More Updates...

• Sometime this week, I'm signing up for my first semester of classes in the zoo. Hallelujah! Finally!
• Kirby has informed me that A.) Sugar Heart's coma is going to last a while; and B.) if she dies, I'm out of the game.
• "Shadows of the Republic" was supposed to be on Wednesday. I was running late so I headed directly to the library instead of meeting in the Batcave first. Bad idea. Zach canceled the session cause no one showed up at the Batcave.
• The Doctor Who premiere was last Saturday and I don't know how to feel about it. I was excited for Clara cause she was going to be a computer geek, but to get her geekiness from an outside source was, in my opinion, disingenuous. Thanks a lot, Moffat!
• I got an email from the Huffington Post STEM group and they should be assigning new pairs soon. I think I have a 1/20 change to get assigned this round, wich is awesome, but I'm probably remembering the figures wrong. Oh well.
• Neil deGrasse Tyson was speaking at UF last night. like half the game night group headed over to see if we could grab tickets, but they were all gone. Since we were in the area, I swung by the Aquarium shop. THEY ARE HIRING! I might have a chance to get in. *squee* that would be so cool to work there.

That's pretty much it. TTYL.

Doctor Who Theories, pt 2

Now that Moffat has given the fandom a bit of information about season Fnarg3 (7), I can begin to speculate on what will happen. But first, here's the tally from my last batch of predictions.

The red car that the Doctor reclines on from “The Impossible Astronaut” is a TARDIS- not answered


“A Good Man Goes to War” -not even a prediction


Running- not answered


Voiceover- not answered


Flesh!Amy command signal -not answered


I did really good, right?

Yah, no.

But with the Moff's most recent comments about Amy and Rory leaving the show, I have a couple ideas.


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Torchwood, S1 E1

I finally started watching Torchwood.

The bad thing about being in the Doctor Who fandom for a while before starting this show is I know all the ships already. I'm rooting for Gwen/Rhys and Captain Jack/Ianto and I HAVEN'T EVEN MET THEM YET! I've seen two(?) episodes with Jack.

Throughout the episode I'm going 'Is that Ianto? KISS JACK! DO IT NAO! Oh, sorry Owen' and it is really distracting.

Also, Owen is an ass.

That is all.

My tl;dr religion story for yall

I grew up in a very religious house (Ma is an assistant minister in the church) and for the longest time I thought I was absolutly sure in my religion. There was one time that Ma was sick and I prayed and she was healed the next day. But I still had doubts.

Every year the middle school/high school group does this big "amazing (g)race" thing over a weekend before it gets too hot outside. My team and I had been running back and forth along the beach for almost two hours. I asked them to hold up a bit so I could rest and they wouldn't. And then I go and whine "But I'm freakin TIRED!" Well obviously that was the wrong thing to say because at the next pit stop where we had to wait for all the teams to get in, I was made to apologize in front of the entire group of participants for my "Foul and sinful mouth". I tried to explain that, A: freakin was not a cussword, and B: it was a linguistic intensifier, I did not mean to blaspheme. They wouldn't believe me. And then our team was forcefully delayed, causing us to end up in next to last place.

Then in biology I made this awesome group of friends. If you can imagine the guys from "The Big Bang Theory", we were them, only in high school (I was Wolowitz). That's when I realized that all non-Christians were NOT after my souls to drag me down to hell with them. And then I realized that the 'miracle' I had performed when I was six had absolutely nothing to do with me praying. Ma had had one of those 24-hour flus (a/0!!).

After a lot of soul searching throughout the next two years I realized I pretty much fit the bill on my internal beliefs as a pagan. When I tried to tell Ma that, she ended up using it as part of her sermon on how all pagans were going to hell. When I confided in someone I thought I could trust about my suicidal thoughts, they ended up all across the congregation in less then a week. When that happened, I knew I had to get out of there.

AND THEN I watched "Time of Angels"/"Flesh and Stone". I'm fine with blood and guts type horror, psychological, not so much. There aint much light in the house and my ma has a bunch of angel statuettes scattered around the great room. you can probably imagine why this was not a good idea. I had to come to terms with the fact that I would die eventually before I could use the head at night again. I realized that I don't think I would go anywhere really after death.

Since then I have realized that I'm a pagan/agnostic/atheist combo. little bits of here and there stuck together to make one whole. When I try to explain this to any resident that asks at work, I get the 'you going to hell!!!!' look from them and a pamphlet. But I have a new job that pays more lined up and I am moving in December so I only got a couple more months to deal with this crap.

tl;dr summary: lots of crap + TV = pagan/agnostic/atheist

Doctor Who Theories

Posting my Doctor Who theories for the back half of series 6.

The red car that the Doctor reclines on from “The Impossible Astronaut” is a TARDIS
The chameleon circuit broke in the very first serial, but who can say that it wasn’t fixed at some point after that, with all of the consoles regenerating. I don’t think that Amy even knew that there was a chameleon circuit, so when she helped reboot the universe, the Doctor’s TARDIS-that-has-a-broken-chameleon-circuit may have become Amy’s TARDIS-that-is-completely-normal-and-functional-in-every-way. There is precedent for the Doctor to keep something that he likes working on the TARDIS, when it technically isn’t supposed to work that way (i.e. the handbrake). After X-ty number of years with it as a police box, I’d probably get attached to that form as well.

It doesn’t even have to be the Doctor’s TARDIS. There’s the Silence TARDIS and the TARDIS remains in the Bubbleverse.

“A Good Man Goes to War”
Who is the good man? The obvious choice is the Doctor, but he does not consider himself a good man. Who does that leave, Rory? He is a nurse, almost the perfect definition of a good man (well to a human. Sorry, Strax. You will be missed). But the real question is, does Rory have cleanly defined rules?

Which War? “A Good Man Goes to War” had no war. It had a battle. One battle. One battle is not a war. Is the war mentioned the Doctor-vs-Kovarian war or the get-Melody-back war. They overlap but have entirely different motives behind the actions on both sides.

What does Moffat mean by “goes to war”? Is it goes as in “travels to a place of battle”, or goes as in “wages a campaign”? We had traveling to multiple places of battle in the mid-series finale: the Battle of Zarathustra, the Slitheen Crime War, and the Battle of Demons Run. We also see the first hints of the Kovarian campaign, a great big plot thing with armies against the Doctor.

Running
Leap here, but what if, in true Moffetian fashion, a seemingly innocuous bit gets twisted into importance. We have the “Watch us run” voice-over from SitL/FotD. The Doctor talking about how he’s been running for a long time in Impossible Astronaut, and now the Doctor pretending to and Lorna Bucket actually reminiscing about how they ran in the Gamma Forests in GMGtW.

Voiceover
River’s voiceover poem in A Good Man Goes to War is being read to CAL and the children from Silence in the Library. It’s an idea. I’m just putting it out there.

Flesh!Amy command signal
The offhand mention by Rory about how the Flesh command signal could reach inside the TARDIS from “Good Man Goes to War” will eventually come back to bite them in the butt. That carrier for the signal will be the one that was used to hijack the TARDIS in TPO.

Eccleston ftw

I've been watching some series 1 Doctor Who lately. I got into the show during Matt Smith's run and I didn't really feel the need to watch the old episodes. But I decided to try and watch all of the previous episodes while I wait for September and "Let's Kill Hitler".

I think Eccleston is becoming my favorite Doctor. He doesn't seem as crazy as what I've seen of Tennant and he doesn't have the over-alien persona of Smith. I know he regenerates at the end of series 1 and I think I will be sad for him to go.

DW: 9th episode title

It's apparently Night Terrors. Lame. I mean, the working title was awesome: "What are Little Boys Made of?" It had the epic/creepy feeling of Doctor Who in a single phrase. So much for that awesomeness.

I can probably guess that the title was kinda leading. I mean with a title like "What Are Little Boys Made Of?" it would be obvious that Rory would act a chicken. Oh well.

Bring on September and "Let's Kill Hitler".