Previous episode: The Impossible Astronaut.
For the Doctor, tinkering around in the mechanics of a NASA command module is a bit like putting up an IKEA cabinet—”there’s always a bit left over, isn’t there?”
Oh, dear.
Previous episode: A Christmas Carol.
IN MEMORY OF ELISABETH SLADEN. 1948-2011.
Ooh, this is good. This is extremely very good. Almost entirely too good, if I’m honest. Because the Doctor is dead. Of course, before he kicks the bucket, he spends nearly 200 years being deliberately ridiculous, as Amy calls it: he lets a lovely lady paint a portrait of him, almost-naked, hides under her voluminous skirt, completely naked, gets taken prisoner, escapes, and appears in a Hardy and Laurel movie; all to make sure he shows up in some history books that Amy and Rory end up reading. He even goes and does ‘Jim the Fish’ with River, knowing full well he’s going to die. That is cold, Doctor.
You know, this isn’t nearly as bad as it looks.
QUOTING THE SUN, AS TWEETED BY IAN WYLIE:
Doctor Who- who's going to be killed off? http://bit.ly/eMnMp5—
Ian Wylie (@ianwylie) April 04, 2011
Last night, two things were revealed by the BBC:
A prequel to the first episode of Series 6, The Impossible Astronaut, and an “iconic image,” downloadable as a 16×9 or 4×3 wallpaper.
The image:
The prequel:
No, I’m not scared out of my pants. Not at all, why would you think that? Because I’m currently hiding my face in the collar of my jumper, you say? Or because, last night, when I watched this, I was alone in my almost entirely dark room, and so I shrieked like the sissy that I am when the camera cut around to that thing that is presumably the Silence, or a representation of it?
Pah, trifles.
Anyway. Am I just confused or is that Nixon? He sounds like him, and he looks like him. If so, it’s a nice jab that Moffat paired a taped voice with that old kink he has that’s terrified us ever since The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances—creepy little children calling phones they shouldn’t be able to. Also:
There are no monsters in the Oval Office.
Political commentary, Steven? Why, yes, Doctor Who has a tradition of bringing down the government.
