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allfireburns) wrote2008-12-26 08:40 pm
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Bridges burned, fingers crossed...
Seriously, WTF. There has never been an episode of Doctor Who where I could do nothing but stare in horror. I mean, I enjoyed TINKERBELL JESUS DOCTOR, okay? (I still do, but that's a story for another day.) But... that's kind of what I ended up doing here.
I just... bad writing. BAD. WRITING. On top of some really uncomfortable gender things, and the... GIANT MECHA CYBERMAN? SERIOUSLY? How do you get AWAY with that? Rusty, the Doctor saying "Well" is not an explanation for why there is nothing about a GIANT MECHA CYBERMAN in history books.
I. JUST. WHAT.
RAAAAGE.
It's possible I'm just crotchety right now, but NO. I was so hoping he didn't end up sad and alone on the TARDIS again, so the fact that he didn't is... a plus, and there were some cute moments with the Doctor, but mostly... I so don't want to watch this episode ever again. It. Just. WHY DOES IT EXIST?
...I'm going to have to go watch some good Doctor Who later tonight to restore my faith in things.
I just... bad writing. BAD. WRITING. On top of some really uncomfortable gender things, and the... GIANT MECHA CYBERMAN? SERIOUSLY? How do you get AWAY with that? Rusty, the Doctor saying "Well" is not an explanation for why there is nothing about a GIANT MECHA CYBERMAN in history books.
I. JUST. WHAT.
RAAAAGE.
It's possible I'm just crotchety right now, but NO. I was so hoping he didn't end up sad and alone on the TARDIS again, so the fact that he didn't is... a plus, and there were some cute moments with the Doctor, but mostly... I so don't want to watch this episode ever again. It. Just. WHY DOES IT EXIST?
...I'm going to have to go watch some good Doctor Who later tonight to restore my faith in things.
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I have the say, mecha Cyberman made me laugh out loud.
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He should have thrown in some Daleks for good measure. That's RTD's idea of recipe for success - MORE DALEKS.
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It'd be nifty.
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Yeah, it made absolutely no sense though. Whatsoever.
That was my least favorite part.
That and fucking Rosalie sounding EXACTLY like Martha and distracting me the whole time.
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And I'm still sad Martha didn't get a Christmas special, because I'm sure I would have loved that, but... oh well.
It's really disappointing too, because I've been so hopeful and excited about the specials airing between now and S5. This episode is really lowering my expectations for the others, though.
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I'm sad about that, too. :/
I really hope that David Tennant stays on for one more series, because the main reason that we don't get another series sooner is because of him. So if we're waiting for him and he's only going to a few specials so far apart? Grar.
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I so wish he would, but he's totally not. It's been confirmed - brand new Doctor, starting next season. Which... I'm okay with, on the one hand, because David feels it's time to move on and I'm glad he's getting out while he still enjoys the show, but on the other hand... that's MY DOCTOR. I will cry so hard.
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See I thought it had been confirmed and I told my sister about it. She looked into it and said that it wasn't for certain according to the articles that she found, but I'm not sure what she found. So. >>
Oh and don't mind the Martha journal. ^^"
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Yeah, he announced it on a... thing (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7698539.stm), a while ago. I'm just hoping that now that The Next Doctor has aired, they'll go ahead and announce who they've cast as the ACTUAL next Doctor. I desperately want it to be someone completely out of the blue (and not Paterson Joseph - I don't mind a black Doctor AT ALL, but NOT HIM).
And just as long as you don't mind my Tosh journal. ^^
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Gwah. I kind of wish he would have just died in the finale... it would have stopped that episode from failing so much and all of his companions would have been there to see it-ish. Except not cause we still get more of him, but. Hopefully it gets better. How many specials do we get, anyway? :o
I don't mind! I never mind a Tosh journal. :)
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♥
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I watch the episodes almost entirely for the characters. Ten in particular of course, and the fact that I fell in love with David Morrissey's character almost immediately. He did a great job, too, and I feel he should be on for a recurring role. If it weren't for his randomly appearing son, I'd hope for him to join as a companion. I spent a lot of wanting Ten to just hug him, or possibly make out with him. (It might have been partly due to the outfit -- I'm a sucker for those clothes.)
(It took Steph and I just about two seconds, and we're RPing Ten/Jackson, starting where the episode left off. They just finished that Christmas dinner. Ah, shameless slash.)
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My theory is that all those people died off pretty quickly, then forty-some years later Torchwood went around collecting all the evidence and burning people's diaries and such. After that only conspiracy theorists talked about it, and no one takes them seriously. Yea.
Overall, I wasn't too impressed with it either.
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Then, I get irrationally pissed off when people get away with bad writing on TV, because there are SO MANY PEOPLE involved that somewhere along the way, SOMEONE should have gone "Umm... question." And I know why it doesn't happen when it's an episode written by a showrunner, but it's still rage-inducing.
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I'm with the camp that just expects weak Christmas specials, I just don't understand why they have to be that way.