You know...

I really, really, really like "Love and Monsters". At first I was iffy about it, but I just rewatched it today and adored it. I think it helps if you're watching it with someone else who gets very into it and giggles at all of Elton's silliness too. And I was blubbering like a baby during the ending, and I teared up during Jackie's "left behind" speech--beautiful, that scene.

And my love for Rose has been renewed. Brave and such a sweetheart.

Random thought that occured to be during "The Satan Pit" though: the Doctor believes in Rose enough to magically save herself from a rocket (albeit via an absolutely wonderful speech), yet he doesn't believe in her enough to figure out that Satan's consciousness has escaped. Makes sense, since he's under the impression that he must be the hero, dammit!, but still interesting.

I love these two. ^.^

OOOOH, and I also noticed some actual growth in Rose's S2 character (vs. just from S1 to S2). In "Tooth and Claw", she was giggling around death, squeeing and hugging and bouncing after she just watched a werewolf maul someone. She was compartmentalizing, which was just damn unhealthy (and one of my least favorite scenes, but hey). She's stopped doing that, she's dwelling in the reality of it--Mr. Jefferson is a fine example of this. But she's able to move on, and most likely talks it out off-screen, and is handling things much better. She just... really seems to grow up in the latter half of the season, something I never realized before. I like that.

I still think a bit of downtime from the Doctor in the alt!universe was good for her, but I'm even more firmly of the belief that if she were to come back now, she'd be amazing. And she and the Doctor would just click even more and be more "equal."

...I need to finish the novel and write my Doctor/Rose/Master fic. @_@ Sorry that's taking me a bit longer than anticipated, darlings!

Oh, and since I also watched "The Idiot's Lantern" today, I feel I should say a little something about this ep. Well, I adore the Doctor/Rose relationship in it, and I especially love Rose's solo investigation (...though, really, going off by yourself to the guy taking faces away? Bad idea, Rose! Bad!) and the scene where the Doctor sees faceless!Rose for the first time. Other than that... not one of my favorites, really. I think I replayed the "Yes, Tommy" scene at least ten times just to laugh at the unintentional humor. Honestly, it sounds like one of those documentaries you'd watch in school...

Tommy: (big wide eyes) "Is that an alien, Mr. Smith?"
Doctor/Mr. Smith: (all serious) "Yes, Tommy. It's *blah blah blah.*"

*giggles*

And on a completely unrelated note:

Today was my first day of APTT training (peer-counseling group that I got into), and it was pretty fun. I ate far too much today. And the people were really fun/nice. At the end of our day together, we all filled out cards about the people in our mini-groups within the main group. Apparently I'm not afraid to be myself, even when this is "unpopular." I'm vaguely musing about which part of me is unpopular, though... Bisexuality, maybe? I went on about that for a bit.

Ooooh, and I had to think up a life motto. I was proud of mine:

Be yourself, help others, and party like a rock star.

Ta mates! :)

Like a sinking moon that pressed him down...

^Not actually an analogy I used, but I could see myself using it, and dear God I mix metaphors too much. And it's a bad habit. And I should stop. But it's fun, even though it's all wrong and confusing and wrong and whirling and a bit crinkled in an off-putting, smelly sardine (unless you like sardines, I suppose; in that case, think of something sort of stinky but not too bad) way, and it's confusing, but it's fun. It's fun, damn it!

FUN!

...I really need to be in a more creative mood for writing this scene. @_@