My Reaction to the Trailer for episode 6

[amberfocus]

and one little question about episode five.

Entire post is SPOILED so don't read it if you don't want to hear my musings.

So, they're giving him a kid, huh?  Not too crazy about that idea.  Yeah, that's me of the baby!fic saying that.  And they showed his hand in a jar a couple of times.  So my theories...  He knows who she is because she'd have to be in his head when they meet if she's his daughter, right?  She might have been able to shield before or...if she's just come off the loom she wasn't sentient until the moment the TARDIS heard her, slammed the doors and took off.  But my idea is definitely that she was loomed.  Although there could be partial cloning, but I hope not.  I don't think they dare do a natural born child or it'll seriously whack the integrity of the show.  Not that I don't want to see a baby with Rose, but...it's not Doctor Who, not really.  Anyway, I think the Master is responsible, it's something he set in place last season before he was killed and it's only just come to fruition.  He had that hand for a long time, and then he had the Doctor for a long time so access to DNA would be easy.

Kind of looks like she's being trained as an uber weapon or soldier, which the Doctor would absoultely hate and the Master would know it would destroy part of him.  I do wonder where they are going with this.  It seems very off for Doctor Who.  Although I do wonder if we won't see a Master clone at some point in the future, but that's another ramble. 

Just thinking out loud.  If you comment and you've been spoiled for anything past episode six, please don't leave it in the comments.  I'm trying to not be spoiled for the end of the season.

As for the question on episode 5, wouldn't igniting the atmosphere also burn up all the oxygen?  I don't think my science is that faulty, but stuff burns because of oxygen on this planet and it stops burning when all the oxygen is gone, so wouldn't it have been just as bad as the stuff he was trying to burn?  Did I miss something when he was explaining the device he was using?  I know he said something about terraforming but I didn't hear any real explanation about it not taking out the oxygen.

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[beneficia.livejournal.com]

Okay. I'm a science major. When I saw him burn up the atmosphere, my eye started twitching and my mouth was opening and closing and making as if to form speech but no words would come out. I kept chanting in my head: *I will not make comments about Doctor Who science. I will not make comments about Doctor Who science. I will not expect Doctor Who science to be remotely reasonable. I will let it go and move on. I will LET IT GO.*

You'd think I'd be inured after New Earth, but sometimes those wacky writers still catch me off guard.

As for the Doctor's daughter... (I have been completely unspoiled except for the title of the episode, the actress who's playing the role, the name of the character, and the trailer at the end of Poison Sky) I keep wondering, or maybe hoping that the reason they haven't tried to keep this plot line a secret is that they're using everyone's 'ZOMG! The Doctor has a daughter!! WTF?!' to maybe keep under wraps any REAL shockers this episode has. Like maybe there'll be more Unexpected!Rose, or we'll get to see the bigger picture of what the season arc is, or maybe we'll find out that the daughter IS the Doctor's and Rose's and she hasn't been born yet, or Rose really was lying at the end of Doomsday or...

*sigh* I know. Hope springs eternal in an OTP shipper's heart.

Still, as much as everyone else is dreading/is nervous about this episode, I'm still hoping that RTD will pull a shocker out of his hat and do something to make this really really cool, because I think it could be if done right.

But then I remember Tinkerbell!Doctor and RTD's conception of 'cool' and I despair.

[amberfocus.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's either going to be really, really good or horrendously bad. I don't think there's going to be a middle ground for this one. Loved your reaction to Doctor Who science!