Doctor Who: The Fires of Pompeii
Apr. 12th, 2008 04:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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!
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Date: 2008-04-13 01:26 am (UTC)I’m not sure which was worse—the moment when I realized that, or the moment when the Doctor did. I could see it coming, but I didn’t want to be right. I didn’t want to see his face when it hit him what they were there for.
But Donna was brilliant. “Never mind us.” And then taking his hand and pushing the button with him.
I haven’t cried yet, but the night is young.
But this time, it was an accident. He didn’t mean to take her there. I’m not sure he would’ve shown her that, if it had been up to him.
I’m kind of glad it wasn’t. He needs someone, yeah, but he needs someone who knows him. And whoever was doing the driving… well, I’ll just point out that Rose saw what the Doctor was going through on a cosmic scale. She watched her planet blow up. This… this was very personal. When Donna picked up that little boy and had him snatched out of her arms by his mother…
I wish someone could do that for Gallifrey. Somehow. “Some things are fixed”—I get that. I’m not talking about the entire planet. Just…
Me, too.
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Date: 2008-04-15 12:06 am (UTC)I was so sad for him.
*pets the Doctor*
I wish someone could do that for Gallifrey. Somehow. “Some things are fixed”—I get that. I’m not talking about the entire planet. Just…
Well, I'm kinda hoping that the Doctor can get to a place where he realizes that he is that someone that the universe saved. A good thing that survived the Time War, that made it less painful of a loss for the universe.