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With my predictions on the second half of the "Silence in the Library" story, which has not aired yet in the US. Now I actually have it on cd (I've got a friend who's a dirty, dirty pirate pirate ), but I haven't watched it because I was waiting to share the pain crying with my fansister, Eirwyn.
So here goes the body count:
(not including random red-underweared extras, though they are likely to perish swiftly and gruesomely, courtesy of the Dust Bunnies of Death)

Donna: The jury's still out on her. Even though I've heard rumors that she will be appearing side by side with Rose in upcoming eps, that doesn't mean she isn't dead. It just means we may be seeing an alternate universe Donna (who has no common sense yet? Ugh!). Of course, if Donna's really dead, then the Doctor will have no one to commiserate with his utter woe, when

River Song: Dies a pathetic, lingering death. They're back to foreshadowing with a sledgehammer here, something I haven't seen since the extinction of the dinosaurs (and we all remember how that went over, right?). Between the Dr's coversation on biography, death, and "spoilers" with Donna, River's references to "spoilers" , and the way they really build up the "ghosting" phenomenon, I can safely predict that, 1. River's gonna bite it, and 2. She's gonna "ghost", with her pathetic last words being "I love you, Doctor," repeating over and over like an icicle stabbing the Doctor's bowels, as he stands there with the same stricken, gutted look in his eyes that Peter Davison had when . . . well, you know (see reference to dinosaurs above). And that explains why his eyes will always look "old" to River when she meets him in his future/her past. Nothing sucks the joy out of a romance like being able to clearly recall the sight of your lover's bleached, dessicated skull ever time you see her face.

Man, what is it with all the death and misery here? I remember when Doctor Who was fun and entertaining. Nowadays it makes you want to open a vein. We're going to have to change our pet name for the 10th Doctor from "Doctor Frodo" (because if that deer-in-the-headlights look he shares with Elijah Woods) to "Doctor Emo." emo He might as well just give up the nancy-boy hair gel and let it all fall in his face. And trade in the suit for a NIN t-shirt while he's at it.

In less morbid predictions, Little Girl = CAL = Library computer. Dr. Moon = self-diagnostic program trying to get her back on-line after 100 years of inactivity/digital insanity.

BTW, in case ya'll wonder why a Gaia newb thinks she's got the street cred to waltz in and post like this . . . I go way back with the Doctor. I loved him back when he was old, ugly, and/or fat. I figure I can pick on him a little now he's young and HOT, HOT, HOT!
Whoops, my pre-menopausal hormones are showing lol .

*After watching Forest of the Dead*:
YAY! The Doctor's life does NOT suck massively for a little while! mrgreen

This is one of those times I'm actually happy to be (partly) wrong. Of course, if I'd realized it was the same writer as the chap who wrote "The Empty Child," then I would have been sure that "saved" meant "copied to hard drive" (the thought had crossed my mind, but since I didn't blog it, I get no clever points!), and I would have known that it would have a (mostly) happy ending. Moffatt Rocks!
Of course, my non-Gaia pal Satharn (LJ name) reminds me that things are pretty sucktacular for Donna and her stuttering dream man. Sure, there's a chance they might meet again someday, but then there's also the "funny look factor" of her conversation with River. My bet now is that she ends up in the Rose Universe.
In other crazy speculation, Eirwyn directed me to a site where someone speculated that Prof. Song is really the Doctor's . . . (wait for it) MOTHER.
WTF ?!? eek
OK, so far I've only seen the edited-for-comercial-time version of the episode, but I don't see River's behavior towards the doctor as "motherly". Unless in an Oedipal sense . . . And I seem to recall Mr. Lux telling them they were acting like an "old married couple". I'm pretty sure that Prof. Song is also Mrs. (insert secret code-name here). And it makes sense, given the Doctors notorious comittment-phobia, that he would go ahead and marry her.
Why? Because he already knows how the relationship ends. She's not going to dump him for being an insufferable, patronizing, bantha's-a** with a predilection for adopting potentially vampiric Alzarian orphans (as Romana did), nor will she get old (as Sarah Jane did, albeit gracefully). Nope, she's going to be hermetically sealed into a prefect little dream world, young and sexy for all eternity, carrying her love for him into the Undying Lands, where it will stay forever green (to paraphrase Tolkien). The PERFECT relationship for a Time Lord, who appears to resist love because, unlike alien menaces, he can't controll it. O.K., he won't actually be able to join her there (or will he? He's got to have the tech to beam in and out of a virtual world. Time Lords used to do it all the time in the Matrix), but that just means he'll be available for new plot complications, uh, romances, in future incarnations.
John Nathan Turner, who once proclaimed there was "no hanky-panky in the TARDIS", must be spinning in his grave!

BTW, how do you like my Peri CosPlay Avatar (courtesy of Eirwyn). I used to cosplay as Peri, back when I was her age. Now I'm thinking of cosplaying Donna. I really liked that outfit she wore to The Library. Lots o'bling!

Yeah! scream (I'm a Rose/10 shipper)

Wut...? That ending was not that happy.

thousands of people were thrown a hundred years into the future, and River Song and the others were now technically completly dead and trapped inside a computer mainframe for all eternity. 0__o Its not that happy at all. Seems that way at first but think a little more into it and its more like "Oh... ouch."

Personally, if I was stuck in the biggest library in the universe with an eternity to read everything in it, I'd be happy as a clam.

Yeah thats ONE good ending. No RiverSong yay!

I think the reason people hate River Song so much is the fact that there is an actual CANON relationship with the Doctor. (Ticks me off so...)

And also, even if you had every book in the universe, eventually you'd run out of happy ones, and have to start living in the scary violent ones. Not to mention you'd be stuck with the VERY SAME PEOPLE for all eternity. FOREVER. 0__o