Nutmeg's Misadventures

  1. Summed up in one sentence The one in which the ninth Doctor makes us all cry a lot because we love him so much. 2. The Doctor  He goes through a lot of changes in this last episode, and I do mean more than in the physical regeneration way. This entire season has been a journey of transformation for him, starting from the moment he met Rose. Though all the Doctors have very similar core personalities and behaviors, Nine is on the serious, guilt ridden, and combative side of the spectrum. He was just heavy, despite his delightful moments  of humor and whimsy. But Rose helped both his hearts to soften and lighten, giving him someone to believe in and care for and love.  We see his final moment of metamorphosis (before the literal one that is) when the leader of the Daleks asks the Doctor if he is a killer or a coward, because the Doctor has the choice to kill the Daleks, but it also ends up killing humans too, or allowing the Daleks to live so they can tr...

  1. Summed up in one sentence The one in which the Doctor and company get stuck in extremely deadly game shows, and Captain Jack isn't allowed to say hello to anyone. 2. The Doctor  It's incredibly hilarious to find the Doctor stuck on awful reality tv. And not only is the show awful, but it has deadly consequences. My favorite part is when the program tells him he's on public television so he's not allowed to swear and he says, "You've got to be kidding me." Yes, the last of the time lords, the mighty time traveler is stuck in a morbid version of Big Brother, where you don't only get evicted from the house, but you get disintegrated.  But the Doctor quickly sees not all is what it seems. For one, he's able to exit the show unscathed and is allowed to explore the television station, which of course happens to be the one they visited several episodes back in "The Long Game," only 100 years later. It's almost as if the Doctor and his c...

 1. Summed up in one sentence The one in which the villain everyone forgets about comes back again, which I certainly completely forgot about. 2. The Doctor He is forced in this episode to come to terms with his destructive nature as he and his team of companions come across one of the green, oversized baby, farting aliens that was the only one who survived the conclusion of "World War Three." She's once again trying to destroy earth so she can use the explosion to escape earth and go somewhere nice, I presume.  The Doctor and his team considers themselves well within their right to capture her and take her back to her home planet where she will suffer the death penalty for her crimes. Unfortunately for the Doctor and company, it will take time for the TARDIS to reboot before they can send her to her punishment, which gives her plenty of time to attempt to manipulate them.  Most of her efforts are focused on the Doctor since he's in charge. She's able to manipulat...

 1. Summed up in one sentence The one in which you start out very scared and then end up crying like a little baby (or I do at least . . . .) 2. The Doctor  The Doctor solves two mysteries in this episode, the first one being that the villain isn't actually a villain, but just some nanogenes that were actually trying to help people, but got a little confused. But the ultimate mystery he solves is why the child is looking for his mummy: because Nancy isn't the older sister to Jaimie, but his mother. She lied to everyone, including her own son to probably make life a little better for the both of them.  But the Doctor helps her accept the truth, and urges her to tell the child that she is his mummy. When she does, and the nano bot things finally understand what to do to fix the child, the Doctor sends the nano bots to fix everyone else. I will talk more of this part in the last section, but the Doctor's excitement and tenderness when he's able to save everyone are overwhe...

 1. Summed up in one sentence A freaky child with a gas mask follows people around, and it is terrifying (YAY FOR HORROR WHO!!!) 2. The Doctor It's fun to see the Doctor walk around in a time period he knows well. It's like he's perusing a favorite book he's read many times and continues to discover new favorite parts as he meets new people. For most of this episode he follows around a group of poor, homeless children who are guided with a gentle hand by Nancy, a young woman that scouts empty homes from which they pillage food. This is the first time we see how well the Doctor can get along with children, mentioning that he knows what it's like to lose his children and grandchildren. He respects their vulnerability and has the impulse to protect and nurture. He especially has a difficult time coping with this zombie-like child wondering around creepily asking for his mummy. You can see he really wants to look past the fact that this isn't an ordinary child and t...

 1. Summed up in one sentence The one in which Rose has the Doctor so whipped that he sacrifices himself and all of existence just so Rose can spend some time with her dad. 2. The Doctor As previously mentioned, the Doctor is from this point forth, henceforth and forever whipped by Rose. He wants to be mad at her. He really, really does and actually tries to throw a tissy fit just to demonstrate to her how very much not whipped he is.  But he is.  A lot.  Helplessly so. Pathetically so. The Doctor was well in his right to feel used by Rose when she makes the request to go back in time to when her dad died so she could be with him, but saves him instead. The Doctor points out that Rose didn't decide to join the Doctor when he said the TARDIS traveled through space. She ran to him after he mentioned it traveled back in time, and she admitted that it was always in the back of her mind up to this point. But he discovers fairly quickly that he is indeed whipped and is una...

  1. Summed up in one sentence The one in which peoples' foreheads open up while fake news is transmitted straight to their brains by a globby creature with fangs that hangs from the ceiling.  2. The Doctor The Doctor had enough to deal with in the past episode so he gets to have a break and just do what the Doctor does best: get worried about the state of reality, ask questions, maim electronics with his sonic screwdriver, get to the bottom of the mystery, you know, stuff like that.  He is also very supportive of Rose and what she wants to do, even when that includes bringing along that one douchebag from the previous episode she has a crush on. What's his name?  Adam? Brian? I'm pretty sure he's Adam.  Anyway, not important. He doesn't last long.  But as I was saying, the Doctor plays the wingman to Rose, urging them to go explore together on a date, helping Rose to impress her boy toy. It's an uncharacteristically nice thing for the Doctor to do this sin...

  1.  Summed up in one sentence The one in which this show makes a drastic turn from silly adventure to the deep dark rabbit hole of existential sadness.  2. The Doctor This episode pulls us all through the wringer along with the Doctor and Rose. The Doctor is forced to see his inner darkness when he reunites with his oldest and most bitter enemy. The one and only enemy responsible for the extinction of the time lords (well, for now anyway).  The first scene they have together is intense. It begins with the Doctor terrified upon realizing he's locked in a room with a Dalek. Then as he realizes that the Dalek's weapons are offline so to speak, he goes from relief and joy, to intense anger, to circling the helpless Dalek gloating at his powerlessness, to sorrow at realizing that he is as alone as the Dalek, both members of an extinct species.  When the Dalek points out their similar circumstances, the Doctor then goes to murderous outrage, doing his best to kill t...

1. Summed up in one sentence The baby shaped, pea green, farting aliens fail to take over/destroy the world. (I know. A big shock for us all.) 2. The Doctor Now that Jackie knows who the Doctor really is and what Rose has been up to, the Doctor faces pressure from Jackie to keep Rose safe. Not that the Doctor has put Rose in danger willy nilly, but he must ask himself the question if he is doing enough to keep her out of danger. Not only that, but has to make the difficult decision to destroy the aliens and save the world, even though it would most likely end in Rose's death. Of course she doesn't die, but it's still a major conflict for him, proving his ever deepening feelings for Rose.  3. The Companions Not only is there Rose and Harriet Jones helping the Doctor out, but Mickey begins to grow a pair in this episode by rescuing Jackie from an alien and helping the Doctor hack into nuclear missile stuff. Mickey has a fun journey from the sniveling, fear struck boyfriend to...