The Giggle notes
Soho, 1925
There’s that clip of the toy shop from the trailer
NPH – clearly enjoying hamming it up
*** The rules. They
are very, very importantent, these rules. Don’t you think?
Stooky Bill. I’d
never heard of him
Stooky Sue and the Stooky Babies. Creepy
The Toymaker is properly sinister
Ah, he just did the arpeggio laugh
Nice little moment of casual racism
Why is the toymaker letting his accent slip?
John Logie Baird.
Also never heard of him.
There’s the laugh arpeggio again
Stooky means stupid and slow in Scottish idiom?
Stooky Bill on fire is creepy as hell
There’s the giggle again.
They’re sneaking it in a lot before we know to look for it.
Bernard Cribbons is tactfully gone/just out of shot/ not
showing his face. That’s sad. Obviously he wasn’t really there anymore.
Man, you can see the increased budget
The Toymaker dancing uin the background
Should this guy be this able to ellucidate what’s happening
while affected? I suppose it had to
happen to get the situation explained
Pointing to Wilf out of shot
That must be an audio clip ‘you go with the Doctor’ from a
previous episode.
Sound cue of the Arpeggio again
Heluicopter carries the TARDIS to Avengers tower
Shirley Anne Bingham again
Really thought Kate was going to punch him
The Doctor’s not wrong.
UNIT has seriously given up being secret
Hey there Mel!
Donna: I wasn’t the
first Redhead?
Mel: No. That was me.
Actually it was Liz.
Just for the record.
Love that Shirley has limited mobility. Suck it, disability gatekeepers
Two days ago, an increase in violence worldwide
Everybody thinks they’re right and won’t be told otherwise
This is a not so subtle dig at the Tories
Yeah, what’s with the arm bands
The Vlinx
The Zeedex
So we’re just not going to get any backstory on the Vlinx
‘The Spike’. Not
ominous at all.
The spikes in neural activity matching a musical scale is
neat, conceptually, but I don’t know if it logically tracks. Why would it affect the brainwaves visually
like that
Kate: As for her, in
that chair, I’ve seen you walk! I’ve
seen you walking!
So the spike turns people into alt right internet trolls.
Mel does ‘sad look’ very well.
Mel: I’ve been
fine. Well… no more opinionated than
usual
Donna: Nor me.
So former companions are immune
Zeedex – thinly veiled vaccine metaphor. Of course there are anti-Zeedexers
KOSAT-5 satellite – Everyone is online on the planet
now. Really?
Donna: I spent six months teaching my daughter to play the
recorder ‘til she said ‘this is not who I am, and that was the start of a whole
other conversation, believe you me.
Mel singing the arpeggio makes everyone go weird
Donna’s placement of the points on the musical scale is
totally arbitrary. There’s no reason for
it to be middle C. It’s just
conceptually cool, so maybe don’t think about the logistics too much
Arpeggios are basic
Shirley is good at research.
She found the puppet laugh right away
The Doctor: The
giggle in everyone’s head.
The whole ‘hiding inside the signal thing has been done
before
So Stooky Bill and his laugh have been imbedded in every image on every screen. That doesn’t really track logistically, but
it does track poetically.
So once the entire world was connected Stooky Bill burned
himself into everyone’s brains. How,
exactly?
Looking for the puppeteer
The Doctor: All the
anger out there on the street. The
lies. The righteousness. That’s
human. That’s you. That’s who you are.
Playing with you like toys.
He’s dancing around the realization
She was waiting for the Doctor’s permission. They’ve learned
since Harriet Jones
Mel is a pretty good computer person
Aww, Doctor and Mel moment.
Sabalom Glitz! Aww,
Tony Selby
Zingo
So Mel was already an orphan when the Doctor met her
Donna: How much per
year?
Kate: Sixty thousand.
Donna: One hundred
twenty plus five weeks holiday.
Kate: Done.
Of course the Doctor pops back to 1925 to see the actual
transmission
They’re rehashing the same school reunion argument. Russell is keeping the trauma plotline
simmering in the background
The old face came back because he’s wearing himself
out? Lame.
That’s kind of a leap assuming Stooky Bill came from the toy
shop
He’s playing a game!
Toymaker: Und now,
everybody loves the balls.
The Doctor is recognizing the Toymaker
Super effective
Michael Gough flashback
And he goes from german to English and back
Establishing now that the Toymaker doesn’t employ logic
Back in the Toymaker’s domain. Neat.
So is David Tennant talking about the 1st Doctor
episode or the implied visit before that
Casting the salt at the edge of the universe counted a s a
game and let the Toymaker in. That’s
kind of lame
I hope there will be clowns in the domain again
Donna’s right about statistics. Dice don’t know what the dice did last time.
No! Do not go through
doors separately!
Of course they’re separated now.
It’s the guy that bought Stooky Bill
He’s wrapped up exactkly like Bill was.
He went back to the shop ater the cold open and lost a game
to the Toymaker and now he’s a marionette.
This is grotesque. In
a good way
This is where the Toymaker works. The innocent games twisted into scary
mockeries
Stooky Sue!
Speaking in rhyme is creepy
Donna: Hello Stooky,
my name’s Donna. Now I think that you’re
a goner.
Donna is hard core murdering that doll
Who would the Toymaker let them find one another that easily
Is this the same design as the new DVD
Puppet show exposition!!
Toymaker: Well that’s
all right then!
The marionettes of the companions are great
He’s taken aback by being offered what he really wants. To play a game
NPH can really do these card tricks, can’t he
He made a jigsaw out of the Doctor’s history. So, there you go. All inconsistencies are covered
Why bother bringing up the master in the tooth
The one who waits.
The Toymaker claims he saw them hiding and ran. Was he really afraid? This is clearly setup for a big bad season
plot
The Toymaker made everybody’s opinion supreme
Toymaker: That’s the
game of the 21st century.
They shout, and they type, and they cancel.
That plotline doesn’t really amount to much
The Toymaker is indignant at the thought that he might
cheat.
They made cutting cards a tense moment
Best of three is an inviolable rule
The Doctor: Donna!
Donna: I’m already running!
The folding up effect is pretty neat
Galvanic beam. It
works that they have to wait for the satellite to get to be over them which Mel
tricked it into doing
The Doctor is scanning for something? Is this just technobabble to make it seem
like the Doctor has a plan?
OK, he’s scanning for the way the Toymaker entered our
universe back in 1925 in the hope that he can shove him out of it again.
Spice Girls dance number!
I bet NPH had a ball doing this
That hit of Kate on the wall was brutal. That should have given her a traumatic brain
injury
Turning the soldiers into balls is cute, and then the
screaming face in one ball show how sick and painful it really is
This is all Tex Avery Aesthetics
That’s a lot of broken glass flying around
The Toymaker doesn’t like being called small
The Doctor is inviting the Toymaker to be a companion. That’s bonkers
The Doctor: We can
be… Celestial.
Didn’t the Toymaker already know humanity? He’d picked people from here before
The Toymaker makes a strong case for why he would love
humanity
Dang! I did not see
that coming! David Tennant is dying
earlier than expected!
Donna and Mel insist on being by his side
Mel: You’re going to
be someone else. It doesn’t matter
who. Because every single one of you is
fantastic.
Allons-Y should have been his final words last time
Pull??
I love that half the clothes go with Ncuti and half stay
with David
The Doctor’s in his underwear
Bi-Generation
The range of colorrs line is cringey
He shrank the guardians into voodoo dolls?
Doc 15 getting carried away and almost eliminating 14 is
funny’
The flattening and folding effect is cool
So did all of this just now never happen? Did no one die?
No, Kate seems to be indicating that they did still die.
And now the Doctor is agreeing that people still did really
die.
The 15th Doctor:
Come here. I’ve got you. Yeah.
I’m here.
The red fingernailed hand picking up the master/tooth. No.
Just no. Just don’t
That is the big question.
How does this work now?
Fun rundown of the major hits of both series.
The 15th Doctor:
Sarah Jane is gone. Can you
believe that for a second?
So Ncuti is fine now because David is going to ix himself in
his personal future. So they are still
kind of linear, but folded back and overlapping
So his face is back because it was supposed to tell him to
go home with Donna? Weak.
He just happens to have a huge Tex Avery Mallet on hand.
Of course he does
It does work that the ‘cartoon rules’ are still
lingering. Feels a lot like the
‘regeneration energy is lingering from Christmas invasion though
I like the accessibility ramp
Still no chairs, but now there is a juke box
This does really feel like a fresh new start for the show.
This is a proper sendoff for the new Doctor and the rest is
wrapup of Davod Tennant and family
Aqww, Sylvia says Mel is family. Love that
I love that Doc 14 and Mel are travelling
Wilf is shooting moles
Lovely last moment with Ncuti
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