DrW S3 - 301 - Welcome aboard Miss Jones!
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retro_eidasI need to watch the ep again, but...
Oh. My. God.
::wimpers::
I have to say it, but I think I loved that more than I did "Rose". I know I loved it way more Tthan "New Earth" as I didn't really care for NE all that much (remember prefering Scottish ninjas over it). But loving it more than "Rose"? I didn't hesitate at all dropping $70 for the first season on DVD. I'm already willing to throw down the money for S3... based on "Smith & Jones". There's so much in S&J I loved, but I'm going to have to watch it again to catch it all. Suffice to say, I had a big dumb grin on my face for nearly the entire ep and for a good while afterwards and it was NOT the Bacardi talking. An amazingly good ep, kudos all around.
Although Ten is a bit of a cruel bastard, isn't he? Leaning like that in the alleyway after watching Martha's family meltdown? It was hot. Not to mention flirty like a flirty thing and he'd have to know it. He opens the door for her even. Then goes off on a quasi-rant saying she only gets one trip and ONE TRIP ONLY out of gratitude because he prefers to be alone (PFFT!!!). Which is bullshit, but still rather cruel as we already know what she's getting into but she obviously doesn't (moreso with the sympathy in that Martha was clearly interested. I wonder if these mixed signals Ten is sending out are going to be that way all S3 like they were here. Although I think she's got tough enough skin to handle it and she already seems prone calling him on his bullshit which I do love very much indeed).
The mixed signals. On one side it's plainly obvious he can't go the spanse of time & space alone (despite it's inevitability) and all his actions (the coming back for her for starters, the flirtiness, the handporn, etc etc) confirm that, yet on the other the forcible adamance he don't need nobody? Uh huh. Rose had this advantage with Ten as she had already been travelling with him. Martha comes up as the first after the ex. She's got a tough climb, but I'm anxious to watch their relationship progress. And a tiny part of me hopes he does get over the Rose, "lonely god" angst and give in again, despite the risks. But even if not, there's always the glorious land of fanfic.
I loved Nine and Rose so much because it really seemed he needed her there as much as she needed him (and the varying complexities of their relationship). Rose needed the Doctor to keep her out of the 9 to 5, council estates and show her a better way to live. I get an impression of that in Ten/Martha now as well and she's a doctor(-in-training). Ten need a doctor now after the loss of the Bad Wolf? While Ten gives Martha a release from being the glue keeping her apparently dysfunctional family together.... while at the same time she has her OWN life (she has exams, she has a job, rent to pay and she's going to be a doctor). Already she's very unlike Rose as Rose was so young - still living with her mom - came to believe she didn't seem to exist at all after seeing this unbelievably wondrous world that is the Doctor's. Her entire existence revolved around the Doctor, which is just no way to live. Martha, on the other hand, is older, independent and leaning more to the cerebrally stimulating side of the Doc's past companions. She already has a life and a fine one at that the Doctor has (oncoming) stormed in on. Martha still has or can have this identity separate from the Doctor and I really love that... but yet she can have what seems to promise to be an excellent and layered relationship with Ten as well. I think that's already showing through.
Maybe Martha has the benefit of the newness of a relationship, maybe she'll fall into some complacent streak later on? However, the reason why I came to really appreciate Donna was because she actually told the Doctor to stop and she told him she couldn't travel with him as he needs someone around to basically give him some kind of boundries. Tell him no every once in awhle (which Rose kind of did with Nine, but almost never did with Ten, even in his scarier occassions she seemed to be oblivious to it all... and Ten is so much scarier than Nine). I did rather take that as foreshadowing. Martha didn't exactly slap the bejesus out of him, but she did bring him back to Earth right quick before he started musing like the mad thing he is broken sonic screwdriver, Plasmavores and the old vampire bat's crazy plot. That alone makes me want to love Martha. Loveherloveherloveherloveher!!! And really hope that continues on as long as she's Ten's companion.
However, I was slightly jarred in the end of the ep. I don't think we've ever seen the Doctor, or at least Ten (or Nine for that matter), quite that banged up before. Jostled around and knocked out yes, but... his eyes were bloodshot. I'm curious on what they did to Tennant's eyes to make them look like that (that yellow shit they put in your eyes to dilate them in the optometrist's office perhaps? CGI?). I realize he'd just came back from the brink and all, but .. he was struggling for air and hobbling towards the MRI to shut it down. Then struggling to carry Martha down the hallway (loved that scene in the trailers and LOVED it all the more in the ep). He really seemed battleworn in that last scene and it really makes me curious on how banged up he's going to be the rest of the season if this is some sort of precursor. It's just the beginning and we're already seeing him barely able to stand. The Doctor is going to have it ROUGH this season methinks... and Martha is going to have to find it in her to help him through it all. All that with Ten being Ten and a flirty thing while working the ex/lonely god angst and dodging Judoon, Plasmavores and whatever other sort of space oddities in store for her? Although the lines to spare the youngin' viewers will spare her anything to dark, she's going to have to have a tough skin.
Oh. My. God.
::wimpers::
I have to say it, but I think I loved that more than I did "Rose". I know I loved it way more Tthan "New Earth" as I didn't really care for NE all that much (remember prefering Scottish ninjas over it). But loving it more than "Rose"? I didn't hesitate at all dropping $70 for the first season on DVD. I'm already willing to throw down the money for S3... based on "Smith & Jones". There's so much in S&J I loved, but I'm going to have to watch it again to catch it all. Suffice to say, I had a big dumb grin on my face for nearly the entire ep and for a good while afterwards and it was NOT the Bacardi talking. An amazingly good ep, kudos all around.
Although Ten is a bit of a cruel bastard, isn't he? Leaning like that in the alleyway after watching Martha's family meltdown? It was hot. Not to mention flirty like a flirty thing and he'd have to know it. He opens the door for her even. Then goes off on a quasi-rant saying she only gets one trip and ONE TRIP ONLY out of gratitude because he prefers to be alone (PFFT!!!). Which is bullshit, but still rather cruel as we already know what she's getting into but she obviously doesn't (moreso with the sympathy in that Martha was clearly interested. I wonder if these mixed signals Ten is sending out are going to be that way all S3 like they were here. Although I think she's got tough enough skin to handle it and she already seems prone calling him on his bullshit which I do love very much indeed).
The mixed signals. On one side it's plainly obvious he can't go the spanse of time & space alone (despite it's inevitability) and all his actions (the coming back for her for starters, the flirtiness, the handporn, etc etc) confirm that, yet on the other the forcible adamance he don't need nobody? Uh huh. Rose had this advantage with Ten as she had already been travelling with him. Martha comes up as the first after the ex. She's got a tough climb, but I'm anxious to watch their relationship progress. And a tiny part of me hopes he does get over the Rose, "lonely god" angst and give in again, despite the risks. But even if not, there's always the glorious land of fanfic.
I loved Nine and Rose so much because it really seemed he needed her there as much as she needed him (and the varying complexities of their relationship). Rose needed the Doctor to keep her out of the 9 to 5, council estates and show her a better way to live. I get an impression of that in Ten/Martha now as well and she's a doctor(-in-training). Ten need a doctor now after the loss of the Bad Wolf? While Ten gives Martha a release from being the glue keeping her apparently dysfunctional family together.... while at the same time she has her OWN life (she has exams, she has a job, rent to pay and she's going to be a doctor). Already she's very unlike Rose as Rose was so young - still living with her mom - came to believe she didn't seem to exist at all after seeing this unbelievably wondrous world that is the Doctor's. Her entire existence revolved around the Doctor, which is just no way to live. Martha, on the other hand, is older, independent and leaning more to the cerebrally stimulating side of the Doc's past companions. She already has a life and a fine one at that the Doctor has (oncoming) stormed in on. Martha still has or can have this identity separate from the Doctor and I really love that... but yet she can have what seems to promise to be an excellent and layered relationship with Ten as well. I think that's already showing through.
Maybe Martha has the benefit of the newness of a relationship, maybe she'll fall into some complacent streak later on? However, the reason why I came to really appreciate Donna was because she actually told the Doctor to stop and she told him she couldn't travel with him as he needs someone around to basically give him some kind of boundries. Tell him no every once in awhle (which Rose kind of did with Nine, but almost never did with Ten, even in his scarier occassions she seemed to be oblivious to it all... and Ten is so much scarier than Nine). I did rather take that as foreshadowing. Martha didn't exactly slap the bejesus out of him, but she did bring him back to Earth right quick before he started musing like the mad thing he is broken sonic screwdriver, Plasmavores and the old vampire bat's crazy plot. That alone makes me want to love Martha. Loveherloveherloveherloveher!!! And really hope that continues on as long as she's Ten's companion.
However, I was slightly jarred in the end of the ep. I don't think we've ever seen the Doctor, or at least Ten (or Nine for that matter), quite that banged up before. Jostled around and knocked out yes, but... his eyes were bloodshot. I'm curious on what they did to Tennant's eyes to make them look like that (that yellow shit they put in your eyes to dilate them in the optometrist's office perhaps? CGI?). I realize he'd just came back from the brink and all, but .. he was struggling for air and hobbling towards the MRI to shut it down. Then struggling to carry Martha down the hallway (loved that scene in the trailers and LOVED it all the more in the ep). He really seemed battleworn in that last scene and it really makes me curious on how banged up he's going to be the rest of the season if this is some sort of precursor. It's just the beginning and we're already seeing him barely able to stand. The Doctor is going to have it ROUGH this season methinks... and Martha is going to have to find it in her to help him through it all. All that with Ten being Ten and a flirty thing while working the ex/lonely god angst and dodging Judoon, Plasmavores and whatever other sort of space oddities in store for her? Although the lines to spare the youngin' viewers will spare her anything to dark, she's going to have to have a tough skin.
