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[cblj_backup]

It's Sunday, and time for Sam's Three Things About Doctor Who!

I think I missed doing this for A Town Called Mercy. Er, sorry.

Spoilers for 704, The Power Of Threesomes

1. BRIGADIER JUNIOR. OH MY HEART. She's clever and sciencey and the BRIGADIER'S KID. He was my favourite. Can we keep her? Please? It's about time the Doctor got stranded on Earth again for a while.

2. I'm sorry, if cubes randomly appeared all over one day, I would not put them in my silverware drawer (not that I have one, I keep mine in a cup on the counter). Though I could totally see people of a certain mind hoarding them.

3. You will note that the Doctor took them to a swanky hotel for their wedding anniversary and then...apparently stuck around long enough for Adventures To Be Had. I'm not sayin', I'm just sayin'. THE POWER OF THREE. (Also a nice nod to magical numbers, seven versus three.)

3a. I love Dad Pond. Dad Pond wins every episode he is in by virtue of being DAD POND.

Comments

[jamoche]

I can't help but compare the cubes to the snow globes in Terry Pratchett's "Reaper Man". If you go by what the show says, they have the same goals - to slowly infiltrate everywhere. But cubes don't work for me like the snow globes did - they popped up everywhere all at once instead of sneaking in (well, it's TV, hard to do a slow build there); there's nothing particularly interesting about a cube that would make people want to keep them; and they stuck around too long - I thrive on clutter but even I'd have tossed them long before they activated. I can't see a hospital wasting storage space by keeping them in bins.

If there was something about them that made people keep them, they didn't do a good job of showing it - sure, they had thousands of Twitter accounts 24 hours later but that's Twitter. Now, thousands of active Twitter accounts months later, that would've ramped up the creepy factor.

However if the actual goal of the cubes was to drive the Doctor loopy by being absolutely baffling, they succeeded. That was my theory for the first half of the show.