Waters of Mars
Nov. 16th, 2009 10:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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.
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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.
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Date: 2009-11-17 12:56 am (UTC)That thought didn't even cross my mind, honestly, although I did think there was some hint to some other connection with the 'verse. May I ask what specifically in his speech brought Jack to mind? (I've only watched it once so far; I'll need to watch it again anyway because I really do think it was one of DT's best performances). I think my only real complaint with this one is how quickly the Doctor seemed to go from his feelings of despair to "I am the Doctor Victorious, mwahahaha, let me show you my screwdriver and how much bigger it is than yours!" I mean he really turned into a complete dick at that point, and it was too sudden a leap. It would have made sense had it been more gradual, but his, what I've always interpreted as, reverence for the laws of Time switching so suddenly to his declaration that he is now the master of it (pun not intended...much)...god complex much? And again, if there hadn't been so much of him explaining how it's not right for anyone to have that much power to where he ended...
But anyway, overall a brilliant episode; much better than Planet of the Dead.
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Date: 2009-11-17 12:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-11-17 01:07 am (UTC)Actually I did think about River a lot during this episode.
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Date: 2009-11-22 06:22 pm (UTC)I also wonder if Adelaide's death, in particular, was one of those immutable moments not just because Adelaide will inspire her descendants, but because it means the Doctor will be entangled with her descendants forever after, helping to fuel the history they make.
Even a Time Lord who thinks he's victorious loses the battle with time, in the end.