#The Day of the Moon

[notyoujamie]

Reality bleeding through.

[nkp1981]

Doctor Who Series 6 Episode 2 "Day Of The Moon", 2011

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[cookiepoweredtardis2]

Happy Moon Landing Day, y'all...

....wait did y'all see that? And why do I have all these tally marks on my arm???

[besidesitstoowarm]

"The Day of the Moon" thoughts

i would argue we stuck the landing here, but it's a bit shaky. my bf said he was frustrated bc we never got back around to the astronaut in the lake and i think that's a fairly good point. i know where the season is going but so far the show has been fairly self-contained, we haven't really had such a major story beat be kind of dropped. obviously i know it'll come back but it does feel like the story itself kind of forgot about its own inciting incident. that said i still loved it

so we open 3 months later, amy is on the run and covered in tally marks. canton shoots her, then chases down river until she jumps off a skyscraper, then tracks down and shoots rory, both of whom also have tally marks. canton has the doctor at roswell and puts him in super prison and then drops the act once they're alone; amy and rory are fine, he lets the doctor go free, they're a-silence huntin'. they catch river. amy tells the doctor she was wrong, she isn't pregnant

the doctor implants them with the career chip from futurama but it's a recording device and all of a sudden canton's shows that he has a message "how did it get in here" and it's genuinely unnerving. moffat is really, really good at horror episodes, very "something scary enough for children without being too scary for adults", he taps into these primal fears (aging, the dark, something under your bed, something in the corner of your eye, being watched) in a way that is always effective for me

they try to track down the little girl from part 1 by going to an orphanage. the guy running it is visibly unwell and the entire place looks condemned, LEAVE NOW GET OUT is painted on the wall, the guy says they're planning to close in '67. canton says that can't be true cause it's already '69 and the guy is confused. amy gets trapped in a room with more creepy writing on the walls, threadbare beds, suddenly covered in tally marks with a message saying she found them sleeping. we see them nesting on the ceiling like bats, and it's gross and creepy

she escapes the room and sees a hatch open on another door, we see a woman with an eyepatch who says "no i think she's just dreaming" and closes the hatch. hm. amy opens that door but it's just a child's room, the little girl's room. there are a lot of pictures of her on the dresser and one pic of amy holding a baby. what could it mean! amy gets ambushed and kidnapped

the doctor and rory find her palm chip on the group and it's live playing her crying and begging for help. rory says amy knows he'll always come for her and she starts begging for the doctor. poor rory, man. like i said in the other recap, that insecurity hasn't gone away, no neat bows on that arc. i love them your honor. the doctor and river find the empty astronaut suit and it's life support but the little girl busted out. "incredibly strong and running away, i like her" yeah i'll bet you do

the doctor and rory have a good weird little moment. the doctor says fighting the silence is like kicking the romans out of rome and rory says "rome fell" and the doctor says "i know, i was there" and rory says "so was i" god he's so cool. rory says he kind of remembers the lone centurion years, sometimes. the davies era has the companions all end up for the better after traveling w the doctor, he's the best thing that ever happened to them, a miracle. and he is, but the moffat era also acknowledges that he leaves scars, he's like cpr in that he saves your life but also cracks your ribs

they find amy! river has a gun! the doctor gets horny again "she really doesn't mind shooting people, i shouldn't like that but i sort of do" and then says she could kill at least 3 of them before they get to him, she says easily 7, 8 for you honey "oh, stop it" "make me" "mm, maybe i will" i NEED to be their third. i want what they have. i want to be the peanut butter in their sandwich. the doctor harnesses the power of gaslighting by inserting a clip of the silence saying "you should kill us all on sight" into the moon landing, ensuring hundreds of millions of people will see it and drive them away, even if they don't remember it

anyway we learned last episode that canton got kicked from the fbi bc he wanted to get married so nixon is like "the one you want to marry. black?" canton says yes and nixon is like "well i'm a little more liberal than–" and canton cuts in with "HE is." nixon does not approve. naturally. remember in that call of duty game when reagan asks for your pronouns? fuck me that was funny. nixon does not do that. we love a gay interracial romance however. i love you canton

the doctor asks amy why she told him she's pregnant and she's like idk you're my best friend (only friend, i think) and he's like "but you didn't tell rory?" and rory is like yeah you def should have told me. i'm a nurse, and also your husband. the doctor surreptitiously scans amy for pregnancy and it keeps oscillating between positive and negative. paging dr schroedinger

he drops river back off at prison and she kisses him and he flails a bit and she realizes they haven't kissed before, and his firsts are her lasts so this is it for her :( it's good, it's tragic. river hides so much pain under her flirtation and quips, she's very much like nine in that. i'd love to have seen them together

last scene we see the little girl who escaped the astronaut stumbling down a nyc alley and she tells a homeless man that she's dying but it's cool bc uhhhhh *explodes into light* you know how it is in nyc. what could it mean?!

next episode is mid if i recall. that's okay i need a break from thinking

[thatsbelievable]

[dudedidujust]

The daily planet runs a front page article calling superman the light of mankind

Cue the batfam launching a counter campaign in support of Signal,  the real Light of Mankind.

It starts as a joke but quickly derails into an all out war.

[gaylactic-fire]

The Curse

Aka Hylia's favourite transmasc gets amnesia and forgets what periods are

PART TWO!

[1919free]

[thelostmoongazer]

you all dont know tragic yaoi like i do.

[purplepints]

Oldest human footprint discovered, made 153,000 years ago in South Africa.

Oldest human footprint in North America, made 21,000 years ago in New Mexico, USA.

Oldest human footprint on the Moon, made July 20, 1969 on the Sea of Tranquility, Earth's moon.

[soyrwoo]

Happy Moon Landing Day 🌕🐇

[notyoujamie]

[bunjywunjy]

10. 9. 8. 7. 6. 5. 4. 3. 2. 1.

AAAND WE HAVE LIFTOFF!

HAPPY MOON LANDING DAY!!!

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[rendevok]

Act I ~ The Prince

A tapestry for Let No One Sleep by @azalawa-scroggs on ao3

[mathysphere]

In 1999, on the 30th anniversary of the first moonwalk, the members of rec.crafts.textiles.needlework shared their memories of the historic event. Transcripts in alt text.