Wow.
And yet….
This is turning out to be a real corker of a season, thanks in part to Catherine Tate’s marvelous acting chops. Donna’s life would have been completely different had she not met the Doctor, yet she would have remained Donna to the core. It was an entertaining story, full of self-reflexivity and gratuitous off-screen death of various companions and companions’ companions. (Surely there must be a better term for the hangers-on of both Captain Jack and Sarah Jane!)
I actually didn’t even mind Rose too much, especially since I’ve come to the conclusion that it wasn’t our Rose. Oh, sure it was a Rose Tyler who traveled with a Time Lord named the Doctor, but I don’t think it was the one we watched on our screens the first two seasons. The weird speech impediment, for one thing, clued me in– it was either a poor attempt at a different accent, or she was talking though a mouth full of invisible orthodontia. (Those Invisalines can be awesome, I understand!) But what really rang my bell was, when I was trying to step through the ending after watching it, catching the close-up of Rose after she whispered “Bad Wolf” into Donna’s ear (during Donna’s remembering of it). Her eyes were blue. Nyah, I don’t refer to the coat reflecting off her eyes! I’m talking Billie Piper looked like she was wearing Casanova strength blue contacts. (The dark ring around the edge of the pupils are a dead giveaway!)
So, yeah, great story, nothing to complain about, etc. Great set-up of England turning fascist after the repeated outer space attacks, etc. Liked how my idea about how the adiposes affecting the U.S. was used (bugger it, should have said “copyright Jennifer Adams Kelley” in the “Partners In Crime” review)…. great stuff.
Let’s pop now to my predictions for the finale, now that the stage has been set for it. Keep in mind that, although the first half as already aired in the U.K., I’ve not seen it as of this writing. I’ve also avoided my flists all weekend, just so my predictions won’t be colored by pre-cut episode commentary.
1) Donna still has a cockroach on her back.
2) Donna is going to die, but probably one of those lame half-death thingies like what happened to River Song.
3) It won’t be OUR Rose.
4) Oh, yeah, there’ll be some Daleks.
5) The old lady in the teaser is either the Doctor’s mother or old governess. (Ok, probably not, but I bet she’s some sort of Time Lady.)
6) Martha still won’t be married. (But it would be funny if her wedding were interrupted to help the Doctor!)
7) So, when the second Doctor pops up (as rumored), I bet it will be the current Rose’s Doctor. And then they can go off and make the teim baybeez (as current!Rose implied they already had practice at) and everyone will be happy, because the batshippers will have Doctor/Rose OTC and the rest of us will have “Ha! Alternate Universe! Doesn’t count!”
8 ) There will be some lame reference to the Doctor as Being God. Or at least Jesus.
How correct will I be? Only tide and Time Lords know…..
Next time: SQUEE! Sarah! SQUEE! Gwen! SQUEE! Luke! SQUEE! Ianto! SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Martha! And, oh, yeah, Rose. ho hum
Posted by JennAK in Ongoing Storm