"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

[noblealice.livejournal.com]

Love teh Princess Bride ref in your subject line! And the 'reverse the polarity' was GREAT. I love when the Doctor gets his geek on!

I agree...I saw soooo many similarities, although in this episode, he actually DID get her home 12 hours later instead of 12 months. *sigh*

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Love teh Princess Bride ref in your subject line!

:D

And the 'reverse the polarity' was GREAT. I love when the Doctor gets his geek on!

It was so awesome. Especially since the last couple of old Doctor Who episodes I watched actually involved reversing the polarity. :D

I agree...I saw soooo many similarities, although in this episode, he actually DID get her home 12 hours later instead of 12 months. *sigh*

OH RIGHT! That too! *goes back to edit*

[kb91.livejournal.com]

You just said everything I'd been thinking about this episode! It was fun, kind of, but all the repeated stuff from the first two seasons was distracting and a bit depressing.

I want the Doctor to be happy again, I really do, and I can't be surprised or upset that he took Martha with him in the end. And honestly, good for her for FINALLY standing up to him and telling him that she won't put up with taking one trip at a time. But at the same time, why does it all have to be a repeat of the situation with Rose? Why does her mother have to be a complete bitch? (With the slap! For no reason!) Why do we get whole lines being reused? There is just no reason for it.

This show could be fun again if they would just script a companion who could be the Doctor's friend without wanting to be his lover. I just can't figure out why they are playing that angle up so much. It's just not working for me. And I can't figure out how it can possibly get better without getting a whole lot worse first.

[t-a-n-g-o.livejournal.com]

Do you think he'll get slapped by every single one of his companions mothers now? I'd love to see Jack's mum!

[makesometime.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 :)

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

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

It was fun, kind of, but all the repeated stuff from the first two seasons was distracting and a bit depressing.

The more I think about the repeating, the more annoyed I am with it. Shouldn't they be trying to get us to move on? And not keep reminding us of the stuff before?

and I can't be surprised or upset that he took Martha with him in the end. And honestly, good for her for FINALLY standing up to him and telling him that she won't put up with taking one trip at a time.

Oh, no way. *Totally* not surprised he said "one more trip." He's so frickin' lonely, it's painful. And it *would* have been this endless string of "one more trip" too and so I'm glad Martha put a stop to that.

But at the same time, why does it all have to be a repeat of the situation with Rose? Why does her mother have to be a complete bitch? (With the slap! For no reason!) Why do we get whole lines being reused? There is just no reason for it.

Tell me about it. I'd *like* to think there's a purpose behind it all, other than lazy storytelling.

This show could be fun again if they would just script a companion who could be the Doctor's friend without wanting to be his lover. I just can't figure out why they are playing that angle up so much. It's just not working for me. And I can't figure out how it can possibly get better without getting a whole lot worse first.

*nods*

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

HA!!

[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

[rjrog77.livejournal.com]

Why does her mother have to be a complete bitch? (With the slap! For no reason!)

Dunno 'bout the slap, but the bitch part may be because she has so much other stuff to deal with (Martha's father acting the langer, for a start) it's leaking out. For all we know, Martha's mother might be a nice enough person were it not for the other stuff.