Yes! Everyone hit the emotional tones exactly right. And that dancing at the end is the only way that episode could have ended. The Doctor Dances...
Am curious as to why. (I half-believe Ganger!Doctor will be, know it isn't likely because it's too simple, but I want the mystery solved. The anticipation is driving me up a wall.) Heh. And so say we all... Most of all, then it's the fact that you do NOT write a scene like that and take the audience for a ride. It'd be like fixing Donna's head - some things should be what they are, or they lose all impact. Like Rory dying in the Silurian episodes - he really did die, and the price for bringing him back was heavy. Imagine if instead it had been robot!Rory and all the pain and heartache in the following episodes had been a lie...
HOWEVER, as eilowyn says below, it could be that Ganger!Doctor is the one who kills him. That would be VERY neat.
That's what makes me worried about the clone. A lot of people were saying, "oh, the Doctor's good. He won't mind." and I'm thinking, "What about TenII?" He certainly wasn't happy there… Well the TenToo situation was different in that he was human - I think he knew exactly what Ten was planning, but that doesn't mean it didn't sit awkwardly (which RTD does admit - esp re. Rose). It was partly because TenToo was... a plot point, something to tie up Rose's story and set up Donna's fate, which was of course the focus. Now we'll get a clone with agency of his own, which should prove rather delicious.
Thanks for the "avoid the Internet" spoiler warning. I'm half-glad I'll be visiting my sister for a week starting Friday and thus have little access to the Net, but at the same time annoyed because I'll be behind by a week, thanks to BBC America. >.< Avoiding spoilers is going to be… difficult. My pleasure, and yeah, BBCA have not really thought things through very well...
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The Doctor Dances...
Am curious as to why. (I half-believe Ganger!Doctor will be, know it isn't likely because it's too simple, but I want the mystery solved. The anticipation is driving me up a wall.)
Heh. And so say we all... Most of all, then it's the fact that you do NOT write a scene like that and take the audience for a ride. It'd be like fixing Donna's head - some things should be what they are, or they lose all impact. Like Rory dying in the Silurian episodes - he really did die, and the price for bringing him back was heavy. Imagine if instead it had been robot!Rory and all the pain and heartache in the following episodes had been a lie...
HOWEVER, as
That's what makes me worried about the clone. A lot of people were saying, "oh, the Doctor's good. He won't mind." and I'm thinking, "What about TenII?" He certainly wasn't happy there…
Well the TenToo situation was different in that he was human - I think he knew exactly what Ten was planning, but that doesn't mean it didn't sit awkwardly (which RTD does admit - esp re. Rose). It was partly because TenToo was... a plot point, something to tie up Rose's story and set up Donna's fate, which was of course the focus. Now we'll get a clone with agency of his own, which should prove rather delicious.
Thanks for the "avoid the Internet" spoiler warning. I'm half-glad I'll be visiting my sister for a week starting Friday and thus have little access to the Net, but at the same time annoyed because I'll be behind by a week, thanks to BBC America. >.< Avoiding spoilers is going to be… difficult.
My pleasure, and yeah, BBCA have not really thought things through very well...