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The fact Capaldi's first words in this episode were Modern Art makes me feel like he was pitching his Doctor there and then.

“We’re in Pompeii, and it’s volcano day” - I can remember being 6 years old and for some reason the first Monday after this episode first aired everyone at school was quoting that line

Can't believe they named a town after a song by Bastille

I think the writing for Donna is by far the strong point of the story. As I've said before, empathy is Donna's superpower.

'Poundland sisterhood of Karn' 😆

I love that it was Donna begging him to Save the family and that ends up impacting the Doctor in the future when obvs we get Capaldi as the Doctor. It reminds him that sometimes even when everything seems hopeless saving just one life can have an impact. It's what the Doctor does. The Doctor saves people. Sometimes the Doctor forgets that and needs reminding. But it also shows how impactful certain companions are. I always thought the Rose would have just gone along with The Doctor and let him walk away. Also I like the Doctor is really understanding towards Quintus. We see him at the start and he is a mess and a rebel who defies his parents because all the attention is on his sister. The Doctor can see the potential in the lad and can see him being more. When they defeat the Pyrovile foot soldier the Doctor goes "I thought your son was amazing aren't you gonna thank him" which shows that the parents have been neglecting and ignoring their son in favour of the daughter which is the cause of his behaviour. They need reminding to praise him. Quintus is shown to be brave and smart when he needs to be and then at the end he turns his life around and finally gets praise and love from his parents. I think also Quintus hated his sister having a restricted life so was probably glad at the end that the attention went on him and she was allowed a normal life to go out and have fun. It's little moments like that that I really love with Doctor Who. Those little character moments.

I really like how in this one it deconstructs Doctor/companion behaviour in historicals, when they pretend to be someone else, pretend not to be from the future and kinda treat it like a game. Here, it doesn't work and is called out on by Evelina. "They're laughing at us. Those two, they use words like tricksters. They're mocking us."

I always love to imagine that cacilius was just actually the 12th doctor and was deliberately poking fun at the 10th doctor and Donna the whole time

“We all know what a Roman city with a mountain means.”
That’s right... Welcome to Miami bitches!

“Doctor, Time Lord, Yeah”
“Donna, Human, No”

Love this line.

"Where it turns out that the 9th Doctor has been grooming Rose to be the perfect companion"

How would that even be written? That sounds really creepy, and I guess that was the intent, but wouldn't that make the Doctor seem like a monster?

"Tardis time lord yeah"
"Donna human no"  I love that part

"we love to overanalyse the show"
checks video time bar
Yup, the calculations check out :p

The doctor has a literal trolley problem.

karen gillain got lost on her way to the day of the dead celebrations
as a mexican, i love this joke

Talks about how beautiful doctor who is to people: cuts to love and monsters clip

Is Katherine Tate as underrated a dramatic actress as I think she is?  Pity.

Funny how the Doctor never bumps into Captain Jack while him and Donnor are in Pompeii.