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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.

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[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.