Absolutely Amazing Beginning

Don't read this if you haven't seen the first episode of the 4th season of Doctor Who yet...

SPOILER ALERT




OH. MY. GOD. It was wonderful beyond wonderfulness. It was like sunshine and rainbows.

The Doctor had this weird divining stick device and he kept banging on it and there were walking fat monsters that looked like lardy teddy bears. Though they weren't really monsters, per se.

And then there was the moment near the end when Donna went up to some woman (whose back was to us) spoke to her, and BAM! the woman turns around and IT WAS ROSE.

ITWASROSEITWASROSEITWASROSE! EEEE!

After a year of watching the Doctor mourn her loss, it was frustrating to see her for all of the ten seconds we got.

I think I screamed.

I'm pretty certain I screamed.

I probably scared the people watching with me.

Why she was there, why she looked so damned upset, and why she spun on her heel and vanished (like, no really, she just faded out like she was never there at all. What UP with that?)

Russell T. Davies, I don't know whether I want to hurt you for bringing her in for ten seconds and then poofka, or whether I want to give you a hug for bringing her back at all. Thank you for even ten seconds (we don't see her again supposedly till episode 11. ARGH.)

I so cannot wait for next week. At all.

It's nice that the Doctor finally getting someone who isn't all "oh my God he's wonderful" this year. Nice to see Donna plunking suitcases in his arms and making him carry her bags. He needs someone like her right now. Someone who's not endlessly enamored with him, who just takes him at face value but will ultimately make him behave himself (kinda)

Although it WAS funny to see him get hit on by an office worker. Heh...

That said, all the companions we've seen in past years (that's the past 3 years) are coming back at some point this year. That's Donna, Rose, Martha, Jack, and Sarah-Jane. This is gonna be sweet.

One down, twelve to go. Almost wish this was set up like American series where you get 20 instead of 13...but oh, well. This one was great. I just hope they can keep it up.

That said, got to see the last episode of the Torchwood season last night (before Who) and bawled all the way through the ending. I kind of knew Owen was going to, well, I guess you could say be destroyed because he was already dead for half the season, but Tosh was a big surprise to me. I cried pretty hard for her-she was such a hero, right to the last moment when she died in Jack's arms.

I just think that maybe it's unwise to leave Jack standing there after two thousand years of being buried ALIVE, his psycho brother who started the whole fiasco in cryo downstairs, with Gwen who not-so-secretly has a crush on him (never mind what he feels for HER) and Ianto who's sleeping with him already. They're all mourning big-time, and with Torchwood, anything is possible. Ianto would probably be perfectly willing to let Gwen into the sheets with him and Jack, even if there's that teeny, tiny hitch that Gwen is MARRIED...

What a mess.

I will miss Owen, though he was fading before he really went. I missed his razor-sharp edges those last few episodes. Tosh I'll just miss because she looked so meek and was just as damn tough as anyone else. Case in point: her last scenes. After getting shot in the back by Jack's nutso brother, she manages to get herself down the steps in the Hub to the medical bay, where she starts giving herself pain meds and talking Owen through saving Cardiff from a nuclear plant meltdown. They tell each other I love you (finally when it's too late) and Owen is destroyed, then Jack, Gwen, and Ianto find Tosh and she dies in Jack's arms. Saved the world before she bowed out.

Hope next season ends happier than this one. Oi.

Fingers hurting now, so I should probably stop here.

Ta,
Bec