Comments | thepresidentrix: A rhythm of four: the heartbeat of a Time Lord

thepresidentrix

A rhythm of four: the heartbeat of a Time Lord

Apr 11, 2010 03:33

I caught both parts of Doctor Who: The End of Time tonight, nearly by accident. I had heard The End of Time was pretty terrible, and somewhere between The Next Doctor (which I haven't heard much of anyone talking about, but which I liked), The Planet of the Dead (which bored me to the point that I can't even remember why it also *bothered* me), and ( Read more... )

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fadeintodawn April 11 2010, 13:46:57 UTC

I agree with a lot of what you've said about this special. While I'm glad that Ten got to say goodbye to people, it took forever, and seemed to diminish the emotional impact. I was all for having him regenerate when he was in the little radiation box - it was quick and scary and you felt that he had accepted it ( ... )

tempestsarekind April 12 2010, 00:04:34 UTC

And then he travels through various times and dimensions just to glower at all his old friends from a distance and feel sorry for himselfI KNOOOOOOOW. What even is that??? Like, why couldn't he have rescued them with a wistful smile on his face? I would have been ten (heh) times less annoyed by that sequence if it didn't come across so much like he was just going around to rain on everyone's parade, trying to get one last emo in ( ... )

tempestsarekind April 12 2010, 00:07:50 UTC

Also, re: the post title--seriously? Are you really telling me that the Master has been hearing these drums for his entire life, through all of his regenerations, and not ONCE did he stop and go, "hmm, this sounds remarkably like MY OWN HEARTBEAT"?

Martha Jones says WHAT.

tinuviellen April 12 2010, 19:58:17 UTC

I was annoyed with this ep and it's whole Return of the King ending - something that annoyed me far less with RotK. I felt like they'd done the big good byes and ended the world too many times already. And I didn't like the sour attitude in the least. And I'm still mad about Donna. But I did love the Wilf time. Wilf is wonderful.

I don't know how I feel about Eleven. Ten is really my guy - I met the Doctor while he was Ten - so it's weird to be moving on. I've gone back and met Nine, and I was terrified of earlier incarnations in childhood, so DT has always seemed like The Doctor to me. Am very excited about finding out what I think, at least of the start, on Saturday night.