"Some things are fixed, some things are in flux. Pompeii is fixed."
"How do you know which is which?"
"Because that’s how I see the universe. Every waking second I can see what is, what was, what could be, what must not. That’s the burden of the Time Lord, Donna, and I’m the only one left."
-- The Tenth Doctor and Donna Noble, Doctor Who: "The Fires of Pompeii"
Hello again, Whovians! OG partner in time Jesse Jackson returns to Next Stop Everywhere: The Doctor Who Podcast to help me discuss "The Fires of Pompeii", the second episode from Doctor Who Series Four in 2008, featuring David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor, Catherine Tate as Donna Noble, Peter Capaldi as Lobus Caecilius, and Phil Davis as Lucius Petrus Dextrus!
In this episode, Jesse and I discuss things like Jesse thowing me off my rhythm, the Doctor using the phrase "fixed points in time", Peter Capaldi and Karen Gillan appearing on Doctor Who before they became the Twelfth Doctor and Amy Pond, that awkward moment when you think you're arriving in Rome only to end up in Pompeii on Volcano Day, more of Jesse's growing appreciation of Donna, Donna being a check on the Tenth Doctor's godlike arrogance, how Donna views the Tenth Doctor compared to how Rose views him, the symbiotic relationship between the Doctor and his/her companions, the Doctor's "come with me if you want to live" moment, the Sybilline Sisterhood's powers of prophecy, the origin of the handshake, the HBO series Rome, wondering why the Pyroviles had centurion helmets, the Pyroviles' big plan to turn everyone in Pompeii into Pyroviles, the Doctor being revealed as the one responsible for Mount Vesuvius' eruption, the explanation of why the Twelfth Doctor looks like Lobus Caecilius, Invisible Kid from the Legion of Super-Heroes, our favorite quotes of the episode, my Reverse the Polarity segment, Jesse donating his Set Lusting Bruce episodes to the Bruce Springsteen Archives, and more!
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