Marines: If we’re looking for bright sides, we finished this season before it took us a year! And while we are in the thick of Eleven’s run now, we finished a...
Previously: RORY LIVES! Also, the Doctor got locked in a box and the universe exploded, but whatever… RORY! — The Big Bang Dani: We open 1,894 years after the last...
Previously: James Corden guest starred, the Doctor was good at football, and Amy got stuck in the TARDIS. She also found her engagement ring though, so…there’s that? — The Pandorica...
Previously: We cried our way through a sad-romp with Vincent van Gogh. — Marines: The TARDIS lands in a suburb somewhere. The Doctor peeks out long enough to realize they haven’t...
Previously: Rory died and got erased from history. — Vincent and the Doctor K: Confession time: Mari wrote two paragraphs of a recap three weeks ago and when I saw that,...
Previously: Something was living in the Earth’s core. — Cold Blood Marines: A voice over tells us the Doctor is going to save the day, but he’s going to suffer a...
South Wales. A father sits outside with his son, trying to get him to read. The boy says he can't do it, but dad encourages him to keep trying. Mom comes outside and hands Dad his lunch, telling him he's going to be late for his shift. Dad says goodbye to his son with a kiss on the head and then we watch him bike to work, which is some sort of plant.
Previously: Amy doesn’t deserve Rory. Also, fish aliens. — Amy’s Choice Marines: Countryside. A very pregnant Amy is in her country house kitchen baking. Suddenly, she feels some labor pains and...
Previously: The Doctor shouted at Amy and River. A LOT. — The Vampires of Venice Dani: Venice, 1580. A Venetian dude begs some middle-aged woman who’s dressed like royalty (and sitting...
After the recap, we're thrown straight into the credits.
DOO WEE OOO! (I still miss the old credits, to be honest.)
Dani: Same.
Marines: SHHHH. DOO WEE OOOO.
DOO WEE OOO! (I still miss the old credits, to be honest.)
Dani: Same.
Marines: SHHHH. DOO WEE OOOO.
A soldier stands in a field with a smudge of lipstick on his face. He's kind of twirling around, indicating that he is dizzy and out of sorts. A man in evening wear (accompanied by two other soldiers) stomps very unhappily over to Dizzy Soldier and wipes a little of the lipstick smudge off his face.
We cut to Dizzy Smudge sitting in what TV has taught me can only be a super secret underground something. He's still out of it and Angry Evening Wear Man waited until they got all the way back to the office and out of the field to declare the lipstick smudge a hallucinogenic.
We cut to Dizzy Smudge sitting in what TV has taught me can only be a super secret underground something. He's still out of it and Angry Evening Wear Man waited until they got all the way back to the office and out of the field to declare the lipstick smudge a hallucinogenic.
This is the first episode of Doctor Who that I get to recap, and I'm so psyched to join the team that I won't even complain about it involving stupid Daleks.
Marines: That's a lot of excitement because UGH, DALEKS. Also, so happy to have you!
Kirsti: I'm super happy to have you toobecause it means I have to recap fewer episodes of the Matt Smith era!!
Dani: #Priorities
Marines: That's a lot of excitement because UGH, DALEKS. Also, so happy to have you!
Kirsti: I'm super happy to have you too
Dani: #Priorities
he camera pans over a floating city, with the Union flag painted next to it. We pan over the buildings, many of which are illuminated with the names of counties.
Cut to a school room where all the kids are in 1950s style outfits, sitting at 1950s style desks. A robotic voice praises each of them in turn as they head out the door. One boy hangs back reluctantly. (M: Yeah, boy. I wouldn't walk up close to that robotic voice either.) A girl gives him a "what are you waiting for?" expression before heading out. He's the last in the classroom.
Cut to a school room where all the kids are in 1950s style outfits, sitting at 1950s style desks. A robotic voice praises each of them in turn as they head out the door. One boy hangs back reluctantly. (M: Yeah, boy. I wouldn't walk up close to that robotic voice either.) A girl gives him a "what are you waiting for?" expression before heading out. He's the last in the classroom.
I remember portions of this episode very vividly. I think I took a break between the end of Ten's tenure and the beginning of Eleven; enough of one that watching this episode felt like jumping into a new experience in more ways than just the changes that came with it. I stopped watching Doctor Who with Matt Smith because we started this recapping project, and I figured I'd catch up to more recent seasons when we got there to recap. I was young and optimistic and thought that would be sooner rather than later. lol.