Bad wolf

[raven]

Because I suspect many people will have been googling for it, the full text of the poem:

The Sick Rose
by William Blake

O rose, thou art sick!
The invisible worm
That flies in the night,
In the howling storm,

Has found out thy bed
Of crimson joy,
And his dark secret love
Does thy life destroy.

I am severely creepified by this. Badwolf.org.uk terrifies me the moment it loads, because of the extremely creepy music (it sounds like a child vacantly singing "Who's afraid of the big bad wolf?" blended with the noise of the TARDIS landing), but once you get into the site it's not bad. There are no spoilers beyond The Doctor Dances, and there's a useful page collates bad wolf references. Interestingly, it doesn't mention the one in the pilot, but all the others are there. The theories section seems to borrow something from new_who and, more likely, Outpost Gallifrey, postulating everything and the kitchen sink as the bad wolf.

It's the disclaimer that begins to creep me out. The site begins by saying: "This website exists purely to speculate on the Bad Wolf phenomenon in the new series of Doctor Who, which is a fictional television programme made by BBC Wales in Cardiff for the British Broadcasting Corporation." But then , hidden at the bottom of the page so you have to highlight it to see it, is the message:

"Rose - Are you there? Are you getting this? You've got the point, haven't you? Rose...?"

Eeeep. And then the poem, the poem is scary. His dark secret love... that's suggestive. To be blunt, it sounds like the Doctor kills Rose. Having said that, if you listen to it carefully (difficult, considering the distortion, but bear with me), it almost sounds like those two lines have been purposely removed.

Creepy, yes?

And to be perfectly honest, whatever or whoever the bad wolf is, it can't be as scary and/or interesting as this. The whole set of websites set up by the BBC are fantastically detailed and a brilliant idea, but maybe it's the fact it's dark and I'm alone in the house, or the curiously vacant quality to the child's singing, or the way the poem sounds so sinister and grainy - but I'm actually scared. I can't go downstairs to eat dinner, the bad wolf's gonna eat me.

[The significant features of the Maxwell Boltzman energy curve are the peak, where the most particles have a particular energy, the origin at (0,0) because no particles have no energy, the area under the curve being proportional to the number of particles present and the fact the curve is an asymptote, as there is no upper limit on the energy the particles can have, only it doesn't matter 'cause I am terrified]

Comments

[dopeydora-67.livejournal.com]

Ohh it is so exciting yet at the same time it is so damm creepy. But it is also fun :-)

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

It's a whole gamut of emotions. I'm having fun while I'm being terrified, which is cool...

[gwynnega]

::shivers::

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

*clings*

[manynames.livejournal.com]

When I opened the badwolf.co.uk site for the first time, I gasped out loud and the disclaimer sent chills down my spine. The Beeb have really earned some love with their Who sites.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Oh, haven't they? The poem and disclaimer are really, honestly scary. The disclaimer particularly, because of all pages to put it on, it would be the one that says it's fictional...

*shudder*

[angeleyes699.livejournal.com]

omg so scary, im staying away from any ep spoilers but i am creeped out!!

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

As are we all. (the site doesn't have any ep spoilers, just so you know - it only goes up to TDD)

Double SPOILER ALERT

[technomensch.livejournal.com]

http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=20368

-talks about tomorrow's episode and hints at next week's.

Re: Double SPOILER ALERT

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

*forces self not to click*

[cscottd.livejournal.com]

O rose, thou art sick!

Hmmmm...

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Indeed!

[ancalemon.livejournal.com]

*flails*

I started watching this show thinking, "Well, it's cute, and it makes a nice diversion from the angst and heavy plot of Battlestar Galactica."
...and now it's still no BSG, but it's way more similar than I was expecting. XD

But where does the "O rose, thou art sick!" come up? I thought the voice in the beginning was singing the "Who's afraid of the Big Bad Wolf" rhyme...

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

In the last of the bad wolf music clips, if you listen carefully you can hear someone recite this poem in the background. It terrifies me.

[ancalemon.livejournal.com]

*freaks out* XD

[pinkishmew.livejournal.com]

Curse the halflings, precious!

I'm sure I spend half my life squinting and "[fingers in ears] LA-LA-LA-LA!!!"-ing spoilers.

Oh well. I didn't read most of that, so I assume I'm safe.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

There are no spoilers beyond TDD, I swear! It's just a recap of all the clues there have been so far.

[pinkishmew.livejournal.com]

Oh, ok. [sheepish] I just saw 'Bad Wolf' written there and a tiny person who lives in my brain got up and started running around in circles and screaming "Argh! Spoilers!"

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