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aislynnLet's get right to it because this is going to be massive! ;) I took 276 screencaps of this one, more than 80 in the final 5 minutes if that tells you anything! ;) However, I'll do my best not to post all near-300 of them! ;) I didn't mention this last time because I didn't really anticipate anybody wanting them but I capped all of these myself (and it took forever since I had to use Windows Media Player and Paintshop Pro 8 to kinda painstakingly cap and crop each single shot *is full of teh crazy, lol* ). You're welcome to use any of these for icons, picspams or whatever if you'd like but it would really make my day if you let me know just so I'll feel all helpful-like! ;) And I wouldn't say no to being credited... ;) Also, if some of the pics don't come in, try refreshing the page. *crosses fingers that the links won't give out since there are a TON of them!* ;)
Okie-dokie, here we go! ;)
We start pretty much right from where 4x11 left off...
The Doctor and Donna arrive on Earth, expecting Huge Trouble but are perplexed to find everything looking kinda...normal.
Donna's looking especially curvy in this outfit, isn't she? ;)
Ten's hair: *approves!* ;)
Back in the TARDIS...
Doctor!hand: "Hi! I is probably a big plot point, coming soon, 'cause I has product placement a lot in this ep!"
Donna: "The thing is, Doctor, no matter what's happening - and I'm sure it's bad, I get that. But...Rose is coming back. Isn't that good?"
Doctor: (pause, then huge grin) "Yeah."
This was one of the spoilers scenes that came out a while ago and really cemented my love for Donna! There's no jealousy, she wants the Doctor to find Rose again. By this end of this ep, I believe that they prove, in canon, that Donna loves the Doctor. Not is IN love with him (because that would've triggered a jealous response) but that she loves him as a dear friend whom she wants to see be happy. Yes, my Ten/Donna shipper is down with that because hey, she's happy with reading fics and with planning the inevitable Ten/Donna shipper vid. ;)
A sudden jolt ends this lovely little moment and the Doctor rushes to open the TARDIS door to find...
...the Earth is gone!
And if you think that was a rough ride for the Doctor and Donna, you should've felt it from the Earth's p.o.v! Just ask:
Martha, now a higher muckity-muck in UNIT!
Jack, Gwen and Ianto, the remaining members of Torchwood Three, and...
Sarah Jane and Luke, from the Sarah Jane Adventures (Sarah Jane was the Doctor's companion back in his third and fourth incarnations ;) )
Everyone runs outside, looking up in disbelief, including...
...Wilf (Donna's granddad) and Sylvia (Donna's mom). I love how Wilf brought a weapon to fend off those "green swine!" ;)
Suddenly Rose blinks back into our world, packing a GINORMOUS gun! (I hope that thing didn't actually weight a ton because she has to pretty much carry it the entire time! O_O ;) )
We pan around Rose and look up to see what the fuss everyone is making about the sky is all about...
Earth: "This not my sky! My sky not has 26 other planets all crowded in it!"
Donna tries to comprehend that her family, her home, everyone she knows, her entire planet is now gone. A feeling that the Doctor would understand all too well, hm?
But he's busy trying to figure this out. He can't find any sign of where the Earth went so he has to resort to calling on the Shadow Proclamation, (Doctor: "Posh name for police.") which we've heard mentioned for a while now.
Meanwhile, the Doctor has no idea that things are about to get a lot more dire for Our Team on Earth as a message begins broadcasting over the whole planet.
Exterminate! Exterminate!
Yes, it's those pesky Daleks again! Led by the ever-snazzy pimped-out red!Dalek who had a name like Supreme Emperor Poo-bah :P but whom I kept thinking of as "pimped-out red!Dalek." ;)
Jack: (kisses Ianto and Gwen both on the forehead) "There's nothing I can do. I'm sorry. We're dead."
I've never seen Jack give up before a fight before, so that kinda stunned me! I guess that considering the Daleks were responsible for Jack's first death (which Rose brought him back from in 1x13 via her Bad Wolf power), that would explain his reaction. He knows that Earth doesn't have anything that can stop them. But still it was a surprise to hear him admit defeat that quickly. O_O
Donna and the Doctor arrive to meet the Shadow Proclamation who are...
...the Judoon (last seen in 3x01). ;) For some weird reason, the TARDIS doesn't translate what the Judoon commander says, nor what the Doctor says back to him, probably because it was a lot more fun to hear David Tennant make those staccato word-noises like "No!Ko!So!Bo!" I'm pretty sure FloJo and Toto were mentioned as well... :P
The Shadow Proclamation leader chick disses the Time Lords as myths and tells the Doctor he can't possibly exist.
The Doctor doesn't appreciate the dissing. I LOVE Donna's expression here, lol! ;)
I love the fact that, as the Doctor goes around the table to look at the monitor, he doesn't go around that thing on the floor like everybody else would have, he tromps OVER it! ;)
As Donna makes a suggestion, the SP leader chick gives a dismissive: "Who IS the female?"
Donna: "Donna. I'm a human being. Maybe not the stuff of legend but every bit as important as Time Lords, thank you."
Look at that proud expression! Awwwww! *squishes DoctorDonna* I'd say that that says to me that he loves Donna in the same "not IN love" fashion back but that's not really something that I've ever doubted. I think he loves all of his Companions in one way, shape or form, going all the way back to Susan, his granddaughter.
I do, however, support the notion that Donna is particularly special to him and they truly "get" each other in a very deep (if platonic) "soulmates" way.
Now, back to the story! ;)
From the suggestions Donna has made, the Doctor makes a connection of the planets that are missing. As he puts them into 3-D, they automatically configure themselves together, "like pieces of an engine."
As they wonder who could design such a thing, the Doctor remembers that someone tried to move the Earth before, a long time ago...
Doctor: "But it can't be..."
(Woo, gotta love it when they give props to the Old Skool Who's continuity! I don't remember seeing the eps whose events get mentioned throughout this ep but I've read about them. That was just SO right for them to fit things into the history instead of just writing it however they liked and hoping nobody noticed! ;) )
Meanwhile, the Daleks are going door to door on Earth, just saying yo. ;)
Oh noes! There goes one of Martha's UNIT comrades! The Daleks are systematically wiping out military installations and they've arrived where Martha's at!
The Base Commander gives Martha a Very Important Key that has a name I can't spell, so let's just call it Very Important Key for right now until I can find the proper spelling, hm? ;) We never find out this ep what it does but it's apparently potentially catastrophic, whatever it unlocks!
Martha makes use of her untested special project and vanishes, while Jack, over the telephone, begs her not to use it because it's too risky. But she has no choice, the Daleks are closing in on her. She pulls the cords and vanishes.
Jack tells Gwen and Ianto that the technology was based off of the Sontaran transport technology but, because there were no ending coordinates put in, then Martha has just been scattered into atoms.
Interestingly enough, in last week's TurnLeft!world, Rose told Donna that Jack was captured by the Sontarans and transported back to their homeworld. Since none of that has now happened, it makes you wonder how Jack knows so much about this secret project and Sontaran technology! o_O ;)
Meanwhile, on As The Bad Guys Turn... Pimped-out red!Dalek is joined by Mysterious!ClawedHand!Dalek and gone!squishy!crazy!Dalek Caan, last seen making an emergency temporal shift out of Dodge ;) to escape the Doctor in 3x05 and now all whacked out with the ability to prophesy the future.
gone!squishy!Dalek Caan: "He is coming. The three-fold man."
(Methinks that the "three-fold man" part is going to be VERY important in the next ep. O_O ;) Is it something from Old Skool Who? It sounds kinda like it was but I don't know... *ponders*)
Donna sits uncharacteristically alone while the Doctor ponders things. Suddenly, we hear a rhythmic sound like a heartbeat, growing louder and louder... Dare I even say it's...the sound of the drums? O_O
You know, all of fandom would've passed out if Donna would've pulled a fob watch out of her pocket at this point, don't you? :P
Nice!SP!girl interrupts with some cheerful prophesying of her own (condensed together from their conversation): "There was something on your back. You are something new. I'm so sorry for your loss. ...the loss that is yet to come."
The Doctor quizzes Donna on things that have changed recently on Earth and she remembers about the bees disappearing, which leads to a major discovery by the Doctor of a signal they can use to track Earth!
I couldn't help but notice these two shots just because there was something just kinda cute about the way she's sitting on the stairs and he's turned sideways like that. Also, I kept thinking the poor Judoon's standing back there like, "Somebody help me. I can't see a THING in this helmet!" o_O Lol! ;)
Now that the Doctor has the way figured out, the Shadow Proclamation peeps want to confiscate the TARDIS and keep him there to lead the upcoming war. Which, as you know, is just what the Doctor would never want!
So they ditch 'em! ;) gleeful!Ten and Donna are LOOOOOVE! ♥!
Meanwhile, back on Earth things have gotten a lot worse. Daleks are rounding people up and taking them away!
Wilf, with his trusty paintball gun in hand, is sure that he can use it to blind a Dalek since they have just that one eye.
He's forced to try his theory out and it works! But only for a minute. :(
Just when all looks hopeless... Rose and her ginormous gun appears, just in the nick of time! (Doesn't it kinda look from that perspective like a tiny Rose is popping up out of a Dalek like it's a cake, lol? :D ;) )
The Doctor and Donna are on Earth's trail! I found that an interesting way they're standing with their hands crossed like that. If they're each holding something down, why wouldn't they have taken the thing closer to themselves? Even if they're just sort of holding on, it seems like a position you wouldn't take with no reason...
*Inner Ten/Donna shipper pauses to draw hearts around them* ;)
At long last, the oft-mentioned Medusa Cascade! Ooo, pretty, ain't it? :D It's the center of a rift in time and space that the Doctor last visited when he "was just a kid, 90 years old" (in other words, when he was One ;) ).
The trail has abruptly gone cold, stopped dead. Donna grows increasingly alarmed as the Doctor seems to go almost catatonic at that news.
Donna: "So what do we do? Doctor, what do we do? Now don't do this to me. No, don't. Don't do this to me. Not now. Tell me, what are we going to do? You never give up! Please!"
But he has no answer.
On Earth, the Doctor's former Companions are all receiving a message...
It's Harriet Jones, former Prime Minister! The Doctor was responsible for her being removed from power, which left the door open for the Master as Harold Saxon to win the title, thus giving him the ability to take over the world at the end of s3 until Martha was able to execute the Doctor's plan that basically pushed a giant reset button on all of the horrible things that happened.
Interestingly enough, when Harriet's message comes in, it's accompanied by the distinctive duh-duh-duh drumming noise that the Master used to subliminally enslave humankind with his Archangel satellite system. Harriet says she's using the special "Dalek's can't hear us" Subwave Network system (I kept thinking she was going to say it was "substandard," lol!), not the Archangel one, so that was curious. Anyway!
Harriet connects all of the Doctor's former Companions, Jack and Sarah Jane and says the fourth contact seems to be having some trouble getting through...
Rose: "That's me!"
She's with Wilf and Sylvia whose computer unfortunately doesn't have a webcam, preventing Rose from speaking to the gang or the gang from seeing or hearing her.
But the fourth contact isn't Rose, it's...
Martha! Who was transported safely home by the Sontaran-based transport-in-a-backpack thing. ;)
Rose: "Who's SHE? I wanna get through..."
Now, I found that VERY strange that Rose knows so much about Donna, back to her birth according to what she told Donna last week, yet Rose has no idea who Martha is? o_O
Rose has taken some heat from the fandom for the things she says here. Harriet explains that Martha is a former Companion and Rose says, "Oy, so was I!" And later Rose mutters something about the fact that she was first.
To me, I didn't take that as cat-fighting or (as I've seen suggested) a slur against Sarah Jane who was, of course, a lot more "first" than Rose considering she knew Three and Four! I took it as Rose being caught off-guard, expecting that they were talking to and about her only to find instead it was this woman she knew nothing about. How disconcerting must that have been?
I think when/if Martha and Rose get the chance to meet face-to-face like Donna and Martha did, that there won't be any catty remarks and the like. I don't think it had anything to do with Rose being jealous of Martha or "not liking her" or anything like that, she was just rather stunned to find out that the Doctor had had another person in his life that she didn't even know existed. And worse yet, here Rose has traveled all this way, walked through parallel worlds, only to arrive at the right one and have no way to participate. She's left as strictly an observer, unable to even let the rest of them know that she's here, ready and able to help.
That was how it came across to me; Rose was feeling helpless and useless and so she kinda made some remarks. [/end Rose defense] ;)
Harriet and "the Doctor's Secret Army" of Companions come up with the plan:
They're going to try to phone the Doctor by using Sarah Jane's supercomputer Mr. Smith to coordinate all of the telephones and Torchwood will provide the power from the Rift and they'll attempt to get enough juice to be able to call the Doctor at last.
Even Rose adds her call to the mix.
Rose: (quietly) "Find me, Doctor. Find me."
It works! The Doctor sets the TARDIS on the trail of the signal.
Flames! Flames in the TARDIS! O_O Poor TARDIS! *pets her*
Making the call exposed Harriet's location to the Daleks. Harriet turns control over to Torchwood seconds before the Daleks burst in.
Harriet: "Harriet Jones, former Prime Minister."
Dalek: "Yes, we know who you are."
Harriet: "Oh, you know nothing of any human. And that will be your downfall."
Dalek: "Exterminate."
And Harriet's feed goes dead. :( Poor Harriet! But I'm glad she got to have a heroic exit, at least.
The 27 missing planets appear all around the TARDIS.
Doctor: "The entire Medusa Cascade has been put a second out of sync with the rest of the universe. Perfect hiding place, tiny little pocket of time. But we found 'em!"
The Doctor and Donna join in the conference call!
Gwen: "Ooo, he's a bit nice. I thought he'd be older."
Donna: "And who's he?"
Doctor: "Captain Jack. Don't. Just...don't."
*Inner Ten/Donna shipper essplodes in squee* Oh, come on, how cute was that! :P *Inner Donna/Jack shipper joins the party* *Inner Doctor/Rose shipper sighs and scoots over to make more room on the shipper couch* ;)
Rose: (quietly) "Doctor, it's me. I came back."
Everyone is there now.
Doctor: "Everyone except Rose."
Another signal forces its way on top. The Doctor bangs on the monitor, saying: (loudly) "Hello? Can you hear me?" (softly) "Rose?"
*Inner Doctor/Rose shipper sobs*
But it's not Rose, it's...
The Emperor from Star Wars! Davros, the creator of the Daleks! ;) Davros was supposedly destroyed in the first year of the Time War but Dalek Caan and his "emergency temporal shift" went back and rescued him. The Doctor is stunned because the Time War was "time-locked" which is why Gallifrey and all of the Time Lords are gone beyond the Doctor's reach.
*sound of another important plot point being made* DING! ;) So I guess that time-lock isn't quite as final as everybody thought, huh? ;)
The Doctor has only one thing left to say to Davros...
Doctor: "BYYYYYYYE!" *shifts the TARDIS into another gear* ;) And the TARDIS is coming to Earth again at last!
With Martha's help, Jack gets his Vortex Manipulator working again. He has to get to the Doctor!
Gwen and Ianto let him go. They don't tell him that they know the Daleks have located Torchwood's position and are on their way.
I at first thought why didn't Gwen and Ianto go WITH Jack, because we've seen the Vortex Manipulator transport the Doctor, Jack and Martha before. But Gwen and Ianto don't know that part, so they don't suggest it because, IMO, they know if they let on that they're not safe where they're at, then Jack won't leave them. So they sacrifice themselves so that Jack can reach the Doctor and somehow manage to save the rest of the world.
*sobs and pets Gwen and Ianto*
Jack transports away.
Meanwhile, Rose calls "Control" and tells them she needs another shift.
Rose: "Lock me onto the TARDIS."
Now back on Earth, the Doctor asks Donna to tell him anything that she can remember Rose said to her.
Donna: "Why don't you ask her yourself?"
Look at Donna's expression. Awwwwwwww! *squishes her* She SO wants to see him together with Rose again! That, seals the "love" deal to me. It's a pure sort of love, where she truly only wants to see him happy with the woman he loves. *squishes her some more* Oh Donna!
Ladies and gentlemen, the Longest Street In The Entire Universe. O_O
No words are really necessary for this next part...
All the Doctor/Rose shippers in the universe and Donna: "NOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
Notice, though that only half of the Doctor's body lights up. Important for later on, perhaps? Just a glancing blow? (It did, though, leave me to wonder how you can just be "winged" by a Death Ray... o_O ;) )
Jack blinks in and exterminates the Dalek but it's too late, the damage is done.
Rose: "I've got you. I've missed you. Look, it's me!"
Doctor: "Rose." (pained breathing) "Long time no see..."
Rose: "Yeah, been busy, you know?"
Doctor: *gasps in pain*
Rose: "Don't die. Oh my God, don't die..."
Jack and Donna make it to their sides. Jack instructs Donna and Rose to get the Doctor back to the TARDIS while he covers them with both his ginormous gun and Rose's as well.
Meanwhile, back at Torchwood, Gwen and Ianto prepare for their final stand.
Ianto: (sees her with machine gun) "Uh, they don't work against Daleks."
Gwen: "Yeah? Well, I'm going out fighting - like Owen, like Tosh. How 'bout you?"
Ianto: (takes clip she offers him and loads gun) (determined) "Yes, ma'am."
Jack: "Just step back. Rose! Do as I say and get back. He's dying and you know what happens next."
Donna: (crying) "What do you mean?"
But Rose knows what it means. She's gone through this before. She's "lost" the man she loves to regeneration. (And if you don't already know that I'm a HUGE Nine/Rose shipper and so firmly believe that Rose loved Nine in the same way she loves Ten and that he/they both love her the same in return... Well, now you know. ;) )
Doctor: "It's starting..."
Meanwhile, Sarah Jane, who was also on her way to find the Doctor, having left Luke in the care of Mr. Smith, is stopped by Daleks.
Daleks: "Exterminate! Exterminate!"
I admit, I was all, "Darn it, Sarah Jane, run those idiots OVER!" O_O ;)
Over at Torchwood...
Gwen and Ianto bring the rain in their final stand!
Gwen: *Rambo yell*
I LOVED the Rambo yell, I have to admit! ♥!
Jack wrestles Rose away and stands with an arm around Rose and Donna.
Jack: "Good luck, Doctor."
Donna: "Will someone please tell me what is going on???"
Rose: "When he's dying, his body repairs itself, it changes."
Rose: "But you can't!"
Doctor: "I'm sorry. It's too late."
Why does he struggle to his feet for this? Does it just look better standing up? :P ;)
Entire fandom: "What? What??? WHAT????? Okay, so this is a trick or something, he's not really going to--"
Entire fandom: "Holy moly, he really freakin' IS regenerating! I can't wait to see the trailer for next week's ep!" O_O
Next week's trailer: "Hah! Denied! Must wait a week to find out what happens next!"
Fandom: *essplodes*
Okay, here are my Ultimate Wishes for 4x13:
The golden lights fade, revealing...
Oh come on, would ANYBODY have seen that coming? :P Nine reveals that all the Medusa Cascade-is-out-of-sync-with-the-universe stuff has caused him to revert to his previous incarnation. Suddenly...
Ten also appears. The Medusa Cascade thing caused his current incarnation to heal itself without regenerating into Eleven. Because of paradoxes, Reapers, etc. Nine can't stay in this world so returns with Rose to her parallel world (which, as we know since Billie isn't staying on the show, that Rose is going to have to do via some plot device).
*Inner Nine/Rose shipper is ded from squee* ;)
But, of course, we know that it's not likely that Christopher Eccleston would return (though never say never! ;) ) and this also doesn't deal with Donna (since *sob* Catherine Tate is leaving) AND don't forget that crazy!Dalek Caan referred to the Doctor as "the three-fold man." So we need three folds, don't we? ;)
I propose that as the golden lights fade, we find not one Ten, not two, but THREE perfect, complete and "real" Tens!
One returns with Rose to the parallel world! (Plz to be having a proper romantic kiss nao, kthx? ;) )
We keep getting told that Donna has parallel worlds forming around her, so I'm imagining she's going to have to go into one of them for plot reasons. So hey, what do you get a Donna with her own brand-new parallel world to explore? Why her OWN Ten, of course! (Plz to be having moar kissy-tiem nao, kthx? :D Yes, I know I said "platonic soulmates" and all that earlier but I think that they could work around that platonic part given enough time and incentive, lol! ;) )
And that leaves one Ten here to carry on the show, having new adventures and meeting new people in the future!
*Inner Shippers*: "Yay! Happy endings for everybody!"
Okay, so if that three-fold thing is from Old Skool Who, then it probably isn't meant to be taken literally. But I love the idea of a Ten for everybody and some lovely happy endings all around! *has marshmallow heart full of love for all these characters* ♥!
And if you made it through allllll of that, you deserve a cookie as a token of my thanks! Help yourself!
As for me, I'm just going to stagger over here and sit down for a minute... Wow, that's the biggest picspam I've ever done! I can only imagine what NEXT weeks is going to look like! :D Hope to see you there! ♥!
PS - I do have ONE other theory for when the golden lights fade...
John Simm for Eleven, heck yeah!!!! :P Yes, I know it's VERY unlikely they would cast him as the Doctor after him having such a prominent role as the Master but c'mon, wouldn't that be fab all the same? He could be Eleven for part of this ep, then something happens and resets us back to Ten and everybody's all, "Oh, now we've seen your next incarnation" and the Doctor's all, "Well, but it happens different every time so it's not likely that my next incarnation will look just like that one did" thus freeing them from committing to having John Simm actually play Eleven on that eventual day when David Tennant does leave! :D
I really don't believe he's leaving permanently now, although if he DOES, then they'll have pulled off the most amazing "nobody saw that coming" in the history of television, IMO! But I'm not ready to let go of Ten just yet, kplzthx? I just fell in fandom love with him! Plus, I also don't think they're going to kill off all of their spin-off leads like Sarah Jane, Gwen and Ianto, so I'm thinking that the Big Important Key thing is going to do the old reset thing... Which works for me! ;) ♥!
Okie-dokie, here we go! ;)
We start pretty much right from where 4x11 left off...
The Doctor and Donna arrive on Earth, expecting Huge Trouble but are perplexed to find everything looking kinda...normal.
Donna's looking especially curvy in this outfit, isn't she? ;)
Ten's hair: *approves!* ;)
Back in the TARDIS...
Doctor!hand: "Hi! I is probably a big plot point, coming soon, 'cause I has product placement a lot in this ep!"
Donna: "The thing is, Doctor, no matter what's happening - and I'm sure it's bad, I get that. But...Rose is coming back. Isn't that good?"
Doctor: (pause, then huge grin) "Yeah."
This was one of the spoilers scenes that came out a while ago and really cemented my love for Donna! There's no jealousy, she wants the Doctor to find Rose again. By this end of this ep, I believe that they prove, in canon, that Donna loves the Doctor. Not is IN love with him (because that would've triggered a jealous response) but that she loves him as a dear friend whom she wants to see be happy. Yes, my Ten/Donna shipper is down with that because hey, she's happy with reading fics and with planning the inevitable Ten/Donna shipper vid. ;)
A sudden jolt ends this lovely little moment and the Doctor rushes to open the TARDIS door to find...
...the Earth is gone!
And if you think that was a rough ride for the Doctor and Donna, you should've felt it from the Earth's p.o.v! Just ask:
Martha, now a higher muckity-muck in UNIT!
Jack, Gwen and Ianto, the remaining members of Torchwood Three, and...
Sarah Jane and Luke, from the Sarah Jane Adventures (Sarah Jane was the Doctor's companion back in his third and fourth incarnations ;) )
Everyone runs outside, looking up in disbelief, including...
...Wilf (Donna's granddad) and Sylvia (Donna's mom). I love how Wilf brought a weapon to fend off those "green swine!" ;)
Suddenly Rose blinks back into our world, packing a GINORMOUS gun! (I hope that thing didn't actually weight a ton because she has to pretty much carry it the entire time! O_O ;) )
We pan around Rose and look up to see what the fuss everyone is making about the sky is all about...
Earth: "This not my sky! My sky not has 26 other planets all crowded in it!"
Donna tries to comprehend that her family, her home, everyone she knows, her entire planet is now gone. A feeling that the Doctor would understand all too well, hm?
But he's busy trying to figure this out. He can't find any sign of where the Earth went so he has to resort to calling on the Shadow Proclamation, (Doctor: "Posh name for police.") which we've heard mentioned for a while now.
Meanwhile, the Doctor has no idea that things are about to get a lot more dire for Our Team on Earth as a message begins broadcasting over the whole planet.
Exterminate! Exterminate!
Yes, it's those pesky Daleks again! Led by the ever-snazzy pimped-out red!Dalek who had a name like Supreme Emperor Poo-bah :P but whom I kept thinking of as "pimped-out red!Dalek." ;)
Jack: (kisses Ianto and Gwen both on the forehead) "There's nothing I can do. I'm sorry. We're dead."
I've never seen Jack give up before a fight before, so that kinda stunned me! I guess that considering the Daleks were responsible for Jack's first death (which Rose brought him back from in 1x13 via her Bad Wolf power), that would explain his reaction. He knows that Earth doesn't have anything that can stop them. But still it was a surprise to hear him admit defeat that quickly. O_O
Donna and the Doctor arrive to meet the Shadow Proclamation who are...
...the Judoon (last seen in 3x01). ;) For some weird reason, the TARDIS doesn't translate what the Judoon commander says, nor what the Doctor says back to him, probably because it was a lot more fun to hear David Tennant make those staccato word-noises like "No!Ko!So!Bo!" I'm pretty sure FloJo and Toto were mentioned as well... :P
The Shadow Proclamation leader chick disses the Time Lords as myths and tells the Doctor he can't possibly exist.
The Doctor doesn't appreciate the dissing. I LOVE Donna's expression here, lol! ;)
I love the fact that, as the Doctor goes around the table to look at the monitor, he doesn't go around that thing on the floor like everybody else would have, he tromps OVER it! ;)
As Donna makes a suggestion, the SP leader chick gives a dismissive: "Who IS the female?"
Donna: "Donna. I'm a human being. Maybe not the stuff of legend but every bit as important as Time Lords, thank you."
Look at that proud expression! Awwwww! *squishes DoctorDonna* I'd say that that says to me that he loves Donna in the same "not IN love" fashion back but that's not really something that I've ever doubted. I think he loves all of his Companions in one way, shape or form, going all the way back to Susan, his granddaughter.
I do, however, support the notion that Donna is particularly special to him and they truly "get" each other in a very deep (if platonic) "soulmates" way.
Now, back to the story! ;)
From the suggestions Donna has made, the Doctor makes a connection of the planets that are missing. As he puts them into 3-D, they automatically configure themselves together, "like pieces of an engine."
As they wonder who could design such a thing, the Doctor remembers that someone tried to move the Earth before, a long time ago...
Doctor: "But it can't be..."
(Woo, gotta love it when they give props to the Old Skool Who's continuity! I don't remember seeing the eps whose events get mentioned throughout this ep but I've read about them. That was just SO right for them to fit things into the history instead of just writing it however they liked and hoping nobody noticed! ;) )
Meanwhile, the Daleks are going door to door on Earth, just saying yo. ;)
Oh noes! There goes one of Martha's UNIT comrades! The Daleks are systematically wiping out military installations and they've arrived where Martha's at!
The Base Commander gives Martha a Very Important Key that has a name I can't spell, so let's just call it Very Important Key for right now until I can find the proper spelling, hm? ;) We never find out this ep what it does but it's apparently potentially catastrophic, whatever it unlocks!
Martha makes use of her untested special project and vanishes, while Jack, over the telephone, begs her not to use it because it's too risky. But she has no choice, the Daleks are closing in on her. She pulls the cords and vanishes.
Jack tells Gwen and Ianto that the technology was based off of the Sontaran transport technology but, because there were no ending coordinates put in, then Martha has just been scattered into atoms.
Interestingly enough, in last week's TurnLeft!world, Rose told Donna that Jack was captured by the Sontarans and transported back to their homeworld. Since none of that has now happened, it makes you wonder how Jack knows so much about this secret project and Sontaran technology! o_O ;)
Meanwhile, on As The Bad Guys Turn... Pimped-out red!Dalek is joined by Mysterious!ClawedHand!Dalek and gone!squishy!crazy!Dalek Caan, last seen making an emergency temporal shift out of Dodge ;) to escape the Doctor in 3x05 and now all whacked out with the ability to prophesy the future.
gone!squishy!Dalek Caan: "He is coming. The three-fold man."
(Methinks that the "three-fold man" part is going to be VERY important in the next ep. O_O ;) Is it something from Old Skool Who? It sounds kinda like it was but I don't know... *ponders*)
Donna sits uncharacteristically alone while the Doctor ponders things. Suddenly, we hear a rhythmic sound like a heartbeat, growing louder and louder... Dare I even say it's...the sound of the drums? O_O
You know, all of fandom would've passed out if Donna would've pulled a fob watch out of her pocket at this point, don't you? :P
Nice!SP!girl interrupts with some cheerful prophesying of her own (condensed together from their conversation): "There was something on your back. You are something new. I'm so sorry for your loss. ...the loss that is yet to come."
The Doctor quizzes Donna on things that have changed recently on Earth and she remembers about the bees disappearing, which leads to a major discovery by the Doctor of a signal they can use to track Earth!
I couldn't help but notice these two shots just because there was something just kinda cute about the way she's sitting on the stairs and he's turned sideways like that. Also, I kept thinking the poor Judoon's standing back there like, "Somebody help me. I can't see a THING in this helmet!" o_O Lol! ;)
Now that the Doctor has the way figured out, the Shadow Proclamation peeps want to confiscate the TARDIS and keep him there to lead the upcoming war. Which, as you know, is just what the Doctor would never want!
So they ditch 'em! ;) gleeful!Ten and Donna are LOOOOOVE! ♥!
Meanwhile, back on Earth things have gotten a lot worse. Daleks are rounding people up and taking them away!
Wilf, with his trusty paintball gun in hand, is sure that he can use it to blind a Dalek since they have just that one eye.
He's forced to try his theory out and it works! But only for a minute. :(
Just when all looks hopeless... Rose and her ginormous gun appears, just in the nick of time! (Doesn't it kinda look from that perspective like a tiny Rose is popping up out of a Dalek like it's a cake, lol? :D ;) )
The Doctor and Donna are on Earth's trail! I found that an interesting way they're standing with their hands crossed like that. If they're each holding something down, why wouldn't they have taken the thing closer to themselves? Even if they're just sort of holding on, it seems like a position you wouldn't take with no reason...
*Inner Ten/Donna shipper pauses to draw hearts around them* ;)
At long last, the oft-mentioned Medusa Cascade! Ooo, pretty, ain't it? :D It's the center of a rift in time and space that the Doctor last visited when he "was just a kid, 90 years old" (in other words, when he was One ;) ).
The trail has abruptly gone cold, stopped dead. Donna grows increasingly alarmed as the Doctor seems to go almost catatonic at that news.
Donna: "So what do we do? Doctor, what do we do? Now don't do this to me. No, don't. Don't do this to me. Not now. Tell me, what are we going to do? You never give up! Please!"
But he has no answer.
On Earth, the Doctor's former Companions are all receiving a message...
It's Harriet Jones, former Prime Minister! The Doctor was responsible for her being removed from power, which left the door open for the Master as Harold Saxon to win the title, thus giving him the ability to take over the world at the end of s3 until Martha was able to execute the Doctor's plan that basically pushed a giant reset button on all of the horrible things that happened.
Interestingly enough, when Harriet's message comes in, it's accompanied by the distinctive duh-duh-duh drumming noise that the Master used to subliminally enslave humankind with his Archangel satellite system. Harriet says she's using the special "Dalek's can't hear us" Subwave Network system (I kept thinking she was going to say it was "substandard," lol!), not the Archangel one, so that was curious. Anyway!
Harriet connects all of the Doctor's former Companions, Jack and Sarah Jane and says the fourth contact seems to be having some trouble getting through...
Rose: "That's me!"
She's with Wilf and Sylvia whose computer unfortunately doesn't have a webcam, preventing Rose from speaking to the gang or the gang from seeing or hearing her.
But the fourth contact isn't Rose, it's...
Martha! Who was transported safely home by the Sontaran-based transport-in-a-backpack thing. ;)
Rose: "Who's SHE? I wanna get through..."
Now, I found that VERY strange that Rose knows so much about Donna, back to her birth according to what she told Donna last week, yet Rose has no idea who Martha is? o_O
Rose has taken some heat from the fandom for the things she says here. Harriet explains that Martha is a former Companion and Rose says, "Oy, so was I!" And later Rose mutters something about the fact that she was first.
To me, I didn't take that as cat-fighting or (as I've seen suggested) a slur against Sarah Jane who was, of course, a lot more "first" than Rose considering she knew Three and Four! I took it as Rose being caught off-guard, expecting that they were talking to and about her only to find instead it was this woman she knew nothing about. How disconcerting must that have been?
I think when/if Martha and Rose get the chance to meet face-to-face like Donna and Martha did, that there won't be any catty remarks and the like. I don't think it had anything to do with Rose being jealous of Martha or "not liking her" or anything like that, she was just rather stunned to find out that the Doctor had had another person in his life that she didn't even know existed. And worse yet, here Rose has traveled all this way, walked through parallel worlds, only to arrive at the right one and have no way to participate. She's left as strictly an observer, unable to even let the rest of them know that she's here, ready and able to help.
That was how it came across to me; Rose was feeling helpless and useless and so she kinda made some remarks. [/end Rose defense] ;)
Harriet and "the Doctor's Secret Army" of Companions come up with the plan:
They're going to try to phone the Doctor by using Sarah Jane's supercomputer Mr. Smith to coordinate all of the telephones and Torchwood will provide the power from the Rift and they'll attempt to get enough juice to be able to call the Doctor at last.
Even Rose adds her call to the mix.
Rose: (quietly) "Find me, Doctor. Find me."
It works! The Doctor sets the TARDIS on the trail of the signal.
Flames! Flames in the TARDIS! O_O Poor TARDIS! *pets her*
Making the call exposed Harriet's location to the Daleks. Harriet turns control over to Torchwood seconds before the Daleks burst in.
Harriet: "Harriet Jones, former Prime Minister."
Dalek: "Yes, we know who you are."
Harriet: "Oh, you know nothing of any human. And that will be your downfall."
Dalek: "Exterminate."
And Harriet's feed goes dead. :( Poor Harriet! But I'm glad she got to have a heroic exit, at least.
The 27 missing planets appear all around the TARDIS.
Doctor: "The entire Medusa Cascade has been put a second out of sync with the rest of the universe. Perfect hiding place, tiny little pocket of time. But we found 'em!"
The Doctor and Donna join in the conference call!
Gwen: "Ooo, he's a bit nice. I thought he'd be older."
Donna: "And who's he?"
Doctor: "Captain Jack. Don't. Just...don't."
*Inner Ten/Donna shipper essplodes in squee* Oh, come on, how cute was that! :P *Inner Donna/Jack shipper joins the party* *Inner Doctor/Rose shipper sighs and scoots over to make more room on the shipper couch* ;)
Rose: (quietly) "Doctor, it's me. I came back."
Everyone is there now.
Doctor: "Everyone except Rose."
Another signal forces its way on top. The Doctor bangs on the monitor, saying: (loudly) "Hello? Can you hear me?" (softly) "Rose?"
*Inner Doctor/Rose shipper sobs*
But it's not Rose, it's...
*sound of another important plot point being made* DING! ;) So I guess that time-lock isn't quite as final as everybody thought, huh? ;)
The Doctor has only one thing left to say to Davros...
Doctor: "BYYYYYYYE!" *shifts the TARDIS into another gear* ;) And the TARDIS is coming to Earth again at last!
With Martha's help, Jack gets his Vortex Manipulator working again. He has to get to the Doctor!
Gwen and Ianto let him go. They don't tell him that they know the Daleks have located Torchwood's position and are on their way.
I at first thought why didn't Gwen and Ianto go WITH Jack, because we've seen the Vortex Manipulator transport the Doctor, Jack and Martha before. But Gwen and Ianto don't know that part, so they don't suggest it because, IMO, they know if they let on that they're not safe where they're at, then Jack won't leave them. So they sacrifice themselves so that Jack can reach the Doctor and somehow manage to save the rest of the world.
*sobs and pets Gwen and Ianto*
Jack transports away.
Meanwhile, Rose calls "Control" and tells them she needs another shift.
Rose: "Lock me onto the TARDIS."
Now back on Earth, the Doctor asks Donna to tell him anything that she can remember Rose said to her.
Donna: "Why don't you ask her yourself?"
Look at Donna's expression. Awwwwwwww! *squishes her* She SO wants to see him together with Rose again! That, seals the "love" deal to me. It's a pure sort of love, where she truly only wants to see him happy with the woman he loves. *squishes her some more* Oh Donna!
Ladies and gentlemen, the Longest Street In The Entire Universe. O_O
No words are really necessary for this next part...
All the Doctor/Rose shippers in the universe and Donna: "NOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
Notice, though that only half of the Doctor's body lights up. Important for later on, perhaps? Just a glancing blow? (It did, though, leave me to wonder how you can just be "winged" by a Death Ray... o_O ;) )
Jack blinks in and exterminates the Dalek but it's too late, the damage is done.
Rose: "I've got you. I've missed you. Look, it's me!"
Doctor: "Rose." (pained breathing) "Long time no see..."
Rose: "Yeah, been busy, you know?"
Doctor: *gasps in pain*
Rose: "Don't die. Oh my God, don't die..."
Jack and Donna make it to their sides. Jack instructs Donna and Rose to get the Doctor back to the TARDIS while he covers them with both his ginormous gun and Rose's as well.
Meanwhile, back at Torchwood, Gwen and Ianto prepare for their final stand.
Ianto: (sees her with machine gun) "Uh, they don't work against Daleks."
Gwen: "Yeah? Well, I'm going out fighting - like Owen, like Tosh. How 'bout you?"
Ianto: (takes clip she offers him and loads gun) (determined) "Yes, ma'am."
Jack: "Just step back. Rose! Do as I say and get back. He's dying and you know what happens next."
Donna: (crying) "What do you mean?"
But Rose knows what it means. She's gone through this before. She's "lost" the man she loves to regeneration. (And if you don't already know that I'm a HUGE Nine/Rose shipper and so firmly believe that Rose loved Nine in the same way she loves Ten and that he/they both love her the same in return... Well, now you know. ;) )
Doctor: "It's starting..."
Meanwhile, Sarah Jane, who was also on her way to find the Doctor, having left Luke in the care of Mr. Smith, is stopped by Daleks.
Daleks: "Exterminate! Exterminate!"
I admit, I was all, "Darn it, Sarah Jane, run those idiots OVER!" O_O ;)
Over at Torchwood...
Gwen and Ianto bring the rain in their final stand!
Gwen: *Rambo yell*
I LOVED the Rambo yell, I have to admit! ♥!
Jack wrestles Rose away and stands with an arm around Rose and Donna.
Jack: "Good luck, Doctor."
Donna: "Will someone please tell me what is going on???"
Rose: "When he's dying, his body repairs itself, it changes."
Rose: "But you can't!"
Doctor: "I'm sorry. It's too late."
Why does he struggle to his feet for this? Does it just look better standing up? :P ;)
Entire fandom: "What? What??? WHAT????? Okay, so this is a trick or something, he's not really going to--"
Entire fandom: "Holy moly, he really freakin' IS regenerating! I can't wait to see the trailer for next week's ep!" O_O
Next week's trailer: "Hah! Denied! Must wait a week to find out what happens next!"
Fandom: *essplodes*
Okay, here are my Ultimate Wishes for 4x13:
The golden lights fade, revealing...
Oh come on, would ANYBODY have seen that coming? :P Nine reveals that all the Medusa Cascade-is-out-of-sync-with-the-universe stuff has caused him to revert to his previous incarnation. Suddenly...
Ten also appears. The Medusa Cascade thing caused his current incarnation to heal itself without regenerating into Eleven. Because of paradoxes, Reapers, etc. Nine can't stay in this world so returns with Rose to her parallel world (which, as we know since Billie isn't staying on the show, that Rose is going to have to do via some plot device).
*Inner Nine/Rose shipper is ded from squee* ;)
But, of course, we know that it's not likely that Christopher Eccleston would return (though never say never! ;) ) and this also doesn't deal with Donna (since *sob* Catherine Tate is leaving) AND don't forget that crazy!Dalek Caan referred to the Doctor as "the three-fold man." So we need three folds, don't we? ;)
I propose that as the golden lights fade, we find not one Ten, not two, but THREE perfect, complete and "real" Tens!
One returns with Rose to the parallel world! (Plz to be having a proper romantic kiss nao, kthx? ;) )
We keep getting told that Donna has parallel worlds forming around her, so I'm imagining she's going to have to go into one of them for plot reasons. So hey, what do you get a Donna with her own brand-new parallel world to explore? Why her OWN Ten, of course! (Plz to be having moar kissy-tiem nao, kthx? :D Yes, I know I said "platonic soulmates" and all that earlier but I think that they could work around that platonic part given enough time and incentive, lol! ;) )
And that leaves one Ten here to carry on the show, having new adventures and meeting new people in the future!
*Inner Shippers*: "Yay! Happy endings for everybody!"
Okay, so if that three-fold thing is from Old Skool Who, then it probably isn't meant to be taken literally. But I love the idea of a Ten for everybody and some lovely happy endings all around! *has marshmallow heart full of love for all these characters* ♥!
And if you made it through allllll of that, you deserve a cookie as a token of my thanks! Help yourself!
As for me, I'm just going to stagger over here and sit down for a minute... Wow, that's the biggest picspam I've ever done! I can only imagine what NEXT weeks is going to look like! :D Hope to see you there! ♥!
PS - I do have ONE other theory for when the golden lights fade...
John Simm for Eleven, heck yeah!!!! :P Yes, I know it's VERY unlikely they would cast him as the Doctor after him having such a prominent role as the Master but c'mon, wouldn't that be fab all the same? He could be Eleven for part of this ep, then something happens and resets us back to Ten and everybody's all, "Oh, now we've seen your next incarnation" and the Doctor's all, "Well, but it happens different every time so it's not likely that my next incarnation will look just like that one did" thus freeing them from committing to having John Simm actually play Eleven on that eventual day when David Tennant does leave! :D
I really don't believe he's leaving permanently now, although if he DOES, then they'll have pulled off the most amazing "nobody saw that coming" in the history of television, IMO! But I'm not ready to let go of Ten just yet, kplzthx? I just fell in fandom love with him! Plus, I also don't think they're going to kill off all of their spin-off leads like Sarah Jane, Gwen and Ianto, so I'm thinking that the Big Important Key thing is going to do the old reset thing... Which works for me! ;) ♥!
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Date: 2008-06-29 10:22 pm (UTC)*Hugs*
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Date: 2008-06-29 10:29 pm (UTC)I agree with you: Donna is *such* a hardcore Rose/Ten shipper! Wouldn't you love for her and Jack to meet in the next episode? ;) (Poor Ianto though....)
OMG, I love the expression on the Doctor's face as he's running towards "his" Rose. It is so sweet and yet so heart-breaking when you consider what happends next *weeps*
The better bring Mickey back next week and *finally* give me my Rose/Ten kiss, or else I will seriously freak out!
Thank you, thank you, thank you! I'll be having the sweetest dreams tonight! :D
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Date: 2008-06-29 10:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-06-29 10:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-06-29 11:00 pm (UTC)Regarding Gwen, Ianto and Jack's vortex manipulator, however-- they should have known by now that Capt. John's vortex manipulator was able to transport more than one person, so I think we're just going to have to accept that it's a plot hole.
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Date: 2008-06-29 11:17 pm (UTC)Also, this:
Doctor!hand: "Hi! I is probably a big plot point, coming soon, 'cause I has product placement a lot in this ep!"
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
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Date: 2008-06-29 11:22 pm (UTC)THAT WAS THE MNOST AWESOMEST THING EVER
My fangirl heart exploded in my chest. You hit every nail on the head
Master for 11!
BRING 9 BACK
ITS A PARALELL UNIVERSE
I love you!
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Date: 2008-06-29 11:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-06-29 11:50 pm (UTC)Now that the shock from the cliffhanger has worn off, I'm finding the "To Be Continued" hilarious to the point of narm. As for Rose, I understood her reaction, even if I wanted to smack upside the head.
Now the regeneration - notice that the jar's glowing? As me and my brother and sister were saying earlier, I don't think there's a precedent for having your previously severed limb present during the process - I'm currently going with it providing undamaged Ten!DNA, like when the nanogenes needed to be told the correct make-up for a human, so that he won't have to waste energy on a complete rewrite.
Speaking of which - three Tens?. I'm quite happy to see double for a reason other than being due for an eye test, but there's the small matter of clothes if he does the rumoured split; more than one unexpected naked Tennant might make the universe implode or something.
Still working on what 'threefold man' means.
Thank You {hugs}
Date: 2008-06-30 12:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-06-30 01:32 am (UTC)John Simm as Eleven would be fantastic. Maybe the Doctor has some unconscious control over his regenerations and so he ends up with the Master's form because he mourns his death so much. ;)
I'll be biting my fingernails waiting for your next picspam. :D
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Date: 2008-06-30 01:58 am (UTC)I rather like your theories.
I really wish Cathrine Tate wasn't leaving - I wish we'd get a companion for more than one series for a change. (Yeah, Rose was 2, but only 1 with each Doctor). I personally think Donna is going to find Lee again. At least I hope so.
I thought maybe there'd be 3 incarnations of the doctor. Wouldn't it be funny if it was Christopher E, David, and the guy who played Doctor 8?
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Date: 2008-06-30 01:59 am (UTC)Ianto's sad smile when Jack leaves is probably my favorite part of the entire episode ; ___; I wanted to cry for him. He just looked so precious, and I just want to hug him x235443543. No, I'm not madly in love with a fictional character...
But seriously, Jack better come back and give Ianto the best make-out session he ever had for leaving him with the Daleks D:< Screw the kids watching at home Y/Y?
And now I'm gonna shuttup, since this entire comment was about Ianto, and not the show in general...
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Date: 2008-06-30 02:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-06-30 02:55 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-06-30 04:13 am (UTC)is trufax
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Date: 2008-06-30 04:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-06-30 04:31 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-06-30 04:37 am (UTC)I REALLY want to know how this is going to turn out. Next week is a LONG way away. :(
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Date: 2008-06-30 04:51 am (UTC)My ideal donna/doctor would be that they remain friends for a season and a half and then slowly fall in love. It's not to be, so I accept it...but I do agree...They do have a deep love for each other. It just isn't husband and wife love. Which is why I think if it ever developed into the real deal it would be deeper than anything he has ever had. It would be totally selfless on both parts...The look on donna's face when Rose showed up... She only cares about how happy Rose makes him...
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Date: 2008-06-30 05:21 am (UTC)Unfortunately, my bitter old heart predicts that Ten is gonna hang around for quite a bit longer, while Nine remains a golden memory...
And yet, despite my stubborn Nine love, this was an amazing ep!
Endless Ianto love! *heart breaks*
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Date: 2008-06-30 06:06 am (UTC)loads and loads of hot, hot sexfun adventures together. Whee!no subject
Date: 2008-06-30 07:43 am (UTC)Donna/Jack would rock! :D I can hardly resist loving the thought of my two of some of my favorite characters together!
Wasn't that awesome how thrilled the Doctor looked as he saw Rose, then started running towards her? ♥! Although I was afraid she was going to trip and shoot him herself with that ginormous gun! O_O ;) I've been working tonight trying to give them a "better" ending to that run in icon form. I'm going to still keep working on it 'cause I'm not quite happy with it yet (that darn 40kb LJ limit just kills animated icons! O_O >:[ ;) ) but it's kinda close at least! ;)
I'm sure that we're going to see Mickey and Jackie next week but I have no idea what they're going to do about that kiss... *frets* They owe us a decent romantic kiss after putting us through this cliffhanger this week! ;)
Thank you so much again, hon! *big hugs* ♥!
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