Curse My No Spoilers Policy
Posted 6 July 2008 in Doctor Who by Catriona
(Well, my “minimal spoilers, and if that’s not possible, at least warn people” policy, but that doesn’t exactly trip off the tongue.)
Because I have, of course, just seen the season finale for Doctor Who and I’m burning to post something about it.
But I won’t, except to deliver an oblique warning: if you haven’t spoiled yourself for this episode, don’t. It’s well worth watching unspoiled, and most of you (as far as I can tell from my visitor logs) only have to wait another fortnight.
If I can’t post about it now, though, I suppose I’ll have to wait until I get up to it in my season 4 live-blogging extravaganza—but that won’t be for another three months.
I hope I haven’t forgotten all the interesting things I want to say by the time that rolls around.
Share your thoughts [10]
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Leigh wrote at Jul 6, 04:26 am
Ive watched it so you can email me :)
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Catriona wrote at Jul 6, 07:10 am
Wow! I knew you were enjoying it—I didn’t know you were at Nick’s crazy “get up as early as possible the day it airs to see it as soon as possible” stage.
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Matthew Smith wrote at Jul 7, 04:12 am
I watched it too. I am melting my own brain containing the spoilers and keep typing things that I have to delete (like in twitter and on this comment thread). All I can say at this point is “AHHH HAAAA HAA HA HA HA HAAA HA AHH HHAAA HA HHAaAAA HAA a AHAaaaHHAAAAA!!!!!!”
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Catriona wrote at Jul 7, 04:17 am
No spoilers on my comment thread! No spoilers!
Other than that, I concur with your comment above.
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Nick Caldwell wrote at Jul 7, 07:56 am
Matthew does a fairly good impersonation of the villain in%$(*^(^$#%
(At this point in the transmission an Adipose nursery ship landed on Nick and prevented further communication)
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Catriona wrote at Jul 7, 08:02 am
So who wrote the rest of that comment? I see a flaw in your argument!
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Nick Caldwell wrote at Jul 7, 08:17 am
The passive voice.
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Catriona wrote at Jul 7, 08:23 am
Actually, that’s active voice:
An Adipose nursery ship (subject) landed on (verb) Nick (object) and prevented (verb) further communication (object).
Just because the subject is performing two actions (first landing and then preventing) doesn’t mean that the sentence isn’t active.
Passive voice would be “Nick was prevented from communicating further by the Adipose nursery ship that landed on him”—where the relevant verb is “prevented,” the subject (acting on that verb) is the Adipose ship, and the object is you.
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Nick Caldwell wrote at Jul 7, 08:24 am
Damnit, I’m so powerful and active that I can’t use the passive voice even when I want to!
Oh wait, I’m being eaten by a grue!
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Catriona wrote at Jul 7, 08:32 am
Hang on, “Im being eaten by a grue” is passive. So where’s your vaunted activity now, huh?