Massive Spoilers of Massiveness!

[mtemplar_fic]

New pics on the forum from Scooty for DT's 2-part finale are up - FLAILS!





And look who shows up to buy a copy!



And... it's Jessica Hynes (AKA Nurse Redfern from Human Nature/Family of Blood! *FLAILS SOME MORE*




So... on to the question. Completely by coincidence, I just happened to get this in the mail last week. Yeah, I fail at life.



I'm pretty good at deciphering crap handwriting, but before I make the effort, has this been done already? If so, link?

Comments

[garpu.livejournal.com]

Oh neat. :)

[mtemplar-fic.livejournal.com]

I know! So much for the Sun's rumor mill....

[garpu.livejournal.com]

Could still be true...never know. Although it sounds way too much like season 4's ending to be used again. Even RTD knows better.

[melnay13.livejournal.com]

Yay!

[mtemplar-fic.livejournal.com]

Yeah!

[elrina753.livejournal.com]

Ohhh, that's kinda cool. Too bad I'll probably watch this like I did Series 4... *g*

[mtemplar-fic.livejournal.com]

As in... not? *grins*

[elrina753.livejournal.com]

Most likely. BUT I will spoil myself rotten so I figure I'm halfway there :)

[roxyk630.livejournal.com]

Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

I LOVE that journal. <3 I've been thinking of making one Dolly sized for swankkat's Ten... :3

[mtemplar-fic.livejournal.com]

It's readable - I've taken Messy Handwriting 101, but it'll take a while. Lots of repeats, though.

[roxyk630.livejournal.com]

Usually I can get some of it. I was more floored at 2 OTHER things. 1.) The quality of printing, since once I saw the pleather, bit crap cover, I was expecting to be disappointed with the insides. I'm TOTALLY not. (I am thinking about buying a scrap of leather and recovering it). 2. The detail they went into throughout the entire thing. I want to meet the artist or the prop master that did that. It's beautiful!

[kammgirl.livejournal.com]

I'm a bit confused. Is the spoiler that Nurse Joan will be in the finale?

[mtemplar-fic.livejournal.com]

That would be Verity Newman - I would guess a descendant? We *could* get Nurse Joan - but she'd be fairly old. Episode looks to be set in the modern day.

[platypus]

*peeks through fingers*

Hmm. Intriguing.

I got the journal, too, but haven't even tried to decipher it. I'm terrible at reading people's handwriting, actually. I just had to have it :).

As for the potentially-returning-characters spoiler, I'm of many minds. Don't want a rehash of companionpalooza, which would have benefitted from not so damned much going on all the time, esp. when the regeneration is only four episodes later. If he wanted xyz for the regen, he should've saved them for the regen. But I also don't really want the Doctor to die with some random one-off companion who doesn't know him that well. I just don't want Rose to get YET ANOTHER ENDING. RTD's attempt to fix Doomsday changed things around and added some problems; I don't think messing with it more will do it any good. He had his chance -- twice. But, let's face it, Ten's tenure has been in large part about Rose, and it would be curious to have her completely absent even in mind. Really, I think RTD should have stuck to his initial plan to bring her back and introduce Handy in Ten's last episode, dammit.

[ladymcclellan.livejournal.com]

Where did you guys get this journal? Is it only available in the UK? I looked all over for it hoping it had been released when I was over there in October but no luck.

[platypus]

I ordered mine from WhoNA, where I get most of my crack Doctor Who stuff.

[mtemplar-fic.livejournal.com]

I think it's still available from Alien as well.

[mtemplar-fic.livejournal.com]

I have to be good at crap handwriting by necessity! *grins* I'll have a go at it, then, and see if I find anything interesting. Other than the page with Bad Wolf... that one was very interesting already.

A woman with the universe poured into her and she becomes a lady! Such grace! She judges the living and the dead. Everything changes as she passes. I know her face. She had the universe poured into her head. Gold eyes. Powerful. She is graceful. So powerful. She judges everything and everyone that she meets. She judges all that come in her path all and more. She has gold eyes the universe is inside her.

The facing page to that one (I think) is the one with the spoilers.

*nods* That would have been a better ending, I think. To have Rose on the beach with Handy and Eleven. We all might have felt a little better about her choice, as it were.

[principia-coh.livejournal.com]

RTD had already made mention that he had pretty heavily considered bringing Jessica Hynes back as Joan Redfern's great-grand-whathaveyou for TSE/JE: had Penelope Wilton not been available, JH would've been the person putting together the subwave network, because Joan would've essentially passed the whole story on through her descendants as a family legacy.

Another choice mentioned, had PW and JH not been available, included Mark Warren (Elton from LaM). And if Catherine Tate hadn't come back as Donna for Series 4? It would've been Donna at the helm.

I think some peeps may have done translations/transcriptions, but I don't recall where they would have been posted.

Cripes, if this chick really has just basically published every single thing John Smith scratched down, she could be in great whopping craploads of danger.

[mtemplar-fic.livejournal.com]

Cripes, if this chick really has just basically published every single thing John Smith scratched down, she could be in great whopping craploads of danger.

I'm personally amazed that it would be publishable in the form that it's in. I'm curious as to how modified it's going to be.

[catyuy.livejournal.com]

Notice the name of the character.
If we are to assume that this is Joan's great great granddaughter, then we should also say that Verity is a family name inspired by the name John Smith gave for his mother.

[mtemplar-fic.livejournal.com]

Note the last name too! *grins*

Joan's great great granddaughter

We're not that far out from WWI! My money's on 'granddaughter'.

[grbggrl.livejournal.com]

I haven't gotten the journal myself yet, so haven't had a chance to decipher it...but when the ep first aired I went through and deciphered everything from screen shots. LINK!

[mtemplar-fic.livejournal.com]

Nice! I think I'll be able to fill in a few of the blanks. *is good at reading crap handwriting*

[principia-coh.livejournal.com]

Some of the screen shots are much easier to read, as the shrunken size of the images in the toy Journal have made darker areas completely inscrutable.