Barbecue and dancing

Cosmopolitan barbecue and Just Dance party chez doctor_squale. I managed to avoid the dancing — I'm so appallingly badly coordinated that my (thankfully rare) attempts at dancing usually end with things being broken and a trip to casualty — but others were much (MUCH) less restrained.

Dr Who: The Curse of the Black Spot

Square rigger from out of the fog. Gris-gris and half-set sails says something is very wrong. Nice misdirect on the injury and the idea of the siren is established. "Yo ho ho! Or does no one actually say that?" Matt Smith's delivery is a thing of beauty. Technobabble. They've been becalmed for 8 days. "She's not a doxy..." Amy buckles a mean swash. "You have killed me." "No way! It's just a cut!" And now we know the siren is attracted to blood. Rory is butterfingers. Treasure Island moment. "You should dress as a pirate more often!" TMI. Cue green Lily Cole, turning people to dust. "Freud would say you're compensating" The hold has leeches? "No curse is getting through three solid inches of timber" Cue the siren. The Doctor has a tricorn.

Naked flames the powder magazine? Not a good idea. "He's my son." Well, duh. Of course the boy has the mark too. I don't think you're to escape; it's far too soon. "Darkness. Demon. You can have first go." The Doctor shows his pragmatic side. Mutiny! More lame technobabble, this time with added foreshadowing. How could the kid have got this far without realising the Awful Troof? I like Bonneville's gloating. "TARDIS runs off on it's own. That's a bit of a new one." Um Frontios? "I was wrong" "What, again!?!" She does it with mirrors. The breathing thing is particularly bizarre.

"You're doing fine. Just stay calm." Another cryptic remark from woman with the silver eye. Nice moment between the Doctor and the Captain. "Man the sails!" Yes because it's not like a square rigger requires a big crew, is it? Wow that crown sounds tinny. Ouch: Rory and the boom get better acquainted (didn't the ship used to have a square-rigged mizzen?). The Doctor cracks the case: something to do with tangled dimensions. Wells reference? Alien boogies! Someone's a Coma fan. The absinthe fairy is actually a doctor. Um, anthropocentric much? "I can teach you how to save me. You've seen them do it loads of times in films" CPR survival rates are really low, y'know. You're going to sail more distant seas, Captain. Classic movie resuscitation scene, complete with delayed recovery. Space Pirates! Flashbulb memory and a reminder of the whole Schrödinger's baby thing: because living in the 21st century means having a thirty second memory span.