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aunt_zeldaSorry guys, I haven’t the time to go over this. I did spellcheck, but beyond that it’s my-thoughts-as-I-watched. Kinda like immediate-reaction-type things. I know you guys aren’t fond of those, but I do go off on tangents now and again …
I do, however, come bearing linkies to all my past review/recap/summary/rant/things of DW and Torchwood. Enjoy or ignore at your discretion.
http://aunt-zelda.livejournal.com/58830.html#cutid1 - The Sontaran Stratagem
http://aunt-zelda.livejournal.com/57992.html#cutid1 – Planet of the Ood
http://aunt-zelda.livejournal.com/56437.html#cutid1 - The Fires of Pompeii
http://aunt-zelda.livejournal.com/54816.html#cutid1 - Partners in Crime
http://aunt-zelda.livejournal.com/58289.html#cutid1 - Voyage of the Damned
http://aunt-zelda.livejournal.com/57595.html#cutid1 - Last of the Time Lords
http://aunt-zelda.livejournal.com/56000.html#cutid1 - Sound of Drums
http://aunt-zelda.livejournal.com/54422.html#cutid1 - Blink
http://aunt-zelda.livejournal.com/54009.html#cutid1 - The Family of Blood/Human Nature
http://aunt-zelda.livejournal.com/51590.html#cutid1 - Evolution of the Daleks, the Lazarus Experiment
http://aunt-zelda.livejournal.com/49313.html#cutid1 - Dalek in Manhatten
http://aunt-zelda.livejournal.com/47689.html#cutid1 - Gridlock
http://aunt-zelda.livejournal.com/46868.html#cutid1 - The Shakespeare Code
http://aunt-zelda.livejournal.com/45322.html#cutid1 - Runaway Bride, Smith and Jones
http://aunt-zelda.livejournal.com/57780.html#cutid1 - Reprise of 'Fragments' Review of 'Exit Wounds'
http://aunt-zelda.livejournal.com/56272.html#cutid1 - Fragments
http://aunt-zelda.livejournal.com/54422.html#cutid1 - Out of the Rain
http://aunt-zelda.livejournal.com/54009.html#cutid1 - Day in the Death and Something Borrowed
http://aunt-zelda.livejournal.com/51590.html#cutid1 - Adam, Reset
http://aunt-zelda.livejournal.com/49313.html#cutid1 - Meat
http://aunt-zelda.livejournal.com/47689.html#cutid1 - To the Last Man
http://aunt-zelda.livejournal.com/46868.html#cutid1 - KKBB reprise, Sleeper
http://aunt-zelda.livejournal.com/45322.html#cutid1 - KKBB
http://aunt-zelda.livejournal.com/37216.html - Fear Her, Reprise of ‘Out of Time,’ Combat
http://aunt-zelda.livejournal.com/35753.html - Love and Monsters, Snipit of ‘Random Shoes’ and ‘Out of Time’
http://aunt-zelda.livejournal.com/34956.html - The Satan Pit, Reprise of ‘They Keep Killing Suzie,’ and ‘Random Shoes’
http://aunt-zelda.livejournal.com/33884.html#cutid1 – The Impossible Planet, Reprise of ‘Tosh Snogs and Shags a Woman,’ They Keep Killing Suzie
http://aunt-zelda.livejournal.com/32297.html#cutid1 – Geeks Bearing Gifts
http://aunt-zelda.livejournal.com/31440.html#cutid1 – Small Worlds, Countrycide, Age of Steel
http://aunt-zelda.livejournal.com/25420.html#cutid1 – Cyberwoman
http://aunt-zelda.livejournal.com/23611.html - Episode 3 (the ghosts one)
http://aunt-zelda.livejournal.com/22688.html#cutid1 – Episode 2
http://aunt-zelda.livejournal.com/22024.html#cutid1 – Episode 1
'The Poison Sky'
And so begins the conclusion of one of the best two-parters yet.
How come in the 'previouslys' they show the Doctor phoning Martha and telling the clone to call a code red Sontaran and the clone saying she will and lying to the General? That definitely wasn't in last week's episode ...
Yay, Freema is still in the credits! (I wonder how they're gonna squeeze in the Doctor, Donna, Jack, and Rose into the credits in the finale?)
The Doctor fiddles with the ATMOS under the car. Donna yelps in horror as her Gramps flails inside the car. Her mom strides out, slams the car-hood (wait, it's a 'bonnet' in
Martha-Clone hacks into NATO defense system. Utto.
"I can't believe you've got an ax!" Donna says, staring at her mother. Hee ... see, this is why I love Donna! She asks what I'm asking!
Ross has secured a car without ATMOS. The Doctor asks if Donna's coming, she says she is, her mother tells her not to because whenever the Doctor shows up, so do weird disasters, but her Gramps insists that she go and waves her mother off. It's wonderful. I really hope those two don't die, because a Companion's family with a diverse opinion of the Doctor is very refreshing indeed. Mickey and Jackie were very distrustful at first, then really liked the Doctor. Martha's family were too busy fighting amongst themselves, then got brainwashed by the Master, and then they liked the Doctor too.
"Good work for a female." Oi! I don't appreciate sexism! You don't need a dick to fight a war! *crosses arms in a huff* ... and I still like the Sontarans. What is up with me?!
Hey, it's that American-newscaster with bad hair! I hate her ... why is she still around after all this time?
The Doctor is surprised that he hasn't given Donna a key yet. I told you, she was a proper companion for two episodes now! Ha ha ha! *does a fangirl dance*
"Quite a big moment, really."
"Yeah, we can get sentimental after the world's stopped choking to death." I love Donna.
The Sontarans take the TARDIS, via little metal blippy things. With Donna inside. It materializes in the purple-disco-Master-lights basement.
The Doctor is horrified to find his TARDIS gone. "I'm stuck on Earth. Like ... like an ordinary person. Like a human. How rubbish is that?!"
The Doctor asks Martha if she's phoned her family and Tom to warn them about the gas. She says she will and asks about Donna. The Doctor knows something is up and lies, saying Donna went home "She's not a soldier like you." Ooooo ... one cannot impersonate Martha with the Doctor around!
EH?! Was that Rose on the com-screen? What the hell is that about? She appeared to be yelling something, yelling 'Doctor!' Then the Doctor, being all cool with the galactic rules of engagement and addressing the Sontarans, cuts her silent-broadcast out.
"They're like trolls." Hee ... this year on DW, it's short, squat villains! Fat-creatures, Sontarans ...
"Oh, that's the policy!" the human-General says, probably wondering why a strange, ADHD man with converses on who calls invaders 'cowards' is speaking for his planet.
"I'm really glad you didn't say 'belittle' 'cause then I'd have a field day ..." hee hee hee!
The Sontarans start up their 'Sontar-ohn!' chant, the Doctor rolls his eyes and sonics the channel to some cartoon (if it had been teletubbies I would've leapt behind the couch in terror and written a slash fic.) The General says he'd rather this dialoge was handled by Earth-representatives, but the Doctor just switches the channel back to the Sontarans. Hee hee hee!
The Doctor does what he did when the Cybermen captured him in S2, using the transmission to talk to Donna. Sadly she doesn't get his number, only stares at her phone, at a loss.
Ratt-boy announces his plans, to take himself and the brainiacs to 'Earth .2' and elaborates on how great it'll be. One of the girls is disgusted that he's designed a 'mating program' and stalks out, with the rest of the group, despite Ratt-boy waving a gun around and yelling. When they're gone he throws a temper-tantrum. Poor boy, all he ever wanted was to be clever and not be pulled down by everyone else, and now he's just sick.
The news reports people migrating away from major cities. American-reporter says it's being likened to a biblical plague and many are calling it 'the end of days.' Oh don't start that with me, guys! I've heard that on Buffy, Torchwood, and Hex, and it never sticks!
Donna shares a tearful phone conversation with her mom and Gramps. Her mom is annoying, her Gramps is as noble as his name. They've taped up the windows, like in
The Doctor is freaking out (silently) that UNIT is launching nukes. He's too busy doing that to notice clone-Martha's suspicious faces.
"The bravery of idiots is bravery none the less." Hee hee ...
Oh god,
The Martha-clone stops the nukes from launching. Yay? The Doctor's beginning to show his suspicions.
WOW. That's a lot of extras dressed up like Sontarans ...
The Sontarans enter a corridor with some soldiers. The Doctor tells the General to get them out. The General tells the soldiers to open fire, staring right at the Doctor.
You know the drill: all the red shirts die, the guy who had a few lines sends a last transmission and then gets shot, we feel sick, etc.
"He wasn't Greyhound 4o, he was Ross. Now you listen to me, GET THEM OUT OF THERE!!!"
*leaps back from the screen* Whoa ... *waves tentatively at Psycho!Nine from behind the couch*
"This isn't war, this is sport!" ok, that Sontaran can die a grisly death at the Doctor's hands. General Starl, however, I really want to survive. Because he's awesome. Awwwwwwwsome.
"It's times like these I could do with the Brigadier ... no offense."
"None taken," though the General looks like he hears about the Brig an awful lot, like how Martha heard about Rose all the time. "Sir Alistair is a fine man, if not the best, unfortunately he's stranded in Peru."
Good, some of the best, clearest night-skies in the world can be seen from mountains in Peru. The Brig is safe. Let's hope he shows up someday.
Luke arrives on the Sontaran ship and says his students wouldn't come. General Starl says they were cleverer than Luke thought, seeing as, had they arrived, they would have been shot. Luke wigs out and General Starl says they only needed him for 'the ATMOS system.' Luke gets ticked off because you can't say 'ATMOS system' and then teleports away when General Starl orders his execution. General Starl calls it "a coward's retreat" and orders the shut-down of all teleports. Back at 'home' Luke cries on the floor. I think, if he shaped up a bit, he'd be a rad Companion for the Master.
"For the billionth time you can't fight Sontarans!"
Doctor, you attacked General Starl with a birdie. If you weren't the Champion of Earth, I'd call you a hypocrite.
The Doctor phones Donna and asks her (constantly apologizing) to take the things off the TARDIS and knock out the Sontaran guard. "I can't even mend a fuse." "Donna, stop talking about yourself like that!" *SQUEE* (I'm gonna hug the Doctor and hold Donna's hand ...)
Donna whaps the Sontaran with the mallet the Doctor uses on the TARDIS dash sometimes. YAHOO!
"You need three fingers."
"You've got three fingers."
"Oh, yeah ..." *huggles Donna*
She makes the Vulcan-sign and she's in.
"Oh, you are brilliant you are!" the Doctor coaches through the phone. David Tennant is amazingly good on phones. I'm awful on phones. I pace and stutter.
The General is passing out gasmasks, like it's 'Worship the Master and the Empty Child' day.
Donna ducks into one of those 'convenient alcoves' while a battalion of Sontarans passes by.
Outside, everyone is in gasmasks and readying guns. The General asks the Doctor about something, and he replies "Are you my mummy?" *sporfles* Gonna take me a minute to get over that one, my friends ...
OMG it's the VALIANT! It's clearing away the fog so they can shoot red shirts. Yaaaay? (Who am I kidding, it's the Valiant of course I'm squeeing inside like the Doctor/Master fangirl I am.)
The Valiant shoots some green energy beams, someone fires a rocket-launcher, and a bunch of soldiers shoot a lot of rounds in a very short space of time. The General, Martha-clone, and the Doctor rush into the factory. Martha-Clone and the Doctor (whose hair is lookin' fine after the gas-mask thingy) rush off in the opposite direction as the pack.
The Doctor discovers Real-Martha (ALIVE! YAY! Unconscious, but alive. YAY!) Clone-Martha pulls a gun on him, but he's not impressed. "You're a triple-agent." Wow, he knew from the start!
"And frankly you smell. You might as well have been wearing a t-shirt that says 'clone.' Although, maybe not in front of Captain Jack." Hee hee hee!
"There was this thing, Doctor, this alien with this ... head!"
Oh very good Martha Jones ... I'll let that slide seeing as you just woke up from a Cyber-converter thing and had the spiky headdress from the TV movie pulled off of your head.
The Doctor's phone rings. "Blimely, I'm busy." Yeah, Doctor, having two Companions onscreen in mortal peril is always fun fun fun!
Real-Martha (wearing the Doctor's coat) talks to herself. It's very touching. Apparently the gas is Sontaran clone-food stuff, whatever, the important thing is that the clone dies and while all of this is going on Martha's theme music is playing. When she takes her ring back the music that was playing when she was walking across the conference room towards the Master starts playing, and you remember how that affected me ... *cries, yelps, hides, and punches the air at the same time*
The gang is reunited, Martha keeps pressing 'No' on the nuke-launch thingy, and Donna is confuzzled that there are two Marthas.
"The old team, back together! Well, the new team ..." hee ... yay! *wishes the Master were about*
The New Team teleports into the
Martha giggles about wearing the Doctor's coat. "I feel like a kid in my dad's clothes."
"Oh, well if you're calling him 'dad' you're definitely gettin' over him." *beams* Donna is good for everyone!
Earth now looks like Mercury with all the smoke. It's scary.
Donna's mom and Gramps' house is filling with gas. Shouldn' they hide down in the basement? Gas rises ... or is that heat? Well, you know what I mean, it'd be easier to barricade yourself in a basement ... unless it was a zombie invasion, in which case, you go up and destroy the stairs.
The Doctor does his signature 'assemble deux es machina whilst explaining things to everyone else.'
He shoots this little ball of flames into the atmosphere (hee, ATMOSphere ...) and the sky goes up in flames. It's rather scary, but the Valiant doesn't get incinerated and all the gas goes away.
Donna's mom and Gramps stagger outside, then Gramps does his fangirl-dance. Everyone on the streets do this jump-about-whilst-doing-the-'Yatta!'-pose that is very nice indeed. Blond-lady kisses the General, then they sort of look away, all professional. Hee.
The Doctor prepares to beam-up to the Sontaran ship with the flame-destruction-coffee-can-device. He thanks Donna and Martha and advises Luke to 'do something clever' with his life. The Doctor won't put the machine on a delay because he's going to give the Sontarans a choice. If I didn't know DT is staying on for the whole season, I'd be very worried indeed.
Ok, the Sontarans may look ugly, act sexist, and annoy a fair-few people, but they have one badass ship. I wouldn't mind having one of them, actually. The ship, that is, not a Sontaran. I doubt a Sontaran would approve of my 'non-profit writings concerning the romantic relationship between the Doctor and his greatest adversary.'
"If it saves the Earth I'll do it, Starl, I'll do it."
"A warrior doesn't talk, he acts."
Ooooooo ...
"You'll die Starl!"
"Knowing that you died too!"
Wow. Gotta love an opponent with a warrior-code.
"What are you doing?" Martha asks.
Luke looks up at her. "Something clever."
He teleports the Doctor out, and himself in.
"Sontar-hah!" he says, slamming the button.
He, the Sontarans, and they baddass, fantastic ship blow up. How many things have blow up dangerously close to Earth now?
The Doctor staggers to the edge of the teleport. Martha rushes to his side and huggles him. Donna is slower, and she slaps his arm before holding it in a comforting sort of way. Good for her.
Donna's mom is talking about how no one is driving, there are lots of kids on bikes all over the place. Was ATMOS installed on motorcycles?
Donna has blue nail polish on. Cool.
Her Gramps promises not to tell her mother. "Now you go with him, that wonderful Doctor. You go and see the stars. Then, you bring a bit of 'em back for your old Gramps." He's tearing up, and so is Donna. She hugs him, kisses the top of his head, tells him she loves him, and slowly leaves.
Donna's wearing a short tan coat that is not very flattering to her at all. She needs the old red noga-hide one, or her black one from badass-emporium. She declines to come with the Doctor and Donna, but admitting she's better for having been away. I agree with that so much.
She heads for the door ... but it slams shut. The TARDIS starts up, rocking around and shuddering in great distress. No, Martha is not being shanghaied by the Doctor, he didn't touch anything, and it's out of the Doctor's control. He even exclaimed "What? What? What?!" a couple times! He has no idea where they're going.
Next Week: THE DOCTOR'S DAUGHTER!
...yeah, I know, it sounds like one of those bad-fics everyone writes. I even wrote one with that title, I just never posted it because I recognized it for what it was: a really cheesy Mary-Sue fic. Anyhoodle, DD is blond, cute, handles a gun, and can do that cool flipy-thing where you get past one of those laser fence-thingies. She also appears to be snogging a woman with short hair - or a really feminine-looking guy - through some bars. *crosses fingers and prays for a lesbian kiss*
Her appearance is what made me spaz out and loose the ability of human speech for fifteen-to-twenty minutes last month, because I read the tiniest spoiler ever and ... yeah, still in shock over here. *waves feebly*
SHE LOOKS LIKE THE SPAWN OF THE DOCTOR AND ROSE. NO NO NO PLEASE GOD NOOOOOOOOOOOO! *slams head against wall* Please make her some funky genetic experiment, or someone the Doctor had with an anonymous (and possibly killed-by-the-Master) Time Lady or Madame de Pompadour’s secret child or ... ANYTHING but Rose's daughter. PLEASE! *near tears*
Also, in the promo, someone with a black-gloved hand covers Martha's mouth (*prays for the Master), there are funky-looking aliens with liquid containers attached to their faces fighting people with green shirts and getting kicked by DD.
Is it too much to hope for that she's the product of a wild fling between the Fifth Doctor and Ainley!Master?
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Date: 2008-05-04 08:17 pm (UTC)FANTASTIC two-parter, I thought. Hopefully the other one this season will do just as well, if not better.