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And so Time Ends (all spoilers cut)
Well, that was what pretty much what I expected. (all Spoilers under cut)
- appeals to emotion via music, shouting, and explosions instead of plot
- David Tennant and Bernard Cribbins being brilliant. The baddies chewing scenery.
A couple of liveblogging comments - why does the Master keep saying "Everyone on Earth is..." when he's *standing in front of two exceptions*?
RTD is surely fond of his prophecies, isn't he? Since when did the Time Lords give a damn about them, though?
"Don't you dare put him before them." You tell him, Wilf! Damn, Bernard, you're knocking this right out of the park. Brilliant.
So... it's a white-point macguffin. Because what this show needed was more pseudobabble instead of plot.
....aaaaand now somebody's living out their Star Wars: Original fantasies. Distracting. Who is its own show.
What's with theBabylon 5 shoutout women walking around with their hands in front of their eyes? Hello? We've seen plenty of Time Ladies. Susan would point and laugh; Romana would trip them as they walk by and then lecture them on upholding their dignity.
Am I the only one thinking about what the gravitational pull of dropping a whole new planet into the solar system would already be doing to Earth (/the Moon/Gallifrey)? Or why the Doctor had to recock the gun at the Master when he'd already cocked it at Rassilon... and then cocks it *yet again* to turn around again?
And the Doctor's starting the pity party early as he yells at Wilf and throws a strop. Ten's going out with a bang *and* a whimper (and another homage, this one to Spock. Only Spock didn't demand a reward or make a big fuss as he got fried.)
So, the companion retrospective is true. It would be more fun if the Doctor was going to be less of a pill about it. Also if we weren't sitting here going "this is an amazingly long and not-flashy regeneration." But then, we've got to milk this as long as possible in as unbelievable a manner as possible to be as angsty as possible, don't we? It's like a death aria in an opera... 40 minutes long and not a symptom in sight until the end.
I'm glad to see Mickey and Martha. Need to think about the whole marriage and freelance thing. I am amused by the Martha Smith-Jones credit.
So. The rumors that Wilf would die were wrong. The rumors that he'd meet Rose before he met Rose and tell her it was going to be a good year were right.
I'll give him "I don't want to go." Other regenerations have said similar things. Except what's with the TARDIS blowing up? He's regenerated in that thing plenty of times, and the Master regenerated once there too.
Matt does manic Doctorbabble excellently. I think he's going to be good. "I'm a girl!" BWAhahahahaa!
The Doctor is dead. Long live the Doctor.
- appeals to emotion via music, shouting, and explosions instead of plot
- David Tennant and Bernard Cribbins being brilliant. The baddies chewing scenery.
A couple of liveblogging comments - why does the Master keep saying "Everyone on Earth is..." when he's *standing in front of two exceptions*?
RTD is surely fond of his prophecies, isn't he? Since when did the Time Lords give a damn about them, though?
"Don't you dare put him before them." You tell him, Wilf! Damn, Bernard, you're knocking this right out of the park. Brilliant.
So... it's a white-point macguffin. Because what this show needed was more pseudobabble instead of plot.
....aaaaand now somebody's living out their Star Wars: Original fantasies. Distracting. Who is its own show.
What's with the
Am I the only one thinking about what the gravitational pull of dropping a whole new planet into the solar system would already be doing to Earth (/the Moon/Gallifrey)? Or why the Doctor had to recock the gun at the Master when he'd already cocked it at Rassilon... and then cocks it *yet again* to turn around again?
And the Doctor's starting the pity party early as he yells at Wilf and throws a strop. Ten's going out with a bang *and* a whimper (and another homage, this one to Spock. Only Spock didn't demand a reward or make a big fuss as he got fried.)
So, the companion retrospective is true. It would be more fun if the Doctor was going to be less of a pill about it. Also if we weren't sitting here going "this is an amazingly long and not-flashy regeneration." But then, we've got to milk this as long as possible in as unbelievable a manner as possible to be as angsty as possible, don't we? It's like a death aria in an opera... 40 minutes long and not a symptom in sight until the end.
I'm glad to see Mickey and Martha. Need to think about the whole marriage and freelance thing. I am amused by the Martha Smith-Jones credit.
So. The rumors that Wilf would die were wrong. The rumors that he'd meet Rose before he met Rose and tell her it was going to be a good year were right.
I'll give him "I don't want to go." Other regenerations have said similar things. Except what's with the TARDIS blowing up? He's regenerated in that thing plenty of times, and the Master regenerated once there too.
Matt does manic Doctorbabble excellently. I think he's going to be good. "I'm a girl!" BWAhahahahaa!
The Doctor is dead. Long live the Doctor.
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Ten had a longer death scene even than Hamlet!
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I know. But then, from wheeling him around tied to a chair and that "I'm full of the poison that killed everyone around me in seconds, but I've still got a monologue to do" death, I think it was Yet Another Homage.
It's like the script was a paper-mache sculpture of all the stuff from SF that RTD's enjoyed in the last 20 years.
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Try closer to 40 or 50 years. The whole "Creatures without bodies/ of pure consciousness" shtick was straight out of original series Star Trek in the 60's. THEY even pulled that one several times over their 3-4 years. (And heavens know, it probably reaches further back than that!)
Sparkling clouds of lights, anyone? An entire village that looks sort of Medieval, but the "People" are pacifists and won't let Kirk and the Klingons fight, and then they all disappear?...
OMG! (O_O) Some of the Timelords DID it!
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Oh, golly, yes!
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