carmen_lj | The Girl In The Fireplace (Reply)

So that last entry, bit of a lie. I am, in fact, unable to prioritise. What d'you know? Also DOCTOR WHO, YAY.

In summary: I am in love with this episode. It's right up there with School Reunion for me.

Oh my, oh dear, poor Rose. I was harsh on her last week, because her behaviour and the clique-ishness of T&C had me all riled. But that was deliberate, wasn't it? They wanted us to go arg so we'd feel guilty when this happened to her. Much sympathy for her, she really as been (er, awful pun coming up) brought down to Earth. I'm liking this character arc, and I'm back to my liking Rose of last series, yay!
I love Madame de Pompadour. Also, I love her dresses and want to marry them.
Oh, oh! Mickey, you so fine! "It's so realistic!", "You lookin' at me?" Hehe! And his happy expression when he gets to grab the fire extinguisher and go hunt robots! He da man! I love him more and more and oh, he's going to end up being one o me favourite companions, he is. Top chap. (We have not yet seen the I Told You So Dance though. DISAPPOINTING.)
DEEP SPACE! TWO GALAXIES OVER! OMG! It's like they can travel in SPACE as well as TIME. Ain't that amazin'?
I love the Doctor. I love him finding a monster under the bed, I love him being all Enigmatic And Alien, I love him being drunk and inventing banana cocktails. (Oh, Mr Moffat, do not think it was not noticed how you reference yer own story, bananas and dancing? You need the subtle hammer, yo.) I love him in the glasses. I love him ON THE HORSE. Now, that scene, Madame de Pompadour calming the court followed by the Doctor riding into the rescue might just be my favourite New Series scene ever. It was beautiful and scary.
Beautiful and scary. Oh, the atmosphere was gorgeous. Those villains - I want them to be little action figures, I do. The palace was gorgeous. Go Beeb and their ability to do costume drama. And just Such A Simple Doctor Who thing that whole walking between sets and pretending they'd jumped time and galaxies, heh. So old series.
Old Series? Those broken clocks were a bit Edge of Destruction but, more importantly, proving the eternal Doctor/Romana love as the artist in City of Death drew her face as a broken clock (What straws? EVIDENCE!) Oh, and Zeus plugs? That was a reference to Hand of Fear, and, in fact, Sarah's last scene in the TARDIS. *sniffle* (And Rose and Mickey strapped down on those things was a bit like Harry and Sarah in Davros's lab in Genesis, but there was no exciting screechy cliffhanger. WOE!)
Did I mention that I love the Doctor? "What's a temporal spatial conduit?" "Dunno, just made it up. Didn't want to say magic door." I also love Madame de Pompadour (Did I mention the dresses? They were beautiful.)
Is the Doctor lonely? IS HE? I did not get it those dozen times. PLEASE SAY IT AGAIN. Angel though, not god. Also HA TO LOOMS! HE WAS A LITTLE BOY SAYS TELLY CANON. (What is this of a lonely childhod though? What of those pranks and frolics with Ushas and Koschei? DARN YOU MOFFAT!)
Mickey had inbetween adventures, meybe! Or, at least, he may not have seen much of the TARDIS, but the Doctor called (or p'haps just referred to, which is less fun) Cleopatra as Cleo. Which is nice, but the important thing is More Adventures for Mickey, hurrah!
The scenes between Rose and Madame de Pompadour were quite beautiful too. And a nice tie-in to the mention of the cordial relationship between the Queen and de Pompadour.
Oh, I think that's everything. Everything I remember off-hand anyway. I loved it. I was in love with it. It broke my heart. But not in the 'OMG, I am in little pieces' way of last week. Much more endurable this week, sad but in a quiet, melacholy sort of way.
And DT has really got it now. Those first two episodes pale in comparison to his performance in the latter two. (I won't dare suggest it's the quality of writing. I have no Proper Opinions on that. I love The Time Monster, for goodness sake.)
Mother was rather gleeful at the previews. She likes the Cybermen so she does. I think she's looking forward to next week more than me, heh.