What aunt_zelda Thinks: 'Journey's End'
Jul. 6th, 2008 11:50 am *slump* I am well aware that I COULD have watched this last night (guess the pirates upload faster when it's a season finale) but I was trying to finish other things, plus I wanted to hold it off for a bit. And I'm late getting up this morning because I stayed up until the early hours of the morning reading Death Note and being obscenely depressed over the death of my favorite character. (The last thing you see before you die should NOT be Light's Kira face, really, it shouldn't. There is something so terrifying about that prospect ... and THEN the leap in time and ... Mello rocks. Near is creepeh. I know none of you but PJ-kun understands this.)
Then I had very strange dreams, because when you mix up Doctor Who, Death Note, Buffy S6, and 'The Secret Diaries of a Call Girl' in my brain, you get very interesting results. (Ooooog.)
So, finally, on to the recap!
'Journey's End'
Previously on Doctor Who: the Earth was stolen, from right under the Doctor's nose! (Funny place to wear the Earth ...) EX-TER-MIN-ATE! Rose is back, and teetering on being a BAMF! DAVROS! Gwen and Ianto might DIE! SJS might DIE! (If Ianto or SJS kick it, I'm going to KILL RTD. I kid you not.) ZOMG DAVID TENNANT IS REGENERATING INTO ELEVEN! I THOUGHT HE WAS SIGNED ON THROUGH NEXT YEAR! COULD IT BE THAT THE BBC ACTUALLY SUCCEEDED IN COVERING SOMETHING UP?!
Credits:
Ten
Donna
Martha
Capt. Jack
SJS
And Rose
(*bites nails* The last time we saw a season finale written by RTD, we got Tinkerbell!Jesus and Gnome!Doctor, but we also got the Scissor Sisters and 'I forgive you.')
The Doctor is regenerating ... then it's a total cop-out. He flings his arms towards his hand-in-a-jar and ... stops regenerating. (Wow, yo_mawri, you weren't that far off!)
DT sniffs, then says "Now, where were we?" and walks offscreen, whilst Jack and the wimmins look just about as shocked as the audience.
SJS holds up her arms and screams ... then Jackie and Mickey teleport in and blast the Daleks apart. YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!! *punches the air* (Oh, come on, you did too, and don't you DARE deny it!)
Mickey and SJS embrace, apparently they know each other ... Mickey says "Us Smiths gotta stick together." Like the Joneses, I suppose ...
Gwen and Ianto stop shooting at the Dalek ... because it looks like someone's stopped time around the Dalek. The air has gone all jelly-like and the bullets have frozen in midair. (I admit it, I half expected a cute Japanese man with an affinity for waffles to sneak offscreen just then, but no such luck. We gotta wait until September for our Hiro-fix.)
The Doctor rattles on about his handy-hand and energy why-would-he-want-to-change-when-he-looks-like-THIS (that's something I won't argue on) and deaux es machina and such-like-things, and then there's an awful moment where it looks like Rose is going to lunge forward and kiss him ... but they only hug. *slumps with relief* Thank the angels in the heavens above and the devils down under the sea!
There's a cute bit off to the side where Donna says Jack can hug her, he laughs, and she says "No, really, you can hug me," a bit more forcefully. Nawwwww ...
Zip! In TW, there's a time-lock, apparently Tosh was working on it, and Ianto didn't think she'd finished it ... but she had. The Hub is sealed in a Time-Bubble of safety. Of course, this means they can't escape, but no more Daleks will come a-knockin' either.
A battalion (?) of Daleks capture the TARDIS. Spanish Inquisition Dalek ... I mean, the Supreme Dalek tells them to bring the Doctor to him, and they put this blue-ish electric thing around the TARDIS, which basically cuts the power inside the TARDIS (and yet we can still see the characters ...)
SJS, Jackie, and Mickey (a proper D&D cell in the making) see the TARDIS (which they know contains 1 Doctor and 1 Rose) get taken up to the Dalek flagship-thingamajig. SJS surrenders to the Daleks, Jackie follows suit, and Mickey kisses his BIG ASS GUN goodbye and does the same. They're gonna be taken to the same place the Doctor is.
Martha tearfully says goodbye to her mommy, won't explain what the Heffalump-Key (oh, I'm sorry, the OSTERHAGEN Key) is, and teleports away to ...
Germany. We hear Daleks speaking in German.Daleks = Nazis ... wow, I never saw the connection until NOW! *sarcasm* It's rather chilling, none the less.
Back in the TARDIS, they ex-po-si-ate. Blah blah, Darkness, blah blah, collapsing realities, blah blah DT's cheeky grin, blah blah timelines converging on Donna ...
Is Donna the Rani?
No, seriously, is she the Rani? That could fit ... maybe.
The TARDIS lands, the Doctor says they'll have to go out, because these Daleks aren't hybrids or insane, they're at the hight of their power, and the TARDIS door is just a wooden door now. As he, Jack, and Rose discuss hit-points and compare weaponry, we zoom in to Donna who ... is hearing a loud heartbeat. Or, perhaps, she's realizing she has two? ...
The Doctor MIGHT realize something's amiss ... or not. He snaps Donna out of it, and says he's sorry, but they're gonna have to go out, there's nothing he can do.
The Daleks order the Doctor to come out and 'face his Dalek Masters' ... a strange parallel to the Master cackling on that London street calling out to Martha to "come out and meet your Master" ...
Everyone puts on bravado, the Doctor (smiling) reminiscing on how wonderful it all was. Then he tells Donna she was brilliant, and Jack that he was brilliant (Jack grins at that), and he tells Rose that she was brilliant. *wibbles a bit* Then he says "Blimey," and faces the door.
He heads out, Rose heads out, Jack heads out, all to rather inspiring, if resigned, music.
Donna - still hearing that heart-beat-drum-thing - hesitates, then the doors shut on their own. The Doctor thinks the Daleks are doing it, the Daleks say it's "Time Lord treachery" and send the TARDIS down into the core of the ship, so that it'll be torn apart in this thing that looks like a tiny sun. Basically it means Donna gets tossed about and things in the TARDIS start shattering and there are flames and stuff. The Doctor, Rose, and Jack are all demanding that the Daleks bring Donna and the TARDIS back, but they refuse and bring it up on a screen. "The last child of Gallifrey is powerless."
The Doctor offers to do anything, asks that they put him in her place, they cackle that he's connected to the TARDIS. "Now feel it die." and the Daleks are speaking to the audience as well as the Doctor.
Donna hears the heart-beat-thing, then touches the hand-in-a-jar. Sadly, she does not regenerate into the Rani, but the hand glows a lot and then grows a naked David Tennant. (SQUEE!)
This second-Doctor (oh, come on, we all heard the spoilers) somehow manages to vworp the TARDIS away at the last possible second. Oh, yeah, and Rose is holding Ten-Mark-1's hand.
The Daleks grill the Doctor about all the despair and anger he's feeling, then say that if emotions are so important "Then surely we have enhanced you."
Jack shoots at a Dalek, they ex-ter-min-ate him, Rose dives down to his side, the Doctor pulls her back and does his best to sound distraught, but detachedly-so, and the Daleks have him and Rose escorted off. "They are the playthings of Davros now." Ugh ...
On his was out, the Doctor catches Jack's eye. Jack winks. *GRIN*
Doctor-Mark-2 (or, should I say ... Doctor-Mark-BLUE) is dashing about, rather ... wired. He's also wearing the blue-suit, and sounds an awful lot like Donna. He realizes that, then realizes he's only got ONE heart, because he's half-Time-Lord-half-human (so there goes the 'Eight really WAS half-human on his mother's side!' theory) and then he realizes that Donna has rock-bottom self-esteem because he can hear her thoughts. Then he realizes that they've been going towards this point for a very long time, blah blah, it's not over yet ...
Zip! Martha Jones speaks German with a German lady (who has a cane) by this castle-type-thingy. German-Lady then slips into English and explains that the guards were boys who ran away when they saw the Daleks, she's the one who brought them food.
Martha opens a secret door, the German lady almost shoots her because she knows what the Heffalump-Key does, and I don't know German, but because it sounds an awful lot like English I think the Heffalump-Key brings about 'the end of the world' or 'apocalypse' or something. Martha talks the lady down with apathy, and then gets into an elevator, German-lady says something that MIGHT be "Martah, see you in hell," and Martha says "I know."
Jack escapes incineration on the Dalek ship. I don't see HOW he did that WITH his coat intact, but I'm certainly not complaining.
Martha asks if anyone's out there via Osterhagen-Facebook. Music from the S3 DVD menu plays.
SJS, Mickey, and Jackie are being led to 'testing.' SJS says "One step closer to the Doctor ..." also one step closer to knarly death that will leave poor Luke an orphan, to be raised by K-9 and Mr. Smith! *incredibly tense*
Davros has the Doctor and Rose in (separate, thank Rassilon) 'holding cells.' I like them. They're like spotlights, unless the Doctor or Rose touches them, then they're like shiny blueish things. I also like Davros' theme-music, because it's classily-unsettling in a sparse-way, very much what I'd expect of him.
"Excellent," Davros says. "Even when powerless a Time Lord is best kept contained." He's practically LEERING at this point. Or, leering as much as you can with eyes half-covered with your skeevy-wrinkles. I want my Mister Master back, at least THEN Rule #34 was hot!
"It is time we talked Doctor, after so very long -" but the Doctor cuts Davros off.
"No no no, we're not doing the nostalgia-talk, I want to know what's going on right here, right now."
He's figured out that Davros isn't in charge of the Daleks, because he's in the vault/cellar/dungeon/prison.
"You're the Dalek's PET!" he practically giggles, forgetting that, this time last year, the Doctor himself was drinking out of a dish labled 'dog' and that the fics about how EXACTLY he and the Master spent the year-that-never-was are STILL being churned out.
Davros shifts his attention to Rose, and when the Doctor snaps at him to leave her alone, Davros leers some more and says "She is mine ... to do with as I please." (Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeewww!)
Blah blah, Dalek Khan, blah blah, he saw Time itself (yeek! The Doctor should have asked if HE could hear the Drums ...) and Dalek Khan has seen what's gonna happenbecause he's a spoiler-whore and one of the 'children of time' (aka Companions) will die. The Doctor still thinks Donna's dead, and demands if Dalek Khan did that, getting rather loud and angry as he does so.
Davros is excited about the Doctor going all 'Oncoming-Storm' and asks why he's so 'shy.' He wants the Doctor to show Rose his 'true self' and Dalek Khan says that at the end the Doctor's "soul will be revealed." Ehney? (I must point out that this is a fantastic scene, especially since DT and Billie Piper can't move much, and they're acting with a puppet-squid and an animatronic-shriveled man.)
Then Davros says the testing has begun of the 'Reality Bomb.'
I don't like the sound of that ...
When a woman in the testing-group randomly collapses, SJS uses her sonic lipstick to dart through a door. Mickey follows, but Jackie can't make it.
Both the Doctor and Doctor-Mark-Blue figure out what the 27 planets and the charge-beam mean. It shocks Blue and makes the Doctor scream at Davros that he can't do that.
There's an awful moment when it looks like Jackie's gonna die, but Mickey realizes the teleport-disk-thing is recharged, he alerts Jackie through the window, she turns to the woman who fell and says she's sorry, and zips away to safety. Phew!
Of course, then they watch as the prisoners who didn't make it get disintegrated in a manner like the Phoenix killed Xavier in the 3rd X-Men movie ... except shinier.
Davros explains to Rose that it basically un-makes atoms, destroying ... well, everything. And he's gonna blast it out into the universe, and through the Medusa Casscade, every parallel world. With the 27 planets he'll have enough power. Then he gets a little psycho with his 'I will destroy REALITY! Muahahhaha!' thing and I can't help but stare at his gross teeth. Seriously: EWWW!
The Daleks retreat, cackling that soon they're gonna be the only beings in existence. YEEEEEK!
SJS, Mickey, and Jackie peer through the window uneasily, then Jack rolls out of the wall with a clang.
"Just my luck. I climb through two miles of ventilation shafts chasing life-signs on this thing, and who do I find? Mickey MOUSE."
"You can talk, Captain Cheesecake." Mickey deadpans.
Then they laugh and have a man-hug. Except, not so much a man-hug because eventually Mickey says "And that's enough hugging." Tee hee.
Jack salutes SJS, she reveals this shiny necklace thing that was given to her by a soothsayer who said it was for the 'End of Days.'Missed it, that's the season finale of S1 of TW. Jack looks rather floored by it. "It's an explosion waiting to happen."
Martha's got two other Osterhagen stations. One is a Chinese girl, the other is a man with dark skin and an accent I really like who doesn't want to give his name "Given what we're about to do." Martha wants to wait before using the Heffalump-Key, because there's one last thing "the Doctor would do."
Doctor-Mark-Blue is assembling the usual ramshackle devise that'll save everyone, this time, he's trying to lock onto Davros' DNA and kill all the Daleks.
Martha transmits to the Crucible. (I have a hard time calling it that, it reminds me of that play about the Salem witch trials ...) She's VERY badass. Apparently the Osterhagen-Key will set off all these nuclear warheads and tear the Earth apart. The Doctor says that's not an option, but she barrels on in a badass manner that the Daleks need 27 planets ... but what'd happen if it was 26, hmmm?
Rose approves of this Martha-girl, and introduces herself, Martha is stunned and happy that the Doctor found Rose.
The D&D cell is transmitting too. Jack, using SJS's necklace, will blow up the Crucible if they don't let the Doctor go. WOOHOO!
Davros recognizes SJS "that face ..." (yeah, she's incredibly well-preserved and damn hot too, eh?) She says she's learned how to fight since then, though ...
Rose is excited by this, but the Doctor looks tormented. Khann cackles insanely and Davros witters on about the Doctor's soul, about how the Doctor abhors violence and never carries a gun, and yet he transforms people into weapons. I don't think it's ever really hit the Doctor until now. YEOWCH.
Rose tells the Doctor that Harriet Jonesand her ringback tone of the Drums gave her life to get him there, and we flashback to her.
Then we have a flashback of all the people who've died to save the Doctor since the new series began. Jade, the computer-girl, Lynda, LINDA, Ratt-boy, Astrid, the Hostess, River Song, Jenny (hey now, she's still out there!), that-woman-from-Jake-and-Rickey's-Team, the Face of Boe, Cantho ... (all in order, but I can't remember all of the names ... damn this is worse than me planning to go back and re-watch Lost to see how many people have died since the plane crashed!)
"The Doctor ..." Davros grits, as the Doctor looks torn between crying and going all Oncoming-Storm on Davros' lack-of-ass. "The man who keeps running ... never looking back because he DARE NOT ... out of shame." (OUCH.) "This is my final victory, Doctor ... I have shown you yourself." Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ...
(Somebody HOLD ME!)
Then the Daleks teleport Martha and the D&D cell into the room-where-Davros-Rose-and-the-Doctor-are. Davros orders them onto their knees, at the Doctor pleading they do so, Davros wheels back and forth in a kind of manic glee (nothing like the Master's manic glee, I'm afraid) and tells them to activate the reality bomb.
The TARDIS materializes, and it's a lovely, morale-boosting moment, but when Doctor-Mark-Blue leaps out and runs at Davros to fire the gun (guys, it's a GUN, designed to keep as much distance from yourself and your quarry as possible ... and you RUN AT THEM?! *headdesk*) Davros stuns him, the gun flies through the air, and Doctor-Mark-Blue is trapped in a holding-cell. Donna grabs the gun "But I don't know what to do with it!" and gets Davros-shocked too. NOOOOOOO!
"Stand witness, Time Lord. Stand witness, humans. Your strategies have failed, your weapons are useless, and ... oh, the end of the universe has come." (Davros, if your schemes weren't so huge, I could grow to like you.)
And Donna ... flips a switch. Like when you flip the glowy-button on the plug-thing down under your computer during a thunderstorm.
Then she rattles off some technobabble and flips more switches, making Davros' hand shock himself, and shutting down the Daleks' weapons. The genetic-transfer-thingy worked both ways. "The Doctor-Donna." Just like thet Ood said! WOOHOO!
Donna makes the Daleks spin around in circles. *sporfleDIEZ* She is SO GOOD.
Then we have a table of the Doctor, Donna-Doctor, and Doctor-Mark-blue around a control station. They're grinning about her and she rattles on and I'm squeeing SO MUCH right now. Donna tells them that she can type 100 words a minute, super-temp can save the universe! WOOHOO!
The Three send the planets home, and the Companions shove the Daleks out of the way. Basically they're re-arranging furniture. Rose and SJS squee about meeting again, Jack breaks out the BIG ASS GUNS again.
The Three explain about how Davros' shock alerted Donna to the bit of the Doctor in her.
"So there's three of you?" SJS asks.
"Three Doctors ..." Rose says, reacapping.
"I can't tell you what I'm thinking now." Jack says, looking slightly uncomfortable. (Heh heh heh ...)
Turns out Dalek Khan foresaw all of this, but when he saw Time he saw what the Daleks have done, and he decrees 'NO MORE!'
Jack blasts the Supreme Dalek, but it hit the machine. Only one planet didn't get home ... Earth. Duh. Hee hee.
Doctor-Mark-Blue ends the Daleks. It's awful. There's lots of explosions.
Torchwood's time-lock is ended, though.
Big explosions take place, the Doctor loads everyone into the TARDIS, he offers to help Davros, Davros won't do it (Doctor, ifyour evil ex-boyfriend the Master wouldn't come, neither will Davros) Davros shrieks that the Doctor did this, and never to forget, and that he names the Doctor as the destroyer of worlds. Dalek Khan reminds the Doctor "One will still die ..."
At last, the TARDIS console is crowded. It makes me happy inside. SJS is worried about the Earth, the Doctor contacts TW, he fixes the plothole of Gwen being Mr. Sneed's psychic maid and he and Rose giggle about that.
K-9 makes a cameo, and apparently with Torchwood's help and Mr. Smith, the TARDIS has a loop around the Earth and they all fly it home, smoothly, because a TARDIS is meant to have 6 pilots. (The Doctor advises Jackie not to touch anything. Tee hee.)
To happy, inspiring music (nothing TARDIS-y about it, I'm afraid) Luke hugs K-9 and holds onto Mr. Smith, yelling with joy; Ianto and Gwen hug bigs of the Hub and yell; Donna's granddad and mom wobble around yelling as things shatter, and Martha's mommy sensibly hides under a table.
Donna-Doctor and Doctor-Mark-Blue don't do anything but stand back looking very pleased. *beams*
Earth is back in its proper place, and inside the TARDIS everyone hugs and dances around yelling with joy. Donna's granddad and mom do that too. Francine goes outside to spin around, smiling that this time she wasn't forced to watch Japan get decimated.
Around the world, people set off fireworks, jubilant that they're back home.
SJS points out that the Doctor acts so lonely, but he's got the biggest family on Earth. Nawwwww ... then they hug, and she dashes off to Luke. Nawwwww ... *dances for joy that SJS didn't die*
The Doctor once again dismantles Jack's teleport-wrist-band, then tells Martha to get rid of the Heffalump-Key. They both salute the Doctor, then walk off, hand-in-hand, Jack saying he's not so sure about UNIT these days, maybe Martha could ... (YES YES YES! JOIN TORCHWOOD!)
Then something awful happens. Mickey's gran passed away, and there's nothing for him in the parallel world. (NOT EVEN JAKE?! *cries*) Mickey says goodbye to the Doctor, calling him 'boss' and catches up to Martha and Jack.
BAD WOLF BAY! (Argh, I still think they ruined a perfectly wonderful sendoff for Rose ...)
Jackie's son isn't called 'Doctor' he's called 'Tony.' Awwwww ...
Rose is distraught that she's gotta stay on the parallel world but the Doctor points out that he's leaving Doctor-Mark-Blue with her, because he's not really Doctor-Mark-Blue, he's Nine. We got Nine again. *smiles sadly*
"That's me when we first me. And you made me better. Now you can do the same for him." (THANK YOU GODS ABOVE! *huggles RTD in an obscene fashion*)
Not only that, this Doctor will grow old and only has one heart and won't regenerate. He's only got one life ... and he's gonna spend it with Rose.
*winces* Ok ... s' long as we don't have to see it ...
Ah, I spoke too soon. Rose asks the Doctor what the last thing he said to her on the beach was, at the end of S2. He says "Does it really need saying?" and she asks Doctor-Mark-Blue, and he whispers something into her ear. Then they kiss. Ugh. *skitters off to the side* Enjoy this, Doctor/Rose slashers, this was the only way it'd work ... I hope you're happy ... now let the Doctor-Doctor be with his soul-mate, THE MASTER!
Then the TARDIS leaves, Rose looks kinda distraught, and the Doctor-Mark-Blue holds her hand. Ok, now let's never visit them again. EVER. *growls*
(No I'm not just saying that because I can't spell 'parallel' to save my life.)
Donna starts to short-circuit in a very scary way. It's awful.
Then the Doctor takes her memories to save her. And I burst into tears. We get flashbacks of her adventures, right back until the end of S3, with her in that wedding dress, to the sad-slow-cowboy music, and I CRY. I cry more than I did when I saw Doomsday for the first time.
The Doctor brings Donna home. He explains to her mom and granddad that if she remembers her mind will burn up.
"You can never tell her. You can't mention me, or any of it, for the rest of her life."
*gulps*
"But she was better with you!" Granddad insists.
"Don't say that ..." her mom snaps.
"But she WAS!" Granddad retorts.
The Doctor says he wanted them to know about all the worlds that were saved because of Donna, and all the people in the light singing songs of Donna Noble. "They will never forget her ... while she can never remember. And for one moment ... one shining moment ... she was the most important woman in the whole universe." (Squee ... *falls down and cries*)
Symbolic rain falls as the Doctor prepares to leave, and Wilfred (granddad) asks who the Doctor's got, what about all those friends of his? The Doctor says they've all got someone else, but he says he's fine. *scowls* I foresee a great Time Lord depression, the likes of which has not been seen since the Master 'died' ... or when Rose 'died' ... or when the Time War happened ... or ... ah, screw it, I foresee a lot of Time Lord Angst, ok?
Wilfred says he'll look up at the sky at night on Donna's behalf. The Doctor thanks him, and leaves. Wilfred salutes the vworping TARDIS.
The Doctor tosses his jacket off to the side, circles the console, then stops, leans on the TARDIS, and looks so wet and lost and alone and depressed that I want to break the fourth wall and hug him until Christmas.
Next Week: ... nothing. There is no spoon. There is no Doctor Who. I'll begin Shakespeare workshops, and try to get back into Heroes-fangirl-mode. Rassilon help you all.
Edit: So, to recap: I do not begrudge Rose her very-own David Tennant toy, because really, we all want that, and he's not really a Time Lord, just a bloke with amazing memories and a woman who lurves him. I think it's the only way to get the Doctor/Rose shippers to shut up and go to their happy place, so THANK YOU GODS ABOVE! *slump*
Donna was awesome, but she can't remember being awesome. Maybe that's for the best, but maybe not. *blinkblink* Personally I don't want to think about it for too long.
HEY, GUYS, REMEMBER SOMETHING IMPORTANT?
NO MORE RTD! MR. MOFFAT ALL THE WAY! *jumps up and down* OH HAPPY DAYS ...
Now, let's sit back, relax, and wait for the Master to return!
Then I had very strange dreams, because when you mix up Doctor Who, Death Note, Buffy S6, and 'The Secret Diaries of a Call Girl' in my brain, you get very interesting results. (Ooooog.)
So, finally, on to the recap!
'Journey's End'
Previously on Doctor Who: the Earth was stolen, from right under the Doctor's nose! (Funny place to wear the Earth ...) EX-TER-MIN-ATE! Rose is back, and teetering on being a BAMF! DAVROS! Gwen and Ianto might DIE! SJS might DIE! (If Ianto or SJS kick it, I'm going to KILL RTD. I kid you not.) ZOMG DAVID TENNANT IS REGENERATING INTO ELEVEN! I THOUGHT HE WAS SIGNED ON THROUGH NEXT YEAR! COULD IT BE THAT THE BBC ACTUALLY SUCCEEDED IN COVERING SOMETHING UP?!
Credits:
Ten
Donna
Martha
Capt. Jack
SJS
And Rose
(*bites nails* The last time we saw a season finale written by RTD, we got Tinkerbell!Jesus and Gnome!Doctor, but we also got the Scissor Sisters and 'I forgive you.')
The Doctor is regenerating ... then it's a total cop-out. He flings his arms towards his hand-in-a-jar and ... stops regenerating. (Wow, yo_mawri, you weren't that far off!)
DT sniffs, then says "Now, where were we?" and walks offscreen, whilst Jack and the wimmins look just about as shocked as the audience.
SJS holds up her arms and screams ... then Jackie and Mickey teleport in and blast the Daleks apart. YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!! *punches the air* (Oh, come on, you did too, and don't you DARE deny it!)
Mickey and SJS embrace, apparently they know each other ... Mickey says "Us Smiths gotta stick together." Like the Joneses, I suppose ...
Gwen and Ianto stop shooting at the Dalek ... because it looks like someone's stopped time around the Dalek. The air has gone all jelly-like and the bullets have frozen in midair. (I admit it, I half expected a cute Japanese man with an affinity for waffles to sneak offscreen just then, but no such luck. We gotta wait until September for our Hiro-fix.)
The Doctor rattles on about his handy-hand and energy why-would-he-want-to-change-when-he-looks-like-THIS (that's something I won't argue on) and deaux es machina and such-like-things, and then there's an awful moment where it looks like Rose is going to lunge forward and kiss him ... but they only hug. *slumps with relief* Thank the angels in the heavens above and the devils down under the sea!
There's a cute bit off to the side where Donna says Jack can hug her, he laughs, and she says "No, really, you can hug me," a bit more forcefully. Nawwwww ...
Zip! In TW, there's a time-lock, apparently Tosh was working on it, and Ianto didn't think she'd finished it ... but she had. The Hub is sealed in a Time-Bubble of safety. Of course, this means they can't escape, but no more Daleks will come a-knockin' either.
A battalion (?) of Daleks capture the TARDIS. Spanish Inquisition Dalek ... I mean, the Supreme Dalek tells them to bring the Doctor to him, and they put this blue-ish electric thing around the TARDIS, which basically cuts the power inside the TARDIS (and yet we can still see the characters ...)
SJS, Jackie, and Mickey (a proper D&D cell in the making) see the TARDIS (which they know contains 1 Doctor and 1 Rose) get taken up to the Dalek flagship-thingamajig. SJS surrenders to the Daleks, Jackie follows suit, and Mickey kisses his BIG ASS GUN goodbye and does the same. They're gonna be taken to the same place the Doctor is.
Martha tearfully says goodbye to her mommy, won't explain what the Heffalump-Key (oh, I'm sorry, the OSTERHAGEN Key) is, and teleports away to ...
Germany. We hear Daleks speaking in German.
Back in the TARDIS, they ex-po-si-ate. Blah blah, Darkness, blah blah, collapsing realities, blah blah DT's cheeky grin, blah blah timelines converging on Donna ...
Is Donna the Rani?
No, seriously, is she the Rani? That could fit ... maybe.
The TARDIS lands, the Doctor says they'll have to go out, because these Daleks aren't hybrids or insane, they're at the hight of their power, and the TARDIS door is just a wooden door now. As he, Jack, and Rose discuss hit-points and compare weaponry, we zoom in to Donna who ... is hearing a loud heartbeat. Or, perhaps, she's realizing she has two? ...
The Doctor MIGHT realize something's amiss ... or not. He snaps Donna out of it, and says he's sorry, but they're gonna have to go out, there's nothing he can do.
The Daleks order the Doctor to come out and 'face his Dalek Masters' ... a strange parallel to the Master cackling on that London street calling out to Martha to "come out and meet your Master" ...
Everyone puts on bravado, the Doctor (smiling) reminiscing on how wonderful it all was. Then he tells Donna she was brilliant, and Jack that he was brilliant (Jack grins at that), and he tells Rose that she was brilliant. *wibbles a bit* Then he says "Blimey," and faces the door.
He heads out, Rose heads out, Jack heads out, all to rather inspiring, if resigned, music.
Donna - still hearing that heart-beat-drum-thing - hesitates, then the doors shut on their own. The Doctor thinks the Daleks are doing it, the Daleks say it's "Time Lord treachery" and send the TARDIS down into the core of the ship, so that it'll be torn apart in this thing that looks like a tiny sun. Basically it means Donna gets tossed about and things in the TARDIS start shattering and there are flames and stuff. The Doctor, Rose, and Jack are all demanding that the Daleks bring Donna and the TARDIS back, but they refuse and bring it up on a screen. "The last child of Gallifrey is powerless."
The Doctor offers to do anything, asks that they put him in her place, they cackle that he's connected to the TARDIS. "Now feel it die." and the Daleks are speaking to the audience as well as the Doctor.
Donna hears the heart-beat-thing, then touches the hand-in-a-jar. Sadly, she does not regenerate into the Rani, but the hand glows a lot and then grows a naked David Tennant. (SQUEE!)
This second-Doctor (oh, come on, we all heard the spoilers) somehow manages to vworp the TARDIS away at the last possible second. Oh, yeah, and Rose is holding Ten-Mark-1's hand.
The Daleks grill the Doctor about all the despair and anger he's feeling, then say that if emotions are so important "Then surely we have enhanced you."
Jack shoots at a Dalek, they ex-ter-min-ate him, Rose dives down to his side, the Doctor pulls her back and does his best to sound distraught, but detachedly-so, and the Daleks have him and Rose escorted off. "They are the playthings of Davros now." Ugh ...
On his was out, the Doctor catches Jack's eye. Jack winks. *GRIN*
Doctor-Mark-2 (or, should I say ... Doctor-Mark-BLUE) is dashing about, rather ... wired. He's also wearing the blue-suit, and sounds an awful lot like Donna. He realizes that, then realizes he's only got ONE heart, because he's half-Time-Lord-half-human (so there goes the 'Eight really WAS half-human on his mother's side!' theory) and then he realizes that Donna has rock-bottom self-esteem because he can hear her thoughts. Then he realizes that they've been going towards this point for a very long time, blah blah, it's not over yet ...
Zip! Martha Jones speaks German with a German lady (who has a cane) by this castle-type-thingy. German-Lady then slips into English and explains that the guards were boys who ran away when they saw the Daleks, she's the one who brought them food.
Martha opens a secret door, the German lady almost shoots her because she knows what the Heffalump-Key does, and I don't know German, but because it sounds an awful lot like English I think the Heffalump-Key brings about 'the end of the world' or 'apocalypse' or something. Martha talks the lady down with apathy, and then gets into an elevator, German-lady says something that MIGHT be "Martah, see you in hell," and Martha says "I know."
Jack escapes incineration on the Dalek ship. I don't see HOW he did that WITH his coat intact, but I'm certainly not complaining.
Martha asks if anyone's out there via Osterhagen-Facebook. Music from the S3 DVD menu plays.
SJS, Mickey, and Jackie are being led to 'testing.' SJS says "One step closer to the Doctor ..." also one step closer to knarly death that will leave poor Luke an orphan, to be raised by K-9 and Mr. Smith! *incredibly tense*
Davros has the Doctor and Rose in (separate, thank Rassilon) 'holding cells.' I like them. They're like spotlights, unless the Doctor or Rose touches them, then they're like shiny blueish things. I also like Davros' theme-music, because it's classily-unsettling in a sparse-way, very much what I'd expect of him.
"Excellent," Davros says. "Even when powerless a Time Lord is best kept contained." He's practically LEERING at this point. Or, leering as much as you can with eyes half-covered with your skeevy-wrinkles. I want my Mister Master back, at least THEN Rule #34 was hot!
"It is time we talked Doctor, after so very long -" but the Doctor cuts Davros off.
"No no no, we're not doing the nostalgia-talk, I want to know what's going on right here, right now."
He's figured out that Davros isn't in charge of the Daleks, because he's in the vault/cellar/dungeon/prison.
"You're the Dalek's PET!" he practically giggles, forgetting that, this time last year, the Doctor himself was drinking out of a dish labled 'dog' and that the fics about how EXACTLY he and the Master spent the year-that-never-was are STILL being churned out.
Davros shifts his attention to Rose, and when the Doctor snaps at him to leave her alone, Davros leers some more and says "She is mine ... to do with as I please." (Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeewww!)
Blah blah, Dalek Khan, blah blah, he saw Time itself (yeek! The Doctor should have asked if HE could hear the Drums ...) and Dalek Khan has seen what's gonna happen
Davros is excited about the Doctor going all 'Oncoming-Storm' and asks why he's so 'shy.' He wants the Doctor to show Rose his 'true self' and Dalek Khan says that at the end the Doctor's "soul will be revealed." Ehney? (I must point out that this is a fantastic scene, especially since DT and Billie Piper can't move much, and they're acting with a puppet-squid and an animatronic-shriveled man.)
Then Davros says the testing has begun of the 'Reality Bomb.'
I don't like the sound of that ...
When a woman in the testing-group randomly collapses, SJS uses her sonic lipstick to dart through a door. Mickey follows, but Jackie can't make it.
Both the Doctor and Doctor-Mark-Blue figure out what the 27 planets and the charge-beam mean. It shocks Blue and makes the Doctor scream at Davros that he can't do that.
There's an awful moment when it looks like Jackie's gonna die, but Mickey realizes the teleport-disk-thing is recharged, he alerts Jackie through the window, she turns to the woman who fell and says she's sorry, and zips away to safety. Phew!
Of course, then they watch as the prisoners who didn't make it get disintegrated in a manner like the Phoenix killed Xavier in the 3rd X-Men movie ... except shinier.
Davros explains to Rose that it basically un-makes atoms, destroying ... well, everything. And he's gonna blast it out into the universe, and through the Medusa Casscade, every parallel world. With the 27 planets he'll have enough power. Then he gets a little psycho with his 'I will destroy REALITY! Muahahhaha!' thing and I can't help but stare at his gross teeth. Seriously: EWWW!
The Daleks retreat, cackling that soon they're gonna be the only beings in existence. YEEEEEK!
SJS, Mickey, and Jackie peer through the window uneasily, then Jack rolls out of the wall with a clang.
"Just my luck. I climb through two miles of ventilation shafts chasing life-signs on this thing, and who do I find? Mickey MOUSE."
"You can talk, Captain Cheesecake." Mickey deadpans.
Then they laugh and have a man-hug. Except, not so much a man-hug because eventually Mickey says "And that's enough hugging." Tee hee.
Jack salutes SJS, she reveals this shiny necklace thing that was given to her by a soothsayer who said it was for the 'End of Days.'
Martha's got two other Osterhagen stations. One is a Chinese girl, the other is a man with dark skin and an accent I really like who doesn't want to give his name "Given what we're about to do." Martha wants to wait before using the Heffalump-Key, because there's one last thing "the Doctor would do."
Doctor-Mark-Blue is assembling the usual ramshackle devise that'll save everyone, this time, he's trying to lock onto Davros' DNA and kill all the Daleks.
Martha transmits to the Crucible. (I have a hard time calling it that, it reminds me of that play about the Salem witch trials ...) She's VERY badass. Apparently the Osterhagen-Key will set off all these nuclear warheads and tear the Earth apart. The Doctor says that's not an option, but she barrels on in a badass manner that the Daleks need 27 planets ... but what'd happen if it was 26, hmmm?
Rose approves of this Martha-girl, and introduces herself, Martha is stunned and happy that the Doctor found Rose.
The D&D cell is transmitting too. Jack, using SJS's necklace, will blow up the Crucible if they don't let the Doctor go. WOOHOO!
Davros recognizes SJS "that face ..." (yeah, she's incredibly well-preserved and damn hot too, eh?) She says she's learned how to fight since then, though ...
Rose is excited by this, but the Doctor looks tormented. Khann cackles insanely and Davros witters on about the Doctor's soul, about how the Doctor abhors violence and never carries a gun, and yet he transforms people into weapons. I don't think it's ever really hit the Doctor until now. YEOWCH.
Rose tells the Doctor that Harriet Jones
Then we have a flashback of all the people who've died to save the Doctor since the new series began. Jade, the computer-girl, Lynda, LINDA, Ratt-boy, Astrid, the Hostess, River Song, Jenny (hey now, she's still out there!), that-woman-from-Jake-and-Rickey's-Team, the Face of Boe, Cantho ... (all in order, but I can't remember all of the names ... damn this is worse than me planning to go back and re-watch Lost to see how many people have died since the plane crashed!)
"The Doctor ..." Davros grits, as the Doctor looks torn between crying and going all Oncoming-Storm on Davros' lack-of-ass. "The man who keeps running ... never looking back because he DARE NOT ... out of shame." (OUCH.) "This is my final victory, Doctor ... I have shown you yourself." Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ...
(Somebody HOLD ME!)
Then the Daleks teleport Martha and the D&D cell into the room-where-Davros-Rose-and-the-Doctor-are. Davros orders them onto their knees, at the Doctor pleading they do so, Davros wheels back and forth in a kind of manic glee (nothing like the Master's manic glee, I'm afraid) and tells them to activate the reality bomb.
The TARDIS materializes, and it's a lovely, morale-boosting moment, but when Doctor-Mark-Blue leaps out and runs at Davros to fire the gun (guys, it's a GUN, designed to keep as much distance from yourself and your quarry as possible ... and you RUN AT THEM?! *headdesk*) Davros stuns him, the gun flies through the air, and Doctor-Mark-Blue is trapped in a holding-cell. Donna grabs the gun "But I don't know what to do with it!" and gets Davros-shocked too. NOOOOOOO!
"Stand witness, Time Lord. Stand witness, humans. Your strategies have failed, your weapons are useless, and ... oh, the end of the universe has come." (Davros, if your schemes weren't so huge, I could grow to like you.)
And Donna ... flips a switch. Like when you flip the glowy-button on the plug-thing down under your computer during a thunderstorm.
Then she rattles off some technobabble and flips more switches, making Davros' hand shock himself, and shutting down the Daleks' weapons. The genetic-transfer-thingy worked both ways. "The Doctor-Donna." Just like thet Ood said! WOOHOO!
Donna makes the Daleks spin around in circles. *sporfleDIEZ* She is SO GOOD.
Then we have a table of the Doctor, Donna-Doctor, and Doctor-Mark-blue around a control station. They're grinning about her and she rattles on and I'm squeeing SO MUCH right now. Donna tells them that she can type 100 words a minute, super-temp can save the universe! WOOHOO!
The Three send the planets home, and the Companions shove the Daleks out of the way. Basically they're re-arranging furniture. Rose and SJS squee about meeting again, Jack breaks out the BIG ASS GUNS again.
The Three explain about how Davros' shock alerted Donna to the bit of the Doctor in her.
"So there's three of you?" SJS asks.
"Three Doctors ..." Rose says, reacapping.
"I can't tell you what I'm thinking now." Jack says, looking slightly uncomfortable. (Heh heh heh ...)
Turns out Dalek Khan foresaw all of this, but when he saw Time he saw what the Daleks have done, and he decrees 'NO MORE!'
Jack blasts the Supreme Dalek, but it hit the machine. Only one planet didn't get home ... Earth. Duh. Hee hee.
Doctor-Mark-Blue ends the Daleks. It's awful. There's lots of explosions.
Torchwood's time-lock is ended, though.
Big explosions take place, the Doctor loads everyone into the TARDIS, he offers to help Davros, Davros won't do it (Doctor, if
At last, the TARDIS console is crowded. It makes me happy inside. SJS is worried about the Earth, the Doctor contacts TW, he fixes the plothole of Gwen being Mr. Sneed's psychic maid and he and Rose giggle about that.
K-9 makes a cameo, and apparently with Torchwood's help and Mr. Smith, the TARDIS has a loop around the Earth and they all fly it home, smoothly, because a TARDIS is meant to have 6 pilots. (The Doctor advises Jackie not to touch anything. Tee hee.)
To happy, inspiring music (nothing TARDIS-y about it, I'm afraid) Luke hugs K-9 and holds onto Mr. Smith, yelling with joy; Ianto and Gwen hug bigs of the Hub and yell; Donna's granddad and mom wobble around yelling as things shatter, and Martha's mommy sensibly hides under a table.
Donna-Doctor and Doctor-Mark-Blue don't do anything but stand back looking very pleased. *beams*
Earth is back in its proper place, and inside the TARDIS everyone hugs and dances around yelling with joy. Donna's granddad and mom do that too. Francine goes outside to spin around, smiling that this time she wasn't forced to watch Japan get decimated.
Around the world, people set off fireworks, jubilant that they're back home.
SJS points out that the Doctor acts so lonely, but he's got the biggest family on Earth. Nawwwww ... then they hug, and she dashes off to Luke. Nawwwww ... *dances for joy that SJS didn't die*
The Doctor once again dismantles Jack's teleport-wrist-band, then tells Martha to get rid of the Heffalump-Key. They both salute the Doctor, then walk off, hand-in-hand, Jack saying he's not so sure about UNIT these days, maybe Martha could ... (YES YES YES! JOIN TORCHWOOD!)
Then something awful happens. Mickey's gran passed away, and there's nothing for him in the parallel world. (NOT EVEN JAKE?! *cries*) Mickey says goodbye to the Doctor, calling him 'boss' and catches up to Martha and Jack.
BAD WOLF BAY! (Argh, I still think they ruined a perfectly wonderful sendoff for Rose ...)
Jackie's son isn't called 'Doctor' he's called 'Tony.' Awwwww ...
Rose is distraught that she's gotta stay on the parallel world but the Doctor points out that he's leaving Doctor-Mark-Blue with her, because he's not really Doctor-Mark-Blue, he's Nine. We got Nine again. *smiles sadly*
"That's me when we first me. And you made me better. Now you can do the same for him." (THANK YOU GODS ABOVE! *huggles RTD in an obscene fashion*)
Not only that, this Doctor will grow old and only has one heart and won't regenerate. He's only got one life ... and he's gonna spend it with Rose.
*winces* Ok ... s' long as we don't have to see it ...
Ah, I spoke too soon. Rose asks the Doctor what the last thing he said to her on the beach was, at the end of S2. He says "Does it really need saying?" and she asks Doctor-Mark-Blue, and he whispers something into her ear. Then they kiss. Ugh. *skitters off to the side* Enjoy this, Doctor/Rose slashers, this was the only way it'd work ... I hope you're happy ... now let the Doctor-Doctor be with his soul-mate, THE MASTER!
Then the TARDIS leaves, Rose looks kinda distraught, and the Doctor-Mark-Blue holds her hand. Ok, now let's never visit them again. EVER. *growls*
(No I'm not just saying that because I can't spell 'parallel' to save my life.)
Donna starts to short-circuit in a very scary way. It's awful.
Then the Doctor takes her memories to save her. And I burst into tears. We get flashbacks of her adventures, right back until the end of S3, with her in that wedding dress, to the sad-slow-cowboy music, and I CRY. I cry more than I did when I saw Doomsday for the first time.
The Doctor brings Donna home. He explains to her mom and granddad that if she remembers her mind will burn up.
"You can never tell her. You can't mention me, or any of it, for the rest of her life."
*gulps*
"But she was better with you!" Granddad insists.
"Don't say that ..." her mom snaps.
"But she WAS!" Granddad retorts.
The Doctor says he wanted them to know about all the worlds that were saved because of Donna, and all the people in the light singing songs of Donna Noble. "They will never forget her ... while she can never remember. And for one moment ... one shining moment ... she was the most important woman in the whole universe." (Squee ... *falls down and cries*)
Symbolic rain falls as the Doctor prepares to leave, and Wilfred (granddad) asks who the Doctor's got, what about all those friends of his? The Doctor says they've all got someone else, but he says he's fine. *scowls* I foresee a great Time Lord depression, the likes of which has not been seen since the Master 'died' ... or when Rose 'died' ... or when the Time War happened ... or ... ah, screw it, I foresee a lot of Time Lord Angst, ok?
Wilfred says he'll look up at the sky at night on Donna's behalf. The Doctor thanks him, and leaves. Wilfred salutes the vworping TARDIS.
The Doctor tosses his jacket off to the side, circles the console, then stops, leans on the TARDIS, and looks so wet and lost and alone and depressed that I want to break the fourth wall and hug him until Christmas.
Next Week: ... nothing. There is no spoon. There is no Doctor Who. I'll begin Shakespeare workshops, and try to get back into Heroes-fangirl-mode. Rassilon help you all.
Edit: So, to recap: I do not begrudge Rose her very-own David Tennant toy, because really, we all want that, and he's not really a Time Lord, just a bloke with amazing memories and a woman who lurves him. I think it's the only way to get the Doctor/Rose shippers to shut up and go to their happy place, so THANK YOU GODS ABOVE! *slump*
Donna was awesome, but she can't remember being awesome. Maybe that's for the best, but maybe not. *blinkblink* Personally I don't want to think about it for too long.
HEY, GUYS, REMEMBER SOMETHING IMPORTANT?
NO MORE RTD! MR. MOFFAT ALL THE WAY! *jumps up and down* OH HAPPY DAYS ...
Now, let's sit back, relax, and wait for the Master to return!
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Date: 2008-07-06 07:26 pm (UTC)Now as for Donna
-weeps like a baby-
there's just nothing I can say. I started crying a lot
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Date: 2008-07-06 10:26 pm (UTC)*sigh* If I wanted to fight I'd point out that Rose/Doctor-Mark-Blue cements the fact that the Doctor-Doctor could never be with Rose, was never with Rose, and would never be with Rose ...
... but I won't. Because this means that FINALLY, Doctor/Rose shippers won't throw shoes at my head, because they got what the wanted (sort of.)
*beams*
God, poor Donna ... poor Donna, poor Granddad, poor DOCTOR (Rassilon's TONSILS is the Doctor in for a miserable time!) And wasn't the POINT Of 'Turn Left' that the Doctor and Donna needed each other? Well, now that Donna's forgotten that, the Doctor will always feel this ache whenever he thinks about her and possibly forget all the good she did! *cries all over again*
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Date: 2008-07-07 01:36 am (UTC)God Im sad about Donna
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Date: 2008-07-07 02:11 am (UTC)Which is why I'm not throwing a big-damn-fit. I will be tolerant, for once in my life. *beams*
Gah, Donna ... *cries* maybe after DT does Shakespeare Catherine Tate will realize how much she misses DW and they'll find a way to bring her back?
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Date: 2008-07-07 02:10 pm (UTC)Donna! Nooo! I'm glad that Rose got her own Doctor (LUCKY!!!) Though I was never much of a Doctor/Rose shipper. It just seemed...I don't know...*shrug* Plus, the Doctor is saving himself for when The Master returns. =P
Donna COULD come back, I mean, they brought back Rose didn't they?
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Date: 2008-07-07 05:17 pm (UTC)It's nice to know that SOMEONE gets some of my jokes ... because I make references to Heroes and Lost and LoM and Buffy and sometimes even Farscape in my reviews, and NO ONE but me watches all of those fandoms ...
Doctor/Rose just does not work for me. He's 900-something, she's in her early twenties. He's a Time Lord, she's a human. He's the last of his kind, she doesn't have the mental-capabilities to understand him. Sure, they COULD have sex, but while Rose would be happy the Doctor would feel like he'd taken advantage of her.
I try to explain myself to Doctor/Rose shippers by asking if they ship Three/Jo, because that's what Ten/Rose is like, except even worse. *shrugs* Then most throw shoes at my head.
Plus, the Doctor is saving himself for when The Master returns. =P
Yes, yes he is!
Donna COULD come back, I mean, they brought back Rose didn't they?
I still think they should not have brought Rose back. She had a perfectly good sendoff in the S2 finale, and that's been utterly ruined. It made me CRY, ok, and now no one will ever cry again because they'll know Rose comes back in S4. *headdesk*
I want Donna to come back and NOT have her head burn up. She was fantastic, the price should not be her memories.
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Date: 2008-07-07 05:28 pm (UTC)I agree with the Doctor/Rose thing. It just creates a set of problems because she cannot truly understand him or anything like that. D=
He's twiddling his thumbs and all like 'Master, hurry up and regenerate already. I'm getting bored. I can't keep playing with myself all day--playing checkers! I swear I meant checkers!!!!' lol
Yeah I know. Losing her memories is like the worst part, if Rose can come back then can't they find a way to give Donna her memories without going all kablooie? O_o
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Date: 2008-07-07 09:04 pm (UTC)I agree with the Doctor/Rose thing. It just creates a set of problems because she cannot truly understand him or anything like that. D=
Yeppers!
He's twiddling his thumbs and all like 'Master, hurry up and regenerate already. I'm getting bored. I can't keep playing with myself all day--playing checkers! I swear I meant checkers!!!!' lol
*sporfles* Totally ... yeehehehehehee! (Although, with his looks, it's not as though he couldn't find someone to, er, give him another hand ...)
Yeah I know. Losing her memories is like the worst part, if Rose can come back then can't they find a way to give Donna her memories without going all kablooie? O_o
Particularly since Donna has a stauncher fanbase that formed faster than Rose's.
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Date: 2008-07-07 09:50 pm (UTC)'Give him another hand' *sporfles, rofl* lol!!!! hee hee.
I know! Cause Donna rocks lots of peoples socks off, lol.
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Date: 2008-07-08 03:01 am (UTC)But yeah, Smallville (while good) is not as great as Heroes, DW, LOST and SPN. D=
Yeah, I get that impression ... it'll be fun, I guess, like Reaper, but longer, and with more girls.
'Give him another hand' *sporfles, rofl* lol!!!! hee hee.
I can be dirty! ... sometimes ... *still blushes when I write semi-hard-core smex scenes*
Donna rocks my mismatched socks off! (That takes a lot!)
Oh, read all of your fics, here's what I thought:
Five Things:
LOVED the hide-and-seek one … tee hee …
The one where L said he was gonna burn the Death Note was WONDERFUL. *huggles L* You’re not an anti-hero, L, you’re NOT! *cries*
We May Receive:
This is my favorite, I think. Just so … PERFECT and amazingly well-thought-out and L is so IC and … “Goodnight Kira …” (tee hee!) and I love how L feels so sorry for the chief and … heh heh those cameras were MADE for voyeurism!
A Different Decision:
Oooooooooooooo … I love how L is so L about the whole thing, and huzzah for him letting Light be Kira … what a dark, interesting future …
Untold Into the Dark:
Oooooooo … Light gets L back … but Ryuk gets Light’s life-force? Oooooooo … they blue-eyes thing was very cool!
Redeemer:
Hrrrrrrrrrrrrmmmmm … I’d like to see more of this!
In the Opposite Direction:
“Socks are EVIL” ?! L SPEAKS BLASPHEMY! *falls out of chair and sporfles*
Light SQUEAKED. I love you, PJ-kun!
Misa WOULD be a crazed fangirl … *gigglespaz*
Wedy is a secret slasher! *sporfleDIEZ*
Will:
Woohoo! (Light I can see being submissive a few times, but Kira is all ‘Oh no you don’t, sneaky detective-man! Muahahaha! I have crazier eyes than you do!’ … the Light/Kira thing is a lot like the Gabriel/Sylar thing … oh my …)
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Date: 2008-07-08 01:16 pm (UTC)I saw that too! XD
But yeah, Smallville (while good) is not as great as Heroes, DW, LOST and SPN. D=
Yeah, I get that impression ... it'll be fun, I guess, like Reaper, but longer, and with more girls.
Yeah, although Smallville is a bit more watchable than Reaper, especially when like The Green Arrow shows up and stuff (Clark/Oliver is also very,very smexy)
'Give him another hand' *sporfles, rofl* lol!!!! hee hee.
I can be dirty! ... sometimes ... *still blushes when I write semi-hard-core smex scenes*
I sometimes still blush too, lol, so don't feel bad. I'm getting better though. =P
Donna rocks my mismatched socks off! (That takes a lot!)
Mismatched socks, lol, that makes me think of Dobby. XD
Oh, read all of your fics, here's what I thought:
Five Things:
LOVED the hide-and-seek one … tee hee …
The one where L said he was gonna burn the Death Note was WONDERFUL. *huggles L* You’re not an anti-hero, L, you’re NOT! *cries*
lol That was all the first stuff that popped in my head so I went with it. =P
We May Receive:
This is my favorite, I think. Just so … PERFECT and amazingly well-thought-out and L is so IC and … “Goodnight Kira …” (tee hee!) and I love how L feels so sorry for the chief and … heh heh those cameras were MADE for voyeurism!
Eeee!!!!! I know! I'm glad you liked it. =P
A Different Decision:
Oooooooooooooo … I love how L is so L about the whole thing, and huzzah for him letting Light be Kira … what a dark, interesting future …
I know! It was one of my earlier efforts and I wanted to see what it would be like if L was more accepting rather than the reverse.
Untold Into the Dark:
Oooooooo … Light gets L back … but Ryuk gets Light’s life-force? Oooooooo … they blue-eyes thing was very cool!
Thanks! XDDD
Redeemer:
Hrrrrrrrrrrrrmmmmm … I’d like to see more of this!
lol! There IS going to be a sequel to this. I had just been waiting till I had more information on...something...since I have, I'll write it soon. =P
In the Opposite Direction:
“Socks are EVIL” ?! L SPEAKS BLASPHEMY! *falls out of chair and sporfles*
Light SQUEAKED. I love you, PJ-kun!
Misa WOULD be a crazed fangirl … *gigglespaz*
Wedy is a secret slasher! *sporfleDIEZ*
lol! Well it IS a canon fact that L hates socks XD
hee hee! I <3 you too, Zel-chan! XD
Yup!
lol! I just HAD to make Wedy that way, lol.
Will:
Woohoo! (Light I can see being submissive a few times, but Kira is all ‘Oh no you don’t, sneaky detective-man! Muahahaha! I have crazier eyes than you do!’ … the Light/Kira thing is a lot like the Gabriel/Sylar thing … oh my …)
lol! Hee hee, yeah. XDDD
Glad you liked. =P
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Date: 2008-07-10 06:19 pm (UTC)Oooooo, Green Arrow! (I'm forever confuzzling him with the Green Lantern ... *headdesk*)
Mismatched socks, lol, that makes me think of Dobby. XD
Come to think of it, that's probably why I do it ... *wibbles* that's why I cried so damn much last summer when I read HP7 ...
I know! It was one of my earlier efforts and I wanted to see what it would be like if L was more accepting rather than the reverse.
It's different than the fics where Mohinder helps Sylar or has given up or in FYG when he realizes Nathan is Sylar ... I'm not quite sure WHY ... it was great, though.
You tell me when that sequel is!
Hee hee hee ... L thinks socks are EVIL ... did one attack him when he was a small child?
hee hee! I <3 you too, Zel-chan! XD
Nawwwwww! Thank you!
I love it when a character is a secret slasher ... they generate some of the funniest fics ...
I loved those fics!
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Date: 2008-07-10 07:32 pm (UTC)I noticed that too! Someone besides me noticed it! XD
Oooooo, Green Arrow! (I'm forever confuzzling him with the Green Lantern ... *headdesk*)
lol Well there are a lot of super heroes with the name 'green' in it and there are like diff versions and AU versions and female versions in the comic books--
Come to think of it, that's probably why I do it ... *wibbles* that's why I cried so damn much last summer when I read HP7 ...
Me too! I was like Nooooo Dobby but then it came to Sev dying and I was like NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO *river of tears*
It's different than the fics where Mohinder helps Sylar or has given up or in FYG when he realizes Nathan is Sylar ... I'm not quite sure WHY ... it was great, though.
Thanks! XDDD
You tell me when that sequel is!
I will! I'll start on it soon. Right now I'm working on The Last Enemy, a L/Light fic on fanfiction.net and I'm working on an L/Mello fic for the dn_yaoi fic contest. XP
Hee hee hee ... L thinks socks are EVIL ... did one attack him when he was a small child?
I don't know lol, but in How to Read13 it says that L's dislikes are socks. XDDD I think it has to do with a comfort thing, it's why he only wears shoes when he has to and wears baggy blue jeans and a simple white shirt. I don't think he likes the feeling of so much clothes and stuff against his skin.
Nawwwwww! Thank you!
lol *hug*
I love it when a character is a secret slasher ... they generate some of the funniest fics ...
They do! I got the idea from Serria's so very awesome fic Pandora's Mischief, which is mostly centered around Wedy trying to do her damndest to get L and Light together. It is AWESOME.
I loved those fics!
Thank you! XDDD
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Date: 2008-07-10 07:54 pm (UTC)As much as I love the slash, it kinda bugs me that hetero-pairings on TV are kinda shallow and lame and annoying and REALLY dragged out. Like, during an entire season it's 'are they gonna kiss? Are they gonna go out? Huh, huh, huh?!' and meanwhile the lead guy (or girl) has WAGONLOADS more chemistry with a person of the same sex as themself, usually their nemesis. It's only natural that we slash. It's not about being rabid gay-sex fiends, it's because we want the lead character to have a relationship with FEELING.
lol Well there are a lot of super heroes with the name 'green' in it and there are like diff versions and AU versions and female versions in the comic books--
ARGH ... *headdesk* I never really go into superheroes until the (semi-lame) X-Men movies and then Heroes (yahoo!) so this is all a sort of crash-course for me.
I was more shocked and 'eh? Buwhuh?' when Snape died. I REALLY cried when Harry went into the pensive, because I'm such a flashback whore and Sev loved Lily ALL ALONG and ... WHY DID SHE SHACK UP WITH THAT BASTARD JAMES?! *kicks things through tears*
The worst bit, I think, is that Remus and Tonks' deaths were so ... understated. When I first read that bit I saw their names and though 'oh, they're ok ...' and went on. Then I realized something, went back, and started screeching obscenities at JKR. (Well, not SCREECHING, but yelping.) How DARE she practially OUT Remus and then kill him in such a lame fashion! How DARE she make Teddy 'the next Harry Potter.' How DARE she make Tonks' only love a closeted gay man! *cries*
The only good thing about that is that Remus is now with Sirius. My choice would have been for Remus and Tonks to survive, Remus to admit that he's gay and divorce her, and eventually hook up with a sweet guy; OR for Tonks to die and Remus to raise Teddy on his own.
Maybe L secretly wishes he were a nudist.
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Date: 2008-07-11 01:39 pm (UTC)YES! That is EXACTLY it. I need something with substance, you know, you hit it right on the head!!!!!!!! (Though all of us I think love to just read some pr0n once in awhile, lol)
ARGH ... *headdesk* I never really go into superheroes until the (semi-lame) X-Men movies and then Heroes (yahoo!) so this is all a sort of crash-course for me.))
I'm not much into superheroes except for Heroes, I just retain information really well, I hear superhero-y stuff and my brain tends to remember most of it. *shrug* I don't really care for comics; I much prefer manga. =P I don't even own any comic books. I pwn 1 YGO manga and all the death note manga other than 2,3 and How to Read13. =P
I cried when Harry went into the pensieve too; that book made me shed some tears let me tell you. =P
I like to think that Sev's love WAS the in-love in the beginning, but he realized it was friendship later. (That's the Snarry fan in me. XD)
Yeah she TOTALLY understated their deaths. As important as Remus is and everything and all he gets is THAT? *shakes head* For shame, J.K, for shame... I know! We ALL know Remus bloved Sirius and vice-versa; that pairing is like so canon.
Yeah Teddy doesn't need that over his head! And Tonks? I mean, yeah...I guess she did that since she wanted Remus to have SOMEONE and he obviously couldn't have Sirius because of he was gone and had to be for teh plot...*kicks plot*
Yeah he's with Sirius now. *sniff* Seeing him so young again and with Sirius made me *sniffle*. Yeah I would like one of those two options. I'm just surprised that Harry didn't think of using the Elder Wand on the Resurrection Stone. I mean, I bet that's what was used on the Invisibility cloak to make it much stronger and better than any other kind of invisibility cloak.
The Resurrection Stone by itself only brings back a faint kind of impression of a person, but if the Elder Wand was used on it?...Guess it's a good thing, Voldemort never got a hold of them, lol.
(Is it just me or did DH have a bit of a feel of a fanfic? O_o I mean it in the best way, as the best possible fanfic you could ever read, but still...some elements made me think of (awesome) fanfic.) *shrug*
Maybe L does! lol *pictures L as a nudist* *severe fangirl nosebleed*
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Date: 2008-07-12 02:53 am (UTC)*nodnod* Hey, we've all got our guilty pleasures. Some people have ice cream, some people watch porn, and some people read slash. Thank GOD I'm not Catholic ...
I saw the movie 'Hancock' today ... it was actually pretty good!
Yeah she TOTALLY understated their deaths. As important as Remus is and everything and all he gets is THAT? *shakes head* For shame, J.K, for shame...
MORE than 'for shame!' I was about ready to fly over to England and do something drastic! I mean, KILLING DOBBY? Has the woman no COMPASSION?!
My personal belief is that after Sirius died, Remus worked through his angst with the werewolves and then saw how Tonks was pining after him, and in the wartime he wanted SOMEONE to be happy, so he shacked up with her even though he didn't love her ... I mean, MY dad is gay, and I'm here, it's possible ... *sighs*
Yeah he's with Sirius now. *sniff* Seeing him so young again and with Sirius made me *sniffle*.
Me too ... *wibbles*
Yeah I would like one of those two options.
Me too ... *sigh* ... ah well, that's what fanfic is for! (Plus, the Next Gen makes me all happy inside ...)
A lot of people got pissed that JKR described the use of the Resurrection Stone bringing people back when they were "as if through a veil" and then she didn't bring Sirius back. Once I realized that, I joined that team.
(Is it just me or did DH have a bit of a feel of a fanfic? O_o I mean it in the best way, as the best possible fanfic you could ever read, but still...some elements made me think of (awesome) fanfic.) *shrug*
Yeah ... kinda ... 'xcept there were no gays - oooooo, wait, canon Grindledore! *SQUEE* It WAS a big damn fanfic!
Heh heh ... nudist L ...
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Date: 2008-07-12 03:59 pm (UTC)That's cool! I heard Hancock was good. =D
I know! She just offed him like THAT! *shakes head*
I agree. Remus needed to have SOME kind of companionship and he lost the man that he loved, so...
*huggle* I was so happy to see James, Remus, Sirius and Lily all together and at peace.
Yay for fanfic! XDD And yeah, next-gen ftw! I already saw the Albus Severus/Scorpius possibilities XD
Yeah I was one of those not too happy.
canon Grindeldore FTW! Yes it WAS a big fanfic, XD
Any sort of L makes me all tingly. XD
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Date: 2008-07-12 07:45 pm (UTC)'The New Yorker' liked Hancock, which surprised me because they usually tear up blockbusters, this one they said they liked. I went and was pleasantly surprised, it WAS good (though the camera does stick pretty close to faces ...)
I know! She just offed him like THAT! *shakes head*
*growls* Barely a sentance ... I think a character who's been around since the THIRD DAMN BOOK ought to deserve more than THAT! And Tonks had a big fanbase too!
I agree. Remus needed to have SOME kind of companionship and he lost the man that he loved, so...
I don't think it was even that. I think he just wanted SOMEONE in the gang to be happy, and if it couldn't be him it could be because of something he did. *sigh* Werewolves are always self-sacrificing martyrs, and yet they always get shafted in stories ... which is why I started my 'Werewolves Need Hugs' campaign.
*huggle* I was so happy to see James, Remus, Sirius and Lily all together and at peace.
Me too ... *smiles sadly* thank you for the hugs!
Yay for fanfic! XDD And yeah, next-gen ftw! I already saw the Albus Severus/Scorpius possibilities XD
Heh heh, me too! Imagine Harry and Draco watching that happen ... *giggles snidley* I actually have this idea in my head that Rose is sorted into Slytherin and eventually starts dating Scorpius, but Albus Sev is jealous AND protective and ... *sniggers* I also wrote a snipit for a dance where Teddy and Victorie are both checking out the guys and holding hands ...
Grindledore FTW! *beams* Dumbledore as a gay man is just ... it makes my heart so happy inside. I wish they'd aknowledged it in, ya know, the BOOKS, but whatever.
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Date: 2008-07-12 10:14 pm (UTC)Yup!
'The New Yorker' liked Hancock, which surprised me because they usually tear up blockbusters, this one they said they liked. I went and was pleasantly surprised, it WAS good (though the camera does stick pretty close to faces ...)
lol does it? I'm glad it got good reviews. =D
I know! She just offed him like THAT! *shakes head*
*growls* Barely a sentance ... I think a character who's been around since the THIRD DAMN BOOK ought to deserve more than THAT! And Tonks had a big fanbase too!
YEAH! That bugged me so bad. >_<
I agree. Remus needed to have SOME kind of companionship and he lost the man that he loved, so...
I don't think it was even that. I think he just wanted SOMEONE in the gang to be happy, and if it couldn't be him it could be because of something he did. *sigh* Werewolves are always self-sacrificing martyrs, and yet they always get shafted in stories ... which is why I started my 'Werewolves Need Hugs' campaign.
Yeah, that's true. *hugs Remus*
*huggle* I was so happy to see James, Remus, Sirius and Lily all together and at peace.
Me too ... *smiles sadly* thank you for the hugs!
YW! *smile*
Yay for fanfic! XDD And yeah, next-gen ftw! I already saw the Albus Severus/Scorpius possibilities XD
Heh heh, me too! Imagine Harry and Draco watching that happen ... *giggles snidley* I actually have this idea in my head that Rose is sorted into Slytherin and eventually starts dating Scorpius, but Albus Sev is jealous AND protective and ... *sniggers* I also wrote a snipit for a dance where Teddy and Victorie are both checking out the guys and holding hands ...
Actually I can see that...XDDDD
Grindledore FTW! *beams* Dumbledore as a gay man is just ... it makes my heart so happy inside. I wish they'd aknowledged it in, ya know, the BOOKS, but whatever.
I know me too! Yeah, but at least we know that he IS.
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Date: 2008-07-13 08:45 pm (UTC)*constantly hugging werewolves* I've also never let go of the Ninth Doctor's hand ... *huggles him too*
*grinz* I have to finish that fic about the dance and post it ... 'tis glorious ...
*waves rainbow flag* Dumbledore was a kickarse gay man! In your FACE, you homophobic bastards!
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Date: 2008-07-13 10:32 pm (UTC)*super huggle to werewolves* Oh yeah! *huggles the ninth doctor* I have this weird ficlet in mind, in which the 10th Doctor gains a new female companion, who, with some weird circumstances, gains a similar power to a time lord and can change her form to any kind of person and stuff, male or female and during their travels, she goes off on her own sometimes and ends up going to an era that the 9th doctor also happens to inhabit. Her and the 10th doctor have already become lovers during this time and she ends up sleeping with the 9th doctor and... =O Like I said...just stuff I've been thinking about, I haven't wrote anything down yet... O_o
I can't wait to read it! =D
*picks up a giant rainbow banner and waves it around* He was! And YEAH! Damn homophobes...>__
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Date: 2008-07-15 12:12 am (UTC)By default, I hug werewolves and hold Nine's hand. It's a good default, methinks.
Hee hee, shapeshifters are FUN! *giggles* I'm pointing to my fic 'Closure' ...
Argh, Shakespeare, you hath deterred me from my fanfic-course! *headdesk* Ah well, EVENTUALLY I'll finish and post it ... I looked over it last night!
*picks up a giant rainbow banner and waves it around* He was! And YEAH! Damn homophobes...>__
*GRINZ* (I HATE homophobes ... they make my life HELL ...)
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Date: 2008-07-15 03:28 pm (UTC)I think that's a good default that I'll have to do, lol. But I'd have to hold Ten's hand too. Shapeshifters ARE fun. =D I know! I read Closure, it was made of win. XDDD
I hate them too. They don't make my life hell, but they like to urk me, most especially because one of my two RL best friends is gay. Though if anyone srsly tried to hurt him then I would have to pwn them.
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Date: 2008-07-15 05:57 pm (UTC)For that I hate her. For the books themselves, I love and respect her.
I read Closure, it was made of win. XDDD
*blushes* Thank you!
I will help you pwn them, with my katana! (No killing, just terror. It does a body good.)
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Date: 2008-07-15 06:12 pm (UTC)You're welcome! I'm tempted to start writing that DW fic idea I told you about. I is scared. O_o
Yup! Terror ftw, lol. I'll gegt my kunai's and use some jutsu's against them! (That's the Naruto fan in me talking, btw xD)
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Date: 2008-07-16 07:35 pm (UTC)Oh, don't be scared! I'll be here to edit and hold your hand! (When I started, I had no one to hold my hand or tell me about Theta and Koschei and junk!)
Ah, Naruto ... I stopped reading those around book ... 13 or something (the evil ninja were invading with their huge snakes and Sasuke had taken off after Gaara ...) because they're too expensive.
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Date: 2008-07-16 09:33 pm (UTC)*sniffle* Ty. I was hoping you'd edit and stuff for me actually, and hand holding, lol. DW fic is a venture I have yet not taken...=P Cause I want to keep a hold of canon and all =P
For Naruto pairings it's all about ItaSasu, Sasu/Naru to me. Well other's too, but those are my two faves. XD
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Date: 2008-07-17 12:30 am (UTC)Yeah, DW canon is something people devote their ENTIRE fandom lives to, and there's STILL a community for people to ask and debate about questions. (http://community.livejournal.com/dwcanon_fodder/)
Oh, I never even got into the pairings ... I DID, however, hear about the Sasuke/his-freaky-psycho-brother-whose-name-starts-with-'I' ... some fellow anime/manga geeks at school were watching the episode with the Naruto/Sasuke fight and the Sasuke-flashbacks one lunch-time, and I hung around for a bit. It was good, but I don't think I'll get back into it.
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Date: 2008-07-17 12:37 am (UTC)Itachi is his name. XD Yeah, I'm not super into it, but I like reading some Naruto fic here and there and I've been re-watching a few ep's here and there.