nuWho prediction

[avevale_intelligencer]

Yes, we'll be watching it. It says so in SFX, so it must be true. :)

On the basis of what I've seen of the trailers and such:

Baby!Doc will crash in somebody's garden. Their little daughter comes out and talks to him, says "Can I come with you?" and he says "Five minutes, I promise." He then vanishes into the TARDIS and doesn't come out for five to ten YEARS, thus giving the little girl, who is of course Amy Pond, the chance to make him look embarrassed and guilty and hangdog because he LET HER DOWN. Because nuWho has always been all about what a rotten liar, troublemaker and all-round stupid unreliable waste of space the Doctor is. He lies to little girls, you know.

Any bets?

Maybe it'll be the last of the Doctor-hating...but I somehow doubt it.

Comments

[the-gwenzilliad.livejournal.com]

*grin*

I figured your prediction would be, "I'm going to HATE it!" :D

[zanda-myrande.livejournal.com]

Not necessarily. I may simply be indifferent. Or Moffat may do something amazing and throw out the RTD playbook completely and I may end up loving it, and just disgruntled that the Time Lords all look so young these days. If I knew I was going to hate it, I would arrange to have other plans. :)

[keristor.livejournal.com]

I'm expecting to watch it at Eastercon with everyone else there. Or if not I'll torrent it to watch in a couple of weeks (as in I ain't bovvered, as a certain ex-companion didn't quite get round to saying). I think I watched the Christmas episodes several weeks after they were aired (and they were still musty and could have done with more airing!).

(Seriously, even with Real Who I would tape it (the later seasons when VCRs were around) and watch it 'whenever'. In fact I'm not sure that there have been any series which I have "had to see immediately" ever since I've had the means to time-shift them. I'm much more likely to do that with new books and haunt the bookshop waiting for them.)

[aunty_marion]

I'm not expecting to be anywhere else on Saturday, so I expect I'll be watching it (FSVO 'watching', of course - I'll almost certainly be knitting at the same time!).

However, thanks to last Sunday's nMC rehearsal, I am now writing a Doctor Who filk of 'Acts of Creation'. Kill me now?

[aunty_marion]

P.S. For 'writing' read 'trying to write'...

[redaxe.livejournal.com]

Considering how many times we heard "I'm sorry. I'm so sorry" over the past four years, I'll guess the title to be "Acts of Contrition." :-)

[aunty_marion]

*g* Actually, no. Though now you've mentioned it, I might see if I can work something in along those lines...

[valydiarosada.livejournal.com]

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!

[redaxe.livejournal.com]

Would it be horrible of me to say that I just want to get to the River Song eps and bypass the rest of the Baby Doctor?

Slightly more seriously, this is Moffat, not RTD, so he gets at least helf a series' grace to find his feet. I hope he does so sooner, though.

[keristor.livejournal.com]

Well, since I said much the same about the Freema/Martha eps of both DW and Turchwad last year I can't criticise. And I am hoping that "the Doctors'[1] daughter" makes a reappearance (she is srsly kewt, and having her regenerate at the end of the episode was apparently Moffat's idea so he presumably Has Plans).

[1] Yes, the plural possessive is correct. She was not only "the Doctor's daughter" in the episode, but the actress is the Real Life daughter of the fifth Doctor.