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Doctor Who: The Impossible Planet

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*wibbles*

-All the Devil stuff was very scary and if I was 10 I would have shoved the sofa away and hidden behind it. It’s a bloke with red eyes! And symbols all over him! Speaking in a deep scary voice! Ack. (Parents are so going to be writing into the BBC about this one, aren’t they? Heh.) BTW, anyone else reckon it was no coincedence this episode was so near the date 6/6/06?* Mwa.

-Those two women..Scooti and the other one? I was convinced they were actually mother and daughter, because they looked so alike. But that was never said in the actual episode, and now one of them is dead. :(

-Have become convinced that giggling and trying to make jokes is Rose’s way of dealing with stressful situations. (And to be honest, I’m not surprised she wasn’t more afraid…the TARDIS has been out of action once this series already.)

-We saw a hologram of the Devil, didn’t we? WIBBLE.

-Loved all the crew members. Hope there will be fic about them.

-Still no mention of Mickey, woe. Or Jack, come to that.

(Have I just done a Doctor Who entry without mentioning the Doctor? Well. David Tennant was good and I liked him. So there. ;) )

*6/6/06 is also my parent’s wedding anniversary. MWAHAHA.

Doctor Who: The Idiot’s Lantern

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After the episode and Confidental finished, I was thinking to myself ‘What can I say about that? Not much really happened…’ Then I realised that was what made it pretty good: so much has happened in the show over the past four or five episodes that it was nice to have a break- a light episode for once. XD

-I loved Rose in this. Was actually quite disappointed to see people bashing her on OG afterwards. I sometimes do get the feeling, though, that the writers aren’t quite sure what to do with her these days…but I hope they prove me wrong.

-Only one instance of RagingMad!Doctor. That was rather interesting. And a tad concerning. Not sure what to make of it…

-I liked that the mad bullying father got thrown out at the end, but I also loved that Rose made Tommy go to him. Twas a nice little character moment.

-No mention of Mickey, woe. :( But then again, no mention of Reinette or Sarah Jane for three episodes, and no mention of Jack for about eight. :(

-RTD’s comment at the end of Confidential was rather…omnious….especially considering it was only the other day he said that the ‘heading for a fall’ thing was all wrong. I think he likes messing with our heads.

-Have attempted to do a episode ranking for this series. It was harder than I thought, but have come up with:
1- School Reunion (but only just- I adored T&C, but gave this one the edge as it had Mickey and Sarah Jane in it)
2- Tooth and Claw
3- Rise of the Cybermen
4- The Idiot’s Lantern
5- New Earth
6- the Age of Steel (and the only reason this is ranked so low is ‘cos it was Mickey’s last episode- yes, it was a good ending, BUT STILL A BLOODY ENDING!)
7- The Girl In The Fireplace (though I suspect I may like it a lot more when I watch it again; incidentally, I must get to work on a Reinette fic I have in mind.)

BTW, no-one fancied any music? Have unlocked the post just in case…

Jackiefic!

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So. I was making this icon and suddenly this fanfic walked up out of nowhere.

Title: She Looked Back
Author: sarah531
Rating: G
Characters: Jackie Tyler, Trisha Delaney, mentions of Mickey
A/N: For those who fancy the Mickey/Trisha backstory (you don’t need to read it to understand this, don’t worry) it be here.
Another A/N: It took almost as long for me to come up with the title as it did to write the fic. I hate titles. Bah.

Summary: He said ‘Run’ to her once.

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Doctor Who: The Age Of Steel

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In bullet-point format, for bullet-point format is good.

-I utterly refuse to believe that Mickey won’t be coming back again ever. There’s been various reports and stuff on the spoiler forums at OG…a great percentage of them probably aren’t true, but I bet at least one of them is.

-I really like Jake, and figure Mickey/Jake is probably inevitable, even if it doesn’t last long

-Mrs Moore/Angela Price was good too. Pity she had to die.

-This was probably the most disturbing thing I’ve seen on pre-watershed TV. (did I say that last week, too?) I think it was that shot of someone walking right into the ovens that did it this time.

-Did I mention I refuse to believe Mickey won’t be back? Heck, if Jack gets Torchwood, give Mickey and Jake their own series too!

-‘Rose, I’m coming to get you.’ is now offically my favourite line in series 2. Parallels, don’tcha know. I love Mickey being a Doctor figure in his own right.

–There Is No Christmas On Mars has been jossed ever so slightly. Teh woes. I’m gonna write another one of those, though, because a) Trisha is virtually my self-insert and b) it’s all the Mickey-as-someone’s-Doctor-figure idea again anyway, yo.

-Oh, and…there is one other reason I didn’t want Mickey to stay in the alt-verse: it’s because of Jackie! She’s got no-one now. *sighs* I honestly did very nearly ship those two.

-I loved that Pete just walked away at the end. And as I again might have said before, I bet any money that the conclusion to Rose’s story will be her having to choose between her father and the Doctor.

-HE’LL BE BACK DANGNABBIT.

Icon post

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Two big fandoms and one (very?) small one. :D

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-DW screencaps from Chaotic Creative and Adventures In Time and Space
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Fandom stuff

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Not, of course, that this journal ever has anything but fandom stuff in it. :) Although, just to break the trend- I had my first exam today. ICT. I’m glad it’s out of the way and done with, that’s all I can say. XD

More thoughts on Rise of the Cybermen, and Doctor Who in general-

-Mickey’s pretty much become the Neville Longbottom of DW fandom, hasn’t he? Right down to the living-with-his-gran part. (I suppose that makes Rose Harry? Heh.) You know- the sort of secondary hero who is actually a hero in his own right. *suddenly has urge to do DW/HP crossover*

-Has anyone noticed a minor increase of people singing In The Jungle recently? ‘Cos I have. And it SCARES ME TO PIECES, because that scene is the freakiest thing I’ve ever seen on pre-watershed TV. (So much for humans never killing humans, eh, RTD? ;) )

-Five episodes and one very long fanfic in and I’m still not quite sure what to make of Rose this series. I mean…it’s like her character evolution has been, from the very beginning: ‘Teenage girl’ –> ‘Teenage girl WITH POWER’. Oh, I dunno. But her character arc has the potential to be incredibly interesting, all the same. (Personally, I have a suspicion she’ll be faced with An Ultimate Choice- the Doctor or her father. I claim gloating rights if this happens. ;) )

-A wallpaper wot I made for my fic series Turn Of The Earth, That Which I Talk About Too Much. I’m rather amazed by how well this came out, as it started off looking slightly crap.

On to Star Wars fandom, which I miss terribly:

-I reeeeally want to make an Anakin/Padme fanmix, but I only have two songs so far. One of them is U2’s City Of Blinding Lights, which has always been my A/P song for some reason.

-I wish I could write at least one Star Wars fic without giving up halfway through. In my head since ROTS: a genfic featuring Obi-Wan and Beru; a weird AU Anakin and Obi-Wan thing; and a very weird barely-even-a-fanfic thing about a certain controversial scene from AOTC.

-Dude, on Saturday it’ll be one year since ROTS. I might go see The Da Vinci Code (have moviemakers now decided that May 19th is a lucky date to release a blockbuster? ;) ) but I think after that I shall watch ROTS. Because I love it so. *uses ROTS icon*

Doctor Who: Rise of the Cybermen

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Oh my god, Mickey. This is going to be his couple of episodes, you can tell…and we learned so much about him and my heart just bloody broke.

So *that’s* where it all stems from…all the insistance that he’s probably useless, all the fake self-confidence we saw in Rose and all the rest. His gran brought him up, and Mickey didn’t fix the carpet and she tripped and broke her neck. Blimey.

And his mother ‘couldn’t cope’- what did Rose mean by that? We came to her in mid-sentence, so there could have been anything there. Maybe she couldn’t cope because she never wanted a kid, or she couldn’t cope because Mickey had a brother or sister who died, or something. And his Dad left (which, I am slightly proud to say, is one detail in my fanfics I got right, ha) and then his gran died. And in the parallel ‘verse she’s alive, so Mickey’s essentially facing the same choice Rose is- if you found a world where your dead loved ones still lived, what would you do?

And his dad was called Jackson Smith and worked in a key shop. *notes that down for future fic*

Slight spoilers/speculation for future episodes now: scroll down to read:

-There’s been lots of talk (although, I think, nothing concrete) about Mickey choosing to stay on alt-Earth, and although I hated the idea first (what about Jackie? The real Jackie?) I can buy it now. Although what I’d love the most would be Mickey going back to the estate and living with Jackie (I’m not what you’d call a shipper, but I love the relationship between those two) or Mickey opting to stay for a bit and asking the Doctor to pick him up later. Although it doesn’t look like that’s possible. Sigh.

Real spoiler now, but if you were alright reading the above you’ll probably be alright reading this too: Noel Clarke’s in episodes 12 and 13 too, according to OG. So at least no matter what happens, it won’t be quite the end. Whew.

Oh, and the Cybermen? They were pretty good too. ;)

My Midnight (Rose fic)

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This is why I haven’t updated my journal for almost a week. ;)

Title: My Midnight
Author: sarah531
Rating: PG13
Characters: Rose, Ten, Mickey, Jackie, Sarah Jane, others
A/N: Very very long one-shot
Summary: trag·e·dy n. pl. trag·e·dies – 1. A drama or literary work in which the main character is brought to ruin or suffers extreme sorrow, especially as a consequence of a tragic flaw, moral weakness, or inability to cope with unfavorable circumstances

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Doctor Who: The Girl In The Fireplace

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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.

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