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[eruvadhril]

I said the priest at the beginning. As the episode went on I swung towards the son's boyfriend, because he was in the background but had popped up often enough to count, but then remembered that, if we're basing it on Agatha Christie, it'd have to be one of the forefront characters. And the priest was the only one whose flashback wasn't for either comedic or secret-revealing purposes.

Let's play Names of Agatha Christie Novels Dropped in the Script Bingo!

I'd like to point out that, had the Doctor been the one to chuck the necklace in the lake, nobody would have said a word, and it would have been indisputable that he had done the right thing. Because He Is The Doctor. Double Standards 'R' Us.

I had to pause the DVD so that Katrina and I could LOL about the Charles Dickens reference without missing any expository babble.

I *heart* Donna. Still. She burned the wasp with the magnifying glass before I could yell it to her! Anyone who can anticipate my screen-yelling gets six out of five.

I wondered, right at the beginning, why in the hell you'd bother using a lead pipe to bash someone over the head when you're a GIANT WASP. You have, effectively, a giant poison dart attached to your arse.

Obligatory attempt-of-regional-and/or-contemporary-accent/"No-no-don't-do-that." Also, obligatory Doctor/Companion Snog. D'you suppose he got RTD on the phone a couple of days before he finished the script, saying "Yours is the only draft we haven't got in yet, and we completely forgot this season's snog and voice thing..."

"Leetle grey cells" FTW.

"All the decent men are on the other bus."
"Or Time Lords."
So... is that "All decent Time Lords are on the other bus," or "All decent men are EITHER on the other bus OR Time Lords"?

I totally thought the Doctor would sniff the drink, and then leap up and knock the women's drinks out of their hands. I didn't expect him to actually drink the poison. Come ON, we've just had him talking about his amazing powers of smell. Unless that was an almond daiquiri, wouldn't he have noticed something a bit suss?

Obligatory Christie-esque getting everyone into the room and talking to everyone except the murderer for ten minutes.

Ginger beer! I was excited; I thought we were going to have legless!Doctor. He didn't drink much of it, though. Shame.

Christie shuts the Doctor DOWN. Hell YES.

Please. Please. I'm begging you. Please. No love subplot. Do not have the we're-not-married thing turn into ZOMG TRU LUV, or unrequited love. It's been done. It is not needed. It would just fuck the dynamic up. Sure, if it were just Ten and just Donna? I could see it. I'd probably even ship it. But in the light of the past three series? PLEASE GODS NO.

BRAIN-DEAD MONKEY FUCKERS! Two weeks? TWO WEEKS? And it's MOFFAT'S episode next? YOU ARE CANCELING MOFFAT'S EPISODE BECAUSE OF EUROVISION?

MOFFAT: Hmm. Gas masks, clockwork, statues... what everyday, slightly-disturbing-on-its-own-anyway object shall I next embed in the minds of children as the ultimate incarnation of evil and death?
SUN: *sets*
SHADOWS: *lengthen*
MOFFAT: Eureka!

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[staceyuk.livejournal.com]

I wondered, right at the beginning, why in the hell you'd bother using a lead pipe to bash someone over the head when you're a GIANT WASP. You have, effectively, a giant poison dart attached to your arse.

FTW! LOL!