Good news, everybody!

[promethia_tenk]

First:
Snow!  Well, ok, flurries.  That didn't last long and didn't stick.  But still, there were white fleck-y things in the sky, and I WAS OUT IN THEM!  Huzzah!

Second:
stick_poker , who is henceforth my personal hero until such time as I come across the next thing that literally makes me *gleep* with delight, has discovered something in "The Eleventh Hour" that everybody else missed.  A bit of a joke, if you will.  Namely, that Moffat was not really suggesting that the TARDIS's swimming pool is generally to be found in the library.  Rather, the swimming pool is elsewhere, but with the TARDIS crashed on its side like that, the water from the swimming pool had drained out and pooled in the library.  The key bit of dialogue, I think, (because it always bugged me somehow), is this:

Amelia: You said you were in the library.
Eleven: So was the swimming pool.

Was.  It's a strange thing to say if the swimming pool is usually in the library, or at least had been recently as a matter of course.  No, the swimming pool was in the library for the same reason Eleven was: it fell.  (Aside, I also rather like the more absurdist visual of the entire swimming pool structure, having come unmoored somehow and floating free within the floor, crashing down into the library.)

IT'S A SPATIAL REASONING JOKE!!  No, even better, IT'S A SPATIAL REASONING JOKE AND A METAPHOR ABOUT PERSONAL GROWTH ALL IN ONE!!! (Eleven was reborn out of the watery womb of knowledge and then asked for an apple =D )

Q: Could I love Steven Moffat's writing any more than I already do?
A: I didn't think so, but apparently I was wrong.

Q; Is everyone else going to be as delighted about this as me?
A: Somehow I doubt it, but let's find out, shall we?

Third:
Stephen Fry twitted the following article about the role of comedy and its importance and why the modern novel is dying from an angst overdose and I think I am in love with it but am having far too many thoughts about it to say anything coherent now, so I'll just leave this here: Divine Comedy.

Fourth:
A bit by the by, but since I was posting anyway: I think this is the funniest xkcd we've had in a long while.

Comments

[elisi]

*flailflailflail*

I LOVE IT TO DISTRACTION!!!!

[dweomeroflight.livejournal.com]

Well I think this is SQUEEETASTIC. I never noticed that before. Oh series five. Don't stop surprising!

[owlboy]

>>No, the swimming pool was in the library for the same reason Eleven was: it fell

I always assumed that :o
Later he says something like "No idea where it is now, it'll turn up"

I STILL DON'T KNOW WTF MOFFAT IS TALKING ABOUT WHEN HE SAYS THERE'S SOMETHING MASSIVE THAT EVERYONE HAS MISSED AND HE CAN'T BELIEVE HE GOT AWAY WITH IT. AGHHHH I'VE WATCHED THE EPISODE 50 TIMES AND I STILL DON'T GET IT. BASTAAAAAARD!

(calms down)

"gleep" is my new favourite word

[snogged.livejournal.com]

LOL.

I freaking adore XKCD!

[rumpelsnorcack.livejournal.com]

I kinda already knew that I think (yers, I'm VERY decisive with my knowledge). I mean, before everyone assumed it lived in the library I was all 'oh it got jumbled in there ... or possibly it just roams the TARDIS at will' before deciding maybe I read it wrong and thinking that it just hung out in the library.

Also ... Divine Comedy article was basically divine :D Extremely interesting read. Now excuse me, I need to go angst over being unable to write comedy ...

[alt_universe_me.livejournal.com]

YOU AND stick_poker ARE MAD GENIUSES, I SAY. YOUR META KNOWS NO BOUNDS.

[cosmiccoz.livejournal.com]

I think the fans are perhaps more clever than Moffat.

It's rather like picking out the visual symbology of Series 5, without proper understanding of the actual production hierarchy of DW.

We forget about the individual writers, the directors, the cinematographers and the art department. Moffat doesn't have the godlike control some fans speculate he has. Many of the choices are left up to the present director and downward.

Stephen Fry twitted the following article about the role of comedy and its importance and why the modern novel is dying from an angst overdose and I think I am in love with it but am having far too many thoughts about it to say anything coherent now, so I'll just leave this here: Divine Comedy.

I think there's a time for everything, but I've always leaned toward tragedy, rather than comedy. I crave Hamlet more than As You Like It. Some of the best comedies I know are those screaming with laughter at the darkness. Those so horribly rooted in a shit pit of a world, that the only way to survive is to laugh. That I can understand. That's real to me.

Comedy that doesn't reflect the reality of the world is insubstantial.

I actually just finished relistening to Matt Smith on the Nerdist podcast. He had talked about how much he loved Peter Sellers' dark sense of humor and then moved on to the darkness of the Doctor:

Because that's what interests me as the Doctor, actually. Look at the blood on the man's hand. Nine-hundred years—countless, very selfish choices. And he's literally blown planets up, his own race. I mean, that's all on his hands. Which is why I think he has to make silly jokes and wear a fez. . . because if he didn't, he'd hang himself.

That's the sort of humor I crave. Tragicomedy. Why have one, when you can have both?

[stick-poker.livejournal.com]

*grins* Watery rebirth metaphor!

(Only just read this now... There was something I had to write first, see.)

[honeynoir.livejournal.com]

No, the swimming pool was in the library for the same reason Eleven was: it fell.
o_O falling swimming pool! I like it! I always assumed the pool had somehow migrated to the library during the crashing, but the idea of it falling is cooool. A time machine in a flux... why shouldn't it fall? (It probably ended up in the ceiling somewhere, just to mess with everyone.)

[cinderbella333.livejournal.com]

I always loved that pool joke! And your bit about being reborn from a watery womb and wanting an apple. Hilarious. You amuse me greatly on a very frequent basis. Just so you know.

[sea_thoughts]

Namely, that Moffat was not really suggesting that the TARDIS's swimming pool is generally to be found in the library. Rather, the swimming pool is elsewhere, but with the TARDIS crashed on its side like that, the water from the swimming pool had drained out and pooled in the library.

It seemed pretty obvious to me when he said it that the water had poured into the library... but I didn't recognise the symbolism. That's gorgeous!