*sneaks this in*
The only new thing I caught when watching The Idiot's Lantern again this time is that there's a Torchwood mention. HUH. It happens when the Doctor's going into tunnel-vision mode at faceless Rose, and so he completely misses it. I wanna see 1950s Torchwood!
- The Cute! Mein Gott im Himmel! (The Cute is even getting me to exclaim in languages I don't speak!) At the beginning, the Doctor and Rose are off to see Elvis and have dressed up for it. AND the Doctor pulls out a surprise scooter for two. This is off-the-charts cuteness.
Rose: Vegas!Elvis! Rwwarw!
Doctor: But...I don't look like Vegas!Elvis! Nooooo, you like skinny!Elvis! Rwwarw?
- The Domestic ApproachTM. This really cracks me up given his past words where all things Domestic were evil and bad and must be kept away from him at any cost. But...he kinda likes that Rose brings this now. A LOT. And at the end, he's the one steering in that direction. MWAH.
The quick start - just an excuse for Rose to grab him tighter? I think we all know the answer to that.
Doctor: Historical events? Big picture? Nuts to that! There's cake here!
- They went nuts playing with the angles in this episode (and the colors), I'm sure with "Little Shop of Horrors" in mind. It's kinda fun that they used power angles here and there. (The person on the top part of the angle represents the person with the power, low - no power.)
One thing that's really interesting to me is that for the most part you're not seeing these power angles when it's just the Doctor and Rose. Everything's level and even. It's when you get into Tommy's house - where power's being abused - that you start seeing these angles.
Hmm. Wonder who's "Lord and Master?"
It's probably this guy, who looms over everyone's lives.
No way around it: they're equally dorky. ;)
Too bad for Tommy's dad - he's no longer the most powerful person in the room.
Not by a long shot. The thing is, the Doctor didn't actually pull this power-struggle trump card until pushed. Before that he'd been sitting down with Tommy and his mother.
There's also a neat one here. When first taken in, the Inspector's the one in the power position. It doesn't last long though when the Doctor starts pointing out that the Inspector really has his hands tied behind his back.
When the Inspector sits down, the camera actually swings to change the angle. Man, someone had fun with this episode!
Tommy's father is still in the power position here. He's so huge, in fact, he's out of frame. But this moment wasn't going to be him suddenly turning into a "yes, dear" man at all. No, this is a mouse-before-a-lion type situation. And the mouse wins.
- Rose displays her impressive powers of observation in this episode - it's a character trait we've seen in her since the beginning in "Rose." And she displays her ability to wander off and do things on her own, also seen since the beginning. I never had any worry about Rose losing her identity to become simply "the Doctor's girl." I think that sometimes she bites off more than she can chew - she looked like she realized this when Magpie locked the door - but I can't see her being any other way.
Magpie Electricals! As seen in Sound of Drums and Voyage of the Damned. I'm really thinking this is going to be S4's Bad Wolf/Torchwood/Saxon thing. And I'm thinking Cybermen.
- No power on this Earth... I have no doubt that the Doctor would have solved the problem if Rose hadn't been hurt, but things tend to crystallize in his mind when it does happen.
Inspector: [drops the S2 word-of-the-day "Torchwood"]
Doctor: Jack's gonna have to take a number...
- Gallifreyan symbols! I love that they added this touch. Wonder what the Doctor's been taping...?
- The reunion. SO SWEET. AWWWWWWWWW!
The Doctor's scanning the crowd for Rose. Awww.
Hello, Rose!
Look at that expression! *SQUISHES*
AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!! (Really, I've got no other words.)
- This wasn't something really new I noticed, but rather I thought of it in a new way. At the end you have Rose telling Tommy to go after his dad. I always thought of it as Rose simply telling Tommy to forgive him because he's his dad, and it might be something he'll want to hold on to. Maybe a bit of projecting with her own father there. But she ends with:
"But you're clever. Clever enough to save the world so don't stop there. Go on!"
She wanted Tommy to "save" his dad. Get him to see the light about his actions. And if Tommy's clever enough to save the world, just maybe he can save his pig-headed father as well. Probably a lot of people already thought of it this way, but it never clicked until now.
