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ravenJust now, on the phone:
Me (re: the Doctor): He's so cute! I want to glomp him and then do obscene things to him. [beat] I did not say that.
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amchau: Oh, but you did, you did!
So, World War Three. Stuff I liked:
-"Harriet Jones, MP Flydale North!" I want her to be my MP, I do. And we all knew she'd be Prime Minister in the end. She's wonderful.
-The naff opener. The deus ex machina is so inevitable - yes, the Doctor is Gallifreyan. This means stuff intended for humans does not work on him.
-The constant banter might grate in any other show, but not Doctor Who, staple Saturday night teatime, and there were some choice moments. The Doctor passing the decanter to Harriet - "Have a drink, you'll need it" - and the fact Rose knows better than Mickey what's in his kitchen cupboards. "Vinegar, gherkins, pickled onions..." - and the Doctor turns to Rose and says incredulously, "You kiss this man?"
-The Doctor again - "Mickey, you idiot, the world is in your hands."
-Weapons of mass destruction! Loveditlovedit. The aliens can mobilise in forty-five seconds, which Harriet Jones does not believe; cue the Doctor - "You did last time!"
-First Big Ben, then Downing Street are destroyed, with seamless authentic news coverage. We love the BBC, we do - they did it so well that anyone wandering in at that moment wouldn't have noticed it was fictional.
-On that note, Andrew Marr as himself! Fantastic.
-The ship. Oh, the shippiness of it. It wasn't as prominent in this episode, but still does include the Shippiest Line In The Universe: "I could save the world but lose you." Interesting that Rose doesn't pick up the fact he knows he isn't going to die - or does she already know about the regenerations?
-Does the Doctor drink? Yes, he does - but not this time. I think the idea behind the final sequence was sound, but it went on too long and took away the real impact of it. Better if her mum had come in just to find Rose gone, like the first time; she shouldn't trust the Doctor.
-And lastly, the previews for next week were fabulous. Why are they in Salt Lake City? And Colleen thinks she saw Anna-Louise Plowman somewhere - ie, Osiris - but I'm not sure I saw it. Most of all, I'm looking forward to the context of the Doctor's line: "Here's an order for you - why don't you just DIE?"
I absolutely love whoisdoctorwho.co.uk, which now has a link to unit.co.uk, and the BBC have also registered badwolf.co.uk, which is rather suggestive. There's been a reference to it in every episode to date now, and my own opinion that either the Doctor himself is the bad wolf, or the bad wolf may be the reason for the Ninth Doctor's death. Talking of which, I succumbed to morbid curiosity and looked up how all the other Doctors died. One of them (Third?) fell off Jodrell Bank. I am far too amused by this;![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-syndicated.gif)
osiris13 and I went there together when we were both about seven, and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves.
Anyway, squee. I may just get up early enough tomorrow to watch the old episode - I am sad, me - and next week, we're going to be at C7! Yay us.
Me (re: the Doctor): He's so cute! I want to glomp him and then do obscene things to him. [beat] I did not say that.
amchau: Oh, but you did, you did! So, World War Three. Stuff I liked:
-"Harriet Jones, MP Flydale North!" I want her to be my MP, I do. And we all knew she'd be Prime Minister in the end. She's wonderful.
-The naff opener. The deus ex machina is so inevitable - yes, the Doctor is Gallifreyan. This means stuff intended for humans does not work on him.
-The constant banter might grate in any other show, but not Doctor Who, staple Saturday night teatime, and there were some choice moments. The Doctor passing the decanter to Harriet - "Have a drink, you'll need it" - and the fact Rose knows better than Mickey what's in his kitchen cupboards. "Vinegar, gherkins, pickled onions..." - and the Doctor turns to Rose and says incredulously, "You kiss this man?"
-The Doctor again - "Mickey, you idiot, the world is in your hands."
-Weapons of mass destruction! Loveditlovedit. The aliens can mobilise in forty-five seconds, which Harriet Jones does not believe; cue the Doctor - "You did last time!"
-First Big Ben, then Downing Street are destroyed, with seamless authentic news coverage. We love the BBC, we do - they did it so well that anyone wandering in at that moment wouldn't have noticed it was fictional.
-On that note, Andrew Marr as himself! Fantastic.
-The ship. Oh, the shippiness of it. It wasn't as prominent in this episode, but still does include the Shippiest Line In The Universe: "I could save the world but lose you." Interesting that Rose doesn't pick up the fact he knows he isn't going to die - or does she already know about the regenerations?
-Does the Doctor drink? Yes, he does - but not this time. I think the idea behind the final sequence was sound, but it went on too long and took away the real impact of it. Better if her mum had come in just to find Rose gone, like the first time; she shouldn't trust the Doctor.
-And lastly, the previews for next week were fabulous. Why are they in Salt Lake City? And Colleen thinks she saw Anna-Louise Plowman somewhere - ie, Osiris - but I'm not sure I saw it. Most of all, I'm looking forward to the context of the Doctor's line: "Here's an order for you - why don't you just DIE?"
I absolutely love whoisdoctorwho.co.uk, which now has a link to unit.co.uk, and the BBC have also registered badwolf.co.uk, which is rather suggestive. There's been a reference to it in every episode to date now, and my own opinion that either the Doctor himself is the bad wolf, or the bad wolf may be the reason for the Ninth Doctor's death. Talking of which, I succumbed to morbid curiosity and looked up how all the other Doctors died. One of them (Third?) fell off Jodrell Bank. I am far too amused by this;
osiris13 and I went there together when we were both about seven, and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. Anyway, squee. I may just get up early enough tomorrow to watch the old episode - I am sad, me - and next week, we're going to be at C7! Yay us.
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on 2005-04-23 07:42 pm (UTC)FAAAAAAAAAAAAANTASTIC!!!
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on 2005-04-23 07:46 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2005-04-23 07:47 pm (UTC)although rather slow!
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on 2005-04-23 08:47 pm (UTC)Bill hartnell collapsed after meeting the cybermen.
Pat troughton was forcibly regenerated (murdered) by the time lords for crimes against the web of time.
jon pertwee was killed by spiders i seem to recall?
tom baker fell off jodrell bank
peter davison and his then companion got infected by a virus and he gave the only antidote to the girl
colin baker fell over and regenerated
sylv mccoy got shot
paul mcganne is a mystery :D
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on 2005-04-23 10:13 pm (UTC)the Dr sipped his port in the cabinet room during the episode but judging by his face he didn't like the vintage.
and the Fourth Doctor allowed him toself to fall gracefully to the ground at the nonexistant Pharos Project dish in Kent. Sorry to point that out as i'm sure you looking forward to seeing the JB dish, and the model they use is based on the central dish there. but the location shooting was outer london all the way i'm afraid :(
as for Dalek... having heard Rob Shearman's 'Jubilee' which the story comes from, i really hope the amount of running around the trailer shows don't spoil a bloody good story
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on 2005-04-23 10:16 pm (UTC)and as i'm wearing my pedants hat: Bill Died from old age after Mondas drained some of his life energy
and Jon died from a massive dose of the metebelian radiation that had mutated regular hoiuse spiders into building sized photographic blowups and models ;)
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on 2005-04-23 11:33 pm (UTC)Btw, are you scanning my friends list or are you just adding everybody I know from N_W??
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on 2005-04-24 11:10 am (UTC)And I can't watch it tonight because we have to watch Garfield: The Movie.
Stupid people.