Doctor Who Finale
Jul. 7th, 2008 04:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kiki_engSo, erm. I quite liked it, except for the part where they did horrible things to Donna. I am so, so not amused by that and have been bitching incessantly about it. (For those of you that have had to put up with that: I'm sorry, I really, really am.) It seems to me that this is all very nicely tied up, (despite what people have been saying, trying to console me, that Doctor Who has shown a terrible inability to let their companions alone) as it ties very nicely in with River Song's [...and am I the only one that has issues with that name? ...because I can't call her River, because that's not who she is: River Tam is River. This means that I have to use her last name, which is Song. River Song. Somebody named their child River Song. Is she from the planet of Free Love or something? (This is not to say that I have anything against the concept of that planet; I quite like that concept, because it's the right combination of utopian and vastly amusing fannish stuff. It's just... OK, fine. It's OK. I'm OK with it. I like hippie names. This is not terribly cliche. *facepalm* ....somebody stop me from ever naming a child, should that come up.] response to Donna and anonymous alien food-providing woman from The Shadow Proclaimation's seeing. I don't think the TARDIS is coming back for Donna, ever.
...but it should, damn it, because she's been the best companion in New Who. Just: "Donna Noble: making the world better through shouting" ...and oh, she so totally did. She's done the best job, so far, of keeping up with the Doctor, keeping him in check, and being there for him. Also: didn't fall madly in love with him, had spine, and snark (they got rid of snark) and was generally an interesting, lovable character, with faults. She also, (and I know I'm being repetitive here) had the best family out of everyone we've seen so far. (This is one of those times that I really bloody hate being a fan.)
Rose got her happy ending with the Doctor! That was lovely! Except.... she has DoctorDonna, not Doctor 2.0 and while this is clearly an infinitely superior thing, it might just not be what Rose wants. (I also find his mind not offing him rather convenient.) It seems like a very odd threesome in some ways. Though, thing with DoctorDonna, is that he finished the sentence the Doctor couldn't or wouldn't, which ranks him fairly high up in my books, and his having done that strikes me as a rather superior Donna trait. I'm not quite sure how Rose and DoctorDonna are going to cope with being bound to the spot (in time and space). The only thing in my head here is "to die will be an awfully big adventure."
SARAH-JANE! Love Sarah-Jane. (I've not been watching Sladen's new series.) Her kid's rather cute and Mr. Smith is fun and wonderfully childish, though I'm looking at him and thinking: where on earth did you come from? I've got two, kinda crackpot theories:
1) Mr. Smith appeared through some random set of circumstances, and is, kind of, in a rather unconventional sort of way, Sarah-Jane Smith's hubby. Accordingly, the boy is a cyborg.
2) Mr. Smith is The Doctor. Sarah-Jane's a rather significant companion, so The Doctor pulled the same sort of thing on himself as was done to the Girl in the Library and then proceeded to ship himself to Sarah-Jane Smith.
Torchwood: this was alright. I kind of feel cheated about Gwen at this point: I feel like they need to do more with her and magical rift melding, or something. I really, really disliked Ianto's laugh. (I feel really weird saying that, but I keep on coming back to that in my mind. I don't know why.) I would have liked them to meet The Doctor. Alas.
I liked the episode, I did, really, it was a lot of fun, but: Donna, and I really don't feel up to Cybermen in the Christmas Episode at this point. I want something happy, because the Doctor needs something happy. Rose gets a Happy Ending, but the Doctor doesn't. He still doesn't get to spend his life with her, it's just a version of him that does (...and what is with him and abandoning bits of his DNA all through time and space? Honestly!) and he's still kind of committed xenocide (again) and so, was kind of need of Rose as much as DoctorDonna was.
To summarise Doctor's situation:
has basically committed xenocide (again)
DoctorDonna + Rose = Twu Wuv 4Evar and Jackie sealed off in AU (am I the only one aware that any one of these puny humans could spontaneously die at any moment? Also: where was Pete?)
Donna *now with new lurking brain explosion capabilities!* can never know him again (and, oh, he has all the science of time and space at his disposal and that's the best he can come up with? wtf?)
Other one time companions returned to Doctor-less existances
Thus: is just about back to square one with 9, only, you know, worse
I want a happy episode next. I really, really do.
...but it should, damn it, because she's been the best companion in New Who. Just: "Donna Noble: making the world better through shouting" ...and oh, she so totally did. She's done the best job, so far, of keeping up with the Doctor, keeping him in check, and being there for him. Also: didn't fall madly in love with him, had spine, and snark (they got rid of snark) and was generally an interesting, lovable character, with faults. She also, (and I know I'm being repetitive here) had the best family out of everyone we've seen so far. (This is one of those times that I really bloody hate being a fan.)
Rose got her happy ending with the Doctor! That was lovely! Except.... she has DoctorDonna, not Doctor 2.0 and while this is clearly an infinitely superior thing, it might just not be what Rose wants. (I also find his mind not offing him rather convenient.) It seems like a very odd threesome in some ways. Though, thing with DoctorDonna, is that he finished the sentence the Doctor couldn't or wouldn't, which ranks him fairly high up in my books, and his having done that strikes me as a rather superior Donna trait. I'm not quite sure how Rose and DoctorDonna are going to cope with being bound to the spot (in time and space). The only thing in my head here is "to die will be an awfully big adventure."
SARAH-JANE! Love Sarah-Jane. (I've not been watching Sladen's new series.) Her kid's rather cute and Mr. Smith is fun and wonderfully childish, though I'm looking at him and thinking: where on earth did you come from? I've got two, kinda crackpot theories:
1) Mr. Smith appeared through some random set of circumstances, and is, kind of, in a rather unconventional sort of way, Sarah-Jane Smith's hubby. Accordingly, the boy is a cyborg.
2) Mr. Smith is The Doctor. Sarah-Jane's a rather significant companion, so The Doctor pulled the same sort of thing on himself as was done to the Girl in the Library and then proceeded to ship himself to Sarah-Jane Smith.
Torchwood: this was alright. I kind of feel cheated about Gwen at this point: I feel like they need to do more with her and magical rift melding, or something. I really, really disliked Ianto's laugh. (I feel really weird saying that, but I keep on coming back to that in my mind. I don't know why.) I would have liked them to meet The Doctor. Alas.
I liked the episode, I did, really, it was a lot of fun, but: Donna, and I really don't feel up to Cybermen in the Christmas Episode at this point. I want something happy, because the Doctor needs something happy. Rose gets a Happy Ending, but the Doctor doesn't. He still doesn't get to spend his life with her, it's just a version of him that does (...and what is with him and abandoning bits of his DNA all through time and space? Honestly!) and he's still kind of committed xenocide (again) and so, was kind of need of Rose as much as DoctorDonna was.
To summarise Doctor's situation:
has basically committed xenocide (again)
DoctorDonna + Rose = Twu Wuv 4Evar and Jackie sealed off in AU (am I the only one aware that any one of these puny humans could spontaneously die at any moment? Also: where was Pete?)
Donna *now with new lurking brain explosion capabilities!* can never know him again (and, oh, he has all the science of time and space at his disposal and that's the best he can come up with? wtf?)
Other one time companions returned to Doctor-less existances
Thus: is just about back to square one with 9, only, you know, worse
I want a happy episode next. I really, really do.