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There are still milk delivery trucks in the world? With little milk bottles? Yes, it's a strange thing to start out an episode review with, but...MILK TRUCKS. This is a foreign concept to me and therefore I need to point at it. Milk truck! *points*
You know, Rose has got herself some extremely kick-ass equipment. The alt!world is obviously ahead of the real world considering she can teleport wherever she wants, while Martha was using the only test model that pretty much had no directions.

"We're gonna need a bigger gun."
The gang is ALL here! (Martha's been promoted and is in New York, but everyone else is pretty much as we saw them last.) And they all have encountered the Daleks at one point or another. It's Very Bad.
And how many takes do you think it took for DT to do the entire Judoon line? :D

Translation: The duck quacks at midnight.
So the Shadow Proclamation is the space police. HEH. Who office in...isn't that the hospital area from Torchwood in the episode where Owen fought Death?

I could make a joke about the Doctor playing with balls, but that'd just be silly.
Ooh boy. More sledgehammers of foreshadowing about Donna. It's just not going to end happy for her, is it? The woman was sorry for Donna's "loss yet to come." Also, another mention of Donna being different. "You are something new." :-\

WHY must every companion who travels with the Doctor have their lives wind up in ruins? WHY?
Oh, you knew what would happen the second the woman said the Doctor would lead everyone into battle.

And the Doctor splits faster than when they'd tried to get him to resume the Gallifreyan Presidency...
Harriet Jones, in a bit of "what the hell have you been doing all this time, and where'd you get the money," connects "anyone who can help." The Doctor's companions all get linked on video except for Rose since Wilf was without a webcam. So no one knows she's there.

Well, with "Martha who??" by Rose, at least we know that Rose doesn't know everything that's been going on in the real world.

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You know, if I ruled the world, these phone chats would have already been happening without any world-ending crises. Just the bi-monthly Doctor bitch session...

Doctor: Hello! Sorry to cut in! Whatcha all talking about?
Jack: Nothing
Sarah Jane: Nothing
Martha: Nothing
Oh, by the way, Davros is in this. Did I mention that yet? No? Davros is the nutjob who invented the Daleks way back when. For more details on Davros, please see "Genesis of the Daleks" and say hello to the giant foam clams, which relate to the story in a way I've completely forgotten about.

You see this cat Davros is a bad mother-- Shut your mouth! But I'm talkin' about Davros! Then we can dig it.

UNEXPECTED GIANT FOAM CLAM.
Oh man. They would have to go and interrupt a reunion between the Doctor and Rose, wouldn't they? EVIL. But at least we got about 30 seconds of just...AWWWWWW!

I love the look on Donna's face when she sees Rose first and knows exactly what this means to the Doctor.

I think that's the fastest I've ever seen him run.

AWWWWWWWWWWW!!
ETA: And we have not seen that expression on the Doctor's face for 2 years. *SOBS*

Even the Doctor's hair is OVERJOYED!

And then RTD cackled over his keyboard while taking another sip of tea. Evil tea, most likely.

You know, this reminds me a lot of "Bad Wolf" where Rose and the Doctor are running towards each other, but Rose was the one who got zapped that time.

*SNUFFLES*
O_O The Doctor is regenerating?? For reals?? If he's really really really regenerating, that'd be the biggest fake-out/secret ever pulled off! EVER. He can't really regenerate, right? It's why they left it on a cliffhanger right there. Maybe...since his hand is there, he'll regenerate into the same person. Hooray for the hand! :D

Doctor: Think ginger, think ginger, think ginger...

Rose: DO NOT WANT ELEVEN. KTHXBYE.

Rose and Jack!! Now if only they could get 2 minutes to talk without major catastrophes taking place.

I've determined that RTD likes shiny things.

Wow, that suit will probably cut off all blood and air flow to the next body.
(I refuse to believe he's really regenerating. He just CAN'T. Nope. Nuh uh. *sticks fingers in ears*)

ETA: There were so many good random little things in this episode I loved, but didn't cap. Like...Donna liking the looks of Jack, thank you very much. MWAH. And Wilf's "they always come for the women!" made me crack up. And Sarah Jane recognizing Davros - nice touch. And Rose chasing looters off with her big-ass gun. And Jack getting the code back to operate his wrist thingie. Another MWAH.

I'm sure I've forgotten a lot more.

But basically, so much awwwwwww at the running to each other. Which would be even more awwwww if it hadn't been interrupted.

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Watch the confidential. Even more AAAAAWW-worthy! Get through (FF, like I did) the first 40 minutes of DALEKS DALEKS DAVROS DALEKS and you get to the really good stuff.

OOOOOH. Normally I don't watch those, but...

Oh, and I want to kill RTD. Or just, y'know, torture him. Just a bit.

Maybe a little stomp on the foot.

This seems to be the popular opinion. And we DID get a gratuitous hand-in-jar shot right at the beginning.

We've got to hang on to something! :D

Me, I'm just chanting to myself HE'SGOTACONTRACTHE'SGOTACONTRACTHE'SGOTACONTRACTHE'SGOTACONTRACTHE'SGOTACONTRACTHE'SGOTACONTRACT. For at least four more specials. AND the BBC want to offer him 1.3 millions to come back in 2010. SO! *keeps chanting*

HEH!!! I know! And then I wonder just how far they'd manipulate the press, just to keep things a secret.

What does Rose know? Why does she know about Donna (but not Martha)? What the hell is happening!

Need answers!

normally don't watch those
I just FF the technical stuff and listen to the actors' interview.
But this is worth it, they explain they needed to use this kind of car to follow the Doctor when he runs, in order to allow Tennant to act it out and run flat out as fast as he wanted.
And let's say we get some validation as D/R shippers. :D

But... but wasn't there an official announcement from the BBC? That'd be juuuust a bit worse than Billie lying to journalists saying she was never coming back. Plus, we know he was filming the Xmas special. We've got pictures, and Tennant himself said so in several interviews, even describing the sets and saying he loved working again with... that actor he's worked with before but I'm not naming because I'm never sure what's a spoiler and what isn't.

AARGH!

I'm not sure if there has been an official BBC announcement. Maybe? Not sure. :-\

Mmm, I'm not sure either. But Tennant has repeatedly said that he's "signed on" for the specials, that his contract "extends to the specials and then he hasn't been offered anything yet" and so and so.

But I've been wondering lately... didn't they say that now Hamlet that in the summer is in Stratford-upon-avon, is going to be in London West End from December to... February, I think? How can he do that if he's to film the specials in January?

But he did say "he's starting again with Doctor Who in January"....

I'm going in circle. Which I think I will do for the next week.

That's a HELL of a lot of trouble to go to just to sneak in a surprise regeneration. I'm sure it'll wind up being...something else. Or something. THE HAND! :D

YES!

Btw, it just hit me... But didn't Nine in Parting Of The Ways say something about "Death by extermination. No coming back from that. No regeneration." Am I imagining things? I had this idea in my mind that not even the Doctor could survive an EXTERMINATE and I thought it was canon and came from that episode. Apparently not... unless they go with the "he was just grazed" bit. After all, his body didn't ALL go fluorescent.

Hmmm. I...don't remember that part.

Might have just imagined it. Will check tomorrow.

No, I remember hearing this somewhere, I just couldn't remember where from.

Really? I thought that was just fanon, but maybe I'm not remembering right.

I tried to find some reference in wiki, but couldn't find anything. However, wiki did inform me that there was some porn put out called Dr. Loo and the Filthy Phaleks.

I rewatched "The Parting of the Ways" Sunday before last; it might have stuck in my mind from then. But I don't specifically remember that it happened or that it was actually in that episode. I just remember hearing this... somewhere. So it could still easily be fanon. :-)