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

[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

[elisi]

Oh! I might know this, he talked about it... somewhere. It's the fact that the Doctor's jacket changes from the original one to the post-Angel episodes one, and he thought that all the die-hard fans would spot this. (I forget the explanation behind the jacket change, so don't ask me!)

Although it's not massive. Hm. *ponders*

[owlboy]

I think that was a mistake he was really annoyed about tho?? I remember Matt saying something about it in the Nerdist podcast.

This was more like "Tee hee I am so clever no one will ever guesssss"

[elisi]

That's where I heard it, yes.

This was more like "Tee hee I am so clever no one will ever guesssss"
Darn, now I'll have to re-watch again... (What a chore. Heh.)

[promethia_tenk]

I always assumed that :o
AND YOU DIDN'T TELL ME?!?!?!?! WHAT IS THIS I CAN'T EVEN.

Later he says something like "No idea where it is now, it'll turn up"
See, I assumed that the TARDIS just decides to rearrange things for her own amusement and that was what that line was about, not that the pool has been tumbling around the TARDIS due to gravity.

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.
Yeah, this is bugging me too, but I figure that if we haven't seen it by now, it is either 1) so ridiculously clever we'd never see it on our own so we might as well just wait or 2) really sort of obvious and so nobody ever bothered to say anything and we're all gonna be like 'oh, that's what you were going on about?' Or some strange combo of the two.

(calms down)
Here, have a lollipop.

[owlboy]

I'M SO SORRY!!!!!!!!!!! PLEASE FORGIVE ME I CAN CHANGE.

I thought it might be the weird staircase in Amy's house that goes nowhere, but that doesn't seem like a huge deal? it's kind of obvious? idk.

LOLLIPOP!!!!! :DD :D :D (glee)



[i am all about the exclamation points today APPARENTLY]

[promethia_tenk]

I guess you did draw me mustache!River. I'll forgive you then.

I thought it might be the weird staircase in Amy's house that goes nowhere, but that doesn't seem like a huge deal? it's kind of obvious? idk.
I think that really is just the stairs to the attic and everybody's blowing it all out of proportion. Like, I wish my attic had real stairs to it. Maybe if it did, I would actually use it.

[i am all about the exclamation points today APPARENTLY]
They are very aggressive.

[owlboy]

IDK. The way the camera lingers on it... it's like "Loooook at this". It takes up half the frame. That stuff doesn't happen by accident...
and IIRC Amy's house has a flat roof...not much room for an attic.
It's the only thing I can think of! I have to be right!

>>They are very aggressive.

sorry :/

Ps I read that Stephen Fry article - adoooreeee that man - have you listened to his podcasts? My favourite is his rant/rage at language pedants. sooo good.

[promethia_tenk]

Ps I read that Stephen Fry article - adoooreeee that man
Oooo, the article is not actually by Stephen Fry, but was recommended by him. My knowledge of him is somewhat limited, but I am becoming more and more of a fan.

Have you listened to his podcasts? My favourite is his rant/rage at language pedants. sooo good.
Link, pls :)

[owlboy]

Yeah, I saw the actual author's name in tiny font 5 mins after posting this and thought "D'OH"

[excuse me while i go a bit Stephen Fry crazy here]

Oh man, I think you would adore Stephen Fry... You need to watch QI, I think you'd love it...it's his comedy panel/game show thing about random facts and knowledge where the emphasis is put on being interesting rather than "right"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rh_hHFT76iU

Then there's Fry and Laurie which is just... the funniest ever and has Hugh Laurie in it<3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFD01r6ersw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znZuH2BU0FE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utpdzQj2S6o

Here's his podcasts
http://www.stephenfry.com/media/
Language: http://fry.positive-dedicated.net/fry-podcast2-episodes-03.mp3

I adore him, he's one of my personal heroes. He's ridiculously intelligent and hilarious and he's survived sooo much insanity in his life. sigh <3

[promethia_tenk]

I can look at these now . . . I was too scared earlier because I wasn't sure if I'd gotten his voice right and didn't want to find out when I was powerless to rewrite him and would have just had to live with knowing I'd written him *wrong*.

[owlboy]

i think you got it down pretty well actually :]

[stick-poker.livejournal.com]

I always assumed that :o
See, I did, and was confused that other people didn't. I'm pleased to hear I wasn't alone.

I'm not sure what the missing thing is either but I almost don't want to hunt for it too hard in case I'm disappointed. But then again, have I not faith in the Moff? Will it not be splendid? *sighs*