Rage, Russell! Rage!!!!
One thing I can say about RTD is that he sure knows how to punch you in the face with emotions! I not so secretely feel like that's why he gets work- people are so blinded by emotionally heart-wrenching something was that they don't pay any attentionto the fact that THE PLOT SUCKED.
What the actual FUCK!? All I got out of this last episode was 'kinky bondage times, cactus people, Timelord's pop by to say 'aaarg' before easily being taken out with a plot device, 'magic' glove, mysterious Time-Lady, and a thousand different things that could have been used to make Ten regenerate that would have been better than what we were actually given'.
I'm still fairly confused by what the point of the episode was, other than to give Tennant a huge, drawn- out send off. I love Tennant he was my Doctor. I wanted his last episode to be absolutely brilliant and reduce me to tears, so needless to say, I was pissed at the way his last episode managed to be simultaneously shitty and over-blown at the same time.
moving right by that excuse for a plot, I'm going to focus on the regeneration and reason for it. My complaint about the radiation being what does him in is that we've seen him deal with radiation before, and all he had to do was channel it out through his shoe and go about his way! Sure, there's different kinds and amounts of radiation, but I just wasn't impressed with it. It was just....okay, the Doctor obviously knew where to find Jack and is obviously worried about being fatelly wounded in some way, so why didn't him and Wilf just pop by there, pick him up, and save everyone a lot of trouble? I know, it's a stupid thing to think, but so was what really happened!
I was expecting something MORE, and as much as I loved Wilf was the man who would knock four times (BTW, how absolutely amazing what he? Wilf killed me the entire episode), and I loved Ten for sacrificing himself for the sweetest old man in the world, it just didn't like the right ending for him.
Along with the radiation thing, I really have a problem with the way the entire thing was played out. The Doctor has regenerated numerous times before this, it's something that we have all come to expect.
It's a fact that when a Time Lord regenerates, no matter the face, it's always the same person- this time around though, it was made more into a death. Yes, David is leaving the role and we can all be sad about that, but RTD had it bleeding into the script SO much. This isn't the end of Doctor Who. This isn't a new character running around the universe, it's the exact same person, just with slightly less eyebrows, and I feel like the entire production team forgot that. While so much behind the scenes is changing, it's not the first time it's happened, and it most likely won't be the last. I wish they been able to let Ten regenerate as something more than a vain, beaten-down man clinging to a face he'd grown fond of, because that's not the person I wanted to remember him as.
Skipping right past the plot-holes, the fact that falling out of a spaceship and through a glass ceiling should have caused enough injury and internal bleeding to cause the Doctor to regenerate before the radiation shit ever happened, and how stupid I found it that he had time to visit everyone one 'last' time (especially that shit with Jack- this is why people hate you RTD!!!), let's get to the thing that bothered me the most...Donna.
Donna is my absolute favorite companion- new or classic. After two clingy, starry-eyed girls with massive crushes, it was so refreshing to have this loud, bossy woman with courage and heart to spare running around the universe being absolutely wonderful with her best friend. She evolved so much, became such a wonderful and important person, and when that was all taken away from her with a vicious mind-rape of a scene last year, I was incredibly disgusted.
All she wanted was to be left the way she was, this happy, confident person, even if it killed her. Instead she had it all taken away from her. and she was left a shell of what she had become; she was again the shallow, angry, self-conscious woman she had been before meeting the Doctor.
Having her back for these last two episodes gave me hope for her- I thought that she could finally get the ending that she deserved. Instead, she is left on the side-lines, everything happening around her. When it seems like she remembers that year she had lost, some magical defense kicks in and she passes out. Are the memories gone? Why didn't her brain burn out like the Doctor said it would? It made absolutely no sense and they didn't even try to explain it.
In the end, she's not restored to that wonderful woman she had become, but instead is left in a life of monotony right where the Doctor found her- marrying some guy who most likely isn't good enough, never knowing how important she is, thinking that all she has in life. The Doctor leaves her with a winning lottery ticket (because money will solve everything) and is done with her. What. The. Fuck? Sure, the lottery thing is nice and all, but the Donna we knew would have traded anything in order to not be who she now is again- in the moments when she thought she would die, all she wanted was to not be that person. Rose gets her Doctor clone-toy, Martha became badass in her own way and is happy with Mickey, but Donna? Left on the side, missing everything.
I'm glad that it's over. Now we can move on from the RTD-era and the various bad tastes it left in my mouth amidst its good moments, and move on to series 5 (or 1, still confused on that). Moffat is now at the helm, and I don't think I could be more excited about it. Smitty seems amazing from the little I've seen, and the trailer for the next series sent me off into a nerd squee! It looks like it's shaping up to be brilliant, and after the specials of this past year, that's exactly what I'm needing.
Me too, Dean, me too...
What the actual FUCK!? All I got out of this last episode was 'kinky bondage times, cactus people, Timelord's pop by to say 'aaarg' before easily being taken out with a plot device, 'magic' glove, mysterious Time-Lady, and a thousand different things that could have been used to make Ten regenerate that would have been better than what we were actually given'.
I'm still fairly confused by what the point of the episode was, other than to give Tennant a huge, drawn- out send off. I love Tennant he was my Doctor. I wanted his last episode to be absolutely brilliant and reduce me to tears, so needless to say, I was pissed at the way his last episode managed to be simultaneously shitty and over-blown at the same time.
moving right by that excuse for a plot, I'm going to focus on the regeneration and reason for it. My complaint about the radiation being what does him in is that we've seen him deal with radiation before, and all he had to do was channel it out through his shoe and go about his way! Sure, there's different kinds and amounts of radiation, but I just wasn't impressed with it. It was just....okay, the Doctor obviously knew where to find Jack and is obviously worried about being fatelly wounded in some way, so why didn't him and Wilf just pop by there, pick him up, and save everyone a lot of trouble? I know, it's a stupid thing to think, but so was what really happened!
I was expecting something MORE, and as much as I loved Wilf was the man who would knock four times (BTW, how absolutely amazing what he? Wilf killed me the entire episode), and I loved Ten for sacrificing himself for the sweetest old man in the world, it just didn't like the right ending for him.
Along with the radiation thing, I really have a problem with the way the entire thing was played out. The Doctor has regenerated numerous times before this, it's something that we have all come to expect.
It's a fact that when a Time Lord regenerates, no matter the face, it's always the same person- this time around though, it was made more into a death. Yes, David is leaving the role and we can all be sad about that, but RTD had it bleeding into the script SO much. This isn't the end of Doctor Who. This isn't a new character running around the universe, it's the exact same person, just with slightly less eyebrows, and I feel like the entire production team forgot that. While so much behind the scenes is changing, it's not the first time it's happened, and it most likely won't be the last. I wish they been able to let Ten regenerate as something more than a vain, beaten-down man clinging to a face he'd grown fond of, because that's not the person I wanted to remember him as.
Skipping right past the plot-holes, the fact that falling out of a spaceship and through a glass ceiling should have caused enough injury and internal bleeding to cause the Doctor to regenerate before the radiation shit ever happened, and how stupid I found it that he had time to visit everyone one 'last' time (especially that shit with Jack- this is why people hate you RTD!!!), let's get to the thing that bothered me the most...Donna.
Donna is my absolute favorite companion- new or classic. After two clingy, starry-eyed girls with massive crushes, it was so refreshing to have this loud, bossy woman with courage and heart to spare running around the universe being absolutely wonderful with her best friend. She evolved so much, became such a wonderful and important person, and when that was all taken away from her with a vicious mind-rape of a scene last year, I was incredibly disgusted.
All she wanted was to be left the way she was, this happy, confident person, even if it killed her. Instead she had it all taken away from her. and she was left a shell of what she had become; she was again the shallow, angry, self-conscious woman she had been before meeting the Doctor.
Having her back for these last two episodes gave me hope for her- I thought that she could finally get the ending that she deserved. Instead, she is left on the side-lines, everything happening around her. When it seems like she remembers that year she had lost, some magical defense kicks in and she passes out. Are the memories gone? Why didn't her brain burn out like the Doctor said it would? It made absolutely no sense and they didn't even try to explain it.
In the end, she's not restored to that wonderful woman she had become, but instead is left in a life of monotony right where the Doctor found her- marrying some guy who most likely isn't good enough, never knowing how important she is, thinking that all she has in life. The Doctor leaves her with a winning lottery ticket (because money will solve everything) and is done with her. What. The. Fuck? Sure, the lottery thing is nice and all, but the Donna we knew would have traded anything in order to not be who she now is again- in the moments when she thought she would die, all she wanted was to not be that person. Rose gets her Doctor clone-toy, Martha became badass in her own way and is happy with Mickey, but Donna? Left on the side, missing everything.
I'm glad that it's over. Now we can move on from the RTD-era and the various bad tastes it left in my mouth amidst its good moments, and move on to series 5 (or 1, still confused on that). Moffat is now at the helm, and I don't think I could be more excited about it. Smitty seems amazing from the little I've seen, and the trailer for the next series sent me off into a nerd squee! It looks like it's shaping up to be brilliant, and after the specials of this past year, that's exactly what I'm needing.
Me too, Dean, me too...