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The Idiot's Lantern
Since this was a light episode (and inspired by the ship-off) I'm gonna pic spam for a post-ep Doctor/Rose post.
Ah, an homage to the 50's. The plot was a total 50's B-movie. And also an homage to an homage of the 50's: Little Shop of Horrors - aside from the constant "feed me," could there have been more off-angle shots?
The Doctor and Rose wind up again in the wrong time, not ever seeming to be able to get out of London. But this is what I find so adorable about their relationship right now - they tease, they flirt, all the while playing the Time Travel Game.
Their conversation constantly switches gears with an ease that only comes through closeness. Oh yeah, they also adorably scoot around on a Vespa. Which came out of the TARDIS OMG. HEE! And it's BLUE. I shall call it TARDIS Jr. and it shall be mine. And it shall be my squishy.
Rose gives the Doctor some shit for landing in the wrong place. Again. *snickers*
(Also? Dear production crew: We can see you.)
Since this is Doctor Who, soon there's trouble. So back onto TARDIS Jr.
But the Doctor and Rose are still playing the Time Travel Game. And in retribution, the Doctor gives Rose some shit. Or does he...? (For those of you playing the home version of Time Travel Game, no. No he doesn't. The domestic approach to a mystery is what. he. does. After all, it's not about the monsters or the textbook history, it's about the people.)
Since hardly an episode goes by without some kind of royalty reference this season, I'm gonna dub them King and Queen DORK.
Rose decides to get badass. In a timorous beasty kind of way, that is.
I find this reaction amusingly ironic. It totally says, "Damn, Rose is SCARY." Which she isn't.
Quick, funny conversation about Rose's mum dating a sailor. Side note - Okay, now I think I'm getting Rose's abandonment issues more. (And as an offshoot, her jealousy.) Maybe it wasn't that Rose had the *absence* of a father figure in her life, she probably had *many* father figures through a string of Jackie's boyfriends - Jackie's always going on about different guys. So to Rose, men leave. It's what they do.
And so you wind up with Rose usually starting things off with, "OMG, you're going to leave me!" *ANGSTS* *CLINGS* To which the Doctor almost counters with a "WTF? This again?" before his *own* abandonment issues kick in and then trumps her with "But I don't die which means by default you're going to leave me! Alone!" *ANGSTS* *CLINGS* And then five minutes later they're making a 23rd attempt at a date involving a rock concert and, well, you know the rest. Oh, how I love my neurotic pair...
After the Doctor's speech about women, housework and gender roles, I can't help but notice this typical scene. Rose is the one to bring comfort and love while the Doctor is the one to stare down the end of a gun. They definitely have their own roles in their relationship. But instead of being pre-defined, this happened naturally and is complimentary.
The Doctor's role. He's power incarnate. He doesn't suffer fools gladly and you do not fuck with him.
Rose's role. Loving, holding on, comforting. There's power here as well. Also saying, "yeah, he gets like that."
In a handy plot device, the Doctor gets knocked out. Rose gets to slap him around. Mwah. But he wakes up and the chase is on.
As the Doctor's yelling for her outside, Rose makes the choice to stay and investigate. Love it when she's more than just the Doctor's shadow.
Not knowing what the hell she's doing, the Doctor takes off without Rose, not wanting to lose the bad guys. I haven't been sniffing around, but I can see people being miffed about the Doctor leaving Rose behind. However I can buy the notion that the Doctor thinks the danger is ahead of him, not behind.
Thing is, Rose does figure it out and gets badass about it by tracking down Magpie. But since she *isn't* the Doctor, she gets in over her head. And loses it. Literally.
"Bless your mum." Love that line! Also right here, the Doctor is still playing the Time Travel Game. But it doesn't last.
They got Rose. The game stops.
"You know her?"
"Know her?" There's a distaste at smallness of that question/statement. "She's..."
And I'm sure many people will try and fill in that blank. But don't know that there is a label. There's too much there to put into words and so the Doctor just stops, in more ways than one. Here it gets ugly and swirly. The background audio/dialog blurs just like it did on the game station when he thought Rose was dead.
And it gets worse. Apparently Rose was chucked out like some trash. Not only has she been harmed, but in a way that deeply offends the Doctor. He begins to get his rage on.
As much as you do not fuck with the Doctor, you do not fuck with Rose Tyler. Period. And going back to their roles - this is power when love has been stripped away.
(Also? Hello, Photoshop.)
This is the Doctor that's scary as hell - way more than when he yells. This is the darkness - without mercy since love is gone. This is charging Floor 500 with a big-ass gun. This is "who killed Rose Tyler?! I want an answer!" This is the Oncoming Storm.
In what at first seems like odd pacing, the Doctor stands around and watches a domestic battle go down instead of, say, strangling Mr. Connolly. But then, he's smart. Why fuck around with an inconsequential person, especially when that person is self-destructing? It's a waste of energy. He's on a mission. It's a "don't be stupid, I'm not going to shoot" moment.
A "who's in charge?!" moment. Straight to the top, no messing around. God help the person the Doctor goes gunning for.
I almost thought they were going to have a Tommy-sized pet on board at the end of this ep. I hope they visit him again.
King of Belgium! HA!!
Am I the only one who finds it *hysterical* that the dog is also getting sucked into the TV?
And the Doctor saves the day. (With a little help from Tommy and rubber soles.) It's what he does. Most the time.
Another shot that amuses me so. From what I understand, that's Gallifrean numbers/letters/whatever. And the fact that you have this ancient language from powerful beings written on a betamax label? And probably says something like "Three's Company - episode 202?" Absolutely hysterical.
But back to it. The Doctor strides into the compound, eyes darting around for Rose.
The crowd parts. She sees him and lights up.
He sees her and he lights up, the darkness locked away again.
This is more than happiness. This is joy.
Yup. Just friends. *cough*
For the second time this ep, the Doctor and Rose put Tommy between them. (Seriously, in a metaphorical sense could there be any safer place in the universe than there? Between strength and love?) And then Rose gives a Doctor-type speech in a Rose-type way. Loved that. Looked like the Doctor did too. Oh yeah, Tommy gets TARDIS Jr. but does not seem nearly as excited as he should be.
Saved the world and saved a relationship. Now *that's* complimentary.
Yay! The Doctor's hair is back to normal next ep! (It really is all about the hair.) However apparently Rose was expecting a hooker convention. o_O Or maybe the Doctor convinced her that he had been a makeup artist in a former incarnation, with wacky results.
Ah, an homage to the 50's. The plot was a total 50's B-movie. And also an homage to an homage of the 50's: Little Shop of Horrors - aside from the constant "feed me," could there have been more off-angle shots?
The Doctor and Rose wind up again in the wrong time, not ever seeming to be able to get out of London. But this is what I find so adorable about their relationship right now - they tease, they flirt, all the while playing the Time Travel Game.
Their conversation constantly switches gears with an ease that only comes through closeness. Oh yeah, they also adorably scoot around on a Vespa. Which came out of the TARDIS OMG. HEE! And it's BLUE. I shall call it TARDIS Jr. and it shall be mine. And it shall be my squishy.
Rose gives the Doctor some shit for landing in the wrong place. Again. *snickers*
(Also? Dear production crew: We can see you.)
Since this is Doctor Who, soon there's trouble. So back onto TARDIS Jr.
But the Doctor and Rose are still playing the Time Travel Game. And in retribution, the Doctor gives Rose some shit. Or does he...? (For those of you playing the home version of Time Travel Game, no. No he doesn't. The domestic approach to a mystery is what. he. does. After all, it's not about the monsters or the textbook history, it's about the people.)
Since hardly an episode goes by without some kind of royalty reference this season, I'm gonna dub them King and Queen DORK.
Rose decides to get badass. In a timorous beasty kind of way, that is.
I find this reaction amusingly ironic. It totally says, "Damn, Rose is SCARY." Which she isn't.
Quick, funny conversation about Rose's mum dating a sailor. Side note - Okay, now I think I'm getting Rose's abandonment issues more. (And as an offshoot, her jealousy.) Maybe it wasn't that Rose had the *absence* of a father figure in her life, she probably had *many* father figures through a string of Jackie's boyfriends - Jackie's always going on about different guys. So to Rose, men leave. It's what they do.
And so you wind up with Rose usually starting things off with, "OMG, you're going to leave me!" *ANGSTS* *CLINGS* To which the Doctor almost counters with a "WTF? This again?" before his *own* abandonment issues kick in and then trumps her with "But I don't die which means by default you're going to leave me! Alone!" *ANGSTS* *CLINGS* And then five minutes later they're making a 23rd attempt at a date involving a rock concert and, well, you know the rest. Oh, how I love my neurotic pair...
After the Doctor's speech about women, housework and gender roles, I can't help but notice this typical scene. Rose is the one to bring comfort and love while the Doctor is the one to stare down the end of a gun. They definitely have their own roles in their relationship. But instead of being pre-defined, this happened naturally and is complimentary.
The Doctor's role. He's power incarnate. He doesn't suffer fools gladly and you do not fuck with him.
Rose's role. Loving, holding on, comforting. There's power here as well. Also saying, "yeah, he gets like that."
In a handy plot device, the Doctor gets knocked out. Rose gets to slap him around. Mwah. But he wakes up and the chase is on.
As the Doctor's yelling for her outside, Rose makes the choice to stay and investigate. Love it when she's more than just the Doctor's shadow.
Not knowing what the hell she's doing, the Doctor takes off without Rose, not wanting to lose the bad guys. I haven't been sniffing around, but I can see people being miffed about the Doctor leaving Rose behind. However I can buy the notion that the Doctor thinks the danger is ahead of him, not behind.
Thing is, Rose does figure it out and gets badass about it by tracking down Magpie. But since she *isn't* the Doctor, she gets in over her head. And loses it. Literally.
"Bless your mum." Love that line! Also right here, the Doctor is still playing the Time Travel Game. But it doesn't last.
They got Rose. The game stops.
"You know her?"
"Know her?" There's a distaste at smallness of that question/statement. "She's..."
And I'm sure many people will try and fill in that blank. But don't know that there is a label. There's too much there to put into words and so the Doctor just stops, in more ways than one. Here it gets ugly and swirly. The background audio/dialog blurs just like it did on the game station when he thought Rose was dead.
And it gets worse. Apparently Rose was chucked out like some trash. Not only has she been harmed, but in a way that deeply offends the Doctor. He begins to get his rage on.
As much as you do not fuck with the Doctor, you do not fuck with Rose Tyler. Period. And going back to their roles - this is power when love has been stripped away.
(Also? Hello, Photoshop.)
This is the Doctor that's scary as hell - way more than when he yells. This is the darkness - without mercy since love is gone. This is charging Floor 500 with a big-ass gun. This is "who killed Rose Tyler?! I want an answer!" This is the Oncoming Storm.
In what at first seems like odd pacing, the Doctor stands around and watches a domestic battle go down instead of, say, strangling Mr. Connolly. But then, he's smart. Why fuck around with an inconsequential person, especially when that person is self-destructing? It's a waste of energy. He's on a mission. It's a "don't be stupid, I'm not going to shoot" moment.
A "who's in charge?!" moment. Straight to the top, no messing around. God help the person the Doctor goes gunning for.
I almost thought they were going to have a Tommy-sized pet on board at the end of this ep. I hope they visit him again.
King of Belgium! HA!!
Am I the only one who finds it *hysterical* that the dog is also getting sucked into the TV?
And the Doctor saves the day. (With a little help from Tommy and rubber soles.) It's what he does. Most the time.
Another shot that amuses me so. From what I understand, that's Gallifrean numbers/letters/whatever. And the fact that you have this ancient language from powerful beings written on a betamax label? And probably says something like "Three's Company - episode 202?" Absolutely hysterical.
But back to it. The Doctor strides into the compound, eyes darting around for Rose.
The crowd parts. She sees him and lights up.
He sees her and he lights up, the darkness locked away again.
This is more than happiness. This is joy.
Yup. Just friends. *cough*
For the second time this ep, the Doctor and Rose put Tommy between them. (Seriously, in a metaphorical sense could there be any safer place in the universe than there? Between strength and love?) And then Rose gives a Doctor-type speech in a Rose-type way. Loved that. Looked like the Doctor did too. Oh yeah, Tommy gets TARDIS Jr. but does not seem nearly as excited as he should be.
Saved the world and saved a relationship. Now *that's* complimentary.
Yay! The Doctor's hair is back to normal next ep! (It really is all about the hair.) However apparently Rose was expecting a hooker convention. o_O Or maybe the Doctor convinced her that he had been a makeup artist in a former incarnation, with wacky results.