did you just salute?

[thirty2flavors]

I love this show sfm for the record. I'm sure you probably didn't notice, but I do.

I said I'd recap my post-trailer poll, so here's the final tally:

Things We Predicted That Did, In Fact, Occur:
Ten licked something! -- as predicted by 18 (56.5%) of you
Somehow, all of Earth was in danger! -- as predicted by 11 (34.4%) of you
HER NAME WAS DONNA -- as predicted by 11 (34.4%) of you

Things We Predicted That Sort-Of Came True:
Ten and Gwen III Christina did kiss, though Christina was the instigator this time which wasn't implied by the poll. A whole 25 (78.1%) of us saw this coming
Gwen III Christina did offer to travel with the Doctor (78.1%), but not before her untimely death

Things That Didn't, To The Shock of the World:
Actually, most people survived, including Christina.
Dramatic Black Lady was not eaten by a stingray as predicted by a whole whopping 87.5% of us -- she lives to be dramatic and foreshadow-y another day.
No one glowed, was secretly evil, or was a particularly assholeish rich person.
There was no conclusive evidence that the Daleks did it. But probably they did. Because of the Time War.

Anyway, in more general news:

TEN SONICS HIS MOTHERFUCKING GLASSES OH MY GOD that was probably my favourite part ngl, just ask sweetcherrytree

Christina was kind of very annoying, all of her lines felt like really lame action movies. She reminded me of the movie The Avengers and I haven't even seen that since I was like 8. I'm excited for the Christmas specials when we will get a companion who doesn't want to bone the Doctor. I know he is slim and a little bit foxy, but omg. Just sayin'.

I did, however, REALLY enjoy the Fly People. Anything that requires Ten to speak alien is A+, and they entertained me. I was sad that they died because I liked them more than any of the human cast, ngl.

The entire fangirling phonecall with UNIT was awesome. Also, 'sup UNIT lady from parallel universe, how you doin'? Also also, I like how UNIT is a multi-purpose "are they good? are they bad?" organisation. BRB TORTURIN' TOSH FOR NO REASON OWAIT HELPING THE DOCTOR SAVE THE UNIVERSE OWAIT SCREW THE DOCTOR LET'S CLOSE THE WORMHOLE OWAIT SAVIN' UR ASSES FROM A GIANT SHOOTY SPIDER STAR. Whatevs UNIT, whatevs.

I liked Ten's blatant refusal to take ~Lady Christina~ with him. We've seen him refuse people before but usually his reasoning was secretly "you are not young or hot enough" (hello VOTD) instead of "I NEED TO BE ALONE WITH MY SNOW PATROL OKAY". I like the latter better. ALSO, DONNA REFERENCE FTMFW. Donnnaaaa D:

As for the Oodlike ~your song must end soon~ -- well, we knew that. And I knew the Master was coming back too, but I was still quite delighted by it. HE WILL KNOCK FOUR TIMES. HE IS RETURNING. THERE IS SOMETHING ON YOUR BACK. BADWOLFTORCHWOODHAROLDSAXON. I love this show's foreshadowing, it's fun.

I am totally disinterested in Waters of Mars, though. CHRISTMAS SPECIALS NOW PLZ OMG.

Comments

[snowfire.livejournal.com]

WHAT WAS THIS DONNA REFERENCE?! I'm not going to be able to watch it until tomorrow and I need to know what they saidddd.

YAY THE MASTER. I'm rewatching his episodes tonight and fangirling him.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_thirty2flavors/]

Christina/Companion du Jour calls him Spaceman and he does his Pensive Quiet Emo Face we saw so much of in s3 and says (something like) "I had a friend who used to call me that." D'aww.

Haha the Master is bamf, trufax.

[bazcat89.livejournal.com]

I LOVE UNIT SO SO SO SO MUCH. Especially their Doctor fangirling and berets and nuclear world explodingness.

This episode was pretty much everything I wanted and more plus extra with flying bus win on top

[http://users.livejournal.com/_thirty2flavors/]

UNIT is so comically awesome. BLACK UNIT LADY OBVS DOESN'T REMEMBER FROM TURN LEFT HOW FUCKED THEY ARE WITHOUT THE DOCTOR, or she would not ahve suggested that shit.

OMG FLYING BUS WIN INDEED. When DBL was like ~ I HEAR THE VOIES OF THE DEAD~ I was like IT'S THE VEIL and then when the bus started flying kelly was like "liz said it was like the knight bus"

[snowfire.livejournal.com]

Oh, Ten and his emo. Sometimes he needs to be slapped and told that it's his own fault.

[wild-sibyl.livejournal.com]

My roommate and I watched this a couple of hours ago and I've been carefully processing my thoughts, but I have been too lazy to make my own post... so I'm just going to comment on yours.

Gwen III was annnnooooying, but I will say that at least she wasn't entirely stupid. *coughAstridcough* I respect a woman who carries a wench in her backpack. I also love how Ten powned her by flatly refusing her offer to travel with him. THAT WAS AWESOME. I would have liked her a lot more, if they would have cut down the overt sexual references. Christ on a bike, there weren't even that many awkward sexual moments when he was cavorting with Rose, and he was in frickin' love with her. It was all just a little much. I'm tired of the kissing, its not even interesting kissing, its not like it has any emotion behind. We all know that everyone wants to snog the Doctor, but srs. not everyone has too and I certainly don't want to watch everyone do it.

Fly people were major WIN. I too love it when Ten speaks in gargled syllables and clicks.

SONIC TRANSITION LENSES WAVE OF THE FUTURE.

UNIT is totally turning into some lame version of Torchwood with red berets. Why do they have to shoot at everything? I now understand why the Doctor hates guns so much. They are loud and unoriginal and serve very little purpose (besides the obvious purpose of shooting metal sting rays)

I liked the physic lady. I liked her ominous warning. It was neat. And I like the Master. I wonder what he's going to knock on.

And Waters of Mars looks dumb, but I'm interested in seeing some people shoot geysers of water from their wrists. And do I see a blue suit in those previews? I didn't think they would do that. It must be a spare.

[theepiccek.livejournal.com]

THIS SHOW IS GREAT. I'm hearing good and bad things about this ep and I AM EXCITED. THE MASTER. AND DONNA. AND HER GRANDFATHER. AND MARTHA. THESE ARE EPIC TIMES

[http://users.livejournal.com/_thirty2flavors/]

Yeah Astrid was too brigth-eyed OMG SHOW ME THE UNIVERSE DOCTAH but Gwen III was too I AM SO BADASS LOL I AM A LADY LOL I STEAL THINGS FOR KICKS LOL I'M FLYING THE KNIGHT BUS!!! I liked that Ten was like "no gtfo". Aside from disliking her, I like the idea that he's emotionally fucked up enough to be back at his "I TRAVEL ALONE :|" thing. Especially since we know it lasts this time.

I know, the kissing is boring because no one cares.

OMG THERE WAS A LINE THAT WAS LIKE "I CAN'T BELIEVE IT, GUNS DOn"T WORK!" rofl I c wut ur doin, RTD

I like ominous foreshadowing, it's fun. Plus, THE MASTER. WIN.

Yeah I just wanna skip to the regen specials.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_thirty2flavors/]

MARTHA TOO ARE YOU FOR SRS WHERE DID YOU HEAR THAT :O

[theepiccek.livejournal.com]

The TV guide? And rose too apparently. IDK
there's a theory that to regenerate ten'll need Handy and Donna and that martha is there to "ease the transition" between 10 and 11? IDK

[http://users.livejournal.com/_thirty2flavors/]

Hmmm I hope that's just the companionpalooza rumour going around and doesn't actually end up being true. I love Rose btu I don't want her back. I can maybe accept it provided she shows up with Handy and she and Handy are totally kickass, btu really I'd rather she just stayed in Pete's World. Her story is done.

Martha coming back would be cool though, and I AM SO EXCITED FOR DONNA.

[theepiccek.livejournal.com]

EXACTLY. I can see why they would bring back Handy but really? DO WE NEED MOAR ROSE?
NO. WE NEED MOAR MARTHA >:(

and Donna.

[wild-sibyl.livejournal.com]

TV guide? Really? That almost seems credible. I love elaborate spoilery theories.

[wild-sibyl.livejournal.com]

I am glad that you thought 200 was the Knight Bus as well. I might have yelled something like OMG HARRY POTTER CROSSOVER loudly, when the bus started to fly.

I too enjoy angsty 'I don't need you or anyone or anything or anywhere because I'm a Time Lord' Ten.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_thirty2flavors/]

If we don't see Martha again I'm okay because her story is resolved, though I do love the idea of Ten not being retarded and actually managing to maintain a friendship with someone -- seriously he could just pop over for tea! She would accept this! -- but clearly that won't happen because it interferes with his important schedule of watching Lifetime.

Rose's story is over, too. She doesn't need to come back.

That said, Donna's storyline needs to be resolved in a nicer way before Moffat takes over and we never hear of Martha/Donna/Rose ever again ever. SO, DONNNAAA.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_thirty2flavors/]

Actually, Knight Bus credit goes to bazcat89. But when Lady could hear the whipsering of the dead I went 'IT'S THE VEIL!" So.

I too enjoy angsty 'I don't need you or anyone or anything or anywhere because I'm a Time Lord' Ten.
It is probably twisted of me to enjoy his screwed up psyche, but I like the way RTD doesn't gloss over significant losses like Rose and Donna, that we get to see him actually grieve. Having said that, the way you phrased that is awesoe, and totally makes me imagine him like a runaway teenager. I DON'T NEED YOU!!! I'LL MAKE MY OWN RULES!!! I'LL MAKE MONEY WITH MY GUITAR JUST YOU WAIT!!

[bazcat89.livejournal.com]

I kept hoping that she would make some veiled reference to Rose. But I guess that it was the alt!version of her so she wouldn't remember Rose.

LIRL YES IT MADE ME THINK OF THE KNIGHT BUS AND I LOL-D AND THEN I SIGHED WITH FONDNESS FOR POA AND THEN I WAS LIKE OMG THEY'RE FLYING A BUS OUT OF THE TUNNEL

and that was about as conherent as it got

[http://users.livejournal.com/_thirty2flavors/]

I was talking to Kelly the wole time and my reactions were all just "lol ___". Like "lol skeleton" "lol wormhole" "lol fly people". The only thing that got a huge reaction out of me was "OMFG HE JUST CHANGED HIS OMFG OMFG LIRL LIRL LIRL LIRL "re: sonicing his motherfucking glasses. Fuck yeah, suave-ass motherfucker. I knew they looked just like his glasses only tinted.

Also, aside from the OHWOMANIZEROHYOU'REAWOMANIZERBABY tone of it, I really liked the line "you look Time Lord". because I had never thought of it like taht either. PWNED WITH LOGIC, Gwen III.

[wild-sibyl.livejournal.com]

Oh that makes me think he is listening to Weezer in the TARDIS garage (which is plastered with movie posters), maybe smoking a j, and writing catchy songs about all his exgirlfriends done him wrong and about how he had to blow up his planet for the greater good. Poor teen Ten.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_thirty2flavors/]

Poor teen Ten indeed. Lief is hard.

Actually I was joking with Liz about how they're redesigning the TARDIS and how Eleven's should basically be like a teenager's bedroom with fucking ACDC posters and shit on the wall. And lots of black. Maybe some skull posters.

[bazcat89.livejournal.com]

I considered being petulant about the fact that you neglected to flail at me. But then I remembered that I am Almost Twenty.

I love that you were so amused by his sunglasses. Or was more amused by his destruction of priceless artifacts,

lirl logical pwnage

[http://users.livejournal.com/_thirty2flavors/]

Plus I can only flail with one person at once, I can only fit the youtube screen + one msn window on the screen at once. LIRLLL

I don't know why I was just absolutely DELGIHTED by his shades. That made me laugh too though, motherfucker does what he wants.

[bazcat89.livejournal.com]

LIRL WHATEV KALI, WHATEV

Motherfucker detroys priceless artifacts and shit. You know you'd hit that.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_thirty2flavors/]

HE'S FLYING A GODDAMN BUS THROUGH A WORMHOLE. YEAH THAT"s RIGHT. A BUS THROUGH A WORMHOLE.

Oh holy shit did you ever watch Invader Zim because THAT IS AN EPISODE OMG LIRL LIRL LIRL

[http://users.livejournal.com/_thirty2flavors/]

If he angsts over Donna I can accept that, because even if he didn't play God and steal her memories she'd still have died, so he'd be alone either way. But I definitely rolled my eyes at the "or they find someone else" in TND regarding Rose and Handy. IF BY "FIND SOMEONE ELSE" YOU MEAN YOU ABANDON THEM WITH SOMEONE ELSE, THEN YES! lol it's like Susan and Whatshisface.