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-Eeee, British period! *glee* The music reminded me so much of the "Jeeves and Wooster" theme that I had to go download it off iTunes.
-"Forget about Planet Zog! A party in the 1920s, that's more like it!" One now wonders just what sort of disappointment Planet Zog was.
-JESUS, THE DOC AND DONNA ARE SO MARRIED. "We're going to be late for cocktails!" And he's waiting OUTSIDE the TARDIS for her to be finished getting changed, for pete's sake.
-And he PAID HER A COMPLIMENT. *pleased as punch*
-I admit I'm having some slight trouble following along, but then Jeeves and Wooster always took me a few tries, too. I just get a little mixed up with all the name-dropping and title-flinging in Brit period pieces.
-"Typical. Why are all the decent men on the other bus?" "Or Time Lords." The slightly affronted look he gave her? Yeah, no comment.
-Ten fanboying Agatha Christie while stroking his own ego is just too funny. "You've fooled me so many times! Well...once or twice. Well...just the once. But it was a good one!"
-"The thrill is in the chase; never in the capture." Lord, their faces! The way the Doctor's expression just goes slack! And... THIS after "The Doctor's Daughter?" WE CAN HAS MIXED SIGNALS BBC? At this point I'm positive RTD is completely fucking with the fanbase, as usual.
-LOL David Tennant really IS boggled-eyed. It's incredibly apparent through the whole bit in the library. What's REALLY terrible is that I find it cute. *smacks self* But I get wall-eyed when stuff is too close to my face, so maybe there's an element of vanity in deciding that binocular insufficiencies are attractive. *snorts*
-"Go on, you're ever so plucky." *dead*
-Wow, Agatha has HIS number. Much like Donna, she chastises him for enjoying the mystery when people's lives are at stake.
-"Noooow then, Reverend..." Nope, he's not enjoying this at all.
-Oh wow, love the classic-style flashbacks. And the not-so-classic gay romance.
-"Colonel, snap out of it. No, RIGHT out of it." Only a show with a really loyal fanbase would accept the rapid and extreme changes in tone this one takes, but so what? More shows should be this fun.
-So every character has a secret of some sort except the Reverend. I hope they actually leave his character alone and have him be that boring. That would be better (and more amusing) than having him turn out to be a baddie. [ADDED: Oh, well. I guess it would have had to be the butler, otherwise. We couldn't have that.]
-Either the Doctor has drank all his tea, DT forgot the prop is supposed to be holding liquid, or the Doctor has an exquisite sense of balance. Because he's really flinging that teacup around.
-The Doctor gets his own flashback! Wow, that's win. Although, why does his hair look more like he's been hacking through the jungle when he snaps out of it than the shot where he's actually hacking through the jungle?
-Agatha Christie is SO enjoying this herself. HA.
-The Doctor shouting "maiden!" in her ear and then saying, "What's that mean?" definitely harkens, in a farcial way, back to Watsonian sidekicks. I love that he's about cast himself as her plucky sidekick.
-I'm kind of amused by the concept of fending off a giant wasp with a magnifying glass like that. I don't think that's remotely possible, but it does go well with a kettle and a piece of string.
-"What do you mean, a giant wasp?!" "I MEAN, a WASP that's GIANT!" *'holy cow!' face* I'm increasingly convinced that the majority of David Tennant's facial expressions originate from his eyebrows. Also, love that he reacted to that clarification as if it had actually imparted more information. Silly Doctor.
-Agatha Christie = Charles Dickens all over again. "They do it with mirrors!"
-Gotta question the sanity of a being who stands before something terrible and says, "Oh, brilliant!" before realizing that maybe he should run or duck or something.
-"Hey! Flyboy!" Plucky young sidekick saves the day again!
-I smirked at the pointed comment about it being "highly unlikely" that there will be more children in the house. (It's come to my attention that the writer with credit for this episode, Gareth Roberts, is the same one who wrote "The Shakespeare Code." Fifty-seven queer fen just punched the air!)
-Stiff-upper-lip!emo. Wow, that's a first.
-Funny that people get an idea that DoctorDonnaFriend are actually a couple, given the way Donna goes on about him as if he's the love of her life.
-I really like Agatha doubting her longevity and pointing out that she's not "great literature." Not sure why, but maybe it's because I've always felt she was pretty overrated. I like this Agatha who doesn't realize how genius she is and can't guess at the strength of her appeal, but is critical enough of her work to know she's not writing anything that meaningful. She's not stupid, after all.
-"Something's inhibiting my enzymes!" House!seizure: Nope, doing it wrong.
-And OH GOD here's that kitchen, and he needs GINGER BEER?! *dies* AGATHA CHRISTIE AND PUNS NOW?
-Donna Noble sucks at charades. Duly noted. ("How is Harvey Wallbanger one word?!")
-"Big shock, coming up!" Heh.
-Okay...they admittedly made that as gross as possible leading up to it, and then having the dude belch toxic gases afterward...also not hot. AND YET, there is still more spark during that DISGUSTING smooch then there was between Ten and Rose, Martha or Astrid.
(Of course, THE hottest kiss of all NuWho was Ten/Reinette. But given the possible reasons for THAT, well, um, AWKWARD NAO.)
Still, very DoctorDonna. I totally cannot complain. What, exactly, was the last thing he ate? [ADDED: OH GOD ANCHOVIES?! This will forever be the anchovy!kiss in my mind.]
-"I should do that more often...I mean, the, the detox." Some sort of plot bunny about celebrity cleansing diets looms, floppy-eared, on the horizon.
-"I've laced the soup...with pepper." "Oh, I thought it was jolly spicy!" *dies*
-Wow, DT's face in the lightening flash is really pretty creepy.
-The gay one dies so Donna can have a moment of noble compassion. Eh.
-"I've called you here, on this endless night..." Wow, is the Doctor ever loving the opportunity to chew scenery.
-AH, the Doctor and Donna sitting back withpopcorn grapes to watch the proceedings is win. As is Donna's peanut-gallery running commentary. ("Oh, I know this one!") Some people might have been annoyed, but this is the sort of cracky goodness I adore. And I didn't even have to go to a fic to find it.
-"Colonel-" "OKAY I CAN WALK OKAY. Damn it how did you KNOW?!" "Um, I didn't." "Oh."
Reputation IS everything, apparently.
(Although...did he walk at some point when the meal got interrupted by strobe!light!lightening and the flippin' enormous wasp? I swear I thought I saw him stand.)
-Wow, it's like Jerry Springer meets The Fly. "The Love of My Life is a Wasp."
-A car chase at 20 clicks is not exactly riveting. Entertaining, but not riveting.
-Wow, Donna drowning the thing was actually quite unexpected in my eyes. But then, I'm not sure how else they'd have resolved that. I don't honestly know what to think here.
-Quite a cool ending, otherwise.
SO. Now that Donna's kissed the Doctor to save his life, when do they fuck to save the universe? *smirks* Just asking.
OOOOH, Moffat's haunted library next! In two weeks, apparently. I'm not disturbed; I don't want this season to be over, so I don't mind a brief break.
Unfortunately, this two-parter might just scare me to death. I'm almost wondering if I should wait THREE weeks and watch them back-to-back just to cut down on the potential for nightmares...
-Eeee, British period! *glee* The music reminded me so much of the "Jeeves and Wooster" theme that I had to go download it off iTunes.
-"Forget about Planet Zog! A party in the 1920s, that's more like it!" One now wonders just what sort of disappointment Planet Zog was.
-JESUS, THE DOC AND DONNA ARE SO MARRIED. "We're going to be late for cocktails!" And he's waiting OUTSIDE the TARDIS for her to be finished getting changed, for pete's sake.
-And he PAID HER A COMPLIMENT. *pleased as punch*
-I admit I'm having some slight trouble following along, but then Jeeves and Wooster always took me a few tries, too. I just get a little mixed up with all the name-dropping and title-flinging in Brit period pieces.
-"Typical. Why are all the decent men on the other bus?" "Or Time Lords." The slightly affronted look he gave her? Yeah, no comment.
-Ten fanboying Agatha Christie while stroking his own ego is just too funny. "You've fooled me so many times! Well...once or twice. Well...just the once. But it was a good one!"
-"The thrill is in the chase; never in the capture." Lord, their faces! The way the Doctor's expression just goes slack! And... THIS after "The Doctor's Daughter?" WE CAN HAS MIXED SIGNALS BBC? At this point I'm positive RTD is completely fucking with the fanbase, as usual.
-LOL David Tennant really IS boggled-eyed. It's incredibly apparent through the whole bit in the library. What's REALLY terrible is that I find it cute. *smacks self* But I get wall-eyed when stuff is too close to my face, so maybe there's an element of vanity in deciding that binocular insufficiencies are attractive. *snorts*
-"Go on, you're ever so plucky." *dead*
-Wow, Agatha has HIS number. Much like Donna, she chastises him for enjoying the mystery when people's lives are at stake.
-"Noooow then, Reverend..." Nope, he's not enjoying this at all.
-Oh wow, love the classic-style flashbacks. And the not-so-classic gay romance.
-"Colonel, snap out of it. No, RIGHT out of it." Only a show with a really loyal fanbase would accept the rapid and extreme changes in tone this one takes, but so what? More shows should be this fun.
-So every character has a secret of some sort except the Reverend. I hope they actually leave his character alone and have him be that boring. That would be better (and more amusing) than having him turn out to be a baddie. [ADDED: Oh, well. I guess it would have had to be the butler, otherwise. We couldn't have that.]
-Either the Doctor has drank all his tea, DT forgot the prop is supposed to be holding liquid, or the Doctor has an exquisite sense of balance. Because he's really flinging that teacup around.
-The Doctor gets his own flashback! Wow, that's win. Although, why does his hair look more like he's been hacking through the jungle when he snaps out of it than the shot where he's actually hacking through the jungle?
-Agatha Christie is SO enjoying this herself. HA.
-The Doctor shouting "maiden!" in her ear and then saying, "What's that mean?" definitely harkens, in a farcial way, back to Watsonian sidekicks. I love that he's about cast himself as her plucky sidekick.
-I'm kind of amused by the concept of fending off a giant wasp with a magnifying glass like that. I don't think that's remotely possible, but it does go well with a kettle and a piece of string.
-"What do you mean, a giant wasp?!" "I MEAN, a WASP that's GIANT!" *'holy cow!' face* I'm increasingly convinced that the majority of David Tennant's facial expressions originate from his eyebrows. Also, love that he reacted to that clarification as if it had actually imparted more information. Silly Doctor.
-Agatha Christie = Charles Dickens all over again. "They do it with mirrors!"
-Gotta question the sanity of a being who stands before something terrible and says, "Oh, brilliant!" before realizing that maybe he should run or duck or something.
-"Hey! Flyboy!" Plucky young sidekick saves the day again!
-I smirked at the pointed comment about it being "highly unlikely" that there will be more children in the house. (It's come to my attention that the writer with credit for this episode, Gareth Roberts, is the same one who wrote "The Shakespeare Code." Fifty-seven queer fen just punched the air!)
-Stiff-upper-lip!emo. Wow, that's a first.
-Funny that people get an idea that DoctorDonnaFriend are actually a couple, given the way Donna goes on about him as if he's the love of her life.
-I really like Agatha doubting her longevity and pointing out that she's not "great literature." Not sure why, but maybe it's because I've always felt she was pretty overrated. I like this Agatha who doesn't realize how genius she is and can't guess at the strength of her appeal, but is critical enough of her work to know she's not writing anything that meaningful. She's not stupid, after all.
-"Something's inhibiting my enzymes!" House!seizure: Nope, doing it wrong.
-And OH GOD here's that kitchen, and he needs GINGER BEER?! *dies* AGATHA CHRISTIE AND PUNS NOW?
-Donna Noble sucks at charades. Duly noted. ("How is Harvey Wallbanger one word?!")
-"Big shock, coming up!" Heh.
-Okay...they admittedly made that as gross as possible leading up to it, and then having the dude belch toxic gases afterward...also not hot. AND YET, there is still more spark during that DISGUSTING smooch then there was between Ten and Rose, Martha or Astrid.
(Of course, THE hottest kiss of all NuWho was Ten/Reinette. But given the possible reasons for THAT, well, um, AWKWARD NAO.)
Still, very DoctorDonna. I totally cannot complain. What, exactly, was the last thing he ate? [ADDED: OH GOD ANCHOVIES?! This will forever be the anchovy!kiss in my mind.]
-"I should do that more often...I mean, the, the detox." Some sort of plot bunny about celebrity cleansing diets looms, floppy-eared, on the horizon.
-"I've laced the soup...with pepper." "Oh, I thought it was jolly spicy!" *dies*
-Wow, DT's face in the lightening flash is really pretty creepy.
-The gay one dies so Donna can have a moment of noble compassion. Eh.
-"I've called you here, on this endless night..." Wow, is the Doctor ever loving the opportunity to chew scenery.
-AH, the Doctor and Donna sitting back with
-"Colonel-" "OKAY I CAN WALK OKAY. Damn it how did you KNOW?!" "Um, I didn't." "Oh."
Reputation IS everything, apparently.
(Although...did he walk at some point when the meal got interrupted by strobe!light!lightening and the flippin' enormous wasp? I swear I thought I saw him stand.)
-Wow, it's like Jerry Springer meets The Fly. "The Love of My Life is a Wasp."
-A car chase at 20 clicks is not exactly riveting. Entertaining, but not riveting.
-Wow, Donna drowning the thing was actually quite unexpected in my eyes. But then, I'm not sure how else they'd have resolved that. I don't honestly know what to think here.
-Quite a cool ending, otherwise.
SO. Now that Donna's kissed the Doctor to save his life, when do they fuck to save the universe? *smirks* Just asking.
OOOOH, Moffat's haunted library next! In two weeks, apparently. I'm not disturbed; I don't want this season to be over, so I don't mind a brief break.
Unfortunately, this two-parter might just scare me to death. I'm almost wondering if I should wait THREE weeks and watch them back-to-back just to cut down on the potential for nightmares...
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Date: 2008-05-19 03:43 pm (UTC)This needs to be ficced. It has great comedy potential, with a hint of fluff.
And he PAID HER A COMPLIMENT.
That was one of the sweetest scene in the whole episode. *melts a little on the inside*
At this point I'm positive RTD is completely fucking with the fanbase, as usual.
I think it's just RTD being completely unable to keep his ginormous crush on DT out of the way he lets the episodes play out. I mean, with Rose and Martha you could always say it was them who had the crush xD.
More shows should be this fun.
WORD. I positively adore how DW plays with its fans. It makes you feel appreciated. More shows should try it.
Although, why does his hair look more like he's been hacking through the jungle when he snaps out of it than the shot where he's actually hacking through the jungle?
That's the whole Time Lord mental power thing. Think of hacking through the jungle => telekinetic mind powers make your hair go tousled. *nods*
House!seizure: Nope, doing it wrong.
Ahahaha yes. If he wants to be PotW, he needs to work on that a little.
Anchovy!kiss ftw! And I agree, as gross as it may have been, there wasn't any of this annoying schmoopy romance about it that the Astrid or the Martha kiss had - obviously - and also, it was instigated by the companion, which always makes it more interesting. I'm not counting the Rose kiss here because Rose wasn't Rose but Cassandra. I don't think Ten ever actually kissed Rose on screen, did he?
I don't honestly know what to think here.
I think Donna pwnd. Again. Because the Doctor wouldn't have done anything, and Agatha was about to die. They could have risked negotiating with the vespiform, but then... how do you talk with something that has no mouth, but a huge stinger that could pierce three humanoids in one go? Something had to be done, and quick, and I think the Doctor was just out of tricks up his sleeve.
They need to fuck to save the universe. This could be the finale. Who's with me?
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Date: 2008-05-20 11:49 pm (UTC)Wait, so you think he really DOES mean DoctorDonna to be platonic? He just fails?
The tousled hair - quite seriously, I wonder who decided to have him looking like he'd just had a hot make-out session through that whole bit. Was he supposed to have been running his hands through his hair? Was Agatha having her way with him while he was off in lala land? I'm truly curious.
Nope, Ten never kissed Rose, except when she was possessed. Which is interesting, since he's now kissed/been kissed by every other companion. I guess TPTB figured the possessed!kiss counted?
(And the kisses where the Doctor is BEING kissed are way more interesting, yeah. I think because the Doctor's NOT in control and always looks dazed to some degree afterward? Suave!Doktah is okay, but dazed!Doktah is a million times more intriguing.)
I guess you're right about the Vespiform, but...I guess I just felt sorry for it.
Who's with me?
DEFINITELY ME.
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Date: 2008-05-19 07:22 pm (UTC)I'd totally missed that, but you're So Right!
"The Doctor gets his own flashback! Wow, that's win"
Ain't it just! I'm waiting on fic elaborating on that little episode pertaining to Charlemagne's abduction by the insane computer: The Song of Roland meets Kubrick's 2001? (just to go along with your most excellent analogy of Jerry Springer meets The Fly-I spluttered my tea at that one.)
"Donna Noble sucks at charades. Duly noted. ("How is Harvey Wallbanger one word?!")"
Personally thought the comedy in that scene was a little too heavy-handed, but the Harvey Wallbanger line was pig-snortingly funny,the anchovy-flavoured snog was indeed hot, and Donna rocked throughout (and in high heels to boot!)
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Date: 2008-05-20 11:54 pm (UTC)LOL, this is also total win. No, I think that's better than mine!
Donna rocks my world, always. *grins*
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Date: 2008-06-05 04:43 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-06-05 07:48 am (UTC)