Thursday, July 9, 2015

Doctor Who Season 9 Trailer Breakdown: Lizzie


So, if you didn’t know a Doctor Who Season 9 trailer dropped!!!!! I’m here for a trailer breakdown/reaction for all of you Whovians out there, so enjoy!
-Lizzie

Okay but first of all, I literally started hyperventilating. You think I’m exaggerating, but I’m not.  I wasn’t expecting anything today. I mean, yeah, SDCC is going on, but usually corporations take this as an opportunity to show off stuff to the people that can go there, and make the rest of us scream in agony. I don’t know if it leaked or what, but all I know is I found a luscious 1:30 trailer on my dashboard at around 5 o clock in the afternoon today.
Note: feel free to use this article solely to analyze screen caps, and completely ignore my commentary. All of these photos were not taken from anyone. I simply screenshotted the released footage.

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Here is the full trailer.
The trailer opens up with the usual, TARDIS flying through outer space stuff. It’s nearly a tradition to include a shot like this in every Doctor Who trailer, so no one is really surprised.

Next, we get some lovey sequence where the TARDIS is crashing. Explosions everywhere. Could we be breaking into a pocket universe to find Gallifrey perhaps…?

Clara’s running.

There’s a shot of Clara diving underneath a closing door with water pooling in. This must be episodes ¾. A two parter that is “claustrophobic and damp” and stars a 7’ 7” ex British Basketball player as the alien Fisher King that lives in Loch Ness. (Source)

Who’s this chick?

Next, a shot of what looks like a cross between a jawa and a dalek.

There’s this shot of someone’s eye opening.

Here’s a shot of the station Clara was in shutting down.
 
Here’s a shot of the “box robots” slated to make an appearance in “The Girl Who Died” according to that source I mentioned above.

Aaannndd… zombie hands reaching out of the dirt…Are the flesh making a comeback? Are people actually coming back to life? Because those would be some interesting implications for Danny Pink. Maybe this is a shot from The Girl Who Died/The Woman Who Lived.

Again, in the shot of what looks like a power outage in that station we see a creepy masked old man.

Shot of the Daleks. Who’s surprised? Not me.

More creepy masked people.

Oohhh weird camera angles of a man wearing some laser glasses. I hope he’s the “Magician” in the Magician’s Apprentice. A sci-fi magician would be cool…Actually, just kidding. He's from "The Girl Who Died". See how his goggles look so similar to the material of the box creatures?

There’s a man crouched by a rusty hatch. Is that a nuclear symbol? Pretty sure that’s a nuclear symbol…bro, that’s not a good hiding place…

Hi Missy! How are you? No seriously, how are you alive? You died. And didn’t regenerate. Like at all. OHH maybe this is before she did the thing with the cybermen? Just kidding, knowing Moffat that’s way too reasonable of an explanation.

Doctor shrugs because of his weird line. “I WANT TO KISS IT TO DEATH.”
We know, Doctor, you have your obsessions, I have mine.
Okay, but here’s what I think the full line is: “Every time I think it couldn’t be more extraordinary it surprises me. It’s impossible. I hate it. It’s evil. It’s astonishing. I want to kiss it to death.”
I’m pretty sure he’s just talking about the universe. What else does the Doctor love and hate? Something that contains all of the beauty and all of the horror. The entirety of existence.

Here’s a crazy cool city that looks like it’s molded out of the same material as the box creatures. Is this their planet?

This dude I’m pretty sure is a Time Lord. The only other priest like people in red were in the Rings of Ahkatan, and I’m pretty sure they aren’t making a reacurrence. Also, the teaser for season 9 says that Gallifrey…is…returning…dun…dun…dun…
 
 
TARDIS flying.

Clara’s in her suit. (Pretty sure this is The Girl Who Died/The Woman That Lived, because Maisie William’s character is wearing a suit like this in a later clip.)

Hi again, Missy.

Shot of a really scared woman standing in a metal area. (Given the lighting it’s probably the same episode as the flooding station aka 3/4).

Ah, Fisher King makes an appearance. Cool.

A shot of a city glowing from above. The circular architecture sort of looks like the other city we saw a couple shots ago. WAIT. Fisher King that makes his home in Loch Ness. This looks underwater! So it isn’t the TARDIS that’s flooding. It’s this compound.

Doctor running out of a barn in pajamas. Sounds like a domesticated fluff fic.

Clara is not prepared for the hug that he gives her. (Maybe Maisie Williams character is Clara, and he’s happy to see her alive?)

Clara is hiding behind a door and spying on them. Same clothes and the red and white strips are from earlier in the trailer, so this is part of episodes 3/4.

I guess that the Zygon peace talks didn’t end well in the Day of the Doctor, since this one is holding a little girl hostage? This will be episodes 7/8 (again, that source).

More TARDIS explosions.

Domesticated Doctor returns with his guitar.


OH MY GALLIFREY! It’s those dudes that are in the Christmas Invasion! (right?)


Oh s**t.

Clara’s eye. That’s the second ominous eye shot. Maybe there’s an episode about the danger of pink eye?

Clara falling? (Probably why the Doctor was so happy to see her before.)

Not really sure what this is.

Scary Fisher King is chasing Clara and the Doctor.

A shot of people in capes getting shot at with lasers. Lighting looks the same as the hand zombie shot.

Explosions. More military. That article I mentioned said that there were going to be Vikings in The Girl Who Died. Could this be it? They have capes in the first screen shot…

Clara and Missy see an ice cream trunk. Actually it’s probably just the Doctor being ridiculous.

Apparently these glasses are super cool, and Clara doubts their coolness.



Lighting change matches the Doctor’s guitar hero session.

SONIC.

I’m the Doctor, and I save people!

*Maisie Williams takes off goggles*

“YOU!”-the Doctor

“What took you so long old man?”

*eyebrows*

DUN DUN.

So, what do you guys think of the new trailer? How excited are you for September 19??? Tell us in the comments, and make sure to follow us on blogger, tumblr, and email.
Bye!
-Lizzie

Tuesday, July 7, 2015

July TBR: Lizzie


Hey everyone! Lizzie here! So, sorry about no comic updates on Sunday. It was a holiday, Christine and I were skyping, and I hadn’t read any comics so yeah. Hopefully I’ll finish my Flash New 52 by Sunday for a review.

So the main reason I wanted to blog was for book reviews. I wanted to be a booktuber but decided putting my face on the web probably wasn’t the best idea, so I started this blog. A little late, but here none the less, is this month’s tbr.

Now I’m currently in a play right now that will last all month, so the amount of reading I will do is a toss-up. I’m hoping to read at least one book a week, but we’ll see how this goes.

The first book on my June tbr is Hollow City by Ransom Riggs. This is my number one must read of the month mostly because I’m borrowing it from a friend in exchange of the Way of Kings (fabulous book btw). I’ve only got three weeks to procrastinate so I’ve got to go ahead and read this bad boy.

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If you’ve been following our posts you know I’ve finished Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children and I have a glowing review of it here. I’m super excited to get into Hollow City, and I don’t really think I need a reason to be excited. Just go look at my review, and you’ll see I’m super siked for this book.
The next book on my tbr is Ruby Red by Kerstin Gier. All I know is that it’s supposed to be really good, the covers are gorgeous, and it’s about time travel. Sold. I’ve seen it around booktube, not as much as I used to but still. I originally thought that it was a retelling of fairy tales because of the color schemes, but that was very far off. That’s okay; the Lunar Chronicles are there for that.

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 Next up? Heir of Fire by Sarah J. Maas. I read the first two books in this series this spring, and kind of got off of a reading spree because of my spring play and school reading (Great Expectations wheeee). A lot of my favorite booktubers have given The Throne of Glass glowing reviews, but I didn’t find it nearly as good as everyone else I guess. It was good, but I think it could have been longer. Crown of Midnight on the other hand? Oh yesss, give me. Chaol is perfect. The set up for Heir of Fire is really interesting, and I really like that Maas is taking us away from the love triangle and instead towards female protagonist development. Can we applaud this? Not only is it rare for women in YA to get character development time away from their SO, but everyone and their cat hates love triangles.
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This fourth book I’ve been meaning to read for an entire year. I got it last year at a wonderful used book store while visiting Christine for 1.50$, and tbh I’ve been dying to read it ever since. I Gave my Heart to Know This by Ellen Baker is a historical fiction novel that follows two timelines- three women struggling with the anxieties of WWII, and five decades later when one of the women’s grandchildren finds the remnants of the past. It sounds gorgeous, I’m a sucker for history, and the cover is freaking gorgeous. ‘Nough said.
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Lastly, I have Anna and the French Kiss by Stephenie Perkins. After reading We Were Liars and If I Stay this year, I’ve actually rediscovered an enjoyment of realistic fiction that had left me once I picked up the Percy Jackson and Olympians series in fourth grade. Oops. In the mindset of PolandBananasBooks fantasy and sci-fi can be somewhat tiring, and I actually do enjoy a fluffy, heartbreaking story after finishing a five hundred page high fantasy novel. Just saying. I’ve heard miss Christine Riccio rant endlessly about how amazing Stephenie Perkins, and how cute this little trilogy is, so here we go, Imma pick it up.
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Runner up: aka if I end up on a reading spree.

·         Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

(I made myself a promise that I must fulfill.)


What’s on you guys’ June TBR’s? Let us know in the comments, and remember to follow via email, blogger, and tumblr!

-Lizzie xoxox

Thursday, July 2, 2015

9 Things I Want From Doctor Who Season 9: Lizzie

Lizzie here! Season 9 of Doctor Who is coming up in September, and I thought that instead of talking about the little bit of TV I've watched lately I'd make a list of my personal desires for this upcoming season.

1. Fewer anti-climaxes and quick fixes
Remember when "Dark Water" started off really great, but it turned out Missy just wanted the Doctor to be her friend or something? Or when it turned out there wasn't an actual threat in "Forest of the Night"? It can be debated whether or not "Listen" was a cop out or not, but some of the episodes in season 8 had legit, fully thought out endings. I hope the writers continue to make this a bigger trend in Season 9.

The perfect example of a cop out ending that ruined a great episode.
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2. Historical episodeI'm still holding out for my Salem witch trials episode. Doctor Who started out to teach kids about science and history right? There are so many awesome historical events that would so awesome to encounter through the Doctor and Clara's eyes, and all you have to do is put a random alien in it...so much wasted potential.

Is this why we can't mess with the past? Thanks, 12.
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3. No borrowed concepts
While good episode, many of the episodes in Season 8 had concepts borrowed from previous runs. i.e. "Deep Breath", "Into the Dalek", "Listen", "Flatline", and "In the Forest of the Night". While one of these episodes is actually one of my favorites, I do have problems with the repetition of concepts, especially since this is Doctor Who. We expect something crazy, something we've never seen before, and in some episodes like "Time Heist", "Mummy on the Orient Express", and "Dark Water" we were given that. I've heard rumors of a story about Davros I would not be fond of seeing, but at the moment I'm pretty sure it won't happen.
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4. Spoilers.
I've heard rumors that River may return, and even though she and the Doctor already met the ends of their shared time line I want more. What can I say? I want to see how she and the Doctor react to each other.
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5. Time Lady mystery girl?
We still don't know who this young lady is playing, but how cool would it be if she were a Time Lady? I've heard theories that she might be a younger Clara, but I'm hoping for Gallifrey related reasons she's a Time Lady. Honestly, as long as her identity is unforeseen and plays awesomely into the plot.
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6. More on the Doctor's childhood
Remember when Clara accidentally drove the TARDIS to when the Doctor was a child and in the same barn the Doctor "destroyed" Gallifrey in? Even though it should have been time locked? Cool stuff. The few sentences that the couple said about him "crying" sparked my curiosity. What damaged him so much as a small child? Is it related to the Master's early demise? Hopefully Missy's reappearance in the premier will bring out more of the Doctor's cryptic past.
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7. Follow up on the Zygons.
Now, whether or not you actually liked the Zygons in the "Day of the Doctor" you'd have to agree that neglecting to follow up on what happened during the "great debate" where the humans and Zygons forgot which side they were on, and were forced to create a perfectly fair compromise. From the looks of things, the Zygons will appear, but whether or not this will actually fill a plot hole or not is still the question.
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8. More Dark!Clara
Season 8 took an interesting turn when, in the first time in New Who the Doctor has actually begun to turn a companion into a worse person. When we meet Clara in season 7 she's in charge of her relationship with the Doctor. She's aware that this could be toxic- that it might take over her life, and she's not interested in that. The Doctor has his own scheduled place in her life- Wednesdays. He doesn't flow over into her personal life. Her life on earth is completely separated from the Doctor because she wants to be able to be there for the people she cares about. In season 8, well, that's a different story. By attempting to separate the Doctor with her life she brings them together in a way that harms her own personal relationships. She begins to act very frighteningly like the Doctor.

Not only does Clara compare herself to the Doctor in two different episodes, but she also begins to show plenty of the Doctor's bad traits in her life. She lies constantly to the person that she "loves", frequently runs away from the problems in her life by traveling with the Doctor, seeks revenge, has trust issues, denies herself happiness, and begins to get the same cold fury that every Doctor has. The Doctor kept asking, "Am I a good man?" but he should have been asking, "Is Clara a good woman?" Do good women lie to the person that they love for selfish reasons? Do good women run away from their problems like cowards? Do good women manipulate? Threaten? Betray?

Face it, Doctor, you've corrupted what has always been the better half of you.

Now, Clara is my favorite companion is Doctor Who. I adore her, but I'm also hungry for character development. Clara acted very inexcusably in season 8, and I will not stand for this not to be addressed just as the entire result of season 7 was not addressed. (I will never be over that.) Also, we need to shake things up. Like I said, I love Clara, but her time to leave was at the end of season 8. The best part of Clara dark! tendencies is that if she leaves due to realizing what she's become it will bring to light a whole new issue for the Doctor to face.

Almost every Doctor faces the guilt of endangering his companion's(s') life(ves), but have we ever considered the Doctor turning his best friend into what he hates the most-himself?
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9. Gallifrey
Pretty self explanatory. Bringing back the Time Lords brings thousands of possibilities. Who was the woman in the "End of Time"? Was she the Doctor's mother? What became of the Doctor's family? SO MANY QUESTIONS.
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What are you looking forward to about season 9? Tell in the comments or email us at nerchillin@gmail.com. And remember that you can follow us via email, blogspot, or tumblr for updates and overall nerdy madness!
-Lizzie

(Sometime this weekend: Homestuck According to a Non-Reader)

Wednesday, July 1, 2015

Casual Cosplay: Thea Queen Edition

Hey guys, Lizzie here. Have you ever been super jealous of a character's rad closet? I went through Polyvore trying to piece together some of Thea Queen's iconic looks throughout the first two seasons of Arrow. Here you go-

 

Blazer: 16$ AMAZON.COM
Shirt: 14$ HM.COM
Necklace: 17$ BUCKLE.COM
Skirt: 9.90$ SHEIN.COM
 
The exact match for Miss Queen's pleated leather skirt is 495$ from Revolve.

 

Coat: 35$ on DORTHYPERKINS.COM
Boots: 27$ GOJANE.COM
Pants: 20$ BUCKLE.COM
Shirt: 26$ ABADAY.COM
Necklace: 39$ URBANOUTFITTERS.COM


 
Shirt: 24$ AMAZON.COM
Necklace: 5.45$ WETSEAL.COM
Pants: 43$ ZALANDO.CO.UK
 
 
Enjoy!
 
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What closet should we do next? Got any book suggestions? Let us know, and don't forget to follow via tumblr, email, and BlogSpot.
 
-Lizzie