Cardiff!!!! Using the rift to "fuel up". Heeee! Oooh, and here's Captn Jack!
Whoa. He's avoiding Jack? Why? Jump!
Going to the end of the universe. Why? Is there a good restaurant there? **snicker** Looks at teeth of scary people there. Um. I guess not.
Whoa!!! Derek Jacobi?!?! Whoa!!
A professor . . . and now we get reference to "utopia". Hmmmm. Professor is not telling the full truth to these folks.
Doctor says we should go, but . . . of course they don't. ;D
Hello again. Sorry.
"Friend of mine, used to travel with me back in the old days."
"Nice to meet you Martha Jones." "Oh, don't start!" Heeee! No, Jack, start! Start!
"You abandoned me." Good, another person calls him on his habit of just taking off sometimes. Interesting, it was Sarah Jane before, talking in front of Rose, and now we have Jack bringing it up in front of Martha.
Oh, good - Doctor tells him Rose and Mickey are OK.
Heee! I love when Jack and the Doctor bicker and snark. And Martha asks the good questions too, like Rose did before.
Why did you leave him behind?" "I was busy."
"Do you just get bored with us and disappear?" Oooh, good one, Martha!
Heeeeee! "We're at the end of the world and you're busy . . .
blogging."
"We should be frozen to death." "Well, Martha and I. Not so sure about you, Jack." Oh, the Doctor knows! I mean, yeah, surviving on the outside of the TARDIS during a trip to the end of the universe is a big tip off, but I think the Doctor knew before. Oh. And maybe that's why he wanted to avoid Jack? Does he think it's his fault and feels guilty?
Heee! Running off into danger again and Jack's all "oh I missed this".
Eeeep! Lots of nasty teeth people. Get to the silo and be OK?
Huuuu-mans!
Interesting. Jack questions why the Doctor doesn't ask these humans to put down their guns. "He's not my responsibility." "And I am? That's a change." Oooh, the subtexty past history background stuff is being layered on nicely!
Utopia again - "take me to Utopia".
Sending these guys to collect the TARDIS if they can. "Last" water run. So, they're leaving here? Going to Utopia?
People all huddled in here, hiding from teeth people, but more than that. Little girl "old enough to work" and families that were separated finding each other again, etc. So, people have been collecting at this silo.
Jack flirting and the Doctor is all "stop that" again. Heee! Huh. That's a damn big rocket.
Uh oh. Teeth woman got inside. That can't be good.
"Captain Jack Harkness." "Stop it!" "Can't I say hello to anyone?" **swoons over the smile and the teeth and the dimples and the loveliness of Captn Jack** "I do not protest." Yeah, neither would I! The Doctor doth protest too much.
Footprint and harmonizing and all sorts of stuff that neither I nor the Doctor understand. ;D
The hand!!! He's carrying the hand around!!! It's a Doctor detector? Interesting.
"What, you grew another hand?" "Ah, yeah." Heeee! Martha is having a bit of trouble with this. Heee! Wait until she has to go thru a regeneration.
Teeth guys are "the future kind" - what people will change into? Is that what is bothering the professor? Is he starting to turn into a toothy guy?
Heee! Hermits united - it's good fun, for a hermit. ;D
So, they don't know what or if Utopia is either. Just a hope or a rumor of some society from before, trying to find a way for humans to survive beyond the "collapse of reality". Well, it's an idea others have postulated. Some way to hunker down in a bubble of reality while the universe collapses and then re-creates. So you could then step out into the new universe.
I've never seen how it could be possible.
Ah! Doctor realizes that the Prof doesn't know how to make the rocket work but hasn't told them, to keep hope alive.
Aaaand of course the Doctor fixes it. ;D "I'm brilliant!"
"Those damn galaxies, had to go and collapse."
Oh. Professor is staying behind to set the rocket in motion.
And his "chan . . . tho" assistant is staying with him, won't leave him. Ah, but now the Doctor is here with the TARDIS and so on. Now he can send them on and leave.
Professor is hearing drums? Voices too. And he recognizes the TARDIS. Is he . . . is he a later Doctor regeneration? That has forgotten he's a Time Lord?
Very sweet and cute moment between Martha and the alien. Daring her to be "rude" and say something without the chan and tho. All giggly and daring. So cute!!
Hmmmm. Scary radiation and they have to go in there to manually fix something. Oh noes! Teeth woman. Ah, she wants to stop the humans from leaving because her people want to eat them.
Jack puts himself in the middle to fix, knowing he won't die. And the other guy sacrifices himself too, only he does really die. Wow. Just disappears to dusty bits.
"Strikes me, Professor, that you've got a room that no man can enter without dying. Well, I think I've got just the man." ;D
"Was someone kissing me?" ;D ;D
Mmmmmmm, flying swinging coats as the Doctor and Jack run off to be heroes . . .
Ha!! Taking off his clothes, don't need to, "Well, I look good". ;D
"How long have you known?"
"Ever since I ran away from you." Yep, I was right!
And of course
now they finally talk, when they're separated by walls and in danger and so on. Not when they've been face to face.
Professor is definitely hearing Time Lordy voices/information.
Jack talks about all his deaths. Poison, starvation, etc.
"In the end, I got the message. . . And all that time you knew."
Why I ran away . . . I'm a Time Lord . . . you're a fixed point in time and space . . . you're a fact that's not meant to happen. Hmmmm. So, I didn't have it quite right, the reason why the Doctor wanted to avoid him. Close, but not a really understandable way of thinking unless you're a Time Lord. Huh. Interesting!
Confirmation! It
is because of Rose bringing him back to life! A Time Lord would have become godlike, but Rose was human so she had human reaction and actions. Telling Jack about her ultimate fate and Martha listens. How typical and sad that they are all physically separate and isolated when all the communication and truth happens.
Prof is hearing language like "time war" and stuff . . . is this awakening memories?
"Did you want to die?" Ah! Good question - I've been wondering that myself! "I thought I did. . .. This lot out here, surviving . . . and that's fantastic!"
He's so much like the Doctor at times. They both share that love of the continuation of humanity.
Heeee! "You might be out there, somewhere." "I could meet myself." "Only man
you're ever gonna be happy with." ;D
Professor is losing it even more. Time travel, I never believed . . . what would I know . . stupid old man . . . always late . . . always lost . . . even this thing never worked . . . time always running out on me . . .
Oooooooh! A watch like the Doctors! So, he is a future Doctor, or another Time Lord that survived!
Martha knows that watch. Run and get the Doctor, Martha!!!!
Oooh, everything happening at once, of course!! Prof is opening the watch . . . . Martha is telling the Doctor . . . . Jack "he could be another Time Lord, you might not be the only one"
"What did he say!!!" Oooh, scary Doctor!
"You are not alone." Oh, the Face of Boe!!! **slaps forehead** Y.A.N.O.
And I was hearing it as "Prof Yanno or Yanna". ;D
Professor not a good guy? . . . the TARDIS is open . . . oh noes!!!
Oh, the assistant! "I can say I was provoked."
"I am the Master!" Oooooooo! **squeaks wildly**
Damn!!
Assistant does manage to shoot him, but he gets into the TARDIS! Nooooo!
"Let me in!" Man, Tennant is just kicking acting ass! The look on his face! "Everything's changed. It's only the two of us, we're the only one's left."
Oh, man!
Eeeeep! The Master regenerates!
Holy crap, is that John Simm? Dude!
"Why don't we stop and have a nice chat where I tell you all my plans and you can work out a way to stop me . . . I
don't think!"
Martha knows that voice? So . . . we do have a time loop thing here?
"Just stop! Just think!"
"Use my name." **goes to bad slashy "say my name,
say it" place, bad Lola, bad**
"Master." **stays in bad slashy place, eyes glaze over** "I'm sorry."
"Tough."
And then he's gone. Damn! End of the universe, no TARDIS, marauding cannibalistic teeth people currently breaking in to get you all.
What a cliff hanger!
Excellent ep! Just excellent excellent excellent! All the continuity and the Master and Face of Boe and unkillable Jack and the parallels between Martha and previous companions and the sadness of being the only one left only not only the other one is the last one you'd want it to be and . . .
Man!