[ SECRET POST #2260 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2260 ⌋

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 04 pages, 080 secrets from Secret Submission Post #323.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 2 - too big ], [ 1 - repeat ].
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Comments

Re: Mediocre episodes you love

[(Anonymous)]

My favorite episode of Doctor Who is "The Runaway Bride".

Yup. It was corny as hell and the plot was dumb and contrived and it was full of gimmicks and asspulls the bad guy gloated and monologued about his plans and the villainess was the single hammiest thing I have ever seen in my entire life, but in spite of all that surface stuff, the underlying connections and progression was magnificent. I don't just mean the Doctor and Donna being epic and David and Catherine's chemistry (although they were about 60% of the awesomeness), but I mean the points it hit: The context of everything happening moments after the Doctor just lost Rose. Donna flipping out upon finding herself accidentally kidnapped by a random alien and managing to bully him into submission without him even realizing it. The Doctor getting Donna to trust him on the motorway. The perfectly turned breather scene of them on the roof where they relax and make friends and get married. The organic nastiness of the reception. The scene where Lance tears Donna to bits. The birth of the Earth. The terrifying genocide scene that you never see coming but comes about so inevitably that quietly changes the entire episode in ten seconds without a single wobble. Their exchange at the end. The scope and sincerity of that episode is just phenomenal, in spite of (maybe even because of) the goofy OTT gimmicks and trappings and plot.

Re: Mediocre episodes you love

[maverickz3r0]

Donna was amazing in that one. I was cheering her to become a companion again from that, so when Partners in Crime aired I was like 'yesss!' And she was fantastic in that one too, I'd have to pick that for my favourite. If only for the scene where they're mouthing and gesturing back and forth to each other through the room the bad guys are in, and they follow each other perfectly up until Donna does that whole complicated explanation of why she's there and The Doctor's just staring at her getting gradually more confused until they realize they've been spotted. That was one of the funniest bits of Doctor Who I've ever seen.

Re: Mediocre episodes you love

[intrigueing]

It's not one of my top favorites, but back when we did that "if you could only rewatch three episodes of your favorite shows for the rest of your life" thread a couple months ago, this one was of my three, because like you said: the sheer breadth and grandeur and perfectly-pitched illustrative scenes of everything that makes the show (and Ten's character) what it is. It connects to all the themes, all the ideas, all the...everything. It touches on everything. And it contains a good five or six of my favorite scenes in the whole show.

Re: Mediocre episodes you love

[(Anonymous)]

I loved Runaway Bride and I agree with all this.

I was also always surprised when fans told me they didn't like Donna in that episode and didn't warm to her until series 4 because I always thought the chemistry between Ten and Donna was evident from the very beginning.