Doctor Who 5x13 - "The Big Bang"
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be_themoon YES.
Just. YES.
Thank you, Stephen Moffat and Team TARDIS and EVERYONE involved in this season! ("Gotcha.")
I cried. I have my perfect season. I can't even comprehend the thought that next season could be better, because. This SEASON. this FINALE.
Just. YES.
Thank you, Stephen Moffat and Team TARDIS and EVERYONE involved in this season! ("Gotcha.")
I cried. I have my perfect season. I can't even comprehend the thought that next season could be better, because. This SEASON. this FINALE.
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Date: 2010-06-27 02:52 am (UTC)*runs around flailing* SO. FABULOUS.
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Date: 2010-06-27 02:31 am (UTC)OH OT3, I ADORE YOU SO MUCH.
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Date: 2010-06-29 01:33 am (UTC)belatedly
Date: 2010-06-29 01:07 am (UTC)TWO
THOOOOUUUSAND
YEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAARRRRRRS *_______*
omg
WHAT IS THIS STRANGE WORLD WITHOUT STARS. I WANNA KNOW MORE ABOUT IT. What is a world without stories about the stars?! Constellations! Navigation! The Walk of Fame! A lot of poetry! What even!
Re: belatedly
Date: 2010-06-29 01:41 am (UTC)AND UTTERLY AMAZING (he stayed out of trouble! ... badly.)
ALSO AMY, WHO BELIEVES IN -STARS.- and the whole timey wimey stuff! and ELEVEN, who LIES. and River! SHE MADE A DALEK CRY FOR MERCY, LASS.
I HAVE NO WOOOORDS.
OMG. pause on the bits in the museum! the penguin exhibit? they're from THE NILE. and there were several other completely out of place things. IT'S CRAZY STUFF. AND AWESOME.
Re: belatedly
Date: 2010-06-29 02:17 am (UTC)a world without stars
Date: 2010-06-29 05:37 pm (UTC)Things Amelia Pond Learned In School (and some she didn't)
- There are no stars. What precisely they are, and why old stories mention them, is a little less clear. (She learns this from everyone, more precisely. She has spent most of her life being told that this thing and this are not true.)
- The Nile Pharoah Penguins are among the largest birds in the world, standing almost four feet tall and rivaling the North American Ostrich (as opposed to the two foot tall Australian Ostrich, a rare breed only sighted a few times over the centuries).
- Everyone in England finds Scottish accents annoying and difficult to understand. There's a reason she refuses to lose hers.
- She doesn't learn about Finland, or Norway, or Sweden, because they don't exist. Neither do any of the islands in the Mediterranean, or most of the West Coast of America.
- She does, however, learn about the United Federation of The Pacific, because they and China might go to war any day now.
- 2 +2 = 4. Maybe.
- Every so often, there are these blimps that sort of float over England and then disappear. No one's actually sure where they're from.
- She learns three different versions of German, one for each year she's taken it. She doesn't remember that - each time she learns a new version, it's the one that's always existed.
- There's something wrong with her. Everyone says so.
- She doesn't learn that there's something wrong with the world - that's just something she knows, instinctively, like she knows that there should be stars in the sky, that the Van Gogh exhibit at the museum is missing a painting, and that she used to have parents even if she can't remember them and there aren't any photos and nobody ever talks about them. Everyone has parents, don't they?
- Then again, she isn't everybody. That's obvious enough.
Re: a world without stars
Date: 2010-06-29 06:05 pm (UTC)Re: a world without stars
Date: 2010-06-29 08:57 pm (UTC)Re: a world without stars
Date: 2010-06-29 07:27 pm (UTC)The United Federation of the Pacific!! Oh absolutely. 2+2=??!??
each time she learns a new version, it's the one that's always existed.
YES, OMG.
So I gotta wonder if those early voyages by vikings and Polynesians, by Magellan and Columbus and Vasco de Gama ever took place, because weren't they navigating by stars? Did the Age of Sail ever exist? The Age of Discovery. And how many books and poems and songs don't exist now because they relied heavily on star metaphors? The star is an INTEGRAL SYMBOL, like, everywhere. How does our mythology warp without it? If we have to "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star", then what did little prodigy Mozart do variations of? Are the names in Hollywood's Walk of Fame now inscribed in a different shape?
Do you remember the Hitchhiker's Guide book where there was a planet where the sky was just a blank space, so no one ever paid attention to it? Earth has become that! What is the myth of the sky without stars? What does it all MEAN?!
Re: a world without stars
Date: 2010-06-29 09:57 pm (UTC)they probably didn't happen! America wasn't settled until there was steam or something! ALL SORTS OF CRAZY THINGS. The Age of Sail and Discovery were curtailed by having to go along land. there aren't any more stories of constellations. (Sam and Dean didn't spend hours watching the stars.)
"There's nothing but black up there," Aunt Sharon says gently, and Amelia shakes her head. It's like double vision, heady, lights printed onto the sky in the back of her mind.
"There wasn't always," she says. She is only seven. She doesn't know yet what the look on her aunt's face means.