Waters of Mars

[rm]

"You're only 27-years-old."

Yes, Torchwood fans, that's when I started crying. Tell me I wasn't alone.

"Oh this bloody job never gave me a chance." Oh HAI THERE TORCHWOOD REFERENCE.

...

Oh CRAZY CRAZY TEN HUBRIS. NOW YOU ARE THE MASTER's PERFECT BOYFRIEND.

Also, seriously... CoE parallels. Once again Doctor Who making what happened there much, much easier to live with, because it provides the act and the context for Jack's actions and the consequences of him having chosen differently. And wow, the Doctor so can't deal with Jack because he hates himself.

I love the degree to which we feel the Doctor really needs to regenerate soon, because he's become dangerous.

There are so many echoes of so many weird things in here... including the Ood.

Also, who else is utterly, completely, totally convinced, like from the second the Doctor start monologue-ing about about how Adelaide inspires her daughter that Jack is absolutely, definitely, descended from her.

Hey, close up of the TARDIS central column -- that's a goddamn film spool in the middle moving up and down. HOW GREAT IS THAT AS META? FUCK ME THIS SHOW IS RAD.

Oh, Doctor, you've done a very bad thing.

Also, hello, channeling Nine. That's some rad acting there, DT.

I know cannon will never tell us but is this why the Doctor couldn't step in re: CoE or is CoE why he went and did something dumb like this or did CoE happen because he did this shit? Because I really feel like while TW addresses Doctor Who explicitly, Doctor Who can only address Torchwood implicitly, and IT'S RIGHT HERE, KIDS.

Ood! I called it, Ood! (they really are the best fucking thing the new series has brought us). Ood!

Also, not only had Jack better be there for the regeneration, I have to say, that while we'll never (we hope) get a permanent Doctor death in canon, in fanon, my feeling after this episode is that Jack _must_ be there when the Doctor does finally truly die, because it is the only way to resolve the control/comfort/time dramarama shit between them.

OH MY FUCKING GOD, PEOPLE THIS IS WHY I WATCH THIS SHOW.

Comments

[rm.livejournal.com]

That's what I was wondering. I suppose people who hated it are very possibly the people who think Ten is less dark than Nine, but I've always thought Ten was TERRIFYING.

[morinon.livejournal.com]

I've considered Ten to have less of a heart than Nine since Christmas 2005. Nine would've given more than one chance. Ten doesn't have the huge guilt than Nine had, he doesn't have the PTSD, and now, he's watched all his friends leave him one way or another and he's lost touch with the moral grounding that gave him.

Ten has become scarier and scarier as time has gone on. Because while Nine would do horrible things from guilt, or personal issues, Ten does them from self-righteousness. A man who is sure of his righteousness is FAR more terrifying than someone who merely thinks he's doing the right thing. You can reason with the latter.

[elionwyr.livejournal.com]

...I think Ten does have PTSD, which would explain some of what happens in "Runaway Bride" and WoM. Though yeah, a lot of self-righteousness. And I think we're seeing again that he needs a Companion to call him back from the brink.

[chaos-by-design.livejournal.com]

OMG, Ten was certainly terrifying in this. Yikes. Next to him, Nine has always seemed positively well-adjusted.

[raaven.livejournal.com]

Dude. The people who think that Ten is less dark might consider going back & watching Family of Blood again. I think that's the point at which I finally got just how dark Ten is...and then was able to see it better in earlier eps.