New Who New Year 2010 special: The End of Time, part 2

[strange_complex]

I am:

Happy, because the Woman in White could still be Romana. It would have distracted from the plot to try to go into it in detail, but 'I was lost long ago'? That's Rusty giving us enough to add '... in E-space' if we want to.

Sad, because really I don't think the Time Lords ever can come back properly after that. It was tenuous enough to give them one route out of their Time Lock; setting up another would feel very, very strained now. I wanted them to come back and stay back, and now I don't think I am ever going to get that.

Happy, because even though it was a bit self-indulgent there at the end, the Russell T. Davies era was frickin' awesome, and I loved seeing all those people get their happy endings, and spotting all the alien races in the bar where Jack was drinking. It was definitely better than having them all come back and be shoe-horned into the main plot, anyway.

Sad, because Donna never did get to remember how awesome she had been, after all.

Happy, because if the Tenth Doctor's era had to come to an end, then that ending was so perfect for him. I loved the small ordinariness of it after everything he has done, and I loved the look on his face when he realised, and his rage about it, but the certainty that he would do it anyway because that fits perfectly with everything he had ever done.

Sad, because there isn't any more of it.

Happy, because it is time for new things, and I can see Matt Smith is going to be great, too. GERONIMOOOOOO!!!!

In short, conflicted. Which I think was the point of that.

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Comments

[my-mundane-life.livejournal.com]

Who's Romana? I'd assumed it was his parents but then I'm not up on the back plot like you are.

[planet-andy.livejournal.com]

Enjoyed tonight's episode, but it could have finished 20 minutes sooner for me. Apart from the last bit, which reminded me of a scene from Hitchhikers Guide with a sperm whale and thereby made me smile!

[big-daz.livejournal.com]

A bit overlong I thought, plus Donna was underused, but in all, enjoyable.

Now I've seen the new series trailer, I'm looking forward to March/April to see just how well Moffatt & Smith will do :-)

[weepingcross.livejournal.com]

So much that was so good, so much that was so wasted, so much that was so bloody dreadful. I think my chief disappointment is not just that Time Lord society is (you're almost certainly right) gone forever with all its delightful obsessive ritual and hierarchy, but that so little was done with them in favour of flash-bang bullshit and waffly Ooderie (you know what I mean). If the President can throw a diamond out of the Time Lock, what's to stop them all coming out? Thank heavens it's over, is all I can think, here's to the future. I feel a bit mean saying it, but there you go.

[davesangel.livejournal.com]

Happy, because the Woman in White could still be Romana. It would have distracted from the plot to try to go into it in detail, but 'I was lost long ago'? That's Rusty giving us enough to add '... in E-space' if we want to

She is apparently the Doctor's mother (according to Julie Gardner, and I think this has also been stated by numerous cast/crew).

And RTD's era was indeed fantastic. I think he received far more (negative) criticism than he should have - yes there were bits that people didn't like, but he did bring the series back to life, and there were so many wonderful bits and pieces that, for me, made up for anything 'crap'.