Fiona, I saw the new season two ep. I thought it was just a jolly good romp, with some particularly nice Doctor character moments. Sophia Myles played a blinder too, I thought. Seems to me like they didn't want to do anything too exciting or too dangerous, because next week! Cybermen!

After watching s2 ep4, I had a very weird dream last night: That I visited Versailles with the now adult classmates from Jr. High history classes. I was very angry and heartbroken when I saw that the original ceilings and floors had been covered up with cheap linoleum and a drop ceiling in the areas the public were allowed to visit. And you should have seen me trying to speak french to the gift shop clerk.

Jars, a romp ? I wouldn't have described it as that at all. I found it rather downbeat. Funny how two reactions to the same episode can be so different.

Some not-so-nice news I read this morning: apparently Captain Jack isn't going to return to Doctor Who, but go straight to Torchwood. Scheduling conflicts. Boo !

I thought that the doctor character bits with whatsherface were a bit downbeat, but other than that? There was a horse on a spaceship! That he rode through a mirror! Pre-revolution France! Fancy dresses! Clockwork monsters and freeze-guns! I think maybe I just caught the fun! aspects of it more than the doomed love bits.

I would acll S2ep4" bittersweet. "

I think that last episode (2x3) and this one they were trying to show Rose realizing the complexity of falling in love with a timelord. also, she is feeling jealousy, which could be a good motivator. It may also help them stretch the relationship a bit, instead of making it a simple princess/knight tale. ...And that would fit the pattern of the series. familiar situations, with a bit of a twist.

S2ep4:

I also thought that David Tenant looked like John Lennon in the scene with the tie around his head and especially with the dark round sunglasses.

does anyone have or know where i can get the full opening theme song in .mp3 of Doctor Who?

found it!

I enjoyed Who 2.4. I thought the actress who played MdeP was wonderful, and I thought the interaction between her an Rose was quite touching.

And Mickey did something funny that made me laugh out loud, but now I can't remember what it was.

Anyway, over all, sad, sweet, engaging. I liked it.

And I had a great time rewatching The Empty Child. I'd forgotten parts of it. Good and creepy. That's the ep (well, the two-parter) that pushed me from like to love, if I recall.

I'm sort of sad that this show is so relentlessly [pseudo]science-based, as I'm sure they're going to explain it as runaway nanites that imprinted on the first person they encountered or somesuch. It'd be better if there was room for the supernatural/unknown and the nature of the contagion was never explained at all.

Matt, I obviously won't tell you how they explain it, but I'll just say that I thought it was brilliant and brilliantly done.

As for the latest new episode, I liked it. It was like a lovely, condensed version of The Time Traveler's Wife. And the music at the end was wonderful.

Man, I am so much a sucker for Creepy Child tropes. I get completely skeeved all the time. The roommate (who I think may be hooked now) had a good time laughing at me freaking quietly (and sometimes not so quietly) out. I'm used to watching my fandom-type television alone, so it was fun for me to have him along.