Fearless DW prediction for today's UK episode.

[rabid1st]

TITLE ONLY SPOILER under this cut

The title of this episode is The Unicorn and the Wasp. I now fearlessly predict that someone has been stabbed through the heart with the horn of a unicorn statue. A murder set-up to cover for the actual cause of death: the big, fat stinger of an alien wasp.

Comments

[pandora-576.livejournal.com]

I love that explaination for the title, it so works for me :D

[keswindhover.livejournal.com]

AC wrote a play called 'The Wasp's Nest' - I have no idea if that is relevant.

[sunnytyler001.livejournal.com]

I like it. Nice theory, miss Marple...lol.

[rabid1st.livejournal.com]

Sadly, I really don't know my Agatha Christie so I would imagine a lot of the in jokes in this one will be completely lost on me. I never cared for her books. I was much more of a Dorothy L. Sayer fan. Murder Must Advertise, Strong Poison, etc. It seemed to me that Dame Agatha often pulled her solution out of a hatbox at the end with no real mystery to underpin it.

Rae

[rabid1st.livejournal.com]

I beg your pardon! I am nowhere near as old as Miss Marple. :sniff:

Rae
who feels more like Stephanie Plum, especially considering the current state of my car.

[sunnytyler001.livejournal.com]

What about Adrianne Oliver, then? If you like apples, lol!

[timeispassing.livejournal.com]

LOVE IT! Can't wait to find out if you're right. I love mysteries!

[rabid1st.livejournal.com]

I am told that I am wrong...or was wrong. I haven't seen it myself.

Rae
waiting for Brice to do his magic for me.

[webeh.livejournal.com]

I think your explanation makes more sense then mine. I've been seeing Harold and Kumar commercials everywhere, so I can't help but visualize the Doctor riding a unicorn with a wasp sitting there for company. ;)

Partners in Crime

[astitchintime-9.livejournal.com]

Actually, I am in complete agreement with you:
Dorothy L. Sayers > Agatha Christie

Although I admit to some fondness for Tommy and Tuppence by way of James Warwick and Francesca Annis. Their 1983 series was called "Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime". Based on the short story collection "Partners in Crime".

From wiki:

Partners in Crime is a short story collection written by Agatha Christie...first published...in 1929...
:
...All of the stories in the collection had previously been published in magazines (see First publication of stories below) and feature her detectives Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, first introduced in The Secret Adversary (1922)...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partners_in_Crime_(short_story_collection)

I doubt that it's any coincidence that new DW ep 4x01 used the "PiC" title.

-- Oh, and T&T were married, BTW.

But I could never get into reading A.Christie, though I often tried [Quothe Four to Leela: "...'By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes'...No, I can't feel it -- and neither can you!" (Immediately followed by the TARDIS lurching and crashing. Hee!)].

Whereas, I consumed and had to own the Whimsey books. I read somewhere that the Author admitted to falling in love with Peter. Easy to see. And yet, even Sayers' non-Whimsey short stories are keepers, on all counts.

[auntiesuze.livejournal.com]

Huh. I thought I'd commented on this.

Oh well...it seemed like a good idea to me. Who knew giant wasps killed with a lead pipe...or gargoyle statue...or dinner knife... ;)

We all fall in love with good characters

[rabid1st.livejournal.com]

And Tommy and Tuppence are my favorite Christie characters, too. There was humor to them and I was aware of the connection to Partners in Crime. I had originally thought that WAS the Christie episode.

Rae

[rabid1st.livejournal.com]

Yes...but now I can't even see what your amazingly speculative nonsense IS...because it has future spoilers in it. I will come back and read you at a later date...


One thing I know for sure is that you are probably much closer to the mark than I am with the whole sharing knowledge and history and regenerations business. I do feel that the heartbreak of Donna is that she's going to die. I think her "forever" was a symbolic one...that she's going to travel with him until she dies...but she can't say that to a stranger without getting choked up.

I also feel, have felt all along, that Donna is the one to open the Doctor's eyes to his desire for Rose. I feel that he knows he loves her but doesn't think he can give her the life of happiness she deserves. I think Donna seeing the Doctor and Rose together will see that all they need to be happy is each other. This is my belief about them, though I know I differ with most of the D/R fandom on that one. However, I also feel that it is essential that the Doctor give up his life of traveling for the oridinary life he craves.

Rae
who was completely wrong about the title...and is no doubt wrong about the finale...I've never been write about the direction RTD takes only about his characters inner lives.

[rabid1st.livejournal.com]

I do like the unicorn riding idea. It would establish his virginity. :grin:

[auntiesuze.livejournal.com]

I was actually going to put a little note on that post that it should be safe for you to read my speculations (I'd skip the comments, though). I just double-checked it and I'm sure I didn't talk about any spoilers that you don't already know (hell, I wouldn't even name names, including the one that EVERYBODY already knows about).

I listened to the commentary for TDDau last night. Hilarious. Any time DT or RTD do commentary, it's always great (even more so when they're together). XD

[webeh.livejournal.com]

That and it would be an awesomely odd image to visualize. Can you imagine the Doctor riding a unicorn and not giggle a litte bit? Especially considering what people tend to associate with unicorns. Magic, drugs, sex, Barbie...