"You've been mostly-dead all day."

[mrv3000]

• Heh. I meta-ed last week that I wouldn't be surprised if the Doctor was taking Martha home for good at the beginning of this episode. And...I'm not surprised. But good for Martha for putting a stop to that! I have the feeling he'll just keeping going in a same old patterns unless, like Donna said, he has someone to "stop him."
  
  
• I'm gonna need to start a repeat count for this one, aren't I? May as well.
  
  • "He's my plus one." - The End of the World
    
  • The innuendos of a sexual relationship. - Aliens of London
    
  • Martha telling her mother she has to go back, that she's not leaving the Doctor. – Bad Wolf
    
  • Running into a sealed place – "now what?" - World War Three
    
  • Martha's mother slapping the Doctor – Aliens of London
    
  • ETA: returns Martha home 12 hours later - Aliens of London
    
  • ETA2: materializing seconds after he leaves Martha - Rose
  
  Seriously, they could *not* have been out of new ideas after producing 28 episodes. I'm really starting to wonder more and more about the whole theory of the reason they're doing this is to show the Doctor on this endless loop. I mean, two-year-old episodes do not qualify for endless nostalgic nods.
  
  
• So did we just see the Master?
  
  
• "It really shouldn't take that long to reverse the polarity. I must be out of practice." AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Best line of the whole series. *LOVES*
  
  
• "I'm old enough to know that a longer life isn't always a better one. In the end, you just get tired. Tired of the struggle. Tired of losing everyone that matters to you. Tired of watching everything turn to dust. If you live long enough, Lazarus, the only certainty is that you'll end up alone." :( I think I may need to marathon S2 again soon. You know, when the Doctor was actually happy.
  
  
• "Need to turn this up to 11!" BWAHAHAHA! Excellent "This is Spinal Tap" reference!!
  
  
• Overall, this is another episode I really don't think I need to watch again. Didn't hate it. Martha had her kick-ass moments as well as her whiny moments, but the kick-ass outweighed the whiny. I got bored during some of the scenes with the evildude and the repeating got annoying, but some things were fun like the Doctor playing the organ. But what is it with the main plots this series? Well, from Gridlock on. They seem to be there simply to point out something about the Doctor. He's old. He's lonely. He's been crushed. WE GET IT ALREADY.

Comments

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Who did you think was the Master, out of interest? Because the guy who I'm pretty sure is playing him wasn't in the episode :)

That dude that whispered in Martha's mother's ear? Didn't she say the information came directly from Saxon? But I guess he doesn't look like that other dude. Uh...maybe he regenerates? :D

I still don't think I understand what was going on in the cathedral...

You mean the bit about the sound waves?

[makesometime.livejournal.com]

I assumed he was just an aide, but then you could be right, hee!

You mean the bit about the sound waves?

Yeah. I thought since he was so insistent on them getting him up into the bell tower that he was going to use the bells, but I assume now that he just wanted him to fall. You see, I thought the sound waves would send him back to his old self on their own. I don't really get the physics behind it, and coming from me, that's not good...

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I kinda thought the sound waves would make him fall. But that's a *LARGE* assumption that he'd get close enough to the edge to fall down. And if the wave knocked him down, why didn't it knock Martha down...

One of those good old "it's Doctor Who so it gets a pass" things. :D