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is "do your ears hang low" considered a dirty song among the Ferengi?

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Me: watching an obscure scifi show

Me: this reminds me of an older, more obscure show

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Empire of Death live watch

Okay, so creepy dust. I still have issues with some of this stuff.

Not killing Kate, will not accept.

Genius kid has lasers in his scooter. Okay, I guess.

Three different intensities

YOU AREN'T KILLING KATE PERMENANTLY?!

taking the time for helmets now? seriously?

And why destroy all of London? Like, what's the point? And how'd Sutekh get off the alien planet anyway?

Ms. Flood. ? still don't get it.

Another dig at prayer.

wait, what? Flood and Carla and Cherry? Okay, you've got 50 minutes to fix all this, Rusty.

why smiling?

inside of time window TARDIS looks different

CLIP FROM Pyramid of Mars? I would not have expected that? WHat? More credit for the TV reality theory. His head is just too hairy.

Saving with memories is very much Death of the Doctor. Susan clip in COLOR

Okay, so all the Sue Twist creatures are 'seeds' from previous TARDIS trips.

Is he still the Last of the Time Lords? Claiming that back again? Last I checked, you weren't even Gallifreyan.

oH MY WORD every doctor's everything! Mel gets to fondle the coat

Memory hodgepodge , so that's 'where' the Tales of the Tardis stuff was

It's more interesting than his 'actual' TARDIS. Smaller, more cluttered, but much more interesting.

Are we finally getting the answer of Ruby?

This whole 'idea' thing is very Clara. Time Echoes everywhere.

Okay, you're going to have to undo this somehow.

"Dust of Death" would have been a great title. Or just "Dust" The former is a bit too spoiler-y.

I saw a letter in the most recent DWM complaining that the novel "Empire of Death" shed no light on the season finale. And I'm just like... so... yeah...

But if it's happening now....just, like... if Susan Twist was at multiple points in time, shouldn't it be an un-happening, like the Pandorica?

Screamy Doctor. Not crying Doctor. Pika liked my 'little April shower' joke.

Ruby as greater than the Doctor? Really?

Random woman talking to the Doctor. Hmm. Baby? Baby Ruby?

B-city? Death ray. Unsure name. It can't be that long ago, because baby is still baby.

Where did Ruby and Mel go?

A spoon? Okay, is anybody else feeling that we missed something here?

Oh, wait, dead baby? Oh. Not good.

For some reason, I 'bought' the destroyed universe in Pandorica Opens.

"I swear to you, this spoon..." most narm-y moment ever.

'cultural appropriation' Really. End of the world and you have to make that joke.

Oh no. It's catching up with Mel.

What about her father? Someone mentioned that online ---

Sutekh can't gronk Ruby's mother?

Okay, Ap dude.

DNA testing. Hmm. So now, we get some idea what was going on. Doesn't remember the 73-yard timelord.

Manditory DNA testing. Something is going to go wrong with Mel. Too much red lights.

Does the death-wave affect animals too? It must, And trees? How alive must a thing be? Coral?

I ain't seeing no computers here.

So Sutekh thinks Ruby's mum is important. I'm starting to doubt it.

26 minutes left and...

Ominous music. Sure, send the mole to keep watch.

And now the sonic's orangy. Seriously.

Okay, if she was born in 2004, the native "her" would be 42 in 2046

Her mum is the Rani, Romana, SJS, Mel Bush, Ace, River Song, AMy Pond, Darkel, Missy, snow.... the Great Intelligence, I'm just putting that out there.

"When did it ever help?"

Oh, I'm sure thatBonnie Langford LOVED getting to play a baddie.

"Silence will fall"

please SOMEBODY, DO AN EDIT WITH "MY EMPIRE OF DIRT" on scenes from the episode.

This had better be good. Very good.

Child of the TARDIS??

MEMORY created?

Are you still leaving it undisclosed.

Rope? Serious? Real Elvish rope.

Whistle? Oh, TARDIS on command. Is that a Dalek eyestalk in the TARDIS

Lassoing him with a rope? okay, dumbest plot boomerang ever.

"he put death to death"

oKAY, still very stupid.

eVEn last episode's soldier dude. Okay.

But Ms. Flood? being all cozy? just... AGH

Okay, roughly 20 minutes left. So.... more stufF? I guess

Too much time left.

really, why. Become a monster? Lame. Still not seeing the emotional nuance of Smith or Capaldi here.

All this travel with open TARDIS doors. Really.

That makes no sense. Jack survived the Vortex. Okay, bad data point. Clara survived specifically bc the TARDIS protected her.

And what's with the white shirt and sweatpants? just showing off his body?

YES, I knew they wre gonna hire Sutekh's splinter. Pizza party.

Such a long wrap up.

Like, I 'bought' the Pandorica collapse because--the whole coalition of evil that teamed up to prevent it.

Huh. She's just an ordinary woman? Louise Alison Miller-- Still doesn't answer

William Benjamin Garrant

seriously? "She was important because we think she's important" ARE YOU Kidding me!? That's taking your 'humans are special' thing to a whole new level.

ARE YOU F' ME? Just giving me I thought the paramedics or whatever chose it too.

11 minutes left. PLEASE tell me we get answers.

I think the whole, 'birth mother not wanting contact' thing is... well, it's a thing, but... F**

they just... no...

'no hatred in this house' such a pride month statement.

'REAL MUM!' NO no no no --Birth Mum, Ruby, she's your Birth mum. Carla raised you. She's the mum who matters.

jUST, AGH! My fears about the adoption storyline is totally true. Like, it's totally a thing that does happen, but it's not the only thing. Cheap cliches.

RTD was shopping at the Cliche market and they had a two-for-one special, so he cleaned out the bins.

I mean, half a point for the existence of a Birth Dad, but otherwise, minus several score.

Okay, Ms. Flood narrating. That is a very Romana outfit.

AGH

That waas the worst.

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Rogue

First episode this season that I actually got a feel for and felt invested in.

But ye gads, the romance element! Yuck!

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i just saw a post about trans kids in narnia someone put me out of my misery.

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all the fictional feelings

Go ahead, stop by my inbox if you want to talk about

Call the Midwife season 11 finale (Dr. Turner and Sister Julianne!)

Forever (2014)--Henry and Abe's relationship, Henry's guilt over pretty much everything

Ds9-- Sisko as a father, esp. with the comparative lack of good father figures in scifi.

Delicious in Dungeon---just yeah cool idea.

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Okay, more detail. Henry has been cursed with immortality, but he has an adopted son, Abe. Abe is now in his 70s, with Henry (apparently) in his thirties. So you have a father-son relationship, but also its inverse. Abe is the one worrying about what will happen when he dies. The protective nature of them both, caring so hard for each other...,,and the background, with Abigail and ...just....feels

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watching TV

I know ads on late-night tv/sub-channels/etc are cheap, which is why you get lots of medical ads and cheap infomercials, but it is funny to trace a train of thought from 'Star Trek' to, say, pneumonia shots.