OH COME ON RUSTY.  Why did you have to bring even MORE "Time Lord, Oncoming Storm" emo angst? It's bad enough the Doctor couldn't do anything about Pompeii, but did you have to make him (and Donna!) be the ones who caused it in the first place? I mean yeah, it was a horrible choice to begin with and in retrospect it turned out for the best for humankind but come ON.  Make him even more fucking psychotic, why don't you? >:(

I did like that he was going to be that cold as to let EVERYONE die, because it makes you remember that the Doctor can be a real fucking bastard.  Forget Nine and his well-'ard Northern accent and leather jacket: it's Ten with his ruffly hair and freckles that's the real hardcore "I'm a Time Lord, bitch!" one.  But then I also liked it when Donna stopped him.  You get the sense that no, traveling with the Doctor isn't just fun and games and Scooby Doo shenanigans and she's starting to realize that, and it's gonna (hopefully) reinforce her whole "You need someone, you're fucking scary and like hell I'm going to fancy you, you skinny little weirdo" stance on the Doctor.

That "She is returning" line raised my Rose heckles up.  I'm sorry, it's just instinctive of me to be on alert whenever Rose is mentioned.  I think Rose is going to be that thing in the background that gets mentioned in every episode until the big reveal at the end of season triple whammy (read: Bad Wolf for Season 1, Vote Saxon in Season 3).  Knowing Rusty, there will be horrible horrible emo and angst from her and the Doctor, and Martha and Donna and Jack will get relegated to the background because IT'S ALL ABOUT SAINT FUCKING ROSE.

AND WE HAD TINKERBELL JESUS DOCTOR AGAIN.  Stepping out of the Heavenly TARDIS, offering salvation to doomed souls and him being all glowy and righteous and then BEING WORSHIPPED AT THE END OF THE EPISODE FUCK YOU RUSTY FOR TINKERBELL JESUS WHY DID YOU THINK IT WAS A GOOD IDEA ARGLEBLARRRGHREOUIEQOUBDSAASADFDA

*breathes* Sorry.

It had some great lines though, this episode.

"You fought the alien off with a water pistol.  I bloody love you!"

"We're not married."  "No."  "Never."  "Never ever."


Next week: the return of those fucking creepy Oods.  Of all the aliens in New Who, the Ood just....blargh. Type your cut contents here.