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I didn't remember as much of this one as I thought I did. I remembered the games, but not how much of the episode they took up, and I didn't remember the 'Controller', or just how the Daleks made themselves known…
I enjoyed it. I love all the games. OK, so I don't watch Big Brother so I probably missed some in-jokes there, but I loved the way the Doctor got all comfy and then realised something was wrong when the evicted person was actually killed (well, except she wasn't, just turned into a Dalek, but he didn't know that at that point). I loved the way he got out of the house by blasting the security camera with his sonic screwdriver – sound familiar? (I could almost hear the Master murmuring, "Ooh, you public menace!")
I don't watch The Weakest Link either (except the DW one) but enjoyed that too. The Anne-Droid. The way the questions were randomly ones Rose should be able to answer and ones she had no hope whatsoever of answering. And the first reference to Torchwood ("The Great Cobalt Pyramid is built on the remains of which old Earth Institute?" – inferring possibly that Torchwood is no more in the year 200100?) The demonstration of the girl who was the 'weakest link' being zapped, and the boy who tried to run being zapped, just in case we were in any danger of thinking there was a way to escape.
As for What Not To Wear, I do watch that and, well, it can't be any surprise to anyone that that was my favourite programme! The Trinny and Susannah bots were hilarious. Um, I think there might have been another reason I liked that bit. What was it? Hmm, let me think. Oh, yes, I remember! Nearly Naked Jack!!!!! Looked yummy enough in his T-shirt and jeans, let alone after the defabricator had done its work. (Loved his "What's a defabricator?" line.) Loved the whole of that scene, Jack flirting even with two androids, and the hands on boobs and all the other little in-jokes from the show. And the gun he had hidden – um – somewhere! And making a bigger gun.
And the tight leather trousers aren't too bad, either.
I loved the way the Doctor thinks he's created this awful reality by changing things 100 years ago. Good bit of consequences angst for our Doctor, there.
Lynda with a 'y' is very sweet, and I love the way it looks like she's being prepped to be the Doctor's next companion (he asks her to come with him, and even flirts with her!), so that when Rose 'dies' we think she really is dead and gone. (I know I thought that the first time I saw this.) It's an incredibly powerful moment, the Doctor just staring down in horror at the little pile of ash, and Jack in the distance, just as horrified, both of them being arrested and really not caring at that point. The Doctor, especially, doesn't even seem bothered by being sentenced to the lunar penal colony. He's that distraught. Because he promised Jackie he'd get her daughter home safely.
I love the way Jack and the Doctor work together to get out of gaol and to take over Floor 500, and the differences between them: Jack does the military stuff, takes the guards' guns, tells the workers what to do, while the Doctor gets rid of Jack's big gun as soon as possible and goes to talk to the Controller. I love Jack's little exchange with the programmer woman: "Archive 6 is out of bounds." "Do I look like an out of bounds sort of guy?"
And in Archive 6… there's the TARDIS! Love Jack's smile when he sees it, and the fact he uses a key to get into it - telling us he is now a key-holder! And Rose's jacket on the railings. Aww.
I love the sunspots, and the revelation that it's the Controller who got them all here, to combat the Daleks. Who, apparently, have been shaping the earth for hundreds and hundreds of years. There's a scary thought.
Jack's "I know those ships. They were destroyed" is interesting to me, because that means the Time Agents know about the Daleks – so obviously they weren't blasted out of time as I thought they were supposed to have been.
The Daleks are as scary as always. Well, except when the Doctor calls their bluff and they just sort of turn around and leave Rose alone – then they're just funny. Oh, and the zoom-out shot at the end? Really doesn't make them scary, seeing there are loads and loads of them, especially as they just don't look real.
Note: This episode can't take place that long after Boom Town because they apparently went straight from Raxicoricofallapatorius (and yes, I have got that added to my autotext!) to 1336 Kyoto, and then straight to the Game Station.
9/10
I enjoyed it. I love all the games. OK, so I don't watch Big Brother so I probably missed some in-jokes there, but I loved the way the Doctor got all comfy and then realised something was wrong when the evicted person was actually killed (well, except she wasn't, just turned into a Dalek, but he didn't know that at that point). I loved the way he got out of the house by blasting the security camera with his sonic screwdriver – sound familiar? (I could almost hear the Master murmuring, "Ooh, you public menace!")
I don't watch The Weakest Link either (except the DW one) but enjoyed that too. The Anne-Droid. The way the questions were randomly ones Rose should be able to answer and ones she had no hope whatsoever of answering. And the first reference to Torchwood ("The Great Cobalt Pyramid is built on the remains of which old Earth Institute?" – inferring possibly that Torchwood is no more in the year 200100?) The demonstration of the girl who was the 'weakest link' being zapped, and the boy who tried to run being zapped, just in case we were in any danger of thinking there was a way to escape.
As for What Not To Wear, I do watch that and, well, it can't be any surprise to anyone that that was my favourite programme! The Trinny and Susannah bots were hilarious. Um, I think there might have been another reason I liked that bit. What was it? Hmm, let me think. Oh, yes, I remember! Nearly Naked Jack!!!!! Looked yummy enough in his T-shirt and jeans, let alone after the defabricator had done its work. (Loved his "What's a defabricator?" line.) Loved the whole of that scene, Jack flirting even with two androids, and the hands on boobs and all the other little in-jokes from the show. And the gun he had hidden – um – somewhere! And making a bigger gun.
And the tight leather trousers aren't too bad, either.
I loved the way the Doctor thinks he's created this awful reality by changing things 100 years ago. Good bit of consequences angst for our Doctor, there.
Lynda with a 'y' is very sweet, and I love the way it looks like she's being prepped to be the Doctor's next companion (he asks her to come with him, and even flirts with her!), so that when Rose 'dies' we think she really is dead and gone. (I know I thought that the first time I saw this.) It's an incredibly powerful moment, the Doctor just staring down in horror at the little pile of ash, and Jack in the distance, just as horrified, both of them being arrested and really not caring at that point. The Doctor, especially, doesn't even seem bothered by being sentenced to the lunar penal colony. He's that distraught. Because he promised Jackie he'd get her daughter home safely.
I love the way Jack and the Doctor work together to get out of gaol and to take over Floor 500, and the differences between them: Jack does the military stuff, takes the guards' guns, tells the workers what to do, while the Doctor gets rid of Jack's big gun as soon as possible and goes to talk to the Controller. I love Jack's little exchange with the programmer woman: "Archive 6 is out of bounds." "Do I look like an out of bounds sort of guy?"
And in Archive 6… there's the TARDIS! Love Jack's smile when he sees it, and the fact he uses a key to get into it - telling us he is now a key-holder! And Rose's jacket on the railings. Aww.
I love the sunspots, and the revelation that it's the Controller who got them all here, to combat the Daleks. Who, apparently, have been shaping the earth for hundreds and hundreds of years. There's a scary thought.
Jack's "I know those ships. They were destroyed" is interesting to me, because that means the Time Agents know about the Daleks – so obviously they weren't blasted out of time as I thought they were supposed to have been.
The Daleks are as scary as always. Well, except when the Doctor calls their bluff and they just sort of turn around and leave Rose alone – then they're just funny. Oh, and the zoom-out shot at the end? Really doesn't make them scary, seeing there are loads and loads of them, especially as they just don't look real.
Note: This episode can't take place that long after Boom Town because they apparently went straight from Raxicoricofallapatorius (and yes, I have got that added to my autotext!) to 1336 Kyoto, and then straight to the Game Station.
9/10
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What confused me about this episode is how Earth history isn't following what timeline it's supposed to (It hadn't been in "The Long Game" either but the Doctor thought he set it right), so what does that really mean? No idea, but it just reinforces my 'time travel gives me headaches' problem.
LOVED Jack and the guns, from the 'compact whatever" to the 'do I look like an out-of-bounds sort of guy?' and Jack having a TARDIS key? *melts*
I'm with you on the Dalek/Time Agent/Time War confusion bit. Oh well.
I really liked Lynda... and LOVED the way Jack flirted with her. Heck, he flirted with everyone from the robots to the guy running the games who winds up working with them... gotta love that about Jack!
*sigh* Loved this episode!
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I really liked Lynda... and LOVED the way Jack flirted with her.
What about the way the Doctor flirted with her? I don't know, Jack comes along and suddenly the Doctor's a great big flirt too! :-)
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The Doctor flirting was unexpected, wasn't it?
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I get the feeling Jack has influenced him more than he realises...
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I love the "out of bounds sort of guy" dialogue, too. I love Jack in that episode. Okay, I always love Jack. Right. I had a point, somewhere, but I think I got distracted by a certain ex-Time Agent...
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He was great.
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He was.
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Among the many things I love about this ep (and you've hit most of them) is that, in the scene where the Doctor's kneeling over what he thinks are Rose's ashes, and he's just lost, you can hear Jack screaming at the guards to get away from the Doctor and leave him alone. Then he's yelling about Rose, but that bit of protectiveness for the Doctor right there makes me happy. Then the escape from the cell, when all the Doctor has to do is turn to Jack and say, "Let's do it," and they do--I love that too.
Why couldn't we have had a whole season of Nine and Jack and Rose? Or for that matter, an episode or two of Ten, Jack and Martha in the TARDIS together? ::sigh:: Ah, well, that's what fanfic is for.
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Why couldn't we have had a whole season of Nine and Jack and Rose?
grump, grump, grump... or at least a few more episodes? *sigh*
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I think what you've just said about the Rose's 'death' bit was what I was trying to say... :-)
And God, why can't we just have Jack in every single episode of DW? He could still pop home to TW every now and again for each season of that! *g*
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From your post to RTD's ear.
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Er this'll only make sense if you've read my email...