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Here comes my review of The Dominators! Took me long enough ;)

So this was the first episode with Two, Jamie and Zoe as the established team TARDIS. As I've briefly mentioned in The Space Museum already, I love how very complementary those three are. Zoe is the perfect female companion—quick to draw conclusions, brave and resourceful instead of screamy. I love how she is the one to figure things out at some point when they're just arriving and getting first impressions, and the Doctor only has to nod along (and cling to her. Already :D). But Zoe and the Doctor aren't always busy having their braingasms, or good for anything this way. The Doctor teasing Zoe for her super technical and elaborate speech is delightful—and we've got Jamie, who is 100% solid Scot common sense in a kilt, and got his shining moment of having to yell to make Zoe and Two LISTEN for a second, only to deliver a perfectly simple and perfectly perfect plan and have everyone be like "…why hadn't we thought of this. You're perfect." All hail Jamie's perfection. You got my hint. Did I mention he's perfect?

The plot with the Dominators and the Quarks (cute machines) was quite nice. The Dulcians killed me. They couldn't be more aptly named—la dolce vita, for sure. CAN YOU GET MORE MEEK AND PASSIVE? NEVER QUESTIONING ANYTHING EVER? I don't think so. They had me both laughing hysterically and wanting to hit my head against a wall. Goodness. No wonder Cully was beyond fed up with his own people. And their way of handling things didn't exactly fit Jamie either. (The Dulcians are two-hearted!!! I felt so weird.)

Loved Jamie's cheek towards the Dominators… though he had to submit in the end :( The Doctor and Jamie pretending to be stupid so they wouldn't be considered as dangerous foes was the most hilarious thing ever. And there was that anthology moment when the Doctor was trying to control an alien spaceship thing with much difficulty and Jamie was like ":( :( :( get me out of there" and then they nearly crashed and JAMIE ALL BUT GRABBED THE DOCTOR BY HIS UNDERPANTS AND I WAS SLAUGHTERED. DEAD. This is my ghost talking right now. Seriously. It was Soccer World Cup evening when I watched that part and all Twitter was roaring about Brazil getting brutalized 7-1 by Germany and I was in my corner screaming for Jamie/Two. It was funny. XD

The beginning was funny as well, when the Doctor said they'd have "a nice holiday" and took out a deckchair. YOU SHOULD KNOW BETTER BY NOW. REALLY.

Fun lines:

Jamie: You're not thinking what I think you're thinking, are you?
Two: That, I think, Jamie, depends upon what you think I am thinking.

Dulcian 1: I dare say our atomic experts could provide a reason, but it seems pointless to spend time searching for reasons to prove facts.

Jamie: But you can't just sit here and do nothing.
Dulcian 2: Why not?

Jamie: Are there not any ordinary controls to fly this thing? [Jamie does a wheel motion with his hands]

Jamie [firing at a Quark]: Take this, you wee tin kettle!