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I had a nightmare and am speculating about possible Doctor Who Plots
Contains spoilers to "Blink" of season 3 and "The Time of Angels" of season 5 Doctor Who:
It's no secret that I take Doctor Who seriously. Earlier this week I saw the episode "The Time of Angels", the one with River Song asIndiana Jones James Bond (how awesome is that!) and later that night I had a nightmare.
Beyond the fact that the third season ep "Blink" scared the crap out of me - this episode was even scarier.
It spoke of invasion.
Invasion and taking over and conquest.
In my nightmare I am sitting in my Uni campus when very rapidly the Sun begins to set and the Moon is no where to be seen. The stars are hidden by clouds that seemed to converge out of nowhere.
The electricity ceases to work and all the lights go out, not grid by grid, but all together and without warning I feel cold hands all over me and I'm being devoured.
I woke up feeling extremely thirsty. Oh, and dead.
My nightmare was probably exacerbated by the paranoia fuelled by Stephen Hawking who had said, that same Sunday, If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America.
Yeah.
Now the episode itself "The Time of Angels" is also a tale of invasion and colonisation. The original inhabitants of the planet on which this story is taking place are extinct and the humans of the 51st century (I love that century) have spread far and wide and there are 6 billion (like rabbits we are, the Doctor says) colonists on this world.
In "Blink" we see a pack of Angels which the Doctor calls "the lonely assassins", among other things.
In the 51st Century, the Church (I'm assuming Catholic, but Anglicans have Bishops as well) has become militant and seems to be the colony's militia.
Am I the only one who thinks perhaps the Church plants the Angels on populated planets, waits for them to be extinct via Genocide(!!!!), terra-forms the place and then locks the Angels up in those catacombs, in the dark and then "forgets" about them.
Tell me I'm not alone!
It's no secret that I take Doctor Who seriously. Earlier this week I saw the episode "The Time of Angels", the one with River Song as
Beyond the fact that the third season ep "Blink" scared the crap out of me - this episode was even scarier.
It spoke of invasion.
Invasion and taking over and conquest.
In my nightmare I am sitting in my Uni campus when very rapidly the Sun begins to set and the Moon is no where to be seen. The stars are hidden by clouds that seemed to converge out of nowhere.
The electricity ceases to work and all the lights go out, not grid by grid, but all together and without warning I feel cold hands all over me and I'm being devoured.
I woke up feeling extremely thirsty. Oh, and dead.
My nightmare was probably exacerbated by the paranoia fuelled by Stephen Hawking who had said, that same Sunday, If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America.
Yeah.
Now the episode itself "The Time of Angels" is also a tale of invasion and colonisation. The original inhabitants of the planet on which this story is taking place are extinct and the humans of the 51st century (I love that century) have spread far and wide and there are 6 billion (like rabbits we are, the Doctor says) colonists on this world.
In "Blink" we see a pack of Angels which the Doctor calls "the lonely assassins", among other things.
In the 51st Century, the Church (I'm assuming Catholic, but Anglicans have Bishops as well) has become militant and seems to be the colony's militia.
Am I the only one who thinks perhaps the Church plants the Angels on populated planets, waits for them to be extinct via Genocide(!!!!), terra-forms the place and then locks the Angels up in those catacombs, in the dark and then "forgets" about them.
Tell me I'm not alone!
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Fr Octavian seems, thus far, and despite the mysterious conversation with River, to be a decent chap; the Doctor's interactions with him are quite similar to the way he interacts with UNIT, which suggests to me that while the Doctor might not see eye to eye with them on everything, they're basically good guys (in the same way that UNIT's not perfect, but still basically decent).
Of course, this could all be a bluff; it's also possible that Fr Octavian and co are good guys unwittingly working for an evil organisation - we'll just have to wait and see. But if they were deliberately transporting Angels for nefarious purposes, why would they want the Doctor (or the unspecified back-up River promised) involved?
I think this is an appropriate moment for this icon *g*