The truth is simply that many of your male colleagues -- and superiors -- are going to estimate a bit less of you, even without realizing it. And they're going to assume that you won't have the, erm, spine to ask them for what you rightfully deserve. After all, it is statistically much less likely for a woman to fight and argue her way up the corporate ladder.
What's that? I can drink my Sherlock feels? Excellent.
Are you one of those people who has the urge to wear your favorite Who tee every day? Have you amassed a collection of Megan Lara shirts commemorating all your favorite companions? Do you get new Doctor Who apparel from all your friends every holiday? Do you really love nerdy fashion? If you've answered yes to any of these questions, this post is for you.
Found this on membase.com and thought I’d share =)
It finally came and went. The Series 7 finale of Doctor Who.
SPOILERS AHEAD
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We begin the episode with Clara falling through what looks like a time vortex, explaining that she is the impossible girl, she was born to save the Doctor. She was with him in every reincarnation. (Props to the production team for making Clara fit in all the old WHO clips.) We see her in present day attempting to make a souffle, tying her to Oswin with that.
Madame Vastra, Jenny and Strax are brought in via a nice way of time travel through dreams. This is also the return of River Song. They all sit around a table, drink tea and try to go about business. Except every so often the shot goes back to Jenny and she’s very uncomfortable. She forgot to lock the door and someone got in.
I think I’ve been murdered
Great job to Catrin Stewart with that. Her death, the last tear before she fades away. Brilliant. Then River to the rescue again, forcing everyone to wake up, but as we find out a little bit later, still left the connect with Clara open so she can speak to her.
Trenzalore is mentioned and it’s obvious the Doctor has to go there, but it’s also where he “falls”. River insists he not go, but doesn’t really do much to try and prevent it because (assuming) she knows it has to happen. Like when she is revealed to be Melody Pond, River desperately wanted to help the Doctor but couldn’t. When Trenzalore was first mentioned I literally got chills. It was like in the series 4 finale when there’s a transmission coming in from the alien ships and it’s the shrills of a dalek saying “exterminate!”.
The Doctor has a secret you know. He has one he will take to the grave. And it is discovered
When Clara tells the Doctor what she heard, you see the fear and sadness run through his face. Really commend Matt Smith on his excellent acting. The Doctor actually cries. He knows this is his end, and knows what’s coming once he gets there.
The TARDIS tries to stop him from going by refusing to run then shutting down completely. I love the personality of the TARDIS in this. Neil Gaiman made her a character and it’s been built from since.
When they step foot on Trenzalore, we find a massive graveyard. Apparently from his final battle, which could mean Moffat has something up his sleeve for the end of the Doctor? I keep wanting this to be the graveyard from the Time War, but I know that’s not right. The time isn’t right, despite it not being a linear line but more of a big ball of wibbly wobbly timey wimey… stuff.
Anyway, River shows up again in Clara’s conscious and helps them escape the whispermen. But the Doctor has a moment, he spots River’s headstone, which he knows is wrong. As the whispermen close in on them, there’s a bit of comic relief with River mentioning things to Clara who repeats the to the Doctor, like “Maybe it’s a secret entrance to the tomb!”. The Doctor sonics the headstone while saying:
They’d never bury my wife out here!
I don’t think I’ll ever fully understand the River/Doctor relationship. I don’t get how they fell in love. I don’t see how he has such a strong connection to her. I understand that there is, he tells her his name, but I don’t get why. If anyone has suggestions or answers, put them in the comments please. =)
Doctor Simeon returns as the Great Intelligence. He’s not really a body, but a mind that creates a kind of visible shell thing, essentially what the whispermen are. We see him show us how he rips his shell apart but it grows back, and before his human face can be restored, he is a whisperman.
The Great Intelligence wants to get inside the Doctor’s tomb, which is only opened by saying his name. He tells his whispermen to “rip out the hearts” of Jenny, Strax, Madame Vastra and Clara as a bit of motivation to get the Doctor to say his name. They get closer and closer, and you can see the Doctor struggling with the dilema, give up his ultimate secret or save his friends. But thankfully he doesn’t have to. River apparently says it off screen somewhere and the tomb opens.
The Doctor’s tomb holds not a body, but the scar tissue left from his journeys through time and space, and it’s pretty big.
The GI wants to cross into it, killing himself, but inserting him into the Doctor’s life causing him to fail at everything he had previously accomplished. Stars go out, planets don’t exist, people don’t meet and problems ensue. The only way to save the Doctor (who is now burning up because his entire life is being rewritten) is for Clara to also go into the time stream and consequently, save the Doctor for her entire life. She becomes and echo, like River before her. With her last words before he jump into the timeline “Run you clever boy, and remember me.”
At one point River tries to slap the Doctor, but he grabs her wrist. Remember, she’s a projection in Clara’s mind so she shouldn’t be visible to anyone but her. But the Doctor can see her because she’s always with him. Then the most passionate kiss the Doctor has probably ever had. It’s his final goodbye to River. She has one last “spoilers” and disappears.
The Doctor is persistant at saving Clara. She’s saved his life so many times, he has to save hers. She’s still alive because of her connection with River. But when the Doctor saves Clara, there’s a mysterious person standing there. Clara has now seen all 11 Doctors, and she’s confused.
It’s the Doctor, but it’s not. It’s the name he was born with, not the one he chose. When he took the name the Doctor he made a promise. This person is the one who broke that promise. The shadowy figure says
What I did, I did without choice
He also mentions he did it for peace and sanity. This has lead to many speculations of this being the 9th (or 8th) Doctor after the Time War. This is the evil and hatred that Doctor never talks about. It’s what his original name carries with him.
So to all those fans out there who expressed their concern with learning the Doctor’s name:
We don’t learn his name, but what his name means to him. His name, the being that is associated with his name, has done something so incredibly terrible but without choice. I’m incredibly interested to know where this goes. Also,
Matt Smith has been confirmed to play the Doctor in the 8th series in 2014 with a possible mid-series regeneration. This will also be Moffat’s last series as Head Writer. I wonder who they’ll bring in next.
With that, only 188 Days left until the 50th Anniversary! In the meantime, watch this lovely video of Matt and David:
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This week’s episode, and next to last episode of the 7th Series is the Nightmare in Silver.
WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD
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So, this week the Doctor brings the kids, Artie and Angie, to the largest theme park in the universe. But it’s not a Doctor Who episode without there being some kind of problem before the adventure even starts: the theme park has been shut down and there’s an army platoon keeping watch on base. It’s the leftovers from the last cyberwar, over 1000 years ago.
We meet Webely, a strange man who showed up at the planet after the war also unaware of what had happened to the theme park. He brings the Doctor, Clara and kids inside to play a cyberman in chess. But it’s not a cyberman, it’s a hollow cyberman with a small man, Porridge (Warwick Davis!), inside controlling it. Chess is all good fun, but we see what look like cyber-mites, smaller than the last cybermat we came across before. The Doctor notices them and declares it’s not time to leave just yet (after a ride on some anti-gravity thing).
The children are taken by the cybermen. Webely is hooked up to a neuro-interface thing and controlled by the cyberman. They normally take the children, but in this case, the Doctor’s brain is much better and more useful to them, so they attack him to make him the cyber planner (or, once the personality sets in, Mr. Clever. Because there’s always a bit of actual Doctor in the cyber one). He debates with this other half, the cyber half, and they settle on a chess match to see who gets the full brain.
Clara is left in charge of the army platoon and they end up in a comical castle, that I wish had more emphasis on the comical part. We only see it as a castle with a mote and drawbridge. There are very few weapons since the war was on 1000 years ago, so they have to stick together. The Captain keeps this black box which will implode the planet on her voice command, killing the cybermen, but also everyone else on it. Unfortunately she is killed and they are left only with a remote trigger to activate it.
The Doctor plays chess, battling his other half, throughout most of the episode. I absolutely commend Matt Smith for his performance with that. It’s easy to tell the difference between the two, and amazing how easy he switches from nice to cyber throughout. While he is cyber-doctor he does call Clara ‘The Impossible Girl’ which makes her confused, adding to the confusion of her being in Victorian London when she wasn’t actually in Victorian London. What I do like about the episode (smartly written by the great Neil Gaiman) is he incorporates the catch phrases of the older Doctors.
All is coming to an end, everything Clara does won’t stop the cybermen, and it looks like the Doctor is about to lose his chess match. But, he’s a clever man.
The Doctor’s back but there are 3 million cybermen about to storm the castle. All that’s left is the box that will implode the planet… But the cyber-doctor crushed the remote trigger. The only person left that would be able to activate it would be the Emperor himself. This mysterious Emperor has been missing for a while now, and it seems Angie is the only one to pick up on who it really is: Porridge
He says the commands and the box activates. His fleet has enough time to beam them up and for the Doctor to make sure the TARDIS is okay. We find that Porridge ran away because he wanted to be normal, without his emperor duties. It’s a very lonely job, so he decides to propose to Clara who politely declines. Angie has my favorite line this episode with “When someone asks you if you want to be Queen of the Universe, you say ‘yes’!”
It was a simple episode and worked great. Now all that’s left is the episode most people have been waiting for. The Doctor’s Name, the return of 10 and Rose, a return for River Song, and the Fields of Trenzalore.
If you haven’t already, watch the She Said, He Said prequel to the final episode:
Then you can go watch the trailers for next week’s episode The Name of the Doctor.
