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[meimichi]

...ultimately incredibly underwhelming after the last ten minutes of Waters of Mars, yet somehow I could not bring myself to dislike it. ORZ I don't know. Sentimental reasons?

I DON'T KNOW.

But too much CRAZY Master (I really thought it could have been dialed down, except for the lulz at the end because at least that was obviously trying to be over the top and hilarious). This last story shouldn't be about the Master, it should be about TEN. :(

That said, aside from the cafe scene, the eyesex was totally the best part.






...Romana...? Or too much to hope for?





Was really awesome. I loved this whole thing. Naming a galaxy Allison and getting married and who knows what other wacky offscreen adventures he was having! ...OH MAN I'M NOT READY FOR THIS TO BE OVER, YOU GUYS. :(





I sort of lol'ed at how Ten only showed the GOOD parts of that whole ending subplot.

Like the Ood might have been fooled into thinking that plotline was actually pretty okay with Ten's selective editing!







...idk was I the only one who was hoping when Lucy was in the preview, this special was actually going to ELABORATE on their relationship and all the crazy shit that went down last year?

GUESS NOT.

Still, Lucy was awesome.





OMG THE REINDEER HAAAAAT








Kind of too much screentime wasted this episode on running around, buuut...

They're chasing each other around in a quarry. I can't not love this.







This entire sequence made the entire episode. SO GOOD.






"I can still die. If I'm killed before regeneration, then I'm dead.
Even then, even if I change, it feels like dying.
Everything I am...dies.
Some new man goes sauntering away."






The emo Time Lord stuff is so much better and feels more organic when they basically just let DT show it, instead of the script attempting to tell it.

Namely: the BAAAAAW I LOST MAH ROSE stuff? Did not work the more he kept YAPPING about it.

But just the look he gave watching 2.0 and Rose kissing in Journey's End? Worked.

And this whole thing works. A lot.

I already miss Donna and Ten together most of all.






I really desperately wanted more Donna in this episode and I hope next part has a LOT of her. :(






"She's making do."
"Aren't we all?"





"I'm traveling alone. I thought it was better, I...
But I did some things that went wrong.
I need--"

David Tennant acted the shit out of this, I thought. I think this is one of my favorite scenes from him on Who.





"See, Doctor? You need her.
Wouldn't she make you laugh again?
Good old Donna?"

THIS IS KILLING ME.









...that was cool.








...the Master is taking a stroll down memory lane back to the days when the two of them were frolicking through fields of daisies together on Gallifrey.

DID THIS SCENE ACTUALLY HAPPEN?!?!?!








AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH





HOW DID THAT JUST HAPPENNNNNNN

THEY HAD LIKE, SEXY MINDMELD STUFF GOING ON

AND AT LEAST ONE OF THEM WAS THINKING ABOUT MAKING OUT









All the stuff of Donna with her new fiancee just depresses the hell out of me. Feels like I'm watching mindraped Chloe last year on SV aaaall over again.

Why do these things happen to my favorites?!





NOT ANOTHER GUN

GIVE IT A REST

WASN'T LAST TIME ENOUGH






OMG TEN SMILING LIKE THAT.

THE DOCTOR DONNA STILL TRYING TO GET THROUGH.

They're both so happy and so proud of her there.






POSSIBLY THE VERY LAST TEN-ERA "IT'S BIGGER ON THE INSIDE" MOMENT. :(





Soooo over the top.






"Oh good lord, she's a cactus!"

FOR THE WIN






Okay, see, the thing is... I just end up feeling sorry for Ten that he has to deal with this crap, lol.

I love the Master as a character and their relationship and sexual tension, but the Master kind of has been failing as a villain because 1) his plans are spectacularly ridiculous, 2) unlike the other major players in the Doctor's rogues gallery, I really do feel like all of the *~issues~* could be worked out if they would just DO IT ALREADY and diffuse some of that built-up UST.

This whole stupid plan pretty much reeks of pigtail-pulling methods of seduction. "YOU LIKE HUMANS SO MUCH? WELL FINE I JUST GOT RID OF ALL THE HUMANS. NOW YOU HAVE TO PLAY WITH ME BECAUSE YOU HAVE NO CHOICE!"

And Ten is just like, "WTF did I do to deserve this stupid shit."







DONNAAAAAAAA!





Master race.

*headdesk*






O HAI THAR GALLIFREY.

TO BE CONTINUED....








...I FEEL SO EMOTIONALLY UNPREPARED FOR IT TO BE OVER.

Here's to hoping Ten's final outing is great.

Comments

[phantom-queen.livejournal.com]

OMG Donna! I had no idea she was in the TV Movie.

[nyonyo.livejournal.com]

Yup! Both parts, though she was really only in the background this episode.

[iliana-1.livejournal.com]

I DON'T WANT IT TO BE OVER EITHER!

Ten is my absolute favourite and I'm not ready for a new preppy doctor with a posh boy hair-do taking over.

The scene in the cafe had me all teary eyed :(

[nyonyo.livejournal.com]

I KNOW.

I'm kind of glad at least Ten and Donna are finishing their stories together since that feels right to me, but... It also means saying goodbye to both of them at the same time and that's rough, to lose Doctor and companion in one story and start fresh without any holdover characters. :( Ten and Donna are both my favorites, I really hope they get to go out well.

[frelling-tralk.livejournal.com]

...idk was I the only one who was hoping when Lucy was in the preview, this special was actually going to ELABORATE on their relationship and all the crazy shit that went down last year?

I was so excited to see Lucy back, it felt really anti-climatic to kill her off right away :/ But I guess the writers always tended to see her differently to the way fandom generally wanted to pereceive her and her relationship with the Master. I remember all of the awesome fic and spec coming out after The Sound of Drums when they were the evil pair working together, but then TLOTTL just turned into the abused victim of the Master


I love the Master as a character and their relationship and sexual tension, but the Master kind of has been failing as a villain because 1) his plans are spectacularly ridiculous, 2) unlike the other major players in the Doctor's rogues gallery, I really do feel like all of the *~issues~* could be worked out if they would just DO IT ALREADY and diffuse some of that built-up UST.


The Master ends up coming across as more sad and completely screwed up than some evil diabolical mastermind, so part of me always ends up thinking that he needs Ten to help him resolve his ~issues~ and the drums more than anything. He comes across as so sick and unbalanced that the tension is lost for me in all of his cracky schemes, so yeah I basically just end up watching it for his relationship with the Doctor *g*

[nyonyo.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but it was so underwritten. I liked them as fandom saw them too, but if they'd at least tried to dig into what happened there, I think I could have bought it. They just sort of glossed over their whole relationship and how it changed, I thought, and then to bring her back for just three minutes was a waste. :(

The Master ends up coming across as more sad and completely screwed up than some evil diabolical mastermind, so part of me always ends up thinking that he needs Ten to help him resolve his ~issues~ and the drums more than anything. He comes across as so sick and unbalanced that the tension is lost for me in all of his cracky schemes, so yeah I basically just end up watching it for his relationship with the Doctor *g*

Yeah, same. I would like him more if his cracky schemes didn't get the epic finale treatment. His relationship with the Doctor is epic, but the plot tension always falls on its face. If they let him weave in and out of regular series episodes, where my expectations for plot are lower, and then just brought the fun Ten/Master relationship stuff, I'd prefer it. But too late now to complain about it.

[vampireborg.livejournal.com]

"OH LOOK, ROCKS!!!"

IT MUST BE ROMANA.

[nyonyo.livejournal.com]

I HOPE SO

[lovingthecubs.livejournal.com]

idk was I the only one who was hoping when Lucy was in the preview, this special was actually going to ELABORATE on their relationship and all the crazy shit that went down last year?

I agree. I was so hoping they'd go more into what went down between them, then they go and kill her off after 3 minutes. Arg.

I first thought Romana, too! I'm still holding out they bring her back somehow.

And that cafe scene! Omg, David is so presh when he's EMO.

Love the caps! :)

[nyonyo.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I really was hyped when I saw her in the trailer. It was such a letdown for nothing to be explained at all.

The cafe scene was the best. :)

[kiratollan.livejournal.com]

I'm so torn, just like with COE from Torchwood *sigh*

But the picspam is good :)

[nyonyo.livejournal.com]

Yeah, though for me I'm torn in a different way. I really don't care that much about Torchwood but I watched COE for kicks, and I thought it really tightly written in terms of plot and tension. But on a character standpoint... There was a lot to sadface over there.

Here, the character stuff, especially the cafe scene, was great, but the plot is kinda nonexistent. I guess I'd rather have good characterization over plot given the choice, but for Ten's last outing I was really hoping for both.

And thanks! :)

[zed-pm.livejournal.com]

This ep was utterly MENTAL, but it makes for a good spam. Thanks! <3

[nyonyo.livejournal.com]

Hee, agreed! Thanks. :)

[char-cohen.livejournal.com]

I forgot to watch it - I ALWAYS forget to watch every Christmas special so I decided to watch it online on the day of the next episode ...which is New Years Day???

This spam made me cry & I haven't even seen it.

I don't want Tennant to go :(

[nyonyo.livejournal.com]

Yeah, New Year's. I don't think I could handle watching the whole end all in one go like that! I'm using this in-between time to rewatch old Ten episodes to get all *~emotionally prepared~*.

I don't want him to go either. :(

[char-cohen.livejournal.com]

I watched it all in one go.
I think I have damaged my heart & shed a years worth of tears.

Also Wilf & the cactus thing. HILARIOUS.

[miss-mady.livejournal.com]

Here's to hoping Ten's final outing is great.

This this and this. This was wonderful and ahhhh I am ALSO so emotionally unprepared.