WOW

[enismirdal]

Dr Who season finale.

On the giant screen.

In Trafalgar Square.

In the middle of London Pride.

With FREEMA AGYEMAN there in person looking fantastic!

OMG SQUEE!!!!!!!!!!!

Today was bloody fantastic.

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[l-j-b.livejournal.com]

YES

German Daleks :D
I <3 Martha so.

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

Hahaha yes. "Exterminieren!" I died x100.

I now desperately want to see a Hindi-speaking Dalek and a Cantonese-speaking Dalek.

[(Anonymous)]

Multi-lingual Dalkes were amusing but I still wonder if RTD's season finales were too full of ego and not enough plot.
I guess the question is was it fun inspite or because of the plot?
Abner

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

I have to admit...for a season finale, it had all the elements I wanted. Everyone cool from the last 4 series, lots of Jack, a good injection of melodrama and special effects, a fantastic score and lots of nifty triumphant bits, and lots of sentimental moments. I didn't notice any deficiency of plot - I honestly don't have any complaints (well, except that I would have LOVED to see Jack get what he was thinking about...).

I <3 Dr Who

[l-j-b.livejournal.com]

I liked this one much more than the ending of the set with the Master. The Master = awesome.

Really rather random, out-of-left-field-even-for-DW, Super-Saiyan-magic-newyouth-Doctor?
Not so much. RTDs finales have had a tendency to build up really well, then fall a bit flat at the final hurdle, but I did really like this one.

Possibly because all the companions / associated characters each got a decent amount of screentime, each got a suitable Cool Moment, the Daleks actually got portrayal as genuinely dangerous (I love the different cast sets' reactions to the 'EXTERMINATE' transmission), etc. And they all actually had consistent characterisation! (Which has been getting better, even in Torchwood.)

It was nice to see Rose with some sense and spine behind her again, too :D And lots of little references to previous series/events, Davros calling the Doctor out on his hypocracy, Donna being suitably mouthy during near-death moments (I <3 Donna), and I was very pleased with the comment when leaving Clone!Doctor behind - 'He's like I was when I first met you' (or similar) - playing in to the scattering of moments through the series like when Donna actually came on as a companion, the change in him all his companions make.

Teamworking with the humans (Harriet Jones ;_;), and a nice bit of 'balance' stuff with the Doctor and the Daleks - even after everything, he still can't destroy them, echoing how he couldn't push that plunger at the end of season 1. He can't make that choice, because if he does (and we've seen him coming close, the Rachnos being probably the closest, with Donna stopping him possibly going right over the edge there), then we've seen in the Master what a Timelord willing to murder becomes.

(Okay, grey areas with the Sicorax (sp?), but he did seem to be very close to some kind of edge in the early days of being Ten - formed out of survior's guilt and rage and loss.)

Clone!Doctor had his memories, but he's mortal, and probably closer to being a human / Gallifreyan, than a part-Human-Timelord (which Donna was, briefly - and she didn't make the choice to kill off the Daleks either). He could make that choice, (heh, well, until they pop up again, of course) because it wasn't the same - more a survival decision, a now do-or-die moment, that a Timelord with the whole of time and space in his head, can't make.

...oookay, this got long.
I shall stop rambling now :P