Haha! I’ve caught up on Kiro! And mostly on Plaude! *dances about exhaustedly*
There was quite a bit of turbulence (potholes in the sky) on Sunday, which made me feel very sick indeed. The 45-degree turns didn’t help and I was pretty sure I was gonna throw up all over the cockpit and wouldn’t that have been embarrassing at 3,000 feet in the air? *shivers*
I’m rewatching BSG (the remake, not the old one) and … wow. The smex I could do without (is anyone cannonly gay, btw? I’ve heard spoilers about ‘the final five’ but DON’T TELL ME A GOSH-DARNED THING OR I WILL SLAY YOU WITH MY KATANA!) but … wow. I’d forgotten how powerful it was. My eyes got wet three times and I kept breaking out into shivers (mostly during the bombing footage.) Like during the first episode of
Also, is it just me, or does Roslin look and sound and act an awful lot like Sarah Jane Smith? Sarah Jane Smith mellowed out a bit, but, still … am I crazy?
Something I realized whilst recalling last week's DW episodes and catching up on Plaude fics: if Nine had used the Chameleon-thingy … he wouldn't have changed.
That's what was so sad about Nine, how terrifyingly HUMAN he was. If he'd made himself any more human, I think he would have died.
You see, he was being beset by all these human emotions: depression, guilt, apathy, anger, revenge ... if it got down to cells it would have utterly destroyed him.
I mean, remember what happened when he thought Rose was dead in 'The Bad Wolf?'
Multiply that by ... oh, how about 9 …
Yeah, I'm never letting go of Nine's hand.
Are you?
'Blink'
I ... have no profound statements on this episode. All I've really got are bullet-points to elaborate on. This episode was a lot like 'Love and Monsters' but better, less funny, darker, and scarier.
(If you want a philosophical ranty bit, you should go here: http://www.televisionwithoutpity.com/Shows/Doctor-Who/Stories/Season-3?currentPage=12 I learned a lot from that recapper.)
I suck at staring contests. This episode terrified me.
I know the Angels are a really easy special effect but they FREAKED ME OUT, and the fact that they were undone by merely looking at each other is chilling.
Wasn't Sally Sparrow in 'The Christmas Invasion?' I think she was ... ooooo, that's a paradox if I've ever seen one!
Regardless of where we've seen her, I want Sally's coat. And scarf. And hair. I might get that hair someday if I wait long enough ... and stop dying it magenta.
I saw this episode like a year ago, on Sci-Fi. I found it very strange because I was still confuzzled in my DW viewing.
‘Love From, the Doctor.’
Oh, Doctor ... it’s good to have you back … *huggles him* I will not think about John Smith. I will not think about John Smith. Nor will I dwell on Rose this week. Nor shall I mourn the Master. Not yet. Not yet. Not yet.
Hey, the Doctor's on TV! *giggles*
"I like old things, they make me sad."
"What's good about sad?"
"It's happy, for deep people."
I'm just gonna think about that bit for a while ...
"Told him you were eighteen, you lying cow." Hee …
I like how Cathy was happy in the past, with that guy-with-the-newspaper. It's nice, in a scary way.
And we encounter yet another metaphor for the Doctor: first 'buffalo' and now ‘Ghost Easter Egg.’
"When you say 'you and the guys' you mean the internet don't you?"
Hee ... I talk like that sometimes … that’s very sad. *sighs*
"A big ball of wiggly-wobbly timey-wimey ... stuff."
OMG I have been waiting for that line for AGES! *grinz* I played the whole thing at break. People couldn’t hear it over the music-battles (it happens a lot, suffice to say that I nearly strangled a guy with the headphones he was refusing to wear.)
"What's a Police Box?"
It’s a magic carpet. It’s a metaphor. It’s a blue box. It’s a hieroglyph. It’s a representation of everything the Doctor means to us.
I love Detective Billy. He’s just so funny and wonderful and I think he’d get on well with Capt. Jack.
And, because he's funny and wonderful, he, too, gets spirited away by the Stone Angels. Because he blinks. I don't think I'll ever blink EVER again.
The first time we see the Doctor and Martha is halfway through the episode. Hurray, Martha! *punches the air*
"Catch your breath. Don't go swimming for half and hour."
Bhahaahahhahaa! Don’t swim after you time-travel! That needs to be an icon!
"Let you live to death."
Sounds like something YOU’D do, Doctor … actually, it’s something you did last episode! *dives under the desk*
"Trust me, just nod when he stops for breath."
Awww, I love Martha! (But you guys have probably had enough of that, haven’t you?)
"This is my timey-whimey detector! … Goes ding when there's stuff."
Ah, Doctor, as eloquent as ever …
"It was raining when we met."
"It's the same rain."
*wibbles*
"But apparently it would have torn a hole in the fabric of time and space, and destroyed two-thirds of the universe. Also, I'd lost my hair."
*giggles* Yeah, definitely would have gotten along with Jack.
"You've only got 17 DVDs?"
That's more than I've got! Wait, unless individual disks of TV seasons count … Buffy disks ALONE … oh dear, it’s too late to do calculus …
"We're stuck! All of time and space he promised me, now I've got a job in a shop, I've gotta support him!"
But you love it, Martha. You’re digging the Rose-reference. We, on the other hand, are not. *wails* Rose … Rose Rose ROSE!
"Look to the left. I think it's a political statement."
Though at this point, in
"The Angels have the phonebox, that's my favorite bit, I've got it on a T-shirt!"
I. Want. That. T-shirt.
"Their greatest asset is their greatest curse: they can never be seen. Loneliest creatures in the universe."
I thought that was you, Doctor! (The anvils have the plot!)
Loving the Journal-shop. Pretty pretty pretty ... and beaded curtains are nice.
"We just run a shop together. That's all it is, just a shop." Sally … you can’t put your life on hold for the Doctor. It just doesn’t work. It’s not healthy.
OMG the Doctor and Martha with a BOW AND ARROWS! YAHOO! *leaps about ecstatically*
The Doctor got MARRIED! WHEN?! WHERE?! TO WHOM?! TO WHAT?! WHERE WAS THE MASTER IN THIS EQUATION?!
Sally takes Larry’s hand, and says "Goodbye Doctor." Good girl. *nods approvingly*
"Sparrow and Nightengale" hee ... if I ever get a shop I’ll probably name it that … could I be sued if I did?
Ok, that last bit was TERRIFYING. Now I'm gonna be terrified of GARGOYLES and every single statue I come across! Damn you, Russell T. Davies, damn you! (‘Damn you’ for a lot of other things I’ll rant about LATER.) If I want to be scared of normal objects or occurrences I'll read Steven King, which I don't because he TERRFIES me and I HATE that he's from Maine because whenever I hear something on the news or radio about Maine it’s usually about that horrible man and WHY COULDN’T HE HAVE BEEN FROM SOMEWHERE ELSE?! *is quite explosive on this topic and apologizes to you poor souls*
Next Week: The Doctor breathes the word “Master!” That's all you really need to know. (I personally jumped into the air and made a shrieky noise and clapped my hands. I'm FINALLY going to see the trilogy on TV! Not pirated via youtube or seen in clips! YAHOO! SQUEE! YATTA!)
'From Out of the Rain'
(This episode didn’t do much besides creep me out, make me scared of old Panic!At the Disco music videos, and slightly annoy me. Apparently carnies want to steal your souls and bring down sales of Panic!At the Disco Cds! Who knew?
This made better:
http://community.livejournal.com/ihasatardis/1068046.html#cutid1 WARNING: May cause hysterical laughter or falling out of chairs, BRACE YOURSELVES.)
(Yeah, I’m still doing the old-style for Torchwood. At least, until Torchwood gives me something to muse on profoundly.)
We begin with a sketchy dude in a mustache and extras from a Panic!At the Disco video. The old stuff, not the new stuff. Also a child being stolen from her mommy. So, this episode will be one that gives me trouble sleeping, then. Lovely.
The sketchy mustachioed dude is creeping into old film footage. Rut-ro!
Jack, rescue Ianto from the bad guys! Rescue your princess!
Ianto skipping through the rain in a leather jacket. Hurrah! I could watch this for DAYS!
Awww, Ianto used to come with his daddy! His Master Tailor Daddy. Never gonna let that go.
Utto, Jack's in the video! And there's an evil dad in the background.
'ello, Mr. Red shirt! 'ello, Mrs. Red Shirt!
Jack and Ianto standing in the empty theater. Ianto in red. Jack saying creepy emo things. This'll be good!
Sketchy mustache man and Lucy's sister giggly 20's blond flapper girl, steal a girl's soul. It's creepy.
"I want to drink her tears."
Great line. Blond shiny girl sells it very well.
"You did stand up."
"I never did stand up."
Jack, have you WATCHED YOURSELF OF LATE? You’re doing standup for the slashers EVERY TIME YOU COME ONSCREEN!
"He's part of this freak show."
"Some things never change."
Hah!
"They came from out of the rain."
Personally I LIKE RAIN. What’s Russell T. Davies got against rain? Did it beat him up and steal his lunch money as a kid?
"That's right, I remember her. Wearing almost nothing."
Oh Owen, you haven't changed, bless you, zombie-boy.
"Two people from a piece of film have gone AWOL."
Thank you for doing my job for me!
"I need your local knowledge."
"Oh, is that what you're calling it these days?"
Why DO they keep Gwen around? And isn’t she supposed to be on her honeymoon? With her HUSBAND? I can’t wait until Rhys pulls a
Who was Jack sent by to investigate the Rain-Carnies? Torchwood? The Doctor? A third-player? Oh, wait, just like Lost, I’m asking logical questions. Excuse me …
I love how the campsite goes from black and white to faded color to actual color. It was nice.
Oooo, living mermaid! Coolio!
Yeek! No! Sketchy mustached man presses his face against the car window: DO NOT WANT! BAD BAD BAD! Gimme bugs in your stomach any day ... then again that storyline wouldn't have been all that bearable without wonderous Martha ... BRING HER BACK RIGHT NOW!
Owen isn't bothering me this episode. But, then again, he isn't doing much but run about with the gang, looking cool in black. Anyone could do that and I wouldn’t mind.
Mustache has BAD teeth. I could have done without him licking
Poor guys. They just want an audience. Don't we all? *sniffles* To have your livelihood wiped out, and have nothing ... no, I’m not sympathizing with the scary Rain-Carnies!
How does Ianto know the psychiatric hospital? (Is that a future-plot I see?!)
Oi, Nurse! You shouldn't talk about patients to strange people! Patient-doctor confidentiality, lady! You could get sued! I don't care that the plot needs to be kept on track!
"Your eyes are older than your face."
"Is that a bad thing?"
"Yes. It means you don't belong. It mean you come from nowhere."
Ooooo … I love it when old crazy people see more than average people. It’s nice. (And Jack comes from ‘the
I hope that someday I have hot gay men to push me around in my wheelchair.
Jack/pocket-watch/waistcoat = my latest OT3.
I like the warehouse pad. Sweet, I'd live there.
Suddenly Jack is on a first-name basis with video-kid? Eh? Did I miss something?
Oh god, Mr. Red Shirt’s shirt is literally red!
"Film of a film."
Jack’s going to save the world … with a paradox? Well, it worked before …
"There's not a breath in your poor sad body …"
Poor Owen. No love for zombie-boy.
And Ianto flees. Ianto catches the flask. Yahoo!
Jack saves the little boy. Ianto gets teary-eyed. I smile and feel odd. (http://community.livejournal.com/ihasatardis/1065634.html#cutid1)
This week things seem determined to end on an unsettling note. What with statue-phobia and now old-film-phobia. Plus the sudden urge to flee from Panic!At the Dicso. And just after their new CD. Swell.
Next Week:
Torchwood decides to track down all the people who've gone missing over the years because of the Rift. Gwen has an identity crisis, and I think there's a parallel-Gwen, which isn't good because the last time something like THAT happened there were zeppelins and Cybermen and global warming and Daleks and slash-in-the-deleted-scenes and Rose died. So I can only hope that is not the case and pray that Gwen has gone insane instead, shall leave Torchwood, and Rhys can visit Torchwood from time to time.
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Date: 2008-03-31 11:56 pm (UTC)Anyway, Out of the Rain was very, very boring. And I'm not sure why Jack and Ianto were on the verge of tears for the entire episode. Really. Every single time the camera was on one of them, they looked like they were about to have a complete breakdown. Because of a circus? I can forgive the cheesy last breath thing, cause I remember what show I'm watching, but people on the verge of tears for no reason is something that will always make me go, "WTF? LAME."
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Date: 2008-04-01 01:07 am (UTC)*will not think about that* I haven't even seen S3, that's how awful I am. Well, I've seen bits and pieces of S3 but not enough and I was mostly flailing about and terrified that Baltar was gonna get airlocked and not daring to read spoilers ...
Anyway, Out of the Rain was very, very boring. And I'm not sure why Jack and Ianto were on the verge of tears for the entire episode. Really. Every single time the camera was on one of them, they looked like they were about to have a complete breakdown. Because of a circus?
Yeah, that was odd ... I'm telling myself they were having relationship problems, or Jack was remembering his days at the Circus and shuddering because who wants to kill themselves for money, really?
*shrugs*
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Date: 2008-04-01 12:01 am (UTC)"It's the same rain."
Saddest line ever.
Also you can get that angles have the phonebox T-shirt on cafepress. lol.
Haha, Itotally ran into a friend of mine today who just got into DW and she was all, "omgomgomg do you watch it?" and she hadnt noticed that I was wearing my who shirt and I was like, "Yes. Daleks. Muahaha."
-raises hand- I'll give Zombie-boy lov-oh wait, he doesn't have a blood flow. nvm.
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Date: 2008-04-01 01:11 am (UTC)Erm ... we didn't get to know Sally or Billy (hey, notice the names similarities!) that well. "Rose Tyler, I -" is pretty heart-wrenching. Also anything John Smith said whilst trying to stay John Smith. Or anything Joan said to the Doctor.
Great, now I'm all depressed ... *flees to finish depressing BSG miniseries*
Also you can get that angles have the phonebox T-shirt on cafepress.
Thanks! *must get MONEY now*
Haha, Itotally ran into a friend of mine today who just got into DW and she was all, "omgomgomg do you watch it?" and she hadnt noticed that I was wearing my who shirt and I was like, "Yes. Daleks. Muahaha."
Heh ... wish I had 'real' friends who watched DW ...
-raises hand- I'll give Zombie-boy lov-oh wait, he doesn't have a blood flow. nvm.
Hee ... Owen's not annoying me anymore, but I'm not giving him hugs anytime soon.
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Date: 2008-04-01 01:26 am (UTC)You can get T-shirts for doctor who with quotes from almost all the episodes from new who (well mostly seasons 1&2)
Yeah - most my real friends dont watch it but I made one start and another just got into it. I like have people I can say talk to about it that dont look at me like, "What...? Time travel...? What are you going on about?"
Owen gets a little better every episode. He grows on you. Like coffee. Wait - I hate coffee. Bad example.
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Date: 2008-04-01 05:42 pm (UTC)Me too. I cried through the whole beach-goodbye thing.
You can get T-shirts for doctor who with quotes from almost all the episodes from new who (well mostly seasons 1&2)
Sweet! *must get moneys*
Yeah - most my real friends dont watch it but I made one start and another just got into it. I like have people I can say talk to about it that dont look at me like, "What...? Time travel...? What are you going on about?"
Lucky duck! I haven't! Just my dad, who I don't see all that much. Luckily we live close enough to watch Torchwood on the weekends when we've got time ...
Owen gets a little better every episode. He grows on you. Like coffee. Wait - I hate coffee. Bad example.
Hee, I know what you mean ... (I can't stand coffee either!)
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Date: 2008-04-03 05:40 am (UTC)I have another dork/geek friend that I always try to bait into getting into the smae fandoms as me. I got her into heroes too.
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Date: 2008-04-03 04:15 pm (UTC)It was a painful thing to watch ...
I have another dork/geek friend that I always try to bait into getting into the smae fandoms as me. I got her into heroes too.
I got my friend into Heroes, now I'm working on getting her into DW ... I'm lending her the S1 DVDs today! Hurrah! (Only three seasons until she, too, can slash Master/Doctor with me! We seem to slash the same pairings, so we talk about it quite a bit.)
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Date: 2008-04-01 03:05 pm (UTC)HOW DID I MISS THIS?! *tears hair*
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Date: 2008-04-01 05:44 pm (UTC)Don't tear out your hair! I'm sure it's lovely hair!
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Date: 2008-04-01 05:47 pm (UTC)And Sally's awesome. And so was that note the Doctor left. It was so...purely him, one of the most perfect Doctor moments I've seen, and he wasn't even there. Sort of. You know.
It is a spooky sort of idea, isn't it, that you could lose everything you have in this life, be cast back who knows how many years, and yet still find yourself and make a life in a totally different time and place. But it's a Doctor Who sort of idea--that though there are a million things in the universe, you're you, and no matter where you go or what you see, that never changes.
I love Detective Billy. He’s just so funny and wonderful and I think he’d get on well with Capt. Jack.
I would totally date him. Billy. Probably not Jack. There's something a little insatiable about Jack, no matter how adorable he is. No surprise he's got a thing for the Doctor...
"Let you live to death."
Sounds like something YOU’D do, Doctor … actually, it’s something you did last episode! *dives under the desk*
I thought that too! It's a kind of creepy statement, really.
"This is my timey-whimey detector! … Goes ding when there's stuff."
Hey, has it ever occurred to you that when he says things like "timey-wimey stuff" he might actually be explaining extremely complicated science in very big, significant words that people just don't understand? :) And the TARDIS is just failing to translate because the ideas simply don't exist in human heads? That'd be kind of wild, wouldn't it?
"We're stuck! All of time and space he promised me, now I've got a job in a shop, I've gotta support him!"
Lord, can you imagine what layers of weirdness must be involved in the simple phrase, "I've gotta support him"? Does he sit around on the sofa? Go around and randomly fix peoples' electrical wiring? Wander constantly all over the city looking for any interesting trouble he can get into? I wonder how long they were there...
"Their greatest asset is their greatest curse: they can never be seen. Loneliest creatures in the universe."
I thought that was you, Doctor! (The anvils have the plot!)
Well, of course the Doctor never refers to himself as lonely (though alone, yeah, he says he's alone). But I do wonder which is lonelier.
The Doctor got MARRIED! WHEN?! WHERE?! TO WHOM?! TO WHAT?! WHERE WAS THE MASTER IN THIS EQUATION?!
Well, he started out the show in 1963 with a granddaughter named Susan. Though aside from that, her own origins were left as mysterious as the Doctor's. Everyone has always wondered...
Next Week: The Doctor breathes the word “Master!” That's all you really need to know.
It really, really, really is. And then the one after that, the Master breathes the word "Doctor" right back at him!
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Date: 2008-04-01 05:52 pm (UTC)"Your eyes are older than your face."
"Is that a bad thing?"
"Yes. It means you don't belong. It mean you come from nowhere."
Ooooo … I love it when old crazy people see more than average people. It’s nice. (And Jack comes from ‘the land of Welsh beaches, pinwheels, and white-clad pansexuals’ btw, not ‘Nowhere.’)
Interestingly, this is another theme that has carried over from Old Who. The super-perceptive mystic fortune-telling types always have mysteriously insightful things to say about people like Martha and Jack and Owen. But notice how none of them ever look into the Doctor's eyes. I wonder what they'd have to say then?
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Date: 2008-04-01 06:56 pm (UTC)Yeah, that IS odd ... perhaps they'd quail like the Weevils and flee. Or give the Doctor a hug. Half and half, I'd say.
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Date: 2008-04-01 06:54 pm (UTC)Yeppers!
And Sally's awesome. And so was that note the Doctor left. It was so...purely him, one of the most perfect Doctor moments I've seen, and he wasn't even there. Sort of. You know.
I know what you mean. It was wonderful. Easing us back into the Doctor after John Smith ... *sniffles*
It is a spooky sort of idea, isn't it, that you could lose everything you have in this life, be cast back who knows how many years, and yet still find yourself and make a life in a totally different time and place. But it's a Doctor Who sort of idea--that though there are a million things in the universe, you're you, and no matter where you go or what you see, that never changes.
I love that you can say things much better than I can, and I understand perfectly.
I would totally date him. Billy.
Me too! *huggles him*
Probably not Jack. There's something a little insatiable about Jack, no matter how adorable he is.
Yeah ... I'm glad he's got Ianto, though.
No surprise he's got a thing for the Doctor...
Yeah ... poor guy!
Hey, has it ever occurred to you that when he says things like "timey-wimey stuff" he might actually be explaining extremely complicated science in very big, significant words that people just don't understand? :) And the TARDIS is just failing to translate because the ideas simply don't exist in human heads? That'd be kind of wild, wouldn't it?
Oh god ... *reels at the possibilities*
Does he sit around on the sofa? Go around and randomly fix peoples' electrical wiring? Wander constantly all over the city looking for any interesting trouble he can get into?
Aakdfjadklfakakkakkajfjfj ...
I wonder how long they were there...
Hopefully only twelve hours. Any longer and they'dve caused WWIII ...
Well, of course the Doctor never refers to himself as lonely (though alone, yeah, he says he's alone). But I do wonder which is lonelier.
At least there are a few of the Angels. There's only the Doctor. And later, the Master, but not for long enough. Though the Doctor can LOOK at the Master.
And have eyesex with himSo I dunno, I guess they're tied?Well, he started out the show in 1963 with a granddaughter named Susan. Though aside from that, her own origins were left as mysterious as the Doctor's. Everyone has always wondered...
I saw one or two of the very first DW, which I found dull and annoying and kept waiting for the Doctor to do something kickass, which he did not. *sigh*
Do you think Susan is the Master's granddaughter? *giggles*
It really, really, really is.
Yeppers!
And then the one after that, the Master breathes the word "Doctor" right back at him!
*sighs luxuriously* The fanfic just writes itself! (Once again: the anvils have the plot!)
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Date: 2008-04-01 07:11 pm (UTC)For decades there's been fan speculation about whether Time Lords can switch sexes in a regeneration, and every so often, a Who producer will comment that they'd like to do a female Doctor. So...who knows? ;)
Honestly, if the show runs long enough, I half-expect this to eventually come to pass. It would explain a heck of a lot, after all.
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Date: 2008-04-02 02:04 pm (UTC)What if the MASTER was the girl?! Wouldn't THAT be a turn-around!
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Date: 2008-04-02 04:27 pm (UTC)Forgot to tell you, I finished 'Terror of the Autons' the other day and MY GOD the slash was there from the START! *reels*
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Date: 2008-04-03 03:56 pm (UTC)Yeppers! I nearly died in serveral places!
"As a matter of fact, I'm rather looking forward to it." Oh hee.
I think I squeed right there. I seldom squee out loud ...
And now we know why the Doctor always dressed up so pretty in that incarnation. ;)
Hah! So true! *sporfles* HOW long was the Master stuck on Earth? What exactly did he do to get back that part, anyhoodle? ...
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Date: 2008-04-03 04:13 pm (UTC)But then he KEPT COMING BACK.
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Date: 2008-04-03 06:25 pm (UTC)Bahahahahahaha! *giggles* That translates in slasher-speak as 'he groped the Doctor and got the part back.'
But then he KEPT COMING BACK.
Of course he did! Exes always do!