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After liking Father's Day less than everyone else seemed to, I loved this week's episode. Although, argh, there are little children playing outside our house going "Mummy? Are you my mummy?" and that's going to be scary as hell once it gets dark.

Loved the title. Nice allusion to An Empty Child.

I knew Richard Wilson was going to be playing a doctor, but when Nancy said "you need to talk to the doctor"... for a second, just a second, I thought they'd have a Sylvester McCoy cameo (Nancy struck me as a bit Ace-like, I can see Seven helping her out). Which would have been the Best Thing in the Whole of Ever Ever Ever. I loved the look on the Doctor's face; he did seem to be searching his memory, wondering if he'd been through this before and maybe noticed a strange Northerner in a leather jacket mooching around the place.

The Empty Child itself was very creepy. I called it being Nancy's brother when the Doctor opened the door and found him gone - made sense that he was following her, and she was already gone. And the Doctor feeling sorry for it, trying to let it in after Nancy warned him - very like Rose and the Dalek, I thought.

If Nancy doesn't die, I can see her being a companion next year, when Rose leaves. I wondered if she has some kind of power; she mentioned being able to avoid people following her. My choice, of course, would be Harriet Jones MP Flydale North, but RTD doesn't love me enough.

I may be alone in this, but I really like Jack in all his flash arrogant Han Solo/Ace Rimmer-ness. Very nice how they worked in his bisexuality from his first scene, as well, and it not being a big deal. (He was so shagging the army-guy whose arse he admired. He was.) Loved him and Rose dancing to Glenn Miller, on top of an invisible spaceship, in front of Big Ben, in the middle of an air raid. (I can just imagine Rose describing this to the Doctor. "It was so romantic! You've never done anything like that." "I took you for chips!")

Rose flying away on a blimp was too ludicrous and possibly more unintentionally funny than not, but it made me laugh for about ten minutes, so it's all good.

Are they just back from the 80s? (Well, yes, but aside from Father's Day) Rose's t-shirt is dodgy.

"Finally, a professional." SNERK. And Rose introducing the Doctor as "Mr. Spock". First time we've heard him call himself John Smith this series, right?

Ah, confirmation of what I've been wondering about the Doctor's age - namely, that Seven was about 950, so how can Nine be 900 - '900 years in a telephone box'. So it's 900 years since he and Susan came to Earth, and who knows how old he was then.

"Before the war, I was a father and a grandfather. Now I'm not either. But I'm still a doctor."
"Know the feeling."
Second reference to his family in as many weeks, isn't it? I wondered if he was being metaphorical or if that's confirmation that Susan somehow died in the Time War as well.


I probably have more thoughts, but I need to sleep and revise condensed matter (exam on Tuesday for which I know nothing) and mebbe write up the silly action piece I'm doing for the Buffy/Giles ficathon. I miss fic-writing.

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[lasultrix.livejournal.com]

But you're missing out on one of the great joys of life: imitating and mocking your social inferiors!

[marymac.livejournal.com]

I can do the accent, I can't do the right volume. It must take years of training or something...