Well, I hadn't until I ran across it this evening. I liked it very much, and wish the scene had made it into the televised story; might have made me feel a bit easier about the ending

SPOILERS if you haven't seen the end of S7 yet:



It leaves me in a slight quandary, however. On the one hand, I think this is now my personal "fanon", as of the moment I saw it. On the other, it invalidates a central plank of the story I was already starting to write for the Eleven/Romana ficathon. Ah, well.

So, er...interesting.

( SPOILERS ENSUE!!! )

Anyway - only so many shopping days left to Who's return and a fresh start, which is probably needed at this point. Can't wait. And then 2013, which I still feel needs emphatically marking somehow, by us, even if the BBC's efforts don't come up to snuff.

To sort-of quote one of Eleven's more embarrassing friends, this isn't the end. It isn't even the beginning of the end. It's merely the end of the beginning...

Or to put it another way, it's the last part of Pond Life:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxXAY7LyjcM

In which all is not well in the House of Pond. I think this is our direct intro into the beginning of S7. It has that sort of to-be-fully-explained-later vibe about it, I think.

Personally, I think the events of this part probably stem from a disagreement over that poor Ood and his predicament. I still can't get over that...

I may have promised more nonsense relating to the impending series tonight. I may have lied, a bit. Instead, content yourselves with marvelling at the cutting edge Doctor Who 50th Anniversary artwork the Beeb has commissioned (I was alerted to this by listening to the extremely droll Radio Free Skaro podcast - check it out if you've got some time to kill):

http://www.doctorwhonews.net/2012/08/tealadydesign-bbcworldwide-artwork-220812200008.html

I was going to offer my carefully considered critique of said artwork, but on reflection "huh, could've knocked that up in Photoshop* in half an hour and who on Earth decided which monsters got in?" probably about covers it. ;D

Oh...and ONE DAY TO GO!

*or its free-to-download near-equivalent, anyway


EDIT: As lost_spook points out in the comments section, I could almost certainly not, in fact, produce better artwork than that myself even with the best computer graphics programme in the world with all the bells and whistles, and certainly not within a thirty-minute time frame. Nevertheless, I still don't think it's that good. Something about the differently-scaled Doctor portraits jumbled together like that is just unpleasing to my eyes, or something. Apologies for any confusion caused. ;D

I notice my flist seem to have got bored of "Pond Life". It's not exactly the greatest thing Who has ever produced, I'll admit. Still, this might raise a sort of apathetic half-smile (and spot the perhaps-sorta oldschool Who in-joke):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pm0dqb7rKpk

So, to recap yesterday's rambling narrative, I was just saying that, as many other fans have said, NuWho S6 wasn't really as good, overall, as the mostly-magnificent S5, although probably not for any of the reasons the would-be cognoscenti were pontificating over at the time. What it was not, however many fans may have said so, was terrible (in my opinion), yea even as terrible as S2, or even a game of two halves (as S3 and S4 arguably were, again in my opinion). It was, generally, a mixed bag, I think, but not to the extent that would turn me off the Eleven-Moffat project or anything (and let us be clear, here I am discussing Moffat's body of work in relation to NuWho, not whatever he might say or think or be like in real life or indeed his work on other projects). Anyway, and partially in response to a conversation that started on the previous post's comments, tomorrow I will wax lyrical about some of the stories I really liked in S6, but for now I will content myself with sharing with you...

( My Three Least Favourite S6 Stories )

Three days remaining! That is all!

Good to see the Doctor's taking that "staying under the radar" thing seriously:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtfvf7j9WKI

Only five days to go...