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[doyle]

The writers read my mind. I have an unfinished Mickey fic on my hard drive where Rose never came back, and he keeps getting arrested, and Jackie is convinced he killed her daughter, and he takes over the website from Clive... I have a feeling I'm in a very small minority, but I love Mickey. I love the idea of someone finding out about the Doctor and aliens and time travel and all of it and then not getting to go along as a companion, having to figure it out on their own. I wonder how much he found out about Rose in his research? Because he must have been looking for her. So he now knows what's in store for The Doctor and Rose. Hmm.

Speaking of time travel, I geeked out over the idea of Rose accidentally coming back a year later instead of a day. They didn't really address why she simply couldn't get back in the Tardis and try again, but I'm guessing that's why the Doctor ran after her, to try and grab her before she interacted with anyone? Once she talks to her mum then she's been missing for a year and that's it, part of her timeline, and she can't go back and change her own history... I'm probably totally wrong about this, mind you, being a clueless n00b with very little idea of how temporal mechanics are supposed to work in this universe, but I like it because it lets me happily squee over collapsing quantum states and Schrodinger's cat and trees falling in forests without making sounds.

The ongoing arcs: 'Big Bad Wolf' graffitied on the side of the Tardis. That's the third mention in as many episodes (and it was possibly referenced in Rose as well and I missed it). And a little pig in the UFO, which is sort of a house being blown down, possibly. No mention of the Time War that I can remember, unless I didn't pick up on it.

KURT! If anyone doesn't know, the guy in Downing Street - was he head of MI5? Minister of Information? The serious-looking one in the rather nice pink and purple tie, anyway - was the lovely Navin Chowdry, who played Kurt in Teachers. I'd speculate this is Kurt in witness protection, except this character's IQ was clearly about twenty times higher than his.

I loved Harriet Jones, MP. She would be an excellent companion, but she's far too lovely to leave her sick mum and her constituents. I bet she becomes PM, if she doesn't get eaten and used as a Slitheen suit.

"My frankly magnificent timeship". Doctor/Tardis OTP!

I'm in two minds about the Slitheens (or rather, the makeup). I actually liked the slight naffness of the opening-head-blue-light effect. And the zips! It did seem to take them a long time to struggle out of the human suits, though, while people just stood and watched. And the kiddy eyes make them creepily Tellytubbyish. Maybe that was the point.

Next week: more aliens! Doctor/Rose subtext! (presumably. I think it's a safe guess.) Harriet Jones PM! (If there's any justice in the world)


ETA: was I hallucinating or was that Coronation Street's Gail Platt on the Doctor Who Confidential as a past companion? *boggle*
ETA2: Some googling and a trip to imdb later, I have discovered she played Mary Ashe in Colony in Space. Wonder if we have that on DVD.

Comments

[maryavatar.livejournal.com]

The Spawn sat around killing themselves laughing at the farting, while I really enjoyed everything else. Weird ep though. It skirted the line between humourous and cheesy pretty closely.

[that_mireille]

I love the idea of someone finding out about the Doctor and aliens and time travel and all of it and then not getting to go along as a companion, having to figure it out on their own.

I love that part. I just don't like Mickey, for some reason. I really ought to like him, because I *do* think that's cool--and I did love the fact that Rose was considered a missing person, and her mother was so angry at the Doctor, etc. I think it's his personality that grates on me, since I disliked him since the beginning of "Rose."

[gamiila.livejournal.com]

I have an unfinished Mickey fic on my hard drive where Rose never came back, and he keeps getting arrested, and Jackie is convinced he killed her daughter, and he takes over the website from Clive... (..) I love the idea of someone finding out about the Doctor and aliens and time travel and all of it and then not getting to go along as a companion, having to figure it out on their own.

If you can finish that, I'd be very interested in reading it. Personally, I didn't really care about Ricky Mickey, until he mentioned the problems he'd been having with the police, the neighbours and Rose's mum, all on account of them thinking he'd murdered her. Though I'll be shipping The Doctor and Rose till the cows come home, I do believe Mickey's story needs to be told, and who better than you to do the telling?

[rheanna27.livejournal.com]

Harriet Jones PM! (If there's any justice in the world)

I'd vote for her. You just know the cottage hospitals would be sorted out.

Harriet Jones: Tough on alien invasions, tough on the causes of alien invasions.

[nostalgia-lj.livejournal.com]

being a clueless n00b with very little idea of how temporal mechanics are supposed to work in this universe

It... kinda doesn't. You have to pretend not to notice when it does that sort of thing. *gives you some blinkers*

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

This is a relief, as it's been driving me crazy wondering "but... but... if the Doctor knows all about Dickens' time and the year 5 billion, why doesn't he know that first contact with aliens happens in 2006?"

[kowarth.livejournal.com]

mickey's website (www.whoisdoctorwho.co.uk)

the personal timeline stuff is all in keeping with the way time works in who, and its the reason the dr cant go back n save gallifrey.

Colony in Space was released on video in a special 'Master" tin box set. it dai sell well cos its a bit dull tbh. you can probly find copies skulling about still. no official dvd relese yet planned

[paratti.livejournal.com]

I really want to read your fic.

It was definitely Our Gail - which was most odd. Though I think she was talking to a companion and not one herself.

Harriet is a great MP. I'd leaflet for her any day.

[lasultrix.livejournal.com]

Yeah, he definitely said he was head of MI5.

[captainlucy.livejournal.com]

Yup, I really liked this episode.
Firstly, you have Rose's return to her family on Earth (which is something we haven't seen with any of the other companions - when & where was Sarah Jane Smith returned, for example?) It was great to have the interaction between the Doctor and Rose's mum ("I've never been slapped by anone's mum before, it really hurt!"), and, like you said, once she made contact with her Mother that was her cemented into the timestream. Though I'm still wondering about the phonecall Rose made to her mum in "End of the World" - was this her mum before or after she left with the Doctor, and if after, how long after?
Secondly, there was Mickey. It was great that he kept up where Clive left off - I hope to see a lot more of that! But again, he was still a gormless idiot! A little bit of intelligence would be nice!
Thirdly, I liked the idea of the alien crash and the body being a red-herring, while the real invasion was taking place behind closed doors in the carpeted corridors of Whitehall and No. 10. The lure was totally believable, and with experts from U.N.I.T. being there (at last! U.N.I.T. being shown in a Political/Intelligence gathering light as opposed to cannon fodder!) it made for a believably authentic threat.
Fourthly, I loved the fact that they had an automated system listening out for key-words, such as "Doctor", "Blue Box" and "TARDIS". Makes sense to me. :D

About the Slitheen - perhaps the blue light has some mildly hypnotic effect on humans? Would explain the sluggish reactions, and the reason why the UNIT personnel didn't just leap up and shout for firepower.
Only problem I have (and I think damien_mocata shares this thought) is just how the hell did something the size of a Slitheen (7ft tall, arms like tree-trunks) get inside a mere Human body? The one inside Margaret Blaine (Annette Badland's character, the MI5 chief) seemed extremely strong, lifting Indra Ganesh (Navin Chowdhry's character) with one hand, but do the Slitheen have any other abilities other than physical strength? Are they uber-intelligent? Are they immune to normal bullets? Do they have extremely advanced technology, or is it just a little ahead of our own? I suppose most of this will be answered next week. :D

Size and compression

[h0pal0ng.livejournal.com]

--Only problem I have (and I think damien_mocata shares this thought) is
-- just how the hell did something the size of a Slitheen (7ft tall, arms
-- like tree-trunks) get inside a mere Human body?

there's a line talking about "compression" in the man-suits. I think this compression is also the cause of the farting.

[abby-i.livejournal.com]

I have a feeling I'm in a very small minority, but I love Mickey.
I love him too. He's kinda clueless in some ways, but he's just a fun character even my shipper heart cannot dislike him.

I'm probably totally wrong about this, mind you, being a clueless n00b with very little idea of how temporal mechanics are supposed to work in this universe.
I figured the same thing, that if they want back after she'd met her it'd spin off into an alternate timeline or something. I really need to brush up on my Doctor Who info. lol

[beccaelizabeth]

Doctor/Tardis OTP!
4eva!


and *nods* about the Rose timeline thing.