The exclamation points edition

[sapote]

1) My Jack-Doctor-Rose canon? SO NOT BROKEN. I mean, oh my god, Jack used to go see Rose when she was growing up. Potentially creepy! But awesome! They love Rose! They miss Rose! Yay!

2) ZOMG the Doctor/Jack angst! So much angst! Yay for the angst! The "man who can't die" speech? I loved that. And it made the canons snap together while still leaving lots of space for cool backstory in TW. Well done, Davies!

3) Jack spent a century and a half trying to be the Doctor, but the second he's back in Ten's timeline he becomes the Doctor's coatboy. I think that's very interesting.

4) Can this show handle a supervillian? What is the Doctor's history with the Master? Does this mean hero/villian slash? \o/

So in short my OT3 is so huge I can barely see the show around it, but I am delighted with this episode, if a little confused with the B plot that I was ignoring in order to better analyze Jack's every facial expression. (I find Ten's facial expressions hard to read, since they all look like I has teeth! to me. Ten is adorable! Really! But man, he has big teeth)

Oh, oh, 5)! I totally read Jack's look as "guilty/embarrassed" when Martha found the hand. When I say I'm interrogating the text from the wrong perspective I apparently mean the wrong perspective. Which, again. Makes me yay.

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[sol-se.livejournal.com]

but the second he's back in Ten's timeline he becomes the Doctor's coatboy. I think that's very interesting.

Yes! I noticed that too!

Does this mean hero/villian slash?

Oh! God, I hope so!

I totally read Jack's look as "guilty/embarrassed" when Martha found the hand.

That's how I read it as well. Yay!

Also, I LOVED the fact that Jack used to visit kid Rose. Aww!

[sapote3.livejournal.com]

It has been three hours (and one rewatch) and yes! Still squeeing!

\o/

[giandujakiss.livejournal.com]

That conversation ... that conversation ... OMG. I was more of a Jack/Gwen and Rose/Doctor chick, but now it's ALL ABOUT JACK/DOCTOR. OR JACK/ROSE/DOCTOR. WHATEVER. I AM NOT PICKY.

[sapote3.livejournal.com]

The Davies Who-verse can contain ALL THOSE pairings! In canon! Without any signs of strain! GOD I love this show.

[sapote3.livejournal.com]

AND YES YAY JACK/DOCTOR. I wasn't sure if Ten could pull it off, but YES, TOTALLY, canon, yay!

[rilestar.livejournal.com]

Oh, The Master!!! I loooove The Master! He's a renegade time-lord who hates The Doctor. He had used up his 12 regenerations and started to mutate before stealing the body of a man who was the father of Nyssa, who became one of the Doctor's companions. He was last seen trapped on the Cat planet, I believe, in the end of the last episode of Sylvester McCoy's era (Seventh Doctor). I wonder what they plan to do with him ....

[sapote3.livejournal.com]

That backstory makes me SO HAPPY. Thank you!
He's played by that dude from Life on Mars. I love that we have a regenerating Doctor and a regenerating villian.

[phnelt.livejournal.com]

Hey! Canon! Yay! Wow, this adds so much depth, and, awesome. Wow, I really wish I had brain with which to process this information. Sorry for the random.

[phnelt.livejournal.com]

You know what I was thinking about? Jack landed in 1869? And the Torchwood institute was formed in 1879? He totally is Torchwood. I mean, all along. Victoria started it, and then he was all, 'here, let me run it' and then he totally did! Anyway, now my personal canon.

[sapote3.livejournal.com]

::clutches head::
SO. MUCH. SENSE.

Of course, that makes a bit much of a Bad Wolf parallel for me. And also, then why did TW London suck so bad?

But still. SENSE!

GOD, I love this show.

[phnelt.livejournal.com]

TW London went to hell in a handbasket once Jack left to go run Cardiff! See? It is perfect.