3.11: Utopia

[beccaelizabeth]

We knew Jack would be back
but the surprise guest?

*happy noises. loud happy noises. happy noises of glee.*

... yes, oh yes, I *liked* it!

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[Shan]

Heh.

"Stop iiiiit..."

Not a chance.

[Spaced Out Looney]

Pit stop.

CAPTAIN JACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

End of the universe.
With Captain Jack on the outside. How is that possible?

Tattoo people.




Credits.

Ooh, John Barrowman is in the main titles.




So these folks are into heavy metal, I take it.

Derek Jacobi!

Episode title.

Eternal milk.

Something new has arrived.

They should leave, but they're not going to. Hee.

The Doctor keeps a medical kit in the TARDIS.

Mention of old companions.
I'm just waiting to see if Martha's going to ask it he's Rose. ;D

Captain Jack's been following the Doctor.

You abandoned me.
Yay for addressing this.

Martha's looks worried.

About Rose's fate.
Good ol' Rose.
Yeah.

Captain Jack and the Doctor as the Bickersons.

Where are they walking too right now?

But the thing is, how come you left him behind, Doctor?
I was busy.
Is that what happens though, seriously? You just get bored of us one day and disappear?
Not if you're blond.
Oh, she was blond! Oh, what a surprise!

Excellent. Keep hold the Doctor accountable for his actions, you too. *nods*

And your'e... blogging!
BWAH!!!

City on the cliffs.

Time killed it.

If all stars have burned up and the city is dead, where is the light coming from?

Does no one survive?
We have to hope, life will find a way.

Enter angry villagers with torches and pitchforks.

Show me your teeth!
Hee!

A Doctor of everything.

Refugees.
Humans survived.

Ah, a rocket.
But where is it going to? Where's Utopia? Especially if the Universe is ending.

Captain Jack has the Doctor's hand.
How very Star Wars.

So the Doctor can regenerate body parts as well as entire bodies.

No one's heard of the Time Lords.

Beastie Boys. Hee.

It's feared that they are what we will become.
Are they like Reavers?

Hermits United.
HEE!!!

Following a signal.
But can you trust it?

The Utopia Project.

The professor and his assistant like the Doctor and his Companions.

The Doctor's modesty.

The Professor's not really a professor.

They retrieved the TARDIS.

Assistant's speech patterns.

Star Trek- Spock dying reference?

You've got a room no one can enter without dying.

Is come one kissing me? Hee.

How long have you known?
Ever since I ran away from you.
Hmm?

Oh, that Captain Jack is immortal.
Because of RoseTARDIS

Recap of Parting of Ways

Story of Rose.
So now Martha finally knows.

The Professor has the Doctor's watch.

The watch is stuck. It's not meant to be.

So the Professor is a Time Lord as human.

And there is goes.

And the Doctor's not too pleased by this.

I am The Master.
dun Dun DUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And now he has the Doctor's hand.

Locked out of the TARDIS.

So The Master can regenerate at will?

Uh oh. This does not look good for our heroes.

[Spaced Out Looney]

shanno said:

Heh.

"Stop iiiiit..."

Not a chance.

Hee! I loved that.

[Queen E]

OK, that was just, you know, awesome.

I love how each of the strands of the episodes previous (the Doctor as human, the watch, the Face of Boe's words) have fit in together so perfectly, and not precisely in the way I would have imagined. I love Derek Jacoby anyway...but his befuddlement is so well played, providing clues to his real identity that were subtle and yet inescapable once we knew the full story.

Jack and the Doctor's conversation...learning what happened after 200,100; why Jack might have been so dark and so sad by the time he got to the 20th century. Calling the Doctor on being "more cheeky."

And JOHN SIMM! Woo hoo! Such a perfect match for the energy that David Tennant brought to the new Doctor; even paralleling Nine to Ten's regeneration in so many ways: "New voice...that's different." Even better, transforming into a Northern accented Doctor as Nine regenerated into Ten away from that. Brilliant. He's like Ten's dark twin.

JOHN SIMM! Sorry, still excited.

[Queen E]

Oh my god! I just got it!

Professor Yana! YANA=You Are Not Alone.

[Spaced Out Looney]

I can't believe I didn't get this earlier, but, in The End of the World, Cassandra is the last
"pure" human, right? All these folks in the rocket ship are human right? Does it say in the show that they are all human or not? Cause that seems like a major contradiction.

[Riff]

mt said:

OK, that was just, you know, awesome.

I love how each of the strands of the episodes previous (the Doctor as human, the watch, the Face of Boe's words) have fit in together so perfectly, and not precisely in the way I would have imagined. I love Derek Jacoby anyway...but his befuddlement is so well played, providing clues to his real identity that were subtle and yet inescapable once we knew the full story.

Jack and the Doctor's conversation...learning what happened after 200,100; why Jack might have been so dark and so sad by the time he got to the 20th century. Calling the Doctor on being "more cheeky."

And JOHN SIMM! Woo hoo! Such a perfect match for the energy that David Tennant brought to the new Doctor; even paralleling Nine to Ten's regeneration in so many ways: "New voice...that's different." Even better, transforming into a Northern accented Doctor as Nine regenerated into Ten away from that. Brilliant. He's like Ten's dark twin.

JOHN SIMM! Sorry, still excited.

A good episode, but that last ten minutes or so was just amazing. Derek Jacobi and John Simm playing the Master. In the same episode!

[Riff]

ehills said:

I can't believe I didn't get this earlier, but, in The End of the World, Cassandra is the last
"pure" human, right? All these folks in the rocket ship are human right? Does it say in the show that they are all human or not? Cause that seems like a major contradiction.

Th ep was set trillions of years after "The End of the World" and there is a suggestion of things coming full circle. The Doctor says that humans might have evolved in to "clouds of gas" or "downloads" but that they always return to the basic design in the the end.

[beccaelizabeth]

To write down the Big Answers about Captain Jack where people can look them up:

Rose made him immortal, like we thought. After that the Doctor left him on the satellite. He time traveled back to 1869 and lived the long road since then. All the way through the 20th century, both world wars, lots of deaths.

[Onjel]

beccaelizabeth said:

To write down the Big Answers about Captain Jack where people can look them up:

He time traveled back to 1869 and lived the long road since then. All the way through the 20th century, both world wars, lots of deaths. Rose made him immortal, like we thought.

So, it was time travel. Thanks! I had forgotten the connection with this episode. I think if I watch them in succession, I might have a better memory, or, you know, if I watched them as obsessively as I have BtVS and Angel. ;D

[Karen]

beccaelizabeth said:

We knew Jack would be back
but the surprise guest?

*happy noises. loud happy noises. happy noises of glee.*

... yes, oh yes, I *liked* it!

beccaelizabeth.livejournal.com/1078664.html

Oh, geez. Talk about Utopia. ;D

[Rachael]

Dude. Derek Jacobi. And I just wasn't sure I was right until the very end.

Argh. Of all the Time Lords to still be alive, why HIM?

Well, obviously, because it's more interesting. And it'll hurt more. And the symmetry is beautiful.

And the Daleks are boring.

[beccaelizabeth]

rachael said:

Dude. Derek Jacobi. And I just wasn't sure I was right until the very end.

Argh. Of all the Time Lords to still be alive, why HIM?

Well, obviously, because it's more interesting. And it'll hurt more. And the symmetry is beautiful.

And the Daleks are boring.

The Master has previously survived being cremated, and he's been dropped into a black hole, possibly twice. He's done the walking corpse thing and the body snatcher thing and has previously been willing to blow up Gallifrey if it will get him more lives. So if anyone survives, of course it's going to be him.

[Rachael]

beccaelizabeth said:

rachael said:

Dude. Derek Jacobi. And I just wasn't sure I was right until the very end.

Argh. Of all the Time Lords to still be alive, why HIM?

Well, obviously, because it's more interesting. And it'll hurt more. And the symmetry is beautiful.

And the Daleks are boring.

The Master has previously survived being cremated, and he's been dropped into a black hole, possibly twice. He's done the walking corpse thing and the body snatcher thing and has previously been willing to blow up Gallifrey if it will get him more lives. So if anyone survives, of course it's going to be him.

Oh, I know. I just find it really depressing. And exciting, for story reasons, but still - hugely depressing.

I mean...it'd almost be better to be alone in the Universe.