It's a CUTE episode okay guys not every episode of blue box space man show has to be super serious and deep. The Absorbaloff is a blatantly silly saturday morning cartoon villain but they're not trying to make him anything other than that. For an episode with like 5 minutes of the Doctor total, it's genuinely sweet and fun, just a small scale sidestory about the lives of some of the people who've met the Doctor. Elton and Jackie's scenes are the highlights for me, and in general rewatching the early Davies series Jackie is growing on me a lot as a character as just a very real and human depiction of a mother in those circumstances. Still her own person with her own life, but knowing her daughter is out there doing god knows what eats away at her every time she's reminded of it, because what mother wouldn't be worried? And Elton is just like a nice dude in general c'mon guys you need to stop being so harsh.
S2E11 "Fear Her" sucks ass though.
