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pontisbright) wrote2008-07-05 07:47 pm
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Journey's End
For those who read my earlier dream post, did they just make Eight not canon? Or have I misunderstood the timey-wimeyness of half-human half-Time Lord peoples? I CLAIM MY FIVE POUNDS ANYWAY, DAMMIT.
And here are some incoherent thoughts
Well, it made me sob like a fool, so they definitely did lots right. Murray Gold needs to calm the fuck down and Rose was, alas, horribly ill-served by the worst thought out plot resolution ever (here, have this trite yet unsatisfying ending and a really unpleasant-looking snog!), Jake/Mickey has been retconned, and Rusty is a lying liar re Gwen/Gwyneth.
BUT
OMFG. Oh, Donna. And it was predictable but in the most heartbreaking way, and godammit if Turn Left didn't break me into little tiny pieces already and now that's what she is, and OH WILF WITH YOUR HAVING TO LEAN ON DOORS OHHHH. And remembering to ask the Doctor if he was OK, which is really isn't, and instead of them having had a season all about Poor Wonely Dockter Woo they haven't done that, they've had him having fun with his lovely brilliant mate, and OH POOR TEN. Who has fucked up everyone he's ever met. (Wot no Adric in the flashback, boo.) Half-human him kills everyone: Time Lord him does a War Games. He's shit and he knows he is.
The bit where he goes back into the kitchen because he wants to say goodbye? OHHHHHHHH.
I'm sure there were lots of other very important things I will complain about later but for right now, I am very happy with how sad they made me. Gosh. It's been fucking excellent this year, it really has. And now I am going to cry about how his memories of all the lovely fun are now completely fucked, because I am an overinvested fangirl in a puddle, goodbye.
And here are some incoherent thoughts
Well, it made me sob like a fool, so they definitely did lots right. Murray Gold needs to calm the fuck down and Rose was, alas, horribly ill-served by the worst thought out plot resolution ever (here, have this trite yet unsatisfying ending and a really unpleasant-looking snog!), Jake/Mickey has been retconned, and Rusty is a lying liar re Gwen/Gwyneth.
BUT
OMFG. Oh, Donna. And it was predictable but in the most heartbreaking way, and godammit if Turn Left didn't break me into little tiny pieces already and now that's what she is, and OH WILF WITH YOUR HAVING TO LEAN ON DOORS OHHHH. And remembering to ask the Doctor if he was OK, which is really isn't, and instead of them having had a season all about Poor Wonely Dockter Woo they haven't done that, they've had him having fun with his lovely brilliant mate, and OH POOR TEN. Who has fucked up everyone he's ever met. (Wot no Adric in the flashback, boo.) Half-human him kills everyone: Time Lord him does a War Games. He's shit and he knows he is.
The bit where he goes back into the kitchen because he wants to say goodbye? OHHHHHHHH.
I'm sure there were lots of other very important things I will complain about later but for right now, I am very happy with how sad they made me. Gosh. It's been fucking excellent this year, it really has. And now I am going to cry about how his memories of all the lovely fun are now completely fucked, because I am an overinvested fangirl in a puddle, goodbye.
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Apart from that I mostly loved all of it and stuff, and like you say, Nooooooooooo OOOOOOOOOOOO for poor Donna. I loved DoctorDonna. She was cool. Even cooler than ordinary Donna, who was pretty damn brilliant.
I wanted Wilf to go away with the Doctor for a bit. Just one trip.
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(You know I'm an American on the troll for spoilers.)
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I want Ten to travel with Wilf and Mr Copper from the Titanic one. Old Bloke Companions FTW! They could go shopping. And visit the Brig. It would be brilliant.
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Ten asked Gwen if she had relatives in Cardiff in the 19th century and him and Rose had a little 'aha!' moment re Gwyneth. Which given that Rusty has always said in interviews 'gosh no of course they aren't anything to do with each other, it's just the same actress' is mildly irritating. Not a very big deal though. Am sure everyone else is busy getting their knickers in knots re Rose.
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So a throwaway line to explain Eve Myles, sort of like the throwaway line to explain Freema?
Works.
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I felt sorry for Mickey. I'm glad Mickey will be back though, without awful clingy Rose. I like Mickey, I'm looking forward to seeing him again.
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Am sort of wishing the Doctor hadn't used the same "I can save you, we're the only ones left!" chatup lines on Davros as he had on the Master last series, that's making my brain break...
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I dunno if Mickey really will be back - but assume he will at least cameo in Torchwood even if he doesn't become a regular.
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The Doctor is such a whore. Next year, he's going to run after some Silurians shouting I LOOOOOOOOVE YOUUUUUUUUU, you wait.
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And also DAMN, you have rumbled my secret filming spy status.
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I assumed the ending was set up to allow Martha to join Torchwood (esp re the comment from Jack about had she considered somewhere else?) and then Mickey ran after them... and she would replace Owen and he would replace Tosh, fits in perfectly really. Except WHO WOULD LOVE MICKEY??? That's not fair. Booo.
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I'm still all wibbly. Oh, Donna, I miss you already.
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I mean, if you want to nitpick about whether adequate technobabble has been supplied to handwave a few bits and bobs, blah, whatever, not Rusty's forte at all - and there are some wider issues like him reducing the Daleks to comedy toys by the end of the ep - BUT in terms of big dramatic emotional gutwrenchy stuff, it did the business. Without any Tinkerbell Sparkly JesusDoctor too. I have quibbles, but far fewer than last year. Honestly, though, go watch some Donna. THERE ARE GIANT WASPS!
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Murray Gold needs to calm the fuck down
Word. So many parts of this episode were embarrassing music-wise but the bit with the Tardis pulling the Earth back home? Oh my goodness.
Rose's 'happy ending' was kind of terrifying. It's like she doesn't care at all what happens as long as she gets her man, which isn't even her man but this fake clone Ten. It's really creepy! Like if she got a robot and dressed it up like Ten and made it love her. Yeeeeesh.
I TOTALLY THOUGHT THERE WAS GOING TO BE ADRIC IN THE FLASHBACK. Hahaha. I thought it was going to be just him, actually. Instead of everyone ever.
The Donna (and Wilf) stuff was great and too sad. Awwwww Donna I love her. Ah when Ten went back to say bye! *flails*
I really liked this whole season, too.
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I think Mickey didn't know about Jake loving him, so THOUGHT he had nothing to go back for, but now Jake will be desperate to find him and he'll chase him through the rift and find him in Cardiff, and they can live in Owen's really cool flat happily ever after.
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And thus my fanon is reassured.
Not even gonna talk about the horribly-cheesey-(surely)-even-if-you-ship-them Rose/human!Ten thing.
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I'm also stroking my fanon that it can still be worked so that Eight counts...
(Also: yay! I love seeing my icons around and about :-D)
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But he always was a bit that way with the Silurians.
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Half Human?
Those of you who have been slightly bothered for the last 12 years by the comment made by the Eighth Doctor in the TV Movie that he was half human on his mother's side, can probably breathe a sigh of relief now. The Doctor #2 seems shocked that he has become uniquely half human due to the biological metacrisis wth Donna, strongly suggesting that he never was before.
*is annoyed* I'm 'slightly bothered' that you're messing about with canon. Pah!
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