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Ninjas! Werewolves! Queen Victoria! I'm an easy sell on all those things, particularly the wolfy one, so I was bound to like this one, but I loved it. Doctor Dances-level love.
The Doctor's reaction to seeing the werewolf: pandemonium, everyone around him screaming, and he stops dead and says "oh, that's beautiful." *Yes*. Perfect. And not just because it enables crossovers with Nina or Oz or both. And describing books as the ultimate weapon, and a library as the perfect arsenal: the scene with them frantically researching werewolves was so Buffyish and wonderful.
The background characters were marvellous. I wish we could have seen more of Flora and Isabel, and I love how proactive everyone is here rather than relying on the Doctor to save them, with Rose getting the prisoners to free themselves (bit different from her "the Doctor's not around to save us so we do nothing" in The Christmas Invasion) and then Isabel working out how to stop the werewolf.
They could have done with cutting at least one "we are not amused" joke and the first reference to Torchwood, but all in all I thought it was easily RTD's best so far.
ETA: so many little things I keep remembering. The Doctor's love of The Muppets. "This wee naked child..." And using Jamie's name! I was spoiled for that months ago but it still gave me a happy moment. And I howled like a wolf omg at the Doctor's story about buying Rose for sixpence.
connorbeast, either ring me or turn your phone on...