The Stolen Earth

[owl]

Can it be next week already? Tomorrow?



Daleks again. Heigh-ho. That got old two years ago, Rusty.

We saw the Medusa Cascade and the Shadow Proclamation. That wasn't what I was expecting the Medusa Cascade to be at all.

How come the TARDIS didn't translate the Judoon language? I think they just wanted DT to have fun speaking it.

Scary weird women with lambs-wool hair and pink eyelids. Albino lambs!

I did not like the sound of that loss that Donna has still to come AT ALL. And it looks like we haven't actually hear the last of 'there's something on your back' either.

Yay, the bees are key, and Donna gave the Doctor the clue!

I'll just say, I like the new version of Rose. She's grown up. And her voice doesn't annoy me greatly.

I liked Companionpalooza, the way it kept intercutting between the three teams. And all their reactions when EXTERMINATE EXTERMINATE started broadcasting.

Loved Luke phoning the other kids, and Gwen phoning Rhys, and the mention of Tosh and Owen. *tears*

Ugh, American UNIT is annoying with that 'power vested in UNIT' stuff.

Noes, Martha is atoms!

YAY Grandad! Going for the Daleks with paint guns! And it was so smart to go for the vulnerability, shame they can steam it off. They're really going for the Dunkirk spirit thing with Grandad, aren't they?

Harriet Jones, former Prime Minister! I love that even the Daleks went along with the running gag 'we know who you are'.

Martha lives! I notice that she went back home to Mum rather than to the convenient fiancé.

I did feel a bit sorry for Rose whenever everyone else was talking and she couldn't get through, but my sympathy would have been greater if she hadn't been yapping about it.

So when they said visible, they meant 'made visible by craptastic special effect'. Mobile phones don't work like that, Team Cardiff! Oh, wait, why am I trying to apply physics to Doctor Who?

Oh noes! Harriet! No! I do note, however, that her transmission just cut out; we didn't actually see her death.

OH HAI THAR Davros.

I like Dalek Caan being a total fruitloop. He's funny.

Oh noes Gwen and Ianto! Oh noes Sarah-Jane!

As Rose and the Doctor were doing their great Romantic Run of Reunion elerrina_amanya said to me, "She's going to die, isn't she?" I went, "Yup!" and then the Dalek popped up going "EXTERMINATE!"

Well. That was unexpected. If DT had really been leaving I thought it would have been spoiled every which way to Sunday, on the internet if not by the surprisingly-accurate-of-late Sun. But he's glowing and everything, what's going on?

Oh, stop crying, Rose, he'll still be the Doctor no matter what.

I had the impression that Donna had been told about regeneration? Am I crazy?

You know, this episode didn't actually explain how Rose was travelling between universes, did it? I suppose that's for next week.

IS THIS REALLY THE END OF TEN? I though DT was back for the specials for definite, and I was nearly sure he was in s5 as well.

Comments

[crazy-vasey.livejournal.com]

All I have to say about the extermination is that I'll be VERY disappointed if the regeneration is a cheap trick. It was one HELL of a surprise to sneak in with the way everything else gets spoiled and seeing the tabloids get caught cold would make me happy.

Anyway, the episode was much better than I expected it to be. Davros coming back sounded like a very bad idea to me - he should have stayed dead in Genesis as far as I'm concerned - but it's all working out well enough so far.

[owl]

Davros has been the best he's been since Genesis--as you say, so far.

[awehla.livejournal.com]

It would be amazing if the press didn't know about the regeneration and it was a new Doctor, I would be really surprised at that.

Lisa
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[mad265.livejournal.com]

When the Doctor and Rose were doing the run down the street thing, I thought she was gonna shoot him by accident. She was kinda pointing her gun at him, and yeah...

[attolia.livejournal.com]

I was hoping Jack would teleport right between them and interrupt their reunion with one of his own.

[tlttlotd.livejournal.com]

So did I.

[owl]

LOL! He would too!

[missedith17.livejournal.com]

When Rose & Ten were running to each other I actually thought that right as they were about to connect Jack would teleport right between them. I didn't expect a Dalek at all.

[owl]

No, I was expecting SURPRIZE DALEK

[awehla.livejournal.com]

My boyfriend was wishing for a Dalek to come out and shoot Rose, lol. He thought the Doctor and Rose were running for a ridiculous length of time but on Confidential you see it is a bigger distance than on screen.

Lisa
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[white_hart]

Rose talked to someone about 'needing another shift', which made me think she was using something like the Ghost Machine from 'Doomsday'.

[owl]

Ooh, good catch!

[awehla.livejournal.com]

I think the Doctor will regenerate back to his body he has now, like it won't be a proper regeration. I think either Donna will do something or it will be because the Tardis isn't in the real universe but in that pocket of time and so it effects his regeneration somehow.

Lisa
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[owl]

You're probably right.

[alex17492.livejournal.com]

well you may think he is regenerating and in fact he is but into who somone from the past mabey if u catch my drift. oh and dalek caan somhow broke the timelock which would cause a time to mess up so i think that the doctor will have to reverse time back to when he was tennant a bit like last years finale so in the end everythig will work out and rose will get her precious 10th doctor back oh i also know that 3 actors have been hired to play the doctor in "a journeys end" this includes tennant so 2 other doctors will be appearing. so basically no its not the end of ten as he is signed up to be in doctor who until 2010 at least and even after that he might decide to stay longer whcih is always good because tennant is by far the greatest doctor ever. oh and how can he stay regenerated he hasnt met up with river song again yet come on people think logically you all have no common sense if you didnt notic that.

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he hasnt met up with river song again yet come on people think logically you all have no common sense if you didnt notic that.

They would handwave that with 'wibbly wobbly timey wimey' if they felt like it.

[awehla.livejournal.com]

You are right they could do a "timey wimey" so we don't know what will happen logic or not till Saturday.

Lisa
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[tlttlotd.livejournal.com]

Can it be next week already? Tomorrow?Can it be next week already? Tomorrow?

Yeah. Just a bit. I've half a mind to write a sorta-fic about using a TARDIS to jump ahead to next Saturday to watch it, but I don't think I could make it not suck.

We saw the Medusa Cascade and the Shadow Proclamation. That wasn't what I was expecting the Medusa Cascade to be at all.

I was surprised by the Shadow Proclamation (I was expecting something like a league of all the worlds that survived the Time War issuing a set of edicts or laws and not an actual place and people). Somehow that didn't work for me. That was sort of what I thought the 'Cascade would look like, though - it always seemed to me to be a phenomenon, especially after the Master spoke of the Doctor closing it.

Scary weird women with lambs-wool hair and pink eyelids. Albino lambs!

Those contacts are really comfortable. I have a pair for a costume. I might buy another pair when my prescription changes.

Going for the Daleks with paint guns!

Very Cybergeneration; I had to laugh at that one.

I did feel a bit sorry for Rose whenever everyone else was talking and she couldn't get through, but my sympathy would have been greater if she hadn't been yapping about it.

I felt sorry for her, too. I was afraid that she'd do the whole "I'll kill myself saving the Doctor so that people will know I was in the thick of things, too!" bit, and I'm glad that I was wrong. Then again, there's one more episode left.

So when they said visible, they meant 'made visible by craptastic special effect'. Mobile phones don't work like that, Team Cardiff! Oh, wait, why am I trying to apply physics to Doctor Who?

While watching that, I couldn't help but think of the movie The Lawnmower Man. Still, trying to place a call through the Time Rift (tm) and stuff I can live with.

I like Dalek Caan being a total fruitloop. He's funny.

Scary psycho oracle. Uh-oh. Never good.

Well. That was unexpected. If DT had really been leaving I thought it would have been spoiled every which way to Sunday, on the internet if not by the surprisingly-accurate-of-late Sun. But he's glowing and everything, what's going on?

I don't recall exactly where, but I think I saw a screenshot of the tank tied to the TARDIS' console without the Doctor's severed hand suspended in it. Maybe I'm on crack...

I had the impression that Donna had been told about regeneration? Am I crazy?

To the best of my knowledge, no, she wasn't.

You know, this episode didn't actually explain how Rose was travelling between universes, did it? I suppose that's for next week.

I wonder if she wasn't using the dimensional travel gear in her particular universe to bounce back and forth, given that the Daleks were doing some hardcore messing around with Time on a massive scale (a volume of space big enough for 27 planets to orbit in equilibrium). Maybe moving the whole Medusa Cascade one second forward in time was enough to allow cross-universal travel again.

IS THIS REALLY THE END OF TEN? I though DT was back for the specials for definite, and I was nearly sure he was in s5 as well.

I really hope not. I thought the same thing.