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aunt_zelda) wrote2008-05-11 10:03 am
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What aunt_zelda Thinks: The Doctor's Daughter (I'll fix the LJ cut thing soon)
I know, I thought it too when I heard the episode name. "That sounds like one of those Mary-Sue bad-fics you avoid." But it's Doctor Who so I had to watch it. And I'm glad I did. Despite Martha not doing much, what little she DID do was wonderful.
And to those of you who thought she would be a genetic-clone-thingy from the start, you were right. I'm very glad you were, too, because if she'd been the spawn of Rose and the Doctor ... *shudders*
Anyhoodle, very good episode in my mind. Despite the blatantly-obvious Mary-Sue, Donna was hilarious, I loved the Hath-Martha conversations, and we learned a lot about the Doctor. Plus, many, many, MANY allusions to the Master.
I liked it. Throw shoes at me if you want to, but there you go.
Also, any ideas who the mother of the Doctor's CHILDREN (whoa there! Didn't see PLURAL coming at us!) is/was? I really, really want it to have been the Master, but that's something I highly doubt, at least for THOSE kids that died in the Time War. I still want the Doctor and the Master to have Timebabbies, however ...
My thoughts as I watched:
'The Doctor's Daughter'
Whilst clinging to the TARDIS console, Donna is clued into the thing about the Doctor's hand by Martha.
"You're completely impossible!" she exlcaims at the Doctor.
"I'm not ... impossible just a bit ... unlikely." hee hee ...
Also the Doctor's hand is excited by whatever's going on. That probably means it's far, far away from lonelyboe69, aka Jack.
Outside the TARDIS, it looks like a warzone. There's piles of stuff with bullet and an old matress thing with those wires.
"Oh, I love this bit." Martha mutters to Donna.
"Thought you wanted to go home." Donna smirks.
"Yes, but all the same ..."
Some guys in green shirts with guns rush in and surround the New Team. After the 'drop your weapons' business they haul the Doctor over to a machine and stick his arm in. There's some noises and the Doctor winces with pain and explains that it's taking a tissue sample. He's realeased, with a cut on his wrist (not like cutter, though) and Donna and Martha rush over to him. Then some chamber with dramatic smoke opens, andMary Sue a blond girl steps out. Some guy hands her a gun, and the Doctor says "She's my daughter." She beams and says "Hello, Dad."
*headdesk*
Ok, so basically she's not, as I feared, the spawn of Rose and the Doctor, or, as I hoped, the spawn of Five and Ainley. She's one of those genetic-creations you get in fanfics. The Doctor is a father AND mother. Don't ask too many questions, suffice to say that she's got all this military knowledge, which she exhibits when these knarly-looking aliens with green fluid cannisters on their faces attack, she pulls some Buffy-moves.
Sadly Blondie also blows the tunnel, with nabbed-Martha on the other side with the aliens. The Doctor is angry, Blondie says he's still got 'her' (Donna) whereas cute-boy lost both of his men. Donna is angry that Blondie's calling Martha 'collateral damage' and calls Blondie 'GI Jane.' Donna would have a FIELD DAY with Sawyer. How did Blondie get born with a perfect mascara job?
The Doctor insists he's gonna get Martha back, but cute-boy points his gun and says he's taking the Doctor and Donna to the General (not ANOTHER one ...) He's also confuzzled that the Doctor and Donna have no marks and no fight in them.
Martha wakes up on the other side of the block, and finds an injured alien. She tries to help it and is confuzzled by the half-human-half-fish business. "Is that a shoulder? Feels like a shoulder ..." the TARDIS is behind her. More fish-humans show up and Martha badasses her way into re-locating the fish-human's shoulder. Then she says "I'm Doctor Martha Jones. Now who the hell are you?"
On the way through a tunnel Donna names 'generated annomly' Jenny. "What do you think, dad?" she teases the Doctor, taking this whole business in stride.
"Not what you call a natural parent, are you?"
"They stole a tissue-sample at gunpoint and processed it, it's not what I'd call natural parenting." (Oh yeah, like your baby with the Master would've been 'traditional?' And what about those Looms? ...)
"Rubish, my friend Mary's fathered twins using a turkey-baster, never bothered her."
Hahahhhahhahahahahaha ... excuse me ....
"Never extrapolate a relationship from a biological accident." Ooooo, that's cold, Doctor.
"I'm not a monkey!" Jenny exclaims. "... or a child." No, dear, you're a Mary-Sue. Pray you aren't killed by angry fangirls by the end of the episode. Or seduced by the Master in a fanfic.
Ooooo, the base of operations is in an old theater! It's pretty ... *wants to live there*
While Old-Guy-With-Strange-Accent informs the Doctor and Donna (whom he assumes are Pacifists from the East) who the Hath are, Martha is escorted into the Hath's base of operations, in some kind of old room, where they too are cloning each other. The Hath gather round and pet Martha, who smiles nervously.
Apparently the war has been going on for so long no one remembers how long. 'Children of the Machine' are born with only the knowledge of how to fight and how to die.
Martha is shown one of those holographic maps. "Right ... so we're here?" she points. The Hath nod.
The same screen is shown to the Doctor.
Cute-boy announces that they could breed a whole platoon from the Doctor and Donna. Donna objects, insisting that "no offence" Jenny isn't real.
"I have a body, I have a mind, I have independant thought, how am I not real?" Jenny demands.
This is a brave new world, Jenny darling, and only outsiders can see that.
Apparently 'the great one' breathed life into the universe. Then 'she' sighed. Jenny, like me, likes the idea of it being a 'she.' The Doctor calls it a 'creation myth,' which was the subject of that fantastic class I took last month. Why can't I stop thinking about the Rani?
The Doctor sonics a hidden bit of the map into being. Everyone thinks it's where 'the Source' (the sigh of the Great One) is kept. The Hath see it too.
"Hang on, hang on, second ago it was 'peace in our time,' now you're talking about genocide!"
"For us, that means the same thing."
"Then you need to get yourself a better dictionary. When you do, look up 'genocide.' You'll see a little picture of me there, and the caption will read 'over my dead body!'"
Uh, Doctor? I hate to say it, but as the Master's not here ... YOU COMMITED GENOCIDE. (And isn't genocide restricted to your own species/culture? So wouldn't humans-killing-Hath be mass-murder?)
The General suggests the Doctor consider the irony of showing them the way from inside his prison cell. Cute-boy points his gun at the Doctor and Donna.
"Oi, oi! Cool the beans, Rambo!"Sawyer Donna exclaims.
"And if you try anything Doctor, I'll see that your woman dies first."
Wearily the Doctor and Donna insist, AGAIN, that they're not a couple. Tee hee.
The General orders Jenny locked up too, because she comes from 'Pacifist stock.'
As the Hath punch the air with guns and become excited, Martha worries that she just started a war.
"So the Source could be a weapon and we just gave directions to Captain Nut-Job?" Hee hee, I love Donna.
Jenny is staring at her dad. She's confuzzled, because the Doctor has been saying he's not a soldier, and here he is drawing up stragegies like a General.
"No, no, I'm trying to stop the fighting." the Doctor says.
Jenny shrugs. "Isn't every soldier?" Touche, Mary-Sue!
The Doctor stutters and says he hasn't got time for this.
Jenny calls the sonic-screwdriver a weapon and is excited that she's going to learn so much from the Doctor. "You are such a solider!"
The Doctor asks Donna to 'tell her' but Donna is too pleased that the Doctor's speechless. "You go on, Jenny!" Bahhahahahahahaha! Between Donna, Badass Martha, and Jenny, the Doctor's gonna be WISHING the Master was there to spirit him away.
The humans have a pep-rally. The Hath march about. The Doctor plans an escape. Jenny wants to help, he wants her to stay, saying Jenny belongs with 'them.' Donna thinks Jenny belongs with the new team.
"She's a soldier, she came out of a machine!"
"Oh yes, I know that bit!" Donna snaps. Then she demands the Doctor's stethescope and listens to Jenny's chest.
Oh my god.
Donna demands that the Doctor listen too, he does, and Jenny has TWO hearts. *blinks furiously* Oh my GOD ... *whimpers*
Donna asks what you call a female Time Lord. *cough* Romana *cough* the Rani *cough* where are they? *cough*
"What's a Time Lord?" Jenny asks.
"It's who I am, it's where I'm from ..." the Doctor mutters wearily, beacause he's said it too many times.
"And I'm from you." Jenny insists.
"You're an echo, that's all!" the Doctor snaps, getting angry. "A Time Lord is so much more: a sum of knowledge, a code, a shared history, a shared suffering ..." he looses steam and fades back into Depressed-Ten, which is worse than Depressed-Nine because Rose was supposed to help heal the Doctor fromt the Time War, and after the Master, the Doctor's slowly but surely undoing all the good Rose did. "Only it's gone now, all of it. Gone forever."
"What happened?" Jenny asks.
You can barely hear the Doctor now. "It was a war."
"Like this one?" Jenny asks.
The Doctor smiles and almost laughs. It's awful, particularly with the sad, slow music in the backgroun. "Bigger. Much bigger."
"And you fought? And killed?" Jenny presses, not knowing HALF of it. The Doctor looks like he's in dire need of huggles. I nearly broke through my TV trying to get to him.
The Doctor nods, and utters a barely audible "Yes" that almost breaks my heart.
"Then how are we different?" Jenny asks, looking like she's about to cry.
Martha needs to charge her cellphone, but the Hath has made the map 3D. "Oh, you're a clever Hath!" she squees, thumping in on his looks-like-a-shoulder.
Martha figures out that if she goes over the surface she'll get there before everyone. The Hath shows her the surface readings, Martha decides that as long as she's not out too long she should be ok, despite the radiation spikes. (Are Peter and Sylar having another fight?) She heads off, the Hath looks mournful, and Martha says "Oh, come on then!" Awwwwww ... I hope that's not a red-shirted Hath.
Jenny pulls the oldest trick in the pretty-girls-get-out-of-jail-free Instruction Manuel. I'm torn between being impressed, wondering how she'd get along with Capt. Jack, snorting contemptuously at Cute-Boy, and being annoyed that Cute-Boy isn't a woman, like I thought he was in the promo clip.
From the sidelines, Donna mutters to the Doctor "I'd like to see you try that." So would we, Donna dear, so would we.
Later, there's a guard in around the corner. Jenny wants to shoot him, the Doctor restrains her, Donna proposes her 'femmine wiles' and tosses back her ginger hair, the Doctor is overcome by ginger-envy and says they should use those later for emegencies, he pulls a toy mouse out of his pocket and uses it to distract the guard, who is knocked unconcious by Jenny. If Donna had tossed her hair before the unconcious-ness, it would have been a lovely team effort.
Martha goes up onto the surface, with the reluctant Hath. It's VERY windy, there's three suns, it's very dark, and there's some mountains in the distance. Also some scrubby plant life. I'd live there, if the wind let up a bit. Martha accuses the Hath of bad language, laughs, and they set off.
"I've waited all my life for this moment. No one's going to get in my way, certainly not this doctor!" Before you know it, the General will be accusing Martha and Donna and Jenny of being 'meddling kids.'
As Donna tries to figure out the mysterious numbers, Jenny comments "Always thinking, both of you, who are you people?"
"I told you, I'm the Doctor." the Doctor says, working on the door.
"The Doctor? That's it?" Jenny asks.
"That's all he every says ..." Donna sing-songs in annoyance.
"So you don't have a name either? Are you an annomely too?" Ooooo, nice one, Jenny!
"No." The Doctor says simply.
Donna snorts. "Oh come off it, you're the most annomolous bloke I've ever met!"
"So what do you do?" Jenny asks.
"I travel. Through time and space."
"He saves planets, rescues civilizations, and defeast terrible creatures." Donna elaborates. "... and runs a lot. Seriously, there's an outragous amount of running involved."
Jenny grins. These are her kind of people.
The humans are coming! "What was that about running?" the Doctor asks, and the A-Team takes off.
Then they're stopped by one of those laser-fence things. The Doctor tosses the cute toy-mouse through, it explodes. Yeek, I liked that toy-mouse! Also, the return of crazy rave-lighting salvaged from the Valiant! Yahoo!
"Listen to me ... killing after a while, it infects you, and once it does you're never rid of it." and the Doctor's not just talking about the Master ...
Jenny pulls a Doctor: she shoots a pipe above the General's head, spewing hampering smoke all over the place. Then she backflips and handsprings her way through the lasor fence. BAD. ASS. *punches the air* The Doctor hugs her and she squees that she didn't kill the General.
Martha trips and falls down a hill into some alien-quicksand. The Hath leaps in after her and pushes her to safety, but in doing so, he drows. If a fish-man can drown. He doesn't resurface. It's very sad indeed. It hits Martha pretty hard, because she sobs all over the place.
Donna (once again) denies having that kind of relationship with the Doctor. "I mean, we're not even the same speices, there's probably laws against it!" *prays to the gods above*
"Can be terrifying, brilliant, and funny. Sometimes all at the same time." That would be the show in a nutshell, if you just added something about the fantastic music and the surprising bouts of crying it invokes in the audience.
Jenny is overjoyed that she's gonna travel with the Doctor and Donna and races off ahead. Donna accuses the Doctor of having 'dad-shock,' but he doesn't. She asks if he's worried having Jenny in the TARDIS will turn it from a sports car to a minivan. It's not that either. It's the fact that the Doctor's been a father before, and he lost all that a long time ago. Donna's horrified. "You talk all the time, but you never say anything." *wibbles*
Apparently the Doctor didn't have just one kid, he had plural! Whoa ... with whom?! With WHAT?!
"The hole they left, all the pain that filled it ..." wow, we never considered this bit, did we girls? The Time War wasn't just loosing his species and home and culture and lover, it was loosing his CHILDREN. He might have killed his own children inadvertantly.
Donna promsises that Jenny and herself will help the Doctor. He insists "When they died, that part of me died with them. It'll never come back, not now."
"I'll tell you something, Doctor, something I've never told you before ... I think you're wrong." *huggles Donna for the rest of eternity*
"Time to run again! I love the running!" Jenny grins.
The Doctor, back in ADHD-mode again, grins "Love the running."
Martha, dirty and tear-streaked and exhausted, crests a ridge and sees something that looks like it was air-lifted in from Corosant. (I'm annoyed I can't remember how to spell that ...)
The A-Team enters the 'Temple' and so does Martha. It's actually a fully-operational spaceship. With more stolen lights from the Valiant. Oh, how I wish the Master was there ... maybe the Rani too? Please?
Donna figures out the numbers at last, because she memorized the Dewy Decimal system in two days. I love her so much right now. It's the date! "It's the other way around like it is in America." ... wait, what's different about our dates?
"It's the new Byzantin Calender!" the Doctor exclaims.
"This war broke out seven days ago." Bahahahahahahahha!
Martha rejoins the A-Team, with hugs all around. (Excluding Jenny, but that's understandable.)
WOW. It's a garden! So pretty! I love gardens in spaceships ... is that weird? (Is it weird as well that I want the Master to step out from behind a tree and offer the Doctor an apple?)
The whole cast assembes in the garden, the Doctor smashes the terraforming-orb so that pretty smoke floats up to begin making the windswept, cloudly planet a green, lovely place to live. Everyone lays down arms but the General, who tries to shoot the Doctor, but Jenny leaps in front of him. I have two words for her: just ... regenerate!
The Doctor insists they've got so much to do, and aknowledges, at last, that she's his daughter. Jenny dies in his arms, in a position that looks like they flipped the Master's 'death' image and inserted Jenny instead. Except there's no heart-wrenching screams from the Doctor.
"She was like you but maybe not enough."
"No, too much. That's the truth of it. She was too much like me."
He lays Jenny down and kisses her forehead.
Then something really amazing happens.
The Doctor strides over to the General, grabs his pistol, and points it at the General's head. There's some really intense music, the Doctor is breathing really, really heavily, and Martha and Donna look terrified. For an awful second I really thought he was going to do it, really, I did. And, be honest, you did too, didn't you?
"I never would. Have you got that? I. Never. Would." Yeah, but Doctor? I seriously thought you were going to.
"Make the foundation of this society a man who never would!"
WOW. I'm just gonna ... stand over there with Martha and Donna. Because really, they're in a seperate reality right now.
Then the Doctor sits down beside Jenny's body.
Sun streams in through the stained glass windows. Cute-boy asks the Doctor to let 'them' (Hath and humans) give Jenny a proper ceremony. The Doctor agrees.
"Endless paradox ..." ok, now you've got me thinking about the Master! Thank you, writers!
They drop Martha off at home. Donna insists she'll travel with the Doctor forever. That's an awfully long time, my dear ...
"All those things you've been ready to die for, I thought for a moment there you'd finally found something worth living for." Oi! Rose! You! Donna! THE MASTER!
They hug, and Martha looks at her engagement ring, smiles, and races inside to her Tom.
Jenny's not dead! Silly people! She spits out some terraforming-smoke and wakes up. then she zooms off in a shuttle. "What are you going to do, tell my dad?" hee hee ...
"But where are you going?" Cute-boy demands, foolishly thinking he was Companion-material.
"Oh, I've got the whole universe! Planets to save! Civilization to rescue! Creatures to defeat! And an awful lot of running to do!"
She grins at us.
Damn you, Mary-Sue! *headdesk*
Next Week: Agatha Christie! Sherlock Holmes rubbish! I'M COVERED IN BEES
And to those of you who thought she would be a genetic-clone-thingy from the start, you were right. I'm very glad you were, too, because if she'd been the spawn of Rose and the Doctor ... *shudders*
Anyhoodle, very good episode in my mind. Despite the blatantly-obvious Mary-Sue, Donna was hilarious, I loved the Hath-Martha conversations, and we learned a lot about the Doctor. Plus, many, many, MANY allusions to the Master.
I liked it. Throw shoes at me if you want to, but there you go.
Also, any ideas who the mother of the Doctor's CHILDREN (whoa there! Didn't see PLURAL coming at us!) is/was? I really, really want it to have been the Master, but that's something I highly doubt, at least for THOSE kids that died in the Time War. I still want the Doctor and the Master to have Timebabbies, however ...
My thoughts as I watched:
'The Doctor's Daughter'
Whilst clinging to the TARDIS console, Donna is clued into the thing about the Doctor's hand by Martha.
"You're completely impossible!" she exlcaims at the Doctor.
"I'm not ... impossible just a bit ... unlikely." hee hee ...
Also the Doctor's hand is excited by whatever's going on. That probably means it's far, far away from lonelyboe69, aka Jack.
Outside the TARDIS, it looks like a warzone. There's piles of stuff with bullet and an old matress thing with those wires.
"Oh, I love this bit." Martha mutters to Donna.
"Thought you wanted to go home." Donna smirks.
"Yes, but all the same ..."
Some guys in green shirts with guns rush in and surround the New Team. After the 'drop your weapons' business they haul the Doctor over to a machine and stick his arm in. There's some noises and the Doctor winces with pain and explains that it's taking a tissue sample. He's realeased, with a cut on his wrist (not like cutter, though) and Donna and Martha rush over to him. Then some chamber with dramatic smoke opens, and
*headdesk*
Ok, so basically she's not, as I feared, the spawn of Rose and the Doctor, or, as I hoped, the spawn of Five and Ainley. She's one of those genetic-creations you get in fanfics. The Doctor is a father AND mother. Don't ask too many questions, suffice to say that she's got all this military knowledge, which she exhibits when these knarly-looking aliens with green fluid cannisters on their faces attack, she pulls some Buffy-moves.
Sadly Blondie also blows the tunnel, with nabbed-Martha on the other side with the aliens. The Doctor is angry, Blondie says he's still got 'her' (Donna) whereas cute-boy lost both of his men. Donna is angry that Blondie's calling Martha 'collateral damage' and calls Blondie 'GI Jane.' Donna would have a FIELD DAY with Sawyer. How did Blondie get born with a perfect mascara job?
The Doctor insists he's gonna get Martha back, but cute-boy points his gun and says he's taking the Doctor and Donna to the General (not ANOTHER one ...) He's also confuzzled that the Doctor and Donna have no marks and no fight in them.
Martha wakes up on the other side of the block, and finds an injured alien. She tries to help it and is confuzzled by the half-human-half-fish business. "Is that a shoulder? Feels like a shoulder ..." the TARDIS is behind her. More fish-humans show up and Martha badasses her way into re-locating the fish-human's shoulder. Then she says "I'm Doctor Martha Jones. Now who the hell are you?"
On the way through a tunnel Donna names 'generated annomly' Jenny. "What do you think, dad?" she teases the Doctor, taking this whole business in stride.
"Not what you call a natural parent, are you?"
"They stole a tissue-sample at gunpoint and processed it, it's not what I'd call natural parenting." (Oh yeah, like your baby with the Master would've been 'traditional?' And what about those Looms? ...)
"Rubish, my friend Mary's fathered twins using a turkey-baster, never bothered her."
Hahahhhahhahahahahaha ... excuse me ....
"Never extrapolate a relationship from a biological accident." Ooooo, that's cold, Doctor.
"I'm not a monkey!" Jenny exclaims. "... or a child." No, dear, you're a Mary-Sue. Pray you aren't killed by angry fangirls by the end of the episode. Or seduced by the Master in a fanfic.
Ooooo, the base of operations is in an old theater! It's pretty ... *wants to live there*
While Old-Guy-With-Strange-Accent informs the Doctor and Donna (whom he assumes are Pacifists from the East) who the Hath are, Martha is escorted into the Hath's base of operations, in some kind of old room, where they too are cloning each other. The Hath gather round and pet Martha, who smiles nervously.
Apparently the war has been going on for so long no one remembers how long. 'Children of the Machine' are born with only the knowledge of how to fight and how to die.
Martha is shown one of those holographic maps. "Right ... so we're here?" she points. The Hath nod.
The same screen is shown to the Doctor.
Cute-boy announces that they could breed a whole platoon from the Doctor and Donna. Donna objects, insisting that "no offence" Jenny isn't real.
"I have a body, I have a mind, I have independant thought, how am I not real?" Jenny demands.
This is a brave new world, Jenny darling, and only outsiders can see that.
Apparently 'the great one' breathed life into the universe. Then 'she' sighed. Jenny, like me, likes the idea of it being a 'she.' The Doctor calls it a 'creation myth,' which was the subject of that fantastic class I took last month. Why can't I stop thinking about the Rani?
The Doctor sonics a hidden bit of the map into being. Everyone thinks it's where 'the Source' (the sigh of the Great One) is kept. The Hath see it too.
"Hang on, hang on, second ago it was 'peace in our time,' now you're talking about genocide!"
"For us, that means the same thing."
"Then you need to get yourself a better dictionary. When you do, look up 'genocide.' You'll see a little picture of me there, and the caption will read 'over my dead body!'"
Uh, Doctor? I hate to say it, but as the Master's not here ... YOU COMMITED GENOCIDE. (And isn't genocide restricted to your own species/culture? So wouldn't humans-killing-Hath be mass-murder?)
The General suggests the Doctor consider the irony of showing them the way from inside his prison cell. Cute-boy points his gun at the Doctor and Donna.
"Oi, oi! Cool the beans, Rambo!"
"And if you try anything Doctor, I'll see that your woman dies first."
Wearily the Doctor and Donna insist, AGAIN, that they're not a couple. Tee hee.
The General orders Jenny locked up too, because she comes from 'Pacifist stock.'
As the Hath punch the air with guns and become excited, Martha worries that she just started a war.
"So the Source could be a weapon and we just gave directions to Captain Nut-Job?" Hee hee, I love Donna.
Jenny is staring at her dad. She's confuzzled, because the Doctor has been saying he's not a soldier, and here he is drawing up stragegies like a General.
"No, no, I'm trying to stop the fighting." the Doctor says.
Jenny shrugs. "Isn't every soldier?" Touche, Mary-Sue!
The Doctor stutters and says he hasn't got time for this.
Jenny calls the sonic-screwdriver a weapon and is excited that she's going to learn so much from the Doctor. "You are such a solider!"
The Doctor asks Donna to 'tell her' but Donna is too pleased that the Doctor's speechless. "You go on, Jenny!" Bahhahahahahahaha! Between Donna, Badass Martha, and Jenny, the Doctor's gonna be WISHING the Master was there to spirit him away.
The humans have a pep-rally. The Hath march about. The Doctor plans an escape. Jenny wants to help, he wants her to stay, saying Jenny belongs with 'them.' Donna thinks Jenny belongs with the new team.
"She's a soldier, she came out of a machine!"
"Oh yes, I know that bit!" Donna snaps. Then she demands the Doctor's stethescope and listens to Jenny's chest.
Oh my god.
Donna demands that the Doctor listen too, he does, and Jenny has TWO hearts. *blinks furiously* Oh my GOD ... *whimpers*
Donna asks what you call a female Time Lord. *cough* Romana *cough* the Rani *cough* where are they? *cough*
"What's a Time Lord?" Jenny asks.
"It's who I am, it's where I'm from ..." the Doctor mutters wearily, beacause he's said it too many times.
"And I'm from you." Jenny insists.
"You're an echo, that's all!" the Doctor snaps, getting angry. "A Time Lord is so much more: a sum of knowledge, a code, a shared history, a shared suffering ..." he looses steam and fades back into Depressed-Ten, which is worse than Depressed-Nine because Rose was supposed to help heal the Doctor fromt the Time War, and after the Master, the Doctor's slowly but surely undoing all the good Rose did. "Only it's gone now, all of it. Gone forever."
"What happened?" Jenny asks.
You can barely hear the Doctor now. "It was a war."
"Like this one?" Jenny asks.
The Doctor smiles and almost laughs. It's awful, particularly with the sad, slow music in the backgroun. "Bigger. Much bigger."
"And you fought? And killed?" Jenny presses, not knowing HALF of it. The Doctor looks like he's in dire need of huggles. I nearly broke through my TV trying to get to him.
The Doctor nods, and utters a barely audible "Yes" that almost breaks my heart.
"Then how are we different?" Jenny asks, looking like she's about to cry.
Martha needs to charge her cellphone, but the Hath has made the map 3D. "Oh, you're a clever Hath!" she squees, thumping in on his looks-like-a-shoulder.
Martha figures out that if she goes over the surface she'll get there before everyone. The Hath shows her the surface readings, Martha decides that as long as she's not out too long she should be ok, despite the radiation spikes. (Are Peter and Sylar having another fight?) She heads off, the Hath looks mournful, and Martha says "Oh, come on then!" Awwwwww ... I hope that's not a red-shirted Hath.
Jenny pulls the oldest trick in the pretty-girls-get-out-of-jail-free Instruction Manuel. I'm torn between being impressed, wondering how she'd get along with Capt. Jack, snorting contemptuously at Cute-Boy, and being annoyed that Cute-Boy isn't a woman, like I thought he was in the promo clip.
From the sidelines, Donna mutters to the Doctor "I'd like to see you try that." So would we, Donna dear, so would we.
Later, there's a guard in around the corner. Jenny wants to shoot him, the Doctor restrains her, Donna proposes her 'femmine wiles' and tosses back her ginger hair, the Doctor is overcome by ginger-envy and says they should use those later for emegencies, he pulls a toy mouse out of his pocket and uses it to distract the guard, who is knocked unconcious by Jenny. If Donna had tossed her hair before the unconcious-ness, it would have been a lovely team effort.
Martha goes up onto the surface, with the reluctant Hath. It's VERY windy, there's three suns, it's very dark, and there's some mountains in the distance. Also some scrubby plant life. I'd live there, if the wind let up a bit. Martha accuses the Hath of bad language, laughs, and they set off.
"I've waited all my life for this moment. No one's going to get in my way, certainly not this doctor!" Before you know it, the General will be accusing Martha and Donna and Jenny of being 'meddling kids.'
As Donna tries to figure out the mysterious numbers, Jenny comments "Always thinking, both of you, who are you people?"
"I told you, I'm the Doctor." the Doctor says, working on the door.
"The Doctor? That's it?" Jenny asks.
"That's all he every says ..." Donna sing-songs in annoyance.
"So you don't have a name either? Are you an annomely too?" Ooooo, nice one, Jenny!
"No." The Doctor says simply.
Donna snorts. "Oh come off it, you're the most annomolous bloke I've ever met!"
"So what do you do?" Jenny asks.
"I travel. Through time and space."
"He saves planets, rescues civilizations, and defeast terrible creatures." Donna elaborates. "... and runs a lot. Seriously, there's an outragous amount of running involved."
Jenny grins. These are her kind of people.
The humans are coming! "What was that about running?" the Doctor asks, and the A-Team takes off.
Then they're stopped by one of those laser-fence things. The Doctor tosses the cute toy-mouse through, it explodes. Yeek, I liked that toy-mouse! Also, the return of crazy rave-lighting salvaged from the Valiant! Yahoo!
"Listen to me ... killing after a while, it infects you, and once it does you're never rid of it." and the Doctor's not just talking about the Master ...
Jenny pulls a Doctor: she shoots a pipe above the General's head, spewing hampering smoke all over the place. Then she backflips and handsprings her way through the lasor fence. BAD. ASS. *punches the air* The Doctor hugs her and she squees that she didn't kill the General.
Martha trips and falls down a hill into some alien-quicksand. The Hath leaps in after her and pushes her to safety, but in doing so, he drows. If a fish-man can drown. He doesn't resurface. It's very sad indeed. It hits Martha pretty hard, because she sobs all over the place.
Donna (once again) denies having that kind of relationship with the Doctor. "I mean, we're not even the same speices, there's probably laws against it!" *prays to the gods above*
"Can be terrifying, brilliant, and funny. Sometimes all at the same time." That would be the show in a nutshell, if you just added something about the fantastic music and the surprising bouts of crying it invokes in the audience.
Jenny is overjoyed that she's gonna travel with the Doctor and Donna and races off ahead. Donna accuses the Doctor of having 'dad-shock,' but he doesn't. She asks if he's worried having Jenny in the TARDIS will turn it from a sports car to a minivan. It's not that either. It's the fact that the Doctor's been a father before, and he lost all that a long time ago. Donna's horrified. "You talk all the time, but you never say anything." *wibbles*
Apparently the Doctor didn't have just one kid, he had plural! Whoa ... with whom?! With WHAT?!
"The hole they left, all the pain that filled it ..." wow, we never considered this bit, did we girls? The Time War wasn't just loosing his species and home and culture and lover, it was loosing his CHILDREN. He might have killed his own children inadvertantly.
Donna promsises that Jenny and herself will help the Doctor. He insists "When they died, that part of me died with them. It'll never come back, not now."
"I'll tell you something, Doctor, something I've never told you before ... I think you're wrong." *huggles Donna for the rest of eternity*
"Time to run again! I love the running!" Jenny grins.
The Doctor, back in ADHD-mode again, grins "Love the running."
Martha, dirty and tear-streaked and exhausted, crests a ridge and sees something that looks like it was air-lifted in from Corosant. (I'm annoyed I can't remember how to spell that ...)
The A-Team enters the 'Temple' and so does Martha. It's actually a fully-operational spaceship. With more stolen lights from the Valiant. Oh, how I wish the Master was there ... maybe the Rani too? Please?
Donna figures out the numbers at last, because she memorized the Dewy Decimal system in two days. I love her so much right now. It's the date! "It's the other way around like it is in America." ... wait, what's different about our dates?
"It's the new Byzantin Calender!" the Doctor exclaims.
"This war broke out seven days ago." Bahahahahahahahha!
Martha rejoins the A-Team, with hugs all around. (Excluding Jenny, but that's understandable.)
WOW. It's a garden! So pretty! I love gardens in spaceships ... is that weird? (Is it weird as well that I want the Master to step out from behind a tree and offer the Doctor an apple?)
The whole cast assembes in the garden, the Doctor smashes the terraforming-orb so that pretty smoke floats up to begin making the windswept, cloudly planet a green, lovely place to live. Everyone lays down arms but the General, who tries to shoot the Doctor, but Jenny leaps in front of him. I have two words for her: just ... regenerate!
The Doctor insists they've got so much to do, and aknowledges, at last, that she's his daughter. Jenny dies in his arms, in a position that looks like they flipped the Master's 'death' image and inserted Jenny instead. Except there's no heart-wrenching screams from the Doctor.
"She was like you but maybe not enough."
"No, too much. That's the truth of it. She was too much like me."
He lays Jenny down and kisses her forehead.
Then something really amazing happens.
The Doctor strides over to the General, grabs his pistol, and points it at the General's head. There's some really intense music, the Doctor is breathing really, really heavily, and Martha and Donna look terrified. For an awful second I really thought he was going to do it, really, I did. And, be honest, you did too, didn't you?
"I never would. Have you got that? I. Never. Would." Yeah, but Doctor? I seriously thought you were going to.
"Make the foundation of this society a man who never would!"
WOW. I'm just gonna ... stand over there with Martha and Donna. Because really, they're in a seperate reality right now.
Then the Doctor sits down beside Jenny's body.
Sun streams in through the stained glass windows. Cute-boy asks the Doctor to let 'them' (Hath and humans) give Jenny a proper ceremony. The Doctor agrees.
"Endless paradox ..." ok, now you've got me thinking about the Master! Thank you, writers!
They drop Martha off at home. Donna insists she'll travel with the Doctor forever. That's an awfully long time, my dear ...
"All those things you've been ready to die for, I thought for a moment there you'd finally found something worth living for." Oi! Rose! You! Donna! THE MASTER!
They hug, and Martha looks at her engagement ring, smiles, and races inside to her Tom.
Jenny's not dead! Silly people! She spits out some terraforming-smoke and wakes up. then she zooms off in a shuttle. "What are you going to do, tell my dad?" hee hee ...
"But where are you going?" Cute-boy demands, foolishly thinking he was Companion-material.
"Oh, I've got the whole universe! Planets to save! Civilization to rescue! Creatures to defeat! And an awful lot of running to do!"
She grins at us.
Damn you, Mary-Sue! *headdesk*
Next Week: Agatha Christie! Sherlock Holmes rubbish! I'M COVERED IN BEES
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Let's face it, I like my plotty Doctor Who, but really all I want is my campy, over the top, out of this world space adventure.
Can't we have plot AND ridiculous space adventures? And some boikissing, while we're at it?
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...yes. If they could manage that it would be epic as hell.
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...yes. If they could manage that it would be epic as hell.
Like Torchwood ... but with stable lesbian relationships. Seriously guys, the hetros have love, the gay men have love, why not Tosh? *cries* Tosh never had proper love ...
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I like Jenny a lot.
Oi I really thought the doctor was going to shoot that man.
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[12:00] postcard bird: why do you have an icon of a crazy lady
[12:00] champagne stains: Pardon?
[12:00] postcard bird: L?J
[12:00] postcard bird: *lj
[12:01] champagne stains: What crazy lady?
[12:01] postcard bird: the laughing one with too much lip
[12:01] champagne stains: That's Rose from DW
[12:01] postcard bird: ....not the one I remember
[12:02] champagne stains: The only rose there ever was
[12:03] postcard bird: maybe it's because she is making a strange laughing face
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Oi I really thought the doctor was going to shoot that man.
I think EVERYONE did, even DT for a second! That was SCARY ... imagine what he'd be like if he went evil. Just ... imagine it. Now hide with me behind this couch!
(Ha ha, Rose is a crazy lady!)
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I mean, we thought MOHINDER almost shooting Sylar was terrifying, look at that scene!
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Re: the dates, we write them dd/mm/yyyy, whereas you write them as mm/dd/yyyy. The format used in the show was the international format, kind of: yyyy/mm/dd, which is the one that computers configured to use US conventions will use by default. (Try it: type this year into Microsoft Word and it should pop up with the rest of the date in yyyy/mm/dd format.)
I like to think it was Romana!angst, not Master!angst, but that's because I am an unashamed Romana fangirl.
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I am so very pleased with that whole shebang. I was fully prepared to hate and ridicule her. Jenny was pretty sweet, actually.
Re: the dates, we write them dd/mm/yyyy, whereas you write them as mm/dd/yyyy. The format used in the show was the international format, kind of: yyyy/mm/dd, which is the one that computers configured to use US conventions will use by default. (Try it: type this year into Microsoft Word and it should pop up with the rest of the date in yyyy/mm/dd format.)
Wow ... that's weird ... I never thought about that, I just always wrote it like 'May 11th, 2008' and never thought of a different way ... MAN that is weird!
I like to think it was Romana!angst, not Master!angst, but that's because I am an unashamed Romana fangirl.
Can't it be both? And some Rani!angst while we're at it, for my sake?
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As for the mother of the Doctor's children...there's been no mention of her in the entire series. Also, we've never even seen his kids (something I am so very depressed about) depite the fact that quite a few serials took place on Gallifrey during the Classic Who Series.
I've heard quite a few fan speculations about his kids, including looms and such thing like that, but this comment by Russell T. Davies takes the cake (and makes me think many happy Doctor/Master thoughts):
It's just a theory, but if a post-operative transsexual from Oregon can become pregnant in real life – as reported last week – then a fictional 900-year-old from Gallifrey with two hearts certainly can. There. That should get the mosquitoes buzzing.
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I know! We should have all hated her ... but we didn't ...
(thank god she wasn't his love-child with Rose though).
I KNOW! *shivers* I have the awful feeling that it would turn out like that ... THANK YOU SLASHER GODS ABOVE! (I don't hate Rose, I love Rose, I love that she saved the Doctor from himself, but Rose/Doctor just ... NO. Just ... NO. It's not a sexual thing, people!)
It's just a theory, but if a post-operative transsexual from Oregon can become pregnant in real life – as reported last week – then a fictional 900-year-old from Gallifrey with two hearts certainly can. There. That should get the mosquitoes buzzing.
akdjflasdkjfadlskjfaskljflasjfkajsdlfja!!!????!!?!!!
THAT MAN IS EEEEEEEEEEVIL! EVIL, I tell you!
*huggles him to death*
The mother of the Doctor's children is the Master: TRUFAX!
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I'm pretty sure that was meant to be Regeneration Energy, as seen in "The Christmas Invasion"
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(LOVE your icon!)