owl | Guess Who's back? *squeee* (Reply)

First of all: I am now utterly in love with Ten. I think I may possibly love him even more than Nine. He's more...I dunno, bouncy or manic or something, less sharp-edged, but with more underlying steel, I think. And unquestionably still the Doctor. I love his look, with the suit and the gutties! Very fanciable.

Okay, the episode. It's lovely to see them getting so comfortable with each other again. And we finally got outside Earth's orbit, but it was to New Earth. Oh well.

The Doctor's right; all hospitals ought to have a little shop. Not to buy anything in, just to be there.

I liked the scene intercutting the two of them being disinfected in the lifts. Rose is squeaking and ducking, and the Doctor's scrubbing his hair and looking like he's just about to burst into song. And I liked the bit where he's trying to warn her about it. "THE DISINFEC- oh never mind. You'll find out."

I was getting rather tired of Cassandra by the end of the episode.

elerrina_amanya kept asking how she changed from body to body without the machine she used to transfer to Rose the first time. The science of this episode, it was bad.

"I'm a chav!" Could she not already see that before she entered Rose? It was funny when she was trying to convince the doctor that she was Rose, but Cassandra is as camp as a row of tents (especially when she's in other people's bodies), and it got old. But the kiss was great, and perfectly rounded off by the Doctor's bewildered little 'Meep?' afterwards. (He goes meep! He goes meep! I'm in love!)

The plot for the rest of the episode was totally stupid and distracting. It would have worked better if it had been presented as wholly magically, without trying to give it a pseudo-medical gloss. That way the idea of healing as well as disease being passed on by touch could have been more effective, rather than having be crouched in the traditional position behind the sofa, going, "The science, it burns!" Because it's really a rather beautiful concept, in the abstract. But then the line "I'm the Doctor, and I'm going to heal you!" [paraphrase] might not have worked...Hmm.

The Doctor is as cocky sa ever, I see. "There is no higher authority." Nonono, Doctor. You're in a hospital. You forgot about the Matron! Hmmm, again. Wasn't there supposed to be something about over-confidence being his downfall in this series?

The Face of Boe. "Textbook enigmatic, that was." I expect he (it?) shall return, because that was a set-up for something, I'm sure. (There...is...another...~~Sky...~~ Time....)

Cassandra's (and Chip's, poor Wormtongue-thing) final death was satisiying; dying in her own arms, narcissistic to the last. But she wasn't aware of theat, so it was touching and I felt a little chokey. It reminded my of something else very weary and old being helped to die, but I'm blanking on what it was. Suggestions, anyone? I thin it was a book rather than a visual medium.

The preview looks great: Queen Victoria, a werewolf, Scottish!Doctor *be still my beating heart*, but sadly I'm pencilled in to go out that night. All those Saturday where there was no Who and I was staying at home doing nothg! Someone had better tape it for me!