And really, how big is the Tardis? Huge. Enormous. And even bigger than that.
The plot was a little skew-wiff, as well - surely it was a total coincidence, the Doctor and Rose arriving at exactly this point, and then meeting Dickens of all people? - and am I missing something about why the story was set in Cardiff? Did something actually happen there on Christmas Eve 1860? The TARDIS goes wrong with the date/time. It gets it wrong, but instead, sets the Doctor down where something scary/horrible/wrong is just about to happen. In Cardiff because the series was set in Cardiff and Russell T. Davies wanted to have it one episode. The Doctor has met many historical people at one point or another, so Charles Dickens is no exception. And Mark Gatiss tends to put historical figures into his Doctor Who stories, and he was the writer of this week's episode.
When they're behind those bars together, Rose bewails the fact she's going to die. So does the Doctor. From which I feel I can deduce that Rose doesn't know the Doctor can regenerate. She's in for a surprise. Yeah - hang on a minute - he can regenerate! Why did he forget that? ... how very strange. (Well, sometimes regenerations go wrong and they nearly don't work or something. He tends to need people to take care of him after he regenerates and if he was just going to get taken over by the blue ghosts, then... yeah, it could make sense.)
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on 2005-04-09 07:45 pm (UTC)Huge. Enormous. And even bigger than that.
The plot was a little skew-wiff, as well - surely it was a total coincidence, the Doctor and Rose arriving at exactly this point, and then meeting Dickens of all people? - and am I missing something about why the story was set in Cardiff? Did something actually happen there on Christmas Eve 1860?
The TARDIS goes wrong with the date/time. It gets it wrong, but instead, sets the Doctor down where something scary/horrible/wrong is just about to happen. In Cardiff because the series was set in Cardiff and Russell T. Davies wanted to have it one episode. The Doctor has met many historical people at one point or another, so Charles Dickens is no exception. And Mark Gatiss tends to put historical figures into his Doctor Who stories, and he was the writer of this week's episode.
When they're behind those bars together, Rose bewails the fact she's going to die. So does the Doctor. From which I feel I can deduce that Rose doesn't know the Doctor can regenerate. She's in for a surprise.
Yeah - hang on a minute - he can regenerate! Why did he forget that? ... how very strange. (Well, sometimes regenerations go wrong and they nearly don't work or something. He tends to need people to take care of him after he regenerates and if he was just going to get taken over by the blue ghosts, then... yeah, it could make sense.)
Anyway, woo yay!