What aunt_zelda Thinks: 'Midnight'
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aunt_zeldaHappy Father's Day to all! *beams* I'm very pleased with the card I made for my father, and the tickets to Yo-Yo Ma I gave him (woo hoo! Yo-Yo Ma!) ... have I mentioned that my dad used to play the cello in an orchestra? He still plays ... it's the most beautiful, soothing sound to me ...
Let's see if I can get through this without offending anyone ... *prays to the gods*
There, you see? I've just offended any hardcore Catholics or Evangelicals out there. And Atheists. *headdesk* This is going to be a long, hard review ...
I just realized something about last week's episode. You know how Donna's face was on an information-thingy and the Doctor had to work to get her body back? Well, remember in 'The Idiot's Lantern' when Rose's face got taken away and the Doctor had to work to get it back? Interesting parallels ...
Anyhoodle, this week 'Midnight' ...
We begin with ... elevator music? And a bunch of CGI-ed ... stuff. Donna is in some kind of resort-type thing, where you bask by a pool and people bring you phones ... she looks very happy indeed.
The Doctor calls her up and proposes this trip to a Sapphire waterfall, describing how the jewels shatter and it's so PRETTIFUL and junk, and Donna replies "I bet you say that to all the girls."And boys, I'd wager ... wonder if Theta and Koschei ever went to a sapphire waterfall? The Doctor says it's no fun on his own and pleads with Donna, but she's not budging, especially when she hears it's four hours ride there and four hours back "Like a school trip" she recaps. The Doctor will go alone, he promises to be back for dinner, for the anti-gravity restaurant (with bibs) ... tee hee! Then they do their song-and-dance of 'be careful' and 'not a date' and 'you know what I mean' that I'm very much going to miss when Donna leaves for whatever reason.
"Aaah, takin' a big spacetruck with a bunch of strangers across a diamond planet called 'Midnight?' What could possibly go wrong?"
Doctor! I'm surprised at you! You're the one who told Ida in 'The Impossible Planet' not to say stuff like that! And then the DEVIL showed up! *headdesk* He never learns, this one ...
Credits! Ba-da-ba-dump! Ba-da-ba-dump! Ba-da-ba-dump! *bounces about*
The Doctor seems thrilled at the prospect of public transport, perhaps because he so rarely uses the energy-saving system. There's a joke about the peanuts containing nuts, and the Doctor saying 'alonze' or however you spell that, which he FINALLY explains is French for 'let's go!' I prefer 'vamanos' personally, but that's just because I prefer Spanish to French.
I have a feeling that the Doctor's going to use every one of those complimentary items to MacGuyver a device later on ...
We see more passengers. I see a semi-pompous professor behind the Doctor, who introduces himself, and a woman who might be the Professor's wife, nurse, or assistant. Then a suspicious-looking blond woman clad in black, reading a book, whom the Doctor tries and fails to catch the eye of. Then a mom and dad who seem kinda normal, and their teenage (rebellious) son sitting across the aisle from them, scowling at the world in general.
"Ladies, gentlemen, and variations thereupon," the ... (flight-attendant? Stewardess? Lady-who-smiles-too-much?) Well, she made me giggle, so whatever!
Apparently the bus is taking an alternative route, (which spikes my Lost-senses and makes me yell "No! The pilot's gonna get eaten by a smoke-monster!")
Anyhoodle, there's three different entertainment systems, all going at once, VERY loudly indeedy. Everyone shifts uncomfortably, fumbling with earplugs, and the Doctor glances about for a while, mildly aghast, decides this is too much even for HIS ADHD, and sonics the stuff off.
Someone asks what they're supposed to do for FOUR HOURS and the Doctor turns around in his seat and says they'll just have to TALK to each other! Then he grins. Hee hee hee ... wish I were on that bus!
There's a luverly sequence in which the married-couple share a hi-lar-ious story about a swimming pool that wasn't really there, the Doctor finds out the assistant-woman is looking for the lost moon of Pah (or something), black-clad-blond-woman's girlfriend/wife needed "some space" and apparently that meant an entire galaxy, she and the Doctor kinda bond over lost-others, and finally Prof. shows a slideshow about the planet Midnight and how there was no life on it until people arrived, blah blah, Jethro (rebellious teen) asks how they can be sure if they never go outside, blah blah the Doctor says that's a good point, then the ship stops.
Rut-row!
The Doctor flashes his psychic-paper and gets into the driver's compartment, where there's two guys, one of whom is Driver Joe. The Doctor points out that the engines are fine and stabilizing that type of engine makes no sense "Sorry, I'm the Doctor, I'm very clever ..."
The other man in the driver's compartment is Claude, the mechanic trainee.
The Doctor gets them to open the windows, and it's very beautiful indeed. And, since it's a new route programmed by the computer, they're the first to see it.
Or, so they think. Claude insists he sees a shadow moving. Then they have to put the shields down because of some level or danger, but Claude says it looked like a shadow running TOWARDS them.
The Doctor gets shunted back to his seat. Black-clad-blond says she doesn't need this, she's on a schedule. Then DeeDee (despite the Prof. telling her not to bother the Doctor) tells the Doctor that her father was a mechanic and that the type of engines on this bus don't need to be stabilized.
Then everyone starts to freak out and fight and yell about running out of air. Because yelling REALLY LOUDLY is gonna help you if you're running out of oxygen, ya idiots ...
Anyhoodle, as I predicted, the Doctor has to use his Commanding Voice (TM) to shut up the natives.
DeeDee tells them that the air's on a circular filter and they could breathe for ten years. Hee hee ...
And just as the Doctor assures everyone it's gonna be ok, something starts to bang on the bus.
After some hissed debate about what that could be, the Doctor says "Knock, knock ..." in an ominous fashion. Jethro smirks and says "Who's there?"
*sporfles* Could that be an allusion to the whole "Knock knock! Who's there? Doctor! Doctor Who?" thing?
Anyhoodle, the Doctor pulls out his stethoscope (yahoo!) and listens to the wall. Dunno why, but he does. Then the 'knock-knock' thing starts banging around the doors. Middle-class-father says it's cast-iron and nothing could get in, rapping three times on the door ... but then the knock-knocker repeats the father's knock! *leaps back with everyone else*
Everyone starts freaking out. The Doctor raps four times on the door, and the knocker raps four times. Does this mean it wants DVDs of the Third and Fourth Doctors? Or does it want DVDs of Seven? Or does it want a 14th Doctor? *blames Lost for this annoying tenancy to over-analyze*
Black-clad-blond starts wigging out that the knocker's coming for HER, and how "she said she'd get me!" She ends up alone at the other end of the bus, and the Doctor tries to get her to rejoin the group, but then the knocker really shakes up the bus. The lights mostly go out, there's a lot of screaming, and when things have settled the annoying entertainment singer is back.
The Doctor heaves himself up. "Arms, legs, neck, head, nose, I'm fine." Tee hee ...
The 'hostess' (they called her that, I'm gonna call her that) tells everyone to grab 'torches' and that the 'torches' are located in the backs of seats ... luckily I saw that Recess episode a million years ago that explains that 'torch' is British for 'flashlight' or I would've been confuzzled as to why they weren't handing out sticks as if they were off to hunt Dracula.
Black-clad-blond is sitting in her seat, hands over her head, frozen. The seats around her are ... stripped. What is it with this season and disintegration?! We already KNOW the Daleks are coming back!
Anyhoodle, as the Doctor speaks to the group, the TV flashes and ... you guessed it: it's Rose, silently mouthing 'Doctor!' again and again, just like in 'The Poison Sky' except longer, larger, and with more intense-music. Of course, the Doctor doesn't see her, and everyone else is too freaked to mention the pretty blond girl on the TV screen who wasn't there before. I wonder if Rose has been captured by Davros ... or IS Davros ... (DavROS ... DavROSE ... gettit?) and is leading the Doctor into a trap? I wish it was that the Master had captured her and was luring the Doctor back to him, but that ain't gonna happen ...
Oh yeah, the driver's cabin is gone. As in, GONE. Nothing. Just bright light of outside. YEEK! They've disintegrated. Eeeeew.
Jethro points out that black-clad-blond (who has a name AT LAST, it's 'Sky' which is pretty ... but that brings up another point with me: what's with all the 'hippie' names this season? 'River Song' and now 'Sky' ... if we meet someone called 'Rainbow' ...) hasn't moved at all, and didn't move when the light blasted in and everyone screamed. He also points out that the knocker has stopped ... and wonders if it isn't outside anymore, what if it's INSIDE?! It was, after all, heading for Sky.
YEEK!
Then something very, very creepy happens. And I'm not just saying that because of the creepy eeek-eeek music that was playing as the Doctor tried to get Sky to turn around and face him. She finally does, turning her head this way and that with a strange metallic-rustling noise. Then she starts repeating every word the Doctor says. Then the others try to tell her to stop it, and she repeats everything THEY say as well. (Must be easy to learn those lines for the actress in question ...)
Yeah, I don't think it's Sky anymore. It's the knocker. Which is a mimic as well.
"What is that, learning?"
"What is that, learning?" the Knocker-Mimic repeats.
"Copying?"
"Copying?"
"Absorbing?"
"Absorbing?" Ooooooo ...
The Doctor says "The square route of PI is ..." and goes on for a very long time. He stops, and the Mimic finishes "... wow" with this lazy jerk of her eyebrows ... hee hee ... if it wasn't so creepy that'd be cool ...
Then the lights come on ... and Mimic's upgraded! She can say things in unison with everyone. Almost BEFORE they say it, too! YEEK!
The Doctor gets everyone to FINALLY shut up, and then follows a very, VERY cool scene in which they speak at exactly the same time, with exactly the same words, face to face.
"Roast beef ... bananas ... the Medusa Cascade ..." they lean in closer to each other ... "BANG! Rose Tyler Martha Jones Donna Noble TARDIS!" Oooooo ... "Shamble-bobble-dibble-dooble." hee hee, this must've been so much FUN ... "Oh you're so handsome, Doctor, thank you, yes I am!" *sporfles* Oh, you narcissist you ... *pets him*
The Doctor stands up and wonders aloud what the next stage is. Mrs. Cane starts to cry, and Mimic makes the noises. YEEK!
The Doctor decides that the more they talk, the more she learns. "And I'm all for education, but in this case ... maybe not."
DeeDee recites a poem that's very cool and creepy. "We must not look at Goblin-men ..." which Mimic repeats word-for-word.
The Doctors tells everyone to stay back, because the next stage might be Mimic BECOMING them, and it becoming him would be very bad. "Oh, because you're so special!" hisses Mrs. Cane. "Well, yes, actually I am."
Hostess says, with a venom matched by Mimic. "We should throw her out."
Oh NO ... as always, in these sorts of scenarios, the gang wants to airlock someone.
The Doctor tries to talk them down, but they go round and round, and I'm afraid the Master's got a point about humanity boiling down to killing ... wait, did he say that in the actual show or in a fic? *shrugs* SOMEBODY said that on the show, can't remember who, but anyhoodle, the Doctor keeps insisting that they're not gonna airlock the Mimic.
Then they turn on HIM. The Doctor. For the first time, I believe, the humans turn on HIM. They point out all his odd behavior, how he calls them 'humans' like he isn't one of them, ask if 'traveler' means 'immigrant,' and how, since the madness started, he's had a certain type of 'glee' about him.
They threaten to airlock him too, if they have to.
They demand his name, he says "John Smith" and they snort and demand his REAL name. (We're gonna be here for the rest of the season if we do THAT, people!)
Then it's discovered that Mimic is only speaking with the Doctor. Mr. Cane says they must be together.
Then something HORRIFIC happens. The Mimic makes the Doctor repeat, and pretends she's Sky again, and ok. Of course, she's acting uber-creepy, but everyone's too scared to notice. (The Doctor cannot move, and the whole scene was WAAAAAAY too creepy for me to notice and squee about the fact that he was on his knees much of the time.)
It's a witch hunt, and despite the fact that the Hostess is trying to let DeeDee point out the obvious, nearly everyone's for throwing the Doctor (whom they believe has the Mimic inside of him) out. The Prof. even yells at DeeDee, telling her she's "only average." I wanted her to slap him, or at least stomp on his foot.
While all this is going on, as the Doctor is forced to repeat all of their bickering and the Mimic's creepy 'throw him out' stuff, he's CRYING. That's right, he's crying. Because his precious humans have turned on him. And that makes me SICK. It's worse than if he were screaming, because nobody notices his tears, and he can't move or speak on his own.
When Mimic starts yelling 'alonze' and such, though, Hostess really gets that she's taken the Doctor's voice. So she grabs Mimic, pressed the button, and counts to six. They get sucked out, and the door slams.
The Doctor falls forward gasping for breath. He repeats, over and over "It's gone." Everyone looks horrified, mostly with themselves. When the Doctor heaves himself into a sitting position to lean against the seat, Mrs. Cane says "I said it was her" which we all know she did not. The Doctor gives her this LOOK, and continues to gasp for breath.
20 Minutes Later ... (I like this typing thingy, personally.)
The rescue party's three minutes away. The Doctor asks what the Hostess' name was. Everybody looks disgusted with themselves all over again. The Prof. finally says "I don't know."
They lapse back into silence.
WOW.
The Doctor and Donna walk towards each other. First a one-armed hug, then the Doctor throws both his arms around a very shiny-looking Donna. *blinkblink* Awwwwww ... *feels like I should cry*
Later on they discuss the Mimic. (I love the symbolism of Donna's white bathrobe very much indeed.)
"I can't imagine you without a voice," she says.
The Doctor twitches a half-smile. "Monto bene," (no I can't spell, sorry ...)
Donna repeats him with a half-grin.
"No." he says. "Don't do that ... don't ... don't."
NEXT WEEK: (ZOMG, only THREE EPISODES LEFT!)
(This might be my longest recap of a promo yet ...)
For those of you who have been living under a rock 20,000 leagues under the sea, Rose Tyler is BACK BACK BACK. (*headdesk* I personally am not fond of this. Not because I hate Rose, (that is so far from the truth that it's laughable.) I love Rose. But Rose had a fantastic sendoff at the end of S2 that made me bawl even the SECOND time I watched it, and now that's gonna be ruined forever. *sigh*)
So, because we didn't have much of Donna in this week's episode, next week we don't have much of the Doctor. Apparently because he is DEAD. *has to restrain self from running around the room in terror like a chicken with no head*
Yeah, some UNIT guy phones in and says that they've found a body: "The Doctor is dead" and we see an arm holding a sonic screwdriver slip out of a stretcher and drop the sonic screwdriver.
(To quote everyone's favorite psychopathic Time Lord, "A universe without the Doctor scarcely bears thinking about" so, like Gnome!Doctor, I just won't think about that.)
(Despite the fact that I'm not fond of Rose returning, you've gotta admit she's lookin' DAMN fine.)
Donna's granddad (god, I love him) says that the stars are going out ... and they are.
Donna asks who Rose is. "I was like you" she says. (No, Rose, you and Donna have both been Companions, but you are NOTHING alike. I'll get into that more next week.)
Some UNIT guys point their guns at Donna and yell at her to turn around and show them her back.
"I've been brought from a different universe because every single universe in in danger." Rose insists.
Some random blond lady (not Jackie, I'm sorry to report) tells Donna "There's something on your back!" and we get half-glimpses of a freaky crab/claw/reptile THING latched on between Donna's shoulder blades.
I think Donna is wearing the Doctor's jacket ... she asks "What am I supposed to do?!"
Some UNIT person says "Powering up!" and a stage-light flashes.
Rose says "None of this is meant to happen" and we see Donna with a group of people in front of a house and then a mushroom cloud over a bridge. Then we see Rose's face again, looking very sad. "You're gonna die."
And we close with Donna - dressed in some sort of post-apocalyptic getup - standing in the middle of some very bright lights.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
Let's see if I can get through this without offending anyone ... *prays to the gods*
There, you see? I've just offended any hardcore Catholics or Evangelicals out there. And Atheists. *headdesk* This is going to be a long, hard review ...
I just realized something about last week's episode. You know how Donna's face was on an information-thingy and the Doctor had to work to get her body back? Well, remember in 'The Idiot's Lantern' when Rose's face got taken away and the Doctor had to work to get it back? Interesting parallels ...
Anyhoodle, this week 'Midnight' ...
We begin with ... elevator music? And a bunch of CGI-ed ... stuff. Donna is in some kind of resort-type thing, where you bask by a pool and people bring you phones ... she looks very happy indeed.
The Doctor calls her up and proposes this trip to a Sapphire waterfall, describing how the jewels shatter and it's so PRETTIFUL and junk, and Donna replies "I bet you say that to all the girls."
"Aaah, takin' a big spacetruck with a bunch of strangers across a diamond planet called 'Midnight?' What could possibly go wrong?"
Doctor! I'm surprised at you! You're the one who told Ida in 'The Impossible Planet' not to say stuff like that! And then the DEVIL showed up! *headdesk* He never learns, this one ...
Credits! Ba-da-ba-dump! Ba-da-ba-dump! Ba-da-ba-dump! *bounces about*
The Doctor seems thrilled at the prospect of public transport, perhaps because he so rarely uses the energy-saving system. There's a joke about the peanuts containing nuts, and the Doctor saying 'alonze' or however you spell that, which he FINALLY explains is French for 'let's go!' I prefer 'vamanos' personally, but that's just because I prefer Spanish to French.
I have a feeling that the Doctor's going to use every one of those complimentary items to MacGuyver a device later on ...
We see more passengers. I see a semi-pompous professor behind the Doctor, who introduces himself, and a woman who might be the Professor's wife, nurse, or assistant. Then a suspicious-looking blond woman clad in black, reading a book, whom the Doctor tries and fails to catch the eye of. Then a mom and dad who seem kinda normal, and their teenage (rebellious) son sitting across the aisle from them, scowling at the world in general.
"Ladies, gentlemen, and variations thereupon," the ... (flight-attendant? Stewardess? Lady-who-smiles-too-much?) Well, she made me giggle, so whatever!
Apparently the bus is taking an alternative route, (which spikes my Lost-senses and makes me yell "No! The pilot's gonna get eaten by a smoke-monster!")
Anyhoodle, there's three different entertainment systems, all going at once, VERY loudly indeedy. Everyone shifts uncomfortably, fumbling with earplugs, and the Doctor glances about for a while, mildly aghast, decides this is too much even for HIS ADHD, and sonics the stuff off.
Someone asks what they're supposed to do for FOUR HOURS and the Doctor turns around in his seat and says they'll just have to TALK to each other! Then he grins. Hee hee hee ... wish I were on that bus!
There's a luverly sequence in which the married-couple share a hi-lar-ious story about a swimming pool that wasn't really there, the Doctor finds out the assistant-woman is looking for the lost moon of Pah (or something), black-clad-blond-woman's girlfriend/wife needed "some space" and apparently that meant an entire galaxy, she and the Doctor kinda bond over lost-others, and finally Prof. shows a slideshow about the planet Midnight and how there was no life on it until people arrived, blah blah, Jethro (rebellious teen) asks how they can be sure if they never go outside, blah blah the Doctor says that's a good point, then the ship stops.
Rut-row!
The Doctor flashes his psychic-paper and gets into the driver's compartment, where there's two guys, one of whom is Driver Joe. The Doctor points out that the engines are fine and stabilizing that type of engine makes no sense "Sorry, I'm the Doctor, I'm very clever ..."
The other man in the driver's compartment is Claude, the mechanic trainee.
The Doctor gets them to open the windows, and it's very beautiful indeed. And, since it's a new route programmed by the computer, they're the first to see it.
Or, so they think. Claude insists he sees a shadow moving. Then they have to put the shields down because of some level or danger, but Claude says it looked like a shadow running TOWARDS them.
The Doctor gets shunted back to his seat. Black-clad-blond says she doesn't need this, she's on a schedule. Then DeeDee (despite the Prof. telling her not to bother the Doctor) tells the Doctor that her father was a mechanic and that the type of engines on this bus don't need to be stabilized.
Then everyone starts to freak out and fight and yell about running out of air. Because yelling REALLY LOUDLY is gonna help you if you're running out of oxygen, ya idiots ...
Anyhoodle, as I predicted, the Doctor has to use his Commanding Voice (TM) to shut up the natives.
DeeDee tells them that the air's on a circular filter and they could breathe for ten years. Hee hee ...
And just as the Doctor assures everyone it's gonna be ok, something starts to bang on the bus.
After some hissed debate about what that could be, the Doctor says "Knock, knock ..." in an ominous fashion. Jethro smirks and says "Who's there?"
*sporfles* Could that be an allusion to the whole "Knock knock! Who's there? Doctor! Doctor Who?" thing?
Anyhoodle, the Doctor pulls out his stethoscope (yahoo!) and listens to the wall. Dunno why, but he does. Then the 'knock-knock' thing starts banging around the doors. Middle-class-father says it's cast-iron and nothing could get in, rapping three times on the door ... but then the knock-knocker repeats the father's knock! *leaps back with everyone else*
Everyone starts freaking out. The Doctor raps four times on the door, and the knocker raps four times. Does this mean it wants DVDs of the Third and Fourth Doctors? Or does it want DVDs of Seven? Or does it want a 14th Doctor? *blames Lost for this annoying tenancy to over-analyze*
Black-clad-blond starts wigging out that the knocker's coming for HER, and how "she said she'd get me!" She ends up alone at the other end of the bus, and the Doctor tries to get her to rejoin the group, but then the knocker really shakes up the bus. The lights mostly go out, there's a lot of screaming, and when things have settled the annoying entertainment singer is back.
The Doctor heaves himself up. "Arms, legs, neck, head, nose, I'm fine." Tee hee ...
The 'hostess' (they called her that, I'm gonna call her that) tells everyone to grab 'torches' and that the 'torches' are located in the backs of seats ... luckily I saw that Recess episode a million years ago that explains that 'torch' is British for 'flashlight' or I would've been confuzzled as to why they weren't handing out sticks as if they were off to hunt Dracula.
Black-clad-blond is sitting in her seat, hands over her head, frozen. The seats around her are ... stripped. What is it with this season and disintegration?! We already KNOW the Daleks are coming back!
Anyhoodle, as the Doctor speaks to the group, the TV flashes and ... you guessed it: it's Rose, silently mouthing 'Doctor!' again and again, just like in 'The Poison Sky' except longer, larger, and with more intense-music. Of course, the Doctor doesn't see her, and everyone else is too freaked to mention the pretty blond girl on the TV screen who wasn't there before. I wonder if Rose has been captured by Davros ... or IS Davros ... (DavROS ... DavROSE ... gettit?) and is leading the Doctor into a trap? I wish it was that the Master had captured her and was luring the Doctor back to him, but that ain't gonna happen ...
Oh yeah, the driver's cabin is gone. As in, GONE. Nothing. Just bright light of outside. YEEK! They've disintegrated. Eeeeew.
Jethro points out that black-clad-blond (who has a name AT LAST, it's 'Sky' which is pretty ... but that brings up another point with me: what's with all the 'hippie' names this season? 'River Song' and now 'Sky' ... if we meet someone called 'Rainbow' ...) hasn't moved at all, and didn't move when the light blasted in and everyone screamed. He also points out that the knocker has stopped ... and wonders if it isn't outside anymore, what if it's INSIDE?! It was, after all, heading for Sky.
YEEK!
Then something very, very creepy happens. And I'm not just saying that because of the creepy eeek-eeek music that was playing as the Doctor tried to get Sky to turn around and face him. She finally does, turning her head this way and that with a strange metallic-rustling noise. Then she starts repeating every word the Doctor says. Then the others try to tell her to stop it, and she repeats everything THEY say as well. (Must be easy to learn those lines for the actress in question ...)
Yeah, I don't think it's Sky anymore. It's the knocker. Which is a mimic as well.
"What is that, learning?"
"What is that, learning?" the Knocker-Mimic repeats.
"Copying?"
"Copying?"
"Absorbing?"
"Absorbing?" Ooooooo ...
The Doctor says "The square route of PI is ..." and goes on for a very long time. He stops, and the Mimic finishes "... wow" with this lazy jerk of her eyebrows ... hee hee ... if it wasn't so creepy that'd be cool ...
Then the lights come on ... and Mimic's upgraded! She can say things in unison with everyone. Almost BEFORE they say it, too! YEEK!
The Doctor gets everyone to FINALLY shut up, and then follows a very, VERY cool scene in which they speak at exactly the same time, with exactly the same words, face to face.
"Roast beef ... bananas ... the Medusa Cascade ..." they lean in closer to each other ... "BANG! Rose Tyler Martha Jones Donna Noble TARDIS!" Oooooo ... "Shamble-bobble-dibble-dooble." hee hee, this must've been so much FUN ... "Oh you're so handsome, Doctor, thank you, yes I am!" *sporfles* Oh, you narcissist you ... *pets him*
The Doctor stands up and wonders aloud what the next stage is. Mrs. Cane starts to cry, and Mimic makes the noises. YEEK!
The Doctor decides that the more they talk, the more she learns. "And I'm all for education, but in this case ... maybe not."
DeeDee recites a poem that's very cool and creepy. "We must not look at Goblin-men ..." which Mimic repeats word-for-word.
The Doctors tells everyone to stay back, because the next stage might be Mimic BECOMING them, and it becoming him would be very bad. "Oh, because you're so special!" hisses Mrs. Cane. "Well, yes, actually I am."
Hostess says, with a venom matched by Mimic. "We should throw her out."
Oh NO ... as always, in these sorts of scenarios, the gang wants to airlock someone.
The Doctor tries to talk them down, but they go round and round, and I'm afraid the Master's got a point about humanity boiling down to killing ... wait, did he say that in the actual show or in a fic? *shrugs* SOMEBODY said that on the show, can't remember who, but anyhoodle, the Doctor keeps insisting that they're not gonna airlock the Mimic.
Then they turn on HIM. The Doctor. For the first time, I believe, the humans turn on HIM. They point out all his odd behavior, how he calls them 'humans' like he isn't one of them, ask if 'traveler' means 'immigrant,' and how, since the madness started, he's had a certain type of 'glee' about him.
They threaten to airlock him too, if they have to.
They demand his name, he says "John Smith" and they snort and demand his REAL name. (We're gonna be here for the rest of the season if we do THAT, people!)
Then it's discovered that Mimic is only speaking with the Doctor. Mr. Cane says they must be together.
Then something HORRIFIC happens. The Mimic makes the Doctor repeat, and pretends she's Sky again, and ok. Of course, she's acting uber-creepy, but everyone's too scared to notice. (The Doctor cannot move, and the whole scene was WAAAAAAY too creepy for me to notice and squee about the fact that he was on his knees much of the time.)
It's a witch hunt, and despite the fact that the Hostess is trying to let DeeDee point out the obvious, nearly everyone's for throwing the Doctor (whom they believe has the Mimic inside of him) out. The Prof. even yells at DeeDee, telling her she's "only average." I wanted her to slap him, or at least stomp on his foot.
While all this is going on, as the Doctor is forced to repeat all of their bickering and the Mimic's creepy 'throw him out' stuff, he's CRYING. That's right, he's crying. Because his precious humans have turned on him. And that makes me SICK. It's worse than if he were screaming, because nobody notices his tears, and he can't move or speak on his own.
When Mimic starts yelling 'alonze' and such, though, Hostess really gets that she's taken the Doctor's voice. So she grabs Mimic, pressed the button, and counts to six. They get sucked out, and the door slams.
The Doctor falls forward gasping for breath. He repeats, over and over "It's gone." Everyone looks horrified, mostly with themselves. When the Doctor heaves himself into a sitting position to lean against the seat, Mrs. Cane says "I said it was her" which we all know she did not. The Doctor gives her this LOOK, and continues to gasp for breath.
20 Minutes Later ... (I like this typing thingy, personally.)
The rescue party's three minutes away. The Doctor asks what the Hostess' name was. Everybody looks disgusted with themselves all over again. The Prof. finally says "I don't know."
They lapse back into silence.
WOW.
The Doctor and Donna walk towards each other. First a one-armed hug, then the Doctor throws both his arms around a very shiny-looking Donna. *blinkblink* Awwwwww ... *feels like I should cry*
Later on they discuss the Mimic. (I love the symbolism of Donna's white bathrobe very much indeed.)
"I can't imagine you without a voice," she says.
The Doctor twitches a half-smile. "Monto bene," (no I can't spell, sorry ...)
Donna repeats him with a half-grin.
"No." he says. "Don't do that ... don't ... don't."
NEXT WEEK: (ZOMG, only THREE EPISODES LEFT!)
(This might be my longest recap of a promo yet ...)
For those of you who have been living under a rock 20,000 leagues under the sea, Rose Tyler is BACK BACK BACK. (*headdesk* I personally am not fond of this. Not because I hate Rose, (that is so far from the truth that it's laughable.) I love Rose. But Rose had a fantastic sendoff at the end of S2 that made me bawl even the SECOND time I watched it, and now that's gonna be ruined forever. *sigh*)
So, because we didn't have much of Donna in this week's episode, next week we don't have much of the Doctor. Apparently because he is DEAD. *has to restrain self from running around the room in terror like a chicken with no head*
Yeah, some UNIT guy phones in and says that they've found a body: "The Doctor is dead" and we see an arm holding a sonic screwdriver slip out of a stretcher and drop the sonic screwdriver.
(To quote everyone's favorite psychopathic Time Lord, "A universe without the Doctor scarcely bears thinking about" so, like Gnome!Doctor, I just won't think about that.)
(Despite the fact that I'm not fond of Rose returning, you've gotta admit she's lookin' DAMN fine.)
Donna's granddad (god, I love him) says that the stars are going out ... and they are.
Donna asks who Rose is. "I was like you" she says. (No, Rose, you and Donna have both been Companions, but you are NOTHING alike. I'll get into that more next week.)
Some UNIT guys point their guns at Donna and yell at her to turn around and show them her back.
"I've been brought from a different universe because every single universe in in danger." Rose insists.
Some random blond lady (not Jackie, I'm sorry to report) tells Donna "There's something on your back!" and we get half-glimpses of a freaky crab/claw/reptile THING latched on between Donna's shoulder blades.
I think Donna is wearing the Doctor's jacket ... she asks "What am I supposed to do?!"
Some UNIT person says "Powering up!" and a stage-light flashes.
Rose says "None of this is meant to happen" and we see Donna with a group of people in front of a house and then a mushroom cloud over a bridge. Then we see Rose's face again, looking very sad. "You're gonna die."
And we close with Donna - dressed in some sort of post-apocalyptic getup - standing in the middle of some very bright lights.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
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Date: 2008-06-15 09:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-06-16 10:51 am (UTC)We've seen the Doctor dress up in a tux for certain events, like in 'The Lazarus Experiment' and ... uh, can't remember what else, but he HAS worn a getup like that arm was in the past, for special occasions. He knows he's gonna be meeting Rose again, so maybe that explains the tux ...
Personally I'm not so much concerned with Dead!Doctor than the whacky hijinks they'll have to go through in order to reverse time to bring him back and all that jazz ... maybe they'll reverse this entire season, and Rose will never really return? *wishful thinking on my part*
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Date: 2008-06-16 08:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-06-16 09:37 pm (UTC)True ... still think that they couldn't keep a lid on "John Simm Master coming back!" though ... *still wants it very much indeed*
The Master is defiantly coming back. It's just a question of when, how, and if he's still Simm or not. (And if we can wait ... patience is a virtue, but it doesn't run in my family ...)
I think Tosh and Owen are very dead, and hope that Martha and John Hart fill the empty spaces (though I dunno how John would take over Tosh's duties, maybe Ianto could give the computer stuff a go? Maybe they can take turns? *shrugs*)
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Date: 2008-06-16 03:09 pm (UTC)XD I <3 you. And Cello FTW! =D
Doctor Who sounds even MORE awesome now. Oh! And I watched the Doctor/Master phonesmex scene from that link you sent me. *hugs* THANK YOU! OMG are they ever super slashy holy crap! I think that it's obvious when people are when you are 54 SECONDS into something and can tell. "I love it when you say my name."
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*is in love with Doctor/Master now darn you! lol*
<333333 Now I'm going to look at the other links you sent me. Oh! and the Kiro exchange is now officially on! I'm part of it XD I'm going to start writing soon. (as if I wasn't already busy enough with THREE L/Light fics, lol. I can do it though! =D)
Oh, btw do you have a MSN messenger? My id thing on there is PhoenixJustice@live.com
I just got it a few days ago so I could talk to some friends, so if you had it, that'd be AWESOME and we could talk. But if not, then maybe you could get it? It's free! lol
And don't worry about offending me, lol. I'm not Catholic, Evangelical OR Athiest. I'm...me. I believe we were all created by God, though not the christian god, I don't personally agree with the bible or the way Christians take it way too far and shove it in peoples faces and force people to believe what they believe or condemn the people for believing in something else. I also have my own beliefs and I like many different religions for different reasons...but that's just me.
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Date: 2008-06-16 09:32 pm (UTC)I'm afraid I don't have time to IM ... I'm sorry, but things are ridiculously busy, and it's all I can to do reply to you here, 's that ok?
Ha ha! Now that you're into Doctor Who, you can read my old reviews and laugh at my old Lost and Heroes references in them! (Clicking the tag 'What aunt_zelda thinks' will get you to most of them ...)
Yes, cello FTW!
Doctor Who sounds even MORE awesome now. Oh! And I watched the Doctor/Master phonesmex scene from that link you sent me. *hugs* THANK YOU! OMG are they ever super slashy holy crap! I think that it's obvious when people are when you are 54 SECONDS into something and can tell. "I love it when you say my name."
*GRINZ* Technically it's "I like it when you use my name ..." but considering the Master needed to take out his OWN cellphone to talk to the Doctor, instead of using the conference-thingy in the middle of the table, as he'd been doing with Martha ... and the way he says "Doctoooooooooor" like it's an obscenity ... and "Are you asking me out on a date?!" ... and ... well, I could go on and on, and this is only the NEW stuff! They've met before, in various incarnations! ALL incredibly slashy! *giggles*
It's a big, wonderful world, m'dear, and you're only just beginning ... *squees*
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Date: 2008-06-16 10:27 pm (UTC)I know! I have a ton of Doctor Who to catch up on! *squees*
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Date: 2008-06-19 01:21 am (UTC)No time is ok, just so long as you leave a comment! (I love it when people read my recaps ... *beams*)