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

[katesutton.livejournal.com]

I loved this SO much. I love Donna, that she's so ready to hold his feet to the fire and demand an answer and yet..she'll put her hands on his and be responsible for the death of twenty thousand, so he won't have to do it alone. Love.

[butterfly.livejournal.com]

Donna was so great there. And that's something that he could let her do that in a way that he could've with Martha because he never let Martha in that deeply. Rose would have been there with him and would have helped with with the lever, but I can't see Martha ever being in that same place. They just didn't have that kind of relationship, where they worked in tandem that way. They each tended to be solo operators in their time together.