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[jadesfire]

Very quick reaction, since I should be finishing Part 1 of my SGA Big Bang...



I wasn't entirely looking forward to having Rose back, but they did 2 things that made me happy. One was to have her be different. This was still Rose, but it was grown up Rose, mature Rose, Rose who hasn't forgotten the Doctor, but has moved on. I like that. The second was to have her be the supporting character. This was Donna's show, and that felt right.

In fact, all the supporting characters did a great job in this. Bernard Cribbins was fantastic, managing to be both the dotty old man and the wise voice all at once. The scene where they were taking the family off to the labour camps was incredibly chilling. While we were watching the Confidential, the OH asked me what we were supposed to think of Donna's mum, and I'm not really sure, except that seeing her in close up, completely unresponsive, while Donna was fuzzy in the background was so incredibly effective.

I love the idea that Donna is more than she seems. Martha and Rose became more, thanks to travelling with the Doctor, and Donna has grown too, but there's something sort of satisfying about the idea that someone else on the show besides the Doctor is special. I'm a sucker for over-arching story lines, and I want all the threads to tie up properly. I want to know why Donna, I want to know where the planets have gone, I want to know what the Medusa Cascade is. But most of all?

Where are the damn bees???

Okay, may have to reconsider priorities at this point...

Anyway, overall I loved it. I loved the film 'Sliding Doors', I love alternate reality, fork in the road type-stuff. This pretty much pushed every button I have and didn't let me down. There were flaws, but I'm riding the wave of squee right now - no one push me off, 'kay thanks?

Oh, and next week's trailer!
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I have to be honest and say that my brain pretty much shorted out when I saw Torchwood in there. *checks* Nope, nothing coherent yet.

And smithy161, there is no way I am considering writing the "what happened to Jack on the Sontaran homeworld" fic. NO WAY. Uh uh.

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Damnit.

Comments

[smithy161.livejournal.com]

Of course you're not!I believe you *nods*

I'm wondering about the bees too... Maybe Daleks eat bees?

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

:P Thank you so much for that...because my brain isn't full enough already...

*g* I guess anything's possible. Or maybe they're like dogs who can smell storms coming, and they've just sort of taken themselves off. very clever, bees.

[smithy161.livejournal.com]

Sorry :0p I'm toying with the idea myself. It'd be interesting to see how differently we write the same idea - if either of us even does.

Could be the bees fleeing the world like rats off a sinking ship. Shame, really. I like bees.

[dyddgu.livejournal.com]

*is proud* :-D

[miss-zedem.livejournal.com]

It's the dolphins again!

(this makes no sense to anyone who isn't a HHG2G fan)

Ahem.

*butts back out*

[miss-zedem.livejournal.com]

I loved it. After last week's my hopes were pretty low, and I have to say, my heart sank a bit when I saw Rusty's name on the credits (yes, I was that unspoiled!).

But Donna was fab. The labour camps thing choked me up a bit, and I was flailing all over the place as various plots from previous episodes cropped up. And the Bad Wolf thing made me flap.

The bit I got most excited about though, was the parade of shops in Cyncoed. My friends who I stayed with over the summer were texting me going 'those are our shops!'.

It's possible we all need to get out more... :)

[thalia]

I'm still completely incoherent from the ep. But, yeah, I saw Jack in the trailer and my brain completely short-circuited.

This is going to be the longest week ever.

[badwolf36.livejournal.com]

RTD, you tricksy bugger. You said that Torchwood would never show up on Doctor Who. But Torchwood and the Sarah Jane Adventures. God bless you and my little squeeing heart. I was bouncing on my bed for like the last five minutes of the episode, clapping my hands and giggling (grateful no one saw me).

As for your comments, I agree on Rose. It was nice to see her mature and yet with a little touch of the Rose we knew (such as her laughing over saying something the Doctor would have, even at such a tenuous moment).

God, the labor camps bit. He was amazing wasn't he? You just saw his eyes and *knew* instantly.

Gah, brain full. Dead of squee! Grateful to have others in the same position. :)

[aeron-lanart.livejournal.com]

I am joining in with the squee and it is good. Even when I should be in bed asleep (I'm on nights). I am happier now I've found out that Doctor Who is repeated on Sundays usually as the timing of next weeks means I wouldn't be able to watch it before going to work. Ack.

[aeron-lanart.livejournal.com]

Like me. Squee. Again.

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

I'd been cautiously looking forward to it until I saw RTD's name too, and that was probably why I enjoyed it so much - I wasn't expecting to!

Hee. Getting out more could work. Then you'd recognise more locations...

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

*g* Longest EVER! Just...still nothing coherent, just a world of squee :)

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

Heh. He likes wrong-footing people. Like you, I was seriously over-excited by the trailer, possibly more than the episode.

The whole thing was just pitch-perfect. Such a treat!

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

Repeats are very, very useful. As is the BBC iPlayer - I finally caught up on "Forest of the Dead" yesterday, which gave me a Donna overdose, but I'm happy that way. :)

Glad you have the squee too!

[joanna-may.livejournal.com]

I'm reserving judgement on Rose until she meets the Doctor. She was fairly good in this episode (apart from the fact that her tongue seemed too big for her mouth?), but I don't trusst RTD not to make her stupid again when she meets the Doctor.

And the BEES! I want to know where they've all gone! It's puzzling me more than most of the mysteries in the series.

I agree with the Donna love. At times, she's a bit Catherine Tate Shouting Is Funny-esque, but then she does the emotional scenes so well. :)