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I think is was kind of awesome
Okay, Wilf is awesome, The Master is still a bastard you don't want to meet, and oh my GOD, The Doctor's guilt over Gallifrey has to be enormous.
Wilf's sheer delight in being in space, and his desperate attempts to console, protect and persuade the Doctor are just heartbreaking. And he totally got to play during the Star Wars shout-out bit.
The Master -- god, the idea that all of his madness is because the Time Lords needed an escape hatch *and* that they were going to exclude him for being what they made him into when he was too young to resist...ugh.
On the other hand, his reaction is why the Evil Overlord List has the rules about not tormenting dangerous beasts or betraying loyal soldiers.
However... Rassilon? Timothy Dalton was playing *Rassilon*? Or were they just being poetic there? I could certainly see the name being used as an insulting epithet, under the circumstances.
The Doctor destroyed Gallifrey and the Time Lords when he destroyed the Daleks, deliberately. Because they had become monsters on the scale of Eldritch Abominations -- the Skaros Degredations, the Horde of Travesties, the Nightmare Child, the Could-have-been King and his army of Meanwhiles and Neverweres -- seriously, it sounds like a list of Old Gods from Lovecraft. I was almost expecting the Doctor to say 'The King in Yellow'. The Doctor took The Moment and killed his own people and the Daleks, because neither of them could be allowed to survive if the universe was going to exist for any and all other species.
The look on the Doctor's face when he hears the knocking ... waaagh! Also, it seemed like a Star Trek shout out there -- glass containment and radiation and someone has to go inside. If The Doctor had been human, he'd have been immediately blinded from the nerves in his eyes being ionized, and been dead within 5 or 10 minutes.
Omg, at the end with the Doctor checking in on each of his companions -- the bit with Verity Newman was kind of heartbreaking. 'Was she happy'?
This was one of the slowest, gentlest regenerations that The Doctor has ever experienced -- and still he didn't want to go. The Ood singing him on was perfect. And then the actual regeneration blows up the Tardids... ouch.
Also, who do we think The Woman was? I'm leaning towards either The Doctor's wife or daughter or possibly Susan, given that he looked at Donna when Wilf asked.They deliberately chose an actor who looks somewhat like David Tennant, enough to suggest a family connection.
The Eleventh Doctor starts out as maniac and cloud-cuckoo-land as any of them. Oh, he'll be a fun run.
The musical score really worked for me, and I'm considering getting the soundtrack maybe. It'd be great instrumentals to write to.
Okay, Wilf is awesome, The Master is still a bastard you don't want to meet, and oh my GOD, The Doctor's guilt over Gallifrey has to be enormous.
Wilf's sheer delight in being in space, and his desperate attempts to console, protect and persuade the Doctor are just heartbreaking. And he totally got to play during the Star Wars shout-out bit.
The Master -- god, the idea that all of his madness is because the Time Lords needed an escape hatch *and* that they were going to exclude him for being what they made him into when he was too young to resist...ugh.
On the other hand, his reaction is why the Evil Overlord List has the rules about not tormenting dangerous beasts or betraying loyal soldiers.
However... Rassilon? Timothy Dalton was playing *Rassilon*? Or were they just being poetic there? I could certainly see the name being used as an insulting epithet, under the circumstances.
The Doctor destroyed Gallifrey and the Time Lords when he destroyed the Daleks, deliberately. Because they had become monsters on the scale of Eldritch Abominations -- the Skaros Degredations, the Horde of Travesties, the Nightmare Child, the Could-have-been King and his army of Meanwhiles and Neverweres -- seriously, it sounds like a list of Old Gods from Lovecraft. I was almost expecting the Doctor to say 'The King in Yellow'. The Doctor took The Moment and killed his own people and the Daleks, because neither of them could be allowed to survive if the universe was going to exist for any and all other species.
The look on the Doctor's face when he hears the knocking ... waaagh! Also, it seemed like a Star Trek shout out there -- glass containment and radiation and someone has to go inside. If The Doctor had been human, he'd have been immediately blinded from the nerves in his eyes being ionized, and been dead within 5 or 10 minutes.
Omg, at the end with the Doctor checking in on each of his companions -- the bit with Verity Newman was kind of heartbreaking. 'Was she happy'?
This was one of the slowest, gentlest regenerations that The Doctor has ever experienced -- and still he didn't want to go. The Ood singing him on was perfect. And then the actual regeneration blows up the Tardids... ouch.
Also, who do we think The Woman was? I'm leaning towards either The Doctor's wife or daughter or possibly Susan, given that he looked at Donna when Wilf asked.They deliberately chose an actor who looks somewhat like David Tennant, enough to suggest a family connection.
The Eleventh Doctor starts out as maniac and cloud-cuckoo-land as any of them. Oh, he'll be a fun run.
The musical score really worked for me, and I'm considering getting the soundtrack maybe. It'd be great instrumentals to write to.
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The shout-outs were marvellous and we both had a good laugh over them, including spamming with "Great kid! Don't get cocky!" when it was appropriate. And yes, we did have to spam with "Ship... out of danger?"
The Woman, yes never identified. The Best Beloved suggested Susan, I thought perhaps Romana, but then the theme jokingly nicknamed "Chancellor Flavia" played, so perhaps it was Chancellor Flavia? No one knows for sure, and who knows if we'll find out. I was right about her being a Time Lord though.
Goodness but it became harder to ignore the plotholes towards the end. If Wilf didn't Masterise because he was in the glass case, why did the other schmuck-in-a-box turn human again? Convenient plot device to put Wilf back in the closet is too convenient. And Russell T. apparently went to the Manga Khan School of Melodrama because dear god. Poor David Tennant's jaw must have been aching after chewing up all the scenery that Russell wanted. I think he must have chewed through a gas line and that's what caused the poor TARDIS's current state. That's never happened before! It didn't happen the last time he regenerated on board! It didn't happen when the Master regenerated on board, either! And when did His Nibbs ever worry about 'dying' before? He's always been rather confident about it, 'There's this thing that happens.' His memories and a majority of personality traits carry over. He's always been a bit "oh well, I won't be the same but lives go on" about it, even in the new era. Evidently the poor TARDIS couldn't take all the melodrama either. Or is that the TARDIS version of vomiting because she just couldn't swallow it all? Yes, Snarky!Katze is snarky because "oh Russell... And you were doing so well, too." Seriously, somebody needs to take him aside and teach him how to write fanfic properly. *takes tongue out of cheek*
The Doctor is dead, long live the Doctor! Looking forward to His New Nibbs. I've seen promo pics of his outfit. I predict this one will become known as the Archie Doctor or possibly Archie Who :-P Of course, we Flash fans could call him Barry Who; after all, the Pied Piper and the Trickster are already established as foes in the Whoniverse.
All in all I enjoyed it tremendously (even though it sounds like I didn't, drive trucks through Russell T's fanfics is all part of the fun) Russell T is a far better program planner and audience manipulator than he is a writer, and having established the show firmly back in the British viewing consciousness, it's safe to hand it off. I'm looking forward to seeing what Steven Moffatt does with the series, given what he's done with a few episodes.
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I actually tagged the Time Lady who got disintegrated as Lady Flavia -- she did seem to have a sense of responsibility for the universe outside Gallifrey in Old School Who.
For scenery chewing, I think John Sims had more of a job than Tennant.
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Surprise Mickey! And surprise Mickey hook-up! Didn't see that one coming! Now I must ship it and ship it hard.