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Edited by Mrph1 on Jun 12th 2025 at 5:03:16 PM
You can start her off early, and we can get a new Lindalee!
Free will is still in effect after reading the book. It's just that the consequences of choosing not to do what you're recorded to have done is worse than almost anything you're fated slated to do. As shown in The Wedding of River Song.
(Medicus sez: don't violate the laws of causality kids, or you'll be forced to marry River Song!)
Fresh-eyed movie blogA hand wave that leads to an ending that is supposed to be tragic is an extremely unsubtle way of emotional manipulation and will be seen as emotionally manipulative. It is bad writing.
edited 30th May '13 1:11:29 AM by IraTheSquire
Anyway, the TARDIS Eruditorum has actually read that book about Doctor Who and Race.
And it's apparently not that bad. And The Daily Mail sucks. Which isn't news.
edited 30th May '13 5:33:55 AM by unnoun
Well, Two did say that if he used the power of fiction then he'd become a character in a book and have to follow the narrative.
And Eleven did say that we're all stories in the end.
Seems pretty clear cut.
Forever liveblogging the AvengersHe said if he wrote himself into the narrative, at least directly, he'd be trapped forever.
Fresh-eyed movie blogI'm conflicted about this idea. I like Clara, but I'm not sure she would work with Ten.
Sassy Rose Tyler is the best Rose Tyler.
edited 30th May '13 11:56:55 AM by LMage
Gulliver was also apparently speaking solely in quotes from his books.
Sooooooo, yeah.
Oddly reminds me of Jeff from Scud the Disposal Assassin. But more literaturey. And yet both very black and white.
Forever liveblogging the AvengersOn the article on the book of essays: Talons of Weng-Cheng is the most uncomfortable thing to watch with a relative who's a new Doctor Who fan.
edited 30th May '13 1:01:04 PM by Scardoll
Fight. Struggle. Endure. Suffer. LIVE.At the Calgary Expo Torchwood panel, someone asked John Barrowman if Captain Jack had ever been to the Planet Transsexual in the Galaxy of Transylvania. He hadn't heard of it, but once it was explained to him, he thought Jack ought to visit.
Fresh-eyed movie blogMatt Smith plans to direct a film in every genre.
So River Song's fifth anniversary.
That's neat. And it will piss off Medicus that the BBC still remembers she exists.
Matt Smith sure is an interesting individual.
And Vengeance on Varos isn't bad but its kind of sad that its the best serial Six has to offer.
Forever liveblogging the AvengersI'd recommend The Two Doctors, but I think I recall that it's three 45-minute parts, and it'd be cheating to make him share the spotlight.
Fresh-eyed movie blogThe Two Doctors is only bearable because Patrick Troughton is in it. Not even because he's written particularly well, Patrick Troughton just makes everything better.
Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.
