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rabid1stOkay...the first thing I have to say isn't really a spoiler. I said in my last ratings post that the 1.3 point Rose-bump didn't happen and I was amazed. But that was because I was comparing the STORY components...Utopia to Episode 11. This is the first part of the finale...but most regular viewers don't know that...only the internet superfans know that.
I should have been looking at Doctor-lite episodes...Love and Monsters and Blink for my ratings numbers...because this episode was really a Doctor-free episode. And there it is...6.6 for L&M and 6.3 for Blink...and 7.0 for Episode 11.
Our Rose Bump is WIN! YAY!!
In fact, it was a 1.7 Rose-Bump!
To put it another way...this time people retained interest in the show (the ratings didn't sag) even knowing that the Doctor wasn't going to be in it. So, the casual fan understood that the story was continuing...as long as Rose was in it.
And now for something that is a little spoilery...just another thing that dawned on me re: Donna.
I was thinking about how the Doctor needs a vacation...as always. :grin: And how what he really wants is to just rest and be with Rose. And how what Rose really wants is to just be with him and how I expect Donna to take over for him for a bit...and it hit me...Donna is constantly refered to as "a temp"...I'm just a temp...or leave it to super-temp. And that's what the Doctor needs...a temp. Someone to fill in at his job while he takes a sabbatical.
How cool is that?
Very cool!
Because...come on...temps are important. If we didn't have temps some people would never get a vacation or a maternity break (the two things, I think, the Doctor and Rose really need). And again...if I'm right...I want to squeeze RTD's stuffing out for being so cute.
Rae
I should have been looking at Doctor-lite episodes...Love and Monsters and Blink for my ratings numbers...because this episode was really a Doctor-free episode. And there it is...6.6 for L&M and 6.3 for Blink...and 7.0 for Episode 11.
Our Rose Bump is WIN! YAY!!
In fact, it was a 1.7 Rose-Bump!
To put it another way...this time people retained interest in the show (the ratings didn't sag) even knowing that the Doctor wasn't going to be in it. So, the casual fan understood that the story was continuing...as long as Rose was in it.
And now for something that is a little spoilery...just another thing that dawned on me re: Donna.
I was thinking about how the Doctor needs a vacation...as always. :grin: And how what he really wants is to just rest and be with Rose. And how what Rose really wants is to just be with him and how I expect Donna to take over for him for a bit...and it hit me...Donna is constantly refered to as "a temp"...I'm just a temp...or leave it to super-temp. And that's what the Doctor needs...a temp. Someone to fill in at his job while he takes a sabbatical.
How cool is that?
Very cool!
Because...come on...temps are important. If we didn't have temps some people would never get a vacation or a maternity break (the two things, I think, the Doctor and Rose really need). And again...if I'm right...I want to squeeze RTD's stuffing out for being so cute.
Rae