Bad Wolf/Parting of the Ways
So. We seem to have skipped actual BW/PotW discussion and gone straight to S1 overviews, but I don't like leaving them out, so I'm doing them anyway. XP
So here we go into Nine's goodbye... hold on tight, boys and girls, this one's gonna be a bumpy ride and not everyone's coming out alive...
Vague refs for Torchwood and Last of the Time Lords.
( 'BUT YOU HAVE NO WEA-PONS. NO DE-FEN-SES. NO PLAN.' 'Yeah. And doesn't that scare you to death.' )
So here we go into Nine's goodbye... hold on tight, boys and girls, this one's gonna be a bumpy ride and not everyone's coming out alive...
Vague refs for Torchwood and Last of the Time Lords.
( 'BUT YOU HAVE NO WEA-PONS. NO DE-FEN-SES. NO PLAN.' 'Yeah. And doesn't that scare you to death.' )
"What's your name, sweetheart?" "The Doctor, I think."
It's cute when he gets fuzzy about his name, I keep wondering how Ten would have played somethng similar.
Fuzzy Doctor is always cute! I wonder if his initial uncertainty about his name is a subtle play on Doctor not really being his name.
Pausing here for a note - took me a while to get how scary the Anne-droid is supposed to be, because, yeah, okay, robot that kills you with lasers when you get voted off, but the Anne bit.
I didn't really get the pun so much, having never seen The Weakest Link. Jokes are never as funny when they have to be explained. The Ann-droid wasn't especially scary for me, either. It was the concept and set-up of the game that was disturbing, not the droid itself.
Rose: "I was travelling, with the Doctor and a man called Captain Jack."
Jack: "I was with the Doctor."Probably just a difference of mindset here. Rose thinks of herself as traveling with her friends and Jack is bit more military minded and so names just the leader of their group. The Doctor ( ... )
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Yeah, that plus the amnesia - it's more ingrained in the others who they are - although "Jack Harkness" isn't Jack's name either...
The Ann-droid wasn't especially scary for me, either. It was the concept and set-up of the game that was disturbing, not the droid itself.
Ah, this is what I mean, though. The droid itself, if you've never seen Robinson, is just a droid that snarks at people and then shoots them. It was only after I saw her in action that the droid became scary in its own right.
Probably just a difference of mindset here.
Could be... I'll think about that.
I always want to see all the adventures they have off screen.
Oh, I do too, but especially that one, because it's Kyoto, and I already have an interest in Japan and in that period of history...
It's like a little preview of his 'I'm coming to get you' speech later on.
Ooh, it is! I love it when he gets threatening. XD
Maybe they don't need to be secret ( ... )
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Yeah, that plus the amnesia - it's more ingrained in the others who they are - although "Jack Harkness" isn't Jack's name either...
True, and he hasn't had it long enough at that stage to have pretty much made it his own yet like he has by the Torchwood series. Jack's probably used to keeping track of his cover story while disoriented.
Ooh, it is! I love it when he gets threatening. XD
YES. Nine is dead sexy when he's badass.
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Yes, but the Doctor's had his name for longer than Jack's been alive, why wouldn't it be...
I'm still gonna say differences in brain structure is a large part of it.
YES. Nine is dead sexy when he's badass.
Ha, yes, I suppose he is. XD Especially since I think Nine's attractiveness is mostly about his attitude - I think of him as the charismatic one, then Ten's the pretty one, and Eleven's the dorkily cute one.
No question. They need to recruit the Haitian from Heroes to cover for them. then again, half of Cardiff would have swiss cheese in their heads.
Yeah, that's a bandaid solution. They need to get better at not making so much mess, not just get a contractor in to do better clean-up. Although then we would have an excuse to get Nine and Claude in the same room - no, wait, you'd be dead on the floor, so maybe not.
*hands over a whip and chair to help you deal with the rampant plotbunnies*
Um. Thanks. Not sure they'll listen, though...
Really, ( ... )
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Yes, but the Doctor's had his name for longer than Jack's been alive, why wouldn't it be...
I'm still gonna say differences in brain structure is a large part of it.
I was making an observation rather than arguing a point with that.
Ha, yes, I suppose he is. XD Especially since I think Nine's attractiveness is mostly about his attitude - I think of him as the charismatic one, then Ten's the pretty one, and Eleven's the dorkily cute one.
Yeah, looks are only part of a person's attractive appeal and Nine's attitude counts for a lot. He does have gorgeous eyes and a beautiful smile, though.
Yeah, that's a bandaid solution. They need to get better at not making so much mess, not just get a contractor in to do better clean-up.
Yup. Maybe they'd do better without that ret-con crutch. Sink or swim.
Although then we would have an excuse to get Nine and Claude in the same room - no, wait, you'd be dead on the floor, so maybe not.
Nah, go ahead. If my heart can't take it, that's okay, because it's a good way to go.
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Ah, right. Sorry.
Yup. Maybe they'd do better without that ret-con crutch. Sink or swim.
Yeah. Jack should note that UNIT and the Doctor don't routinely go about erasing people's memories, and they do fine.
Nah, go ahead. If my heart can't take it, that's okay, because it's a good way to go.
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Come to think of it, that approach might just mutate some of them into bondage bunnies.
That's where at least one of them started - two, actually, but the second one's actually a Fatal Death one... But the first DW bunny I ever had was Jack, Ten and a blindfold, so...
His baggage from the Time War alone is a nervous breakdown waiting to happen.
Exactly. And I think if DT hadn't left when he did, we would have seen that breakdown last a lot longer.
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Yeah. Jack should note that UNIT and the Doctor don't routinely go about erasing people's memories, and they do fine.
I can just imagine the Brig reading reports of what Torchwood gets up to (cause you know UNIT would keep a weather eye on them) and shaking his head.
That's where at least one of them started - two, actually, but the second one's actually a Fatal Death one... But the first DW bunny I ever had was Jack, Ten and a blindfold, so...
Ah, so the whip and chair would probably attract the bunnies then. Definitely not the right tool for deterring them.
Exactly. And I think if DT hadn't left when he did, we would have seen that breakdown last a lot longer.*pets Ten and his issues ( ... )
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Haha, yes.
Ah, so the whip and chair would probably attract the bunnies then. Definitely not the right tool for deterring them.
Yeah, exactly. Especially considering they already know I'll go in that direction, I have previous fic in another fandom to prove it.
And thanks for the links, they look interesting... XD
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