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Today, it is digustingly, awfully hot. You know a day is going to go badly when you just can't get out of bed for Doctor Who and then it turns out you missed the Master. All I wanted to do was cry at that point.

Eight hours at work later (!) I decided it wasn't worth the hassle of an LJ post, other than that I have now discovered how it feels to sweat solidly for eight hours. Ugh.

I came home. I prepared myself. There was even a curry takeway.

Normally I have all these wonderfully amusing things to say that I like to imagine that people read every so often. But today, I'm all... eh? This may be due to heat exhaustion (I think it's jus the North-West, but I am about to DIE of humidity) but... I think it's due to the episode. My first reaction, however, bellowed down the phone to loneraven was thus:

"HE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE SCOTTISH!"

My only spoiler for this episode was wrong. Sod's law, that.

Maybe Peter Davison is having an effect on me first thing in the morning, but I actually thought "You know, this might be better as a three-parter." Seriously. The first part was all "BOOM ACTION" and then it was all "LOOK THE TARDIS IS GLOWY AND NOW ROSE IS TOO AND NOW HE BE DEAD". Or something like that.

This is not to say that I didn't love this episode, after all the care and attention that went into making sure I was there to see it. I turned down overtime for this, and god, I'm glad I did. I didn't cry like a girl, but... we'll see if I will do soon.

So. Let's see what I can discuss:

1. YAY MICKEY AND ROSE'S MUM. I'm sorry. I like them, and I can't help it. Mickey and Rose's mum, you realise, have saved the world again?

2. Glowy!Rose. My sister walked in at this point. "Didn't they do this on Stargate?" she queried, bfore sniffing at me and walking out.

Mum shook her head. "No, they did it on Buffy."

Part of me wanted to say "Nah, this is Tiffany Aching all over again. Except Rose wouldn't know what a susserus was."

It was cheesy and cliche, ever so slightly. Yet... it worked. This is where my three episodes theory falls down, because that kind of effect wouldn't have lasted that long. It was short and sweet and shocking, and god, isn't Billie Piper a wonderful actress? She managed to get across that ethereal quality tremendously well, and looked really rather good whilst doing it.

3. JACK. Oh, god, Jack. I nearly died when he did. Then he wasn't, and I cheered. Then they LEFT which rather indicates that the Doctor's forgotten him. Harrumph.

4. Next point: oh, god, it's a gay kiss on BBC 1 at roughly 7.20pm. Oh, the madness that will happen with the scary nutters that run the Daily Mail and ITV. I can't wait. Again, I feel liberated. It was, actually, perfect. I'm all for the OT3, actually, and Jack kissed both Rose and the Docotr equally. I am in love with OT3. (Speaking of slash - the TARDIS is female. Hmm. Rose/TARDIS=OTP?)

5. Ah, yes, the romance aspect. I liked it, because as an imagine - out of context - it was some of the most beautiful telly I've seen in a long while. As context, um, it was cheesy once more. I'm sorry. IT made sense, though, to both the shippers, the non-shippers and the fence-sitters. The Doctor is being practical. He has to kiss her. Or from another aspect, he has to kiss her to save her. And that's sweet. They love each other. IN love is a little more complex, but actually just plain love each other, in a platonic sense? You know it.

6. Bad Wolf. Well, there's something possibly maybe explained. Did Rose leave all those messages, or did the TARDIS? (Doctor/TARDIS - theirloveissosweird)

7. Lynda-with-a-y is dead. Thank god, as I was rather hoping for a new series of No Angels. Now she can do it. Yay!

8. Dalek God. Well, it's a nice idea but a little vague. My Old Skool father (we had a Family Night to watch this episode. Oh, the shame) looked up for three seconds and went "Oh, wow" at that part. My Dad is so old skool that he thinks moving Doctor Who into colour. However, he rather liked the God Dalek. In my awkward and self-conscious attempt to try and understand these twenty-six years, I have actually done a bit of Davros research. The Dalek God is no more Davros than I am. (Or Adam is. Or the Face of Boe is. Damnit!) But he does seem to share some common similarities - created Daleks, etc, etc. However, was that Dalek Emporer wandering around before the Time War, or after?

9. "Coward!" Where, exactly, did the Dalek in Dalek come from, eh? The Doctor assumes that it is from the Time War. Is it from that battle there? Vortex!Rose sends it through as a pre-emptive warning and everyone is happy. Yet that Dalek is fucking insane, and - here's where my brillinace shines through - can use Rose's DNA to energise itself. 1960s Daleks couldn't do that. A half-human Bling Bling Dalek probably could.

Hee. I'm a genius, or something like that.

10. And now... David Tennant. I am confused. I hope he's different to Nine, because from first appearences it look as though he might be the same. I don't want the same character, I want a new, bold Doctor. If you're going to do a thing, do it properly. The regeneration - my first! I'm not a regeneration virgin anymore! - was lovely, although I do rather want the Doctor to be more forgetful. THEY FORGOT JACK so maybe that will work. My major worry? Well, the only other Doctor to speak before the end of the episode was Colin Baker. (McGann is a different medium, it's all very bizarre.) And, um, I don't like Six at all. Eeek.

So, now I'm getting tearful. I am of the generation that had no Doctor. (Unless you include McGann. And I don't, because I didn't see that film properly or understand it or whatever.) Eccleston was my late, belated Doctor and I feel a little sad letting him go. Here's to series two! And the newly announced series three!

In conclusion, we will still not be setting RTD's testicles on fire, or going on a mad rampage to Cardiff. Sorry. Maybe at Christmas, eh?

And now to watch the fandom implode. Just you wait.

Oh, you know why. It's a fnaodm full of newbies. We all have to be. And we're not newbies to this section of fandom - a lot of us have been here since day one - but gosh, this is our firsr regeneration. How would the Hartnell lot have taken to it, was the internet abvailable in 196something? A lot of people are saying stuff like "OH NOES I AM TRAUMATISED" and yes, I am a little bit sad, but... well, regeneration is part and parcel of the show. The character dies and another version takes his place. It could rock, it does rock, it gives the show a new lease of life. Is Rose died I could see where people were coming from, because she is PERMANENTLY dead. But... um... mourn that aspect of the character, but lookit! New lease of life! Be happy!

Let's see how this pans out over the summer.

I properly start the Week From Hell (exam-wise) on Monday. Oh, yuck. I'm sorry this post wasn't more interesting, everyone.

~Hathy_Col~