Doctor Who: Army Of Ghosts

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So, let’s do this in a calm and organized fashion, shall we?

Okay, first things first:

On Jackie: She’s going to die, isn’t she? :( That conversation about ‘what if I die?’ virtually signposted it. She dies to save Rose, I imagine, and Rose stays on Earth because of it.

I heard a very good theory about all that- that Jackie dies, and Rose begs the Doctor to save her, but he won’t. Or something.

On Torchwood: ‘Welcome to Torchwood…yes, it’s a shed.’

On the Doctor: Good as usual, but I’m surprised there wasn’t more of a reaction to meeting the very people who shot down the Sycorax ship. Loved the breaking-glass scene.

On Rose: Nah, she’s not going to die. I reckon that shot of her standing there on the beach is the last shot, and the TARDIS is just leaving.

On Mickey: I screamed ‘YES!’ when he appeared. Come on, I bet you did too. (And I loved that his undercover name was ‘Samuel’ -that was done because Noel Clarke is a Samuel L Jackson fan, right?)

And: I suppose this borders on the meta-ish- Jackie’s speech got me thinking. ‘She’s not Rose Tyler, not anymore.’- Rose has got to come back. Because if she doesn’t, she’ll go on and on and eventually she won’t be human, she’ll be just like the Doctor. Which probably sounds just fine to her- she gets to save people and befriend people and sometimes have a good laugh- but what about the loneliness and the forgetting people? I suppose that’s the last thing she’s got to learn. Well, maybe not the last thing. There’s still the daddy issues.

And onto Mickey: he’s changed so much and I’m not sure it’s for the better. The thing I loved about him was the fact that he’d try and fight off the monsters, fail, and keep trying until he did it. (And wouldn’t boast about it afterwards, while Rose might). But new-Mickey wouldn’t need to try.

He’s not Mickey Smith, not anymore?

Well, we’ll see more of him next episode, I’ll see what happens then. I hope he doesn’t die. :(

Roll on next Saturday!

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I absolutely do not get the utter hatred for Fear Her. I mean, at worst it was a bit of fluffy, slightly nonsensical fun before the big finale…I just Do Not Get It.

And the episode forum at OG is scaring me. Hint: If you get Geniunely Very Angry if you feel an episode wasn’t up to scratch, it may be time for a holiday.

In other news: six days til Army Of Ghosts yay.

Doctor Who: Fear Her -and THAT TRAILER

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I don’t want to slate Fear Her, which was really quite good and interesting and deserves lots of fanfiction, but THAT TRAILER has taken over my mind right now, and everyone else’s too, I imagine.

If you didn’t watch the trailer, look away now!

DALEKS! Alright, we didn’t see them, but we saw the extermination-effect! And ghosts! And an evil female villain! And Torchwood! And OH PLEASE LET MICKEY BE BACK, PLEASE.

…you may now look back at the screen. ;)

-Did anyone spot Fear Her’s Torchwood reference? I thought I heard it during the Olympic commentary…

-I love the idea of the abusive-father-drawing hiding in the wardrobe. I wish more had been made of that, since it was kinda the secondary plotline, I guess

-The Doctor lit the Olympic torch…damn, writing that it just occured to me. Torch wood.

That’s it, I’m afraid. Except that that trailer is still fantastic. Slow motion and Hollywoodish and everything! I want to go and look for screencaps.

DW episode ranking

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I figure it’s time for an episode ranking. Don’t you?

A couple have gone up in my estimation, and it was really hard picking the top five or so:

1) The End Of The World (only just)
2) The Satan Pit
3) School Reunion
4) The Christmas Invasion
5) Dalek
6) Tooth and Claw
7) Bad Wolf
8) The Empty Child
9) Father’s Day
10) Rise of the Cybermen
11) Aliens of London
12) The Doctor Dances
13) The Impossible Planet
14) The Parting Of The Ways
15) The Idiot’s Lantern
16) Boomtown
17) World War III
18) Love and Monsters
19) New Earth
20) The Girl In The Fireplace
21) The Unquiet Dead
22) The Age Of Steel
23) Rose
24) The Long Game

Doctor Who: Love and Monsters

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Well, that was different, wasn’t it?

This was the one I’d been looking most forward to. There’s a reason half the fics I do are minor-character fics, and that’s because I’m so interested in the idea of what becomes of these people after the Doctor and Rose have run through their lives. So now there’s an episode about that, and I literally turned around at one point and said ‘I love this show.’ So there you go.

I loved Elton and I loved Jackie (‘Let me tell you what it’s like to be left behind…’) and I loved that they didn’t forget that Jackie cared about Mickey as well, and I really wish that LINDA had survived and not all died or been turned into paving slabs. They were fun. Sigh.

The only thing I didn’t like was the ending. It got a little too weird then. How exactly is Elton going to explain that Ursula is now a disembodied face? Didn’t she have a family or anything?

And…there’s a new game at whoisdoctorwho, it’s a quiz, and I’m stuck. Anyone know the answer to the Sycorax language question?

OH. MY. GOD.

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THAT WAS THE SINGLE GREATEST EPISODE OF DOCTOR WHO I HAVE EVER SEEN.

-I twigged as soon as it was clear posessed!Toby would definately try something that Rose would be the one to kill him. (And in such a cool way. ‘Go to hell’ BOOM.)

Her first real kill. Rose and the Doctor killed Satan! Bloody hell*.

My feelings for Rose appear to have shot, in the space of a few episodes, from mild dislike to neutrality to genuine like now. She’s interesting again, yay! And apparently will die. I bet she won’t. I’d rather she didn’t.

-I feel incredibly bad for Jefferson and figure he deserves a fanfic about him. (guessed he would be the one to die, though)

-‘Satan’ will give kids nightmares for months. Meep.

-These last two episodes are definately the ‘Empty Child/Doctor Dances’ of the second series. Is Matt Jones doing any more episodes?

*pun not intended

And…HOW COOL DOES LOVE AND MONSTERS LOOK? That’s hands-down the episode I’ve been looking the most forward too, squee. But this one was fantastic.