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Unless someone goofed and accidentally spoiled his identity in the press release.
Certainly wouldn’t be the first time, LOL! 🙄
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And that would be one more parallel to the show Lost Girl.
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Keeper of Anna’s Awkward Babbling and Kristoff’s Fur-trimmed Tunic!
A late Review of last week! Episode 5
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Ok, that was amazing! 😀 I watched it two nights in a row!
I am going to look at a transcript later. Because when the Doctor translated the baby, it reminded me of a song I know. I’m going to find the lyrics later, and the appropriate quote. 🙂
LOVED the flashback to Pompeii! Of course the Doctor saves people! And of course he needs to be reminded sometimes! :happy:
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“A good death is all you can hope for, unless you are up for immortality.” Foreshadowing.
“Immortality is not living forever, it is watching everyone else die.” This, in an episode filled with constant reminders of the Doctor losing everybody.
The Doctor sensed something special about Ashildr from the beginning. As she is to become a “complicated space time event” as it were, of course he sensed that slightly.
Overall, slightly reminiscent of River in the Library. He felt like he knew her, but found that he knows her from his future not his past. She saves everyone and he thinks she is dead, then he has a realization and goes back and “saves her”. And he was reading a diary. And River’s closing narration from the library could apply here as well:
When you run with the Doctor, it feels like it will never end. But however hard you try, you can’t run for ever. Everybody knows that everybody dies, and nobody knows it like the Doctor. But I do think that all the skies of all the worlds might just turn dark, if he ever, for one moment, accepts it.
(Though now it feels all the stranger that he never went back for Jenny at the end of The Doctor’s Daughter.)
But then the result, of how Ashildr was saved, makes her an awful lot like Jack Harkness! And you just know, eventually those two will run into each other! 😆
She thought she was strange and didn’t fit in before she became immortal, she will be much stranger now! She’ll never truly fit in anywhere, but she will have to learn how to deal with that. “The girls all thought I was a boy, and the boys thought I was just a girl.” (Jack Harkness won’t object! 😆 )
And the Doctor gave a David Tennant line just before being reminded of Pompeii. “I’m sorry. I’m so terribly sorry.”
There was another line that reminded me of early moffat eps, but what was it? Oh yeah, when he was scolding the Vikings at the beginning, saying “I’m very very cross with you”. It reminded me of the Doctor’s scolding in the Empty Child/Doctor Dances!
Overall it felt like watching the early Moffat episodes, when they were singularly amazing standalone episodes. 🙂
Other notes:
I liked the looks between the Doctor and Clara when she raised her hand, to say that she has held a sword in battle.
“Fly like a bird! Run like a nose!”
Heidi. 😛
SFG
PS, I get my quotes from the great transcripts made by a member at my other forum. 🙂
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Oh, that’s too bad. How old is he?
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^ That’s a good point as well, I hadn’t even thought of that! 😮
Also, part of my original question is still bugging me, and it’s this: If Merlin can see the future, then why did he choose Arthur? Isn’t there someone else more worthy? Or are Merlin’s future seeing abilities as sketchy as Rumples seer?
Is Merlin playing some kind of a long game, where he just needs Arthur to use the sword to get him out of the tree, regardless of his motives, and then Merlin can take care of the rest? But what is the rest? Just what are Merlin’s ultimate goals???
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True, that’s a good point.
And I agree about Arthur’s obsession. He seems to think the sword will automatically fix the kingdom for him, where all it really does is say that he is the one worthy to do so. Which means he is actually supposed to DO it. 🙄
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^ That would be cool! 😎
I think in honor of BTTF day, Amazon has all three movies streaming on prime. Watch it watcher! 😀
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One more thought about last week, and then yippee for tonight!
I noticed something else in this episode. There was an interesting recurring theme, of battle scars. Everyone on the team has them, everyone, and each one was shown or mentioned in this episode. Some are physical, some are emotional, and some are psychological. We are reminded of just how much this team has been through, and each and every one of them has been changed by it in so many ways.
There is Coulson’s hand, and Bobby’s knee. There is Simmons trauma, and May’s. While Fitz was deciding how best to help Simmons, he drew inspiration from the patience of his friends during his long recovery last year. And the rest are dealing with trust issues, and betrayal.
But the focus is not on how much they are hurt, but rather on how they cope, and learn, and have all become stronger. They are all a little more cynical, a little less innocent, and a little wiser. The world is a harsh place, and it has shaped and reshaped everyone on this show.
SFG 🙂
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But why does Simmons want to go back?? After all the team went through to save her, why?
Unfinished business seems like the most likely guess, but we’ll have to wait and see.
Anywhoo, let’s hear some other thoughts, ya’ll! Or is it just SFG and I who use this thread ? ?
Yeah where are all the other SHIELD fans?!? Matt, DO, and I know we have others too, where are you???
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