OMG HOORAY
So....I saw the Season Finale of Torchwood and Partners in Crime last night....and I've made up my mind that as I go, I'm going to post my impressions of the episodes. But first, a dream I had the night prior to watching the shows.
Basically, my brother was best friends with an evil alien that was going to take his body as...a sort of fuel, but he wouldn't believe me. So I told Dad, and after I provided some proof, he believed me and we started trying to get the alien back to its ship. We were trying to trick it and whatnot, but we spent too much time close to it and we started to bleed slightly from the orifices on our faces because that was what happened when it started to take you over. So we urgently started shooing it back into its spaceship, found out that it had killed Luna, and then it pressed some sort of reset button.
Now, Jordan was out of the picture, having booked it, and Dad was somewhere in the enormous mansion behind me. I was in the backyard of the mansion, which wasn't very large considering the size of the mansion. The alien wasn't disguised as a little boy anymore, it was nearly its own form as an adult male. Another of its species in the form of an adult female arrived. They were both quite weakened as they hadn't consumed anyone recently, so they were obviously quite desperate to get at two of the neighbourhood kids. I wasn't having that, though, and I shooed them into their ship. But they kept getting OUT. Eventually, I honestly put CHILD lock on (although I couldn't say why his spaceship HAD it). Once I managed to get them inside, the male hit some sort of button.
"If I go down, so do all of you," he said. It turned out to be the self-destruct button, which would destroy not only his ship but half of the Earth. I hit his control panel in anger and ran off in search of help. My first thought was Torchwood but first thing, I was in Canada, and second thing, they're a secret cooperation and I had no clue how to contact them. At the time, I joking thought of '1800-TORCHWOOD'. So I went into the mansion, and who should I come across but Ianto! He was like, "I was here....um, not saying why, but there was some sort of alien presence in this house."
"Oh, yes, definitely, yes, thank god you're here," I said fervently. "Come to the backyard." We go there and I instantly see that the spaceship is empty. I panic, then see that they've taken two neighbourhood kids. They are sitting on top of the spaceship.
"You left the door open," the female says smugly and then they lunge at us. We have to book it into the mansion and up SO many flights of stairs. While we run, Ianto calls for help. He gets all panicky because they keep grabbing at us. When we get about halfway, they stop following us, and we run the rest of the way out the front door.
"I called for reinforcements," says Ianto. Luna (who is alive again) is standing there so I pet her. Then, a car pulls up, and Susannah gets out.
"What are you doing here?" I ask.
"Canadian Torchwood," she says. "It's more part-time than anything. What am I supposed to be doing?"
"Um....are you sure you can do this?" I ask. "Is anyone else arriving?" Just then, a hobo with two poodles shows up.
"Canadian Torchwood," he says. "Where're the aliens?"
"Oh, you are KIDDING me," I say.
"Whoa, aliens?" says Susannah, "Really?" At this point, Luna, excited by the poodles, starts running towards the backyard and the aliens.
"Luna!" I yell. :"Come! Come! Luna!" She ignores me like always. "Luna, COME!" I bellow, and she finally stops and turns around, mouth open and floppy tongue. "Come!" I say again, heart in mouth, and she actually comes. At this point, I am so frazzled, I force myself awake. It is 7:30 in the morning. On a Saturday. "Oh crap," I think. "I want to go back to sleep, but the dream will definitely just come back if I do..." Then, I have a brainwave.
"Doctor," I think. "Doctordoctordoctordoct..." When I fall asleep again (shortly) the Doctor is there, looking a little confused.
"Sweet!" I say. "Hi! Okay, please, put Luna in the TARDIS or she'll go and get herself eaten and there are aliens in the backyard trying to eat us all."
"Oh...?" he says. "All right. Er....who are you?" he asks the hobo, as the dogs are jumping at him excitedly.
"Canadian Torchwood," says the hobo.
"...Why the poodles?" he asks. "Actually, I don't want to know. Yes. Okay." He pushes the dogs off of him, and goes off to try and reason with the aliens. It doesn't work and they laugh and try to eat him. He warns them, but to no avail. So, after some interesting Doctor-y stuff, he packs them into their spaceship and sends them off. When they are quite far away, they explode.
"What was that for?!" says the Doctor. "I didn't--They weren't--I--"
"Oh yeah..." I say. "Er, they did that. Self-destruct. They must have forgotten to turn it off." The Doctor gives me a bit of a wild-eyed expression, then nods.
"Very...well then," he says. After this, I can't remember whether I woke up or if the dream turned into something else.
I watched Torchwood first yesterday and it nearly killed me because Doctor Who hadn't finished downloading, and then Leah spoilered me for the episode by looking up interesting-sounding clips from the episode on YouTube. ...I wish she hadn't told me what it was about after because I would have liked to be surprised. Oh well. I can be surprised for the next 12.
I watched the last two episodes of Torchwood together because Leah knew they were a two-parter so she was saving them.
Oh my Lordy LOU. Like, the first one was epic enough with all the people's back stories coming out and that made me all...well, damaged. Like, with Tosh being sad about her mum and BUILDING A SONIC THINGY OMG and Owen with....aw, man, his girlfriend. Ianto's backstory was just adorable...and also made Jack making out with him in Season One make more sense. Jack making Torchwood better was WIN. Although, I have to say, at the scene where he comes back to Torchwood on the Milennium and that guys killed everyone, all I could think was "LOL, Eight is running around somewhere saving the world with Doctor Grace Holloway." Er...yeah. BUT THE SECOND ONE. Ah. Ah. AH. Okay, I'm rather pleased Spike...er, John turned out to not be evil because I really...yeah. I liked Gray coming back. That was pretty epic. Although I did think the "I forgive you," was all a bit....DW Season 3 finale. BUTBUTBUT. OWEN AND TOSH. DEAR JESUS. Each....when she was dragging herself down those stairs....it hurt me. Like, I got the shakes. When Owen was having a nervous breakdown in the nuclear power plant and Tosh was weeping and like, "Because you're breaking my heart," and Owen instantly just calmed down and started being soothing...I was SOBBING. Like, I couldn't even do silent tears. I was making NOISES. I NEVER do that. Tosh is such a sweetheart. I'm going to miss her and Owen FIERCELY. I don't even know if I can watch Torchwood again, knowing she's gone forever.
When they were deleting her file and her "I'm dead, I guess," video came up... at the "Owen...I love you," part, I lost it. Totally. I had calmed down by then and that just broke me again because it was totally believeable and heartbreaking. I don't....I don't know what the show will be like without her.
After that, I didn't know if I could watch Doctor Who, but I did anyway. I don't know if that was the best plan because it meant that I had a really weird feeling while I watched it and it wasn't a good Doctor Who feeling. It's not the feeling I got while watching the first three seasons. I don't know how to explain it...I hope it's better on Friday when I watch it again with the others.
But the EPISODE. OMG. I mean, Leah spoilt it for me in advance by telling me about Rose (OMG THEY PLAYED DOOMSDAY AHHHH) but the rest of the episode was lovely and cracky. It was so lighthearted. I loved it. Donna as a Companion feels more to me like Classic Who than any of the other seasons have and I'm not entirely sure why. But it was epicamazing. She makes him feel like he makes all his Companions feel, which is brilliant. He's used to overwhelming and confusing them and then along comes Donna who messes him up and yells at him all the time unless she's acting strange and obsessed. She might even be my favourite Companion ever. I got a little worried at the start when she was gushing to her granddad, but when he was like, "I need a mate," and she was like, "What?! Ew! NO! GOD NO!" I kind of breathed a sigh of relief. She'll be good for him, really, like, actually a mate, just a friend he can babble at. She loves the idea of the life, not the Doctor himself.
Speaking of his babbling, it was heartbreaking when he was explaining things to no-one in the TARDIS and then realised he had no-one to babble to and shut up. Or the bit where he and Donna are flailing at each other through the windows and then they notice that the villains have stopped being evil to stare at them... There were so many things good about Partners in Crime that I could go on forever (YAY Donna's Theme) but I won't.
What bothered me is that there's this actiony theme that plays for the Doctor when action is going on and it's not All the Strange, Strange Creatures and I have no idea what it is. It's driving me crazy. They played it in this episode when they weren't playing Donna's Theme so, Marion, if you actually read this babble and you know what it's called, PLEASE tell me.
Basically, my brother was best friends with an evil alien that was going to take his body as...a sort of fuel, but he wouldn't believe me. So I told Dad, and after I provided some proof, he believed me and we started trying to get the alien back to its ship. We were trying to trick it and whatnot, but we spent too much time close to it and we started to bleed slightly from the orifices on our faces because that was what happened when it started to take you over. So we urgently started shooing it back into its spaceship, found out that it had killed Luna, and then it pressed some sort of reset button.
Now, Jordan was out of the picture, having booked it, and Dad was somewhere in the enormous mansion behind me. I was in the backyard of the mansion, which wasn't very large considering the size of the mansion. The alien wasn't disguised as a little boy anymore, it was nearly its own form as an adult male. Another of its species in the form of an adult female arrived. They were both quite weakened as they hadn't consumed anyone recently, so they were obviously quite desperate to get at two of the neighbourhood kids. I wasn't having that, though, and I shooed them into their ship. But they kept getting OUT. Eventually, I honestly put CHILD lock on (although I couldn't say why his spaceship HAD it). Once I managed to get them inside, the male hit some sort of button.
"If I go down, so do all of you," he said. It turned out to be the self-destruct button, which would destroy not only his ship but half of the Earth. I hit his control panel in anger and ran off in search of help. My first thought was Torchwood but first thing, I was in Canada, and second thing, they're a secret cooperation and I had no clue how to contact them. At the time, I joking thought of '1800-TORCHWOOD'. So I went into the mansion, and who should I come across but Ianto! He was like, "I was here....um, not saying why, but there was some sort of alien presence in this house."
"Oh, yes, definitely, yes, thank god you're here," I said fervently. "Come to the backyard." We go there and I instantly see that the spaceship is empty. I panic, then see that they've taken two neighbourhood kids. They are sitting on top of the spaceship.
"You left the door open," the female says smugly and then they lunge at us. We have to book it into the mansion and up SO many flights of stairs. While we run, Ianto calls for help. He gets all panicky because they keep grabbing at us. When we get about halfway, they stop following us, and we run the rest of the way out the front door.
"I called for reinforcements," says Ianto. Luna (who is alive again) is standing there so I pet her. Then, a car pulls up, and Susannah gets out.
"What are you doing here?" I ask.
"Canadian Torchwood," she says. "It's more part-time than anything. What am I supposed to be doing?"
"Um....are you sure you can do this?" I ask. "Is anyone else arriving?" Just then, a hobo with two poodles shows up.
"Canadian Torchwood," he says. "Where're the aliens?"
"Oh, you are KIDDING me," I say.
"Whoa, aliens?" says Susannah, "Really?" At this point, Luna, excited by the poodles, starts running towards the backyard and the aliens.
"Luna!" I yell. :"Come! Come! Luna!" She ignores me like always. "Luna, COME!" I bellow, and she finally stops and turns around, mouth open and floppy tongue. "Come!" I say again, heart in mouth, and she actually comes. At this point, I am so frazzled, I force myself awake. It is 7:30 in the morning. On a Saturday. "Oh crap," I think. "I want to go back to sleep, but the dream will definitely just come back if I do..." Then, I have a brainwave.
"Doctor," I think. "Doctordoctordoctordoct..." When I fall asleep again (shortly) the Doctor is there, looking a little confused.
"Sweet!" I say. "Hi! Okay, please, put Luna in the TARDIS or she'll go and get herself eaten and there are aliens in the backyard trying to eat us all."
"Oh...?" he says. "All right. Er....who are you?" he asks the hobo, as the dogs are jumping at him excitedly.
"Canadian Torchwood," says the hobo.
"...Why the poodles?" he asks. "Actually, I don't want to know. Yes. Okay." He pushes the dogs off of him, and goes off to try and reason with the aliens. It doesn't work and they laugh and try to eat him. He warns them, but to no avail. So, after some interesting Doctor-y stuff, he packs them into their spaceship and sends them off. When they are quite far away, they explode.
"What was that for?!" says the Doctor. "I didn't--They weren't--I--"
"Oh yeah..." I say. "Er, they did that. Self-destruct. They must have forgotten to turn it off." The Doctor gives me a bit of a wild-eyed expression, then nods.
"Very...well then," he says. After this, I can't remember whether I woke up or if the dream turned into something else.
I watched Torchwood first yesterday and it nearly killed me because Doctor Who hadn't finished downloading, and then Leah spoilered me for the episode by looking up interesting-sounding clips from the episode on YouTube. ...I wish she hadn't told me what it was about after because I would have liked to be surprised. Oh well. I can be surprised for the next 12.
I watched the last two episodes of Torchwood together because Leah knew they were a two-parter so she was saving them.
Oh my Lordy LOU. Like, the first one was epic enough with all the people's back stories coming out and that made me all...well, damaged. Like, with Tosh being sad about her mum and BUILDING A SONIC THINGY OMG and Owen with....aw, man, his girlfriend. Ianto's backstory was just adorable...and also made Jack making out with him in Season One make more sense. Jack making Torchwood better was WIN. Although, I have to say, at the scene where he comes back to Torchwood on the Milennium and that guys killed everyone, all I could think was "LOL, Eight is running around somewhere saving the world with Doctor Grace Holloway." Er...yeah. BUT THE SECOND ONE. Ah. Ah. AH. Okay, I'm rather pleased Spike...er, John turned out to not be evil because I really...yeah. I liked Gray coming back. That was pretty epic. Although I did think the "I forgive you," was all a bit....DW Season 3 finale. BUTBUTBUT. OWEN AND TOSH. DEAR JESUS. Each....when she was dragging herself down those stairs....it hurt me. Like, I got the shakes. When Owen was having a nervous breakdown in the nuclear power plant and Tosh was weeping and like, "Because you're breaking my heart," and Owen instantly just calmed down and started being soothing...I was SOBBING. Like, I couldn't even do silent tears. I was making NOISES. I NEVER do that. Tosh is such a sweetheart. I'm going to miss her and Owen FIERCELY. I don't even know if I can watch Torchwood again, knowing she's gone forever.
When they were deleting her file and her "I'm dead, I guess," video came up... at the "Owen...I love you," part, I lost it. Totally. I had calmed down by then and that just broke me again because it was totally believeable and heartbreaking. I don't....I don't know what the show will be like without her.
After that, I didn't know if I could watch Doctor Who, but I did anyway. I don't know if that was the best plan because it meant that I had a really weird feeling while I watched it and it wasn't a good Doctor Who feeling. It's not the feeling I got while watching the first three seasons. I don't know how to explain it...I hope it's better on Friday when I watch it again with the others.
But the EPISODE. OMG. I mean, Leah spoilt it for me in advance by telling me about Rose (OMG THEY PLAYED DOOMSDAY AHHHH) but the rest of the episode was lovely and cracky. It was so lighthearted. I loved it. Donna as a Companion feels more to me like Classic Who than any of the other seasons have and I'm not entirely sure why. But it was epicamazing. She makes him feel like he makes all his Companions feel, which is brilliant. He's used to overwhelming and confusing them and then along comes Donna who messes him up and yells at him all the time unless she's acting strange and obsessed. She might even be my favourite Companion ever. I got a little worried at the start when she was gushing to her granddad, but when he was like, "I need a mate," and she was like, "What?! Ew! NO! GOD NO!" I kind of breathed a sigh of relief. She'll be good for him, really, like, actually a mate, just a friend he can babble at. She loves the idea of the life, not the Doctor himself.
Speaking of his babbling, it was heartbreaking when he was explaining things to no-one in the TARDIS and then realised he had no-one to babble to and shut up. Or the bit where he and Donna are flailing at each other through the windows and then they notice that the villains have stopped being evil to stare at them... There were so many things good about Partners in Crime that I could go on forever (YAY Donna's Theme) but I won't.
What bothered me is that there's this actiony theme that plays for the Doctor when action is going on and it's not All the Strange, Strange Creatures and I have no idea what it is. It's driving me crazy. They played it in this episode when they weren't playing Donna's Theme so, Marion, if you actually read this babble and you know what it's called, PLEASE tell me.