Oh, Doctor Who, you make my Saturday nights so much fun! Join the Mark Watches community as we flail and shriek at the newest episode of Doctor Who, “The God Complex.”
I hope that for series seven, we aren’t given an experience where it’s split in half because I want thirteen episodes in a row. It’s weird that the season will be over in two weeks! Then lots of waiting! Then Christmas-y stuff! Then more waiting! Still, there’s plenty of time to enjoy what we have, so let’s all liveblog “The God Complex”!
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.
Review goes up Monday, BSG season two finale goes up Tuesday, and a prediction post for season three of BSG goes up on Wednesday. See you tonight!
SO EXCITED. omg.
My expected reaction to this episode:
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WOOO **party**
Unfortunately I can't watch until tomorrow evening, gotta wait for iTunes 🙁
Random thought: We should totally have a Mark Rewatches Series 6 post or discussion or something. Because this season is really going to need it by the end.
I was excited, but then I remembered that there's only two episodes left after this one D:
Still, LIVEBLOG PARTY, WOOO.
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And now, since it's 1am and I'll be up up at 7am for this, BED TIME. I am so hardcore, gotta get my 8 hours man.
That is horrifyingly disturbing and yet so hilarious at the same time. MY BRAIN.
O_O that gif…just…O_O
That gif is magical.
EDIT: Pun not intended.
HAAAAAAAA.
Best gif ever, or best gif ever?
Am I the only one who actually LIKES the split? I mean, instead of one looooooooong wait between the end of the series and the Christmas special, we only have two short ones, which are IMHO easier to bear. I like my Doctor Who more evenly spread out throughout the year…
NO I AM A DOCTOR WHO HOG GIVE IT TO ME ALL AT ONCE
OM NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM
I have an image in my head now of you gathering all the boxsets you can into your arms and trying to grab more.
But I agree, I prefer to have it all in one go rather than split across the year. I just don't like the short bursts when I'm used to the long ones. Heck the week off for the Eurovision is too much for me, kick ass mid series trailer or not. You expect more when DW comes back so you're only disappointed when it's on for a lot less than you'd thought. It feels like it just got back but it's already coming to a close.
There needs to be an episode that addresses Eurovision.
Bless you, Mark… 😀
If I give it to you ALL at once then your brain will explode and none of it will make sense. Let's take it one episode at a time, k?
I also like the episodes spread out. But a little grumpy that after the Christmas Special we will have to wait until Autumn 2012 for series 7 to begin.
we will have to wait until Autumn 2012 for series 7 to begin.
Autumn 2012 for series 7
AUTUMN 2012
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WHAT!?! God dammit I must've missed that announcement 🙁
No proper announcement as yet, just a lot of hints and fandom flailing.
They're filming the Christmas special now, but after that they won't start again until the spring, which obviously means no spring series. Best guess then, is autumn. There's a lot of speculation about how many we'll get then (with some vague and contradictory statements). Possibly, it'll be another 7/6 split with the last half airing in spring 2013, but the 2012 Christmas special rather confuses that, if it's still happening.
For definite, though, we're getting another 13-episode series, to start sometime in 2012. Exact details will follow nearer the time. Plus there are "big plans" for the 50th anniversary in 2013.
There have been no reasons given for the delay, but Moffat is very busy (although he has denied that Sherlock is the reason for the schedule change) and, probably more relevantly, they're changing a big chunk of the senior production team now and moving into the new BBC studios in Cardiff, so taking the time for that to go smoothly makes some sense. I also think they're moving Doctor Who fully into the autumn in time for the 50th Anniversary on November 23, 2013, which is a Saturday. That's just a guess on my part – but it makes me think that we'll get 13 episodes in 2012, just later in the year.
Of course this has been read as the series being cut or on the way to being cancelled or otherwise doomed – when there's nothing to suggest that's the case. But that's fandom for you…
Yeah, there's no reason to cancel Doctor Who when it is pulling in so much money. I mean, go to a convention and look at the Who booth and all that merchandise.
I know that Sherlock has also been pushed back to early 2012 instead of this fall like we were expecting– although given that BOTH of the main actors in that show are busy filming The Hobbit, I am not surprised. And at least we have the movie to give us some Sherlock Holmes before it airs. (Still. I need a resolution to that cliffhanger! Although I deeply suspect Moffat will give us an even worse one in S2.)
Random tidbit from the last episode:
Apparently there's a missing scene where, in the original version, when Rory, Amy, and old!Amy are all running for the TARDIS, one of the handbots gets their hand chopped off and then the hand starts crawling around on its own, a la Thing, to still try and get them. Moffat was all 'omg make sure that bit stays in!' because MOFFAT.
Y'ALL, I'M SO EXCITED!! For one night only I have BBC America and can watch Doctor Who in a completely legitimate way ON A TELEVISION!!
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What time does it start?
Where in the US do you live?
Wait, I suppose that doesn't matter. 9pm your time! Also, I just got cable 2-3 weeks ago and this is also the first time I've been able to watch Doctor Who live. IT'S WEIRD.
That is a long time away. :/ I might have to watch the Girl Who Waited to resist cheating.
Just gotta remember its on the TV! And the screen is so big!! And commercials! (whoa I'm excited about commercials)
So excited!!
ALSO, FRINGE NEXT WEEK AAAAHH!!!! <3 <3 <3
I am seriously sleep deprived and all I want to do is go to bed but I'm staying awake because I NEED TO SEE DOCTOR WHO.
I'm so excited about this episode, sounds exactly like my kind of thing. 😀 Can't liveblog with you, so have this while waiting:
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ROFL That's amazing, where's it from?
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Enjoy the caturdays as well 🙂
I just want that tiny yellow dalek, cutest thing I've ever seen.
One of the teachers at my boyfriend's school allegedly has a tiny dalek which he uses to patrol the corridors outside his classroom. He is AWESOME.
Run tortoise, run!
OH MY GOD THIS IS SO CUTE!!!
best. gif. ever.
2 more episodes!! No! MOAR DOCTOR WHO! Anywho, tonights episode looks SO GOOD that I just might be okay with possibly missing this liveblog(tragedy I know :,( ) On the other hand has anyone seen the title list for the rest of S6 on IMDB yet? Cuz river omg asdf jkl; asdf jkl;!!
Totally bright idea to paint the nails on my mouse hand right before the liveblog begins, oh well.
OMG 3 MINUTES!
EXCIIIITE. I've never liveblogged this before. 8D
The CGI for that Planet Dinosaur looks REALLY bad, even for a BBC show.
But whatevs because DOCTOR WHO!!!
OH BOY HERE WE GO~
SHIT GETS REAL IN 3…2..1…
A tape! And CCTV! And a corridor! The Shining, anyone? Not that I've seen it,but the long coridors thing seems similar.
I'm getting massive Shining vibes from this too.
Scooby Doo?
Ah pretty spiral staircase
Sinister opening is sinister.
If we were meant to believe that's a real gorilla, I'm unimpressed…
I don't think we are supposed to think that's a real gorilla…
Well then…this is confusing already.
I thought Lucy was Amy playing dress-up again.
"Beaky"? Awww poor Rory
Is the Doctor an Earth fetishist?
It's their greatest fears, isn't it? Baked-potato-men hate defeat
Sontaran! That's it.
'With regret, you're fired'
Oh my God is that the bloke from Little Britain?
YES. :D:D:D
"Gloy to insert name here" ROFL
…Glory to [insert name here]. Oh, that's beautiful. I like this episode already. Also, that guy looks exactly like Germaine from Flight of the Conchords.
David Walliams omg!
I totally thought he was a Who for a second there lol.
Hai random rubix cube!
OMG WHERE'S SEXY?!
(Arthur Darvill's hands appreciation blog, anyone? the most beautiful facepalm I've seen…)
oh god that dining room is freaky.
Okay I normally don't have a problem with puppets but this is creeping me out.
…O_o
O-kay… Shivers going down my spine. Those dummies are creepy as fuck.
SLAPPY WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING IN MY DOCTOR WHO
gb2 Goosebumps
Without even seeing the rest of the episode – gauranteed nightmares tonight, I know.
Wecanhas Matt Smith in his pants?
Aw. I <3 Conspiracy Nerds. Big time.
Was it the director of the Shining who had a thing for feet? Because there are also some feety-shots in this. I'm like the The Shining parallels, in any case, if I am right. Maybe if I watched The Shining, I'd see them more xD
Tarantino does, I dunno about Kubrick. But I haven't seen The Shining either 😀
FUUUUUU WEEPING ANGELS!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH
Asian medical person afraid of underachieving academically? Cliche much?
Cliche, but having gone through Asian schooling, one with a lot of basis in fact.
Monster looks a bit like the Gryphaes, however it was spelt.
am I going to be scared of chintz by the end of this episode or what
I mean that is a lot of chintz
'He's never let me down.' Oh dear Amy.
A degree in cheese-making? There is TARDIS cheese?
Don't you know? Blessed are the cheesemakers! 😉
Episode where Doctor saves the day with cheesemaking skills. Has to be done.
WAIT MORE IMPORTANT: TEA. IT'S HOW THE BRITISH DEAL WITH THINGS.
But who's watching on the CCTV?
…gargling tea is not the way to drink tea Doctor. :/
The Shining, combined with a boggart. 😀
…Worships. And praise him. The Gryphaes type thing is a mindfucky God thing. Aaalso, unwilling saying of things. Creepy. Like Midnight.
Oh Doctor. That just means LOADS of people are going to die.
"No one else dies today"…Team TARDIS are the only ones leaving aren't they?
Howie's cuuuuute.
He issss.
"It feeds on fear" THEY'RE BEING CHASED BY MOFFAT HIMSELF!
I want to thumbs-up this by, like… a thousand.
I wish this had actually been the twist.
"We're in a TV….controlled by one who feeds on fear."
Was he in Room Eleven?
Think of a basket of kittens<3
Mop Rory <33333
Roricus Moppicus. <3
And more feet shots!
That is the saddest looking clown I have ever seen.
Who is afraid of spas? O.o
oooo a minatour
it's been a while since we've a proper alien looking alien on Doctor Who. This ones quite cool.
What if the minotaur thingy isn't the monster?
Have they gone for a puppet rather than CGI? He looks more mechanical…
OLDEST SISTER DO NOT PAUSE WHILE I AM LIVEBLOGGING
No Amy! Don't look!!!
I wanna see the Doctor's room.
AMY NO DON'T GO IN! or do cause I want to know what your room is
Oh Howie. You will be missed. You were easily the most adorable.
Can Rita stay on as a companion, please?
O_O
Rory's leaving? And Amy? O_O
Title drop!
Ohhh title drop
Awww Doctor, are you about to send the Ponds home?
YES MAKE HER NEW COMPANION I LIKE HER
Nooo not the cool Muslim girl!!
FUUUUUUUUUU she's being taken
Of course it's Room 11
Ha. #11. How suiing.
CLOISTER BELL! AAAAAH! WHAT IS IIIIT?!
11!
Is the Doctor in his own room for him to be scared of?
I don't think there's anything in his room. I think he's most afraid of being alone. It's why he falls apart without companions, and always has one even though he feels so guilty about them. And the "Do Not Disturb" sign was part of it.
I didn't even think of that. Brilliant!
I think maybe the room showed the TARDIS broken and dying? I mean it had the TARDIS-in-distress sound when he opened it. So he would be alone AND unable to travel. D:
No! What is in the Doctor's and Amy's room?!
Oh Rita *wibbles*
I really did like the idea of her as a companion.=<
Blimey, Doctor tantrum, that's new.
But don't you remember? He could do SO! MUCH! MORE!!
*facepalm* How could I have forgotten? New for Eleven then?
Also it still unsettles me that the dead are being watched by the creepy puppets.
Amy has faith in the Doctor. What does Rory have faith in?
Nothing. It's why it showed him an exit, he doesn't have anything worth consuming.
That's… sad.
It really is… 🙁
But I think he has faith in Amy and the exit is symbolic of their future leaving of the Doctor?
That he looks really good in a centurion costume.
Oh man, I have faith in that too.
Himself.
I don't really like that development at all. Maybe Rory doesn't believe in God, fine. But even atheists believe in something. Rory might believe in Amy, or himself, or medicine, or science. If he believes in nothing, then he's not human.
I think it's more about blind faith than simply faith. Everyone believes in something, but not everyone believes in one thing blindly, the way Amy does/did with the Doctor. Rory probably believes in many things, but he doesn't have one strong faith that he would cling to when faced with his worst fear. What the Doctor said was that the alien replaces their faith to be worshiped by them. That's why only those who believe very strongly in one specific thing are the targets, replacing several smaller faiths would be a lot more complicated.
Oh okay it's not Moffat chasing them then.
Well shit, poor Amy. And Eleven, that knowledge had to hurt.
Wait it can't be just Amy cause the Doctor has a room too. He didn't see an exist sign.
But what was in Amy's room?
Rory has no faith in the Doctor. Which is sad. =< I mean, good for him for not dying, but-
Shit.
After last week I don't think I would either…
AMY REMEMBER THAT THE DOCTOR HASN'T FOUND MELODY. LOSE FAITH. HE FORGOT YOU. AND HE WAS LATE.
Oh. That's the room then.
AAAH AMELIA! omgno *cries*
theory from hubby: dead people being turned into puppets
Amy and Rory are so not in the next episode.
He's saving her, but this is heartbreaking. Oh, the sads. =<
no. It's Amy POND and Rory POND
Rory Pond and Amy Williams? Would that work for everybody?
THERE'S JUST STUFF IN MY EYES OKAY!
Yeah Amy Williams just doesn't work at all.