carmen_lj | Army of Ghosts

I loved that. I did.

And here is my Oh-So-Exciting Penultimate Bullet Point Thing of the Series:

MICKEY! OMG! His reappearance was not the first shriek I gave, but it was probably the loudest. His confidence, his cool, he was TRULY FABULOUS. "Mickey, Mickey Smith. Defending the Earth." I died a little bit inside. (Though, admittedly, this is now causing me huge worries that they will kill him.)
Ten/Jackie, dude. I am amused that the Doctor has now snogged three women this series and none of them were actually properly Rose and one was her mother. Then to see Nos's One Horrid Thing That Never Happened To The Doctor actually happening on-screen...well, yes, that was pretty darn special.
"They can shoot me dead, but I'll still have the moral high ground" - I paraphrase, yes - that is now my One True Ten moment. Not just the words, but the way he says them and the expression. That's it, and I loved it.
Also DT brought it the whole way though. Everything was fabulous, even when he was loud and especially when he was quiet. Adored how he convinced Yvonne to stop the program by doing nothing.
Old Skool reference! - the Eternals (Enlightenment, dude) call it the Howling. (Also, possible Bad Wolf thing?)
Jackie's reaction to the Doctor 'killing' those people, Tennant getting away with being loud!angry there and Yvonne's "Ew! It goes in their brains!" was both disturbing and wonderful. I have very much love.
I love Yvonne. I want Ten/Yvonne, oh yes.
Rose was great - she didn't seem to be in it much, but she was intelligent and pro-active and Doing Things. And she'd even learned stuff about the TARDIS and she did have a lovely cute moment with Ten with Not Knowing what things on the console did. Muchly liked that.
All that stuff about the Void, ain't that where he went in The Mind Robber?
As for the Sphere, was guessing constantly what was in it, much to annoyance of Parental. Cries of ROMANA ROMANA DAMMIT, were clearly not heard by the telly. Also Face of Boe (when he coming back?), Jack, and many other Time Lords. Also, at first I thought the Sphere was some sort of Time Lord technology and that was why the Doctor looked at it so funny.
Anyone else think the Time Lords have set up some sort of colony in this Void? At the very least, it's pretty much all the explanation they need for having one of them survive what with the whole Magic Outside of Time stuff with the Sphere and it Being Undetectable and able to Sit Out The Big Bang. There's got to at least be another one with a Time Lord in it SURELY?? (Er, yes, I might want another Time Lord Quite Badly, shhh.)
And after all that stuff at the beginning with the general belief in the dead coming back, Jackie talking about after she'd gone, and Rose losing herself if she stays with the Doctor forever, I am pretty convinced Jackie's gonna cop it and Rose is going to find her own path and "this is when I died" is a metaphor for summin'.
Cack, I am really worried about the fanwankiness of Cybermen v. Daleks. And did they actually keep that quiet or have I just been really good at avoiding spoilers?
And, really, it should be no contest, Daleks would win flat-out and at least they seem to realise that what with it being three Daleks v. Millions of Cybermen. And I'm still pretty sure the Cybermen don't stand a chance.
Ghostbusters! Another lovely Ten/Rose moment, and the humour was just right for me in this one, and I do love their relationship here, and I guess I can see why they had to be so nauseating in T&C, else Vicky might not have got pissed off enough to found the Institute.
I might even like Jackie now, dammit. Her and Ten, well, yeah, they're good. (MAYBE JACKIE IS NEW COMPANION??)
Nice to see another alien world, even if it only was a couple of lines and a twenty second shot at the beginning. It was a very pretty alien world, yes.
I think the only thing (apart from my worries re. Fanwankery Dalek v. Cybermen stuff) I didn't really like was Rose saying she was going to be with the Doctor forever. Just, dude, stop with the sledgehammer already.
In conclusion, I eagerly await next week and will probably end up wishing hate on them all cause I bet it's some horrific cliffhanger, hmph.

ETA: Ah havnae seen next week's trailer TELL ME NOTHING. Thank you. :)