{"id":34,"date":"2008-06-03T08:48:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-03T16:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/fangirl\/2008\/06\/03\/count-the-shadows\/"},"modified":"2010-11-25T01:03:35","modified_gmt":"2010-11-25T09:03:35","slug":"count-the-shadows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/fangirl\/2008\/06\/03\/count-the-shadows\/","title":{"rendered":"Count the Shadows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve seen a Doctor Who episode in the last 3 1\/2 series that&#8217;s you&#8217;ve really enjoyed, and really gave you the creeps, it was probably written by Stephen Moffat.&nbsp; <i>The Empty Child\/The Doctor Dances, The Girl in the Fireplace,<\/i> and <i>Blink<\/i> were all written by him.&nbsp; I loved Blink personally.&nbsp; The idea that statues can come to like, but only when we&#8217;re not looking is just so creepy!&nbsp; The weeping angels they used in that episode were perfect.&nbsp; The flashes they used to make the angels appear to move, and their terrifying appearance all gave that unnerving feeling forever afterward that *any* statue might be moving toward you, when you&#8217;re not looking.&nbsp; The ending of that episode was just classic!<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Moffat does it again in the current season with <i>Silence in the Library<\/i> (To appear on Sci Fi in two weeks).&nbsp; This time, the creepiness comes from the most common place thing in the universe; Shadows.&nbsp; Something lurks in the shadows, and when they swarm, it&#8217;s deadly!&nbsp; And Moffat weaves his tale masterfully, taking things from the every day, and incorporating them into his terror.&nbsp; The dust you see swirling around in a sunbeam?&nbsp; Maybe not as benign as you might have originally thought.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s another episode too where the Doctor&#8217;s future meets up with is current(past) self.&nbsp; The hints that are dropped in this episode are fascinating.&nbsp; I love the way the bits of information about the Doctor are being spoonfed to us.&nbsp; There isn&#8217;t just one episode where we see everything about the Doctor&#8217;s and Gallifrey&#8217;s past.&nbsp; Over the course of these 3 1\/2 seasons we are carefully given little tidbits, that we have to string together to get the story.&nbsp; And this is what makes the new Doctor Who series so much fun.&nbsp; There&#8217;s so much for the fans to get together and talk about than just what happened in the episode.&nbsp; Fans love to speculate.&nbsp; It&#8217;s what we do with our loves.&nbsp; And it&#8217;s great to have writer and producer who understands that and gives us what we want.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve seen a Doctor Who episode in the last 3 1\/2 series that&#8217;s you&#8217;ve really enjoyed, and really gave you the creeps, it was probably written by Stephen Moffat.&nbsp; The Empty Child\/The Doctor Dances, The Girl in the Fireplace, <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/fangirl\/2008\/06\/03\/count-the-shadows\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[250,125],"tags":[61,59,72,73],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doctor-who-2","category-tv","tag-10th-doctor","tag-doctor-who","tag-series-4","tag-silence-in-the-library"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1dnXu-y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/fangirl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/fangirl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/fangirl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/fangirl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/fangirl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/fangirl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/fangirl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/fangirl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/fangirl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}