Donna Noble chilling at home, watching the 2012 Olympic opening ceremony with her family when all of a sudden a strange man picks up the fallen torch and Sylvia dive tackles the tv while yelling YOU CAN’T SEE HIM HE DOESN’T EXIST
EDIT : To everyone saying 'no she missed the whole thing' how does it feel to be so right she prob was bungee jumping in new zealand or something
(first time watcher here teehee) losing my mind over this exchange. the common consensus is apparently that this episode is below-mid grade filler, but i beg to differ, not even only because it would have been a lifeline to little withdrawn artistic autistic girl me had i watched it at chloe's age. just– look at the subtext. they're talking about themselves, each other, their own mutual codependency. sure, rose wasn't lonely before meeting him per se, but she had been living day-to-day unfulfilled and underappreciated. and four billion? that's close to the population of a decent sized planet. i don't know how many gallifreyans there were and i'm not delving into the wiki for this because it's about words, not numbers. words very particularly chosen. two lonely kids who needed each other, desperate to be loved. 'it' (the relationship, the symbiosis, the empathic link, the isolus as doctor and chloe as rose) will just keep pulling 'kids' in: people, lives. mostly strangers for now, apart from mickey, but it's as if the writers this whole series have been beating over the audience's head with the message... this is the story of a love doom(sday)ed by the narrative. the doctor gets more arrogant, rose gets more infatuated; the little inside jokes and side glances and sarcastic private detective duo dynamic they've got going on, so easygoing and carefree and invincible – it's all set to crash and burn.
sometimes I wonder why nobody ever notices the tardis when it makes that sound but then I think about that time me and my mom heard a weird banging noise outside and asked each other what it was but didn't actually get up to check for another 10 minutes and it turns out the dog had grabbed one of those black plastic tube hose things and was dragging it around the yard and up and down the porch steps but it could have been anything and people just really don't care that much
Derek Jacobi, David Tennant, Micheal Sheen, Peter Davison, Nina Sosanya, and Maggie Service who played The Metaron, Crowley, Aziraphale, Job, Nina, and Maggie in Good Omens are also in Doctor Who. Do what you will with this information.