Doomsday

[owl]

Sooo good.

I loved Rose and Mickey when they were trapped by the Daleks—how Rose told them about the Emperor and Bad Wolf, and Mickey—'it's Stephen Hawking meets the speaking clock!' (which is which?)

Poor Raj. They sucked his brain off, and I liked him! He played Sudoku!

Five million Cybermen, four Daleks, one Doctor. Yup, that seems pretty even. I loved the Doctor's manicness, and the way he walked into the room with the Daleks as cool as you please. But you could see, when he was listening to the great Daleks Rule, Cybermen Drool debate (really, it was exactly like Usenet!), that there was 'eeep, Daleks!' going on inside. Pretty good acting by DT in a pair of silly-looking 3D glasses. And there was a point to them! He must have been onto the parallel universe right from the Ghostbusters bit.

I loved Pete and Jackie, the way she sneaked out while the Cybermen were upgrading to Cyberleader, and ran ran ran away. She's pretty good as a companion, actually.

And Yvonne with her true-blue British stiff upper lip, although I'm not sure how she got to have a different cybervoice. She got her clobbering for hubris, and she still got to be heroic.

So Harriet Jones is having a Golden age in the other universe, as long as half of Britain isn't under water by this time. A niggle: If it's been three years for Mickey and Pete, was it three years for Jackie too, or have the universes gone out of synch?

Could they not have had a few more extras as Threatened Joe and Jane Bloggs' Families, or had they blown the budget on all those flying Daleks? I loved the visual of all the Daleks and Cybermen being sucked back into the void, although I should have thought they would have broken a few more windows of the tower.

The science was a bit burny; evidently the Doctor can close rips in time with the power of his Time Lordiness. Or was he using Torchwood's equipment?

And the moral of this series is: do not piss off the Queen. She will found an organisation which almost destroy two universes and separate you from your clingy companion. Toechwood, and the Doctor and Rose, got punished for arrogance (I can't keep on typing hubris). So I suppose Tooth and Claw had to be that embarrassing after all.

I notice that he didn't seem the least bit tempted to let go and follow Rose to Pete's world. No TARDIS, and a mortgage. Rose isn't worth it! Kudos to whoever called it that Rose would go to work for alt!Torchwood. She is going to have her fantastic life, yes she will.

Her mascara ran this week! Is that a first? It was so sad when they were standing on opposite sides of the barrier with their palms up against it. The bit at Bad Wolf Fjord (is there a real one?) was even worse. There was just enough normal Doctor/Rose-ness—him turning up his volume, his complete bogglement at the thought of Baby Tyler being Rose's—to make it hard to believe that it was the Last Time Ever. And he didn't say it in time! 'Quite a lot, I think'—that's nearly as bad as Han Solo, idiot Doctor. And poor emo Time Lord all alone in Torchwood, and then crying in the TARDIS. I don't remember Nine crying ever.


Mind you, the Magic Reset Button has probably just operated in the shape of Miss Havisham dropping randomly into the TARDIS. Wasn't Runaway Bride a rather blah film with Julia Roberts and Richard Gere trying to do another Pretty Woman?

Why is it so long until Christmas? I miss my Saturday night fix already! Last time to tag this 'series #2', last time to use a relevant Rose icon....*sniff*

Comments

[tmpe5t.livejournal.com]

Wasn't it 'Quite right too"? Which is funny, and probably the sort of thing i would say*. But then i am possibly a git. Still can't understand why Yvonne just walked into the CYber-anglegrinder-upgrader thing. A bit of struggling and she probably would have been running down the stairs too...

My theory on alt.torchwood: Queen Vic is killed in Mysterious Circumstances in Scotland; an institute is founded at the place of her death to discover how and why...

*If i was 900 year old timelord with an ego the size of the inside of the Tardis...

[tavella.livejournal.com]

I suspect the repeating of 'I did my duty' was her doing psychic-training stuff to prepare to override, or try to, the programming.

Or maybe just trying to die with dignity, but it sounded like a mantra.

[tmpe5t.livejournal.com]

YEah, i thought both of those... She seemd to know about Cybermen, maybe the 'PSychic training' kicked in a bit.

I'm never sure about dying with dignity. I like the idea, but not as much as not dying in an undignified scramble, if you see what i mean... :_D

[tavella.livejournal.com]

I'm never sure about dying with dignity. I like the idea, but not as much as not dying in an undignified scramble, if you see what i mean...

Indeed so. I would have been kicking cyberman shin all the way. And I loved Jackie buggering off. Good survival instincts, key to surviving as a companion's relative!

[owl]

Yes, go Jackie!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad you mentioned Raj - I liked him a lot, and was sorry to see him go. Fiendish Daleks!

I think it was three years for everyone.

I should have thought they would have broken a few more windows of the tower.

I wondered why they didn't. Why take the time for all those Daleks to go to the one spot when they could have just crashed through the windows? Ah, well, put it down to their hive mind.

And the moral of this series is: do not piss off the Queen.

Should you just happen to run into Queen Victoria. And don't make bets about her being amused, either.

So I suppose Tooth and Claw had to be that embarrassing after all.

See? There was a reason for it all, after all. (Though I was not embarrassed, just amused.)

I don't remember Nine crying ever.

No? Hmm, there's an excuse to watch the whole season again. I think he did cry, but I can't prove it with my bad memory.

[tavella.livejournal.com]

I think it was three years for everyone.

Hmm. I'd like that, just because I'd like to think of Rose having a longer time with the Doctor.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I like that thought. I think it's ambiguous in the show, though.

[owl]

Well, he could just have come back to the wrong year again.

[selenak.livejournal.com]

Nine cried in his second episode, The End of the World, I'll have you know. When Sabe (tree lady) asked him about his people.*g*

[owl]

Ah, I believe someone was trying to watch something else on Channel 4 at the time 'Let's go back to Doctor Who now!'

[elerrina-amanya.livejournal.com]

Wasn't it "Quite right, too?"
And what did I tell you...I've been saying for days that she wouldn't die :P
And yes, just how did Catherine Tate fetch up in a wedding dress in the Tardis? Has she been in a previous episode? I seem to recall reading somewhere that she had. Loved the Doctor's "What? What? What?!? What?!?"

[alysscarlet.livejournal.com]

You've come up with some good points - especially the 'three-year' gap between the universes.

But he didn't say "Quite a lot, I think", he said "Quite right, too", with a delicious emotional hitch in his voice....

[owl]

Poor Doctor...they're doing it on purpose! They're appealling to our comforting instincts, bother them!