Hell just froze over. Got the final Jeopardy question right

[Laura PourMeADrink]

When the brainiac Amy didn't! Woohoo. Of course I was starting with a negative score.

Anyone else watching her? She's over a million now. Matt Amodio won $1.5m before he lost.

[Sanity Claws]

1. Spoiler request

Tell me the answer and your winning question. I didn’t watch the show. Let us know how smart you are.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

2. Who said "the sadness will last forever" on his deathbed, to his brother?

In France


Trust me, the stars aligned that I just happened to know since I have always loved this person.

[Sanity Claws]

3. Hmmm

In a separate thread someone already said it was Vincent Van Gogh.
I did not know that Theo was at Vincent’s death bed. There was no way I could have guessed. Well done, LauraPour.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

6. Didn't know another thread. Thanks

[mahatmakanejeeves]

9. Oh, yes, I knew that one too, especially because of the year. NT

[Staph]

4. I knew this one immediately because

I'm a big Doctor Who fan. One of the best episodes of the show is from season five (of the returned series in the 2000s) called Vincent and the Doctor.

From Wikipedia:

"Vincent and the Doctor" is the tenth episode of the fifth series of British science fiction television series Doctor Who, first broadcast on BBC One on 5 June 2010. It was written by Richard Curtis and directed by Jonny Campbell and featured an uncredited guest appearance from actor Bill Nighy.

Intrigued by an ominous figure in Vincent van Gogh's June 1890 painting The Church at Auvers, alien time traveller the Doctor (Matt Smith) and his companion Amy Pond (Karen Gillan) go back in time to meet Van Gogh (Tony Curran) and discover that Auvers-sur-Oise has been plagued by an invisible creature, known as the Krafayis, which only Van Gogh can see. The Doctor and Amy work with Van Gogh to defeat the Krafayis, but in their attempt to have Van Gogh realise his legacy through bringing him to the future they ultimately realise that not all of time can be rewritten and there are some evils which are out of the Doctor's reach.

Curtis, inspired by the fact that Van Gogh never knew he would be famous, had the idea for an episode centred on him. He left the script open to criticism from the crew and made many revisions as a result. Curtis wanted to portray Van Gogh truthfully, rather than being cruel by writing jokes about his mental illness. Most of the episode was filmed in Trogir, Croatia, and many of the sets were modelled after Van Gogh paintings. The episode was watched by 6.76 million viewers on BBC One and BBC HD. Reception to the episode was mainly positive. While the amount of emotion in the episode was debated, many reviewers praised Curran's performance as Van Gogh, but thought that the Krafayis was not a sufficiently threatening "monster".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_and_the_Doctor

[Laura PourMeADrink]

5. That's interesting. In real life he shot himself. Then summoned

doctor. Did the Dr Who version do that? Or was it set in a time when Van Gogh was alive and well ? ( duh must have been if he was trying to slay the monster)

So how did you get the question? From Auvers? Or did they have Theo in it?

[Staph]

7. The Doctor Who episode doesn't cover his death. (Spoilers!)

The Doctor and Amy Pond go back to Van Gogh's time to figure out why there is an alien in one of his paintings. Things happen, the mystery is solved and the alien is vanquished. But because Vincent is still depressed, they take him forward in time to see an exhibit of his works in Paris in the 20th (or 21st?) century. Vincent gets to see that he will not be viewed as a failure, that his art is revered.

But when the Doctor and Amy leave Vincent in 1890 and return to the future, nothing has changed. Vincent still committed suicide mere weeks after their encounter. Though they brought some good into his life, it wasn't enough to overcome the bad (and sad).



I sobbed the first time I saw this, and it still gets me in the feels every time. For Vincent to feel such a failure, and then to find out that his life and his work had meaning to the rest of the world... I ended up reading (and viewing) all that I could find about Van Gogh. In particular, there was a TV documentary called Painted With Words (2010), with Benedict Cumberbatch, that portrayed the relationship between Vincent and Theo. I now have Van Gogh works as the home screen and lock screen on my phone (Starry Night and Wheat Fields with Reapers, respectively). I have become a serious fan of Vincent Van Gogh, simply from watching a simple, kids' science fiction show.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

8. Very cool!!! I've got a print of his insane asylum

In my kitchen