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> erilar
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> >> Tim Bruening wrote:
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>>> Davro's grandiose plan to destroy reality by canceling out the
>>> electrical energy that holds matter together. However, with
>>> everything but the Daleks gone, where will the Daleks obtain the
>>> energy and minerals needed to sustain themselves?
>> Daleks plan ahead less than they think they do.
Back in the 80s, there was a trilogy of stage plays called WARP
(later done as a comic book) about two god-like brothers, Lord
Cumulus (the good guy) and Lord Chaos (the bad guy). Lord Chaos
was out to destroy the universe, prompting one character to
say, "But if he destroys the universe, where is he going to
*live*?"
That was pretty much my reaction to Davros' plan and other Big
Bad mission statements.
To my mind, the real problem with the Daleks going along with
this plan is more along the line of "But if they're alone in
the universe, what are they going to *do*?" It seems like their
only purpose in life is to exterminate non-Dalek life forms.
So if they succeed in doing that, what will they do instead?
Take up the piano? Bonsai? Make baby Daleks? Start exterminating
each other?
> I really, truly hope that this is the last time we will ever
> see the Daleks. Now they may have once been the enemy against
> whom the Doctor and his children abandoned all hope of resistance,
> but I never found them that impressive,
Same here. They're just giant salt shakers with a toilet plunger
on the front.
>>> Martha's Ostrohogan Key, which would destroy the Earth with 25
>>> nukes.
Favorite line of the episode...
The Doctor: "But who would create such a thing? Well, obviously,
someone named Osterhagen, but..."
>>> Mickey had decided to stay in our universe,
More to the point, the implication is that Mickey and Martha will
replace Owen and Tosh in Torchwood.
>>> giving the impression that he and Rose were no longer lovers.
>>> What happened to end his romance with Rose?
>
> Didn't Mickey spend the last three years in a different parallel
> universe from the one Rose has been in, where he was fighting
> cybermen?
Same universe. After the first trip to that parallel universe,
Rose came back with The Doctor while Mickey stayed behind to
help fight the Cybermen, and to stay with his Grandmother who'd
died in his own universe. If memory serves, Jackie had also
stayed behind to stay with that universe's version of her dead
husband.
In "Army of Ghosts"/"Doomsday", the Cybermen from that parallel
broke through to the "real" universe. When the portal between
universes closed, Rose became trapped in that parallel along
with her mother and Mickey.
> He had realized that Rose loved the Doctor, not him, a long
> time ago.
Exactly. He still cared for Rose, and remained her friend, but
it was late in the Eccleston season that he realized that he'd
lost Rose to The Doctor, and left to go off on his own.
The question I have is about Mickey and Captain Jack. Here they
acted like old friends, but I don't recall Mickey being in any
of the Captain Jack eps in Season 1. Maybe I need to revisit
those.
-- jayembee
