Doctor Who: The Fires of Pompeii

[butterfly]

If you speak Latin while using the TARDIS translator circuits, you sound Welsh.

I love this show. I love Donna for noticing that the sign was in English and then asking what would happen if she spoke Latin. I just... absolutely adore Donna to pieces.

"Doctor... she is returning."

Three guesses as to who that's about.

*squees despite how freaked out the Doctor is*

Also -- freaking wow. That was an incredibly powerful scene between the two soothsayers. Wow.

Oh, poor Donna. They're there to make sure that Pompeii gets blown up, aren't they?

"You fought her off with a water pistol. I bloody love you."

Hee! Have I mentioned that I love Donna?

Oh, yes. The Doctor explaining the way he sees the universe. So cool. "Every waking minute, I see. What is, what was, what could be, what must not."

Pyrovilia is lost. Like the breeding planet of the Adipose.

Like Rose? Did it slip through the Void?

Once again, it's all about the breeding. Twice now, it's about creating a new species because the old one is lost (like Gallifrey? As Donna would say "How do you mean lost?").

"Nothing can survive it. Certainly not us."
"Never mind us."

Echoes of Aliens in London and "What are you waiting for?" Right to our heroes surviving in something small. But all those people -- this time, he had to choose to kill twenty-thousand in order to save the world and history. Oh, Doctor.

It's Pompeii. And there isn't a happy ending in that story.

Like Rose, Donna gets to see and understand the agony of the Doctor losing his people and planet right from the start.

But this time... unlike with Gallifrey, this time he does save someone. Because of Donna. Only one family but... not everyone dies. Not this time.

Sometimes, out of destruction and pain, there can be a new start. A happy beginning (I love this show).

"You were right. Sometimes I need someone. Welcome aboard."

Very satisfying!

Comments

[pluckyyounggirl.livejournal.com]

But mostly I adore Donna. For the "Never mind us" and her snipping at the Doctor when he was like I'M IN CHARGE and for pushing him to save one family and for the hug in the beginning.

Yesyesyesyesyes. Particularly that last part. That hug was made of so much genuine squee.

[a-white-rain.livejournal.com]

I was also thinking of the two siblings - the Doctor and Donna seemed to mirror them some. Which made me squee. I love pseudo sibling relationships like that. And it seems to be growing to really mean something big too. ♥

[pluckyyounggirl.livejournal.com]

Yep, me too! Also, did you see - the Doctor did take Donna's hand when they were running. Which made me giggle. I just love them together, so much. And what I love most about her, and only realised as I was writing up my review: she's his hand to hold. It's what Rose always wanted, for someone to be there for him, and Donna is. Moreover, he lets her be. I am so grateful for that.

[a-white-rain.livejournal.com]

He's healing. I just really love that so much. And that's what he needs the most, not to be alone. To grab him and support him during those tough times and to hug him during the happy times.