Doctor Who: The Girl In The Fireplace
Hmmm…I have mixed feelings about this one.
The good:
-Mickey- of course. ‘Mickey Smith, meet the universe. See anything you like?’ I love him and his normality and saying dumb things. ‘It looks so realistic!’ Now if only he had had more to do…but I suspect that comes along next week.
-Rose being nice. As in…not being jealous, not being bitchy…being actually concerned about Reinette, and then about the Doctor at the end. I love this Rose, and hope she stays.
Maybe it was School Reunion that brought this on? She knows there’ll always be others, and while he may love her, he loves them too?
-Oh, and I love that Madame du Pompadour has a first name we can use for her now.
-Drunk Doctor.
The bad:
So…he jumped through the mirror and trapped Rose and Mickey on the other side, and himself on Reinette’s side. I do think the two of them probably could have got back without him…there must be some ‘Doctor has done something stupid’ emergency program in there somewhere. But still. And Rose probably knew, somehow, that he’d be coming back, and he did, but all the same he didn’t know he’d be coming back…he essentially abandoned her in a spur-of-the-moment decision. Oh please, RTD, or whoever’s writing the next lot of episodes, let this have consequences. Did Rose even know that by jumping through the mirror he was leaving her – did she know that once he did that the portal would close, or did she assume he’d be able to get back anyway? Will she one day go back and find Sarah Jane and say ‘He abandoned me once, too?’
…hold it there! I want to write that.
So, yes, writers, let this have consequences! Like what you didn’t do with the whole Adam thing. Please please please? Then it wouldn’t bug me nearly so much.
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I do think they’re setting things up for Rose’s departure, now. She may love him, and he may love her, but he’s an alien. I bet by next week, he’ll have forgotten Reinette as well.
Off the subject of that episode: I miss Jackie. I adore Jackie- the thing I love about this series is how it contrasts the extraodinary with the ordinary. Rose may be off meeting dead French people and getting captured by monsters and welding big space guns, but Jackie’s got to tidy the flat and pay the electricity bill and stuff. That’s why I love the episodes set on the Powell Estate so much…I can’t quite explain. I hope she’s back next week, anyway.
May 6, 2006 @ 8:03 pm
So…he jumped through the mirror and trapped Rose and Mickey on the other side, and himself on Reinette’s side. THANK YOU. That’s what I said in my journal. He abandoned the TARDIS, Rose and Mickey for a French whore. lmao. Maybe if it was a 2-parter, I might’ve been able to accept that he did it for “love”, but how could he value her life over the other 3? Did Rose even know that by jumping through the mirror he was leaving her – did she know that once he did that the portal would close, or did she assume he’d be able to get back anyway? I think she knew, which is why she was crying. I bet by next week, he’ll have forgotten Reinette as well. Typical
blokeTimeLord. Same can be said for him sending Rose to do his biding. Coward. * Jackie is back next week…though not as you might expect *deliberately evasiveMay 6, 2006 @ 8:15 pm
Well, I think it will have consequences – I feel a lot being set up, these last two eps. I did love it! The angst, and the sinister, and the Casanova flashbacks…and the HORSE! :-) I’m still a bit trembly from the looks that Tenth gave to M de P on horseback.
May 6, 2006 @ 9:22 pm
Yes, the way he left Rose and Mickey was peculiar and didn’t make sense. I really hope it’s meant to make no sense and an explanation for his state of mind turns up later. (This episode is seriously dividing people and I can see it getting ugly. Hee! I saw one person accuse everyone who disliked it of being rabid Rose/Ten shippers) So, yes, writers, let this have consequences! Like what you didn’t do with the whole Adam thing. Please please please? Then it wouldn’t bug me nearly so much. Double plead with cream on top! I miss Jackie too. Someone has to clean up the bits of exploded Christmas tree. Athough I’d like her stories more if we left earth more for the other ones. They almost did it this week for half the plot.
May 7, 2006 @ 1:20 am
Yes, the way he left Rose and Mickey was peculiar and didn’t make sense. I really hope it’s meant to make no sense and an explanation for his state of mind turns up later. Ditto. Even if it’s only as a part of the over-confidence theme…I’d like to see repercussions. This episode is seriously dividing people and I can see it getting ugly. Hee! I saw one person accuse everyone who disliked it of being rabid Rose/Ten shippers Why am I not surprised? It’s like it’s compulsory to like this episode because it’s written-by-Moffat-and-not-by-RTD-which=automatic street cred. Double plead with cream on top! Triple plead! * Jackie is back! hehe *shifty*
May 7, 2006 @ 2:27 am
It’s like it’s compulsory to like this episode because it’s written-by-Moffat-and-not-by-RTD-which=automatic street cred. I am rather surprised by the amount of praise. I didn’t know so many people were misty-eyed romantics. My great hope is that this episode will make more sense emotionally by the end of the season, and I can go back to enjoying the horse and the interestingly demented robots.
May 7, 2006 @ 5:37 pm
And the hotness that is David Tennant! Psssh. Shame on you for omitting that!
May 7, 2006 @ 7:22 pm
In all the kerfuffle I totally forgot that!
May 6, 2006 @ 9:40 pm
The jumping though the mirror—I’m fanwanking that it was a gamble and it didn’t pay off. He did look rather ‘meep’ when he looked up and said that line about 3000 years’ bad luck. And probably there are several other versions of him knocking around Paris that could give him a lift back, even if he has to wait a few years.
May 6, 2006 @ 11:57 pm
Hee, actually, that’s a good point. Didn’t the First Doctor visit the French Revolution? So it wouldn’t be so bad of a wait. Except for the paradoxes, of course. ;)
May 7, 2006 @ 12:14 am
Didn’t the First Doctor visit the French Revolution? Yep, and Susan said it was his favourite time period, so Ten has multiple chances to nick his own TARDIS…
May 7, 2006 @ 1:21 am
Of course, none of this is obvious the to casual viewer…
May 7, 2006 @ 10:22 am
Yeah, but it’s not meant to be: in the context of the program he’s stuck for 3000 because that’s the most dramatic option. I’m just fanwanking what he could have done to escape.
May 7, 2006 @ 7:24 pm
It is a good answer, but it’s a shame we had to write it ourselves :D
May 7, 2006 @ 1:37 am
Ah ha! Now we discover the Doctor’s real plan– he just wanted a spot of TARDIS-nicking!
May 7, 2006 @ 2:07 am
Because that’s far more ethical than abandoning two companions and your own TARDIS.
May 7, 2006 @ 12:03 am
I thought Mickey handled it all very well. Rose was wonderful. And the episode was good but… odd. It all comes down to the Doctor, for sure, and his very odd decision to leave Rose and Mickey and the TARDIS trapped on that space ship.
May 7, 2006 @ 1:23 am
Odd indeed.
May 7, 2006 @ 2:07 am
His logic does not resemble our Earth logic?
May 7, 2006 @ 2:08 am
Well, it’s not meant to, is it? But even he contradicted himself; he said he’d never abandon her and he did? [Unless he was being a typical bloke and just saying it]
May 7, 2006 @ 2:11 am
Heh. (Yeah, I know. Coming right after that statement in School Reunion, abandoning her was bizarre. I mean, it was bizarre anyway, but now it’s doubly bizarre.)
May 7, 2006 @ 5:38 pm
Unless, of course, he was just saying it because that was what she wanted to hear.
May 22, 2006 @ 4:36 pm
I don’t think he would have said it if he didn’t mean it. The doctor doesn’t shy away from tough subjects. I also thought his descision was off. Especially when he finally found his was back and ran right back around, without checking to make sure Rose (and Mickey) were okay.
May 7, 2006 @ 12:14 am
I loved the Doctor and Mickey *almost* moving to hug each other then going for the handshake instead.
May 7, 2006 @ 2:07 am
That was so adorable. *g*