gogmagog | Only ROS TOYLOR can express my OMGWTF at this episode

My oh-so-composed thoughts on the latest episode of Doctor Who:

WHAT

WHAT

WHAT THE HELL WAS UP WITH THAT ENDING, TENNANT'S SIGNED ON FOR THE SPECIALS....RIGHT? RIGHT?

Seriously, there is no size of text to encompass my sense of WTF about that ending. Gwen and Ianto defending the Hub against Daleks, Sarah Jane on the verge of extermination, and THE DOCTOR REGENERATING, WTF

On the plus side, the Doctor and Rose have been reunited! And Rose is back to seeming like herself, after the harder, scarier Rose of "Turn Left" (her frustration at Wilf's lack of a "naughty" webcam to patch her in was so characteristic, as was her jealousy of Martha and her challenge to the two electronics store looters). Also everyone's together, in spirit if not in body. However, THEY EXTERMINATED HARRIET JONES, NOOOOOOOO. At least she died nobly, and introducing herself to the very end! And I think this season has proved Harriet right and the Doctor wrong with regards to the events of "The Christmas Invasion" (even setting aside the whole "deposing Harriet may have paved the way for the Master to come to power" thing). While I DO think there will be something they manage to pull off so that David Tennant remains the Doctor (unless he changes back into Paul McGann now that the Time War's been un-timelocked, lol), there would be something poetic about his first actions in this regeneration eventually bringing about the downfall of that same regeneration.

The "space Facebook" companion conference call was just generally pretty awesome...Jack hitting on Sarah Jane (and her being all flattered and girlish about it), Sarah Jane introducing Luke to the Doctor, Donna eyeing up Jack (and being warned off by the Doctor), Rose being jealous of Martha, Sylvia not letting Wilf buy a webcam because they're "naughty," Gwen oohing at the Doctor and Ianto being sulky, all the Harriet stuff, etc.

On the Donna front, apparently she still has something on her back, which worries me. Also the lady consoled her on her loss yet to come, which to my mind means either she, Wilf or Sylvia is going to die; and as craptastic as Sylvia can be, even her death would make me really sad just because it would make Wilf and Sylvia sad. Similarly, Wilf going at Daleks with a paintball gun (though the fact that he out-brazens ACE, who at least had explosives, makes me happy...Wilf needs to be s5 companion, y/y) makes me worry he'll die through some noble but impulsive action. Really, the same goes for Donna, only her "Noble" action is even predicted in her last name. Things are not looking good for the Noble/Mott family, sorry to say.

We got some nice brief appearances: Luke, Gwen and Ianto were all awesome as usual (and the crack about Mr. Smith's fanfare was quality, heh), and Francine was unexpected. Also apparently Mr. Copper from "Voyage of the Damned" put together the subwave network, awwww. I just wish that Richard Dawkins' appearance had included his wife (for those of you who don't know, she's Lalla Ward, who played the Fourth Doctor's companion Romana II; it would have made for some nice, um, meta-something-or-other).

And then finally, Davros and everybody else. Just from this episode, Davros seems the scariest he's been since Genesis of the Daleks, which can only be a good thing. Dalek Caan is ridiculously creepy, because DALEKS SHOULD NOT HAVE HIGH-PITCHED EMOTIONAL INSANE VOICES, IT'S JUST WRONG. The Shadow Proclamation seemed interesting, and I'm betting they'll reappear next week.

Also bees are aliens, heh. XD

Other expectations/wishes for next week: a final resolution to the Time War (which will basically involve bringing Gallifrey back, as I think experience has shown us that the Daleks will NEVER be extinct, they're too iconic), the Doctor and Rose getting a chance to really talk (something more than OH HAI THAR, OMGWTFBBQ UNEXPECTED DOCTOR REGENERATION), the Doctor hearing about Harriet's sacrifice and feeling at least a LITTLE guilt (why does the Doctor only feel guilt about the things he HASN'T actually done wrong), Rose and Marfa meeting, Sarah Jane NOT BEING EXTERMINATED PLZKTHX, and Donna somehow saving the Doctor's current regeneration (she IS Super-Temp, after all).

Also I think looking at the credits of this episode shows us RTD's propensity for reusing names: we had Martha and Francine Jones, Harriet Jones, and Ianto Jones. (And next week, of course, we'll have Sarah Jane and Luke Smith and Mickey Smith.)

Oh, and the list of planets made me happy, too. Clom from Love and Monsters (the sister planet to *deep breath* Raxacoricofallapatorius)? Woman Wept, which I hear comes from one of the novels? Calufrax Minor (from the old-school story The Pirate Planet)? :D

Edit: Ooh, someone mentioned that Donna hearing a heartbeat in the Shadow Proclamation would lend itself to the idea of a fobwatched Gallifreyan Donna (hearing the other heart or summat). :o

Also did anyone else hear the rhythm when Harriet was using the subwave network to hail folks? Sounded like a certain set of drums (which is why I thought at first it'd be the Archangel network).

Also who is "the threefold man"? If the finale ends up being a multi-Doctor story with Eight, Nine and Ten I will forgive Russell T. Davies anything up to and including "Fear Her." XD

...is it can be next Saturday nao? ;_;