VOLCANO DAY! | Doctor Who Season 4 Episode 2 "The Fires of Pompeii" Reaction!

[@kemmdog4444]

“Pompeii is nice but don’t forget to set your clock for Volcano Day.” Paraphrasing Captain Jack.

[@venerandoalamaresjr.8910]

He deadass knew 💀

[@chrissie627]

They held onto this for so long to do a lil reference 😂 doctor who for ya

[@PatheticApathetic]

The seer who first spots the Doctor and Donna at the beginning is played by Karen Gillan, who played Nebula in the Marvel movies

[@cooluncle4242]

I thought she looked familiar. Another fun fact is the father played by Peter Capaldi was in another superhero franchise. He was in The Suicide Squad.

[@GHar94]

I like the subversion lol

[@PatheticApathetic]

@@GHar94 🤫

[@chrissie627]

"you call it modern art? I call it a bloomin great waste of space" My mum when my dad started building a life sized TARDIS for the garden 😂

[@derpyslurp8779]

now when you say life size... interior or exterior lmao

[@klaxoncow]

I like the subtle bit at the end. Peter Capaldi's character says that it's... volcanic. And that Vesuvius was a "volcano". But the Doctor was clear earlier that Latin doesn't have that word yet. So what they're hinting at is that he's the person who invents the word "volcano". But as everyone, in the future, uses the word "volcano" then he must have always survived. The Doctor always did save him. That was already part of history, even if the Doctor didn't realise. Because we use the word he created there. So the Doctor didn't change history at all - he fulfilled it.

[@bemasaberwyn55]

A closed loop

[@Gunnbjorn-ph7uo]

This is incorrect, historically. Rome had he god Vulcan long before Vesuvius erupted. He was the god of fire and the patron of blacksmiths. "Volcanic", or an equivalent, would have been an acceptable phrase and I doubt that Vesuvius would have been the first volcano they encountered. Not the first time Doctor Who got history wrong, but who cares? This was a great episode of a great show.

[@SkillsLoading]

@@Gunnbjorn-ph7uo to be pedantic they specifically say that the Romans don't have a word for volcano yet. They had the word volcanic, named as you rightly pointed out for the god Vulcan, in fact Capaldi even says "It's so volcanic" before he calls Vesuvius a volcano. And given the volcanoes in the region that the archaeological data we have it is possible that Vesuvius was the first volcano that was named as such. I say possible not likely because there are plenty of volcanos (Stromboli, Etna and Marsili most notably) but it's possible (if unlikely) that all three of them were dormant at the time. It's also possible (and slightly more likely) that one or more of them were active the Romans never witnessed a major eruption (which can be hundreds of years apart). So yeah Romans may of encountered volcanos but it's unlikely they full knew what they were until Pompey, so having that be the point where they're named isn't that much of a stretch. This is all theoretical though and Doctor Who is a drama first and foremost and the way it plays out is dramatically satisfying, so all of the justifications I just made are kind of made redundant by the fact that even if the Romans had the word volcano it makes better drama to say they didn't.

[@10thdoctor15]

If Vesuvius hadn't erupted during the Roman empire, we would have had a different word for volcano. Similar to how all the northern constellations are characters from greek mythology.

[@einosig]

Katherine Tate's acting is superb. Someone that comes from a comedic background she really showed her critics that she can do so much more than comedy. She's my companion :D

[@Legendary3Dgamer]

Cathrine not kathrine 😂

[@catherineharrison8626]

@@Legendary3Dgamer Catherine not cathrine

[@einosig]

The two of you are fun at parties

[@CameronMcCracken_Art]

@@einosigit’s common decency to get someone’s name right. Yeah okay it’s not a crime to spell it wrong by mistake, but still. There was no need to be rude by using such a lame, tired “insult” like ‘you must be fun at parties’. The irony being that that phrase is more likely to apply to you, more appropriately, than to them. Kindness costs you nothing!

[@alexandermills9965]

Are you going to go back to Torchwood season 2?

[@thedoctor4327]

FYI Peter Capaldi (Lucius the dad in the Pompeii family) was a massive Doctor Who fan growing up like sending so many letters to the DW magazine they were annoyed by him. So him being on Doctor Who this episode was a big deal for him.

[@StaceyGreenstein]

President of the fan club!

[@jaybennet4491]

I'm so glad he managed to achieve his dream of being in Doctor Who, even if he did have such a minor role in the show 😅

[@loneassassin1015]

@@jaybennet4491sucks that Peter Capaldi will only be known for his (amazing) role in the Paddington movies

[@spicyfood6943]

also, the soothsayer at the beginning of the episode is played by Karen Gillan, who would go on to play Nebula in the Guardians of the Galaxy movies!

[@DigiRangerScott]

HEY! He was Thinko in The Suicide Squad

[@MuchWhittering]

"What is Vesuvius?" The volcano at Pompeii.

[@alexanderharris5022]

Do you know, Vesuvius is still active! It’s overdue a major eruption and there are signs that it might erupt within our lifetimes again. If it did, around 8,000,000 people would be killed, wounded or left homeless from Naples and the surrounding area. It’s estimated the economic impact on Italy would be around $24 billion. It has however, had minor eruptions. The most recent of which are: 1906, it killed 100 people during the preparations for the 1908 Olympics, resulting in the games being moved to London. 1913-1944, it had multiple mini eruptions during this period. This culminated in a larger eruption that lasted through most of March 1944 and resulted in around 80 USAAF planes being badly damaged from the hot ash.

[@MarkMonforti]

I'm. Sorry of shocked that you haven't heard of Vesuvious

[@StaceyGreenstein]

5:18 XD I love that you swapped the words around in that expression, I think unintentionally, but it ends up being perfect.

[@linustwizell7913]

Caecilius was a real historical figure and the basis for the stories in the Cambridge Latin Course I studied at school many years ago, which featured Metella and Quintus.

[@MikeWood]

Blast from the past. I took that course of books too. :)

[@ThePonderer]

This one is a real gem. This is where The Doctor and Donna *really* solidify into a GOATed duo.

[@LangGuessr]

Before they were cast in Doctor Who, Billie Piper was best known as a pop star and Catherine Tate was a comedian with her own sketch show. This show is great at letting people show off their acting abilities.

[@beatricemcgarvey1198]

This is such a fantastic episode, i love the idea of prophecy and the foreshadowing to possible future plots, plus the acting is phenomenal in this one. Definitely one of my most rewatched episodes

[@ronfehr7899]

Vesuvius was the name of the mountain that erupted and covered Pompeii.

[@CrankyGrandma]

It’s still there and still erupts!

[@lemonfreshrob]

This is one of my favourite New-Who seasons. Catherine and David knock it out of the park. And as for this episode? *Chef's kiss*.

[@Look_Over_There]

Fun fact contrary to popular opinion a LOT of people in Pompeii escaped into the country or by boat and rebuilt their lives like the family did here. We often think everyone burned but some thought f this and got out of dodge, there was also an evacuation effort by the Roman navy I think.

[@thehungrygerman9434]

Just a reminder that even giving certain behind the scenes information about actors is a spoiler. Behind the scenes connections that weren’t known at the time of the episodes release shouldn’t be talked about. Let the reactor discover it when they get the relevant episode. Especially since the stuff being talked about in the comments is also directly discussed in future episodes, it isn’t just behind the scenes info.

[@nissemus]

I know, right? It's infuriating.

[@thehungrygerman9434]

@@nissemusI know it often comes from people just wanting to share information about a show they love. But I wish people would realise that they are taking the excitement away from watching a show for the first time. Especially since Emme genuinely seems to be unaware of the thing that people are spoiling in the comments. And it’s the first time I’ve seen a reactor not know that information.

[@jamalgordon8883]

Karen Gillian was before Doctor Who series 5 and before 11th doctor with Amy Pond

[@Jon_FM]

Honestly this is one of my favourites for season 4 it really sends a message that will carry through the season and the question around what the Doctor can and cannot do. Fantastic.

[@subscorpion9560]

The doctor can’t always save everyone, but sometimes saving someone is enough.

[@AmazingChi]

I met Phil Davis (the Augur) randomly on a train. Nice bloke, very underrated actor.

[@Corlwow]

He’s great in loads of things, Bleak House, Sherlock included

[@emilyckohl]

Some Doctor Who episodes feel a little silly or cheesy while you’re watching them, but then the message/lesson of the episode stays with you for years. This is one of those episodes for me. ❤❤

[@TLC62]

I love the scene where the Doctor and Donna push down the lever together, because Donna realizes that time travel isn't just fun and games, it also means a heavy responsibility, and she chose to take some of that responsibility off his shoulders. That was what she chose when she started looking for him, so she refused to shirk it. That's why Donna is still my favorite companion in the modern era.

[@doorofnight87]

Some Behind the Scenes and Historical Facts that might be of interest: - This episode looks so good in part because they were able to use the sets (and I think costumes) from the HBO/BBC coproduced series Rome, that came out around this time. That show is excellent and while not the most historically accurate, they went to great effort to make the clothing, food, architecture, etc. as accurate as possible. - Someone has probably mentioned this, but after The Runaway Bride, David Tennant and Catherine Tate became (and remain to this day) very good friends, and that friendship and natural chemistry really comes through in their performances. - Volcano is the ablative case of the Latin word/name Vulcan (the god of the forge and craft, among other things), so Volcano literally translates literally to 'by Vulcan' which is how many described the destruction. - The eruption of Mt. Vesuvius is the first volcanic eruption is human history in which there is actually what we would call a 'scientific' explanation of what was going on (at least, the first where such a description survives). The Roman writer Pliny the Younger, then a teenager, was staying with his uncle (Pliny the Elder) who was governor (basically) for the region. His Uncle, attempting to rescue people, and also study the eruption up close, ended up dying, but Pliny, watching the eruption from across the Bay of Naples, records a detailed description of what it looked like, its impact, and aftermath and rather than attributing it to Vulcan, or the gods more generally, Pliny posits that it was as if some great force beneath the earth was pushing itself upward through the top of the mountain, which is not an inaccurate description. - Contrary to popular belief, it is likely the majority of the citizens of Pompeii survived the eruption. The eruption is more accurately a series of eruptions over the course of about a day (which is true of most/all Volcanic eruptions, its rarely just one) and the first eruption started several hours (I think something like 4-6) before the eruption which, basically, blew out the side of the mountain and set the Pyroclastic flow which destroyed the upper floors of all the buildings and buried the rest of the town in ash. What evidence is available suggests that, by that point, the only people still in the city were the old, the sick or infirm (and their caretakers), or those that for one reason or another (protecting their shops/homes) refused to leave. The town of Herculaneum, on the other side of the mountain and much closer to it, was the one where almost everyone died due to a flow of hot mud which was caused by the initial eruption, there was little to no chance for anyone to flee).

[@13Joshuahun]

This is probably peak Doctor Who with these two as Doctor and Companion. Nothing wrong with the other companions we’ve had but these two just work so well together!

[@cooluncle4242]

I agree, there was great chemistry and no romantic rubbish which definitely helps

[@speedhuntr]

I forgot this was Donna's SECOND episode as a true companion. I thought it was later on. Wow, just wow. It hits even harder now with future things.

[@elvwood]

There's a great audio released in 2000, _The_ _Fires_ _of_ _Vulcan,_ covering the same two days in Pompeii with the Seventh Doctor. When I went to Pompeii I discovered that the locations and some of the people it features are ones we know about from excavating the city - it's much more historically accurate (and there are no aliens in that one, just people). Both stories are great, but I have extra affection for the audio because of that. (P.S. If you get the chance to go, don't rush it. We had a day there, and it wasn't enough - we wished we had another day before we had to return to Rome.)

[@markharris1125]

The day I went, in March this year, it was freezing cold and pouring with rain, and I didn't get to see as much as I wanted, but it was still such an amazing place. I will have to find that audio adventure, thanks for the tip.

[@Georgie_R]

Speaking of the Doctor Who audios-the actor who plays the Mum here (Tracy Childs) was also cast as a companion of sorts in some of the other 7th Doctor stories....although introduced her as a villain-as she is a... well that would spoil it. But she's very good and extremely memorable even years later because of the moral dilemmas she plays deceptively effortlessly

[@chrisbamber2762]

They actually got to leave wales for this one scenes filmed in rome theres a little easter egg which tends to get missed lucius full name is lucius petrua dexus which translates to lucius stone right arm Also the family saved at the end are based on a family from a latin course book at Cambridge University but in the book only the son survives

[@azizuladnan2957]

I cry watching this reaction... again... Her effort... to just even save a child... I can't... I keep wanting to cry...

[@jamesfoster533]

The Doctor can use that water pistol for ages. The water pistol is bigger on the inside!

[@chris-hz2wd]

10 and Donna are the best thing RTD ever did with the show, casting brilliance, great stories, amazing chemistry between the actors. It’s a fan favourite era for a reason, your gonna love them!

[@SeedFactoryProject]

15:55 - The water gun - The TARDIS isn't the only thing that's bigger on the inside. So are the Doctor's pockets. It's been a running thing since the old series that The Doctor can pull random needed items out of them.

[@simongiles9749]

The "soothsayer-off" is a gloriously intense scene.

[@kemmdog4444]

Take a drink every time Emme says “What is that?”😊

[@kevindean0000]

Take a drink every time she repeats a line in the form of a question and you will be no more.

[@InspectorWhoReacts]

You fought her off, with a water pistol! I bloody love you!

[@jamalgordon8883]

Karen Gillian and Peter in Doctor Who series 4

[@timeofgifts]

While I had no objections to her before, this was the episode I realised just how good a companion Donna could be and how excellent an actress Catherine Tate was.

[@AyyitsAlii]

I think this definitely stands out as one of my favourite episodes of Who. It’s just so well done

[@squirethemouse3457]

I know emme is a month ahead, I am years ahead and I wouldn't recognize familiar faces

[@vlonewolfv]

Just a showcase for why Donna is the perfect companion and why the Doctor and Donna work so well together. She absolutely loves the Doctor. But that will never stop her from standing up to him and telling him what she thinks. Her personality is as strong as his. Her line about the previous companions being younger, just hits the nail on the head. Donna is the Doctors equal in nearly every way that matters. Not to mention Catherine Tate and David Tennant just having amazing chemistry on screen together. It's like they have been friends since childhood they are so comfortable working together. This is my favorite season of New Who. And it isn't even close.

[@doorofnight87]

Love this episode, pretty much everything in it works, with some great performances by the leads and the whole cast. Really enjoyed your reaction!

[@Thornus_______]

Interesting note Karen Gillan plays a soothsayer in this episode and Peter Capaldi plays the Roman governor

[@ZondaFRoadster]

One thing a lot of people don't realize about the destruction of Pompeii, is that most of the citizens actually managed to escape with their lives. Of the 20,000 people living in Pompeii at the time of the eruption, only around 10-15% of them were killed.

[@Connor-ONeill]

Around 10-15% of 20000 people is STILL a lot of people. Especially when the human population of the planet was so much smaller.

[@ZondaFRoadster]

@@Connor-ONeill Yeah, but my point is that most people assume pretty much everyone in Pompeii died that day, when the reality is very different.

[@Connor-ONeill]

@@ZondaFRoadster how is it very different? A lot of people died. The only difference is the number.

[@solitarymaninblack]

Peter Capaldi the Roman father. He used to be in a punk band with Talkshow host Craig Fergusson. He did star in Torchwood as a different character which I find weird.

[@DigiRangerScott]

Yeah it’s definitely weird for the same actor to play multiple characters in the same universe

[@benjamindavis4974]

​@@DigiRangerScottColin Baker

[@DigiRangerScott]

@@benjamindavis4974 Both leads of The War Between The Land and the Sea

[@Corlwow]

Peter capaldi’s torchwood character is a great descendant of this one… time comes back. Torchwood season 3 is a fing masterpiece. A masterpiece.

[@bobfather7355]

The Doctor's pockets are bigger on the inside. Thus the water pistol.

[@mrgadd]

Damn, just looking at whats to come this season is wild. Cant wait!

[@mixofreak]

This is absolutely one of the best episodes to show how Donna learns to get him, yet also holds him to his own higher standards. Yes, he can't save everyone. But he can save someone. And that attempt at least is worth the effort.

[@Corlwow]

Extremely underrated episode - one of the best - the cast being especially good/my two fav actors in the same episode :).

[@hallyhop]

“He needs human- around” 🤣 24:25

[@DavidSmith-cx8dg]

Plenty of names for the future in this one . A clever introduction. to life with the Doctor for Donna . Catherine Tates comic talents make her a different type of companion and she shows a lot of genuine acting ability when things get serious .The ending with her persuading the Doctor to save just one family is terrific .

[@LondonCelt]

Absolutely brilliant episode with a great cast 🔥

[@dorememe8548]

24:51 Does the Doctor have any archaeologist friends? Maybe he can get this piece of art someday. Also, the actor who played the cabbie from the Sherlock episode “A Study in Pink” was in this episode.

[@Timelord79]

Spoilers!

[@benjames9158]

Vesuvius as in the mountain? The volcano? The big boomy lava thing?

[@benjames9158]

Also the point of the whole episode is that no he didn’t change the past by saving them, he was always going to save them

[@craigmorris4083]

Peter Capaldi sells it. I mean the TARDIS as art. Brilliant.

[@craigmorris4083]

"I'm Spartacus and so is my wife." 😂😂

[@bobfather7355]

I turn to stone, when you are gone, I turn to stone..

[@theshades5702]

The Nightsisters comparison was amazing! Even IF the rest of this video was shit I'd have loved it for that alone, thankfully this was all great as always!

[@quistwing]

a lot of pompeii's s´citizens did manage to escape, so it wouldnt have changed history too much for them to save a few more (other than them seeing the tardis lmao). donna's plan of warning them the day before would probably have changed history quite a bit, though

[@weescotspaul]

For a performer who normally focuses on comedy, Catherine Tate was absolutely immense in this episode. She really started to show the world just how terrific an actress she really is. Brilliant stuff.

[@10thdoctor15]

Most people escaped Pompeii, so saving one more family doesn't change history very much.

[@JoeThornhill]

2:39 Emme: "Who's that?" Me: "The girl who waited."

[@thepandorica1660]

Why is she called that? Wouldn't all the seers be the 'girl who waited'?

[@JoeThornhill]

@@thepandorica1660 No, it's Karen Gillan.

[@thepandorica1660]

​@@JoeThornhillyeah, that's the actors name, genius. But the character she plays isn't the only one waiting

[@JoeThornhill]

@@thepandorica1660 She's also Amy Pond. THE GIRL WHO WAITED.

[@thepandorica1660]

​@@JoeThornhilland Amy is a character from another show she's in, right? Because I swear if it's from later in the show and you casually mentioned it under the video of a first-time watcher...

[@emperorholocron8278]

Keep this episode in mind. There’s a lot in it that’ll be important later 😭

[@Kingrob30]

Emme " I could have foresaw that!" Lol

[@Birdboy029]

Woah, Emme was a San Franciscan?! That's my hometown!

[@stanleysmith2221]

You are a wonderful reactor, yet always enjoy yourself while asking 'what that, who's that when the answers will come soon enough. There no way you can or should know what going on in this wonderfully smart series

[@indubitably_elementary965]

The doctors water pistol doesn't need a refill cause its bigger on the inside

[@JoeThornhill]

Love, do you ever cry? After countless viewings, I still got a lump in my throat about five times in 6 minutes. Starting from when Evalina had the prophecy about the terrible choice.

[@TheYoungDoctor]

2:39 It's Karen Gillan who plays Nebula in the MCU. (edited to remove 'spoiler')

[@SoTOreo]

oh so youre ONE OF THOSE. i see

[@Travis_1997]

Anything else you want to spoil

[@fayesouthall6604]

@@Travis_1997 MCU isnt a spoiler.

[@thepandorica1660]

​@@fayesouthall6604 obviously. Hence the edited comment

[@Travis_1997]

@@fayesouthall6604 nothing gets past you

[@chriscoombes6751]

Love the reaction Emme, & how quick you were to pick things up in this episode! This remains one of my all-time favorite episodes of the new Dr Who, apart from the Roman setting which I love, it has some great UK actors featuring: Peter Capaldi (the Dad), Karen Gillan (one of the sisters) who goes on to play Nebula in the MCU no less!, and Phil Davis (Lucius) - a stalwart of British TV & film who was in 'Whitechapel' - a short lived unique UK Police procedural drama with elements of history & the supernatural which made me a fan! But the best thing about this episode is Catherine Tate: I admit I'm not a fan of her comedy, & I figured on her not being a 'proper' actor, being nothing more than mildly annoying comic relief.... this is the episode that proved me wrong, made me eat my words and become a Donna Noble fan!

[@12chapin]

Loki was here😆. Hello 👋🏻.

[@johnburton3865]

This was filmed mainly at the Cinecittà studios in Rome, reusing sets originally from the the BBC historical drama series 'Rome'.

[@Tejiknasten]

A fantastic episode. Thanks for a great reaction 🎉

[@GrilloTheFlightless]

Donna was easily my favourite new-Who companion. As a big fan of Classic Who, where the Doctor was somehow above romance and sex was never really a thing, I got fed up with the companions always being in love with him. Donna was gutsy, funny and never once wanted to get inside the Doctor’s trousers! I’ve been led to understand that Catherine Tate wanted to be a companion after her first appearance but wasn’t available due to other commitments (presumably her own show) which is why she was brought back later.

[@MuchWhittering]

If it's any consolation, the belief about Pompeii is that most people died of smoke inhalation, not burning to death. So a relatively painless death.

[@paulkennedy8701]

I don't think that could be at all right. Where would the smoke come from? In a disaster like this it would be from fires fed by ruptured gas pipes, but this is centuries too early for that. People would have been either burned to death by the heated air blown off or suffocated as the ash covered their buildings. (Neither would be painless.)

[@laurencewinch-furness9450]

This isn't the first time the tardis has been mistaken for modern art. It happened in the classic serial City of Death too.

[@simongiles9749]

By John Cleese, no less.

[@bri_____]

These episodes of dr who were so well written 😮

[@me1735]

Have you stop reacting to Torchwood? I know the first series was a bit rough but the second series is where it really finds its strengths. I don't mind either way it's just might end up spoiling something for yourself later on is all.

[@kevinpope1297]

If the doctor changes history the doctor will change his name to Time lord Victorious,also you need to book mark this episode for future reference.

[@ProcInc]

My headcanon is that when Donna and the Doctor speak Latin, it translates to them speaking English to the Romans whuch they don't understand but because it is a derived British language, the closest they know to it is celtic Although, i think its just a "Welsh language is a punchline" gag

[@paulkennedy8701]

But Welsh _is_ a British language. English isn't. If her attempt at Latin had been translated into English, the most-closely related languages would have been the Germanic ones they knew from across the Rhine.

[@ProcInc]

@paulkennedy8701 You mean English would sound German to a Roman?

[@paulkennedy8701]

@@ProcInc If it sounded _anything_ (other than foreign), it would sound Germanic. That's where its basic vocab, phonology and prosody come from. It wouldn't sound British (which gave English very little in the way of vocab). (Does she say anything other than "veni, vidi, vici"? If that's all she says and it gets translated into English it would probably be "I came, I saw, I conquered", which is fully German except that the last word is from Latin.)

[@ProcInc]

@paulkennedy8701 that's a neat interpretation

[@ronfehr7899]

Nothing can be considered a prophecy until until it's fulfilled. Until then, it's only a prediction, as is anything that turns out to be a false prophecy.

[@Temeraire101]

Hi Emme, any chance that you might have ‘V for Vendetta’ or ‘Predator’ to your voting poll, both are great and popular movies?

[@mareiramv]

"Doctor, if you decide who lives and who dies, that would make you a monster." I guess the Doctor didn't learned his lession andmaybe that's a good thing. Was it just that he saved that family but let the others die? I bet anyone in Pompeii would've loved to be the one saved.

[@thepandorica1660]

Who says he chose? There was a cut after Donna asked him to, so there's just as much chance he asked her who she wanted him to save

[@shawnf760]

Always loved that episode

[@phtevenj]

this episode always breaks my heart

[@suntannedduck2388]

A historical with aliens episode. A episode for Donna to understand you can't change history. A necessary one. Yeah good friends then romance. Save the royalty, but also someone getting to document the events I guess inside the country. Or live to see it. Very tough to watch a historical disaster. The new gods Doctor and Donna. :) But humans are also selfish trying to avoid an event yeah good luck with that. Changing it, how people respond. Happens for a reason then having insight/understanding and working with it. Then again saving Peter Capaldi. XD

[@InspectorWhoReacts]

TARDIS Time Lord Yeah DONNA HUMAN NO!

[@Graymon44]

Fixed points in time. They must happen. They just always happen. It hurts, and sometimes it's not fair, but it's right.

[@ronfehr7899]

Where did the Doctor get the water gun from? His pocket, of course. Remember, they're bigger on the inside.

[@bigdream_dreambig]

I've just recently started playing an RPG that's kind of like this. You're limited in how _many_ things you can carry, but you don't have to decide what they are until you actually use them. It can lead to some silly moments!

[@steve8510]

Donna was elite

[@paulalexandredumasseauvan2357]

enjoyed your reaction 👍☺

[@solitarymaninblack]

Though it is common knowledge. I knew that there would be people dropping spoilers about cast members.

[@Jamienomore]

Have you forgotten...The Doctor's pockets are bigger on the inside.🧸

[@tschorsch]

What does a nice irritation look like?

[@whoisthedoctor2]

Just curious. Are you planning on continuing with Torchwood or have you given up on that? If you are, you should probably get through TW series 2 before you watch the Episode 12 of Doctor Who series 4.

[@emme]

I am watching season 2 on my own time and will continuing reactions for season 3!

[@shodan1451]

His water gun is bigger on the inside.

[@craigoconnor6662]

The water pistol is bigger on the inside.

[@colby_247]

So weird to rewatch this episode.

[@learnmore3714]

Agreed! We could do without the romance in the TARDIS for a while, I think. I’m glad they made Donna more fun and likable in this episode than she was in the Christmas special

[@Stuffthatsfunny1]

You should consider watching the bbc sherlock sereis

[@Corlwow]

Are you doing torchwood season 2? Season 2 torchwood and season 4 doctor who pair really well and its so sad i cant say whyyyy. Also season 4 spoils a bit of season 2 torchwood later on indirectly… And season 2 of torchwood is so so much better than season 1 x(

[@davida.j.berner776]

As an established comedienne already, there was never any doubt that Catherine Tate would be able to handle the more comedic elements of Doctor Who. In this episode, though, she proved (and kept proving throughout this series) that she could also handle the more serious/emotional moments, too. Her very real acting chops were an eye-opener, to be sure!

[@johnmiller7682]

This episode is so cool because of 2 things. But I don't want to spoil anything.