So, my idea here is to capture for posterity (and bragging rights) my thought one of the things that the Doctor Who finale will hold.
Except, because blogs are editable it won't really be proof in any significant way should I turn out to be right.
Nevermind.
Silence will fall when the question is asked
Could the question be 'Doctor Who?' ?
Because that might tie into River knowing his actual name (see Silence in the Library - and is the title of River's final/first outing a coincedence?)
Plus, my personal theory on what the Doctor saw in Room 11 (see The God Complex) was himself, the only thing to truly terrify him, also possibly a connection to the Dream Lord (see Amy's Choice) and the Valeyard (see Trial of a Time Lord) and his general guilt over screwing up everyone's lives (see Let's Kill Hitler, and others)
The Question is apparently the oldest and first question of the universe, well, the Doctor is a time traveller and so could easily be perceivved as coming from the beginning of time to us linear species, but the Doctor also cause the Big Bang 2 (see The Big Bang) and rebooted the universe and so very literally was there at the start.
So that's my theory, and perhaps it's not faultless because it's twenty past one in the morning and I should be asleep, but it all just came to me.
Roll on Saturday, I can't wait to find out if I'm right!
Monday 26 September 2011
Friday 23 September 2011
Gratuitous Pony Post: Twilight Sparkle
Twice the Twilight, twice the Sparkle!
Here is my newest pony purchase, Fashion Style Twilight Sparkle, with her mini-me, regular Playful Ponies size Twi.
Twilight came packaged with a pink and gold fur trimmed cape, yellow and pink shoes and matching tiara, blue braclet/ring, four hair clips and a comb. Personally I think she displays better in the nuddy, though.
Twilight Sparkle looks like a star in her shimmery cape!(When she's wearing it, of course)
I do like the chunky size of the Fasion Style ponies compared to the teeny little ordinary ones, the hair especially is thick and lovely to play with. They're also closer to the size of G1 ponies, though the proportions are completely different. But the are sadly rather expensive, TRU sells Fashion Style ponies at £12.99 *gasp*, I doubt I'll get another until they go on sale.
Here is my newest pony purchase, Fashion Style Twilight Sparkle, with her mini-me, regular Playful Ponies size Twi.
Twilight came packaged with a pink and gold fur trimmed cape, yellow and pink shoes and matching tiara, blue braclet/ring, four hair clips and a comb. Personally I think she displays better in the nuddy, though.
Twilight Sparkle looks like a star in her shimmery cape!(When she's wearing it, of course)
I do like the chunky size of the Fasion Style ponies compared to the teeny little ordinary ones, the hair especially is thick and lovely to play with. They're also closer to the size of G1 ponies, though the proportions are completely different. But the are sadly rather expensive, TRU sells Fashion Style ponies at £12.99 *gasp*, I doubt I'll get another until they go on sale.
Monday 19 September 2011
Arrrrrr, me hearties!
So very behind in blog posts, but I have to celebrate Talk Like a Pirate Day
Really my gratuitous pony pic should be of Barnacle, the G1 Big Brother pony who is of course pirate themed, but I sadly don't have Barney in my collection, so instead I give you Baby Drummer playing dress up with a little hat I made from felt this afternoon specially for the occasion!
Really my gratuitous pony pic should be of Barnacle, the G1 Big Brother pony who is of course pirate themed, but I sadly don't have Barney in my collection, so instead I give you Baby Drummer playing dress up with a little hat I made from felt this afternoon specially for the occasion!
Sunday 11 September 2011
Possible new forum signature?
So I should be writing my thoughts on last night's Doctor Who episode (short version: loved it!) but I got distracted trying to make a new forum sig for the MLP Arena instead.
This is it so far, I may tweak it, I don't know yet, but I wanted to keep a note of all the people whose work went into making it.
Pony creator software: http://generalzoi.deviantart.com/#/d47efz4
UNIT logo (The Brig's cutie mark): http://www.shillpages.com/dw/other07.jpg
Doctor Whooves' cutie mark: http://maximillianveers.deviantart.com/art/5k-Dr-Whooves-Cutie-Mark-209303157
UNIT lab background: http://www.aftdownloads.co.uk/LAB.htm
And information on Doctor Whooves' correct FiM colour scheme: http://mlp.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_ponies Really cool, this, for a bit of screen accuracy!
I've altered the colour of the Brig slightly since last time, but stupidly not noted it *headdesk*.
Sarah's code: 2S2S00000099CEDDFFC49D00101593403EL153800700000381302217351B0E04107F3FCC004CB2
For those unaware this is a bit of a mess between Three's regeneration scene in Planet of the Spiders, Eleven's catchphrase about things being cool and Doctor Whooves is generally considered to be based on Ten; basically I don't know if I like that it's kinda messy like that. Also, Sarah is blue based on the outfit she wore in that scene, and I don't know what her cutie mark should be... reporter's notebook and pencil? Typewriter? Newspaper? Answers on a postcard, please.
This is it so far, I may tweak it, I don't know yet, but I wanted to keep a note of all the people whose work went into making it.
Pony creator software: http://generalzoi.deviantart.com/#/d47efz4
UNIT logo (The Brig's cutie mark): http://www.shillpages.com/dw/other07.jpg
Doctor Whooves' cutie mark: http://maximillianveers.deviantart.com/art/5k-Dr-Whooves-Cutie-Mark-209303157
UNIT lab background: http://www.aftdownloads.co.uk/LAB.htm
And information on Doctor Whooves' correct FiM colour scheme: http://mlp.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_ponies Really cool, this, for a bit of screen accuracy!
I've altered the colour of the Brig slightly since last time, but stupidly not noted it *headdesk*.
Sarah's code: 2S2S00000099CEDDFFC49D00101593403EL153800700000381302217351B0E04107F3FCC004CB2
For those unaware this is a bit of a mess between Three's regeneration scene in Planet of the Spiders, Eleven's catchphrase about things being cool and Doctor Whooves is generally considered to be based on Ten; basically I don't know if I like that it's kinda messy like that. Also, Sarah is blue based on the outfit she wore in that scene, and I don't know what her cutie mark should be... reporter's notebook and pencil? Typewriter? Newspaper? Answers on a postcard, please.
Friday 9 September 2011
Gratuitious Pony Post: Tea Leaf
Tea Leaf is famous in Ponyville for her tea parties, but she loves throwing slumber parties, too! She and her friends have so much fun playing games and watching movies, sometimes they never get to sleep at all!
As a big fan of A Nice Cup Of Tea, I couldn't have resisted this girl and thankfully I didn't have to because she was a gift.
I tend to call her Cuppa though, because where I'm from "Tea Leaf" is slang for "thief", besides which her cutie mark clearly has a tea bag, not loose leaf tea anyway.
Thursday 8 September 2011
Squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
David Tennant will be attending the Entertainment Media Show (http://entertainmentmediashow.com/) London on Sunday 2nd October.
YAY!
Also attending will be Arthur Darvill (Rory Williams), Alex Kingston (River Song), Georgia Moffett (Jenny, the Doctor's Daughter), Eve Myles (Gwen Cooper), Anneke Wills (Polly Wright) and many other Who related actors. Seriously, there're soooo many!
I'm booked and ready to go, if you want to be there too visit the Showmasters online shop for tickets.
I've been to about a dozen of these events in the past and they're always brilliantly run and a lot of fun, and they have a great array of dealers' stalls to check out too.
YAY!
Also attending will be Arthur Darvill (Rory Williams), Alex Kingston (River Song), Georgia Moffett (Jenny, the Doctor's Daughter), Eve Myles (Gwen Cooper), Anneke Wills (Polly Wright) and many other Who related actors. Seriously, there're soooo many!
I'm booked and ready to go, if you want to be there too visit the Showmasters online shop for tickets.
I've been to about a dozen of these events in the past and they're always brilliantly run and a lot of fun, and they have a great array of dealers' stalls to check out too.
Wednesday 7 September 2011
I clearly have too much time on my hands.
I found a wonderful G4 style pony creator on DeviantArt here: http://generalzoi.deviantart.com/#/d47efz4 and have had sooooo much fun playing with it.
Now, we all know about Doctor Whooves, but now I present Brig Pony!
(I feel there ought to be some awesome pony pun to be made out of his name, but if there is it escapes me)
Creation codes:
Pony:3L1Z0M5000216B2107060503900536CBCAM313F50800050251050304C60A290T00020102004CB2
Accessory:066CC66066CC66066CC66066CC66066CC6604E8FBAFFFF8C559591A066CC66066CC66066CC66
Pose:000342121000349012000350014000000000000357344012
Now, we all know about Doctor Whooves, but now I present Brig Pony!
(I feel there ought to be some awesome pony pun to be made out of his name, but if there is it escapes me)
Creation codes:
Pony:3L1Z0M5000216B2107060503900536CBCAM313F50800050251050304C60A290T00020102004CB2
Accessory:066CC66066CC66066CC66066CC66066CC6604E8FBAFFFF8C559591A066CC66066CC66066CC66
Pose:000342121000349012000350014000000000000357344012
Tuesday 6 September 2011
Gratuitous Pony Post: Ice Crystal
Ice Crystal loves the winter when the weather is bright and frosty. he freezes over the puddles and makes slides so that his friends can play.
Ice Crystal was my first ever adult male pony and is still my only Mountain Boy - and considering the prices MBs go for these days, that's unlikely to change! He's also the most handsome of the boys.
In my herd he was king of the ponies, sharing Dream Castle with his queen Majesty.
Sunday 4 September 2011
Doctor Who: Night Terrors (06.09)
Last night's episode of Doctor Who, Night Terrors, was one I had been eagerly awaiting. It was written by Mark Gatiss, whose work I have often enjoyed within Doctor Who and outside it, and the previews, going back some months now, with the creepy dolls looked amazing. Perhaps I was setting myself up for a fall then - expecting too much - because I found it all rather disappointing.
The plot starts well enough with the Doctor receiving a message via his psychic paper that reads "Please save me from the monsters" - which he obviously can't ignore despite Amy and Rory's complaints that they'd rather have "planets and history and stuff". Difficult to disagree with that sentiment and fatal to suggest that it won't be exciting if you can't then make it fantastic.
The message originates from a young boy called George, living in a non-descript flat modern day England. George is frightened of everything, his Dad says, and the coping mechanism is to put the scary things in the cupboard. George is not a normal boy though, and he unknowingly has the power to literally put anything in the cupboard, including Amy and Rory (who are scary because George overhears them joking about letting the monsters gobble him up).
And that's one of my complaints about the scare-factor, or lack thereof, in this episode. It's about things that George thinks are scary, but which actually aren't. So along with Amy and Rory, there's an old woman who the kid believes is a witch (and isn't), the noise of the lift which he thinks is like breathing (but is just the lift mechanism) and the landlord (who is pretty intimidating but not evil and arguably just doing his job). He's also afraid of old toys, which presumably explains the antique doll's house and peg dolls he's sent to the cupboard. But none of this scares me, and George is described as having irrational fears, by definition fears the viewer is unlikely to share.
My second complaint is the doll's house itself. Not only does it not look real - because it looks too real, no doll's house has so much detail and the out-of-scale toy props were few and far between - but aside from being dark it's not that creepy. It could have been a real house of horrors, albeit teatime horrors, but the only halfway frighening thing were the dolls. Clearly effort had been put into them, both in design and the way the actors moved and they way that one touch could turn an unfortunate into a doll too was a nice visual, but they didn't make sense. Why did they change you? Are we expected to believe that George was afraid of being turned into a doll?
It seemed that most of the doll's house scenes were just a way to give Amy and Rory something to do while Matt Smith got on with the real work. And he was brilliant. He has a fantastic way of sort-of-kind-of being on a child's wavelength when he speaks to them (and there have been more child actors in his tenure than ever before) and his time with little George was nicely pitched. He also worked extremely well with Daniel Mays, playing Alex, George's dad, a man rather at he end of his rope and clearly ready to believe anything if it's going to help him out. Yet, the discovery of exactly why George had such power, which should have been rather chilling, somehow ended up flat. Alright, so aliens in Doctor Who is not a twist that anyone will hold the front page for, but discovering that your son is not your son should have had more impact. Likewise, the denoument of Alex acceptig his 'son' and George feeling safe enough to let them back into the real world was rather unsatisfying and definitely too easily glossed over by all involved.
Two things I would like to compliment though were the moody lighing and claustrophobic direction, very nicely done. And the music, a creepy lullaby which was written specifically for the episode and which gives us the only really goosebumpy moment, right at the end, when we hear the final lines:
"Tick Tock goes the clock
Even for the Doctor..."
(Though ending yet another episode with the TARDIS scanner screen reminding us of The Important Arc is getting silly.)
Favourite line: "So, we're either inside a doll's house, or this is a refuge for dirty posh people who eat wooden food. Or termites, giant termites trying to get on the property ladder." - The Doctor and his awesome deductive powers.
Second favourite line: "I've got to invent a setting for wood, it's embarrassing" - The Doctor on his sonic screwdriver's short comings.
Having made my complaints about the details, I have to admit there's a couple of nice messages to this. In the end it's a combination of George facing his fears and Alex showing his love for his son that saves the day rather than the Doctor and a macguffin. And that's quite lovely, really, it's just a shame the rest of plotting is such a mess.
The plot starts well enough with the Doctor receiving a message via his psychic paper that reads "Please save me from the monsters" - which he obviously can't ignore despite Amy and Rory's complaints that they'd rather have "planets and history and stuff". Difficult to disagree with that sentiment and fatal to suggest that it won't be exciting if you can't then make it fantastic.
The message originates from a young boy called George, living in a non-descript flat modern day England. George is frightened of everything, his Dad says, and the coping mechanism is to put the scary things in the cupboard. George is not a normal boy though, and he unknowingly has the power to literally put anything in the cupboard, including Amy and Rory (who are scary because George overhears them joking about letting the monsters gobble him up).
And that's one of my complaints about the scare-factor, or lack thereof, in this episode. It's about things that George thinks are scary, but which actually aren't. So along with Amy and Rory, there's an old woman who the kid believes is a witch (and isn't), the noise of the lift which he thinks is like breathing (but is just the lift mechanism) and the landlord (who is pretty intimidating but not evil and arguably just doing his job). He's also afraid of old toys, which presumably explains the antique doll's house and peg dolls he's sent to the cupboard. But none of this scares me, and George is described as having irrational fears, by definition fears the viewer is unlikely to share.
My second complaint is the doll's house itself. Not only does it not look real - because it looks too real, no doll's house has so much detail and the out-of-scale toy props were few and far between - but aside from being dark it's not that creepy. It could have been a real house of horrors, albeit teatime horrors, but the only halfway frighening thing were the dolls. Clearly effort had been put into them, both in design and the way the actors moved and they way that one touch could turn an unfortunate into a doll too was a nice visual, but they didn't make sense. Why did they change you? Are we expected to believe that George was afraid of being turned into a doll?
It seemed that most of the doll's house scenes were just a way to give Amy and Rory something to do while Matt Smith got on with the real work. And he was brilliant. He has a fantastic way of sort-of-kind-of being on a child's wavelength when he speaks to them (and there have been more child actors in his tenure than ever before) and his time with little George was nicely pitched. He also worked extremely well with Daniel Mays, playing Alex, George's dad, a man rather at he end of his rope and clearly ready to believe anything if it's going to help him out. Yet, the discovery of exactly why George had such power, which should have been rather chilling, somehow ended up flat. Alright, so aliens in Doctor Who is not a twist that anyone will hold the front page for, but discovering that your son is not your son should have had more impact. Likewise, the denoument of Alex acceptig his 'son' and George feeling safe enough to let them back into the real world was rather unsatisfying and definitely too easily glossed over by all involved.
Two things I would like to compliment though were the moody lighing and claustrophobic direction, very nicely done. And the music, a creepy lullaby which was written specifically for the episode and which gives us the only really goosebumpy moment, right at the end, when we hear the final lines:
"Tick Tock goes the clock
Even for the Doctor..."
(Though ending yet another episode with the TARDIS scanner screen reminding us of The Important Arc is getting silly.)
Favourite line: "So, we're either inside a doll's house, or this is a refuge for dirty posh people who eat wooden food. Or termites, giant termites trying to get on the property ladder." - The Doctor and his awesome deductive powers.
Second favourite line: "I've got to invent a setting for wood, it's embarrassing" - The Doctor on his sonic screwdriver's short comings.
Having made my complaints about the details, I have to admit there's a couple of nice messages to this. In the end it's a combination of George facing his fears and Alex showing his love for his son that saves the day rather than the Doctor and a macguffin. And that's quite lovely, really, it's just a shame the rest of plotting is such a mess.
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