6x02 Day of the Moon (Grading/Discussion) (SPOILERS!!)

[RevdKathy]

Wrong thread. Nothing to see!

 

[ITL]

Wrong thread. Nothing to see!

Your ninja-edit didn't get past me! I SEEN it!

 

[Skellington]

When's the last time you saw a heroic depiction of Richard Nixon? (although Watergate aside he did quite a lot of good things). Mark Shepherd equally good as he was on Dollhouse and BSG

Seems a little ruthless of the Doc to have everyone kill the silence on sight?

Now, do we suspect there's some form of link between Ben and Glory?

There's nothing new under the sun, at least where the NuWhoniverse relates to the Buffyverse.

 

[ITL]

When's the last time you saw a heroic depiction of Richard Nixon? (although Watergate aside he did quite a lot of good things). Mark Shepherd equally good as he was on Dollhouse and BSG

Seems a little ruthless of the Doc to have everyone kill the silence on sight?

Now, do we suspect there's some form of link between Ben and Glory?

There's nothing new under the sun, at least where the NuWhoniverse relates to the Buffyverse.

So... Ben... is Glory?

 

[Skellington]

^ Well, I think that we've covered that. Now on to more pressing matters. Do we suspect that there may be some kind of connection between Ben and Glory?

 

[Australis]

IMPORTANT POINT!

Watching the repeat here, I noticed a line I hadn't before, when the Silent was talking to Amy in the demi_TARDIS, he said,

"We do you honour. You will bring the Silence."

Hmm. What the hell's that about.

And River's line to Rory after shooting all the Silents:

"Did my old feller see that?"

Combined with that kiss, that's husband and wife.

Oh, and most important, when River stops firing... LENS FLARE!

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Yeah, I noticed the "honored" line the second time. I can't wait to learn more about that particular tidbit...

 

[Gov Kodos]

IMPORTANT POINT!

Watching the repeat here, I noticed a line I hadn't before, when the Silent was talking to Amy in the demi_TARDIS, he said,

"We do you honour. You will bring the Silence."

Hmm. What the hell's that about.

And River's line to Rory after shooting all the Silents:

"Did my old feller see that?"

Combined with that kiss, that's husband and wife.

Oh, and most important, when River stops firing... LENS FLARE!

Interesting line, I'll have to go back now. 'Silence in the Library' I wonder if Moff's been telling us who the Silence is all along.

 

[Neroon]

IMPORTANT POINT!

Watching the repeat here, I noticed a line I hadn't before, when the Silent was talking to Amy in the demi_TARDIS, he said,

"We do you honour. You will bring the Silence."

Hmm. What the hell's that about.

And River's line to Rory after shooting all the Silents:

"Did my old feller see that?"

Combined with that kiss, that's husband and wife.

Oh, and most important, when River stops firing... LENS FLARE!

Interesting line, I'll have to go back now. 'Silence in the Library' I wonder if Moff's been telling us who the Silence is all along.

I remembered the line from the first time, because the group with whom I was watching it immediately speculated that it was connected to Amy's pregnancy. Of course with all of the influence from The Silents(ce) .... perhaps she was pregnant, they took the baby in its earlier stages, and are using the spacesuit as some sort of an incubator. They could easily have wiped that from her memory. Then again what is it that seems to be confusing the Tardis' scanning function?

 

[Newspaper Taxi]

Oh and this is my friend River. Nice hair, clever, has her own gun. Oh, and unlike me she really doesn't mind shooting people. I shouldn't like that, kinda do a bit.

The man who abhors violence, never carrying a gun, but this is the truth, Doctor: you take ordinary people and you fashion them into weapons. Behold your Children of Time, transformed into murderers. I made the Daleks, Doctor -- you made this.

The Doctor, the man who keeps running, never looking back because he dare not, out of shame. This is my final victory, Doctor. I have shown you yourself.

The Eleventh Doctor has accepted the darkest aspect of his own nature.

 

[MLJames]

IMPORTANT POINT!

Watching the repeat here, I noticed a line I hadn't before, when the Silent was talking to Amy in the demi_TARDIS, he said,

"We do you honour. You will bring the Silence."

Hmm. What the hell's that about.

And River's line to Rory after shooting all the Silents:

"Did my old feller see that?"

Combined with that kiss, that's husband and wife.

Oh, and most important, when River stops firing... LENS FLARE!

Interesting line, I'll have to go back now. 'Silence in the Library' I wonder if Moff's been telling us who the Silence is all along.

I remembered the line from the first time, because the group with whom I was watching it immediately speculated that it was connected to Amy's pregnancy. Of course with all of the influence from The Silents(ce) .... perhaps she was pregnant, they took the baby in its earlier stages, and are using the spacesuit as some sort of an incubator. They could easily have wiped that from her memory. Then again what is it that seems to be confusing the Tardis' scanning function?

I had a weird thought about that when I noticed River having the same type of "morning sickness" bout that Amy had: that the child is somehow shifting back and forth between them (although why that would be happening is anybody's guess).

Also, somebody should have done a little fact checking (or proofreading) while writing this episode. The tv announcer on the moon walk says that everybody watched Apollo 11 lift off 5 days earlier. Umm... no. Uh uh. Liftoff on July 16, landing on July 20. That's four days, people.

 

[Checkmate]

Also, somebody should have done a little fact checking (or proofreading) while writing this episode. The tv announcer on the moon walk says that everybody watched Apollo 11 lift off 5 days earlier. Umm... no. Uh uh. Liftoff on July 16, landing on July 20. That's four days, people.

16 - 1
17 - 2
18 - 3
19 - 4
20 - 5

 

[Photoman15]

Also, somebody should have done a little fact checking (or proofreading) while writing this episode. The tv announcer on the moon walk says that everybody watched Apollo 11 lift off 5 days earlier. Umm... no. Uh uh. Liftoff on July 16, landing on July 20. That's four days, people.

16 - 1
17 - 2
18 - 3
19 - 4
20 - 5

16 - 0 - LIFTOFF
17 - LIFTOFF was 1 day earlier
18 - LIFTOFF was 2 days earlier
19 - LIFTOFF was 3 days earlier
20 - LIFTOFF was 4 days earlier

If you (you meaning anyone) are going to correct someone, at least be ... ah.. correct.

 

[Checkmate]

<shrugs> It's a common mistake people like you make all the time.

The launch occured at around in the morning at 9:30am eastern, and the landing occurred around 10:30pm at night. By 10:30pm on the 16th, it was effectively Day #1. 17th = Day #2. 18th = Day #3. 19th = Day #4. 20th = Day #5. These aren't scientists talking. They're reporters talking to the average person. It was five days ago to them.

I'm sorry that you have trouble understanding that, but your inability to wrap your head around it doesn't mean you're right.

 

[MacLeod]

Just be glad Doctor Who isn't a 22-episode season, or their heads would explode. I guess some people can't handle the idea of progressive storytelling. Or telenovellas. Frankly, I'll be quite happy if that woman in the door isn't revealed until the 50th anniversary episode, with little clues given along the way. Moffat won't wait that long, but just as the first episode of Series 5 set up the first episode of Series 6, I wouldn't put it past him to begin sowing the seeds for Series 7 now.

What bugs me though are these are the same critics who adored Life on Mars, Ashes to Ashes and LOST despite the fact they were far brutal with the lack of answers until the end and there stories took 2, 3 and 6 years compared to the several months this one will take.

A few other comments - how does a lone child get from Florida to New York in 9 months?

I think the Doctor said it best

"People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually—from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint—it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly timey wimey stuff."

I.e best not to think about it, or maybe only a few seconds past for her whilst the rest of the world experiened 9 months.

 

[Photoman15]

<shrugs> It's a common mistake people like you make all the time.

The launch occured at around in the morning at 9:30am eastern, and the landing occurred around 10:30pm at night. By 10:30pm on the 16th, it was effectively Day #1. 17th = Day #2. 18th = Day #3. 19th = Day #4. 20th = Day #5. These aren't scientists talking. They're reporters talking to the average person. It was five days ago to them.

I'm sorry that you have trouble understanding that, but your inability to wrap your head around it doesn't mean you're right.

No, at 10:30 PM on the 16th it was still 0 Days since the launch. You can't make up new counting rules just to back up a small error. A 13 hour time elapse is not a day when it falls on the same date

 

[Checkmate]

Tell yourself whatever the Hell you want, you're still wrong as far as this is concerned.

By your logic, no one can come home and complain about having "a hard day's work" because they haven't had a day's work yet. It's Day 0! Herp a derp!

 

[Photoman15]

And no one comes home from a "hard day's work" and says it's been a day since I've been home.

Just an FYI, I'm saying that if they said 5 days since launch, they were wrong, and the moon landing was NOT at 10:30 at night. It was during the day. I watched it, live in NY.