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...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."