Doctor Who 4x02 - "The Fires of Pompeii"
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timepiececlockTennant's hair is unusually spikey and bouyant this season. It's almost...bishounen.
No...no, it's DEFINITELY bishounen.
"It's volcano day!" Why does that sound like a party chant?
"Are you in charge?"
"Tardis, Time Lord, YEAH."
"Donna, human, NO!"
"I don't know what sort of kids you've been flying around with in outer space, but you're not telling me to shut up." GOOD.
This prophecy-counter-prophecy scene is reminiscent of the witches in the Shakespeare episode. "A north wind blows and carries down the distant... Rose?"
"There's something on your back." Hm... that reminds me of Eddie in Stephen King's The Drawing of the Three.
So now we know the Doctor HAS a real name, somewhere and somewhen.
Cool rock monster.
"That's how I see the universe. Every waking second I can see what is, what was, what could be, what must not." I like this parallel to "Rose" and "The Parting of the Ways". They're really laying down the foreshadowing, aren't they?
Hmmm... stuffy stuff stuff happens. This ep started out cheesy, but it's turned quite dramatic, hasn't it?
This six-months later thing is so cheesy. And couldn't the script-writers have made up some nifty Latiny names instead of "Thank you household gods"? For earlier in the episode too, I mean.
This whole episode I kept comparing it to HBO's Rome and it was hurting my brain, the British family tv sensibilities vs. the raunchy HBO version of Rome as a cesspool of indulgence and vice.
No...no, it's DEFINITELY bishounen.
"It's volcano day!" Why does that sound like a party chant?
"Are you in charge?"
"Tardis, Time Lord, YEAH."
"Donna, human, NO!"
"I don't know what sort of kids you've been flying around with in outer space, but you're not telling me to shut up." GOOD.
This prophecy-counter-prophecy scene is reminiscent of the witches in the Shakespeare episode. "A north wind blows and carries down the distant... Rose?"
"There's something on your back." Hm... that reminds me of Eddie in Stephen King's The Drawing of the Three.
So now we know the Doctor HAS a real name, somewhere and somewhen.
Cool rock monster.
"That's how I see the universe. Every waking second I can see what is, what was, what could be, what must not." I like this parallel to "Rose" and "The Parting of the Ways". They're really laying down the foreshadowing, aren't they?
Hmmm... stuffy stuff stuff happens. This ep started out cheesy, but it's turned quite dramatic, hasn't it?
This six-months later thing is so cheesy. And couldn't the script-writers have made up some nifty Latiny names instead of "Thank you household gods"? For earlier in the episode too, I mean.
This whole episode I kept comparing it to HBO's Rome and it was hurting my brain, the British family tv sensibilities vs. the raunchy HBO version of Rome as a cesspool of indulgence and vice.
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Date: 2008-06-22 07:24 am (UTC)I believe, in the Sci-Fi airing of the ep, they left off the "six months later" bit.
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Date: 2008-06-22 09:09 am (UTC)Their hands on the switch, pushing it together! Guilt shared is guilt halved? It wasn't until I saw that that I realized I needed to see it: other variations of it had been played before, but never that particular one.
Tennant's hair is unusually spikey and bouyant this season. It's almost...bishounen.
Heh! I've heard people speculate that The Hair is its own magnificent, sentient creature, with moods and inclinations, living in a symbiotic relationship with Ten.
"I don't know what sort of kids you've been flying around with in outer space, but you're not telling me to shut up." GOOD.
WTG, DONNA! KICKASS.
This six-months later thing is so cheesy. And couldn't the script-writers have made up some nifty Latiny names instead of "Thank you household gods"? For earlier in the episode too, I mean.
That bit was the only part I disliked, really.