ReWatch: Voyage of the misfits from Sto
Let's kick start this re-watch.
We all remember how dramatically Series 3 ended, yes?...no? ok, quick re-cap for those of you can't remember.
MARTHA: Right, so now I'm going to make the best decision, I've ever made. I'm leaving you, right when you've seen the last of your kind die. Because, YOU'RE NOT THE BOSS OF ME! (And there's this seriously hot doctor I need to find)
DOCTOR: why thank you Martha--
TOM: Step off. She's mine.
Martha then really does show us how awesome she is and takes control of her life, returning to the confidant, self-dependand woman she was and moves on with her life. The Doctor has a moment, trying to register everything that had just happened (meets himself while he's at it) all the while, leaving the shields down on the Tardis which results in one of the randomest cliffhangers ever.
*lip twitch* BAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!
I still laugh when I see this and the Titanic crashing through the Tardis. Of course we all had sooo many theories bouncing around during that time such as...
a) The Doctor meeting himself (Nine saved a family from the titanic, Seven was on there sometime and I'm pretty sure that another one of his regenrations was on there too at some point), which would have been fun...
b) The Jack and Rose connection, an interesting idea that we would see Jack and Rose looking just like our ...Jack and Rose. A concept which I would have liked to see the Doctor handle.
c) HE was going to take the Captain's (John Smith) place and steer the Titanic.
All of which were shot down and we were forced to see the ship from Futurama and Kylie. Oh Happy Day.
I want to make it clear early on what got me so excited about this episode: the Christmas song. The Stowaway was our first real hint that Rose was comming back and it was still pretty cool. They tried feeding us all this bull about it being from the Captain's POV, but I will clear this up as I go along (I mean, really, "He just smiled and said come here, let's dance.." the Captain danced with the Doctor?! That's kind of nasty). The entire episode felt like one huge Forshadowing/Parallel story to me, so on we go...
So the Doctor walks out, and between meeting the creepy 'Heavenly Hosts' and the announcment saying "We are now comming upon Sol3" (which, by the way, I love the idea that aliens look at our planet like an object that's being exibited) he finally realizes..
DOCTOR: Riiiiiiiiiiight, That Titanic!
We then got our first taste of the new openeing credits...which I still don't like as much.
Then we have the old Captain kicking out telling the other members of the crew that they can go and have a coffee break or whatever. Mid-shipmen Frame stays. Because he is a newbie. And Newbies are adorkable and endearing.
Did anyone else get the feeling that he was crushing on the Captain a little bit??
I'll admit, I liked both the Captain and Frame right off the bat, the Captain is a somewhat well-known actor who I knew was brilliant and Frame is...well, he's just cute and has big ears like this kid I used to go to kindergarden with and I used to pull his ears and laugh. But then the Captain starting going all "Silent night, I believe they call"
ME: ...oh, that's not good.
Now, Max Capricorn. Can anyone else tell me...if you had ever seen his little "I know, because my name is Max" intro video, would ever trust him or his ship?! I mean, come on, all they needed was to say "My name is Max Capricorn McSleeze" and it wouldn't have been any different! The guy is SO dishonest even in his little video, that I think that only the dumbest and most desperate people on Sto actually got on his ship. I mean look at this guy...He actually twinkles!!
"My name is Max " O_O oh yeah, I'd trust him anyday!
...isn't that the Blue Peter ship? lol O I c what you did thar.
Also, the Doctor looks so snazy here, James Bond takes notes.
Please tell me I'm not the only one who was really creeped out by the robots? Although...the Doctor does lessen the creepiness with his line (that was a very Eighth Doctor's way of doing things)...
"Right, tell me, cause I'm reeeally stupid" <3
So the Host breaks down sending us into automatic "uh oh" mode.
And this is totally random but...I think the guy who's suppose to fix the Hosts is kind of attractive, bit of a thick neck but still...
And then we finally meet Astrid and Rickston (who I will be calling Rick or Ricky for the rest of the re-watch).
I just roll my eyes at this scene, because it's very "This is bad guy, who you must all dislike now because he has no good side. This is good girl who you will all like, because we need to add to more drama and emotional pain when we take her away from you in the end" .
I'll be honest, I felt like Astrid being just...Astrid was a big copp out. I was so excited about the idea of the Tardis becomming an actual person (although I think she'd look more like Judi Dench then Kylie), so this was just...bleh.
And the Doctor's almost desperate attempts to make friends with her in the span of 45 seconds is a little laughable.
And then he drops his favourite lonely puppy line "Nope, I'm raveling all alone" yeah, now he's got her attention.
Astrid then goes on about her boring life "waiting on tables" and so forth ...ENTER PARALLEL #1!!
The Blond Shopgirl who wants more/The Blond Waitress who wants more
THE DOCTOR: Oh, I know just how to cure that!
And so begins the "Dangling temptation" game
DOCTOR: There all this awesome stuff out there...you'll never see it justing sitting around here.
Hang on ...where have I seen this act before? oh, right.
DOCTOR: Just think of all the awesome still out there that only I can show you.
Fair enough. Now let us see the wistfull look of wistfullness...
*headdesk* shush everyone, Kylie is acting! Dear God I want Martha back already. But just for comparison's sake (because this whole thing is just one huge, smack in the face, parallel)
Wistfull face of "I want to know what''s out there"
And then Astrid snaps out of it and they go through the whole first verse of the Stowaway
Once I found a stowaway,
upon my ship, on Christmas day.
"I'm a Stowaway."
You shouldn't be here, what's your tail?
I ought to, throw you to the whale
"I should report you"
"Go, on then"
I was fair, so I gave him a chance.
"I'll get you a drink. On the house"
Oh, Murray, you really thought you could fool us with all that Captain rubbish.
So Astrid scampers off and the Doctor meets the two new characters that they try to make endearing but that none of us really care about in the end anyways. Morvin and Foon.
Speaking of which...Just how Dickens are those names?! Morvin and Foon, the Space equivilent of Marty and Fanny,how could they ever be mean with names like that? *headesk*
But still...the octor standing up for the underdogs is so lovable! <3
Moving on from how bad those outfits are, we move onto parallel #TWO!!
The Doctor, plus one.
I'm the Doctor and this is Rose Tyler, she's my plus one.
...
Ok. Now if there was something that made this episode worth...
OH MY GAWD IT'S MR. BUCKET! ..or Buquett, or however his wife pronounced it. Speaking of which, where is your wife?
Ok, seriously guys. Mr.Copper is what made this episode for me. He was a great actor, he had some of the most sincere lines, and he was just...awesome. Knowing the actor as Richard from the famous "Keepin up appearences" series (Whish, if you don't know it, you really should look for it, it was one of the funniest shows I've ever seen) was just a huge added bonous.
When he goes on about the horrific traditions of Christmas I laugh myself sick. Jus tbecaus the first thing that comes to my sick mind when He talks about The Great Santa With Huge Claws and whatnot is "Bring me my Ho Ho Hoes!!"...sorry.
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By the way, did anyone like Bannakaffalatta? Cause I can't stand him. At all.
He really annoys the Hell out of me. : (
I mean, he looks like the love child of Darth Maul and Mini Me...now that's a disturbing image.
And then we all go to empty London where we see PARALLEL #THREE!!
ASTRID: The air stinks and there's alien earth beneath me! This is amazing!*bounces*
ROSE: The air smells of apple grass and there's new ground beneath my feet! This is amazing!*bounces*
*cough* erm, yes. And this next bit
Y HALO THAR WILF!!
And none of us had any idea how epic he would later be.
The whole jumping back tot he ship and electronics are broken stuff went by pretty quick, but then we're back to Captain Creepy. He gives me the jitters here, and I loved it! It freaked Midshipman Frame off a little too...
Lol, ears. So cute.
I kind of liked the little montage of everyone on the ship having a happy jolly time, while playing the song!! Granted, the fade out right when this verse starts...
He told me 'bout his girl back home
Waiting patient, all alone
and while we danced I shed a little tear
He closed his eyes all out to sea,
I think he, danced with her not me
I'll just have to wait another year...
Make of it what you will, people. Make of it what you will. And then back to the Captain, who has officially squicked Frame out.
"They promised me old men, not boys"
At this point, I was a little choked up. Because I like the Captain and Frame and I knew someone was going to die. And honestly? I think the Captain had way too little screen time. And I was freaking out like crazy when he shot Frame, both times I watched it.
And oh yeah, the meteorite hitting the ship and all that. I love the Doctor rushing up onstage and pretty much everyone ignoring him (and Murray was up there! but I couldn't get a good enough screencap of him).
Also, I know a lot of people hate Ricky, but you know what? I don't mind him, I think mostly because his selfish-assholness was shoved down our throats without them even trying to make him seem like a normal person. After all, he was the one who listened to the Doctor.
And then the Host's "Information: You are all going to die." WHAT THE HELL??
Seriously, given the circumstances, I think he kept it together pretty well!
And Random comment #2 Ugly random shipman is ugly
If Val Kilmer and Madonna had a child, it would look like him.
And then we have the stupid couple that watches their impending doom with such GLEE!!
And backing up my point that only the stupidest and most desperate people on Sto came on this cruise.
And then I got all worried about my random hot guy with a thick neck.
...Although that picture looks more like ....hehem, anyways!
Oh and for those of you who love speccy Doctor...
GUH. I forget how cute he looked in that scene.
When the Tardis went flying down to Earth I was a little freaked, I love the Tardis so much. Any thoughts of the Tardis are quickly taken away by the scary DEATH angles!!! Who then KILL my random guy!!
When I continued to watch the next few minutes I was just admired how in pain Frame seemed to be, but was sucked out of the moment by the Doctor's egotisical speech.
(cue dramatic music and impressive lighteing)
DOCTOR: I am the LAST of the TimeLORDS.
I AM MADE OF AWESOME, awesomeness you could only wish to achive in your
dreams. And I'm 903 years old.
RABID DW FANS: BZUH?!?!! What?!!!
Ok, guys, the Doctor is at least 1000, he said he was 945 or something back in his SEVENTH regenration! SO I just laughed for another ten minutes or so, knowing that the Doctor is lying blatantly about his age around a young blond chick. And then I laughed some more at the Doctor ranting about how his Christmases are always like this, and then even MORE laughing at Rick's line "Oh what happened? Did they find a dounut?" I know it was mean...but I still laughed 'till the cows came home. It was his delivery of the line.
The next bit I know was suppose to be all moving and whatever..Bannakaffalatta and his "shame". Guh, if they were going to make a cyborg character, couldn't it have been something cool like Long John Silver from Treasure Planet?? And Astrid all "buy me a drink first" My foot she would. I now DEMAND a sketch of Astrid getting married to the annoying little red guy. I love the Doctor's face when Astrid said that she and Banna were engaged! cracks me up everytime.
But nothing, NOTHING compares to this...
WHAT THE HELL??!! I know that some fans would like some man-on-man action but this...wrong. *scribs brains at the idea of fic made about this ship*
Let's take our minds off that topic, shall we?
Frame has the best/funniest scream since Mickey's in School Reunion.
eeeeaaaarrrrssss
And tell me you can look at the Doctor's face after Astrid flirts with him and NOT laugh, I defy you.
you laughed. I know you did.
The bit about Mr. Copper...I love it everytime I watch it, I think it's because he's so much more real in comparison to the other charracters...You just want to hug him!
But what makes this scene for me is the Doctor's face when he agrees that the Earth is an exotic place...
"Yeah, I suppose it is..."
You can just tell how much he loves Earth, how connected he is to it, that's why he's always saving our asses.
And when Astrid askes him about why he likes the Earth so much..that could mean one of two things...
A) His Third regenration, when he'd been exhiled from Gallifrey and the Timelords had broken his Tardis, UNIT opened their doors to him and took him on while letting him stay with them.
or
B) The Tyler famliy unit, Christmas dinner and all that.
Well, whichever one it is, I think it's lovely that he views it like that.
And then....Morvin dies, it was so sudden that it never really has any effect on me. And I felt horrible for the Doctor having Foon screaming..
You promised me!!!
hmmm sounds to me a bit like..
You promised me!!!
The Doctor really needs to learn how to stop making all these promises. I was happy to see that the Doctor didn't fall for the whole "maybe they gave up and went away" thing. And you have to agree, the host's looked pretty amazing in this shot. Ithink it's brilliant that something so threatenting can look so pretty.
Watching the Angle's in the IN-field this time around was rather intertainiing to me and I squeaked when the Doctor's arm got cut. But when Banna got up and did his sappy suicide bomber attempt, I laughed. Why? Check out Kylie's face when he pulls his top off...
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAH!!!
My laughing hardley stopped when that shot was quickly followed by this
*lip twitches*
Then when Foon dies, it was so expected (even the first time I watched it) that it also did nothing for me. Usually when someone dies, there's at least half a second where we care...here, there wasn't. At least the three deaths spurred the Doctor into some seriouse action, he had them moving and was giving out instructions faster than you could blink, it was a bit of a relief to me.
That is untill the Doctor has another round of "temptation dangling" with poor Astrid.
I can't tell who I feel more sorry for at this point knowing the outcome, the Doctor or Astrid.
And then we got the kiss. Not a big deal really, but I do kind of wonder wy the Tenth Doctor has taken it upon himself to play tongue hockey with almost every female he meets (granted, she started it but still...ot many Doctors have kissed as much as this one??).
They then split up and the Doctor saying "take me to your leader" followed by "I've always wanted to say that" ticked me off, I don't like it when Nine's lines are taken. It feels like a betrail. What if they do the same thing with Eleven??
But it was cool seing the trio work together
awwwww, they're so adorkabel together!
I quite admire Astrid's determination to go and find the Doctor to help him. WHile the Doctor is meeting...Maaaax. I feel gross whenever I see Max, And dis anyone notice that his tooth has a transportable sparkle! He could be the next Edward Cullen!! The Doctor passes a few joke (that make me smile just because he's MY Doctor) and he pisses Max off.
"You can't even sink the Titanic!"
to which Max's reply is more or less, "Oh, yes I can! In your face, bitch!"
Astrid driving the mini-truck, was brilliant. It could have been really silly, but she somehow made it seem badass. I loved it,and her line was an ok one too. BUT THEN Parallel #I've forgotten what number we're on now...
(and I know it's a little out of order, but bear with me)
ASTRID: I have a feeling this isn't going to end well...
THE DOCTOR: *is forced to watch the HORROR!!*
...twice over. I pity his luck, really I do.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
I always thought that that was quite a pretty "falling into an abyss" shot.
Now you can't actually have reached this point and not seen that. So of course, right when I was starting to like Astrid, she dies. But luckily she didn't have that much of an impact for me to care long. I was all jumpy again over Midshipman Frame still trying to handle things on his own.
Really, I hope they gave him huge medals of honor for saving this ship's ass. I mean if you think about it, the rest of the people with the Doctor didn't do much to actually save the ship from crashing into Earth, so it was just the Doctor and Frame who did all the real hero work. But for some reason, the Doctor doing what he always does means that we had to sit through that scene of epic fail. It's so overdramatised and "OMG I IZ THE LONELY GOOOOOD!!!" That everytime I watch it, all I want to do is ramm my head into something.
And he clicks his fingers to get the Host's carry him to Infinity and Beyond!!! the cockpit? The Doctor clicking is fingers for anyting in a 'powerful' gesture pisses me off to no extenet. It just makes him look campy, stupid and prickish. Another reason why Silence in the Library doesn't sit well with me. Utter balls that scene.
Untill he finds out Frame's first name, man I loved that bit. Alonz-y Alonzo!!!...I just realized, Alonzo reminds me of Ianto for some reason. huh.
And I'm going to breeze over the whole bit with the Queen, cause that was just weird. ...suddenly I want to see Prince Harry on Who.
And then the Doctor gets another blow of LOLZ saddness.
Hmmm, one person needing to say goodbye while the other one in ghost form?? WHAT A NEW IDEA!!
I can't tell if I like or hate this scene yet, even after all this time, but I will say this...to me, the Doctor sounds so human at this moment, it breaks my heart just a little tiny bit. And as for Astrid...
I think of him, now and again
I wonder, how his journey ends...
As I sail on my lonesome sea...
That stranger with the haunting face,
Here than, gone without a trace..
Lying with his love, that's where he'll be...
So the Doctor being all depressed stops him from reacting at all to Rick's attempt at thanking him
emo!Doctor is EMO!
But then Mr.Copper (who is made of awesome and...awesome) smacks the Doctor back into reality withhis words of wisdom and gets a great bonous for that. Earth (you know, cause the Doctor suddenly stops traveling with people. riiight)
It's good to know that he used his money well. Seriously, I liked Mr Copper and would be more than happy if he guest starred in another episode. And his line about Astrid...awwwwwww. Good thing too, cause he lightened up the Doctor's mood.
Ok, so all in all, it wasn't that bad. It was just too hyped up and even when I sat down to watch it again, my expectatoins were still higher than what the actual episode was summed up to. Still, it had some good acting, lots of paralleling/forshadowing, a couple of intersting characters and Angles that still scare me a little! Not that bad....could've been LOADS better but still...