Happy Birthday to The (Eleventh) Doctor Himself, Matt Smith!
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What for you is Matt Smith’s defining moment as the doctor?
For me I cannot deny he’s one of the only actors to have his defining moment is his first episode. It has to be “I’m the doctor, basically… run” because that was setting up his doctor as the one who got to big and legendary in the universe and had to be humbled as he went on and just showed us excactly how his doctor would be going forward. (It probably helped that it wasn’t the first episode he filmed so he had time to get the character down)
You can use your own definition of “definitive” but I’m curious what people think since a lot of people have been talking about Ncuti Gatwa’s “definitive moment” lately. (We’ll get to him later😉)
Markiplier is a very popular American YouTuber. I was watching Mark and his friend Bob Muyskerm play a game called Rust, around 2014, and this happened 🤣
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGJGgYRKG/
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*As always, there will be spoilers*
Summary: The Eleventh Doctor, Amy and Rory land in Egypt in the Victorian era and stumble across an archaeological dig. After Rory accidentally spills tea over the strange purple papyrus found my Mr. Hunt and Mr. Grenfell, it unleashes a deadly parasite that sucks the moisture out of everything it touches. The Doctor and Amy go back in time to the first appearance of the purple reeds that were used to make the papyrus and find that it was being used to prepare bodies for burial- dead or alive.
I liked this book, but there’s something about the Puffin series that makes it feel more like a kid’s show than a proper Doctor Who story. Other than the description of how bodies were mummified in Egyptian times, I’d say that this story bordered on a darker story of the Sarah Jane Adventures, but I still enjoyed it and think it’s worth a read.
I liked Rayner’s portrayals of 11 and the Ponds, I liked how she portrayed their dynamic, but I did think she made Rory a little on the dumb side, especially when he though Amy said something along the lines of ‘spider’ so he throws himself at her and that’s what knocks over the tea onto the papyrus. Brave, but you know, stupid.
I really like the little scene after Amy and the Doctor start investigating a death that turned out to be a murder, and Amy makes a comment about how short and insignificant human lives must seems to the Doctor, and he corrects her, quoting from John Donne, “Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind.” (Pg. 84). I really liked that scene because we finally get an explanation of the Doctor’s attitude towards his adventures, and even get a bit of a look inside his head when he talks about his ‘professional detachment’ to those different situations.
For something that felt like a kid’s book, it really touched on some pretty deep topics.
As this book was only 159 pages, I recommend this book to anyone who prefers shorter stories with lots of action. I’m giving this story 7/10 TARDISes, just because of Jacqueline Rayner’s portrayal of Rory >_<.
Thanks for reading, next month I hope to be giving a review of ‘Star Tales’, but I will be going back to making my usual poll for recommendations :).
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I was thinking about Matt Smith's regeneration and Peter Capaldi's first line, and I realized that there was another ~bout~ of regeneration energy before 12 said "KIDNEYS!". I'm thinking that that means that the Doctor's kidneys took longer to regenerate that the rest of him did meaning that the 11th Doctor died of kidney failure.
It was just something that I kind of realized, I'm not sure if that was what the writers were going for because I know that scene was sort of improved by Capaldi and Coleman. I don't know if other people knew about this and I'm just an idiot, so enjoy my rant I guess.
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