That last episode of Dr Who

[andrewducker]

Has anyone else read "Eight O'Clock In The Morning" by Ray Nelson*?

It's the basis for the move "They Live", and it tells of an Earth where aliens walk among us, but we can't see them because we've been hypnotised not to.

And it ends when the main character manages to get into the TV studios, kill one of the newsreader aliens (who are actually giving instructions to the populace) and then stand behind the body and tell the populace to see the aliens as they really are, rise up, and destroy them, so that humanity thinks the command is coming from one of the aliens, and the fightback begins.

I wonder if Stephen Moffat has read it.

A quick google for finds several copies floating around. It's quite old-fashioned now**, but I think it still works.

*Which is also the originating story for the film "They Live".
**Insofar as the writing is really not very good, and it's the idea behind it which is worth reading it for.

Comments

[andrewducker]

Presumably he has, and then he forgot.

The question of why he can suddenly remember them is one that remains to be answered. Possibly because this is the first time they've been captured on film (by Amy's camera). I assume that before this they've avoided cameras - but didn't recognise Amy's phone as being a camera, because it was from their future. Of course, I could be entirely wrong there.

[fenland.livejournal.com]

I am guessing that this whole issue will be resolved as the series progresses. I mean, the alternative time machine/space ship? We know know why it was derelict. But is there more to it? We don't know. Yet.

Steve Moffat seems to have a very good way of tying things up in an unorthodox way, out of sequence but still answering them, remember the question of the Angels and his jacket being off and then on. He is not a person to just give us the answers, so thereby encouraging us that we will need to watch to see.

This Doctor is Different. He is not like the previous incarnations. He has changed. We've seen it throughout the reboot. Handled in various ways and to different extents by the writers. The 1st Doctor CE who overall edge was that he was Bitter and angry at all that happened between the old and the new, and mellowing. DT again different. Companion/sans companion, what happened when he didn't have one. This could be something that The Moff will deal with.. Who knows.. we shall just have to find out, won't we? *_^