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• 4.1 earthquake last night at 4:30 a.m. I doubt if I hadn't already been awake that I would have noticed. rumble rumble rumble JOLT rumble rumble. Might have woken up, but it probably would have involved "Wuh? Huh? zzzzzzzzzzzzz."
  
  
• I'm sorry, but most of S5 is boring. Really really boring. Not until they get up to choosing new Supreme Court judges later in the season does it start to pick up. Of course, then it starts to go into drama overload, carried over into the next season. Donna's hurt, Fitz is killed and Leo has a heart attack.
  
  I'd completely forgotten that CJ becomes Chief of Staff! At first it seemed a bit bizarre, but it makes sense, especially the way that Matt Santos put it - Leo's job is like being a train scheduler (or something like that). That job keeps things running. Josh...is too into winning. He loves being a hawk, but that's not what that job is. As a RL example, can you name Bush's Chiefs of Staff? If you can, you're better than me. I couldn't name either - had to look up their names. But I sure as hell know Karl Rove's name - because he was their Josh Lyman hawk who makes noise.
  
  
  
• I've seen the cut scene where Ten I tosses Ten II the giant chicken foot piece of coral from the TARDIS. It's a shame they couldn't use it because...
  
  1) It didn't come off as too glib, like reading the script it made it sound.
  
  2) It showed an attempt made to get Rose to be sorta okay with things by at least telling her that Donna would be with the other Doctor forever and ever. A kind lie for both Donna and Rose. Makes me wonder if Ten II would ever tell her about Donna so that Rose could have gone on believing that the other Doctor had someone. Sorta like how he withheld info about Jack to her.
  
  3) It showed both Doctors saying something in unison, furthering what they were trying to get across with the second Doctor still being the Doctor.
  
  4) The Doctor saying, "The Doctor in the TARDIS with Rose Tyler - as it should be." This is RTD's version of happily ever after. He couldn't have his happily ever after within the parameters of the show, and so he created a whole other universe to put it in. Complete with TARDIS for their own new adventures (as opposed to some sort of curtain-loving domesticity), and complete with thumbs up from the other Doctor. RTD's happily ever after includes the TARDIS life and not some sort of "settling down" nonsense that many in fandom accuse Rose of only wanting. Where exactly this notion comes from, I've no idea. (If it's the mortgage conversation in TIP, boy is that a misunderstanding of what's going on in that scene.)
  
  RTD said that people can go ahead and treat this cut scene as canon, but I still really wish they'd left it in.