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The End of Time Part One
Well that was ummmmm.....that was ummmm.....
Batshit is the word. RTD has is own special brand of batshit and has been infusing Who with it since he started the show back up. But now it appears that with only four episodes to write this year, the batshit has become super concentrated, resulting in the episode we've all just experienced.
RTD's batshit however, is not a good or bad thing. It just is. Sometimes the results are amusing, like, for example, when it results in Daleks and Cybermen smack-talking each other. Sometimes its not – like when it results in what ever the hell The Next Doctor was (no, you will never convince me that episode was good).
I started out disliking The End of Time's super concentrated batshit but then as it got insaner and insaner, I found myself really getting into it. By the time the cliffhanger came rolling around, and we had John Simm in a dress, and Obama-Master, I'd fallen in love with this episode.
I do not think it will ever be held up as an example of brilliant television, but it was certainly entertaining.
Although, I could have done without the bloody Saxon-cultist. Could they have at least thrown a few men in there? Really, RTD, did we need the gender-fail?
Other stuff:
Batshit is the word. RTD has is own special brand of batshit and has been infusing Who with it since he started the show back up. But now it appears that with only four episodes to write this year, the batshit has become super concentrated, resulting in the episode we've all just experienced.
RTD's batshit however, is not a good or bad thing. It just is. Sometimes the results are amusing, like, for example, when it results in Daleks and Cybermen smack-talking each other. Sometimes its not – like when it results in what ever the hell The Next Doctor was (no, you will never convince me that episode was good).
I started out disliking The End of Time's super concentrated batshit but then as it got insaner and insaner, I found myself really getting into it. By the time the cliffhanger came rolling around, and we had John Simm in a dress, and Obama-Master, I'd fallen in love with this episode.
I do not think it will ever be held up as an example of brilliant television, but it was certainly entertaining.
Although, I could have done without the bloody Saxon-cultist. Could they have at least thrown a few men in there? Really, RTD, did we need the gender-fail?
Other stuff:
- Couldn't help but love the geriatric Doctor fanclub.
DOOOOONNNNNNAAAAAA!!!!!
Oh, Hi there Nina from Being Human. Does George know you're a cactus? Mitchell is really going to have to show up on Doctor Who some day.
This episode was very Star Wars.
The DoctorDonna's still fighting. You fight away DoctorDonna! (Was anyone else's first thought when they found out the machine was a healing machine think that it could be used to stabilise Donna's brain?)
I wonder what's going on with Wilf. My first thought was that he's special due to his connection with Donna. I wonder if this is right, or whether Wilf has his own special thing going on.
Speaking of Wilf, I got all weepy at that scene with him and the Doctor in the cafe. When David Tennant began in the role, I didn't really buy him as a old dude stuck in a younger bloke's body, but he was amazing being just that in that scene – and it was made all the more powerful by Wilf being the one he's talking about dying with, something Wilf probably at his age feels himself.
Anyone else think mysterious older woman is Romana?
So, the Doctor's no longer the last Time Lord. Looks like Wilf is the last human for a bit, though. (Donna being unique in being both and apparently counting as neither since the Master's machine didn't work on her).
Donna's got her memories back! Hopefully we get a lot more Donna in the next episode. Yay, Donna!
As for the next episode: Well, I predict that Ten's going to die, but not permanently, he'll regenerate into younger, but still skinny bloke. As for everything else that going to happen, I've got nothing.
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The Doctor and Wilf stuff was lovely. Bernard Cribbins was the heart and soul of this episode. I also loved seeing Sylvia and then Donna, oh....Donna.
I don't think the woman is Romana. I am sure she's a Time Lord and possibly working in opposition to Dalton, Timothy Dalton's group, but not Romana.
I just hope part 2 can live up to this week. I'd rather see batshit, insane and over the top than boring and utterly miserable like Waters of Mars (which I personally dislike more than The Next Doctor. At least that had David Morrissey and some whimsy). I just hope that Russell's crap about there not being a resurrection isn't true. I dont want any of the damn 10 fangurls to have even one iota of wiggle room for why Eleven is not the next incarnation of the Doctor.
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I hadn't heard those rumour about their possibly not being a regeneration, but I've heard that set photos of Eleven in Ten's costume exist so I don't think there will be room to argue that Eleven didn't follow Ten.
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Six Billion Simm!Masters can't be wrong....whee! I am sure next week will be depressing in its own way. I am just praying that Wilf and Donna aren't sacrificed in the story along with 10. I am fine with him going. I just don't want poor Donna or Wilf being dragged along with him. (Esp when we're going to have suffer through yet another emo!Doctor's Twue Wuv scene. Feh.)
Russell keeps babbling about the regeneration in interviews. How maybe there wont be one, or it won't be what people expect blah blah blah. Unfortunately, that's given rise to a lot of speculation and/or belief that a) Eleven isn't actually Eleven, but One in his younger form and that the entire show is being reset to the beginning b) Eleven is an entirely different renegade Timelord (who just happens to call himself The Doctor and use a type 40 TARDIS stuck in the guise of an old school police phone box, even though its slightly different...oddly, there is definitely photographic evidence of a regeneration of sorts for the TARDIS!) c) Ten will not die, but survive in some form while Eleven branches off like 10.5 so that he can go ahead and have happy romantic adventures in a series of feature films with Rose.
And so on.
If there isn't a definitive regeneration scene where there's categorically no way of arguing that Ten does not become Eleven and it's the same damn Time Lord, then a lot of stupid fans (esp the squealing I-only-watch-the-show-for-David-Tennant-and-Billie-Piper types) will continue their delusions that Ten isn't dead and that Eleven doesn't count. *sigh*
I've seen the set photos of Eleven in Ten's costume (at least the brown pinstriped trousers, the white shirt and the swirly tie -- the jacket was apparently nicked on the last day of shooting for David), so yeah, something happens and I don't think some other Time Lord comes along and steals Ten's beat up clothes. LOL
I dunno. I just want to have definitive proof to stop that line of thinking. It's bad enough everyone thinks every character besides the Doctor is a) a fobwatched Time Lord, b) the Rani, c) Romana, d) Omega
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I really wish RTD would stop feeding those Ten&Rose4eva!1!! fangirls. I fine with everyone having their favourite Doctor/Companion team, but when it comes to denying the existence of other Doctors, that's taking it way to far.
But really, with some people, definitive proof is not enough. They'll exist no matter what.