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Hitler had little to do with it.
We saw the birth, as it were, of River Song who turned out to be Amy's childhood friend Mels. Growing up together, learning about the Doctor. But we also find out she's been programmed to kill the Doctor by the Silence who obviously have help, those people at Demon's run and the Headless Monks and all those lot.
River seemed awfully surprised and thrilled at how regeneration actually worked but she's the child from the first episode of the season, she's already regenerated at least once and she did remember that. She said she regenerated to a toddler (from a child's body, the child that the Silence were raising in the space suit). So how did she get from that child to Scotland and into Amy's life? She said it took years to find them, but she'd have been in a child's body all those years. We don't know how many years she was around before that for the Silence to do their programming I suppose. When they took her as an infant they had to have gone back many years to allow her to grow up and be programmed. It all does my head in. I think too hard about it. It is what it is.
These miniature justice police were a bit odd. They don't actually seem to stop someone before that person has done all their nasty deeds, they just take them at their death or just before and "give them hell", Oh you naughty boy/girl!
So River-that-will-be used up all her regenerations to bring the Doctor back to life? I guess that ties up the Library thing where she fried at the end and didn't regenerate now that we know she's Time Lordish. What the Doctor told her as he thought he was dying was obviously his real name. He knows that she's told it to him in the Library planet. She kept him alive and it looks as if later on, at the lake, she may be the one to kill him again. That's the fixed point in time.
Maybe.
I watched it again today and it made more sense than it did last night.
I can't say the same about Torchwood. It's really losing the plot for me but i'll have to see how it all ends.
I do find the time lines to get my head around. No wonder she was afraid for the first time she would meet him, she remembered that she'd killed him that time and she knows she gave the rest of her lives to save him.
Yesterday I got my eReader replaced. The raised touchpad that you use for navigating had cracked away from the side of the machine. I didn't think i was pressing it to hard but i guess it was defective. My sister has read at least as many books as me on hers and hers is fine. Anyway Kobo said the store would exchange it rather than me having to ship it back and that's what they did... with a touch screen version! I got it all set up last night. It took a bit of messing but i got it running and loaded and started using it. The touch screen is sensitive which is better than having to beat on the screen to make it turn the page at least.
I finished a number of books over the last couple of weeks. I wanted to finish the ones i had open before i exchanged the device. So books 53 - 57 are as follows:
The Secret Garden, Kate Morton (paper book) A granddaughter tries to unravel her grandmother's past via a little cottage in Cornwall. We flip back and forth between their lives and the life of her great grandmother. The grandmother as a child was left on a ship heading to Australia and was brought up there by a ship harbour master and his wife because she seemed to have been abandoned. We have to go back into the past to find out why.
Dancing in the Shadows of Love - Judy Croome a bit of an allegory, too much of a religious tone for me. About three women all damaged, all trying to find who they are and discover what love it. They have to find a way to love themselves (and believe in the Spirit King apparently) before they can discover how to love properly.
Sho-Gun - James Clavell An older book about the Japanese Samurai around the turn of the 17th century. Mini series with Richard Chamberlain was filmed in the 70s or 80s.
The Bishop's Man - Linden MacIntyre About a priest who has been the problem "wise guy" for the Bishop in Nova Scotia, dealing with church scandal, mostly priests who mess up. In this day and age of abuse in the church, it's more relevant, isn't it to see how things probably work from the inside. The story takes place in a small village in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia mainly. Pretty good book really. It's not about abuse, it's about the priest and his past and the people around him.
Sister: A Novel - Rosamund Lipton A story that is told from the point of view of one sister as a sort of letter to her younger sister who has been murdered. She tells her sister how she felt and how she went about trying to find the murderer. There are clues through the book to the ending's twist but i didn't really get it. I'm crap at that unless i'm hit over the head with it though i can often figure out who the murderer is. I had suspicions about this one but wasn't sure.
We saw the birth, as it were, of River Song who turned out to be Amy's childhood friend Mels. Growing up together, learning about the Doctor. But we also find out she's been programmed to kill the Doctor by the Silence who obviously have help, those people at Demon's run and the Headless Monks and all those lot.
River seemed awfully surprised and thrilled at how regeneration actually worked but she's the child from the first episode of the season, she's already regenerated at least once and she did remember that. She said she regenerated to a toddler (from a child's body, the child that the Silence were raising in the space suit). So how did she get from that child to Scotland and into Amy's life? She said it took years to find them, but she'd have been in a child's body all those years. We don't know how many years she was around before that for the Silence to do their programming I suppose. When they took her as an infant they had to have gone back many years to allow her to grow up and be programmed. It all does my head in. I think too hard about it. It is what it is.
These miniature justice police were a bit odd. They don't actually seem to stop someone before that person has done all their nasty deeds, they just take them at their death or just before and "give them hell", Oh you naughty boy/girl!
So River-that-will-be used up all her regenerations to bring the Doctor back to life? I guess that ties up the Library thing where she fried at the end and didn't regenerate now that we know she's Time Lordish. What the Doctor told her as he thought he was dying was obviously his real name. He knows that she's told it to him in the Library planet. She kept him alive and it looks as if later on, at the lake, she may be the one to kill him again. That's the fixed point in time.
Maybe.
I watched it again today and it made more sense than it did last night.
I can't say the same about Torchwood. It's really losing the plot for me but i'll have to see how it all ends.
I do find the time lines to get my head around. No wonder she was afraid for the first time she would meet him, she remembered that she'd killed him that time and she knows she gave the rest of her lives to save him.
Yesterday I got my eReader replaced. The raised touchpad that you use for navigating had cracked away from the side of the machine. I didn't think i was pressing it to hard but i guess it was defective. My sister has read at least as many books as me on hers and hers is fine. Anyway Kobo said the store would exchange it rather than me having to ship it back and that's what they did... with a touch screen version! I got it all set up last night. It took a bit of messing but i got it running and loaded and started using it. The touch screen is sensitive which is better than having to beat on the screen to make it turn the page at least.
I finished a number of books over the last couple of weeks. I wanted to finish the ones i had open before i exchanged the device. So books 53 - 57 are as follows:
The Secret Garden, Kate Morton (paper book) A granddaughter tries to unravel her grandmother's past via a little cottage in Cornwall. We flip back and forth between their lives and the life of her great grandmother. The grandmother as a child was left on a ship heading to Australia and was brought up there by a ship harbour master and his wife because she seemed to have been abandoned. We have to go back into the past to find out why.
Dancing in the Shadows of Love - Judy Croome a bit of an allegory, too much of a religious tone for me. About three women all damaged, all trying to find who they are and discover what love it. They have to find a way to love themselves (and believe in the Spirit King apparently) before they can discover how to love properly.
Sho-Gun - James Clavell An older book about the Japanese Samurai around the turn of the 17th century. Mini series with Richard Chamberlain was filmed in the 70s or 80s.
The Bishop's Man - Linden MacIntyre About a priest who has been the problem "wise guy" for the Bishop in Nova Scotia, dealing with church scandal, mostly priests who mess up. In this day and age of abuse in the church, it's more relevant, isn't it to see how things probably work from the inside. The story takes place in a small village in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia mainly. Pretty good book really. It's not about abuse, it's about the priest and his past and the people around him.
Sister: A Novel - Rosamund Lipton A story that is told from the point of view of one sister as a sort of letter to her younger sister who has been murdered. She tells her sister how she felt and how she went about trying to find the murderer. There are clues through the book to the ending's twist but i didn't really get it. I'm crap at that unless i'm hit over the head with it though i can often figure out who the murderer is. I had suspicions about this one but wasn't sure.