amy.
Oh God, I'm crying so hard.
Cannot stop sniffling oh my heart
oh my creys
oh my poor heart
it's breaking on the floor
AND YOU END IT THERE? ARGHHH
WTF WHAT IS THIS NEXT EPISODE????
Episode concluding thought: One of the better episodes, carried solely on the weight of Karen Gilliam's acting. She is amazing.
How weird am I that the sight of Weeping Angels cheers me up after that?
OMG THE INTERFACE WAS UMBRIDGE
Karen Gillan is an amazing actor and nothing you say will convince me otherwise.
Also, Doctor: Dickmove, but I understand why he did it.
Yeeeeah. I knew this was going to end badly as soon as the Doctor said both Amys could be in the TARDIS. Remember the LAST paradox we saw? When the Master used the TARDIS to sustain the "Toclafane" humans being on Earth at the same time as current humans? That looked awful, and that was a comparatively smaller paradox than having two different versions of the same person inside the TARDIS. Pretty sure if they'd let old!Amy in the TARDIS might have exploded.
(On a side note, my friend and I were theorizing that perhaps a paradox of this nature is what caused the TARDIS to explode back in 'The Pandorica opens'. Remember that we STILL haven't actually had that explained.)
Also, anyone who says Karen Gillan can't act CAN PLEASE STFU NOW. THANK YOU. GOOD NIGHT.
Reading the liveblog comments and for some reason I feel like i've been shouting loudly. I only just realized that I havent been because my roommate hasn't noticed.
Not my favorite episode, but still better liked than both Night Terrors and Let's Kill Hitler, even if both this and Night Terrors were boring episodes, in my opinion.
oh god, I just starting crying again when I thought I was done
the episode is over
stop it, self
Okay, I understand why he did it, but please tell me I'm not the only one who wants to punch the Doctor in his nose.
I believe I have cried out every drop of liquid in my body. CHEESE AND RICE. GAH.
You are not the only one who wants to punch the Doctor in the nose. He totally deserves it after this episode.
I think he had to do it, but it doesn't make it hurt any less.
Between this and T&B, I think I have cried all the tears in the world. Ohgod.
I should stop going back through these comments. They're making me tear up again.
Why Doctor Who? Why do you do this to me? Does Moffat use fans' tears to fuel his timey wimey plots or something? Tell me your reasoning for making me weep like a baby.
Ok. Well at least I know why Amy’s theme sounded like someone dying. I kid I kid, BUT SERIOUSLY. TOM MCRAE AS NEXT HEAD WRITER OF WHO.LIKE NOW. Ok,but where to start? I mean from the get go I was uber excited to see this episode, I mean the title alone is really squee-inducing right? And after sitting here trying to think about how I feel about this episode there’s only one thing that comes to mind. It went there. And sometimes that’s the best place to be:)
Soley because of this episode I can now say that I think Moffat’s era is just as good as RTD’s era. Also re-watching Doomsday yesterday(whyyyyyy) made that scene with the TARDIS wall even more sad :,( And now…I’m going to go sob in a corner…again
I have only one comment–
RORY IS WEARING GLASSES AGAIN!!!! SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
alwayswearglassesrawryalwayswearglassesrawryalwayswearglassesrawryalwayswearglassesrawry
GAAAAAAH
I keep getting da spoils for the next episode. =(
Never has 45 minutes of television left me so effing gutted.
I need a canyon for my creys.
19 MINUTES!
YOU ARE NOT PREPARED
You are so not prepared you are standing on a cliff of Not Prepareds and about to leap off. For reals.
HAHAHAHAHA.
You are not even prepared for not being prepared.
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TWITTER. OMG. TWITTER.
oh god what is going on
WHAT THE FUCK A WEEK. WHAT THE FUCK.
oh my god A NEW INTRO!!!1 I KIND OF LOVE IT.
I so did not notice that! Bad Fan!
What's the new intro? We didn't get that!
There's a voiceover from Amy that explains who she is, and who the Doctor is. It's kind of like the Battlestar Galactica intro, but not words.
That intro's BBCA specific, it's been around for awhile.
We get that Amy Intro in Australia too, when it airs on the ABC (which has nothing to do with the American ABC). So, I'm guessing it's the BBC who is attaching it to the front for international broadcasts maybe.
It also sort of annoys me.
I hate that intro. It's like they think we're dumb Americans and need things explained to us each week.
Ugh agreed, I hate that intro too :/
oh well i am lost.
oh my god WHAT THE HELL WOULD YOU CHOOSE.
hahaha oh my god i miss fast-talky Doctor so much
GLASSES ARE COOL.
YES THEY ARE
HELLO HANDSOME MAN. oh my god rory with nerd glasses NEVER TAKE THEM OFF.
oh my god this is SO STRANGE.
oh my god NO THANK YOU TO SECONDARY DELIVERY SYSTEM. NO THANK YOU
WHAT IS THAT CAGE I AM CONFUSED
oh my god. the commercial with the Fifth Doctor and Martha just came on. SO PERFECT.
I do not know of this commercial, but I must be made aware of it.
They're both in Law & Order UK.
Ah, okay. That makes more sense. XD
oh this is fucking GORGEOUS.
I WANT A GARDEN LIKE THAT
whoa WHAT. WHAT JUST HAPPENED. Deadly high fives!
what the holy fuck is that
WHAT THE FUCK. WHAT THE FUCK. WHAT THE HOLY FUCK
36 years. no. oh my god. when will the sobbing stop.
NEVER
I'm pretty sure I have never cried as much watching Dr. Who as I did this episode…
It's been hours since I watched it and I still feel like doing so.
THERE ARE NOT ENOUGH SAD GIFS IN THE WORLD
I don't think I even have a gif sad enough to express my feelings on this episode, so I'll probably not even try in my review on Monday.
Maybe if we had Appa, Iroh, the Doctor, Hagrid, and an innocent bunny all crying together…
Add in Hurley and you've got the perfect storm of Guaranteed to Make arctic_hare Cry When They Cry.
HDM spoilers: Nygreangviryl, vs n tvs rkvfgrq bs Yrr naq Urfgre qlvat, GUNG jbhyq or cbffvoyl gur hygvzngr fnq tvs.
HDU POST THAT. HDU.
I'M SORRY
IT WAS THE SADDEST THING I COULD THINK OF
I care that we didn't grow old together.
yeah, never going to stop crying.
Is it just me or did the Rory-Robot make anyone else think of the companion-cube from Portal?
oh my god it has a face. it's rory. it's rory. i am never going to heal from this episode.
i am just so heartbroken. everyone. this is so hard to watch.
oh my god amy laughed. just put me out of my misery.
almost probably
oh i just cannot handle this at all.
goddamn eDiets commercial. WHY ARE YOU TWICE AS LOUD AS EVERYTHING ELSE. shut up shut up SHUT UP.
AUDITORY RELIEF IS IN SIGHT. The Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation Act (AKA the CALM Act), which Obama signed last December, requires that commercials air at a volume no louder than the programs in which they appear. The FCC is supposed to start enforcing it this December. THANK GOD.
Apparently it was the only act in years which got nearly an unanimous vote on. There are some things, no matter your political orientation, that annoys the Hell out of you.
I know! Even anti-regulation conservatives are Pro Not Hitting the Mute Button. I wish we agreed on more things than laziness.
My household presses Mute whenever commercials come on. Doesn't everyone?
the worst choice of everything ever. oh my god.
no, i'm not crying. no. not at all. there's just a bit of lint or a tree or a whole forest. nope. no crying.
now when I think of you crying I see a giant forest springing from your face. NOT CREEPY AT ALL (you could be a new DW monster, though!)
I'd take that as a compliment, personally. "OMG, I'M THE NEW DOCTOR WHO MONSTER! LOOK, THERE'S THE DOCTOR DEFEATING ME!"
haha I would too! I would be proud to have just my left shoe appear in a Doctor Who episode :') Although, I would NOT want to see someone's face splitting open to reveal a whole forest spilling out. New nightmare fuel
oh my fucking god. rory bot.
THERE'S A KARAOKE BAR.
HAHAHA QUANTUM PHYSICS.
MACARENA. DEAD. DEAD.
OH MY GOD HOLY AWKWARD.
ugh the music. i love it.
DOCTORS AND NURSES.
I don't normally enjoy slo-mo, but this is so spectacular.
For most of this episode I was a blubbering damn mess of a person. I'm a grown woman, damn it!
Me too. It's okay. Go with it.
This isn't going to end well. I sort of just realized this. Ugh.
Oh, Mark… never prepared…
what. omg what. WHAT WHAT. WHAT ARE YOU DOING DOCTOR.
DONE. I AM DONE.
YEAH. Doctor Who has never made me cry so hard. holy shit.
I seriously just wanted to curl up in a ball and cry and cry afterwards. Also during. And then hide under a blanket or something.
I actually went and made myself tea because I needed it after that emotional wringer.
Tell me about it. I was actually pretty proud of how well i was holding up until that death scene. So emotionally powerful.
Just goes to prove, Twitter shall be the downfall of us all.
Just…my god. My god. What an unbelievable episode.
I THINK WE ALL NEED A GROUP HUG
Y/Y?
Oh Y.
We need to find older Amy and give her hugs and cookies while we're at it.
You have reached the valley beneath the cliff of Not Prepareds. Welcome. The uncontrollable sobbing is scheduled for every three minutes, followed by hot tea for all.
As it turns out, the Cliff of Not Prepared was carved over the ages by a constant flow of tears.
too true. too true.
Which somehow managed to carve out the message "HELLO SWEETIE"
I'm about to watch it. *sqqqquuuuueeeeee*
DOLORES UMBRIDGE WAS THE VOICE OF THE INTERFACE I JUST SAW THE CREDITS.
I think it's a new Who tradition to just get anyone who was ever in HP films onto the show. TBH.
I'm watching the monster special, and could Paul F. Tompkins narrate every Doctor Who episode ever?
Yeah… I haven't cried that long during Doctor Who for a while. There were some tears during The Doctor's Wife, but this was like my eyes sprung a leak about 20 minutes in and wouldn't stop for the entire episode. When it was over I immediately remedied the situation with Four/Romana Happy Funtimes in Paris (AKA City of Death). Now I'm just slightly less of a puddle of sadness than I was before.
OK, maybe it's just me. But old Amy reminded me SO MUCH of 1985 Lorraine from Back to the Future that it was kind of ridiculous. SERIOUSLY. Apparently Karen Gillan in old-age makeup looks like Lea Thompson in old-age makeup!!
Also, the slow-mo part was a bit much, I honestly have to say. I was thinking in my head "Was this scene directed by Zack Snyder?"
Anyway, I liked this episode. So many cool and weird concepts and ideas crammed in, plus SADS :C
Karen did a great job acting, but I was a bit annoyed Rory never referenced his own waiting. Dear Amy: you waited 36 years, 3 months and 4 days? That's nice. You only need 1858 years more to match your husband, so maybe you shouldn't be so pissed off at him?
I did love the way she was angry with the Doctor, though. It was very similar to the angry Amy from "The Eleventh Hour", only this time her waiting was multiplied by three, so the intensity was adjusted accordingly.
I don't think Rory's really the kind of person to say something like that anyway (I still win the waiting wars, suck it up!) but to be fair, there were a few important differences between those two scenarios, most importantly the fact that Rory chose to wait that long, however much he was doing it out of guilt and wanting to protect Amy. Also there was a point to it, rather than it being some tragic accident of timey wimey stuff.
Plus, well, it's not like Amy was having a grand old time during that either, as she was kind've dead. And locked in a box. Do you get a crick in your neck if you're dead? And that was kind've sort've Rory's fault (poor Rory). The only one who got out of that situation easy was the Doctor, but then he promptly got shot by a Dalek and non-existed, so, well, bad day for everyone.
And being an Auton, he didn't really have the stress of trying to physically survive on his mind; as well as knowing from the very beginning exactly how long he would have to wait. Amy had hope that her boys would be coming for her at any moment, and had to let that hope die over four decades.
Wow, you said I thought quite succinctly whilst I was typing out my ridiculously overlong comment… derp.
Yeah, ditto to the above comments! Rory waiting is not the same as Amy waiting.
Also, time was rewritten, so this Rory never really experienced all that. He said that those ~2000 years were something he remembered but had to specifically "tap into" rather than being part of his regular conscious memory. That's not the same as Amy living through 36 years of – as she calls it – Hell. Furthermore, Plastic!Rory knew he only had to wait until the end of the universe (rather less than 2000 years) whereas Amy was waiting indefinitely, with little hope and no imminent rescue.
I like to think that Rory is considerate enough not to compare Amy's situation to his sort of similar half-remembered situation, but if it had been done tactfully it would have been the most amazing scene and I would have cried forever.
Amy-being-abandoned-by-the-Doctor-to-wait is kind of her beserk button, though. When she was a kid, waiting, everyone thought she was crazy with the Raggedy Doctor obsession so she started to imagine she might be crazy, too. Then it happens again, and for 36 years, in a hostile environment which is essentially solitary confinement–I'm surprised Old!Amy was as stable and coherant as she WAS. That kind of mental/emotional strength just to cope with the basics of her situation is super-human, so Amy's earned her right to be pissed to the nth degree at the Doctor, at the very least.
Seriously, this. Most people would've been entirely out of their minds by that point. Solitary does nasty nasty things, but solitary in an environment where the only things moving are unfeeling robots that want to murder you (with kindness!) and the only one you can talk to is an equally unfeeling machine that will happily give you information on anything…except how to get out? Yikes. Amy is a total badass for simply being remotely coherent after all that time.
I agree, although now that I think back on the episode, I am a little surprised that, while Amy was apparently able to get the Interface to teach her all kinds of things (including the ability to reprogram/disarm those robots) she… was never able to make the Interface, you know, understand that she was an alien and didn't need that medicine? It seems like given the degree of influence she has with the Interface she might have been able to stop the robots pursuing her altogether. Solitary would still have been awful, but surely not as awful if she weren't constantly fighting for her life.
I love that Young!Amy's blouse becomes Old!Amy's headband/helmet pad.
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Also, this needs to be addressed:
"…sometimes knowing your own future enables you to change it, especially if you're bloody-minded, contradictory and completely unpredictable."
CAN WE TALK ABOUT THIS? HE IS NOT TALKING ABOUT JUST AMY RIGHT THEN, IS HE?
Oh yes, I sat up a bit at that line too, I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE, DOCTOR.
Granted, at this point he might be thinking pleasepleaseplease as regards his own situation rather than having any kind of a plan, but still.
YEAH I'M EXCITED.
I think my stream must have phased out there, because I did not remember that line! Oh, Doctor, what do you have up your sleeve?
I think I found the gif to represent the final, overall feeling after watching this episode:
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Or was it just me that felt exactly like that?
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Yes, that gif is very appropriate 🙂
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OH. YES. THAT IS VERY APPROPRIATE.
Awh, it didn't work *has never posted a gif before and that probably explains why it didn't work*
Try <*img src="image url here"*> but remove the asterisks. And insert the proper URL, of course.
crying forever. Doctor you utter, uttter . . . argh!
That was so fucking sad, I was legit crying towards the end.
I feel so conflicted. I hate the things the Doctor does sometimes but love them because I find that side of him so fascinating.
Couldn't watch until this morning because I had to go to a bachelorette party last night. how dare they schedule that on doctor who night!
All I can say right now…Amy and Rory, quit breaking my heart. So many tears. 🙁
Oh my God, you guys, that ending gave me so many ~*EMOTIONS*~.
HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO DO MY LAUNDRY WHEN I WANT TO CRY?
That… wow, what an amazing episode.
But can I just say that next week's episode looks like ALL OF THE MOST TERRIBLE THINGS EVER SLAMMED INTO ONE HOUR OF TELEVISION.
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