Letters to/from assorted corners of the universe

[captainsblog]

Dear Cranky Old Guy at the Gym:

Forgive me. It's the one day I forgot my player and headphones, and it had to be a holiday with an early closing so I didn't have time to go back and get them. But why is this the day I wind up next to you on an elliptical with you huffing and puffing and half-counting out loud for 20 freakin' minutes?

Know how that other stuff you use tells you to tell your doctor if it makes you, um, more important for more than four hours? Same kinda concept here, only it's what I don't want to HEAR, rather than see, in this case.

Not a beautiful day in your neighborhood,
The guy on your right

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To the no fewer than three clients/opposing attorneys who called/faxed/emailed me today:

It's a holiday. Go remember something. I know, the one of you's in Canada. Remember that Victoria Day was a week ago today; close your eyes and think of Torchwood or something.

Cranky despite the fact that, yes, I did work too today (but didn't bother anyone else with it),
RCS, Esq.

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Two words, Moff: The huh?

I don't mean just what was THAT episode all about. I'm still not ready even to process all of that diversion and distraction and Plastic Fantastic Lover-y (or as one blogger put it, "Ugh. This is getting way too fleshy-weshy"), and I pretty much have to go back now and watch all six eps so far to have a prayer of figuring out where Ganger A. and Ganger D. may, or may not, have made previous appearances (along with spotting Eyepatch Lady and the weird hanging things and the 800 other odd clues I'm told are out there). If I'm lucky, I won't have to go back to LAST season, or to Nine or Five or Three and a Hawf to figure it all out.

No, I'm mainly huh-ing about this sudden fascination for cliffhangers, guy.  I'd figured last week's would carry over once it was clear, 30-odd minutes in, that it wasn't going to wrap neat and Neil-like in the remaining few, but. Dropping the A-bomb in the final moments of this one and carrying it into next week? Which, I now know, will also be the halfway of a two-parter that won't wrap up until September?!? How wibbly-wobbly is THAT?

At least I've got Torchwood starting in July to keep my mind from being totally burned through by acid. I suppose I'd better pick up some backstory on THAT, since I haven't watched a speck of it outside the Nine-and-Rose setup of i-tall with Vicky Her Unamused Self back in Season One.


Bad wolf-ily yours,
Ray

Comments

[liddle-oldman.livejournal.com]

Until the reboot, Dr. Who was *always* cliffhangers. Each story would last from two to, oh, six eps, and except for the last one, it'd be TA-DA and the BBC Orchestra until next week.

If that helps.

[captainsblog.livejournal.com]

It also had way more scarves and monochrome Daleks, but I don't especially need more of THOSE, either....

[nentikobe.livejournal.com]

but but... scarves are cool!

[plantmom.livejournal.com]

Lemme tell youse about my hoynia...

[platypus]

Lots of people think Amy was replaced in the spooky children's home, in that room where she kept losing time, but I think it must've happened either during the season break or during the time she spent on the run between the first two episodes. (Or, someone said, in the White House bathroom. Which, I have to say, would at least be perversely amusing.) After all, Amy in Impossible Astronaut thought she was pregnant; Amy in Day of the Moon thought it was a false alarm. Since three months elapsed between episodes and that's enough time for a possibly-pregnant person to gain some certainty, I'd conclude that DotM Amy has to be the Amyganger. (Who then had the extraordinary bad luck to get kidnapped again? Goodness. I have no idea what the relationship between whoever's holding Amy and the Silence might be. It would be stupid to re-kidnap her doppelganger, though.)

I think it is perhaps too obvious for the Doctorganger to have been the one who called them all together in TIA. But I don't know.

[firynze.livejournal.com]

Doctor Who Confidential says that she's been a replacement since the beginning of Series 6.

[firynze.livejournal.com]

"Close your eyes and think of Torchwood," HAH.

At some point, I need to get a music player to take to the gym. I like reading on the elliptical, and I find it hard to read and listen to music at the same time, but dear GOD am I tired of hearing the weight-jocks grunt.

I totally called who/what Eyepatch was. But man, what a cliffhanger.