Well, wonders never cease

[drakyndra]

And in a twist that is shocking to, oh, no-one in particular, we have our first bit of Steven Moffat as boss Who-wank.

The actually shocking bit? Rather than being related to his shipping proclivities, the wank is courtesy of the mad rantings of one Lawrence Miles. (I mean, snarling, predatory Scottishness? Seriously?)

...Which is a bit odd, because there's some seriously crazy stuff come up from the episode. Mostly related to River Song, guest du jour, who is either an evil whore or secretly everyone from Rose to the Rani in disguise, depending on who you ask.

And on speaking of Mr Moffat, I was having some seriously disturbing dreams about creepy abandoned buildings last night, as well as small children with unnatural powers. And I haven't even watched his new episode yet. I don't think that's quite fair...

And on a completely unrelated topic, I'm going to post the dates of when all my end of semester stuff is due here, so I have it all in one place.

Creative Writing: Monday June 9 (3000 words Creative, 1000 exogesis)
Power, Ideology and Inequality: Friday June 13 (2500 Ethnographic Essay)
Personal and Social Development 3: Thursday June 19 (2hr exam, 2:15pm)
Research Methods 3: Monday June 23 (3hr exam, 9:30am)

Comments

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

My spec is: she's not evil or anyone in disguise, she's exactly what she appears to be, his girlfriend/wife from the future, and she dies at the end of the next episode (so when he meets her later he spends the whole of their relationship knowing when exactly he loses her) - it fits with the DWM comparison to the 'theme of love and loss' in TGiF, and Lizo's statement about the ending being 'exceptionally moving and emotional'.

And if that spec turns out to be right, fandom should go nuclear approximately 5 seconds after the end credits.

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

I'm in complete agreement with that spec, as it sounds exceptionally Moffat-esque to me.

...And yet, I bet that the majority of fics that get written featuring her will be retconning her into be Rose/whoever, or making her evil. *sigh*

[casirafics.livejournal.com]

Either that, or whatever he has to do to resolve things in pt. 2 ends up wiping out their entire future timeline together and he's left with a heartbreaking goodbye and an empty book. Something like that.

Or, y'know, Moff could surprise us all and have everything work out all sunshine-and-rainbow-y, but somehow I doubt it. :)

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

I hadn't even thought of that.

Yep, that'd definitely pile on the trauma.

That said, Moff was responsible for "Everyone lives!" and talked RTD into making Jenny live and the end of New Earth end without a kill-em-all, so while he does angst, he tends to leave people alive...

[casirafics.livejournal.com]

True that. It's just that after GItF, I don't trust him not to leave me weeping. ;) I do trust him with a good story, though, so we'll see what happens....

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

I can't honestly come up with a way to end things satisfactorily that doesn't end up with River dead or gone.

But then, I'm not Steven Moffat.

[evilgeniuslady.livejournal.com]

That is sort of my spec too. It's funny how fandom's become so used to trying to figure out impossible plot twists that sometimes the really obvious solution seems like the most implausible one.

[biichan.livejournal.com]

That's what I believe too.