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Mind the agnomen.

The Doctor was almost like Nine in his coldness in The Waters of Mars. I wasn't bored throughout the beginning, because I liked the design of the monsters--they were Empty Child reminiscent for me, plus I liked seeing the Doctor's awe of Adelaide. But I was quite taken aback when he had his little episode and decided time was his puppet.

I'm still not sure how they reconciled finding the three survivors on Earth--doesn't finding Adelaide there undermine her inspirational effect on her lineage? Couldn't he have taken them to another planet or another time and started them again?

That's what I expected him to do, ita. It seemed the most reasonable solution. And I also don't understand how Adelaide's suicide is supposed to be inspirational. If the other two told the WHOLE story, including the role of the Doctor, did they also tell the whole world its future, FlashForward-style?

ita, I think he could have, but he wasn't going to. He was going to bring them home and reunite them with their families, or else. Bit of tunnel vision going on there.

Dana,

>Bit of tunnel vision going on there.

You see, that's the Doctor I know and love. Brilliant, yet, tunnel-visiony.

Also. Am I the only one who shouted at the screen, when he felt all victorious, "Donna! Rose! Donna! Rose!"?

Dana, that makes sense, in a typically flawed sort of a way. What Hiro did (or didn't do) on Heroes this week to Mohinder reminded me of that.

I'm nervous about the next installment, from the trailer. It's Donna. Her poor brain. Never mind The Master. I read an interview about how he's going to play that, and I'm just plain looking forward to it.

Waters of Mars: OK, first of all, yay new Doctor Who! On to the spoilers: I LOVED Captain Adelaide Brooke, and was really hoping she'd stick around for a while -- seemed unlikely she'd be a companion, but maybe a nemesis of sorts? But, of course, I get why she did what she did in the end. (Was anyone else thinking, "Dude, go get her body and hide it somewhere so it'll still look like she died on Mars!" But then he would have had to go track down the other two who ran off and dispose of them too, and that REALLY would have gone way too far, even for Ultimate Time Lord!Doctor.)

ita, I hadn't thought of it this way, but I think you're right that we haven't seen the Doctor be this cold, at least to humans, since Nine. Which makes me wonder how I would have reacted if it had been Nine instead of Ten on that crazy power trip. But somehow it makes more sense with Ten, who has always seemed a little more unhinged to me. Maybe it's just that I always trusted and believed Nine, no matter what, whereas Ten has never inspired the same loyalty in me (much as I love Tennant).

Anyway, I liked the themes of this one a lot, but watching the Doctor go mad with power was... uncomfortable, to say the least (and not necessarily in the way that was intended, I think). Also, wayyy too much Purposeful Voiceover of Remembrance for my taste. But on the other hand, flaming robots!

V: Okay, how did Erica know the combination to that room?? I mean, she is clearly awesome in many ways, but there has to be a reason.

I enjoy how manipulative the Vs are.

OK, the ending of the Prisoner was really depressing.

Sort of human spirt vs. evil corporatate CEO turns out to be Bambi vs. Godzilla.