knee-jerk reaction (totally random)

[karenor]

damn that one surviving Dalek! i knew they couldn't be gone for good. but i figured...you know, they could always get rid of them for good, for a little while.

i called the 'splicing in' of Time Lord dna pretty early. Except i thought that's what the Daleks wanted him for.

i was very very very distracted by the maroon chucks. almost took me right out of it. because the stunt double (or possibly DT when climbing, i can't remember without rewatching) was wearing lowtops. and we saw in the first episode that they are hightops. and also, you could see again when he was climbing over seats in the theater. yeah, i notice things like this. it's a sickness, i realize.

tallulah's accent was more annoying this week. as were the 'hybrid' accents of both Sek and the dalekish humans.

every week i think "martha has to be over it by now," and every week, she's not. still pining. at least she's smart enough to see he's not into her that way and won't be cuz he's still very hung up.

that said, i DID really like the sort of under the radar references to Rose and shippy stuff. not just from Martha, but the radio bit at the beginning was practically a shot out.

i did get a wee bit teary when he was yelling at them to kill him. i'm not sure if he was sincere or if he was gambling, but i think the former. i think he's in a similar place to where we found Nine. lost everything, and not a little death wish. but he's different, i think, in the compassion he's grown. Back in School Reunion, he tells Finch that he's lost his compassion. I think this episode proves that he's got it back (rather, he never really lost it). Then gain, i did actually hope he had a trick up his sleeve to kill Kon. I'd have liked to see that darkness and hate for them emerge again. But maybe that wouldn't have been quite in character. No probably not, not after everything that happened with Sek. but i think they could have sold it.

and while we're on stuff that doesn't make sense...why didn't a. the daleks in the theater just shoot the Doctor? or b. why didn't Kon shoot him when they were alone being all quickdraw duelly? i mean, doesn't anyone at any meeting at some point raise a hand and ask? at least gimme a throw away line explaining it.

i liked him saving Laszlo at the end too. Don't quite buy that the Hoovervillians would accept him so easily, but i'll go with that. i got a little teary then too...at the no one else is going to die speech. oh but wait, couldn't he have rigged up something for his face. some sort of plastic surgery? file down the teeth at least? or fuck, take him somewhere that could fix him? is that a ludicrous idea?

lots of gratuitous Doctor in glasses shots. *loves* and the pretty in the theater against the black background. i don't have time to cap now, and i'm sure someone will, but i predict a veritable deluge of icons....

what else? wherever they are in the previews for next week reminds of that place in the DWM. wherever that clock thing was. at least Martha gets new clothes! yay!

all and all, this episode didn't quite pack the punch i'd hoped it would, but it had it's moments for sure.

Comments

[missperkigoth.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was a wee bit disappointed, but the gratuitous glasses geek shots for the fangirls were nice. Who knows, maybe Kon was the Dalek in "Dalek".

[karenor.livejournal.com]

we could hope. then they really would be gone. as of 2012. but i don't think that would be, because he had no knowledge of the result of the timewar, whereas Kon does...

[katesutton.livejournal.com]

I was kinda disappointed in this episode. But:

i did get a wee bit teary when he was yelling at them to kill him. i'm not sure if he was sincere or if he was gambling, but i think the former.

I think he really expected to die there. He was surprised by Sec's intervention. I don't like it, but it makes sense. Whether it was good or bad, I think Rose had a lot to do with Ten's being less unbalanced than Nine. She's gone now; he feels like he's lost everything again and yet again it was for nothing.

that said, i DID really like the sort of under the radar references to Rose and shippy stuff. not just from Martha, but the radio bit at the beginning was practically a shot out.

Totally a reference to The Doctor Dances. I loved it and his moment of angst at the end. He had to be thinking of her.

[karenor.livejournal.com]

hmmm. Martha would have been stranded if he died there. Why, do you think, did Solomon's murder drive him to such a point? does he just think it's impossible to win at that moment?

Totally a reference to The Doctor Dances. I loved it and his moment of angst at the end. He had to be thinking of her.

yeah. altho i love it, it's still a bit strange how shippy everything has become SINCE the character left. yes it was a lovestory before, but it could mascarade as them being really just friends. since she's left they're hitting it home that their relationship really was special. in this episode, he basically said he fell in love with her. almost more blatant than ever before. well, if you look at it the right way.

[katesutton.livejournal.com]

I think his behavior was fairly close to despair. First, he kills all the Daleks AND his own people and he's the only one to survive. And then HEY, Not Dead! One of them survives too! And promptly commits suicide, after murdering a lot of people and nearly killing Rose. Then, whoops, NOT DEAD AGAIN! Also, Cybermen! He loses Rose and her family this time, but hopes that just maybe, Daleks are gone for good. And then THIS. More Daleks and they're trying to change all of humanity into their likeness. It's kind of the last straw, you know? He seems to be in a pretty dark place at the moment.

altho i love it, it's still a bit strange how shippy everything has become SINCE the character left. yes it was a lovestory before, but it could mascarade as them being really just friends. since she's left they're hitting it home that their relationship really was special.

I think the show is kinda conflicted about the whole romance thing. If you listen to the confidentials, commentary and interviews(much less watch the show), it's clear that they intended his relationship with Rose to be uber-shippy, even going so far as to call her the love of his life. Yet...because of the history of the show and the audience they're aiming for, they were never going to turn the UST into RST. Not onscreen, at least. Now that she's gone, though, they can be as textual as they want to be.

[karenor.livejournal.com]

because of the history of the show and the audience they're aiming for, they were never going to turn the UST into RST. Not onscreen, at least. Now that she's gone, though, they can be as textual as they want to be.

i suppose that does sort of give them a license that they didn't have before. Nothing's going to get shown with Rose gone, so they can say anything. Or, in fact, he could just be realizing the extent of the relationship now that she IS gone. Though of course he knew he loved her then.

I'm glad for it. That they acknowledge the ship now. Even if they still are being a little coy with the facts of what kind of relationship (Did the U become an R?) but it still takes a bit of getting used to--the Doctor acknowledging his own feelings. Because they seemed to try really hard to get us NOT to see the Doctor that way in the last two seasons.

Well, maybe that's not quite true...