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doyleIs it March yet? I needs the new series of Doctor Who. I needs it.
- Oh God, Harriet. I had read The Independent's article which spoiled the ending but it hadn't registered and in the last five minutes I was thinking 'but they got it wrong, she didn't launch the missile' and then she gave Torchwood the go-ahead and... *weeps* And the Doctor ruining her career (? Does he? Because history says she served three terms, according to Aliens of London...), coming so close after her 'my Doctor', made me bawl.
- I did wonder if they went to all the trouble of making those big UNIT HQ sets just for one episode. Hmm.
- Ten! TenTenTenTenTen! Who knows the lyrics to Circle of Life and has glasses (I had a moment of Five-squee; his wardrobe does seem to be a darker Five) and who MET ARTHUR DENT. I knew I'd love Ten - I've loved every one of them so far, and I will glare hard in the general direction of those who hate on Six or Seven - but I'm delighted to love him this much.
- Aw, Mickey. I already liked Mickey, but this was the first time I really liked Jackie, and I adored the four-way hug at the end. And I could really go for some Ten/Mickey. Or Ten/Jackie. Or Mickey/Jackie. Or Harriet/anyone.
- Speaking of Harriet/anyone, her hug with Rose and calling her a precious thing: RTD, this femslasher sincerely thanks you.
- I got accidentally spoiled yesterday for the Luke Skywalker moment, but it still made me gasp. Is that new canon, the 15 hour regeneration gap? Neatly explains how Romana was able to change her bodies. Possibly.
- Aww, Ten turning up for Christmas dinner and wearing a paper hat. Not something I can imagine Nine doing.
- I loved, loved, loved the TARDIS not translating the language because she just isn't working properly while the Doctor's so ill, and I had my fingers crossed the whole episode for the language to suddenly turn into English and it did and I squeed. (And during our hour-long dissection over the phone after the episode,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
connorbeast said 'but that means as soon as the TARDIS left Troy in The Myth Makers... god, poor Vicki.' Which is what I've had kicking around in my head about that episode for ages. Vindication!)
- Sarah-Jane's not one of my favourite old-school companions since her era's still one I haven't seen a lot of, but it was amazing seeing her in the trailer (may I say, she's still quite a babe). And K9! And ASH! School Reunion will just be an acronym fest. I wonder which episode has Rose jumping the Doctor, as well...
Anyway, if any of you need me, I'll be in my shed building a time machine to take me to March. (Actually I'll be in my bedroom hoarding old school videos, Big Finish audios and the PDAs/EDAs and chanting 'it's okay, I can get my canon fix from these!' Who fandom, what have you done to me?)
- Oh God, Harriet. I had read The Independent's article which spoiled the ending but it hadn't registered and in the last five minutes I was thinking 'but they got it wrong, she didn't launch the missile' and then she gave Torchwood the go-ahead and... *weeps* And the Doctor ruining her career (? Does he? Because history says she served three terms, according to Aliens of London...), coming so close after her 'my Doctor', made me bawl.
- I did wonder if they went to all the trouble of making those big UNIT HQ sets just for one episode. Hmm.
- Ten! TenTenTenTenTen! Who knows the lyrics to Circle of Life and has glasses (I had a moment of Five-squee; his wardrobe does seem to be a darker Five) and who MET ARTHUR DENT. I knew I'd love Ten - I've loved every one of them so far, and I will glare hard in the general direction of those who hate on Six or Seven - but I'm delighted to love him this much.
- Aw, Mickey. I already liked Mickey, but this was the first time I really liked Jackie, and I adored the four-way hug at the end. And I could really go for some Ten/Mickey. Or Ten/Jackie. Or Mickey/Jackie. Or Harriet/anyone.
- Speaking of Harriet/anyone, her hug with Rose and calling her a precious thing: RTD, this femslasher sincerely thanks you.
- I got accidentally spoiled yesterday for the Luke Skywalker moment, but it still made me gasp. Is that new canon, the 15 hour regeneration gap? Neatly explains how Romana was able to change her bodies. Possibly.
- Aww, Ten turning up for Christmas dinner and wearing a paper hat. Not something I can imagine Nine doing.
- I loved, loved, loved the TARDIS not translating the language because she just isn't working properly while the Doctor's so ill, and I had my fingers crossed the whole episode for the language to suddenly turn into English and it did and I squeed. (And during our hour-long dissection over the phone after the episode,
connorbeast said 'but that means as soon as the TARDIS left Troy in The Myth Makers... god, poor Vicki.' Which is what I've had kicking around in my head about that episode for ages. Vindication!)- Sarah-Jane's not one of my favourite old-school companions since her era's still one I haven't seen a lot of, but it was amazing seeing her in the trailer (may I say, she's still quite a babe). And K9! And ASH! School Reunion will just be an acronym fest. I wonder which episode has Rose jumping the Doctor, as well...
Anyway, if any of you need me, I'll be in my shed building a time machine to take me to March. (Actually I'll be in my bedroom hoarding old school videos, Big Finish audios and the PDAs/EDAs and chanting 'it's okay, I can get my canon fix from these!' Who fandom, what have you done to me?)
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on 2005-12-25 09:26 pm (UTC)Omg that bit where Jackie's laying asleep across a bit of the bed and Rose comes in and she's like "OMG I can't believe he'd do this!" I did go "What, shag your mother?"
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on 2005-12-25 09:30 pm (UTC)And go you on making the Romana-regeneration link - that's totally not something I would have thought of.
What happened in the Myth Makers?
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on 2005-12-25 09:33 pm (UTC)What happened? Remember, across-the-pond challenged here!!!
Pouting as I type - like seriously.
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on 2005-12-25 10:08 pm (UTC)Ten should take Mickey aside next time they come home and Rose is spending time with her mum, and go have tea with him in a cafe. Perhaps by the sea somehow. And tell him about alien planets, and show him pictures, and tell him to ignore Rose (slightly) and her blonde, blonde hair. And then walk him back to his apartment, and have casual/awkward chats with him. And sex. And take him off in secret to see alien planets where lives are not in danger. And hold his hand. Maybe.
Harriet Jones/'her right hand man' = background!OTP
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on 2005-12-26 02:48 am (UTC)[scurries off to make a 'No Second Chances' icon]
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on 2005-12-26 08:26 am (UTC)Maybe that way, if a Time Lord is too appalled with his or her new appearance, he/she can make a few last-minute alterations! :-)
(And yeah, I do hope Vicki wasn't left translation-less after The Myth Makers!)
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on 2005-12-26 10:15 pm (UTC)*weeps with you*
I hated that bit, especially after the lovely bit when she told Dubya (would it still be Dubya at that point?) to go to hell. It sort of spoiled the ep. for me, a bit.
But the bit with the Doctor saying he could bring her down with six words, and then going and whispering to the aide—so much like Nine, didn't you think? I love this new Doctor already. Cunning of RTD to have him all sick and vulnerable and cuddly and disarming in this first one, wasn't it?
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on 2005-12-27 02:25 am (UTC)Is she local? :D
Aw, Mickey. I already liked Mickey, but this was the first time I really liked Jackie, and I adored the four-way hug at the end.
Did you hear the radio programme last Thursday where Camille Cordury said basically that Jackie had fancied the Doctor from the first time she wsaw him ("There's a strange man in my bedroom"), and that's one of the reasons she's so pissed off with him, coz he took her daughter instead of her. :D
And I have to say, the teaser trailer at the end did sort of leave me saying "I'm going to sleep now, wake me up when March begins!" :D Just David's cry of pure joy at seeing K9! Just like a little boy seeing his favourite pet dog after it's come out of quarantine! Awwww, bless! ;D
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on 2005-12-27 03:30 am (UTC)And now I want angsty Ten/Jack (because I missed Jack) where Jack was in charge of Torchwood, and Ten comes to shout at him and discovers it's him, and Jack doesn't know and Ten may, possibly, be using his old UNIT alias for reasons I don't quite know at the moment. (Of course, I also have a gen thing in my head where Ten goes to visit a quite elderly Brigadier, too. And I am about a billion years behind on *everything* so perhaps I should shut up now.)
Sarah Jane was the first companion I really remember--I saw The Five Doctors first, but it's all a bit overwhelming, and then they started with whatever's right after Robot (they skipped the regeneration story first time through), and so seeing her after all this time just gave me joyful squees. If Five is My Doctor, Sarah is My Companion. So I'm overjoyed not only on the "ooh! old companion" front, but because I'm getting to see a character I loved madly during my teens.