And so Time Ends (all spoilers cut)

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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 the Babylon 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.

Comments

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That's pretty much RTD's ongoing failing (in every Ten season, at least -- he did better with Nine): Making a season look like he's building up to a point, hammering on particular themes, and then coming up with a finale that's heavy on spectacle and Rule of Cool but light on plot and completely flubs the payoff for the season's thematic arc.

ETA: I, too, am now eagerly looking forward to Eleven, which shocked me. I kind of figured my Who love had burned out and I'd just be watching the new season to keep track of what the friends list was talking about -- the same reason I watch Torchwood, IOW. And then that final minute with Eleven onscreen had me hooked.

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And then that final minute with Eleven onscreen had me hooked.

That's the whole point of that minute, and I'm always impressed that 10 times now, an actor has managed to sell his whole new approach when he's got about 10 seconds to do it!

As for the RTD part: So. Much. Word.