[ SECRET POST #2948 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2948 ⌋

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Comments

[replicantangel]

Agreed. They finally get some life lessons about the seriousness of what they get into (although in such a roundabout way that I doubt the characters themselves really see the gravity of their own actions - but we see them).

Maybe I don't remember much of this episode, but they do rather giggle and jump around at the end of near every episode when they're reunited/done with dealing with the baddie. I'm not sure why OP has chosen this episode to hate on the characters for that? Seems like it's applicable in a lot of episode endings.

But yeah, I rather like that there's a reminder that there are consequences to everything, and that even if the Doctor's life is fun (although the series overall seems to stress otherwise on a frequent basis), the characters shouldn't forget it's very real and present for those not time-traveling.

[were_lemur]

Maybe it was the first time? This was only their second regular episode together. Or maybe it was because they were doing it in front of someone who'd just lost people. Which is pretty fucking tacky.

I actually tolerate their episodes a lot better knowing that they're going to have to deal with the consequences of their actions down the road.

[replicantangel]

I hadn't even remembered it was only their second episode together.

I guess there's also the aspect that, in many episodes, the other characters are celebrating too, even when they've lost someone. It could be seen as a "thank God we survived - we'll mourn later, but right now, I'm just happy I'm breathing" thing though, and Victoria was one of the few that didn't have that reaction. Even with Nine/Rose, we get a lot of celebrating post-adventure which is supported and joined in by other characters (or they are appropriately somber with them).

Support from others in-universe aside, I do remember it was really freaking obvious Victoria was Not Pleased, and they should have not acted so insensitively. A hermit crab would have seen that was an inappropriate response.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, I mean they did also spend a lot of the episode attempting to get the queen to do tricks like a trained dog for them (Am I the only one who thought them trying to get the "amused" line out of her was just... not funny? Like, at all?) Taken in context of the episode, that scene really did feel extra obnoxious to me.

[(Anonymous)]

Noped. I winced throughout that whole episode and wanted to slap some sense into Rose.