DW Reaction: "The Lodger" & "The Pandorica Opens"
THE LODGER
- The Doctor exits the Tardis. Tardis: "I'm leaving you -tear-" Tardis disappears.
- Creepy old people on staircases. Another reason to be afraid of old people this season.
- He's just switching hand's with the physic paper... I don't even-
- Matt stands so close to everyone.
- "I was not expecting this!" whatlawl
- "I thought I heard a big bang." grumblegrumbleforeshadowinggrumble
- Matt's hair was completely wet and plastered to his head, now it's half dry and everywhere. Continuity.
- 11 jersey! Already knew about this, but still!
- Twirl while playing football.
- I'm just waiting for the creepy child's voice, on the intercom, to say "Where's my mummy?"
- The Doctor just went off on one of the soccer players about how violence is never the answer, omgshow.
- I love how he's wearing his tweed jacket over his soccer clothes.
- Don't these passive British people care about the thing on their ceiling? In America we'd storm up there, not just shrug it off. We wouldn't want to touch it, ew. We wouldn't be interested in it, we'd want to get rid of it.
- The Doctor just drank whine and then spit it all back in his cup.......... i guess this is because 11 hates food?
- Creepy bug-eyed picture on wall O.O
- CAT! No, kitty don't die, stay away!
- Hahahah He can talk to the cat. Cue me singing:
If we could talk to the animals, just imagine it
Chatting to a chimp in chimpanzee
Imagine talking to a tiger, chatting to a cheetah
What a neat achievement that would be.
If we could talk to the animals, learn their languages
Maybe take an animal degree.
We'd study elephant and eagle, buffalo and beagle,
Alligator, guinea pig, and flea.
We would converse in polar bear and python,
And we could curse in fluent kangaroo.
If people asked us, can you speak in rhinoceros,
We'd say, 'Of courserous, can't you?'
If we could talk to the animals, learn their languages
Think of all the things we could discuss
If we could walk with the animals, talk with the animals,
Grunt and squeak and squawk with the animals,
And they could squeak and squawk and speak and talk to us.
- Telepathic headbutt.... really writer's, that was the best you could come up with? Spock disapproves.
- Other Tardis.... THE MASTER! or the doctor in a tight spot or THE MASTER! Dang it. This whole season my friend, Kate has been joking that the Master is behind everything because of a season with Doctor #3 where the Master is behind everything (The Master is blasting off again!). Her joking theory now holds water.
- In reality your upstairs is an alien spaceship. Best day ever.
- Kiss the girl shalalala la la LA
FINAL NOTE: I live in a duplex, and we've never seen our upstairs neighbors, and they're never here (or are there), and we sometimes just hear them walking around, and my upstairs is totally a spaceship.
Also, The iffyTARDIS identified the Doctor as the correct pilot, so I'm guessing the universe wouldn't have exploded and that he was suppose to touch the panel, because he built it... unless the Master built it. In that case, he shouldn't touch it.
THE PANDORICA OPENS
- Intergalactic travel or time travel? How is River Song getting around? And why don't we explore periods where hyperspeed/warp speed intergalactic time travel is possible? [EDIT: I reading somewhere now that we saw River acquire it and it's actually Jack's since he was in that intergalactic bar earlier. Either way, we know the Doctor is using it in Big Bang]
Click to view- How does that painting not crumble into dust?
- Doesn't the painting make it look like the Tardis is shedding, not exploding?
- The Doctor is on a horse again.... I'm on a horse.
- River: "... the Pandorica Opens." Hey, that's the name of the episode.
- The Doctor sonics a torch to light it.... Half the people in the room: "Firebender?" Me: "No. AVATAR!" (but yeah, they need to stop over-using the sonic).
- "They'd never expect three people to attack 10,000 ships because they'd be killed instantly" XD
- Friend Sammie: "So he's going to fight the galaxy with the Roman Empire?" Me: "YEAH!"
- Rory! ... in the dark, but RORY!
- "Doesn't it ever bother you that nothing about your life makes sense." YES
- REMEBER WHO YOU ARE, cue disney music (i love the music in this episode haha).
- "Look at me I'm a target!"
- Amy's fairytale-esque faint. Yay heroic-Rory catch.
- The Doctor is trying to figure what the obvious thing he's missing is, the thing sitting right in front of him... the way it's staged suggests Amy (everything revolves around her!), but oh yea Rory too I guess and the whole existing thing.
- "I died and turned into a Roman, it's very distracting."
- "Silence will fall." That sounded like Davrus, but what a lame boss to end with, plus that was last season.
- NOOOOOOOOOOOOO. Rory isn't real. I'm so distressed by this because even if things can work out with RobotRory, the real Rory is still dead and that Rory never gets his Amy. Hopefully the timey-whimys will all reset and everything will be fine.
- Go, go Dalek Rangers.
- The scariest thing in the universe is the Doctor... something I said way before the end of this episode when the Pandorica immediately started opening after the Doctor touched it.
- This alliance is so absurd because the Daleks would have just exterminated everyone.
- Amy dies. Friend Chris: "Damn you hand!"
- The Pandorica Opens:
- The episode ends. Me and Kate start yelling that it's totally the Master because every villain was there but him. Kate in excited-rant mode: "THE MASTER IS GOING TO SAVE THE DOCTOR BECAUSE HE HAS A TARDIS AND IS GOING TO COME BACK AND RELEASE HIM."
Okay, but seriously, it's totally the Master REGENERATED and he will return as a tall dark man with a sweet beard/goatee and evil laugh, not John Simm. -sigh-
I don't see who else would build a Tardis, as opposed to growing one. If the Doctor was desperate enough he would, and I know that the Blue Peter Tardis panel has yet to make an appearance, so it has to in the finale (as an in-progress Tarids). If it's not the master it's another incarnation of the Doctor (not regeneration, incarnation). I'm inclined to say Valayard again, just because that will need to be addressed sooner or later.
A braincrack theory (even though those Billie Piper on-set rumors are 80% fake): Only this universe is destroyed but the Human Doctor AU isn't. However, there are all these cracks in time that make it so easy to jump through, and since the universe is already destroyed, not biggie jumping through in their newly grown tardis (IT'S CANNON, google 'tardis coral' and 'journey's end' if you must). So the Pandorica opens once again and what does 11 see?
Or you know, we go back to youngin' Amy in a museum or whenever she is in these promos and she is able to open the box. But I think this museum is all in her head or something, just like the whole episode, except for the alliance (Amy hasn't seen half those villains), was all based on her memories. Gaaah I'm not making sense at all right now.
What I really want to know is how long will the Doctor be in Pandorica. How old will he be when he's finally released? And how will it change him?
All in all, my DW group agreed that it was a bad idea to watch that episode because we now have to wait for June 26, 2010 (btw, I love that they timed it to have the actual events happening the same day the episode airs).
PS I wish this existed in poster form:
PPS Let me reiterate how much I love the art design this season:
PPPS THE CRACK IS REAL
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