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One: Icon is fantastic.

Two: DOCTOR WHO WE WERE ALL SO FUCKING WRONG.

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1. it is, isn't it.

2. OH MY GOD I KNOW. I KNOW AND I WAS LIKE, OF COURSE IT'LL BE AMY, AND ANYWAY WHOEVER IT IS WILL DIE AT THE END OF THE FIRST HALF OF THE BLOODY SEASON — AND NO, IT'S AT THE END OF THE FIRST TEN MINUTES OF THE FIRST EPISODE. OH MY GOOOOOD.

3. is that Sarah Jane? ;o;

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2. I CAN'T EVEN COMPREHEND THIS SHIT WTF IS GOING ONNNNNN.

3. Yes. I'm trying to use this icon as much as possible.

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AAAAAAND I MEAN, DO WE GET TO KNOW THE DOCTOR'S FATE AT THE END OF SATURDAY NEXT, OR AT THE END OF THE MIDDLE FINALE, OR AT THE END OF THE ACTUAL FINALE, AND IS AMY REALLY PREGNANT, AND WHO IS THAT GIRL IN THE SPACESUIT, AND AAAAAAAA THE SILENT ARE POSSIBLY THE SCARIEST, BEST MONSTERS EVER

REMEMBER WHAT WE WERE SAYING ABOUT EPIC MINDFUCKS

/endcapslock

Please do. It's amazing, how little I know her, and how much her death shocked me anyway. Finishing Old!Who is going to be bittersweet, now.

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Actually... that is not what I expected from the Silence at all. I actually would not believe that those were the Silence until someone pointed out that it was in the credits.

Because they tried to wipe out reality, yeah? Every universe ever never having existed, you'd expect the Silence to be able to survive that kind of thing somehow, which made me think that they'd be some kind of ascended-to-a-higher-plane ethereal energy beings, not... that. And now they're what, tunneling under the entire earth and maybe sabotaging the moon rocket? Seems like a rather large step down. And I really was not expecting them to show up in the very first episode. If the whole point is that they're absolutely terrifying, super evil, season spanning baddies, then having them physically show up in the very first episode takes a lot of wind out of their sails. Okay, yeah they're still scary, but now they're run-of-the-mill scary. Last season the cracks were the worst thing in the universe, and the Silence was evil demon god of death, but now... just doesn't seem that way. Giving them physical form has just made them seem ridiculously less threatening to me.

Unless of course in the Silence's timeline this is in the past, and the whole destroying-the-multiverse-using-the-TARDIS thing is revenge. Which... I can see Steven Moffat doing. But that would beg the question, who is the REAL baddie of season 6? And still contains the question of how would they survive a lack of multiverse whilst (presumably) having physical bodies?

I dunno, the whole physical bodies thing is just really irking me. I was expecting something like a crazed half-ascended madman bent on universal domination, like Anubis from Stargate.

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Actually, in the credits, it's the Silent, so it's generally assumed it's the Silence as a race and the Silent as an individual, I think? and yeah, I sort of linked them automatically to Munch's Scream, which they'd said had been the inspiration for them, so I knew for sure they were it.

I don't know. It's a valid criticism, I think, but the thing is, I'm not certain the Silence are evil. Yes, one of them did kill Joy in the lav, but other than that, they've mostly been watching from afar and appearing to Amy three times for no good reason whatsoever apart from the whole 'you have to tell the Doctor what he needs to be told' advice. In my eyes, they're linked to Amy's pregnancy somehow, but I sort of wonder whether they're as intrinsically evil as, say, the Daleks, or whether they're more... neutral? Maybe. Re: the first episode, I should think that's to present them from the get-go as the leitmotiv of this series? that doesn't mean they'll be there all the time, just that they're season 6's version of the cracks. But I do see what you mean — I just think I prefer to reserve judgement on them for now beyond 'really fucking scary'.

That's possible! and interesting. As to how they can survive the lack of multiverse — maybe they'd been on earth all this time? it's fascinating, how many things we can interpret and imagine from this episode. There were a few things that irked me in it, but overall it's a fairly fascinating start.

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Mainly I just want to know how they went from destroying the multiverse to tunneling under earth, or vice-versa if it is in the other order. As villain plots go, they just don't seem to be linked in the slightest. All that plus apartment-TARDIS-thing and my mind's all like woah, these puzzle pieces do not go together.

Woah. Maybe they want to become the new Time Lords, but in order to do that they need to wipe out all traces of the old ones... namely, the Doctor and his TARDIS. And when that doesn't work, they decide they'll just take over his favorite planet instead, and keep an eye on him that way. Or maybe the apartment-TARDIS-thing is a remnant from 1969? Hmmm...

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I 8| at you forever

because if you suddenly stop writing them I think I may just, I dunno, collapse into a whimpering mess or something = wait, what do you mean enough fluff and snogging, there is never enough fluff and snogging, how can you say that's enough fluff and snogging? Are you mad? Enough fluff and snogging? /checks your temperature

Can't read it at the moment and just holy shit 20k words aewhtgweoihtasdf I want to hug you forever and ever and stuff :|

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OH GOD DON'T

DON'T

I'm neverrrrr going to stop writing FrUK. Don't worry. But I've got something like ten unfinished Sherlock fics in my harddrive and I'd like to finish at least one, you know? (and aha the fluff 'n snogging thing, of course there's never enough, I just want to try my hand at some angst next time — or possibly England/fem!France taking over the world together and rewriting history, that's sort of. Planned. Or a threesome with Shakespeare. (I blame you for that one, by the way.)) SO ANYWAY, NOT STOPPING THE FRUK, JUST ... TAKING A BREAK FOR A SHERLOCK FIC. POSSIBLY. IF ONE OF THESE TWO PLOT IDEAS DON'T EAT ME ALIVE and you know they probably will

&hearts&hearts /hugs you back

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hahahaha oh my good luck with your Sherlock fic, ten unfinished ones? D: /pushes you to write one and then fruk-time oh yeah

you're going to break my heart with angst aren't you? D: oooooh I'm all for England/fem!France mmmmmmhmmmmm and Shakespeare- hey wait what, my fault?

/CLING

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Stop 8|-ing me aaaaaa

Ffffft okay let's do it that way — one Sherlock one FrUK, one Sherlock one FrUK and so on; unless something drastic happens with my writing chart and I end up continuing up and over and far away because yeah

England/fem!France is so ridiculously hot. And there was this one prompt on the meme about the two of them joining forces and taking over the world and I was like nnnnnnng oh god this and then never got around to writing it. I might, now. (The Shakespeare is absolutely all your fault — you posted an excerpt of one meme fic to your journal the other day, right, and while thinking up an answer (which I ended up never posting, sorrysorry) I got to thinking about The Taming Of The Shrew and Kate&Petruchio and also where the hell did Will get his inspiration for these two? sooooo technically, your fault — for, uh, getting me thinking? yeahhh.)

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NEVERRRRRR

okay okay so I suppose a Sherlock fic is next in line... up and over and far away - you're gonna think me nuts but I reread that again, like how I said I reread Sign (and hohoho I would not be opposed to a continuation... /rereads it again just because)... it's like everything you write- YOU ARE MIDAS. That is it, you're Midas, everything you write is like beautiful goooooooold - that's way more cheesy than I intend but still

YES I think I remember seeing that prompt, I know there's one for male France/England, either way P: If you do find the time, I'm going to sniff it out and fawn and swoon and other things

I can, sort of see how that's my fault ~~not really~~ LOL actually I don't know about that prompt anymore... I want to write it, and I kind of like how I did everything BEFORE the Shakespeare part so I'm not going to delete it but the more I think about it, the more I just want to focus on 'Shakespeare' and not his 'plays' more the 'magic of Shakespeare as an artist' kind of thing but my attention span isn't capable of such things (it's okeyokey) See I'm not familiar with The Taming of the Shrew, like I've heard of it, but I don't know it and I keep thinking about people nitpicking and 'why didn't you mention this one?' so if I ever get to it it'd be Shakespeare as a writer and as a guy trying to make a living - (see, I just looked at the Wikipedia page and the picture they have there of Kate and Petruchio and I think I know what you're talking about hahahaha)

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OH WAIT BUT. MIDAS DIDN'T HAVE SUCH A GOOD END, DID HE? HE SORT OF. DIED. D: (but, okay, compliment: thank you ;o;) as for up and over and far away, I just — I have a whole universe all straightened out for them in this incarnation, wars and flying machines and making love in dark corners, cambridge and a writer's workshop at age thirty-five; I just need to get my arse in gear and actually write them. One day.

That's the one I'm talking about :D I'd have to ask the OP if they're a-okay with fem!France, I s'pose. And I probably will write it, in four parts or something. I sort of have. Titles. Of a kind. In mah brain.

Do write it. :D! it was good, what I read — the only thing I remember frowning upon was Russia, actually, because he didn't feel quite — detached. Enough. I think. I should have to reread it? I can do that, if you so wish, ma'am. Butbutbut the magic of Shakespeare as an artist is a perfectly respectable theme, yanno /Shakespeare nerd here.

(As for The Taming Of The Shrew, I see it as one of his best, and a gorgeous love story despite what everybody might say, thank you very much. Irony, thy name is sweet. And I just sort of — ship them sfm, Kate&Petruchio, and I've got this shy OT3 with Shakespeare andandand it just might work, you know? it makes sense, and Shakespeare's tongue is so brilliant. I'd have to work quite a bit on it, but it might be worth it.)

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