00:00 - 00:03 | Although Lovecraft was born there, mein Fuhrer - |
00:04 - 00:05 | - there isn't much in Providence about him. |
00:05 - 00:07 | There is the stone in Swan Point cemetery - |
00:08 - 00:12 | - and the collection of letters at Brown University - |
00:12 - 00:15 | -but nothing concerning the monsters of the Cthulhu Mythos. |
00:17 - 00:19 | Too bad. At least the Doctor Who finale will give us Yog-Sothoth. |
00:19 - 00:21 | A real "behind the sofa" episode at last. |
00:24 - 00:26 | My Fuhrer - |
00:27 - 00:28 | - ah, that is - |
00:31 - 00:33 | The episode is not Lovecraftian. |
00:34 - 00:36 | The Great Intelligence simply wants revenge on the Doctor. |
00:53 - 00:58 | If you have not seen the TARDIS Data Core wiki, I want you to leave now. |
01:13 - 01:15 | The Great Intelligence IS Yog-Sothoth! |
01:15 - 01:17 | The wiki says so, right out of the gate! |
01:18 - 01:23 | And you are telling me the finale ignores that fact? |
01:25 - 01:28 | No tentacles? No sucking mouths? |
01:29 - 01:31 | No iridescent spheres? |
01:31 - 01:34 | That is unacceptable! |
01:34 - 01:37 | First we lost Amy and Rory - |
01:37 - 01:40 | - and now the Big Bad for the whole season is just Richard E Grant in a HAT! |
01:40 - 01:42 | Sir, Moffat's script went in another direction. |
01:42 - 01:46 | But it's Yog-Sothoth! The mightiest of Lovecraft's pantheon! |
01:46 - 01:48 | Mein Fuhrer, what of Azathoth - |
01:48 - 01:52 | Don't talk to me about Azathoth! |
01:53 - 01:54 | The nuclear chaos is nothing compared to the One-In-All! |
01:56 - 01:57 | Ever since "The Snowmen" I have waited. |
01:57 - 02:00 | I have been persuaded that this finale would be truly memorable. |
02:00 - 02:03 | A great battle between two ancient alien races! |
02:04 - 02:08 | The last of the Time Lords, played masterfully by Matt Smith - |
02:08 - 02:13 | - and a horrific disembodied entity from before the Dawn of Time! |
02:14 - 02:16 | With the fate of the cosmos in the balance! |
02:17 - 02:21 | And you have the gall to tell me Moffat took it in another direction! |
02:27 - 02:29 | Has he read none of the Doctor Who novels? |
02:30 - 02:34 | Does he care nothing about the expanded Whoniverse? |
02:34 - 02:36 | "White Darkness!" "Millennial Rites!" |
02:41 - 02:42 | It's right there in black and white. |
02:43 - 02:47 | Even the classic series depicted The Great Intelligence as iridescent spheres! |
02:48 - 02:53 | Are there also no Mi-Go? No Nightgaunts? Not even a Yeti? |
02:54 - 02:56 | Just Richard E Grant? In a hat? |
02:56 - 02:59 | The entire season is as worthless - |
03:00 - 03:02 | - as that origami Cthulhu I got at Christmas! |
03:04 - 03:07 | Oh, Helga, and you put so much work into it. |
03:14 - 03:16 | So I sat through "The Rings of Akhaten" for nothing. |
03:19 - 03:23 | But even Night Gallery failed to capture Lovecraft's horrifying creations. |
03:25 - 03:26 | I was foolish to think Moffat could do it. |
03:31 - 03:33 | I must content myself with re-reading those novels. |
03:40 - 03:46 | There will be some value in the finale, even without a Mythos connexion. |
03:46 - 03:49 | Matt Smith and Jenna-Louise Coleman have such chemistry. |
03:53 - 03:56 | And at least it won't feature John Hurt. I can't stand that guy. |