This afternoon i don't have any homework (the professors aren't laying it on because spring break is next week), so i watched Rose and The End of the World. First off, let me just say that, looking back, as a pilot, Rose was pretty lame. The plasticine thingies were funny, but not really that menacing (though they certainly caused a lot of destruction quickly). Rose didn't exactly save the day, because the Doctor shook one off, and flipped the other into the molten blob consciousness before she kicked the first farther out of the way. It's a shame that they didn't bring more of her supposed gymnastics skills to the character, not that this was exactly a good example of gymnastics! i do like that he gave them a chance to leave, and wasn't keen on killing them, but then in EotW he turns right around and kills Cassandra without any regret. i think i have whiplash. It's all very well that the Doctor is saying that everything ends, but quite another to coldly cause a human to die.
i suppose this is because we have a damaged Doctor, but so far, Rose isn't pulling her weight. She's a damsel in distress, huddling in the observation room because she was moping about, whereas by this point Donna had already stopped the Doctor from killing himself and figured out that he needed to be kept in line (this after he had been ostensibly healed by running around for two years with Rose). i'm sorely tempted to start writing a series where Donna is traveling with the Doctor in series one onward... course i don't like to do that rewriting tom foolery when i can avoid it.
Chris, however, is hilarious as Nine. i especially enjoy his gift of the breath of his lungs and interaction with Jackie in her room. i want to keep a running tally of mentions of Bad Wolf, so far the Face of Boe has mentioned it, but i think i might have seen posters in an ally... need screencaps or a website that already has figured all that stuff out!
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