DW 6x01 - The Impossible Astronaut

[caz963]

That was a great season opener - I just hope that part two lives up to expectations. The trailer certainly looked damn awesome.

I'm still feeling a bit :( after watching My Sarah-Jane afterwards, so I think I'm just going to go with a list.

• I sincerely hope there aren't lots more nude portraits of the Doctor hanging around the galaxy; well, certainly not of any pre-Eight! *g*
  
  
• How the hell did they get away with having a naked (well, by implication) man hiding under a woman's skirt at 6pm?! And the screamer line?! One of the things I've always liked about SM is his way with the double entendre ;-) The good lines came thick and fast in this one.
  
  
• The Doctor appears to have part-time companions now. WTF?
  
  
• Very appropriate use of Laurel and Hardy
  
  
• Loved the way it was Rory who suggested they use the boat for the pyre.
  
  
• "Get me... coffee, twelve Jammie Dodgers and a fez." Cue me and the kids howling with laughter!
  
  
• That scene between River and Rory was fab.
  
  
• "One day I'll look into his eyes and he won't know me... I think it'll kill me." Oh River - how prophetic.
  
  
• Amy's pregnant? I admit I suspected there might be something like that coming along, but not so soon. Mind you, pretty much nothing is as it seems, so who knows? River also felt sick after seeing the aliens, so I reckon it's the aliens messing with Amy's head or something along those lines.
  
  
• Sterling! After all the DW references in Leverage, I suppose it's only fitting :-)
  
  
• IT'S THE TARDIS FROM "THE LODGER"!!! asdfhjdkghldfgjkag!
  
  
• Time can be rewritten. *rolls eyes* Is this a drinking game now?
  
  
• Spooky aliens that you forget immediately you're not looking at them. Thinking about it, they're a bit like angels in reverse.
  
  
• You can't tell me there's not been some nookie in the TARDIS with River after that!
  

Matt Smith was excellent and Karen Gillan hasn't started to annoy me yet, which is a good sign.

We were watching TBB the other day and even Mr Caz, who doesn't normally comment much on such things said that she's got two expressions - wide eyed amazement and sulky pout. "Oh, look - she's even pouting when she's supposed to be unconscious." That's bitchy, comning from him!

I'm sure I'll have more to say at a later date - perhaps after I've seen it again and/or seen the second part of the story.

Comments

[caz963.livejournal.com]

I'll be very surprised if Amy really is pregnant and it's not the aliens messing with her head for some reason. I'll also be really surprised if any of what we've just seen turns out to be real at all!

[crossoverman.livejournal.com]

I'll be very disappointed if it's "all a dream" or any variation of that. But with the Silence able to change people's memories or make you see things that aren't there, this is a possibility.

I really don't know how Moffat will get out of killing off the Doctor - and I'm worried we'll have to wait all season for that to be explained.

[caz963.livejournal.com]

My guess at the moment is that whatever happens in 1969 will mean that somehow, the Doctor won't end up being killed when he's 1108.

Of course, the other possibility is that it's River in the suit and for some reason this is the murder of the best man she ever knew that she spoke about in F&S.

There is also much talk about teh interwebz of a clone!Eleven.

I'm trying really hard not to read every theory I see posted - because it'll make my head ache even more!

[crossoverman.livejournal.com]

The only problem with the internet and collective theorising is that usually someone gets pretty close - I mean there's only so many things it can be. I'm going to bet against a clone, though. We already had (the equivalent of) a clone Ten.

I think River is in that suit.

[canterlevi.livejournal.com]

RE: River in that suit.

Me three.

But then nothing is ever as it seems, is it?

[crossoverman.livejournal.com]

Yes, but occasionally I'd like to be right and out-think Moffat!