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[retro_eidas]

Oh that was good. That was very very good. I loves me a good haunted house story. This was like Galatea meets Wes Craven (minus the gore). As if funerary angel statues needed to get any creepier.

Really enjoyed Sally Sparrow and all her companions. She was win she was.

Sally/Billy fic after this episode, pls?? It's sad, Billy was a detective and Sally Sparrow is such a female gumshoe name. Not to mention, chemistry liek whoa. They had, what? 4 min of screentime and I still want to see their wedding (Sally Shipton, indeed)? They must be cast in something else together (maybe in Who? Hey! It can happen! We've had identical cousins already... perhaps we have identical grandpa/sons?) Although it seems Moff didn't get over his Reinette mourning, he actually got his protagonist to meet the oh-so-brief lover before death this time.

"Angels stole my TARDIS". I want that t-shirt.

"All of space and time he promised me and now I've got a job in a shop! I've got to support him!!" HEEE!! Oh Martha. Even with like 10 seconds of screentime.... Although, really, if this wasn't a big ol' hint to the DVD makers to include some (whizbang, cutesy, silly) extras? Perhaps earlier versions of Ten trying to record the easter eggs with Martha adding decidedly more colorful background commentary? heeee And they're so married. But really? Saw the moon landing "four times"? Now they're stuck in mod London for however long? Then there's the months of HN/FoB. How long have these two been together? And my god, did Martha's hair look really long holding those arrows? Extensions?

"It's a bit confusing at times. Especially at weddings... especially my own." And there we have the S3 "I was a dad once" of anvilicious non-background info on the Doctor (and that, to me, implied plural. Would make sense, 925-yrs-old and all. Either they die on him, again would make sense, or Gallifreyans are down with the Big Love thing?). But I must say.... Weddings, weddings and more weddings. What IS IT with weddings/marriage (then comes the baby in the baby carriage) this season? The recurring daddy thing for Rose got her a daddy. The recurring weddings/marriages thing this series... is Martha going to get herself a husband (and most likely, by way of the Doctor)? By the looks of Frank and Riley, she certainly seems to be heading in the right direction. *waits for more Aliens Made Them Do It / Get Married fic for the Fic Cliches challenge*

Laurence Nightingale? He had a tough time in school, didn't he? Heh, but gumshoe Sparrow (with her long brown coat and scarf) and Laurence Nightingale (the famous female nurse)? Hmmm? Parallel perhaps? I did thoroughly love all the, "Dammit!! Walk backwards, keep your eyes on the statue" and "Dammit woman!! Open the damn door already!!" moments. They were quality and make stories like this (oh the suspense!!). I also love how Moff makes the eps so easily accessible / rec-able to your non-Who posse. If Rusty is the chairman of Who, Moff is the head marketing director... he sells the show, by the sheer, uncontainable force of his writing skillz. If HN/FoB don't sweep the awards, this is yet another fine contender... and we haven't gotten to the finale (OR JACK!) yet (you better have put in extra time Rusty, Cornell and Moff are decidedly in the lead at the mo'. I'm kind of afraid now the finale won't live up to this kind of build-up *sighs malcontendedly at Heroes finale*).

"We just run a shop, that's all." ="That was a genetic transfer." Then after she self-fulfills her own past thus bringing things full circle, she takes his hand (and they're going to get married and have babiez as handpr0n=sex and marriage be repetitive this season. Also convert their shop into crime fighting/paranormal investigative agency and put those "Most Haunted" monkeys out of bizness cuz they be efficient *and* cuter). awwww Ditto Kathy and Mr. Holt. Billy and Sally-not-Sally. However, it could just be me, but could life goes on be a theme this season (o bla di! o bla da!)? Maybe. just. maybe.?? [/has a black belt in obvious championing]

Martha's next blog entry, shooting arrows at lizards, yes?

Next week: "Doctor." "Captain." *DED* (thus why the delay with this review, I was dead at the time!). Although I wonder, who gets to ask, "Who runs Barter Town?" first?

Comments

[eido.livejournal.com]

I meant Baker!Doctor. He had the scarf and coat didn't he?

That he did (and a hat), also Romana II for a little while due to emulating Baker!Doctor's wardrobe (minus the hat).

I don't think she'll be an old lady when he finds her, but she might just be married.

That certainly could be. There could be evidences already suggesting this very thing. Then either Martha won't travel with him when he comes back (as there could be kids involved) or she does and thus they genuinely turn into Mr. Steed and Mrs. Peel.

Also, I keep wondering if he finds her necklace because Martha's been wearing the same one all season very prominently.

I noticed the necklace too, at first I thought it was just a signature in Martha's style a la Rose's hoodies. I started reconsidering after HN/FoB where a normally innocuous item - a pocket watch - suddenly has this key narrative purpose. Not suggesting Martha's necklace - or locket? - has hidden Time Lordy essence in it (certainly would be a trip if it did and make you wonder if Boe, in fact, WAS including Martha in "You are not alone" despite the Doctor's negation, but I'm doubtful) and it may not even be alien in, erm, whatever RTD could do with it... but I wouldn't put it outside the realm of possibilities something may be up with it. Like looking at it under the microscope you see the same symbol from Lazarus' labs / Saxon's ring or whatnot?

The necklace could also be an explanation for the line of anviliciousness back in TSC that's been nagging at me ever since Ten said it. Not that I need to elaborate, but as it's burned into my mind... "There's something I'm missing Martha. Something really close. It's staring me right in the face and I can't see it." Martha had been wearing it in the bed scene as she has in nearly ever ep (although I don't think she was wearing it in HN/FoB but I could be wrong?).

[juanitadark.livejournal.com]

I don't think the necklace will have any properties per se, I just think it'll end up in his possession some how. I thought the thing he was missing (other than Martha) was the whole Saxon election thing.