Doctor Who: More Thoughts on Stolen Earth (Continuity checklist)

[butterfly]

1. We are now in the Medusa Cascade where the Doctor closed a rift (apparently around the age of 90, 'just a child').

2. We have now met the Shadow Proclamation... and they had no clue who the Doctor was. Anyone else laugh their asses off at that? He's been mentioning them since "Rose" and they've never even heard of him.

3. Bad Wolf may have climaxed in "Turn Left" (if so, it was big enough that I'm okay with it), but we may get more on it.

4. Rose was talking to 'Control' -- her universe's Torchwood, maybe? Mickey, perhaps?

5. The missing planets were being used to create a machine ("The Crucible" -- reminds me of the Doctor talking about something called the "cruciform").

6. The missing bees were the key to reaching the Medusa Cascade - Donna was the one to remember that.

7. Just missed: Jack arrived seconds too late to save the Doctor from getting shot by the Dalek.

8. Dalek Caan went back into the Time War (which is supposed to be 'temporally-locked' -- the way that Pompeii was 'fixed'?) and saved Davros, who built a new Dalek army.

9. Donna Noble is called 'something new' by the woman at the Shadow Proclamation -- the Doctor was called that by the Headmaster (ASH) in "School Reunion".

10. Did not get a complete clarification on what Rose meant by 'the darkness'. Just the planet skipping off or something else?

10. Location, location, location: Martha is at home with her mother and that key. Sarah Jane is on the road and has met up with some Daleks. Luke is tucked away at home with Mr. Smith. Wilf and Sylvia are at home. Gwen and Ianto are facing off Daleks in the Cardiff Hub. The Doctor, Donna, Rose, and Jack are in the TARDIS.

11. Oh, and the Doctor's just begun a regeneration cycle, plus mad Dalek Caan is saying that the Doctor's "most faithful companion" will have "everlasting death" and he's been right so far.

Anything else?

ETA: 12. Hand in a jar, as mentioned by boniblithe. Because it's still in the console room and there has to be a reason for that.

Comments

[a-white-rain.livejournal.com]

I DON'T WANT ANY COMPANION TO HAVE AN EVERLASTING DEATH. I mean damn RTD is GOOD.

[butterfly.livejournal.com]

I KNOW! IT WILL HURT NO MATTER WHO IT IS!

[twistedchick]

The most faithful companion still around is K-9, in one way or another.

[butterfly.livejournal.com]

Heh. Good point. He's off babysitting a black hole (or some such) at the moment, I think.

[pluckyyounggirl.livejournal.com]

I just love how everything has come together. Everything ties into each other, not just throughout the series, but throughout the entire show. It's just breath-takingly awesome.

#4 - I'm pretty sure that was Mickey. Just... something in her voice, there. :-)

#9 - Apparently, Donna still has something on her back. Which is interesting, to me, since she shouldn't. Should she?

#10 - Since the Doctor's still wondering about 'the darkness', I expect there will be more to come.

#11 - I'm a bit irritated by the "most faithful" bit, because i really can't decide who that could be (though I like the idea of K-9); otherwise, my money would be on Jack, since for him, everlasting death could mean release from his immortality. It could actually turn out to be a good thing.

[millylicious.livejournal.com]

9 - I think she said 'you had something on your back'.

11- oooh, I like that.

[pluckyyounggirl.livejournal.com]

Yeah, seems I didn't hear that quite right. Makes so much more sense that way, too!

I think the cue to #11 really is the wording - "most faithful". Not "most loved", or "who spent the most time with him", or anything else. Faithful. In a way, I really do think it could apply to Jack more than to anyone else.

*bounces*

It's just going to be so epic!

[freeze883.livejournal.com]

My thoughts exactly, not that I want him to die for good but they could make him mortal again.

There is the whole Face of Boe thing but that could just be his descendant or something to do with time being altered by Dalek Caan's actions

[pluckyyounggirl.livejournal.com]

Yep, that's just what I'm thinking. It would make the dynamic on Torchwood far more exciting again, too - there's only so many storylines you can come up with involving Jack's immortality.

And the writers have stated that Jack = Face of Boe is not something that is a definitely fixed situation; I think it would be rather easy for them to write themselves out of it, whether that be now or in the future.

[butterfly.livejournal.com]

It fits together so well!

*bounces*

[boniblithe.livejournal.com]

Hand in a jar!

[butterfly.livejournal.com]

Ah-ha! Thank you!

[boniblithe.livejournal.com]

oH OH! The Cooper Foundation! Mr. Copper had all that money and Harriet Jones built a sentient subwave with it.

ETA: Copper, not Cooper!

[sheron]

What are the chances of that 'key' opening that locked Time War thing, do you think?

Amazing episode! Thanks for posting the quote from the confidential.

[butterfly.livejournal.com]

Ooo. That would make sense. A key fits into a lock; the Time War is temporally-locked. Hmm.

[spiletta42.livejournal.com]

Ah, thank you for reminding me of the hand in the jar, because now my wild theory suddenly has a basis. We have to wait a week? A frakking week? I'm never going to survive.

[butterfly.livejournal.com]

I know! A week is too long! Eeep!

[sol-se.livejournal.com]

He's been mentioning them since "Rose" and they've never even heard of him.

Heh. That's very true.

Hand in the jar has to mean something...Eek!

[butterfly.livejournal.com]

I'm so curious about where it's all going!

[trepkos.livejournal.com]

The most faithful could be Sarah-Jane.

[thunderemerald.livejournal.com]

8. I think "temporally locked" means it should be impossible to go back and change it, and "fixed" means you COULD change it but really really shouldn't. Hmmmmm.

[nic]

I'm gonna go with the "most faithful" being Donna, since she is the one who seems the most 'doomed' at the moment. i.e. all the hints that have been dropped by other characters about her future.

[stargazercmc.livejournal.com]

11. Oh, and the Doctor's just begun a regeneration cycle, plus mad Dalek Caan is saying that the Doctor's "most faithful companion" will have "everlasting death" and he's been right so far.

I'm calling it right now. The Doctor's most faithful companion? Has been and will always be, simply, the TARDIS.

And if it happens, I will cry my eyes out, more than for any of the other companions.