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[wednesday_whimsy]

It's back to work tomorrow sadly and one week until the new job kicks in. This is the worst part of year, but luckily I have a fantastic holiday to look forward to in March.

I haven't made any resolutions particularly. I have a list of things I want to do before I turn 30 which I'm going to concentrate on. I have nine months (almost) to accomplish a few things. I would also like to read more and hopefully bandom big bang will be starting again soon. I'd like to finish off a few fics I have in the works and continue to improve.

And just to wrap a few TV things up...


For the first time ever the second half of a RTD story was better than the first half, though to be honest, it was hard to see how it could be worse.

David Tennant and John Simm proved that you can make anything good if you have good actors, and every line of Doctor/Master conversation was made to sound like theirs was a love-story greater and more pure than Romeo and Juliet. Which I suppose it is. Doctor/Master=OTP. Actually, regardless of the slash, the way that they're just very messed up best friends makes me happy.

I did enjoy the ending, though it did go on-and-on-and-on, rather like Return of the King. I was disappointed that Martha didn't marry Tom (and did marry Mickey), and that neither Sarah-Jane nor Donna got a real goodbye (I do understand the Donna thing, but come on!) On the other hand I enjoyed the scene with Jack, and the scene with Jessica Stevenson Hynes made me a little teary. I even enjoyed the scene with Rose, which I thought was well-done and not too flowery or gooey or filled with declarations of love and heartbreak.

I'm slightly confused by Timothy Dalton being Rassilon and I really want to know who the Time Lady was (His mother? His wife? Romana?) but those are small things.

Finally, to everyone complaining about Matt Smith after his whole thirty seconds of screen-time, I'd just like to say, go back and read what you said when Christopher Eccleston turned into David Tennant, because I'll bet you said almost exactly what you're saying now. I say give him a while to settle in before you write him off. In five years someone will be saying he's the best there's ever been.


A lovely ending to a lovely series. Smithy's speech in the Church was absolutely perfect, because obviously they're not in love, but it's just as obvious that they are made for each other. I was pleased it didn't get too sentimental. It was nice to have Jason back. Well done for getting John Prescott and Noel from Hear'Say to keep up the continuity.

It's snowing again now. I'm going to make myself some coffee and wallow in my newfound crush on Jude Law.

Comments

[oddishly.livejournal.com]

I really didn't get the point of Donna's storyline in this part -- the whole last part, I mean. Like. Was she in it for the added ~must not see the Doctor~ tension? Or as one last hurrah? Or what? I'm with you, I WISH she could have had a real goodbye :/

And, lol, I was absolutely convinced the Doctor and the Master were going to ~reveal their true love at some point. 'I wonder what I'll be without you' + staring into each other's eyes + huge great long history and rivalry and such -- I mean, SERIOUSLY. ♥__♥

[kyasuriin.livejournal.com]

That master/doctor convo was amazing. I was like "he didn't just say... Omg he DID just say!"
And I'm also curious who the time lady was. I feel like I don't know enough about the original series to even guess.

[jacqui-hw.livejournal.com]

I'm going to believe for the sake of my own canon, that it was Romana (his former timelady companion) since she was lost once and would certainly have been on the Doctor's side through the whole thing. :D

[jacqui-hw.livejournal.com]

Was she in it for the added ~must not see the Doctor~ tension? Or as one last hurrah?
I have so many issues with RTD and this just sums up one of the biggest. I think half the time he doesn't actually know what he's doing. He's just writing so that tons of people can go "Awww, look! He remembers her. See how that was important." When really it's not important he just doesn't know how to write properly.

I was absolutely convinced the Doctor and the Master were going to ~reveal their true love at some point.
And they did. The whole Doctor/Rose storyline was actually a front for the epic Doctor/Master romance that was taking place.

[emma-took.livejournal.com]

I was totally convinced the woman was Romana before watching Part 2, but now I think she might be either his mother or Susan...or just some random timelady.

[jacqui-hw.livejournal.com]

I do like the idea of it being Susan actually. I would love it if they recalled some of the early stuff.

[emma-took.livejournal.com]

The only problem with that is why wouldn't they use Carol Ann Ford...idk, I'd like it to be Susan.