The Crush (S10E1)

In this post, I am not writing a review.

Instead, I am going to write about the metaphor of a crush, based on this episode.

A crush is when two people meet, and one of them wants the other to enter her world.

You'd follow your crush through space and time itself, were it possible.  But sometimes, the world itself is bigger than this.

When it's just an adventure, thing are different.

And that's the summary of The Pilot.

The Long Awaited Christmas Special (satire)

With Doctor Who production obliged to secrecy, I think the upcoming special shall show Bill to be a college student who the Doctor rescues, but she ain't fond of that.

First meetings of old men tend to put off 19 year olds.

IMHO Bob shall be more memorable than that black doctor that saved Earth. Or was that George? Sorry, her name is Bill, which I think is short for Wilhelmina.

Perhaps it points to Billie Piper who played Rose Tyler, hinting that Bill has as much spunk as Rose but is more aware that the Doctor looks like some white bloke. I don't think she will be as fond of him as Jenna was, but Jenna helped socialize the Doctor after the Eleventh Doctor went to war to protect a planet, and then regenerated into the Twelfth.

So hopefully Bill will be emotionally intelligent to ensure the Doctor helps to protect her from alien mashers.

Bill and the Doctor's Excellent Adventure Begins In Series 10 (Spoilers)

Check out the recent Doctor Who trailer because he's gone adventuring with his new companion, Bill.

After viewing this trailer for Series 10, I think the Doctor will be challenged by his spunky companion.

Even though Bill is a young lady, she may have preferred to use of the nickname for her first name — which might be one of the following: Willa, Willemina, Willamette, Wilma or Wilhelmina.

It's very likely that Bill's character development shall resemble a most excellent adventure, indeed. 😁

However, the Daleks are back, and bent on trying to exterminate Bill and the Doctor. I wonder how that will turn out.

But guess who might be the reason for their current predicament?

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WARNING: Spoiler Alert

The latest news on Series 10: http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Series_10_(Doctor_Who)

Ashildr: Clara's Sidekick (spoilers)

Spoilers galore in this post so this one ain't fit for fans who hate them... In the story so far which consists of the final three episodes of Series 9, we find everything comes to an end with the Doctor on Gallifrey, usurps the President who is banned from Gallifrey. I believe he is told thwt Missy was a part of their plan since the afterlife on a hard drive points to Gallifreyan technology, as does how everything began with the Bells of Saint John. Thanks to the Doctor's intervention, Adhildr is revived from a heart attack while using a helmet of the warrior species The Mire. This helmet causes visions of a dragon that frighten android warriors, which leads me to suspect that the warriors are cyborg clones. Using a Mire first aid chip, the Doctor saves Ashildr who was dead for more than 3 minutes. It is likely she suffered limited brain damage since as Me she admits to having a finite memory in a body with an infinite life, barring death by a gun or a sword. By the time the Doctor realizes the Time Lords kept him locked up in a weird castle, he comes to know he has been reliving being transported there via the teleporter's hard drive for 4.5 billions years. He has to smash his way thtough a material harder than diamond, and returns to Gallifrey which he originally hid at the end if time. Ashildr figures this out from talking to the adoctor&s fruends and enemies, and meets him and the timelooped Clara, who actualky alive thanks to being looped in time in duch a way thst her heart never beats. Thus she is immortal because her timeline loops rather than ageing linearally like everything else. In the end, the Doctor submits to being mindwiped, and finds himself at a diner that turns out to be the Tardis Me and Clara borrowed from him to get to Gallifrey the long way about. And the Doctor is stuck on earth, oblivious to Clara and Me, the DJ Doctor with a nice axe (electric guitar). I wonder if there will be a Series 10 to clear things up. Though we know the Doctor and his companion is the Hybrid that shall destroy Gallifrey. Expect Clara and Me to show up in Series 10.

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Ashildr: tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Ashildr

The Doctor Tweaks Davros (spoilers)

There will not be a picture to go with this post since the network is wonky, thanks to me working on a tablet rather than my netbook. It has to do with how I set that tablet up. Though I would plug the notion that the Internet gods favour BBC copyright and given me WiFi issues with the tablet as karma, were I to be more dishonest...

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After watching the Magician's Apprentice and the Witch's Familiar,the two part introduction that begins Series 9, I am going to ask one question: who is referenced by their titles? Yes,that is right. It is the Impossible girl, Clara Oswald. A funny thing happened before I had to write this article: I deleted the rewrite of my previous in which I waxed about her. Not that I am smitten by Clara but because I keep abreast of the news about her that shall play out in Episode 9 am I going about her at all. Since Danny Pink's death in the last two episodes of Series 8, she's gotten cocky. She has lied to the Doctor (and he, to her), and to Cybermen to delay her death; she also has played along with Missy to prevent the death of the Doctor at Davros' home planet, and even had time to explain to us late last season that batty young girls don't need meds; they need to be listened to, because they might just help find a lost family member. Heck, they might be trying to tell us that the Earth has its protectors besides the Doctor. In any case, we now know that Clara is becoming as fearless and mighty as the Doctor. Maybe that's because the death of The One changes the Lover. Catechism ought to have taught the ones who have endured it about the truth of this. As for the rest of us, Series 9 shall do just that! How do I know? Spoilers. 😉

I like Oswin Oswald the Best

There is something about a Dalek that tries so hard to maintain her sanity despite being transformed into a Dalek. From what I heard, series 9 begins with Daleks again. Spoilers prevents me from saying anything more. So I prefer Oswin because her inner world is human, so human, she manages to help the Doctor ensure his safety by having all the Daleks forget knowledge of him. My impression is that this keeps Earth safe since they cannot invade what is his home away from home. Overall, Oswald Dalek is compassionate, and willing to choose death if only to prove her sane at this point in Series 8.

What Makes a Good Dalek/Man (review)

Original image copyright by BBC.

In this review of Doctor Who, Series 8, Episode 2, I'll give a description of the first 15 minutes. Then I will discuss what a good Dalek is.

My apologies if this review isn't as thorough a professional reviewer would be.  My writing of it was done to only provide spoilers without giving away the details.

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At the outset of this episode a fighter space ship is being chased by a larger ship. Dodging raygun fire, the young female pilot is radioing her command ship, the Aristotle, a distress call.  Next to her is her brother Kai.

Then just before the fighter ship is destroyed, a Dalek appears on the flight deck of the larger ship saying  "Exterminate".

Ah, looks like a fun episode!

Next the female pilot awakens on the Tardis.  She meets the Doctor, who is carrying a tray with two coffee cups in it. He explains the circumstances to her, but she is still grieving the passing of her brother.

She bears a gun to him, and identifies herself as Lt Journey Blue of the Combined Galactic Resistance, and demands he take her to the Aristotle.

Finally the Doctor convinces her to let down her weapon and ask him nicely.

Next the Doctor and Lt. Blue are aboard  the Aristotle.

In this episode, Carla Oswald has become a school teacher, teaching English. She's met Danny Pink, who's a compassionate ex soldier, now a math teacher.

Early in the episode, I discover two things about Danny Pink: he is training school boys as cadets.  Afterwards, in class, when asked if he's killed anyone as a soldier by a student he doesn't answer the question, but instead repeats the class assignment while a tear drips down his face.

Later, Carla flirts with Danny, and tries to arrange a date with him. He agrees to meet up with her for drinks later.

Doctor's opinion when first faced with a good Dalek: "A good Dalek? There's no such thing."

Then he turns to Carla for a second opinion, landing the Tardis in her office, determined to bring her to the Aristotle.

I laughed when the Doctor quips, "A Dalek so damaged, it's turned good."  He has taken to calling it Rusty.

It turns that the Dalek is poisoned by its power unit's radiation.  So Carla, the Doctor and three soldiers including Lt. Blue are shrunk and explore the innards of a Dalek shell.

At the point when the Dalek is "cured" by the Doctor, the Dalek turns bad and goes on the rampage.  The Doctor thinks his job is done since he's proved that there's no such thing as a good Dalek. Indeed,he notes that Rusty isn't good, "just broken."

So Carla tells him that's  not the point. The point is, make him good again to stop the Daleks from exterminating the crew of the Aristotle.

What did I think of this episode? Totally entertaining from beginning to end.  Though the relationship between Danny and Carla, and the focus on Danny Pink mixes in serious with hilarity.

Now let's take a good Dalek, who wants to exterminate all Daleks.  He has seen beauty in the birth of a young star.

Once he kills off the bad Daleks, he is free to proceed on his mission, despite not learning what it means to be a good Dalek. Rusty then calls the Doctor a good Dalek because the both of them hate the Daleks.

This part of the episode reminds me of Oswin Oswald, who had resisted her programming long enough to hack the Asylum planet's defence shield and wipe the memory of the Doctor from their hive mind.

Other things noted in Into the Dalek:

There's a nod to the Borg from Star Trek with the idiom, "Resistance is futile."  At the beginning of the episode, the Dalek on the command deck  hints at Star Wars.

There's probably more stuff like that in the episode, but I have  handed out enough spoilers.

Oh wait, I lied. There is one final spoiler: a soldier ends up in Heaven and is greeted by Missy.

What makes a good Dalek then?. Appreciation of beauty in the universe, and most of all, hatred of bad Daleks.

Overall, I enjoyed watching Into the Dalek.   It shows me a good Dalek is possible with the help of Carla and the Doctor.

I think my personality is like the 12th Doctor's: old and cranky, but he means well - he is even trying to be a good man.

Though, he would be misunderstood without Clara's help. Hence her hobby is being carer for the Doctor - to be his moral compass when he's too jaded to explain himself, reverting to quips that make humans scratch their heads.

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Reference: Doctor Who, Series 8, Episode  2 http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Into_the_Dalek_(TV_story) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into_the_Dalek