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Damn you, Steven Moffat. Damn you for being awesome.
First: An entire planet is a library. How insanely awesome is that? I want to go to the library planet!
Second: Steven Moffat needs to quit hitting all my fear buttons. First it was creepy children and zombies. Now it's the dark. I never actually reached that point in development where one is supposed to cease being afraid of the dark. Mostly it's because I'm suggestible and frighten too easily, but it's also because: it's dark and I can't see, so how do I know what's there? So it's nice to know that I don't have to worry about what's in the dark. I just have to worry about the dark itself.
Dammit, I still sometimes glance suspiciously at statues when I'm out, especially in our statue-laden downtown area. LEAVE MY BRAIN ALONE, MOFFAT. Guess it's a good thing I have my sonic screwdriver flashlight, isn't it?
Anyway. Enough establishing yet another way in which I am clearly unfit to be an adult responsible for my own care and safety.
Third: Alex Kingston's character. Interesting. Moffat does like to have the Doctor run into friends he hasn't met yet, doesn't he? And the talk of the Doctor being so very young is really intriguing, especially since he's only got, what, two regenerations left? Three? Somewhere along the way, I picked up the impression that Time Lords get twelve regenerations, but I haven't seen it confirmed anywhere, so I may be making it up. At any rate, he's certainly getting up there, but we all know the show isn't going to end just because he dies once too often, so was this some long-term foreshadowing about how that will be dealt with when it comes up?
Fourth: Donna is toast, you guys. Forget it. She is so, so going to die by the end of the series. I mean, speaking of foreshadowing, we've gotten slammed with it left, right, and center. AND IT SUCKS. I will miss Donna. But I'd rather see her go down in a blaze of Awesome (which you know she will) than see her stay way past the end of her story (PAGING ROSE TYLER).
Oh, and speaking of Donna, it was wise of the BBC to leave her OUT of the previews for next week's episode. The suspense is exciting and I hate when previews give away too much. And even showing a glimpse of her being okay would have been too much, so, well played.
Fifth: The return of the second series's "I'm sorry, I'm so sorry." This is possibly a coincidence (especially as the Doctor said "so, so sorry" both times in this ep), but! It relates to my ramblings in my "Poison Sky" post about references to the past. The wording was tweaked, but it's still a reminder of the past.
Sixth: And while we're discussing series themes: don't look now, but here we have another wrecked planet and discussion of living beings disappearing.
Seventh: The stuff with the little girl was really interesting and I can't wait to see where it's going. I absolutely loved the shrink at the end, telling her that everything in her head was real. That was unexpected and awesome. Plus, was his name Moon? That resonates intriguingly with River Song. I wonder if the little girl is her. Probably not, because it's way too obvious, but still. It would make narrative sense.
Eighth: The stuff with the data ghost was a sad little concept and, what with it being the fifty-first century and all (cannot be a coincidence!!), I await Jackfic involving this idea with - well, idle curiosity, as it didn't nail me as hard as I expect it did some others, but anyway. It would be neat to read.
Ninth: Did anyone else have trouble keeping up with the dialogue now and then? I've watched enough British television by now that accents don't generally give me trouble the way they used to sometimes (the first time I watched The Office I had to have subtitles on, though that was partly due to the mumbling as well), but I kept missing the things people were saying. It was mostly talking too fast, I think (Gosh, that NEVER happens with Ten around!), but it happened way more often than it tends to with this show. Damn, I guess I'll just have to watch the episode again. What a shame.
Tenth: There is no tenth, I've run myself dry, but it seemed a shame to stop short of the entire complement of Doctors.
In conclusion: Two weeks was way too freaking long to wait for new Who, but goddamn if it wasn't worth it. You rock, Steven Moffat. I can't wait to see what you'll have in store for us in 2010.
First: An entire planet is a library. How insanely awesome is that? I want to go to the library planet!
Second: Steven Moffat needs to quit hitting all my fear buttons. First it was creepy children and zombies. Now it's the dark. I never actually reached that point in development where one is supposed to cease being afraid of the dark. Mostly it's because I'm suggestible and frighten too easily, but it's also because: it's dark and I can't see, so how do I know what's there? So it's nice to know that I don't have to worry about what's in the dark. I just have to worry about the dark itself.
Dammit, I still sometimes glance suspiciously at statues when I'm out, especially in our statue-laden downtown area. LEAVE MY BRAIN ALONE, MOFFAT. Guess it's a good thing I have my sonic screwdriver flashlight, isn't it?
Anyway. Enough establishing yet another way in which I am clearly unfit to be an adult responsible for my own care and safety.
Third: Alex Kingston's character. Interesting. Moffat does like to have the Doctor run into friends he hasn't met yet, doesn't he? And the talk of the Doctor being so very young is really intriguing, especially since he's only got, what, two regenerations left? Three? Somewhere along the way, I picked up the impression that Time Lords get twelve regenerations, but I haven't seen it confirmed anywhere, so I may be making it up. At any rate, he's certainly getting up there, but we all know the show isn't going to end just because he dies once too often, so was this some long-term foreshadowing about how that will be dealt with when it comes up?
Fourth: Donna is toast, you guys. Forget it. She is so, so going to die by the end of the series. I mean, speaking of foreshadowing, we've gotten slammed with it left, right, and center. AND IT SUCKS. I will miss Donna. But I'd rather see her go down in a blaze of Awesome (which you know she will) than see her stay way past the end of her story (PAGING ROSE TYLER).
Oh, and speaking of Donna, it was wise of the BBC to leave her OUT of the previews for next week's episode. The suspense is exciting and I hate when previews give away too much. And even showing a glimpse of her being okay would have been too much, so, well played.
Fifth: The return of the second series's "I'm sorry, I'm so sorry." This is possibly a coincidence (especially as the Doctor said "so, so sorry" both times in this ep), but! It relates to my ramblings in my "Poison Sky" post about references to the past. The wording was tweaked, but it's still a reminder of the past.
Sixth: And while we're discussing series themes: don't look now, but here we have another wrecked planet and discussion of living beings disappearing.
Seventh: The stuff with the little girl was really interesting and I can't wait to see where it's going. I absolutely loved the shrink at the end, telling her that everything in her head was real. That was unexpected and awesome. Plus, was his name Moon? That resonates intriguingly with River Song. I wonder if the little girl is her. Probably not, because it's way too obvious, but still. It would make narrative sense.
Eighth: The stuff with the data ghost was a sad little concept and, what with it being the fifty-first century and all (cannot be a coincidence!!), I await Jackfic involving this idea with - well, idle curiosity, as it didn't nail me as hard as I expect it did some others, but anyway. It would be neat to read.
Ninth: Did anyone else have trouble keeping up with the dialogue now and then? I've watched enough British television by now that accents don't generally give me trouble the way they used to sometimes (the first time I watched The Office I had to have subtitles on, though that was partly due to the mumbling as well), but I kept missing the things people were saying. It was mostly talking too fast, I think (Gosh, that NEVER happens with Ten around!), but it happened way more often than it tends to with this show. Damn, I guess I'll just have to watch the episode again. What a shame.
Tenth: There is no tenth, I've run myself dry, but it seemed a shame to stop short of the entire complement of Doctors.
In conclusion: Two weeks was way too freaking long to wait for new Who, but goddamn if it wasn't worth it. You rock, Steven Moffat. I can't wait to see what you'll have in store for us in 2010.
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Well, she already knew him, too. One can really only be impressed by something, no matter how remarkable, for so long before continued exposure makes it commonplace. Plus, again, fifty-first century - if she is from that time period, time travel probably isn't half as impressive to her as it would be in the twenty-first.
And ... I dunno; maybe the little girl has her memory wiped?
Maybe. Or it could just be growing up that does it. She could just get to a point where she doubts her own childhood perspective. Kids have such imagination, you know, and they believe in things so easily, etc.
I liked her "ghosting" and Donna crying over her.
Poor Donna does get stuck doing her share of crying, doesn't she? That's another interesting difference between her and Rose and Martha - Rose and Martha certainly saw their share of terrible things, but they weren't so prone to cry if those things didn't directly affect them. Anther sign of Donna's more adult perspective, perhaps, with a stronger sense of empathy born of experience?
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She could just get to a point where she doubts her own childhood perspective. Kids have such imagination, you know, and they believe in things so easily, etc.
A La Susan Pevensie?
Anther sign of Donna's more adult perspective, perhaps, with a stronger sense of empathy born of experience?
I think so, yeah. I think Donna's also more capable of realising that aliens aren't so ... alien. Although I've noticed there was a tendency with Martha, too, once she'd moved on to ... well, when she bonded with Fishsticks.
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Could be! The Time Agency did occur to me. And we know so little about it and HAY wouldn't it be sweet if she had something to do with Jack's missing memories, if only so that plot hook could FINALLY get addressed?
A La Susan Pevensie?
Yeah. I haven't read all the Narnia books in years, but that sounds about right.
Although I've noticed there was a tendency with Martha, too, once she'd moved on to ... well, when she bonded with Fishsticks.
Oh yeah! I forgot about that. Of course, what Martha went through would have to either completely destroy a person's sense of empathy or enhance it tremendously. And obviously Martha survived her experiences and funnelled the damage into making herself a better person. Because Martha is awesome like that.
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Basically she decided that Narnia was a game that they used to play when they were little, and wasn't real at all.
And obviously Martha survived her experiences and funnelled the damage into making herself a better person. Because Martha is awesome like that.
YES. YES SHE IS. *draws hearts around her* O Martha, you have suffered more than any other companion before and no WONDER you wanted to stay on earth with the people you loved.