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I honestly think Tennant is staying on...(I hope I hope I hope I hope). Davies has said in the Confidentials that something from EVERY episode this season is going to tie in to these finales, and I think the thing from The Doctor's Daughter is going to be the "regenerating without regenerating."
She breathed out some gold dust, and popped back up to go do all that running. She is, in essence, the Doctor, made from him alone. Maybe it'll even be explained. But the hand and the universe being out of sync with the Medusa Cascade will probably have a hand in it somewhere.

Whoa! Extremely stressing episode! I'm not one that usually gets very riled up about much of anything, but this whole episode had me tense to the very end, and crying through nearly all of it! It was so intense, that I didn't even realize that a whole hour had gone by, and the ending took me by complete surprise. Ack!

Wait, why is Martha in New York? Something to do with Daleks in Manhattan? I know she said she got a promotion, but why does that mean she goes there to work on a project having to do with the Sontorans?

Why didn't the TARDIS get transported along with the earth?

Jack! Ianto! Gwen! Where are Owen and Tosh? Gwen said something about them going out fighting "Like Owen. Like Tosh." WTF? And why is Gwen still with Rhys after her affair with Owen? (I've only seen about half of the first season of Torchwood.)

Sarah Jane! Who's the kid? Her son? Come again? Guess I should have watched SJA. Ah, well.

Bernard Cirbbins! I love him! He's so awesome! Can he be my grandad? Wait, don't protect Sylvia, she's as bad as them! Wilf is a genius! He sees the Daleks one time, and only sort of, and he figures out that a paint gun is his best weapon against them. How brilliant is that? And, he's a great shot!

ROOOOOOOOOOOOSSSSSSEEEEEEEEEEE! GO GET 'EM ROSE! GOOD GIRL! Plus also, Rose has a really big gun! Sweet! I loved how she threatened those looters with it. xd

What is AMNN?

Why do the Daleks keep all the humans alive, if they're just going to swoop down and kill them? That doesn't make any sense!

We finally get to see what the Shadow Proclamation is! Yay! Why isn't the Judoon language translated by the TARDIS?

The whole revelations of the Daleks sequence had me bawling. Funny thing is, when I first started watching Doctor Who in 2005, it was with a friend who had grown up watching it and was terrified at the sight of the lonely impotent Dalek in that museum, and I laughed at her for being scared at a little tin salt shaker. Now, after all these years watching Doctor Who, my soul ached at the reactions of all the characters that I've grown to love. The one that confused me, though, was Rose. She didn't really react much at all. Has she known all along that it was the Daleks, or has she just grown so accustomed to this kind of life that she just sucks it up and deals with whatever is thrown at her? She has to have known, since she's got the big Dalek-kililng gun. I wanna know what happened to Rose on her paralell universe!!!!! scream scream scream

Donna has a really good memory to remember some random planet name that a crazy guy was yelling at her in a manic epilogue months ago.

What is the Valliant?

I don't know if it's drums or a heart-beat around Donna, but it's definitely something. It's not the same drum beat that we heard with the Master (which was the same beat as the sub-frequency that Harriet Jones used), but there was the main beat that sounded like a heartbeat AND a quieter, quicker beat underlaying it. Then that woman said that Donna was something new. That to me says that she's not a Timelord, but she is SOMETHING. And the thing about the loss that is yet to come? Eek!

Yay, we finally get to see the Medusa Cascade! Still don't think I understand what it is, though, or how it was hiding all those planets. And what's with the old western music playing while the Doctor and Donna are in the Medusa Cascade?

I love that even at the end of the world, Captain Jack Harkness is still flirting with Sarah-Jane. rofl

Dalek Khan says: "Everlasting death for the most faithful companion." eek gonk crying sweatdrop What does that mean?

I have yet to watch any classic Who with Davros. Was the new incarnation any good in comparison to the old one?

Man, there is so much that needs to happen in the next episode, I don't know how they're going to fit it all in!

I don't totally love this episode, because I think having all the ex-companions and their associated baggage (i.e. Torchwood and Sarah Jane's kid) show up kind of bogged things down.

BUT... I'm really digging the Daleks. With the exception of the bit where Gramps tries to disable a Dalek with a paintball gun, which I found a rather intrusive send-up of the annoyingly silly 'my vision is impaired, I cannot see' line from various earlier Dalek stories, I think the Daleks and Davros came off rather well. The Daleks went around killing things. Davros was being his usual insane genius self. Yeah. Good stuff. Much better than that silly Cult of Skaro nonsense from series 2 and 3. Or the crazy religious fanatic Daleks that run a space station full of TV game shows of series 1. Finally... Daleks the way Daleks were meant to be.

And the Doctor got zapped at the end. You know, if they go and show him all exploding like that, it's gonna be a major disappointment if he doesn't carry through with it and actually regenerate. I mean, the Doctor can't go all flamey like that and then next episode he says, "ha ha, fooled you!"

Firsly~

I thought it was Kan O_o Almost like the word Kan in Japanese. Coffin. ;_; Poor cute widdle Dalek. I want his laugh as a text message sound.

Secondly, DRUMS, yeeeees please.

Thuu-rid-lay, Donna... ;_; I've loved her from the beginning. I think she's a brilliant character and I like her much more than Rose. MUCH more interesting. I don't really care if Rose dies but I sincerely doubt she will. It's cool and all that she has the big gun, but even if she sticks around, you know how the Doctor is with guns. I think her character has developed in such a way that she can't really compliment the doctor anymore. She's too much like him for it to work in the show.

Remember also that Sarah Jane (who's spin-off involves a young boy who is cloned in a soda pop factory and filled with the 'brainpower/knowledge' of all the humans who toured it - her 'son') told Luke she loved him in a sort of "I'm not coming back" way. Doesn't it seem like it will be a poignant thing if she dies thusly?

Yet would they go that far as to orphan a child from the spin-off kid's series?

I cannot say.

Now as for K-9, he was off closing a black hole during the whole of the Sarah Jane series. I've heard that Jenny is in trouble involving said black hole and K-9 rescues her.



On a final note, no Daleks rocked harder than the Cult of Skaaro. razz

Everyone thought it was Caan (I'm sure it was even Caan in magazines and such) but in Confidential they spelled it Khan. Hmm.

I was so happy about Davros!! I was really worried they'd modernize him somehow. I kept squeaking about how happy I was with how they'd done him and people kept pointing out that "he's the same as ever" to which I was like "YEAH - thats my POINT!"

I love Donna. I love her so much. And I love her gramps. I thought it was a heart-beat, but then at some stage there was something that made me think of the drums although I wasn't sure why. Maybe just cos I had the telly quite quiet and only half heard it?

I said he's supposed to get younger. I didn't say he did. The original conception to regeneration was that he would just get substantially younger - Patrick Troughton was supposed to look like a younger version of William Hartnell.
Also, I'm a Fifth Doctor fan, and I know he was the youngest actor to play him.

Khan would make sense because of the Mongol Khans and their conquering stuff. It sounds like something a Dalek would name itself after.
Dalek Kh/Caan.

"Daleks do not accept apologies" made me laugh.

[This episode was amazing! I've been a bit iffy about S4 so far, but the ending's brilliant]
[I kinda hope he does regenerate 'cause if he doesn't, it could end up being a total cop out - or an amazing turn-around, and I'm worried it'd be the former]
[I kinda hope the thing about him being the Master's true though, that'd be flippin' amazing o.o]
[^ I'm not sure whether I should white out spoilers - so I have done in case smile ]

[I really don't want Donna to die though!! I love her too much, she's such a legend crying ]