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chicafrom3I actually acquired my copy much earlier this evening, but BBCA is marathoning all of Tennant's episodes and they were in the Martha part of the series and I couldn't stop watching Miss Martha, okay? So I waited until they finished Last Of The Time Lords and then watched it.
Things what I liked:
Wilf. OBVIOUSLY. You win at life, Bernard Cribbins. You win at life.
TIME LORDS. Not there very long, but OMG YAY. And WTF Rassilon, but okay.
The first half was like an action movie! Not a brilliantly-written action movie, I don't think, but a fun adventurous romp. Cheers for that.
"Cactuses." "Cacti." "That's racist."
906 years old? Oh, Doctor, you're such a liar.
The "get out of the way" meaningful echo. OMG. I'm'a miss you, John Simm. You were brilliant.
The moment The Doctor rubs his face and it heals. SO CREEPY FOREBODING AWESOME.
Doctor/Wilf hugs are lovely and we should have more of them.
"Did I miss something? AGAIN?"
The second half is shameless fanservice. BUT REALLY GOOD FANSERVICE.
MARTHA. And Martha's awesome hair. I really like the braids, whatever.
MICKEY. And Mickey's awesome beard. Oh, Noel, you're a shameless liar.
MARTHA AND MICKEY AS FREELANCE ALIEN HUNTERS. OMG Awesome.
Ten saving Luke's life. And a Clyde shoutout! And Sarah's expression. I didn't cry, but I got teary.
Jack/Alonso. Socute.
Donna's wedding. And the family hugs and kisses and they all look so happy and she and Shawn (was his name Shawn?) look so in love.
The return of Rose's Boomtown scarf! I love that scarf, it's so cute. Also, that whole scene was well done. Again, socute.
ELEVEN. And his inventory of his body. Legs and arms and eyes and nose and hair and Adam's apple. *glee* And STILL NOT GINGER. I'm really excited about Matt Smith, I don't think that's a secret, I think he's going to be ridiculously awesome.
The general cinematography of this episode.
WILF. It bears repeating.
Things what I didn't like:
The way various plot threads got handwaved away because...RTD didn't feel like coming up with actual resolutions? He ran out of time with all the fanservice in the second half? :/
Wow, the inclusion of Donna in the actual plot came to nothing, did it? Not that there was a lot of plot, but y'know. It didn't affect her and she didn't affect it. :/
"To get my reward."
Martha/Mickey. Look, Martha is my favorite New Skool companion. Mickey is probably my second favorite. I love them both to pieces. And I ship them, I do, I think they'd be awesome together, but that the way it was written just doesn't remotely work for me. NO.Also I ship Martha/Tom and he doesn't even get a handwave. Maybe I'm fanwanking a situation where Martha, Tom, and Mickey are all married to each other. Alt!Jake can come too.
That was the longest regeneration ever, wtf.
Ten's last words. :(
YoU BROKE THE TARDIS.
No one will be able to convince me that the mystery Time Lord woman isn't the Doctor's daughter. (Susan's mom, not Jenny.) IT IS MY HEAD CANON NOW. I DON'T CARE IF IT DOESN'T REALLY MAKE SENSE.
I didn't cry over the regeneration, but I did get really emotional. More emotional than I thought I'd be, really, given the rather anticlimactic past year. I'LL MISS YOU, TEN. YOU WERE BRILLIANT AND I FANGIRLED YOU AND I WILL MISS YOU AND DAVID TENNANT'S AMAZING GEEKINESS.
...but Eleven's going to rock. (I maybe kind of gleed over the trailer like eight times so far tonight.)
Anyway, the good outweighed the bad, and I think that means I liked it. I'll have to watch it again to be sure, but as BBCA is airing it tomorrow (er, late tonight) that shouldn't be a problem.
Going to bed now.
Things what I liked:
Wilf. OBVIOUSLY. You win at life, Bernard Cribbins. You win at life.
TIME LORDS. Not there very long, but OMG YAY. And WTF Rassilon, but okay.
The first half was like an action movie! Not a brilliantly-written action movie, I don't think, but a fun adventurous romp. Cheers for that.
"Cactuses." "Cacti." "That's racist."
906 years old? Oh, Doctor, you're such a liar.
The "get out of the way" meaningful echo. OMG. I'm'a miss you, John Simm. You were brilliant.
The moment The Doctor rubs his face and it heals. SO CREEPY FOREBODING AWESOME.
Doctor/Wilf hugs are lovely and we should have more of them.
"Did I miss something? AGAIN?"
The second half is shameless fanservice. BUT REALLY GOOD FANSERVICE.
MARTHA. And Martha's awesome hair. I really like the braids, whatever.
MICKEY. And Mickey's awesome beard. Oh, Noel, you're a shameless liar.
MARTHA AND MICKEY AS FREELANCE ALIEN HUNTERS. OMG Awesome.
Ten saving Luke's life. And a Clyde shoutout! And Sarah's expression. I didn't cry, but I got teary.
Jack/Alonso. Socute.
Donna's wedding. And the family hugs and kisses and they all look so happy and she and Shawn (was his name Shawn?) look so in love.
The return of Rose's Boomtown scarf! I love that scarf, it's so cute. Also, that whole scene was well done. Again, socute.
ELEVEN. And his inventory of his body. Legs and arms and eyes and nose and hair and Adam's apple. *glee* And STILL NOT GINGER. I'm really excited about Matt Smith, I don't think that's a secret, I think he's going to be ridiculously awesome.
The general cinematography of this episode.
WILF. It bears repeating.
Things what I didn't like:
The way various plot threads got handwaved away because...RTD didn't feel like coming up with actual resolutions? He ran out of time with all the fanservice in the second half? :/
Wow, the inclusion of Donna in the actual plot came to nothing, did it? Not that there was a lot of plot, but y'know. It didn't affect her and she didn't affect it. :/
"To get my reward."
Martha/Mickey. Look, Martha is my favorite New Skool companion. Mickey is probably my second favorite. I love them both to pieces. And I ship them, I do, I think they'd be awesome together, but that the way it was written just doesn't remotely work for me. NO.
That was the longest regeneration ever, wtf.
Ten's last words. :(
YoU BROKE THE TARDIS.
No one will be able to convince me that the mystery Time Lord woman isn't the Doctor's daughter. (Susan's mom, not Jenny.) IT IS MY HEAD CANON NOW. I DON'T CARE IF IT DOESN'T REALLY MAKE SENSE.
I didn't cry over the regeneration, but I did get really emotional. More emotional than I thought I'd be, really, given the rather anticlimactic past year. I'LL MISS YOU, TEN. YOU WERE BRILLIANT AND I FANGIRLED YOU AND I WILL MISS YOU AND DAVID TENNANT'S AMAZING GEEKINESS.
...but Eleven's going to rock. (I maybe kind of gleed over the trailer like eight times so far tonight.)
Anyway, the good outweighed the bad, and I think that means I liked it. I'll have to watch it again to be sure, but as BBCA is airing it tomorrow (er, late tonight) that shouldn't be a problem.
Going to bed now.
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And words can not begin to describe how much my fangirl heart broke at 10's last words. :'-(
But....in the like 2 minutes of 11 we got...I didn't hate it...he may yet grow on me.
And HE BROKE THE TARDIS! 0_o
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Russel Tovey is so much love and I'm so glad we got to see Alonso again regardless of the sensemaking.
AND HE BROKE THE TARDIS. D: D: That's way beyond crossing the line. THE TARIDS IS SACRED. TREAT HER WITH RESPECT, NOT, NOT...THAT. D: D: D:
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And as for the Tardis, I guess that's what happens when a timelord holds their regeneration in for too long...it makes them blow the hell up and take out things around them...poor Tardis though...but I am interested in seeing the new Tardis!
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I'm going to miss Ten so much. :( But Eleven does look like good fun.
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I'm focusing on the future because focusing on how much I'll miss Ten will just depress me. :( Be awesome, Matt. Be awesome.
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I really can't see Martha using anyone as a rebound after her experience all of s3, and I especially can't see her using someone who it must have been painful to be around because he must have reminded her of the Year that Never Was but he didn't actually remember it. So I just feel there were easier rebound choices than the man she watched die in a year that no longer exists.
And that's really true about what you said about Donna. It did come to nothing in the end. Waugh. ._.
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Errgh, that's horrible. Not only does it make no sense that she would use Tom, of all people, as a rebound relationship...it would then mean that Mickey is her rebound from Tom, and, NO. No. That's horrible. No.
So much wasted potential. :(
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Is it bad that for me, 11 was totally equalled by the 30 seconds of Jack? Jack's being doing things at TW3 as he feels the Doctor would do them with the critical mistake of forgetting that people die around the Doctor A LOT, especially people you love.
Those few seconds of Jack were semi-closure for what he did in CoE imo. 'cause if you think about it, getting someone killed then running the hell away is what 10's done his entire tenure. 'You saved the world Jack but damned yourself doing it, welcome to being the Doctor! Now go make out with the hot guy who I saved... then get back to Earth and save stuff!'.
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The 30 seconds of Jack were v. good. I like that we get a little closure, a little "Okay, you screwed up, and you feel bad about it, but life's not over." Also, ALONSO.
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Ummm theory.
Mysterious Time Lady was the Doctor's mother.
*ponders*
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