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May. 23rd, 2007 07:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
carmen_ljSo, it's totally Chibnall's fault (and maybe a bit the actors) I don't think 42 is Teh Awesome. Because, really, I should have loved it, but, sadly, the secondary/tertiary characters are some of the most tedious the show's managed in three years. And when it's generally so damn good at them, making them so mind-numbingly uninteresting is somewhat Not Living Up To My Actually Quite Realistic For A Change Expectations.
More importantly, however, I have, after the second watch, had a total epiphany: 42 is actually all about the Doctor's One True Love forBabs Jamie Romana and is filled with moments where he misses her/wishes she was there/can't notice Martha's awesomeness at all.
Here are ten entirely convincing reasons why:
Well, I'm convinced. And I know you are too. YES YOU ARE.
More importantly, however, I have, after the second watch, had a total epiphany: 42 is actually all about the Doctor's One True Love for
Here are ten entirely convincing reasons why:
- There is a sun in it. Gallifrey totally had a sun. It probably blew up. And falling into the sun is a bit like blowing it up, in that they both kill people who are nearby. Thus totally reminding the Doctor about that time he probably killed Romana along with the rest of his people and his planet.
- The sun tries to possess him. Which is a bit like that time Romana got possessed by, um pumpkins...or spiders. Probably spiders. Anyway, that emo at the end? That was totally the Doctor feeling sad abut the fact that Romana was well-good at coping with possession and he was rubbish, yo. He misses her awesomeness like that.
- Also, it reminded him of that other time he got possessed. By Zagreus. And when Romana said (and I paraphrase only slightly) "You have to bugger off to this non-universe where time doesn't work right, cause, heh, if you stay, you'll destroy this one. BTW, don't come back. Bye now." Big sacrifice on Romana's part, obv, as Eight was quite good with teh sex, but she's prepared to make that sort of sacrifice to prove their OTP love.
- Which, in turn, obviously reminded him of other universes in general and that time Romana said bye-bye now because he'd fought like crazy-mad for his own freedom but was going to happily toss her back to the Time Lords without a word of protest like the bit of a git he was, and only realised later, probably when throwing her room out, what a total prat he'd been about that.
- Martha fell a long way. Which was a bit like the Doctor falling off the Pharos Project back when he was Teh Invinicible Tommy B. And his last thought before he regenerated was of Romana (and that's CANON, dude!) so that reminded him of that, and is also partly why he was well emo at the end.
- ...I can't have run out already?....Er, because the Captain did a bad sneaky thing, that was a bit like when the Doctor and Romana found out about bad drugs smuggling by another, totally different ship, and he had to hold her hand and skip through a projector thingummie.
- That question about The Beatles reminded him of Liverpool, which reminded him of England, which is a really, really small place on the whole universal scale thing. So thinking of Liverpool is just like thinking of Cambridge, and his best memory of Cambridge is that time he went punting with Romana, thus EMO!
- Martha being trapped in the escape pod was a bit like that time he was trapped on the TARDIS and Romana had to go solve the plot while he did fuck all for four episodes. So he wasn't seeing Martha at all as it fell away, but thinking about how great it was when he could sit around and let Romana show off and how great she is generally. And that "I save you" was obviously being shouted to Romana as guilt for sort of getting her killed.
- Martha totally had hot!chemistry with the dude who doesn't have a name cause the secondary characters were cack and I don't give a toss what it was, which reminded the Doctor of when Romana had hot!chemistry with Duggan when she was meant to be concentrating wholly on him because they were running around Paris falling in love, thank you very much.
- Martha wore shoes. Which is a lot like Romana wearing shoes.
Well, I'm convinced. And I know you are too. YES YOU ARE.
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Date: 2007-05-23 07:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-05-23 07:26 pm (UTC)Also, totally convinced about the Romana/Eight, and that Leela joined in sometimes too, but still got her own OTP with Romana, yes.
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Date: 2007-05-23 07:36 pm (UTC)"Also, totally convinced about the Romana/Eight, and that Leela joined in sometimes too, but still got her own OTP with Romana, yes."
All of that is really just patently obvious, yaar, especially the last bit. And now I have to go search for some Romana/Eight that I haven't already read and of course I won't find any.
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Date: 2007-05-23 08:02 pm (UTC)Oh, if only Eight and Romana had their own audio series like I was KIND OF HOPING after Shada II. Boo.
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Date: 2007-05-23 08:07 pm (UTC)Me too, dammit. Me too.
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Date: 2007-05-23 09:31 pm (UTC)Certainly didn't do that.
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Date: 2007-05-23 07:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-05-23 07:36 pm (UTC)And you are clearly awesome. So I have friended you. Hope you don't mind.
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Date: 2007-05-23 08:04 pm (UTC)Dude.
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Date: 2007-05-23 11:54 pm (UTC)For serious.
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Date: 2007-05-23 11:50 pm (UTC)- The Doctor causes a science lab to blow up. Ace was all about explosions.
- He wears a tuxedo. Ace drags up in a tux in Ghost Light.
- He takes Martha home but she leaves with him again in the end. Ace visited her home town in Survival.
- Martha's a doctor. Ace and Seven travel with a nurse in the audios - practically the same thing!
- Ace fought with her mum too.
...this could be a fun game.
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Date: 2007-05-23 08:17 pm (UTC)*uses identical icon*
And I STILL haven't sodding well booked tickets for that con Lalla is going to.
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Date: 2007-05-23 09:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-05-23 08:34 pm (UTC)How haven't I overlooked those facts before?
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Date: 2007-05-23 09:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-05-23 09:30 pm (UTC)while Romana has a last-minute fling with Duggan.Furthermore, I agree about Eight/Romana, and wish to draw your attention to the bit in "Zagreus" where she says, "I wish you hadn't gotten yourself possessed, because then we could shag" and he answers, "Could we do it in the Panopticon?" and she says, "Dude, the point is that you're still possessed". Trufax.
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Date: 2007-05-23 09:35 pm (UTC)Dear gods, some idiot has edited that bit out of my copy. I am, naturally, horrified and shall be writing to BF to complain, yes.
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Date: 2007-05-23 09:44 pm (UTC)GOSPEL TRUTH.
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Date: 2007-05-23 09:52 pm (UTC)Because that is the kind of logic you just can't argue with.
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Date: 2007-05-23 09:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-05-23 09:53 pm (UTC)Harmonian logictrufax!In the new series, the Daleks are set up as the equal and opposite force to the Time Lords. So far we have seen three entirely separate sets of Dalek survivors: the foot soldier who somehow didn't die when he was supposed to in "Dalek", the Emperor who managed to cling on, and the Cult of Skaro in their void ship, who survived by cutting themselves off from the universe proper.
But so far the only Time Lord we have seen is the Doctor, who is clearly paralleled with the "Dalek" Dalek (even down to Rose making him more human against his wishes; Romana would never have done that to him ZOMG). This leaves us with the Cult of Skaro, whose Time Lord equivalents are clearly the Celestial Intervention Agency (and I read something on Wikipedia once about them being called the Celestis and cutting themselves off from the rest of the universe in something called Mictlan, which sounds awfully like a Void Ship to me) who I predict will turn up in Series 4. What that leaves us still to find is a Time Lord counterpart for the Emperor Dalek, which of course is the President of the High Council -- who else but Romana!
So you see all the signs point to her coming back at the end of this season. Mr Saxon must be a smokescreen; his strings are being pulled by Romana and that's who the "Last of the Time Lords" is going to turn out to be.
(Also, how dare Mickey and Jake go to Paris at the end of Age of Steel? That's Four and Romana II's city, that is! etc. ad Heat Death of the Universe)
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Date: 2007-05-23 09:57 pm (UTC)It's all falling into place!
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Date: 2007-05-23 11:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-05-23 11:53 pm (UTC)FAXCANON!And, like, the best thing ever. So go listen to it.
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Date: 2007-05-23 10:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-05-23 11:21 pm (UTC)...
Excpet Troughton, yo.
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Date: 2007-05-23 10:54 pm (UTC)In fact, when the Doctor was screaming for Martha, what he REALLY wanted to shout was "Romana? Where are you?" But then he was like, "Oh yeah, I blew her up," I only then changed it to "Martha."
I bet if you slow it down super slowly you'd hear the shift, "RO-MARTHA."
Oddly, "Romartha" also sounds like a pairing name and now I am simultaneously bothered and very intrigued.
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Date: 2007-05-24 07:12 pm (UTC)Martha wore shoes. Which is a lot like Romana wearing shoes.
It is PROOF!!
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Date: 2007-06-01 02:33 am (UTC)