dw Bad Wolf and Parting of the Ways

i love Lynda, she's sweet.  (:  The Doctor says all he's looking for is a "quiet life."

The Doctor and Jack are both affected by Rose's "death" equally, they just react in completely different ways.  It was very weird for me to see him do his "shut down and think" thing for the first time.  In fact, he doesn't do it often.  He usually plows ahead and makes things up as he goes along.  Jack, on the other hand, charges in, guns blazing, but doesn't even shoot anyone other than the Anne-droid.  He'll fight if he has to, but not needlessly.  They were actually smart to wait until they were no longer outnumbered and could make an easier escape without needless casualties.

i love the Doctor when he's goofy, but i love him even more when he's indignant.  The most brilliant lines in all of series one on his part are from "No...it means no" to "And doesn't that just scare ya to death."  The Doctor is like a sleeping dragon, he's all cuddly until you tickle him, and you only get so many chances before you run out of his mercy.

Rose is slightly jealous of Lynda it seems.  Lynda and the Doctor have an awkward good-bye, and cannot tell whether they should hug, or kiss, or what.  Jack, on the other hand, is soooo young.  He trusts the Doctor implicitly.  But the Doctor... the choice that he is planning to make, the destruction of Earth and the majority of the human race, is horrible.  This is the same sort of choice that Ten was against in Journey's End, the choice that Martha was going to make.  It's odd how things change.

i cannot believe that Rose was cruel enough to tell Mickey that there was nothing left for her back on earth.  This includes him and her mother!  And when she said something so utterly cruel, i cannot believe that he helped her.

But i do love the Bad Wolf.  She is brilliant, but she is also deadly.  All that light pouring out of her, the ability to see what was and is and is to come... it's like she became a goddess.  And though she saved Jack's life, no one is meant to have that power.  But at the same time it was good, because she was being selfless, and she enabled the Doctor to be selfless.  Instead of a Doctor born of the Time War, we received one born of love and mercy.  That's the most powerful thing in the universe all creation.