The Obligatory End of Time Post.

[starstealingirl]

Why am I awake at this ungodly hour, you ask? Well, there are two reasons. The first is that last night's New Year's festivities kept me up past 4 a.m., and like an idiot, I spent a good 2-3 hours this afternoon napping, instead of dealing with my fatigue and then getting to bed at a decent hour. The second reason is that now is the time my

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[sebastienne]

You really might want to warn separately about your identity-of-the-woman-in-white spoiler. I didn't want to know that.

Otherwise, though, I mostly agree; although there is precedent for slow regenerations, especially when it's something like death-by-radiation-sickness or poison, eg, Third-Fourth or Fifth-Sixth.

The endings were all so smug and glib - a winning lottery ticket does not make up for what the Doctor did to Donna, and it worries me that the audience is meant to think that it does. It felt so meta, I couldn't take it in as the Doctor's actions, I had to perceive it as RTD drawing a line under all of his characters.

I'm troubled by the possibility that the direction Moffat will take it in will completely nullifying the casual-queer of RTD's era. I'll forgive him all kinds of queer-political flaws for just having the characters there at all!

[werewolf_lib]

I read about the radiation spoiler a few hours after re-watching that episode with Martha, and also thought it was basically ridiculous. The whole Goodbye, Everyone! bit also struck me as ridiculous but given that this is RTD's Last Chance to SHINE!!!, things could have been substantially worse. I feel a bit cheated by the 'We're here! Scratch that -- we're gone!' appearance of the Time Lords and wish that more of both episodes was devoted to what could have been an interesting plot rather than a Thom Yorkalike having superpowers and making the whole world an Aphex Twin video.

What concerns me most about Eleven is that in the real world, his age would affect how other adults view him in situations of trust and I don't think that will be expressed in the series.

[ooper67]

First, let me say that I still haven't watched the last half of TW season 2 (where I'm guessing a lot of the development/lack of development for Jack/Ianto happens) and I've only seen 10th Doctor episodes (probably close to half of them), all out of order so there is still a lot that I am missing here

[starstealingirl]

How much of DW have you seen? Because if the answer is "not much," I believe the answer to that is, "you and I must have a DW marathon."

[ooper67]

Hm *checks wikipedia*.
I've been watching a lot of the reruns on BBCA for the last few months. I've seen everything (or nearly everything) since the start of Donna's season, very very little of Martha's season, probably about 40% of Rose + 10th doctor (these get replayed A LOT), and none of #9.
I have everything since the reboot added to my netflix to watch if I ever actually finish the end of TW. I'll let you know when I get there if you want to come watch with me. :D

[starstealingirl]

I have all of #9 and Rose's season on DVD, and everything else on my hard drive. If you want to borrow, or do the marathon thing, I am definitely open to that.