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So, I was wrong about them wiping the timeline. And in the time they could've spent undoing the undoing, we instead basically got to watch a really random montage of other characters going about their lives while the Doctor stared at them WITH GREAT TIME LORD INTENSITY. Guys, I don't want to be the fangirl who rewrites the season finale*, but I might be the fangirl who rewrites the season finale. All the wasted opportunity! I feel like if I poke at this episode too hard it's all going to fall apart (and that kind of happens with any finale, because there are always things that get overlooked but...). AND WTF IS THE MASTER TO THE DOCTOR?! (I got Secret Father vibes this time, wtf! And given RTD's treatment of continuity... Argh my brain.)
My number one gripe about the final episodes: THE DOCTOR SCREWED WITH A BIT OF TIME THAT WASN'T SUPPOSED TO BE SCREWED WITH, AND THERE WERE NO CONSEQUENCES RELATED TO IT! Not a one. You can't have points in time with "don't touch" on them, make a big deal of messing up one of them, and then go on to a conclusion that has nothing to do with it. I realize now that, rather than making this an interesting plot point, RTD really did think that someone committing suicide in their own home would yield the same historical outcome as someone dying under mysterious circumstances in outer space. WHAT THE HECK?! That's worth like, fifty thousand kicks in the shins right there. IF YOU'RE GOING TO SCREW WITH TIME GOSHDARNIT SCREW WITH IT WITH CONSEQUENCES, DON'T MAKE IT INTO NOTHING! And I just... agh. There would have been so much more emotional continuity for the Doctor, too. This was way too scared/loopy/serious/scared with no, like, anchor. It just... happened. There was no reason, and no consequence.
* You know what I would've done? Prophecy -> Woes I'm gunna die -> But wait! I am a Time Lord! I will lord time! -> Oh fffff, I broke time. -> Frak, the Master AND the Time Lords are back because I screwed up and made a hole in time. -> Frak the universe is falling apart and it's my fault! Time toangst be scared! -> BETTER YET TIME TO BE BADASS. I WILL BREAK THIS UNIVERSE SO HARD IT WILL BE FIXED.-> My name is wrapped up in this convenient thing that's been hinted at forever, I bet I can use that to go back and fix this. It'll probably kill me though. -> (THIS IS WHERE A FLASHBACK MONTAGE WOULD GO, IF IT WAS REALLY NECESSARY, AND IT ABSOLUTELY WOULDN'T BE ANYWHERE NEAR TEN MINUTES LONG.) -> OH SNAP IT'S THE MOMENT! I AM THE ONCOMING STORM, BIZNATCHES! -> HA, THE TIME WAR IS ENDED BEFORE IT EVEN STARTED. -> OH SNAP PARADOX. -> CRAP, THIS ISN'T DYING I'VE JUST UNDONE MY OWN TIMELINE. SO MUCH WORSE! -> TWO AND A HALF MINUTES OF A BLACK SCREEN AND DEAD AIR UNTIL FINALLY... THE TARDIS ENGINES AND THE BLINKING LIGHT VERY SMALL IN THE DISTANCE, ALMOST LIKE THE GLOW AFTER YOU TURN OFF A CRT TELEVISION. -> o hai why am I Eight again? -> I AM SUDDENLY MATT SMITH AND I AM VERY CONFUSED. HERE, HAVE A PREVIEW OF THE NEXT SEASON IN WHICH WE MAYBE EXPLAIN THE TIME PARADOX BUT PROBABLY DON'T. THE TARDIS SAVED HIM. IT IS IN LOVE. (All right, it suffers from many of the same problems, but 1) it would've had more explosions and 2) it would've made more sense and 3) there is no non-sequitur Obama.)
P.S. RTD ONCOMING STORM WHAT THE CRAP I DON'T RECALL A STORM OF ANY KIND.
The Weeping Angel, though? Very interesting little plot point there (and she was cute. I'd give her a hug). Though the part where she just stood there and cried at the Doctor was weird. I suspect she belongs to Moffat and will be exploited. But, I mean, I'm wrong about these things ALL THE TIME, as evidenced by... everything.
Oh, and also, DOCTOR, GOSH MAN, DON'T YOU HAVE LIKE, A ROOM ON THE TARDIS FOR THAT SORT OF THING GEEZE MAN YOU DON'T HAVE TO DESTROY YOUR SPACE SHIP ALL THE TIME.
Ummm, oh, and you know how RTD is always trying really hard to make people cry about these things and you can tell how hard he's trying by how little sense the montages make, and how much some of them seem like an afterthought? I swear the only one that wasn't an afterthought was the bit with A Journal of Impossible Things. And you know what made me cry? Her name was Verity. WHY AM I A SAP ABOUT SHOW CREATORS GAH. I mean, I went "awww" when he said his parents were Sidney and Verity, and Joan remembering and naming her daughter after his mom PLUS the Doctor finding it important enough to revisit. (Or, alternately, even things remotely related to that episode can make me cry? This is perilous territory.) OR everything was so screwed up I was SO HAPPY to see something that made emotional and temporal sense that I cried.
I'm surprised to find that I do approve of Eleven already, though. Even though he's younger than me.
P.S. Lol, Rassilon is James Bond. (I like how he's credited as just Lord President. Though, I mean, the way I understand it Rassilon is generally kind of dead. Though he could be cooped up in an organic computer with some anti-time or in a divergent universe... yeah. I love Doctor Who (non-)continuity.)
I think I've used up most of 2010's quota of caps lock now...
My number one gripe about the final episodes: THE DOCTOR SCREWED WITH A BIT OF TIME THAT WASN'T SUPPOSED TO BE SCREWED WITH, AND THERE WERE NO CONSEQUENCES RELATED TO IT! Not a one. You can't have points in time with "don't touch" on them, make a big deal of messing up one of them, and then go on to a conclusion that has nothing to do with it. I realize now that, rather than making this an interesting plot point, RTD really did think that someone committing suicide in their own home would yield the same historical outcome as someone dying under mysterious circumstances in outer space. WHAT THE HECK?! That's worth like, fifty thousand kicks in the shins right there. IF YOU'RE GOING TO SCREW WITH TIME GOSHDARNIT SCREW WITH IT WITH CONSEQUENCES, DON'T MAKE IT INTO NOTHING! And I just... agh. There would have been so much more emotional continuity for the Doctor, too. This was way too scared/loopy/serious/scared with no, like, anchor. It just... happened. There was no reason, and no consequence.
* You know what I would've done? Prophecy -> Woes I'm gunna die -> But wait! I am a Time Lord! I will lord time! -> Oh fffff, I broke time. -> Frak, the Master AND the Time Lords are back because I screwed up and made a hole in time. -> Frak the universe is falling apart and it's my fault! Time to
P.S. RTD ONCOMING STORM WHAT THE CRAP I DON'T RECALL A STORM OF ANY KIND.
The Weeping Angel, though? Very interesting little plot point there (and she was cute. I'd give her a hug). Though the part where she just stood there and cried at the Doctor was weird. I suspect she belongs to Moffat and will be exploited. But, I mean, I'm wrong about these things ALL THE TIME, as evidenced by... everything.
Oh, and also, DOCTOR, GOSH MAN, DON'T YOU HAVE LIKE, A ROOM ON THE TARDIS FOR THAT SORT OF THING GEEZE MAN YOU DON'T HAVE TO DESTROY YOUR SPACE SHIP ALL THE TIME.
Ummm, oh, and you know how RTD is always trying really hard to make people cry about these things and you can tell how hard he's trying by how little sense the montages make, and how much some of them seem like an afterthought? I swear the only one that wasn't an afterthought was the bit with A Journal of Impossible Things. And you know what made me cry? Her name was Verity. WHY AM I A SAP ABOUT SHOW CREATORS GAH. I mean, I went "awww" when he said his parents were Sidney and Verity, and Joan remembering and naming her daughter after his mom PLUS the Doctor finding it important enough to revisit. (Or, alternately, even things remotely related to that episode can make me cry? This is perilous territory.) OR everything was so screwed up I was SO HAPPY to see something that made emotional and temporal sense that I cried.
I'm surprised to find that I do approve of Eleven already, though. Even though he's younger than me.
P.S. Lol, Rassilon is James Bond. (I like how he's credited as just Lord President. Though, I mean, the way I understand it Rassilon is generally kind of dead. Though he could be cooped up in an organic computer with some anti-time or in a divergent universe... yeah. I love Doctor Who (non-)continuity.)
I think I've used up most of 2010's quota of caps lock now...
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