Doctor Who 04x11
Jun. 21st, 2008 02:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
karenorWriting a review this soon, before I've properly had time to digest is probably ill advised. But I wanted to get my reactions down (besides just the flailing), for posterity and all.
All right. My love affair with Rusty continues. I still love him. How brilliant was it that Doctor-lite came right after Donna-lite? Pretty fucking brilliant. Especially given what's developed in this episode.
Could it be that we'll finally get some sort of payoff for the "we're not together/married" theme? Donna is special. Extra special. Not just for having travelled with the Doctor, but for something she's had/been since she was born. But together? They seem to make up some sort of unit. The force that will, somehow, save the world from the Darkness. But how? Oh, gah, so many possibilities. Especially when it's all... subtle. I mean, little things matter, right? That's what the ep showed us more than anything, yeah? So do they make some sort of literal something that defeats whatever? Or is it something she does for him, like she's done all along. Saving him. Keeping him fighting? I don't KNOW. And I'm still all shaky thinking about it.
Rose... Let's get the shallow out of the way. Did her hair bug anyone else? I know we've all seen it before, but it was just... silly. Ok. That done. OMG!!!!!!!!!!! She was all universe hopping? And asskicking. Being in charge, making things happen. Convincing Donna to save the world. Ish. I... don't even know what to say. Will she remember any of it? None of it happened in the Doctor's world... but Rose is hopping about (i think), so is it 'real' for her? Not dreamlike?
Honestly, i did NOT expect a reunion out of this ep, so i wasn't disappointed when it didn't come. I don't know why. I mean, I guess when we heard way back in the day that she'd be in the Doctor-lite episode, I developed this bit of spec as fact. But erm... that's gotta change, right? I mean, it HAS to (don't tell me!). Sure, Rusty can rip our hearts out again. I fully expect him to, but at least let them... have a moment. Or several.
More on Donna. I liked how the change in her was subtle, over the development of stuff what sucked in the different world. But she was always HER. Even tho she was pre-TRB Donna for a bit there, there were shades of the one we've come to know. The scene with the star, for example.
Ianto and Gwen and Jack! Does Rose, then, know everything? About Jack and all?
Rose's look at the "were you and him?"... god if that's not confirmation of everything, i don't know what is (um, and probably that "great hair" comment is just as good). But I can't stop thinking about how sad the Doctor must have been at his death in this world. Right after losing Rose... he killed and died. And jeeebus, that hurts. But you know the ONE moment I cried in this ep? Not even the 'labor camps' thing, which I might should have. It was the poor dying TARDIS. Saying hello to Rose. EEEEEP. That was so sad.
All the Donna coincidences... They've always been there, right? Why hasn't the Doctor noticed them before? And I dunno about this world creating around her stuff. Would the Library really count as that? Hmm. So why is she so special. The most important person in all of creation? I think it's going to bigger than she's just another Time Lord or something. I have a feeling Rusty is setting her up as some sort of goddess. Something that we won't fully understand. Sort of like a new savior. The second coming. Whatever. She'll have to die (again?) to save the world. And that household gods stuff in the Fires of Pompeii wasn't coincidence. As the Doctor says... a bit too much coincidence around here. Yeah, i'm wildly speculating, but... it seems to fit. Of course it will be like something we don't have definitive answers for. Maybe. Why she is what she is, or how.
I don't think THIS is it for Donna. The amazing self-sacrifice she accomplishes in this episode. It's bigger than that. Maybe SHE is Bad Wolf. Or bad wolf made her, willed her in to existence. Maybe she's like the daughter of Bad Wolf? If we stick with the religious stuff...
I still think Bad Wolf is the path to reunion, though. I DO think that Bad Wolf is self-centered enough for that. It's TO bring the Doctor and Rose together. I'm sure there will be a larger purpose and all, but I'm convinced that that's the motivation.
Yeah, um, this is making my head hurt.
I think I'll hit the pause button on this review and try again later. I'm not making a lot of sense. Massive flail does that to me. I know i had a lot more to say...
I don't think I can watch the Confidential either. *twiddles thumbs* *thinks thinky thoughts*
All right. My love affair with Rusty continues. I still love him. How brilliant was it that Doctor-lite came right after Donna-lite? Pretty fucking brilliant. Especially given what's developed in this episode.
Could it be that we'll finally get some sort of payoff for the "we're not together/married" theme? Donna is special. Extra special. Not just for having travelled with the Doctor, but for something she's had/been since she was born. But together? They seem to make up some sort of unit. The force that will, somehow, save the world from the Darkness. But how? Oh, gah, so many possibilities. Especially when it's all... subtle. I mean, little things matter, right? That's what the ep showed us more than anything, yeah? So do they make some sort of literal something that defeats whatever? Or is it something she does for him, like she's done all along. Saving him. Keeping him fighting? I don't KNOW. And I'm still all shaky thinking about it.
Rose... Let's get the shallow out of the way. Did her hair bug anyone else? I know we've all seen it before, but it was just... silly. Ok. That done. OMG!!!!!!!!!!! She was all universe hopping? And asskicking. Being in charge, making things happen. Convincing Donna to save the world. Ish. I... don't even know what to say. Will she remember any of it? None of it happened in the Doctor's world... but Rose is hopping about (i think), so is it 'real' for her? Not dreamlike?
Honestly, i did NOT expect a reunion out of this ep, so i wasn't disappointed when it didn't come. I don't know why. I mean, I guess when we heard way back in the day that she'd be in the Doctor-lite episode, I developed this bit of spec as fact. But erm... that's gotta change, right? I mean, it HAS to (don't tell me!). Sure, Rusty can rip our hearts out again. I fully expect him to, but at least let them... have a moment. Or several.
More on Donna. I liked how the change in her was subtle, over the development of stuff what sucked in the different world. But she was always HER. Even tho she was pre-TRB Donna for a bit there, there were shades of the one we've come to know. The scene with the star, for example.
Ianto and Gwen and Jack! Does Rose, then, know everything? About Jack and all?
Rose's look at the "were you and him?"... god if that's not confirmation of everything, i don't know what is (um, and probably that "great hair" comment is just as good). But I can't stop thinking about how sad the Doctor must have been at his death in this world. Right after losing Rose... he killed and died. And jeeebus, that hurts. But you know the ONE moment I cried in this ep? Not even the 'labor camps' thing, which I might should have. It was the poor dying TARDIS. Saying hello to Rose. EEEEEP. That was so sad.
All the Donna coincidences... They've always been there, right? Why hasn't the Doctor noticed them before? And I dunno about this world creating around her stuff. Would the Library really count as that? Hmm. So why is she so special. The most important person in all of creation? I think it's going to bigger than she's just another Time Lord or something. I have a feeling Rusty is setting her up as some sort of goddess. Something that we won't fully understand. Sort of like a new savior. The second coming. Whatever. She'll have to die (again?) to save the world. And that household gods stuff in the Fires of Pompeii wasn't coincidence. As the Doctor says... a bit too much coincidence around here. Yeah, i'm wildly speculating, but... it seems to fit. Of course it will be like something we don't have definitive answers for. Maybe. Why she is what she is, or how.
I don't think THIS is it for Donna. The amazing self-sacrifice she accomplishes in this episode. It's bigger than that. Maybe SHE is Bad Wolf. Or bad wolf made her, willed her in to existence. Maybe she's like the daughter of Bad Wolf? If we stick with the religious stuff...
I still think Bad Wolf is the path to reunion, though. I DO think that Bad Wolf is self-centered enough for that. It's TO bring the Doctor and Rose together. I'm sure there will be a larger purpose and all, but I'm convinced that that's the motivation.
Yeah, um, this is making my head hurt.
I think I'll hit the pause button on this review and try again later. I'm not making a lot of sense. Massive flail does that to me. I know i had a lot more to say...
I don't think I can watch the Confidential either. *twiddles thumbs* *thinks thinky thoughts*
