I totally missed the Agatha Christie comparison. Nice catch! I owe that one to selenak actually. I love it to bits! :)
Right, so I literally agree with everything you said :D \o/
Actually, everything except the Martha/Mickey thing. I've still got a problem with that but am choosing to just delete it from my own personal canon ;) Maybe - as BGF suggseted - Mickey became a minister of some sort. *g*
When I watched the Jack scene, I actually laughed out loud and wondered whether RTD was in some way suicidal :P I was convinced the Janto fans were going to be livid!! So i've been amazed at how well Jack/Alonso has been recieved. I don't hang out in the TW fandom, so I am VERY happy to hear that people are OK with it!
I thought it was adorable, and the fact that RTD actually referred to it as the Doctor's 'forgiveness' of Jack in the Confidential just makes me love Rusty even more. Same here. (I'll be writing another post, so won't waffle here...)
Re. The Doctor dying for Wilf... the entire rest of the episode could have been utter crap and I probably would have still loved it just for this. It was THE most perfect way for the Doctor to die. It truly couldn't have been anything else. My sister was saying last week how only a big, epic, dramatic end would do for Tennant. But no way. This, this and only this. *nods* Absolutely! *loves RTD*
What did you think of Ten's final words/moments before the regeneration? There's a lot of fanwank going on about how he died like a pathetic, blubbering coward... Huh. People are *strange*. I thought it was heartbreaking, because Ten *doesn't* want to die. He's fought against his pre-destined death every step of the way, and even though he accepts it, he still doesn't like it, or want it. I thought it was very honest, and probably echoes through out the land - *we* don't want him to go either...
I agree about the religious undertones too. Its hysterical, both RTD and Joss just cant help themselves! It's extraordinary. You could use this episode in RE lessons throughout the land!
(Speaking of which, I just saw in your userinfo that you're Christian... which makes my repeated recommendation of The Second Coming seem slightly insensitive in hindsight! I still cant help but recommend it because I think its bleeping brilliant, but just be warned that it is more or less RTD's own personal atheist manifesto!) Now you're making me curious... *g* But thank you for the heads up - I'll know what to expect now.
I cant believe you managed to be so coherent so soon after the ep. I want to write up my thoughts too, but I just... cant seem to yet :( I couldn't *not* write, and it was agony to have to wait so long (almost a whole day) before being able to. When I watch something like this, I just have too many thoughts. There might yet be meta, which is something else... And anyway, I don't think it's quite sunk in yet. I think it's slowly building to be honest. Just wait - in a week's time I'll be an incoherent mess!
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Right, so I literally agree with everything you said :D
\o/
Actually, everything except the Martha/Mickey thing. I've still got a problem with that but am choosing to just delete it from my own personal canon ;)
Maybe - as BGF suggseted - Mickey became a minister of some sort. *g*
When I watched the Jack scene, I actually laughed out loud and wondered whether RTD was in some way suicidal :P I was convinced the Janto fans were going to be livid!! So i've been amazed at how well Jack/Alonso has been recieved.
I don't hang out in the TW fandom, so I am VERY happy to hear that people are OK with it!
I thought it was adorable, and the fact that RTD actually referred to it as the Doctor's 'forgiveness' of Jack in the Confidential just makes me love Rusty even more.
Same here. (I'll be writing another post, so won't waffle here...)
Re. The Doctor dying for Wilf... the entire rest of the episode could have been utter crap and I probably would have still loved it just for this. It was THE most perfect way for the Doctor to die. It truly couldn't have been anything else. My sister was saying last week how only a big, epic, dramatic end would do for Tennant. But no way. This, this and only this. *nods*
Absolutely! *loves RTD*
What did you think of Ten's final words/moments before the regeneration? There's a lot of fanwank going on about how he died like a pathetic, blubbering coward...
Huh. People are *strange*. I thought it was heartbreaking, because Ten *doesn't* want to die. He's fought against his pre-destined death every step of the way, and even though he accepts it, he still doesn't like it, or want it. I thought it was very honest, and probably echoes through out the land - *we* don't want him to go either...
I agree about the religious undertones too. Its hysterical, both RTD and Joss just cant help themselves!
It's extraordinary. You could use this episode in RE lessons throughout the land!
(Speaking of which, I just saw in your userinfo that you're Christian... which makes my repeated recommendation of The Second Coming seem slightly insensitive in hindsight! I still cant help but recommend it because I think its bleeping brilliant, but just be warned that it is more or less RTD's own personal atheist manifesto!)
Now you're making me curious... *g* But thank you for the heads up - I'll know what to expect now.
I cant believe you managed to be so coherent so soon after the ep. I want to write up my thoughts too, but I just... cant seem to yet :(
I couldn't *not* write, and it was agony to have to wait so long (almost a whole day) before being able to. When I watch something like this, I just have too many thoughts. There might yet be meta, which is something else... And anyway, I don't think it's quite sunk in yet. I think it's slowly building to be honest. Just wait - in a week's time I'll be an incoherent mess!