"Partners In Crime": reaction post
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intrikate88"'Wherever you are, be all there,'" quoth my mother.
"I am all here, Mother dearest," I responded, peeling a shrimp. "I am here, mentally composing a LiveJournal post about the latest Doctor Who episode." I grinned prettily, if geekily.
My dear mother sighed. "Here, at the supper table, with us. All of you."
"But shrimp are not nearly so interesting as-" I cut myself off just in time. "As the thing I must not spoil my brother about."
"Kayyyyyteeeeeeeeeeeeeee!"
"Really, Derek," I chastised, "you have the table manners of a small, untrained dog."
But I digress with my family's antics.
I absolutely loved the beginning- there is a small part of me that absolutely adores structure in narrative, and that small part of me was absolutely squeeing at the parallels set up between the Doctor and Donna. And then the cubicle prairie-dogging? Brilliant. :D
As was the frantic yet poetic game of charades through the windows between the two of them. Donna's so eloquent. Her communication skills leave the Doctor in the dust. AND THEN THEY COLLIDED FOR THE FIRST TIME AND HUGGED. I have not been so happy about a hug in a long time. It feels like the olden days!
(BTW, in that storage closet that the Doctor hid in for however many hours, waiting for Adipose to close- what was he doing? ADHD poster child like him? "I know, I'll calculate all the cube roots of all prime numbers from one to one thousand! Okay, done! How much time was that? ...six minutes? DAMN! I've got five hours left to go... which is three hundred minutes... which is eighteen thousand seconds... I know! I'll see how long I can stand on one leg. Hm, no, tired of that... I'll shimmy up the wall like it's a doorframe! That was fun... oh... God... this is going to take a long time.")
(You so know he was climbing the walls like that. Didn't you see the dusty marks on the bum of his trousers when he was running later on? Yep.)
Donna. Let's talk about Donna. Let's talk about how she's really cool. And how she gets distracted by the things that are important to her, but she is right there helping when the Doctor needs her. Let's talk about how she asks how he's been... and about Martha... and about Rose. How when she nearly locks the Doctor out of his own TARDIS when he suggests she be his mate, she actually seems to mean it, not trying to nervously laugh off what she knows would normally be a flirtatious situation, in normal life.
And the Doctor. He's so very, very clearly the result of post-Doomsday, post-LotTL, post-Martha, post-Astrid loneliness; I admit to getting a little teary-eyed when he was happily rambling in the TARDIS, in the beginning, and then cut himself off as he realized that there was no one to hear him, that no one could possibly be there to hear him. He knows that he has been in a Not Good place lately; even more, he knows how that has hurt the people around him. He says that he ruined Martha, and drove her away. No doubt being unable to save Astrid is on his mind too. And then another woman comes along, all eager to join him- he mentions to her that Martha fancied him, as if warning her that that's not in a good position to be in. Along with that, Donna is rapidly endangered by his presence- she falls from the basket-thing, left dangling from a bar in a bit of visual positioning that seems to resemble Rose dangling from the lever in the Torchwood office. Then at the end, when Donna's still wanting to go, but finally acknowledging the distinct lack of enthusiasm for this on the Doctor's end, you can just see what he's thinking- she sees adventure and companionship, but all he can see is death, tragedy, and separation. He's seen too much of it, too many times in a row, to be able to lightheartedly invite someone else into that life, and perhaps that death.
But she wants to go, and maybe this time will be different, he thinks.
So he says yes, and she runs off to leave the car keys somewhere for her mother.
And runs smack dab into Rose.
I saw Rose. I started shrieking. I did not stop shrieking. Mum called from downstairs: "What is wrong? Are you alright?" I shrieked. I shrieked, "It's Rose! Rose is back!" Apparently I shrieked incoherently. Mum ascended the stairs. "Is it a bee? Did you get stung?"
"NO, MUM, ROSE IS BACK ON DOCTOR WHO!"
"Oh," she said. "That's all."
I shrieked a little more. Then she told me to come downstairs and eat dinner before it turned cold.
But um. Um. Um, wasn't Rose not supposed to show up 'til like the third-to-last episode? And what is this walking away and vanishing thing? I feel bad for Donna's mum who might never find her keys, because I'm randomly compulsive with small issues like that, and I also wonder about the casually-discarded sonic pen, which I'm ALMOST sure will come back to bite the Doctor in the arse. But the vanishing thing looks promising, like Rose has super Bad Wolf universe-hopping powers and will live forever with the Doctor in the TARDIS and perhaps there will be timebabies and um. Yes. Bad Wolf storyline would be very intriguing indeed.
Re: the trailer for next week. Heh, Pompeii, "It's volcano day!" I'm so glad that phrase stuck with him. Back in the days of Nine and Rose and Jack and the Blitz there was lots of fun!
"I am all here, Mother dearest," I responded, peeling a shrimp. "I am here, mentally composing a LiveJournal post about the latest Doctor Who episode." I grinned prettily, if geekily.
My dear mother sighed. "Here, at the supper table, with us. All of you."
"But shrimp are not nearly so interesting as-" I cut myself off just in time. "As the thing I must not spoil my brother about."
"Kayyyyyteeeeeeeeeeeeeee!"
"Really, Derek," I chastised, "you have the table manners of a small, untrained dog."
But I digress with my family's antics.
I absolutely loved the beginning- there is a small part of me that absolutely adores structure in narrative, and that small part of me was absolutely squeeing at the parallels set up between the Doctor and Donna. And then the cubicle prairie-dogging? Brilliant. :D
As was the frantic yet poetic game of charades through the windows between the two of them. Donna's so eloquent. Her communication skills leave the Doctor in the dust. AND THEN THEY COLLIDED FOR THE FIRST TIME AND HUGGED. I have not been so happy about a hug in a long time. It feels like the olden days!
(BTW, in that storage closet that the Doctor hid in for however many hours, waiting for Adipose to close- what was he doing? ADHD poster child like him? "I know, I'll calculate all the cube roots of all prime numbers from one to one thousand! Okay, done! How much time was that? ...six minutes? DAMN! I've got five hours left to go... which is three hundred minutes... which is eighteen thousand seconds... I know! I'll see how long I can stand on one leg. Hm, no, tired of that... I'll shimmy up the wall like it's a doorframe! That was fun... oh... God... this is going to take a long time.")
(You so know he was climbing the walls like that. Didn't you see the dusty marks on the bum of his trousers when he was running later on? Yep.)
Donna. Let's talk about Donna. Let's talk about how she's really cool. And how she gets distracted by the things that are important to her, but she is right there helping when the Doctor needs her. Let's talk about how she asks how he's been... and about Martha... and about Rose. How when she nearly locks the Doctor out of his own TARDIS when he suggests she be his mate, she actually seems to mean it, not trying to nervously laugh off what she knows would normally be a flirtatious situation, in normal life.
And the Doctor. He's so very, very clearly the result of post-Doomsday, post-LotTL, post-Martha, post-Astrid loneliness; I admit to getting a little teary-eyed when he was happily rambling in the TARDIS, in the beginning, and then cut himself off as he realized that there was no one to hear him, that no one could possibly be there to hear him. He knows that he has been in a Not Good place lately; even more, he knows how that has hurt the people around him. He says that he ruined Martha, and drove her away. No doubt being unable to save Astrid is on his mind too. And then another woman comes along, all eager to join him- he mentions to her that Martha fancied him, as if warning her that that's not in a good position to be in. Along with that, Donna is rapidly endangered by his presence- she falls from the basket-thing, left dangling from a bar in a bit of visual positioning that seems to resemble Rose dangling from the lever in the Torchwood office. Then at the end, when Donna's still wanting to go, but finally acknowledging the distinct lack of enthusiasm for this on the Doctor's end, you can just see what he's thinking- she sees adventure and companionship, but all he can see is death, tragedy, and separation. He's seen too much of it, too many times in a row, to be able to lightheartedly invite someone else into that life, and perhaps that death.
But she wants to go, and maybe this time will be different, he thinks.
So he says yes, and she runs off to leave the car keys somewhere for her mother.
And runs smack dab into Rose.
I saw Rose. I started shrieking. I did not stop shrieking. Mum called from downstairs: "What is wrong? Are you alright?" I shrieked. I shrieked, "It's Rose! Rose is back!" Apparently I shrieked incoherently. Mum ascended the stairs. "Is it a bee? Did you get stung?"
"NO, MUM, ROSE IS BACK ON DOCTOR WHO!"
"Oh," she said. "That's all."
I shrieked a little more. Then she told me to come downstairs and eat dinner before it turned cold.
But um. Um. Um, wasn't Rose not supposed to show up 'til like the third-to-last episode? And what is this walking away and vanishing thing? I feel bad for Donna's mum who might never find her keys, because I'm randomly compulsive with small issues like that, and I also wonder about the casually-discarded sonic pen, which I'm ALMOST sure will come back to bite the Doctor in the arse. But the vanishing thing looks promising, like Rose has super Bad Wolf universe-hopping powers and will live forever with the Doctor in the TARDIS and perhaps there will be timebabies and um. Yes. Bad Wolf storyline would be very intriguing indeed.
Re: the trailer for next week. Heh, Pompeii, "It's volcano day!" I'm so glad that phrase stuck with him. Back in the days of Nine and Rose and Jack and the Blitz there was lots of fun!
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Date: 2008-04-05 11:54 pm (UTC)That is the extent to which my brain can comprehend that episode right now.
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Date: 2008-04-06 02:11 am (UTC)Damn, I gotta do one of my own....
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Date: 2008-04-07 01:05 am (UTC)AHAHAHA. Best addition to a reaction post ever. *SMOOOOCH*
"NO, MUM, ROSE IS BACK ON DOCTOR WHO!"
"Oh," she said. "That's all."
Pfft. Your mum clearly has no sense of priorities.
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Date: 2008-04-07 01:36 am (UTC)Furbiesblobs were cute and amusing!no subject
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Date: 2008-04-07 11:15 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-04-07 09:43 am (UTC)Dirt marks on the Doctor's trousers: HAHAHAHA! I did NOT notice! Thank you! HE TOTALLY TRIED TO SHIMMY UP THE WALL.
Donna: God, exactly. She's such a perfect companion for right now -- totally slapping the Doctor in the face when he needs it, but totally in tune with him and caring at other times as well. A friend. Not too self-absorbed, not too Doctor-absorbed, just ... a good person. I like her.
And I hope it is different this time.
And ROSEROSEROSEROSEROSEROSEROSE. God, how I screamed. God, how I gasped. God, how I cried. Like the pathetic little fangirl I am. :P
I wish John Barrowman could come back and run through Volcano Day with them, preferably sans shirt. But we can't have everything. ;)