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Doctor Who: Journey’s End

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That was the most…

…depressing thing I’ve seen on TV in ages.

Let’s start with the things I loved. I loved that Martha and Mickey look set to become members of Torchwood, I loved Jack hugging Mickey, and I loved Rose’s ‘Ooh, she’s good’ regarding Martha. That made up for the jealousy last episode. Plus, all the hugging at the end! That was so lovely. Everyone gets a hug!

Plus, Mickey’s goodbye to Jackie. That was so sad, but I’m glad RTD remembered how much they mean to each other,

This really might be Rose’s final exit, then. I sort of hope so, because she has to finally leave one day, let’s face it. But this goodbye was a great deal better than the last. She has her mum and dad and brother (called Tony) and Torchwood and now she has a alternate version of the Doctor. It was so sad to hear the Doctor’s answer to her big question, though- what was it, “Does it matter?” or something. It almost seemed like he was trying to make her go, so she could be happy. Or something. I think she will be, though. She has a Doctor, even if he’s not The Doctor.

Over here on lifeonmartha some kind people have translated the German spoken in the episode (speaking of which, how awesome was it to hear Daleks speaking German, and how cool is it that Martha speaks it?) and the strange German woman’s last words to Martha are “Martha, you’re going to hell,” Martha answers in English, “I know.” Send shivers down my spine, that. She really was so great in this episode: it’s not everyone who’s willing to sacrifice that darn much. (I think, though, she may have known deep down that she wouldn’t really have to use the Osterhagen Key)

What became of Martha’s family? Her mum’s okay, but we never saw her siblings or her dad…

Donna. :(

I don’t think her ending is as incredibly awful as first thought, though. I think that eventually, given time, she’ll grow to be the Donna we saw in Turn Left, one without the Doctor but eventually growing up. Besides, hey, who knows, maybe her computerverse husband will find her.

Still, though. The very last scene, as well, with the Doctor all alone in the TARDIS…I was waiting for something to happen, another Titanic moment, and it didn’t. It was just him all alone.

On the other hand, though, how good does the Christmas special look?

Few more thoughts about the series finale

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Spoilers ahead. :)

You know, Martha still doesn’t know that the Doctor killed her cousin (well, sort of, anyway), and next episode the only other surviving witness to that event, Jackie, is back. Probably nothing will come of it, but I’ve always wondered if it would be brought up again.

Speaking of Jackie, I wonder what her role in the episode is going to be? I can’t see her gunning down Daleks (cool as that would be). I hope she doesn’t die, or become seperated from Rose in any way. I always adored Jackie and admired her love for her daughter.

Maybe Jackie and Francine will meet. That would be cool.

What did Dalek Caan mean when he called the Doctor ‘the threefold man’? I wondered if it was maybe something to do with his three main companions (Rose, Martha and Donna) but maybe not. Maybe it just sounds cool. I’ll add it to the list of ‘cool titles for the Doctor to put on icons’.

How come K9 isn’t in these episodes? I know there’s an in-story reason somewhere, but did the production team only get permission to use him for one episode or something? Then again, I suppose there wouldn’t be much for him to do anyway. :p

The Freema Agyeman Appreciation post

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Becoming tired of the negativity on the OG, I thought I’d make a list of reasons Freema deserves fangirling.

1. Making 42 a pretty good episode instead of a ‘meh’ one. I particularly love the phone conversation between her and her mother. It really makes the episode for me, especially the last phone call when you can hear the relief and concern in her voice.

(pictures, apart from the Martha/Jack one, are from freemaagyeman.com)

2. Being absolutely brilliant in Human Nature. She takes on the Family, tells Joan where to go, and generally is all kinds of awesome. Human Nature was so, so good. I think it’s probably Freema’s best performance, although all of them are good.

3. The chemistry between her and John Barrowman. It makes me want to ship Martha/Jack.

4. The hurt on her face at “It’s like when you fancy someone and they don’t even know you exist”

5. This bit. In fact, she was great in all of ‘The Sound Of Drums’.

6. She used to be a Trekkie!

7. She understands the fans, never has a bad word to say about any of us, and geniunely seems to love her job and the show.

That’s seven- add your own. :D

Doctor Who: The Stolen Earth

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Excuse the incoherence…

First off: Rose’s slightly bitchy reaction to seeing Martha. I want them to be friends, darnit. Wouldn’t they make a great team? Work with me here.

Davros was awesome, Sarah Jane was awesome, Torchwood would awesome, everyone was awesome.

I totally don’t believe David Tennant is leaving.

I saw Harriet Jones’ death coming, but that was quite sad. I wonder what the Doctor’s reaction to that will be.

Martha seems to have forgotten she’s engaged. :p

Was that the Sound Of Drums I heard when Donna was at the Shadow Proclamation? Whoa.

My money on who will die next episode:
-Francine. That will inspire Martha to use that weapon thingy she’s got, even though she’s not supposed to.
-Sylvia. Since this episode is supposed to be a Deathly Hallows style bloodbath I fully expect a few minor characters to go. Hopefully she’ll go out redemptively. If that’s a word.
-Donna. Based on what Dalek Caan said about ‘the most loyal companion’. But I hope not. :(

Doctor Who: Turn Left

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That was all kinds of awesome.

The world without the Doctor was actually more scary than I ever imagined, just the sheer hopelessness of it, Donna and her family refugees while Adipose ate America and Torchwood died. Poor, poor Donna.

The scene that actually stands out the most for me in this episode, despite all the other stuff going on, is when Donna speaks to her mother and whispers “I was always a disappointment,” or something of the sort. Her mother just stares ahead tearfully and murmurs “Yes.”

Oh, and the other scene that stands out- and that’s one of the grimmest, saddest scenes I’ve seen in Doctor Who- is when Donna’s landlord Mr Santo and his family are taken away, and Donna doesn’t even comprehend what’s going on, and Wilfred gives the man a salute with tears in his eyes and Mr Santo is being unrelentingly cheerful in order to spare Donna and then Donna finally gets it and runs after the truck…

:(

Martha goes out heroically in this timeline, then, giving the last of the air to a coworker. When I was watching Confidential RTD or someone pointed out that Donna and Rose are a lot alike, and I think the thing with Martha is that she’s not really much like either of them; she’s calm and collected and hyper-intelligent and a geek. But anyway, it was good to see her get a mention, and prove (along with loads of other characters) that you don’t need the Doctor to be heroic.

It was good to see Sarah Jane and her teenage gang get a mention too, as well as Gwen and Ianto. I can’t believe they’re going to be in the next episode. It’s like a massive interfandom crossover. :)

Rose! It’s actually so good to see her again, being all mysterious and Doctorlike. (“I’m sorry, I’m so sorry.”) She seems a lot more grown up, too.

Oh, the BAD WOLF reveal at the end must be my favourite moment of Series Four so far; I love the whole mystery that surrounds Bad Wolf and how it seems to connect everything together. To see BAD WOLF all over the TARDIS made me grin like crazy.

Lastly: who spotted Mickey? :p

Doctor Who: Midnight

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That was really good, I thought. Not quite as good as ‘Blink’, but well done to the production team and RTD for trying something different.

It was nice to see the dark side of human nature for once. There’s certainly no way everyone could be counted on to be heroic in a situation like that…

Poor Doctor. He’s been through a lot this season. I won’t comment on what is seen to apparently happen to him in the Next Time trailer…

Things I want to see in the Doctor Who finale

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If you should know about any of these things…don’t tell me. :p

1. Rose and Martha meeting, having a proper civil conversation and becoming friends. Or at least not enemies. Please don’t do the obvious thing and make them hate each other, RTD and co.

2. Jack asking Rose about his immortality problem. Her being rather freaked out by what she’s done.

3. The Doctor and Rose not meeting. They’ve said goodbye already.

4. Donna not dying, Mickey not dying, Jackie not dying and Martha not dying.

5. On the subject of Mickey, having him do something cool.

6. Everyone being reasonably happy at the end. (i.e. not another repeat of Doomsday)

I have my fingers crossed.

Doctor Who: The Forest Of The Dead

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That was so, so good.

Really, I can’t review this coherently. Might be an idea to split it up into sections.

Donna and her dream life:
I loved all of Donna’s life inside CAL. Funny how the kids looked just like her despite them being ‘all the same children’, though. :p Unless that was explained and I just didn’t hear it.

The revealing of Miss Evangelista’s face was THE MOST SCARY thing I’ve seen on Doctor Who since that moment with the Weeping Angel. In a way this was actually even scarier, because you weren’t expecting it. I certainly wasn’t.

Too bad this part of the story ended really quite sadly. Poor Donna’s actually-real husband. :( I hope she finds him again somehow. Maybe she’ll bump into him on a distant planet or something. If Catherine Tate ever leaves the series, she’s got the perfect get-out right there…

The Doctor and River:
Oh that was so sad. But resolved so perfectly. I wonder if they actually will ever fill in the blanks of the Ten/River story. I am also glad that they finally gave Ten a break, after all the constant tramua he endures.

Love that there was actually a reference of sorts to Susan’s grandmother in there, too.

The rest:
I love the Ten/Donna relationship. “Is ‘alright’ Time Lord speak for not alright at all?” Donna’s a brilliant companion, in that she really absolutely seems to get him. Catherine Tate and David Tennant were absolutely fantastic in this episode, also. Everyone was. :)

I also loved the repitition of ‘everybody lives’, and the finger snap. I nearly cheered at the finger snap. :D

Further thoughts on ‘Silence In The Library’

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So River Song is the Doctor’s wife, huh? She probably won’t be by the end of the next episode. Steven Moffat seems to specialise in doomed romances. It’s really been one long torture for Ten this season- everyone he can count as family dies, and I’m not really expecting the end of the series to be a entirely happy ending either. (Though I’ll be happy as long as they keep Martha, Donna and Mickey alive.) Did someone say this series would be lighter? Clearly not.

You know…on second thoughts, Silence In The Library might actually be scarier than Blink. Blink had jumpy sort of horror, where the monsters leapt out and scared you, but this just has a sense of real darkness about it, I suppose. The concept of ghosting still scares me. Brrrrrrr.

I suppose it depends on what scares you the most. Darn you, Steven Moffat, for your insistance on making everyday things scary.

In other news, I’m delighted for Barack Obama. :D

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