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That was fun! I enjoyed it muchly, because new episodes! New Doctor Who! That never fails to make me overuse exclamation points!

Donna was excellent, really excellent - she's all the bits I liked best about "The Runaway Bride" and more besides. And her gung-ho enthusiasm is just adorable! She's got the brashness covering more than a bit of vulnerability, but she's undeniably a strong character, and there's a lot of room for her to grow this series. I look forward to it.

Anyway, yes. Plot was, uh, silly and pretty much "Invasion of the Bane", wasn't it, with the conspiracy and none-too-subtle but slightly muddled social messages and just a few more in the way of silly monsters. Spaceship was extremely pretty, though!

(And oh, the poor transcripters who'll be stuck trying to make sense of the through-the-window conversation. Which, of course, had me giggling.)

"Don't you ever change?"

"You look older."

Some really nice shoutouts to the events of series three, and in particular the Doctor's whole new set of guilt issues over Martha. This is gonna be an interesting ride from a character-related perspective. Still haven't a clue what to expect, plotwise at least.

I liked all the "level 5 planet" and "galactic law" and "Shadow Proclamation" (which can be alerted, so I guess this makes it a collective noun of some sort, which I love) stuff - it was part of what hooked me on the series in the first place, the idea that all these amazing things are going on right behind our backs, and they're organised enough to have governments and such. Sci-fi worldbuilding nerdery!

Ooh, and the "What do you need?" from Donna while the Doctor's freaking out and already starting to soliloquise. Little nod to TCI, which was interesting.

Thing that could potentially be irksome is Donna's whole belief that you can't have adventures in a so-called "normal" life. Unless it's just the starting point, and they're gonna go all out with her character like they did a la SJA, which could be neat (and how apt is

calapine's comparison of Rose = Jo, Martha = Liz, Donna = SJ?). Anyway.

I was actually unspoiled for the Rose appearance - I thought she'd just be in the finale - and I nearly fell off my chair. It was nicely done, I thought!

As a final note, I have a line scribbled in my notebook that seems to read "cooking the manly way". I'm pretty sure I just can't read my own writing, but thought I'd toss that out there in case it was relevant and/or clever.