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The episode starts out with the silliest heist ever. There are so many things wrong with this picture that you just have to laugh. :D But the important thing here is that Christina can Mission Impossible her way into things. REMEMBER THAT.

The Doctor doesn't really care about all those pesky sirens outside the bus, nor about the multitude of oblivious police outside. He just wants to share his Easter candy, which is probably a disassembled bunny.

But weird things happen and suddenly the bus is in the middle of the desert. The Doctor pulls out his specs to investigate the sand.

Fortunately for the Doctor, there are two easily definable camps of people. There's the Camp Christina, and then there's the remainder of the people who are in Camp Bus. The important thing about the Camp Christina is that she loves danger and is an expert on using that Mission Impossible rope thingy. The important thing about Camp Bus is that they'd quite like some chops once they get home, thank you very much. Oh, and one of them is slightly psychic, but since no one really paid much attention to that in the episode, I won't bother either.

The Doctor licks and wears shades. And a million icons were born...

The bus driver doesn't listen to the Doctor, and winds up as the only human casualty, which is a surprising change from the usual carnage. Of course, this isn't Christmas. However, since he didn't listen to the Doctor, NO BACKSTORY FOR YOU. Not even one about tea.

Camp Christina, realizing its vast superiority over Camp Bus, takes command by pelting it with bullet-point lists. The Doctor decides to remain in Camp TARDIS, but only just since he quite likes the sound of those chops for tea.

The Doctor makes a minor attempt to know Camp Bus, but you just know he's wondering where his chocolate bunny has got to.

We see the return of Captain Magambo, who is shaping up as a very interesting character. She first appeared in Turn Left, helping Rose to build a time machine out of the TARDIS. Here we see her in charge, making difficult choices. I wouldn't mind if she kept turning up. UNIT and the Doctor do seem to go together, after all.

One of the most interesting things about the episode is that the Doctor calls UNIT for help. This is why a phone is a good thing, Doctor. And what happened to the one Martha gave you? You should keep it with you, you dingbat!

Meet the Doctor's number one fanboy. (If you watched SG-1, this is Felger.) He provides the comic relief, and I quite liked the classic Who reference here to Robot. Awwww!

Oh no! A bug person with a GUN! Eeek! Man, they're not even trying to hide the zippers anymore, are they?

Which means another opportunity for DT to do the gibberish foreign language. Mwah.

But surprise! The bug people aren't bad. But there are these very hungry metal sting rays that are coming and are going to eat Earth. OH NO!

It's a good thing the Doctor decided to team up with Camp Christina. For they make a good team. I know this because of the time or twenty that the Doctor mentions that they make a great team/pair. Way better than that Camp Bus lot. Do we really need to see them?

Well, okay. But a very quick shot since Camp Bus is neither awesome nor fabulous.

Christina Mission Impossibles into a pit, drawing on her burgling powers. Thieves are quite handy to have on distant planets. She nearly gets eaten by a metal sting ray, but doesn't due to the awesome. However, the bug people get eaten. They are less awesome. (And don't even speak English, so, you know.)

Much running around, followed by more running around, and the Doctor gets the bus to fly. Then seems to twirl it around a bit while making UNIT wait for them to come through to close the Gate. Ahem. I mean, close the wormhole.

And, of course, the kiss that's part of every major female role's contract. You know they keep refusing John Barrowman just to torment him.

And he gets a declaration of love by the fanboy. *pats*

Doctor: What, you thought that all my babble about us making a great team and being a perfect pair meant I want to spend any length of time with you? How...odd.

Oh no! Prophecy! Songs ending! Knockings of doom!

And then the Doctor helps Christina to escape in the flying bus. I suppose she deserved a break, helping to save the planet and all. We just won't think about the fact that she spends her life stealing things for kicks and giggles.

Besides, we must remember that she's just that awesome.

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Maybe Christina will end up in Torchwood.....(if they get another season)
I can see Jack commissioning(sp?) her to do all the really dagerous stuff, thus keeping Ianto and Gwen safer.

Christina would do well in Torchwood. :D

Hee! I do adore the way you've broken it down. =D

You will always make me LOL, with comments like:

The Doctor makes a minor attempt to know Camp Bus, but you just know he's wondering where his chocolate bunny has got to.

and ...

Oh no! A bug person with a GUN! Eeek! Man, they're not even trying to hide the zippers anymore, are they?

Your picspams are always priceless.

Thanks! :D

Can I join Camp Malcolm?

That is the camp I want to be in too!

Camp Malcolm is so cute!

That second to last picture is awesome, and will spawn many icons as well :)

You know they keep refusing John Barrowman just to torment him. MADE OF AWESOME!!

John Barrowman will find a viable excuse one day! ;)

That second to last picture is awesome, and will spawn many icons as well :)

Yup. :D

John Barrowman will find a viable excuse one day! ;)

You just know he keeps trying to bribe RTD, to which RTD simply cackles evilly.

I don't know whether to laugh or cry at this because you truly highlighted everything that is right (oh, so little) and soooooooooooo very wrong (hmm, pretty much 99% of it revolving around the AWESOME Christina) with it.

Overall I was pretty disappointed. There could have been way more there, but yet it *felt* to me like the bare minimum was being done. Not from a production standpoint, since obviously hauling a bus out to the desert is a huge undertaking. But from a story standpoint. It didn't have a whole lot of depth to it, where the other companionless eps had at least a *little* meat on their bones.

I think Camp Tardis should have taken Camp Malcolm along. At least for the next special.

HA! Maybe he was worried that Camp Malcolm wasn't housebroken.

I totally adored Malcolm. xD The guys over at the Who craft communities have realized he was also wearing a Ten!Fanboy scarf (look closely at the scarf -- it's brown with blue pinstripes, just like the ones some of the folks in those communities have made!).

Of course, he was totally a stand in for RTD, wasn't he? xD Author insertion, ftw. *Pats Russ on the head like he's a total kid*

: )

I didn't notice the scarf. HA! That's so cute!

Did you see

cowboyhd's tribute to tongue-porn? :D

I rather liked ~~The Bionic Woman~~ Christina!

BWAH! There was quite a bit of tongue there, wasn't there?

"Oh no! A bug person with a GUN! Eeek! Man, they're not even trying to hide the zippers anymore, are they?"

LMAO I wouldn't know, I haven't had a chance to see the special yet. XD

I think they might have been guys in suits! ;D

The Doctor licks and wears shades. And a million icons were born...

How could we possibly resist? One or the other gets the fangirls in a tizzy. Both together and I'm surprised the internet didn't melt. *g*

Well, okay. But a very quick shot since Camp Bus is neither awesome nor fabulous.

Awwww. Poor camp bus. *pets them* At least they're better than the previous camp bus that tried to kill the Doctor. Being nice but rather clueless is a step up from that.

How could we possibly resist? One or the other gets the fangirls in a tizzy. Both together and I'm surprised the internet didn't melt. *g*

Me too. :D

Awwww. Poor camp bus. *pets them* At least they're better than the previous camp bus that tried to kill the Doctor. Being nice but rather clueless is a step up from that.

True. At least they had that going for them!

You know they keep refusing John Barrowman just to torment him.

*snort* So true.

Poor guy. *pats him*