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Do your kiddos have unique names? If so what are they?
The name of our baby that we are expecting will be Raiden Parker if it is a boy or Rayden Parker if it is a girl. Same name just different spelling depending on the sex.
Our DS is Madden. I have not seen any Madden as the first name before. You probably know where it's from. It's Madden Louis (his grandpa's name) B...., his initial is "MLB" as of Major League Baseball. His dad is a sports freak.
Noi, proud Mommy to Madden 8/10/08 and Alexa 14/6/10
NOIWIPHA......my husband will be SO jealous when I tell him your kiddos name....very cute!
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My girls are Jade Mikaela, Juliette Annaleigh, and Jolynne Winter. Even though Jade is getting more popular, I'm happy that she is still the only one in her school. Juliette goes by Juliette and won't respond to Julie, or any other nn, so it's still kind of different. Jolynne goes by Joie (Joey), and we made up her name knowing we wanted the nn Joie. Originally she was going to be Josephine, but we changed our minds at the last minute.
I'm not preggo yet, but my next child will be Jett Beatrice for a girl or Jackson (Jax) Robert for a boy.
Jackie, mommy to four princesses and one little prince! (9-01, 2-04, 11-05, twins 11-12)
23 angels, missing them each.
School nurse- LOVE my job!
Jaclynn, Looks like we have similar taste! I love your girl's names. I love the name Juliet too, but couldn't convince my husband. We tossed around Joylynn (me and my twin sister's middle names), but couldn't convince him of that either.....MEN! Jayde and Jett will welcome either Jax Oliver or Journey Opal this June. We find out the gender this Monday.
:) Shawna�-Mama to�Jayde,�Jett,�Jorie, and Jentry. Our family of 6 is complete. I'm so blessed!
My daughters name is Nevaeh-Dashae (Nevaeh is heaven backwards and is just a lovely name when said.) Dashae was a name my hubby and i decided on purely made up. when we finally conceive with our second one!! if a boy his name will be Harzehl Shontayne and girl Zaniah-maisey
My DS name is Alexavier
I am expecting Boy#2 and still haven't decided on the name at the moment I like Maddox, Caleb, Isiah, Aiden and I just fell in love with Madden.
Our 18 month old son's name is Kai, and our next little one with be Poet Gaia Pearl if a girl and Wilder(short for wilderness) Pax if a boy.....
Poet another name I absolutly love, love, love had it on our list crossed it off because I thought it might be funny having a (husband) Joe, DD Zoey, and Poet too many oe's what do you think ?
Baby and Children's Holiday Discounts!
Many people give their children first names that begin with the same letter, so I would think that the name Poet would brilliantly accentuate your family members....


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- ITV Report
What causes sinkholes?
Live updates
London plan to address flooding risk
"Flooding is a very real threat for significant numbers of people in London and London needs a robust and sustainable response to address this now to avoid an even bigger problem in the future.
The plan contains some key measures which, if implemented in a timely way and correctly, will be of real benefit.
The net increase in London's green infrastructure will not only make London a better place to live but will also reduce the amount of rainwater entering the sewer system and hence reduce the risk of flooding."
London "at risk of major flooding"
The capital is "at risk of major flooding" unless something is done to support the over-capacity sewer system, according to a new report.
The new research supported by the Major of London, Thames Water, the Environment Agency and London Councils calls for the capital's public spaces to be transformed into green areas which will help absorb surface water after rainfall.
17% of permeable ground has been lost in London over the past 40 years as homeowners chose to cover their previously green lawns with concrete. This means that water which used to be absorbed is now directed towards sewers which are unable to cope with the strain.
Flood victim pays £70,000 to raise house
A man's spent tens of thousands of pounds raising his house 1.5 metres after it was flooded when the Thames burst its banks at Wraysbury. The Ivry family home was filled with water for almost two months from December 2013 to February 2014.
"We lived in a continuous anxiety with no time for work nor normal family life. Once flooded, we had to leave our home and since then live in a serviced apartment in Wraysbury Hall. We are determined not to have this experience ever again."
Structural engineers were brought in to work out how to lift the 50-tonne house with 30 hydraulic jacks, all synchronised by a computerised system. The project is finally finished, with the family planning to move back in sometime this month.
Canvey Island flood victims blame council
Rose and Bob Kitts have been flooded three times in the last year. They now say the council needs to take responsibility. They claim flood defences have previously been put in place - but have failed.
Campaign to improve Thames defences launched
Seven local authorities who were hit by February's flooding have joined together to ask for £265 million river defences from the Government.
Surrey, Richmond, Kingston, Windsor and Maidenhead, Elmbridge, Spelthorne and Runnymede councils have agreed to create a business case for the River Thames Scheme, to protect riverside homes and businesses by building a flood channel and improving three weirs.
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Around 24,000 properties at significant risk of flooding
An estimated 24,000 properties in London are at significant risk of flooding, a new report suggests.Read the full story ›
Road closures in Purley due to flooding
The A22 Godstone Road is closed in both directions due to flooding between A23 Banstead Road (Purley Cross) and Station Road (Kenley). It's also affecting Foxley Hill Road between A22 Godstone Road and Higher Drive / Olden Lane.
The council says the road may be able to be reopen on Wednesday 19 March.
Residents urge for Government to bid for flood aid
The government is being asked to bid for up to £400 million from a European fund to help parts of the South East hit by flooding this winter.
MEPs will use a debate in the European parliament later to call on the UK government to apply for flood aid.
Catherine Bearder, MEP for the South East, has started collecting signatures in a petition urging the government to bid, which has received over 1000 signatures already.
Satellite image shows surface water runoff after floods
The dark brown area shows the surface water runoff from the recent floods. It happens when the soil is so saturated excess water from rain flows over the land.
What an image - brown is runoff from floods "@iweathernews: Stunning satellite view of Britain note the runoff http://t.co/h7C1yNCUGQ"
Three-foot deep sinkhole appears in south London street
A sinkhole has appeared in a street in south London. The Sutton Guardian reports the hole is around three feet deep and swallowed the wheel of a car in Maldon Road in Wallington.
Sinkhole opens up in Wallington as a car drives over it - here's the hole http://t.co/Z1HRXJB2JV
Sinkholes are caused when the underlying rock is washed away - more exactly by the acid picked up by rain water as it passes through rotting vegetation.
That creates cavities underground which streams can flow through - the more water that flows the quicker the erosion.
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Elder Abuse Case Includes Involuntary Manslaughter
Palo Alto, CA (Law Firm Newswire) March 21, 2013 – In Sacramento, the operator of an elder-care facility is currently facing felony charges after the death of a resident.
The owner of Super Home Care, Silvia Cata, was arrested and charged with felony charges of elder abuse and involuntary manslaughter regarding the death of a woman in her care.
The resident, Georgia Holzmeister, was 88. She had dementia and received care at Super Home Care since 2007. She died from severe bedsores which resulted in sepsis, a toxic response to bacteria or germs. While bedsores can be difficult to avoid entirely, the emergency room doctor who treated her later told investigators that Holzmeister's bedsores were typed Stage 4, among the worst he had ever witnessed.
"This is believed to be the first time California's Department of Justice has filed manslaughter charges against an elder-care caregiver regarding resident care," stated Palo Alto elder law attorney Michael Gilfix.
California has rarely pursued criminal prosecution of elder care workers. Allegations of elder abuse and neglect are typically handled in civil court. Cata faces get as much as 12 years in prison if convicted. Two additional allegations are that the victim suffered "great bodily injury" and the abuse she suffered caused her death. An involuntary manslaughter conviction carries a maximum of four years. Cata is currently in the Sacramento County Jail, in lieu of $300,000 bail.
Cata, her spouse and her adult daughter were listed as Holzmeister's caregivers. Cata has been licensed in California to operate a residential elder care facility since 1996. Though she is licensed to care for as many as six individuals, she stated that she usually cares for two or three residents. Previously, Cata was cited by state licensing officials for dispensing over-the-counter medication without medical orders, poor record keeping, and caring for a resident who was found to need a higher level of skilled nursing care. Holzmeister's family paid between $2,000 and $2,800 monthly for her care.
Individuals who suspect elder abuse or neglect can speak with an elder law attorney to pursue any concerns. It is not necessary to have proof of neglect or abuse; anyone with any concern that there may be abuse is encouraged to file a complaint so that an investigation can begin.
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Attorneys Michael Gilfix and Mark R. Gilfix of Gilfix & La Poll Associates appeared as featured speakers at two sessions during the 2016 National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys Summit in Newport Beach, California, on January 28 and 29. Michael Gilfix is one of NAELA's original founding members. They addressed audiences of more than 100 […]
- How an IRA Trust can help avert disaster
By Attorney Elijah Keyes A father designated his son and daughter as the beneficiaries of his large retirement account. The daughter's husband was physically abusive and the couple had been considering divorce. The father was adamant that his son-in-law receive nothing from his estate. After a very healthy life, the daughter was diagnosed with stage […]
- Home Care and Financial Abuse
Over 8 million older Americans receive care at home or in facilities by strangers. Some caregivers are trained and managed by home health care agencies. Others are hired privately in an effort to save money. Privately hired caregivers may charge as little as $12 or $14 per hour. Caregivers hired through an agency may be […]
- Avoiding fights over inheritance with revocable living trusts
When parents pass away without clear instructions in place about how to divide their assets upon their death, they may leave family members battling over inheritance for years. Such fights can cause rifts that are sometimes impossible to heal. A will contains detailed instructions on how a person wants their assets, such as family heirlooms […]
- Women bear the brunt of costs for Alzheimer's care, says study
A study by Emory University researchers has found that women shoulder six times the cost of Alzheimer's disease care than men. The greater burden in expenses is mainly due to the informal care that women provide to family members who have the degenerative brain disorder. Researchers examined three factors to calculate Alzheimer's care costs using […]
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Transforming Higher Education:
Fostering Contemplative Inquiry, Community, and Social Action
The 8th Annual ACMHE Conference
Conference: October 7 – 9, 2016
Pre-Conference Retreat Day: October 7, 2016
Lincoln Campus Center and Student Union, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Community Sustainer Rate: $450 / Regular Rate: $395 / Reduced Rate: $295 / Student Rate: $50
Pre-Conference Retreat Day: Regular Rate: $75 / Student Rate: $15
Fees do NOT include meals or lodging. Learn more about lodging and dining. ACMHE members receive a $50 discount on registration fees for the main conference. Volunteer opportunities available.
The ACMHE conference is an annual interdisciplinary forum for sharing scholarship, practices, and research on contemplative methods in higher education, with an emphasis on fostering compassionate social change.
The 2016 ACMHE conference will explore questions such as:
- How do we develop the tools for inner and outer transformation? How do we foster an ability to be more alive, awake, mindful, and engaged with our inner struggles and global collective challenges?
- How are contemplative methods affecting how we teach, learn, and understand across and in our various disciplines?
- How are contemplative practices supporting and sustaining communities within and beyond academia that reflect compelling visions of a more just, peaceful, sustainable, and compassionate world?
- How can contemplative practices affect our understanding of systemic forces that shape institutions of higher education and of society at large?
The ACMHE conference schedule emphasizes concurrent sessions led by scholars, researchers, students, and practitioners that demonstrate and investigate how contemplative practices are being used in higher education to build more just and humane relationships and institutions. These sessions may take the form of research presentations, experiential workshops, contemplative practice sessions, performances, roundtable conversations, panel discussions, or other creative modes of sharing. The conference also features a poster session–a valuable opportunity to connect with colleagues across many disciplines, as well as plenary sessions, breakout groups, and other social settings for interpersonal exchange.
Keynote Address:
Ecowomanist Wisdom: Engaging Earth Justice and Contemplative Pedagogies For Such a Time As This
Melanie L. Harris, Associate Professor of Religion, Texas Christian University
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Guidelines for Proposals
Faculty, staff, students, researchers, and administrators from all sectors of academia are encouraged to submit proposals for parallel sessions, posters, or both. Presenters must be ACMHE members, or must join the ACMHE before the conference date. We seek presenters who model contemplative pedagogy and method in their sessions, and we are particularly interested in proposals emphasizing the specific context in which their work is situated (e.g., academic disciplines, contemplative modes, social identities and demographics, institutional history and location, etc.).
How should I design my parallel session?
We encourage those presenting all types of parallel sessions (interactive, practice, or panel) to model their session(s) on their own practice, modes of teaching, or styles of engagement with faculty, staff, and students. Projectors and other tech/AV equipment will only be available in half of the conference breakout rooms. We invite presenters to employ a variety of teaching and learning practices. Alternatives to fully PowerPoint-dependent presentations are encouraged.
What is the poster session like? Is tech/AV available?
Poster sessions occur simultaneously in a large, shared space. Though tech/AV are not available for poster sessions, past poster presenters have included small, brief interactive elements and handouts in addition to dialogue with attendees to create an engaging experience.
Session Types
60-Minute Interactive Sessions allow opportunities for presenters to share research and methodologies in ways that engage the session participants and model contemplative modes of inquiry. They may feature one or more lead presenters incorporating a variety of interactive methods (dialogue, guided discussion, etc.), and we encourage alternatives to lecture-style presenting. Interactive sessions may also take the form of a roundtable discussion in which the organizer proposes a concept, approach, or issue, and participants are invited to share in an open inquiry. Audio-visual equipment, including digital projector and screen, may be requested.
60-Minute Practice Sessions focus on particular practices and invite participants to experience them as designed or adapted for educational settings, allowing time for discussion. We encourage a full variety of practices from stillness to movement, silence to sound, interpersonal to intrapersonal, etc.
75-Minute Panel Sessions, moderated and organized by a lead presenter, invite multiple panelists to present brief, focused perspectives on a topic and allow time for extended discussion. Audio-visual equipment, including digital projector and screen, may be requested.
Poster Presentations offer an opportunity to speak informally with a large number of colleagues and display some aspects of your work visually on a poster. Each poster presenter will be supplied with an easel and a 3′x4′ poster board. Posters are presented simultaneously in a one-hour session. No audio-visual equipment is available for Poster Presentations.
The parallel session presentation submission period has closed, but we are still accepting poster proposals through September 30th.
2016 Conference Committee
Kakali Bhattacharya
Kansas State University
Stephanie Briggs
Community College of Baltimore County
Jennifer Cannon
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Michelle Chatman
University of the District of Columbia
James Frank
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Vijay Kanagala
University of Vermont
David Levy
University of Washington
Regina Smith
Naropa University
Paul Wapner
American University
Carin Zinter
Holyoke Community College
2016 Conference Organizer
Maya Elinevsky
Event Coordinator, The Center for Contemplative Mind in Society
2016 Conference Director
Daniel Barbezat
Professor, Economics, Amherst College
Executive Director, The Center for Contemplative Mind in Society


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Knowing What Isn't So
During World War II the U.S. military surveyed 600,000 soldiers for a research project. Two of its many findings were that better-educated soldiers suffered more psychological distress from their wartime experience than their less-educated comrades and that soldiers from rural areas were happier than those from urban backgrounds. These conclusions are hardly surprising: Effete intellectuals should have more trouble handling the stress of war, and farmers are more accustomed than city folk to harsh, army-like conditions. What could be more obvious? A grandstanding politician could easily denounce the entire study—or the entire enterprise of social-science research—as a massive waste of money on the basis of "discoveries" like these.
Wait, change that: The military study actually arrived at the opposite conclusions. The sociologist Paul Lazarsfeld—aiming to show how "common sense" justifications can be found for almost any conclusion—pulled the switcheroo in a 1949 review of the survey's results. In fact, educated soldiers were less troubled than uneducated ones, and urban soldiers were happier than their rural counterparts. The real findings are just as explainable as the fake ones; perhaps education equips us to cope with stress and urbanites are more accustomed to living in close quarters.
Duncan Watts uses Lazarsfeld's ruse to frame the central concern of "Everything Is Obvious": that common sense is a shockingly unreliable guide to truth and yet we rely on it virtually to the exclusion of other methods of reasoning. Mr. Watts, a former sociology professor and physicist who is now a researcher for Yahoo, has written a fascinating book that ranges through psychology, economics, marketing and the science of social networks.
He is especially interested in the mistakes we make when we reason about how people influence one another—such as our tendency to think of groups in terms of representative or important members rather than as whole entities. The writings of New Yorker writer Malcolm Gladwell take heavy fire in "Everything Is Obvious." Mr. Gladwell's book "The Tipping Point" (2000) argued that social epidemics are launched by a few "exceptional people" who possess the ability to make ideas go viral. When hipsters suddenly started wearing Hush Puppies shoes, Mr. Gladwell's story goes, they started a fashion trend that rescued the brand from terminal uncoolness and made it profitable again.
"The Tipping Point" reads so well that its explanations have been widely accepted. At first blush they seem novel, but they mainly reflect what common sense tells us about how social networks work. The problem with the Hush Puppies story is that the computational analysis of actual networks, such as a study that Mr. Watts conducted of 74 million Twitter message chains, shows that influencers, if they exist, are more common and less special than Mr. Gladwell thinks. Paying Kim Kardashian $10,000 to tweet about a product may well buy less buzz than paying 10,000 ordinary Twitter users $1 each. The Hush Puppies tale is a just-so story written after the fact—and an example of what Mr. Watts calls the "special people" fallacy.
Common sense is also inclined to conclude that individual successes (and failures) are determined by inherent qualities rather than by unpredictable circumstance. Mr. Watts asks why the "Mona Lisa" is the most admired painting in the world today—why most people believe it to possess unique, timeless features that set it apart.
Before the 20th century, the "Mona Lisa" wasn't even the most popular painting in the Louvre. But in 1911 it was stolen, smuggled to Italy and exhibited widely before being returned to France, whereupon Marcel Duchamp defaced a reproduction of it and labeled his work with an obscene pun. The painting rocketed to fame, its pigments and brushstrokes unchanged. The "Mona Lisa" is the artistic equivalent of the investor who did nothing special until he got lucky a few years (or quarters) in a row and was fêted as a genius. Ecclesiastes told us that time and chance happeneth to all, but we easily forget.
Everything Is Obvious
By Duncan Watts
Crown Business, 335 pages, $26
The enterprise of prediction-making is another casualty of the limits of common sense. Mr. Watts suggests that the entire field of business strategy suffers from a delusion that the future can be forecast with enough numerical precision to enable accurate planning. One solution he endorses is a systematic process of imagining detailed alternative narratives of the future. Such an exercise may have the salutary effect of raising possibilities that were not considered seriously, but it risks playing into our bias to believe well-crafted, emotionally satisfying stories that aren't likely to come true.
We need to admit to ourselves that when we rely on common sense, we are rejecting a more thorough effort to solve a problem and settling for an easy one. Often this choice itself makes sense: Don't waste time analyzing the menu when you could already be enjoying the meal. But in situations where we might profitably abandon intuition, such as inferring cause and effect in complex social environments, what do we replace it with? Mr. Watts advocates the randomized controlled experiment, and he provides nice illustrations of its advantages in marketing and product design, showing how the Internet can scale up and accelerate such research by orders of magnitude over traditional methods.
Of course, it is rarely practical to run the perfect experiment before we act. But we can all be more deliberate and reflective as we gather and analyze facts to inform our own decisions. When we cannot rigorously confirm the ideas that our intuition throws up, we should at least not fool ourselves into thinking that we are engaging in anything much more precise than guesswork. "Everything Is Obvious" is an uncommonly sensible book.
—Mr. Chabris, a psychology professor at Union College in Schenectady, N.Y., is a co-author, with Daniel Simons, of "The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us."


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No other German ski resort has as many chairlifts (12) or so many detachable chairlifts (9) as the... more
With the Ettelsberg lift, an 8-person gondola lift, the Willingen ski resort has the most... more
The Fichtelberg is connected via a modern quad chair lift with weather protectors and an aerial... more
The ski resort on the Ochsenkopf is accessed by two double chair lifts with weather protectors.... more
The lifts are in good condition, but besides one quad chairlift, there are only tow lifts. Most of... more
A quad chair lift, t-bar and practice lifts provide access to the ski resort.more
A t-bar lift, a tow rope and a special toboggan lift - that's it. But the lift tracks are always... more
As the Hunau is purely a t-bar lift ski area, you have to be ready for plenty of standing time,... more
The lifts are in good condition, but there are only t-bar lifts. On the Westfalenhang and the... more
You can't get simpler than this - but at least there are tow rope bars that you can place under... more
There is a people mover and two t-bar lifts at the ski area. The people mover relieves the t-bar... more
You have to make do with a single t-bar lift, but it does get the job done and even gets you up to... more
Circulating tow lifts are considered the grandfather of all ski lifts, but they are not very... more
The ski slope is accessed with a tow rope.more
The whole ski area is accessible with the t-bar lift.more
Since 1968, the Mehlmeisel municipality has been offering alpine sport opportunities with its... more
The Oberwarmensteinach ski area offers two t-bar lifts. The lifts are located on either side of the... more
There is only one t-bar lift providing access to the run.more
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A 250 m long tow rope brings the guests to the top.more
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text: Planning Commission to Approve New Location for Winter Sports School By Rick Brough • Sep 12, 2013 ShareTwitter Facebook Google+ Email The major item for the Snyderville Planning Commission this week was to approve a new location for the Park City Winter Sports School. Rick Brough has more. Listen Listening... / 5:02 Related Program: Local News HourTags: Winter Sports SchoolView the discussion thread.


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In a Zimbabwean literary landscape which, until recently, seemed strictly bifurcated – with "white" novels to one side and "black" novels on the other – the work of Angus Shaw has played a role in allowing consideration of a truly national canon. Many of the early "white" novels dating from the days of Rhodesia during the years of UDI (the Unilateral Declaration of Independence by Ian Smith's white minority government) had plot structures and characterisations borrowed from metropolitan adventure novels. Action and an unswervingly unidirectional sense of triumph based upon moral superiority were hallmarks. After majority rule was finally won, a generation of black novelists used exactly the same mode of writing …
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'Doctor Who' - 'The Hungry Earth' & 'Cold Blood': Rory and the reptiles
As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, I decided to wait for the end of the latest "Doctor Who" two-parter before reviewing it as a whole. Spoilers coming up just as soon as I'm authorized to negotiate on behalf of humanity...
We're at a point in this particular season where I'm becoming more and more reluctant to do these reviews. It's not because the season hasn't been good - I've greatly enjoyed most of it - but that it's been more overtly arc'ed than most of the Russell T. Davies seasons (which laid little Easter eggs about the season-ending story throughout but largely did standalone episodes), and that therefore the gap between the UK and BitTorrent crowds and those who wait to watch on BBC America feels wider than ever, even though it's only a few weeks' difference.
In particular, while I'm only up to "Cold Blood," many of you have already seen how the show has (or hasn't) dealt with Rory being erased from history and Amy's memory. Even if you follow the spoiler policy and don't give specifics about what happens in the next few episodes, your comments about this episode and his death are going to be informed by what happened later. And I'd rather not have any idea of how things go next, but short of asking those of you who are ahead to leave (which I wouldn't do, and not just because you're probably the majority of online "Doctor Who" fandom), I worry there's not much to be done. So I may put these reviews on pause until we get to the end of the season and just do a long take on things then.
Right now, though, we're attempting to talk about "The Hungry Earth" and "Cold Blood," and I didn't really love them, either as parts ("Hungry Earth" in particular was all set-up) or a whole.
I came to the series with Davies and Eccleston, so the Silurians have no nostalgia value for me. My real problem, though, came with the story's human characters. Regardless of the showrunner or individual episode writer, one of the strengths of the modern series has been its ability to turn these one-shot characters into people we care about within a very short period of time. (Doing this means we feel bad when most of them end up being killed by that week's monster.) There's usually some kind of specific detail that functions as effective shorthand (that River Song's team in "Silence in the Library," for instance, had both "Proper" Dave and "Other" Dave), and while a bit of that was tried here by making the son dyslexic, nobody ever quite came to life. So the tension over who would live and die, and who might defy The Doctor and kill the Silurian, never quite worked.
So that left the final bit with the crack in the universe and Rory's death and subsequent erasure from existence to provide the emotional resonance I found lacking in the rest of the two hours. And while Karen Gillan and Matt Smith played the hell out of that sequence, it was hamstrung by the fact that the show had already "killed" Rory only two episodes earlier. Sure, the previous death was revealed as a dream practically from the moment it happened, but Rory's sacrifice still prompted an "Oh, this again?" reaction from me, which I doubt was intended.
Again, I will ask you to please try to focus discussion entirely on this episode and your reaction to it when you first watched it, irrespective of anything you've seen since. Depending on how this goes, and what I think of next week's Richard Curtis-scripted outing, I may have a review of "Vincent and The Doctor," or I may sit things out for the next few weeks until the finale.
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nic919I was not a fan of this two parter and pretty much for the same reason you said: I did not care about the human characters, especially the mother who killed the Silurian. I would have preferred that just Rory, Amy and the Doctor somehow discover them and that we focus on that culture more. I know the episode was about sharing the Earth, but using a small group from a small town in Wales to represent all of humanity was just silly.
I was shocked by Rory actually dying this time because I did think that maybe the Doctor could find a way to revive him and pull him into the TARDIS before the time crack got him. What I am missing though is why Amy has completely forgotten Rory, but not the Doctor. Was it mentioned that he is immune to the time crack? Or is it just that Time Lords aren't affected by these things. If there was an explanation, I did not catch it.
Alan, I really hope you review the Richard Curtis episode because I think it's one worth discussing. With the Memorial day break, there is now a 3 episode gap, and since I don't think anyone spoiled Rory's death in this episode, I think we can behave for the last few episodes.June 19, 2010 at 11:01PM ESTReply to Comment
sepinwallThe Doctor remembers Rory because he's a time traveler and Rory wasn't part of his pre-time travel life. That's why Amy could remember the various clerics who were erased in the Weeping Angels two-parter (because she met them while traveling), whereas Rory (part of her original timeline) Was forgotten.June 19, 2010 at 11:03PM EST
Trisha RayTime Lords can remember events and people erased from time (part of their handy package of abilities including perception of fixed and fluid points in time). That is how River (being part Time Lord) remembers the Doctor in The Big Bang.July 15, 2013 at 11:05AM EST
Leek (guest)Who's Kenneth? It was Proper Dave and Other Dave.June 19, 2010 at 11:21PM ESTReply to Comment
M.A.PeelI'm finding Moffat too cerebral and not emotional enough. The complexity of the time sequence for the Doctor and Amy is interesting, but it's not drawing me in the way 10 and Donna did.June 19, 2010 at 11:22PM ESTReply to Comment
SWG (guest)Alan, just an fyi here. Like you I'm an american watching the bbcamerica versions but I don't watch on saturay nights because those versions are edited down from what they showed in the UK. If you have comcast, or if your cable supplier has this feature, one can watch it free on demand the next day and get the entire unedited version that they showed in the UK. That might not help you as you probably feel obligated to review on Saturday nights but just a headsup.June 19, 2010 at 11:30PM ESTReply to Comment
RichardIn the initial Saturday night broadcasts on BBC America, the only edits are the insertion of commercials. For some reason, subsequent airings do contain editing of content (the Doctor trying out different foods in Amy's kitchen was significantly shortened in its second airing, for example).June 20, 2010 at 7:53AM EST
It's intriguing that BBCA is editing things out, since it's fairly obvious that episodes are now 42-44 minutes mainly for non-British TV markets.June 20, 2010 at 4:49PM EST
TraceyJust out of curiousity, I downloaded a couple of the British versions early episodes from BitTortent to see whether there were any cuts. There are not. The only exception is the first episode, which was longer and ran in a longer timeslot when it first aired, but is trimmed in reruns in the American version.June 21, 2010 at 5:13AM EST
Anon25 (guest)As I read this, the 12th episode is getting downloaded. You are right, there is a significant community who watches episodes way before the US reviews come online, and then we are scratching our head trying to remember what happened 3 weeks ago. Of course, the comments could be ... but usually are not biased by what we see.
Anyway, I saw WHO starting with Eccleston myself. I liked Tennant quite a bit. While I got used to Matt Smith and even liking him after 5-6 episodes, I still see the whole series as somewhat off. However, I can't put my finger on it ... I think the episodes with Tennant or RTD used to be equally crummy - some good, some average. Maybe it is just too much familiarity with the concept ... like 24 was fresh in season 1, but a repeat in year 8.
Thinking back, I think Tennant used to have an infectious enthusiasm, which is not the chase, but that's a conscious choice they made to give Smith a different person.
Talking at a meta-level, what do you think? Or will we discuss this post-finale?June 19, 2010 at 11:58PM ESTReply to Comment
rachelmedI liked this two-parter more than you did Alan, but I do agree that we didn't form enough of an attachment to the other chracters for us to really care about their fate. I definitely cared way more about the Doctor's daughter, Jenny and all the people on the tour in the Midnight episode more than any of these villagers. And those were both single episodes so we had half the time with them.
I do think Rory's death was hurt by having him "die" just a few episodes before but I think that also helped to make me more shocked since I wasn't expecting him to go since it semi-happened so soon before. I liked Rory and was very sad to see him disappear into the Crack. Then the reveal of the piece of the burned TARDIS from inside the Crack was a nice little tease too!
I have seen the other episodes but I think we have been pretty good at keeping our opinions of the episode close to how we felt when we saw it the first time so I hope you continue to write reviews.June 20, 2010 at 12:18AM ESTReply to Comment
Mulderism (guest)I really like this show and have seen all the episodes since Eccleston.
What I find frustrating with British shows is that it is difficult to get all the details simply because I can't understand some of what they're saying. Matt Smith talks kind of quietly and so between his rapid dialog and accent I end up missing a lot of the dialog. It's only when he's yelling that I get everything.
I had this problem with the BBC Office too. I had to put the subtitles on in order to get it all.June 20, 2010 at 1:07AM ESTReply to Comment
KatelinI sympathise - I got a lot more out of Deadwood with subtitlesJune 20, 2010 at 8:12AM EST
Craig RanapiaHum... I could be rather unkind and suggest you can feel the rest of the world's pain when it comes to American actors who confuse SHOUTING AND PULLING FACES with conveying emotion. :)June 20, 2010 at 9:50AM EST
Yeah - we Brits suffer with American actors all the time too, so no sympathy here!!! Matt Smith doesn't even have a strong accent so it shouldn't be too hard to understand him! Just be grateful they made Tennant "English" instead of letting him speak in his normal voice!June 20, 2010 at 10:25AM EST
nic919I must just watch a lot of BBC shows because I can't say that any of the Doctors are difficult for me to understand. I am also fine with Tennant's real brogue. I think it's just a matter of training your ear to listen to it because a heavy Southern accent can be just as impenetrable as a Cockney accent. If I'm not mistaken, most of the Doctors have used RP or Estuary accents (I guess McCoy being the exception) so they are the easiest to understand for international audiences.June 20, 2010 at 2:47PM EST
MulderismFair enough. I can see how people can have problems with american 'accents' too!
Actually Matt Smith's accent isn't the problem. It just seems that he speaks rather quietly - especially when he is talking to himself. When I read the episode recap later I realized I had missed a lot of the details. Maybe the sound on my copy of the episode was off.June 20, 2010 at 4:05PM EST
Craig RanapiaMulderism said: "Actually Matt Smith's accent isn't the problem. It just seems that he speaks rather quietly - especially when he is talking to himself."
I agree -- but I that's what I love about Matt Smith's performance. No disrespect to David Tennant or RTD, but they just didn't do understatement. I loved the nicely underplayed moments in 'The Hungry Earth' where The Doctor tell Ambrose to put the weapons away, and doesn't even respond when the Silurian soldier taunts him with "I'm willing to die, what would you sacrifice for your cause". Smith doesn't have bellow while making an angry face, because we know exactly what The Doctor sacrificed to end the Time War. We know just how unwise it is to screw with The Doctor when he asks you quietly, politely and very firmly not to do something.June 20, 2010 at 7:47PM EST
captainstarbuck (guest)I don't know...I got pretty attached to Nasreen Chaudhry and her stocky beau. I agree about not being all that invested in the obnoxious mum and the bitchy, murderous Silurian...but I liked Nasreen.June 20, 2010 at 1:26AM ESTReply to Comment
BigTed (guest)I was bothered by Rory's demise both because it was completely random (most of the characters came within a hair's breadth of being shot in this episode, but he was the only one who actually got hit) and convenient (because he was the odd man out in the Doctor-Amy relationship, and it seemed unlikely that he would be traveling with them over the long term). I also found the political allegory in this episode more heavy-handed than usual.
On the plus side, the reptile-people costumes looked really good.June 20, 2010 at 2:19AM ESTReply to Comment
OvidI thought Matt Smith was great in this again. In the scenes where he's interrogating the Silurian warrior and warning Ambrose not to use her weapons, he makes the Doctor genuinely frightening. Tennant was always very human and human-loving. Smith's Doctor is genuinely alien - even forgetting the child wandering off because he doesn't have the 'children need special care' instinct a human does.
As for the passing characters, I agree that the humans weren't as well served this time, but Keith Phipps over at the AVClub pointed out, rightly I think, that the Silurian warrior's death is given a lot of weight and the scene where Restac discovers the death is quite moving.June 20, 2010 at 3:07AM ESTReply to Comment
Craig RanapiaI'd agree with you up to a point, but I think since RTD's second episode ('The End of the World') it was pretty clear not so much that The Doctor is "genuinely alien", but that he's genuinely dangerous. He'll always give you fair warning, but you seldom get a second chance if you think you can screw with him and walk away.June 20, 2010 at 7:55PM EST
apocalexxnow (guest)You seem really disturbed and annoyed by the fact, that for the first time there's a show, which airs later in USA than somewhere else. Now you know how the rest of the world feels :)June 20, 2010 at 4:32AM ESTReply to Comment
Anon25ha, completely agree.June 20, 2010 at 6:41AM EST
sepinwallI don't care that the rest of the world gets it early. I'm just frustrated that the discussion is between people with two different knowledge bases. So it's not a conversation between equals, and spoilers (some inadvertent, some not) do slip in.June 20, 2010 at 8:20AM EST
RaptureBasedThis is kind of funny, as Alan is usually a few episodes ahead of the rest of us on a lot of shows. I guess it's okay when he's the one with the advance knowledge! ;)June 20, 2010 at 8:42AM EST
BeckyWe're used to being months to a year behind the UK for their series (including Doctor Who) but that usually serves as a nice long period of time to forget little spoilers that may have slipped through. With only 2-3 weeks difference they are fresh, and many spoilers seem to still slip through. Rory's death was ruined for me by a UK facebook group. Two- three weeks doesn't seem long for people to keep spoilers at bay, but some still spill the beans.June 20, 2010 at 1:44PM EST
Anon25Alan, Actually you might want to shift your reviews to align with UK airings, as long as you can "legally preview" them in US.June 21, 2010 at 10:14AM EST
LitzieActually for me, living in the UK, I just want to come talk tv here like I always do but can't talk about the most recent eps which I'm always bursting to do...it's sad but obviously I'll come back for the reviews and comments even if it is 3 weeks ago and ages ago in my Dr Who brain...June 21, 2010 at 1:32PM EST
(guest)I have to say, I agree in part. There were characters I liked, the grandfather and the lady he liked (I forget either of their names) and I thought that they were ok, but you're right, in comparison to past episodes, they don't have the depth of character in such a short time and the mother of the boy, I just wanted to slap her. Not only for her stupidity but she was just such a flat character.
Rory... I have to say my friend commented when I talked to him about it by saying "he was the metal dog." I actually disagree with this because unlike any other companion's boyfriend, she loved him and I was really mad that she forgot him so easily. The scene was well-done but it made me angry. I didn't get the "oh not this again" feeling but I did not understand why he was killed, it was so pointless and right after he'd been saved in the last episode. I am interested to see where it goes, I will say I think you'll enjoy what's coming but no spoilers here.June 20, 2010 at 8:45AM ESTReply to Comment
Anirudh (guest)In this season the episodes written by Steven Moffat have bee very good, not 'Blink' good, but entertaining.
I just watched the first part of the season finale and I have to admit I was impressed. It seems Moffat saved the best for last.June 20, 2010 at 8:52AM ESTReply to Comment
HwatLittle easter eggs? More like huge honking stone statues with arrows pointing at them - I didn't think it could be done any more annoyingly until this season where they are even bigger and non sequitur like.
"So I may put these reviews on pause until we get to the end of the season and just do a long take on things then. "
Don't worry, we'll just spoil it in other threads then ;)June 20, 2010 at 9:38AM ESTReply to Comment
Paul CI'd disagree to an extent. In Seasons 1 & 2, Bad Wolf & Torchwood were seeded pretty good especially early on and it wasn't until after a few episodes that you began thinking "hold on, they've mentioned that before".
But I agree about this year. They have made things bloody obvious by zooming in on the cracks at the end of each episode they appear. Takes a lot of the fun out of it.June 20, 2010 at 2:23PM EST
LitzieOk I have no idea how I just posted a blank comment. But.
I actually think the build up has been far better this season than in previous ones, all except for Bad Wolf (which was definitely brilliant, especially in the reveal at the end). I feel like all series post Eccleston had both too many hints and not enough build up. It was repetitive in a vaguely lame way...whereas with the Crack, I feel like everytime it's on screen I get more and more into it, and we've learned more and more about it along the way, including the massive moment in this ep with the piece of the tardis.June 21, 2010 at 1:31PM EST
saffronica (guest)Completely and wholeheartedly agree with you. I have yet to become emotionally involved with ANY character, even the doctor! For the first few episodes Matt Smith (and the writing that went along with it) portrayed the doctor as rather a dimwit. Amy seemed to be the ONLY person who knew what to do and when to do it (despite the fact that she really isn't in the Noble/Jones/Smith league, but she's more like a starter Rose Tyler.) Rory just seemed superfluous somehow; he must have been the tin dog in this season. Anyway, I wish the writing would take a serious step up; I already had problems with the casting of a George McFly look-alike and the story lines did NOT help my in-place prejudices. If the season doesn't improve and fast, I think I'm going back to reruns.June 20, 2010 at 10:03AM ESTReply to Comment
BrianI think a lot of people have been spoiled by the highly "emotional" Davies-era episodes and Tennant's Doctor. Don't get me wrong, I loved Tennant/Davies, but having watched Doctor Who since I was a kid, the new series was a huge change from the "classic series". There were lots of throw away characters, like in Hungry Earth, and The Doctor was always switching moods from crazy happy to super serious and you never knew how he was going to act next or what he was going to do next and it made him constantly mysterious (ie Tom Baker) and I think this is how Matt Smith is playing him. You never know what he's thinking or what gonna happen with him and I love it. I loved Tennant, as I said earlier, but he got too predictable and you'd knew he was gonna make a joke, or stutter or say "what" at least 3 times and Russell T davies always tied everything up in a nice bow. This new series is all over the place and is quite madcap and exciting and that is perfect for me, I mean, he's a time traveller and everything should be all over the place and have multiple storylines and shocks and twists. I think it's way more true to the "classic series" and I think it's a fantastic show and has such unlimited potential, that's why it's been going for so long. Also, i loved Rory and was very sad that he was killed off, he was great comic relief and was becoming more and more likeable and not just a "tin dog". Amy is awesome. She's a very strong character, like Rose, but I love that she is not lusting after the Doctor all the time like Martha, that was ridiculous and made me not like her.June 20, 2010 at 11:44AM EST
I would agree with you if it were not for the fact that Matt Smith is the best of the current doctors. I have no idea how you are not seeing it or how you are not connecting with the material but for me, the guy and the stories from Moffat are some of the best of the entire new Who run. If you are that disappointed with the story, that sucks, but you really do not know Doctor Who that well. If you think K-9 is just a dog. He's K-9, he's more than a dog, and Rory sure in the hell represents a lot more than just some carry along dog and Mickey. Rory is awesome and the Doctor will bring him back. Why? This Doctor is the Doctor of all Doctors.June 20, 2010 at 1:44PM EST
OvidLike Brian I'm enjoying this more unpredictable, alien Doctor, but it's interesting that Moffat also wrote the charity mini-episode that bridged the third season and the 2007 Xmas special, where Ten met Five. It's a fun little scene, but there Ten refers to Five being a different kind of Doctor, more joyful and less grumpy and attributes the moodiness of One through Four to their youth: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWzt7cmWImYJune 20, 2010 at 5:49PM EST
Nathan (guest)I'm an old school "Who" fan so the Silurians were welcome to these old eyes. In many ways this two-parter was a big fanboy shout-out to the show's roots, or at least a very specific time period in its past, specifically the Pertwee years. I thought the two hours worked more or less on their own terms but if your experience with the show dates back longer than 6 years I think maybe there was a little more there for you.
Rory's death certainly had an impact and I really wasn't expecting it. Moffat has gone on record as saying he prefers the two companion set-up for "Doctor Who" so I thought it was something he would play with a little longer although I guess with characters like River Song he is basically maintaining that number within the TARDIS for most of the series.
And yeah, I too am a current with the UK broadcasts. I got into the habit of downloading episodes when the show first came back since there was such a huge delay in seeing it broadcast here in the US. That and I really hate, hate, hate all the extra crap Sci Fi and now BBC America insist throwing at us in the corners. I can deal with a network marking in the corner if it's subtle but we are long past that point.
Anyway, I got in the habit of watching it on the day it was broadcast and even the two week delay is too long for me. So yeah, I have already watched "The Pandorica Opens" twice now. I can understand wanting to do a big catch-up review after the final episode airs bot so everyone is on the same page in discussing it and because of the serial nature this series has taken. There is a lot going on with Moffat's version of "Who" and I know I'm looking forward to the blu-ray set to watch the whole thing start to finish in a couple of days. As always, thanks for your work Alan.June 20, 2010 at 1:59PM ESTReply to Comment
Paul C (guest)The 2-part story as a whole was pretty average for me. I enjoyed the first part the most as it done a pretty good job of fleshing out the supporting cast and making you a bit interested in them. Plus the creepy, atmospheric graveyard scene was pretty cool as was the face-off with The Doctor & the Silurian chick (Neve McIntosh was pretty good throughout).
But the 2nd part just seemed to trudge along and didn't build much on the set-up. It was also just plain odd that Amy & Chandra got to decide for the whole World and would have gladly given up part of Australia and the sort.
Rory's death was a bit of a surprise I admit, but I should have seen it coming. There were tons of clues - him standing in the empty grave, future him & Amy happily waving at the start, the whole wedding ring, and the big speech about how "nobody will die".
I think a huge problem that dragged this story down was that the 1st cut of part 1 ran 60mins so they had to chop a quarter of what they had (including a terrific Amy & Doctor scene*). And I got the feeling that part 2 suffered the same problems. So essentially the episodes just felt choppy and not as fluid as previous ones.
*http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CWWxubXpEM (caution if you read the comments, may be spoilers)June 20, 2010 at 2:35PM ESTReply to Comment
janine (guest)I don't have a problem with the two deaths for Rory. The reason it's not a retread for me is that the first time, we saw Amy's actual reaction to his death. We know it was devastating to her, making it incredibly sad how she just went on.June 20, 2010 at 5:18PM ESTReply to Comment
(guest)I enjoyed the two, but is it just me, or has the show gotten A LOT more political? I may be reading things into it that weren't intended by the British creators, but I got two pretty anvilicious political/social messages:
1. The earth is angry for us drilling into it. This one was more likely unintentional, since the BP oil spill was unlikely to be on anyone's radar when this was written.
2. The big Silurian monologue about how humans and aliens can live together struck me as being about the Arizona immigration bill and other anti-immigrant politics.
This didn't bug me as much as it might have otherwise, in part because I agreed with the political sentiments that seemed to be expressed, but felt kind of anvilicious.June 20, 2010 at 10:17PM ESTReply to Comment
NathanMatt...."Who" has a long history of diving into politics in much the same way most science fiction and fantasy does but this two-parter was filmed almost a year ago so the two specific events you point to had not yet occured. That the message was so strong for you has a lot to do with the Barry Letts/Terence Dicks produced era of "Who" that this episode so clearly riffs on.June 20, 2010 at 11:31PM EST
Craig Ranapia@MAtt: To be perfectly honest, I don't think Moffat or any of the writers of Doctor Who really think a lot about American domestic politics. Sorry, but this is a British show whose primary audience is UK families.June 21, 2010 at 12:53AM EST
OvidSure, but the UK has its own set of nasty immigration politics. The Arizona stuff is not so far off. As for the environmental issues, I'd see those in part in the drilling but also in the idea of having to share the planet with someone (or someone) with prior claim on it.June 21, 2010 at 3:03AM EST
OvidOne of those 'someones' was supposed to be 'something'. :-/June 21, 2010 at 3:05AM EST
TraceyActually, I had an uncomfortable feeling through much of the episode that they were going to make a political statement about the Middle East, and that's all I'm going to say about it for fear of turning these comments irrelevantly political.June 21, 2010 at 5:42AM EST
Craig Ranapia@Tracey: Why? Perhaps my POV is slightly different because I've been watching Doctor Who for over thirty years, but the show has based endless stories around the idea that "shoot first, ask questions never" is an approach to life that never works out well. (The most extreme examples of that in DW are The Daleks and Sontarans.) I don't think of that as some grand political statement (relevant or not), but a storytelling trope as hold as Homer.June 21, 2010 at 3:54PM EST
The show over the years has had political episodes. In fact, the Silurian episodes seem to be a throwback to the Pertwee era, with the drilling and the aliens and the like.June 25, 2010 at 6:27PM EST
Tom (guest)Most of what I thought of this episode has been said before, but two lettle things that stayed in my mind:
* what was up with the field of soldiers (was that shot an hommage to Attack of the CLones?), they didn't do anything and instead the general had to defrost some other soldiers instead. So, a great shot, but with no pay-off at all.
* I liked the fact that only future Amy was waving to present-Amy in the end, seeing future-Rory in the beginning did convince me that Rory would be safe, so I was shocked to see him die. Great to see that DW didn't fall in the trap that Harry Potter did (future-Harry saves the live of present-Harry in Azkaban, which makes absolutely no sense and always bugged me). Present-Rory is dead, so no future-Rory anymore, great little detail.
P.S. One of my Captcha words is "Drill", very appropriate :)June 21, 2010 at 5:31AM ESTReply to Comment
TraceyI wasn't overwhelmed by this episode. I'm an old-time Doctor Who fan -- watched the whole Tom Baker era on PBS in high school, but I was in college and law school for the later Doctors and saw little of them. I have no memory of the Silurians before, so that didn't resonate for me. I liked the idea that there are good ones and bad ones, ones who want war and ones who want peace, but that just sort of seemed to be thrown out there randomly at a convenient time in the episode. The idea that Amy and the murdering mom could negotiate a plan for co-existence that the entire world would go along with was not in the least bit plausible to me.
Oddly enough, I actually DID anticipate Rory's death... precisely because they made a point of having future Amy and Rory in the distance at the beginning. It struck me that this was supposed to give us a sense that they would both survive, but they've mentioned several times this season that the past can be changed, so I had a feeling from the beginning that the throw-away scene was meant to give us a false sense of security. When he finally died pointlessly... I felt like the whole Amy's Choice episode was meant to convince us that Amy really does love Rory, and that fell a little flat for me, so this did the same.June 21, 2010 at 6:04AM ESTReply to Comment
Craig Ranapia@Tracey: " The idea that Amy and the murdering mom could negotiate a plan for co-existence that the entire world would go along with was not in the least bit plausible to me."
Well, who knows, in 3010 there are no guarantees, only a chance. But the point is that with Tony and Mack around, the odds just got a little longer that the next contact between the Silurians and the human race isn't going to end in a mutually genocidal war triggered by a horrible accident. After all, Nasreen had no way of knowing that the Silurian city was in the path of her drill, and when they detected the automatic response was to defrost some warriors and destroy the threat. As The Doctor himself said, there's not a lot of evil people in this story but bad choices born of fear and ignorance. Both human and Silurian don't have to go that way -- but they've got to choose not to.June 21, 2010 at 4:02PM EST
TraceyThe idea of waiting 1000 years came up very late in the resolution. At first, they were negotiating as if Amy could personally give them the rights to the Sahara Desert and other pieces of land we aren't using.June 23, 2010 at 4:34PM EST
Penuski (guest)As usual, Alan, you have managed to put your finger on something that I could not articulate. I really want to like Doctor Who this seasons and give the new series runner and star a fair chance, but so far it has lacked emotional resonance. A long time ago an English teacher told me to show, not tell, when I write and I feel like this series has been telling me who to care about and what to think about. The Davies years were full of a lot of nonsense and lacked Moffat's tighter (more cerebral) plotting, but they had emotional resonance.June 21, 2010 at 2:12PM ESTReply to Comment
Niffer (guest)I, too, loved the interrogation scene. Very well done. I was mostly surprised by Rory's death, although it explained why the actor wasn't in the opening credits. Because he's not in the credits I knew at some point Rory was going to leave. I just wasn't expecting it so soon, or so permanently.
I vaguely remember the Silurians from the original series... Now I want to find a few of the old episodes and put them in my Netflix queue!
But, I agree, overall I didn't feel as much of an emotional connection to the side characters as I have in the past.June 22, 2010 at 3:40PM ESTReply to Comment
Jason Potapoff (guest)I am surprised no on has mentioned the chirping birds. In both of these episodes they made a point of letting us hear chirping birds (often when Rory was on screen). I am not sure if there is something significant attached to that or if they were just trying to mess with our heads a bit after the episode where chirping birds meant that everyone was falling asleep to switch to the other dream. But I found it curious and noticeable and I don't think it was accidentally I think they were put in there intentionally.June 23, 2010 at 9:48PM ESTReply to Comment
Magic (guest)Matt Smith is growing on me, but I like the edgy, no mercy, I'm old, tired so don't give me any crap Doctor. "I'm so old now. I used to have so much mercy. You get one warning.."
Piers Wenger and Stephen Moffat, pay attention!! Four things for next season as a fan I want to see.. The relationship with River Song. Finally a woman who's his equal and becomes his wife. Just like in the old days of Romana. Let the Dr find relationship happiness and put the conflict in other areas the story line and plot. The second thing ... bring back the Doctors Jenny { Georgia Moffett}. Whatever happened to that character ? There is a whole universe of challenges she could present. This last season the writing was FANTASTIC.. minus the whole vampire thing...Vampires really ? Normally, I can predict where a plot is going but a few times you took me by surprise and that is NOT easy. Three: Seasonal arches are the way to go. Four: Thank you for finally understanding the concept of Continuity!
Ok I'm done.
MagicJuly 2, 2010 at 6:43PM ESTReply to Comment