Fear Her

[owl]

Why do they start making Rose so likeable now?? She was in her Investigator Girl mode this week, and doing pretty well too. And instead of her having her face eaten, it was the Doctor who was turned into a drawing. And the TARDIS!! But Rose was good when the Doctor was doodlated; upset and worried, but determined to un-dooddle him. Even though they were enjoying each other's company, they weren't annoyingly cliquish. When she was afraid that he had gone off without her, she wasn't acting like a spoilt 13-year-old; in fact, she was thinking of him. (They're co-dependant and she knows it....)
She did lose her temper with Chloe, but she got it under control again when she remembered Chloe was just a messed up little girl.

The Doctor was very good in his interactions with Chloe too (Rose, bit of a clue he was a dad once). And the head-holding telepathy makes its appearance again. And the theme of loneliness returns again. I wonder are theye going to bring back a Time Lord? Or Time Lady

I liked the Olympic torch being the key to powering up the spaceship again, and the Doctor picking up the torch. DT seemed to having fun with that (although, way to wave a big 'Here I am!' to Torchwood, though).And working it out as doodle!Doctor. Also his fascination with edible ball bearings. And the fingers-in-the-jam moment, and Rose doing the silent ticking off familiar to mums and big sisters the world over.

Huw Edwards was brilliant as himself. I bet he was dead chuffed to be on Doctor Who. And if the Olympic crowd to vanish from the stadium, he'll react just like that :)

I liked Rose and the cat (obviously she's not a dog person, even if her AU self is :-P), and her being attacked by a pencil scribble. Also stealing the council pickaxe to dig up the council road. Oh, and the tarmacking man was brilliant. He might just have been fixing holes in the road, but boy was he going to do it right. He even had a secret tarmac recipe!

And the granny was great. Good supporting characters in this episode.

I think it was important that the 'villain' was just a lonely child, because the real scary thing—an angry father who won't even go away after he's dead—is going to be a bit close to the bone for some kids watching. And the description of the...alien babies was lovely, very poetic.

'Look at the hairs on my manly hairy hands' and 'I'm being facetious, no call for that'. Oh, Ten, how I do love you. I loved the visual gag of the TARDIS having to come back again turned around.

He tells Rose that he had a child once! That threw her, didn't it? Come on, Rose, he's a thousand years old, use your head. I wonder....could there be going to be an actual mention of Susan at some point?

Uber-geek momnet: the cat doing a Schroedinger's-cat in the box.

The foreshadowing is hitting us on the head like a big brick. What with the 'Who's going to hold his hand now?' line (oh, poor emo Time Lord), and Rose's gloating that no-one can split them up (hubris, Rose, hubris), they're doomed. DOOMED I tell you. The Doctor seems to have gained prophetic powers as well as telepathic ones, but why's he talking about 'a storm approaching' when he is the Oncoming Storm?


I think I may talk about the teaser in a separate post.

Comments

[ankaret.livejournal.com]

Council bloke was clearly Rose's type physically - shame he turned out to be a bit of a tarmac spod. :)

[owl]

Well, at least it's a sort of reference to Mickey....

[richenda.livejournal.com]

And if the Olympic crowd to vanish from the stadium, he'll react just like that :)

I loved that - was it a deliberate later Quatermass/deceased Quatermass allusion or am I just old?

[richenda.livejournal.com]

And if the Olympic crowd to vanish from the stadium, he'll react just like that :)

I loved that - was it a deliberate later Quatermass/deceased Quatermass allusion or am I just old?

Just to show that I'm really really old - also an allusion to:
"The Fleet's disappeared! It's gone!"

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Just to show that I'm really really old - also an allusion to:
"The Fleet's disappeared! It's gone!"

Is that Star Trek?

[richenda.livejournal.com]

No, it was a well-oiled radio commentator at the postwar Inspection of the Fleet.
What happened was that his boat swung round, away from the Fleet.
It went down in myth that he said much more embarrassing things, but a friend of mine has the much less entetaining but no less embarrassing actual transcript. I must look it out.

[owl]

Heee! Oh, that's hilarious!

[technomensch.livejournal.com]

although, way to wave a big 'Here I am!' to Torchwood, though

my thoughts exactly.

[owl]

I like the iDalek :)

[parma-violets.livejournal.com]

With regards to Torchwood, I really think he doesn't know how much of a threat they might be to him yet. The only times they've been mentioned in his presence came in an off-hand reference at the party in 'Rise of the Cybermen', and at the end of 'The Christmas Invasion'. Where, admittedly, they were pretty nasty, but the Doctor had no reason to suspect he might be a target, or that Torchwood was anything other than a particularly high-tech missile defence system.

(This is what you get for voting Gordon Brown in, people of Future Earth!)

[owl]

Ah, good point. He doesn't know that Queen Victoria set it up because of him and Rose.