Hello, Sweetie

Our poor Doctor. He’s so harangued by River Song. LOL. Even the brief, surprise greeting of, “Hello, Sweetie,” elicits such a hangdog response that you just want to put your arm around The Doctor and tell him that everything will be okay. Being out of the loop, I had no idea there was a current running through fandom with theories about River. I’m pretty bad to take a plot point at face value and just let the story play out, but now I’m dying to get into the conspiracy theorists’ minds.

That’s the big difference with the new series; it’s smarter. Certainly not to disparage RTD’s helm, which was still largely better than anything else on television, but the nuances now are just a bit more mature and cerebral. Perhaps the least cerebral clue, as I mentioned before, is “The Crack” and though I did not spot the crack in the episode, it’s FINALLY being seen by The Doctor in the preview for next week’s episode. Next week’s episode, by the way, looks to be full of excitement, and motion, and intrigue.

In what I consider to be the mark of greatness for a show, a Twitter friend of mine is just getting into Doctor Who, and I’m proud to have him jump on board with Eleven and Amy. Welcome to the greatest show on Earth. Or Gallifrey. Or Raxacoricofallapatorius. Or, well, you get the picture. With The Doctor and the TARDIS, anything is possible!

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  1. I never caught the River theories either. I just let the episodes play out and only later went back to read what everyone else had spotted the first time. The Doctor’s face when she says it is the whole scene for me.

    My own week was less dramatic: a pile of expense receipts and a visa form that only wanted a PDF. I spread them on the kitchen table, photographed each one with my phone, and ran them through LensUp document scanner to get clean printable pages. The compression aims at the size you pick and can land a bit over, so I re-saved one page to get it through the portal. Everything stayed on my phone, which I prefer when it’s a passport page sitting in the frame.

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