{ Doctor Who, 2x02, School Reunion }

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How much do I fucking love Anthony Stewart Head (ASH hereafter)? And Tennant in glasses isn't so much omgwtfsohot! as awwww, so adorable! The hoodies, asbos, ringtones line made my day, especially because Tennant is something of a motor-mouth. Awesome delivery. Wee bit excitable is this Doctor.

Are they eating the kids? Torchwood omg. Bit heavy with the references these days, which is a shame.

"She's quite alright." *SCREAMING* "It's fine. She does that." Lol. Wtf?

It's The Demon Headmaster all over again. Man. I loved that show. The killer wasp scared me witless.

Kids = computers?

MISS SARAH JANE SMITH (SJS hereafter)! Oh you fanboys you. It's really very sweet to see the Doctor's unabashed love and affection for her.

"I hate it when people say 'team'. Gang. Um, comrades." Hahaha! Note to SJS, no cloppy shoes. Dead giveaway. She found the TARDIS! I feel quite bad for her. The fear of being left behind must be immense for companions. Gah, that being said, Rose's jealousy is irritating.

"The missus and the ex, every man's worst nightmare." HEE!

K-9!

I like this companion angst. It feels very real.
   "It wasn't Croydon!"
   "Where was it?"
   "Aberdeen."
   "Right...that's next to Croydon, isn't it?"
LOL!

ASH crouching down on that rooftop was amazing. I can't explain why but it was.

"Oh my god, I'm the tin dog!" Lol. Poor Mickey.

Argh, see, Rose's need for singularity - that's what annoys me. I get it, it's a human response but that doesn't make it less irritating. She could have held out her hand to STS and shared experiences but instead she chooses to be haughty and mean.

"You just leave us behind." This episode is making me sad because it's so true. And after that taste of everything that is out there, how do you go back? That's the problem SJS poses. It's like Pygmalion. (Think about it...)

"You wither and you die." The Doctor is so lonely. And somewhat spineless. But yes, the Doctor's curse is to wander on; the companion's is to be left behind. It's sad.

[re: the window] "I didn't mean for him!" LOL.

"I'm so old now. I used to have so much mercy." (I love the delivery there, it's perfect). Let's come to the entire reason I like watching Doctor Who. The Doctor is so melancholy and sad; he's so lonely. I love this scary, angry, hurting side - Eccelstone did it better but then Nine came to us just after the destruction of the Time Lords so that makes a lot more sense. I love this side of the Doctor that has to be unrelenting and a little brutal, the side that has to make the decisions because no one else will, or can. In The Doctor Dances, his glee at the end ("Everyone lives!") is magical because it's so real and raw. The thing about heroes is that no matter who's with them, in the end they walk on their own and it's lonely. No-one ever sees or knows what the Doctor sees and knows. It's just him. Love.

And I love this fighting between Rose and SJS, this specific instance of it. Things I've seen that you haven't. Sameness where there are differences. It's sad, again, because they are each other. The Doctor chose them for the qualities they share. And now they're friends. Huzzah!

Trapped in school. Heh. I loved my school. There's a PSP manip of the new headmaster as the Demon Headmaster. Wouldn't be too surprised if her turned out to be one of these winged things. (Hahaha, last week was werewolves omg. My life is an in-joke).

What the hell are those kids doing? It looks like they're safe cracking, hells bells.

"We are in a car. We are in a car." This is like Dean and the gun. LOVE. Mickey the Idiot, heh.

Ha, children = computers. I was right.

"You act like such a radical and yet all you do is preserve the old order." Interesting. Man, ASH is scary. And then SJS makes the point, the real point, the one the Doctor tries to make but really can't because he's the one that does the leaving. She underscores human life and the awesome expanse of mortality - what it means to age, to lose, to die. "Pain and loss, they define us as much as happiness or love...everything has its time and everything ends." Even the Doctor, eventually. It's Ecclesiastes, a time to live, to die and the rest of it. SJS tells us what this episode is about (just like the last stand alone episode of XF was about The Brady Bunch - I know people didn't get it, but I did. It's about knowing when to let go, about finites, not infinities) and this will nver be forever. Oh god. I sound like a watered down version of Jacob. Kill me.

K-9! And ASH's face is fucking awesome. "Forget the shooty dog thing!" You have a weird stretchy mouth going on and near-perfect teeth. Dude.

Smart kid! And then Mickey's unplugging. God. Headcase.

Ohnoes, not K-9! Even robots don't last. You always get to an end. "You're a good dog." "Affirmative!" *weeping pathetically*

And SJS stops waiting, she moves on. Mickey is tagging along? What about being too coward? I thought the whol poitn was that Rose made the move and Mickey didn't wtf? Awww, I love SJS, I do, I do. "Goodbye...my Sarah Jane!" And the way he says it is just wonderful. My Sarah Jane. He loves his companions, it's wonderful. (She needs him to say goodbye because regardless of the platitudes, to her this is goodbye, this is the end and she needs that to be real if she's going to move on. She needs to know that she's not being left but that it's an end). Awww. I'm such a sap. AND IT'S K-9!

Loved this episode. Hit all the right buttons.