"I'm the Doctor and I will be your victim this evening!"

[eve11]

I found myself laughing out loud a lot at this episode, which is surprising because it is also quite dark. Um, it seems below I also am just re-posting lines or in places full conversations that took my fancy without actually commenting on them. Just so you know.

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Ah, that mummy is actually scary! Holy crap I hate its feet.

Yaaay credits.

Clara's outfit is awesome. She looks beautiful.

Sad smile is confusing. "It's like your mouth is malfunctioning" :( Poor Doctor.

Is that shrimp in the champagne?

"I really thought I hated you, you know?"
"Well, thank God you kept that to yourself. There was this planet, Obsidian, planet of perpetual darkness--"
"I did. I did hate you. In fact I hated you for weeks."
"Good, fine, I'm glad that we cleared that up. There was also a planet made completely of shrubs--"
"I went to a concert once. Can't remember who it was. But do you know what the singer said?"
"Well frankly that would be an absolutely astonishing guess if I did know."
"She said, 'hatred is too strong an emotion to waste on someone that you don't like'."
"Were people really confused, because I'm confused; what, did everybody leave?"
"Shut up. Look what I'm trying to say is, I don't hate you. I can never hate you. But I can't do this anymore, not the way you do it."
"Can I talk about the planets now?"
(Oh Doctor, your words and your body language are malfunctioning.)

I feel like I've heard Daisy Beaumont's voice before, but I'm not sure where. Was she in any Big Finish plays?

"What exactly are you a Doctor of?"
"Now there's a question that's not asked often enough. Let's say, 'intestinal parasites.'"
"I'm beginning to think Miss Pitt is right about you."

Ha, I love him talking to himself in bed. And yeah...subjective probabilities; that's the trouble with them. "Really? You've just dropped 24 percent."

OMG Peter Capaldi so totally just channeled a conversation between him and Tom Baker! "A Mummy! That only the victim can see! I was being rhetorical!"

Ah the computer voce was John Sessions! Which led me to look up John Sessions' old Whose Line is it Anyway sketches which sent me to This (With bonus Peter Cook!)

Also I like Perkins a lot! I am glad he did not (so far) turn out to be a bad guy. However I think he might show up later--possibly as one of Mad Missy's crew?

Jelly Babies! More Four :D

"Hoping to meet a real monster." Oh the subtext here, as he's talking with the Oncoming Storm.

"I'm your worst nightmare!" "A mystery shopper, oh great!" "Really, a mystery shopper, that's your worst..." And then he goes with it.

"Yes sir. I'm obviously the mummy! Or perhaps I was already looking into this." Perkins = awesome.

"Were the good times all like this?"
"Yeah, now that you mention it."

I love that Clara has a girlfriend to talk to about how much of a jerk the Doctor was. "Oh he was wrong! And high-handed! And arrogant!" :D

"You can't end on a slammed door."
"Yes you can, anyone can do it."

LOL the sarcophagus full of bubble wrap. Don't get close, because that stuff is dangerous (see "the Ark in Space").

Oh they want to reverse engineer the Mummy's abilities. That does sound very much like Missy.

I hope the Doctor doesn't tell Clara that his phone call cost the lives of the poor kitchen staff. This is a dangerous episode to be in. Lots of collateral damage.

How/why would the soldier/mummy pick up the weaknesses of everyone?

"You sir, are a genius! This explains everything, apart from what it is and how it's doing it. Sorry, I jumped the gun there with the 'You're a genius, that explains everything' remark."

"Hello! I'm so pleased to finally see you. I'm the Doctor and I will be your victim this evening! Are you my mummy?"

Why would the Mummy's markings from his--tattoos? Skin?--be underneath his ribcage?

"You're relieved, soldier." Wow, I kind of can't believe that no-one said "We surrender" to it before, though.

Oh man, that whole scene on the beach was well done. I love his little laugh after "No I just saved you and let everyone else suffocate" line. And, "So you were pretending, to be heartless?" "Would you like to think that about me? Would that make it easier?" Though, how/why did Clara get from inside the TARDIS to out on the beach? And what was the Doctor drawing in the sand, more equations?

Oh dear, Clara hears "I love you" possibly for the first time from Danny and then runs away. That is um, not healthy. Clara, you learned nothing from the last two episodes? This will not end well!

"Are you sure about this?"
"Are you? Have you ever been sure?"
"No."

Somehow I feel like that last little "no" there, was the biggest line in the episode. It's like all of Twelve's kid-like impulsivity and adult vulnerability and ancient history and pain and excitement just rolled into one. And you know--you KNOW--he is not sure about the emotions of smiling and sadness at the same time but in his hearts, he knows that Clara is lying to him. But he tells her the truth--rather a childlike honesty there, and he knows the responsible (adult) thing to do but ignores it and flies off anyway. So that, finally, is Twelve. He is the most powerful, loneliest, richest, smartest eight-year-old in the universe, with impulse control issues and 1992 years of experience.