Waters of Mars

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"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.

Comments

[malle-babbe.livejournal.com]

I loved finally seeing the hints of hubris that we saw in the 2005 Xmas special and "Human Nature / The Family of Blood" finally getting addressed in WofM. Ten going from not wanting to get involved to "I'M THE GOD!" only to be cut down by the will of a human who refused to be awed by him (as most humans do) was amazing drama.

I wonder if in "The End of Time" will Ten finally get called out for getting Harriet Jones kicked out office. Considering the two Prime Ministers we have seen since, I think some lapel-grabbing and shaking is in order.

While this was darker than "The Next Doctor" and "Planet of the Dead", for me the mood seemed to "work" better than it did in CoE. While I appreciate Davies taking the premise of Torchwood seriously (namely how truly perilous it would be for Earth to be wide open to contact with more powerful and not necessarily friendly aliens), at the end I felt that RTD was trying a bit too hard. I felt punched in the kidneys afterward and was in a bad funk for weeks afterward; a show has NEVER affected me like that. I alternated between being sad over the end of CoE, and being pissed at myself for being upset over a TV show.

Anyway, with Waters of Mars I got the feeling that issues that have been raised about Ten's nature are finally getting addressed.

[amberite.livejournal.com]

I wonder if in "The End of Time" will Ten finally get called out for getting Harriet Jones kicked out office. Considering the two Prime Ministers we have seen since, I think some lapel-grabbing and shaking is in order.

YES PLS. I do feel like this episode at least answered one of the questions that's been hanging there: that action becomes less murky when we see that it's the first step down the path to this.