Yikes, okay, glad it wasn't just me who felt like the story was a bunch of bits and bobs glued together to give DT a chance to look really pretty as he vacillates between the edge of tears and rage for 2 hours. So disappointed with RTD (especially since Donna may as well not have been in the story, and in the end, never gets to develop).
But even worse, I'm not sure what, if anything, the Doctor learned in all of that. The theme built so well during Waters of Mars (and all of season 4 as well, and to a degree, since 'Rose') is totally abandoned in favor of over the top acting and plot developments from nowhere (the Master is really a tool of Rassilon? Rassilon's ALIVE? The Time Lords are evil?). All of this time spent building up storylines about Ten's inability to face conflict, to deal with his decision to annihilate the Daleks and the Time Lords, and it comes to nothing. He dies basically the same person he was at the end of The Stolen Earth: ambivalent, self-hating, desperately lonely.
But there is a Christmas miracle, of a sort: I'm now seriously looking forward to Matt Smith.
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Date: 2010-01-04 05:30 am (UTC)But even worse, I'm not sure what, if anything, the Doctor learned in all of that. The theme built so well during Waters of Mars (and all of season 4 as well, and to a degree, since 'Rose') is totally abandoned in favor of over the top acting and plot developments from nowhere (the Master is really a tool of Rassilon? Rassilon's ALIVE? The Time Lords are evil?). All of this time spent building up storylines about Ten's inability to face conflict, to deal with his decision to annihilate the Daleks and the Time Lords, and it comes to nothing. He dies basically the same person he was at the end of The Stolen Earth: ambivalent, self-hating, desperately lonely.
But there is a Christmas miracle, of a sort: I'm now seriously looking forward to Matt Smith.