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Journey's End thoughts
Okay, I officially love Russell T Davies right now. After my freak attack last week (I was going to blog about it but I was seriously too depressed to put it into words at the time.) I'm really happy and sad at the same time over the series finale of Doctor Who.
I knew that after last week that the Tenth Doctor wouldn't regenerate since David is going to be in the specials next year but I was terrified of being wrong. Luckily RTD is a wonderfully sly man and I was perfectly happy with the resolution of the cliffhanger even if all the pedant whovians were disappointed he didn't regenerate (only in Doctor Who fandom does being a successful lead mean you should be getting the boot very soon.)
The rest of the episode was simply fantastic as well. I literally squeed all the way through until the tears came.
There is a lot to comment on so I'll just take it one thing at a time.
Blue suit Doctor: I had read a rumour quite some time ago about there being two Doctors and both played by David Tennant. I have to say that I wasn't on board with this because
a) The idea just seemed silly, even for Doctor Who.
b) Two Doc Ten's in the same episode just seemed like it would be too much of a good thing and I didn't think the episode could handle the explosion of pure awesomeness.
It did seem like too much, even in this
Rose/Blue suit Doc: Okay, so she didn't end up with Proper Doc but then it wouldn't or couldn't ever happen and since I understood that my shipper side was more than thrilled that she ended up with Blue suit Doc. At least with him she has a realistic chance at happiness and she would have been stupid to not see that.
The beach scene brought me to tears. Tears of happiness and tears of sadness for proper Ten having to walk away from Rose....again.
Jack/Martha/Mickey: Jack was his usual, fantastic self. Martha was great, even if she was isolated from everyone else for most of the two episodes. Mickey was great too.
When Torchwood ended last series I cried. I bawled like a baby because aside from Jack, they killed my two favourite characters. I was so angry at the series that if not for my immense love for Captain Jack/John Barrowman I would have sworn to never watch Torchwood again. Luckily it looks like Martha and Mickey may be joining the Torchwood team.
That's rather comforting if it's true. I don't think I'd forgive anyone else for taking the place of Tosh and Owen.
The TARDIS scene: From the fandom reaction I am seeing on the forum this isn't a favourite scene. I guess it's because it's so much fanservice and an excuse for RTD to have one big "sappy" reunion. Well that's just pants because I loved this scene. It made me so happy while watching it, I don't know when the last time I was so happy watching any TV show. Watching Confidential for this episode just made me love it even more. I love the sentimental stuff.
Donna: Don't think that because I saved her for last that she isn't important. I'm actually still trying to process what happened with her.
When I first saw her in Runaway Bride I admit that I didn't really like her for most of it. She was loud, obnoxious and just plain bitchy. Bit like me on PMS ;)
Since then I have fallen for her in a big way. She's grown as a character and the chemistry she and David share was so great to watch. I dreaded her return and now I mourn her departure.
I cried when Ten had to wipe her mind and when Wilf opened the door to Ten pleading "help me" what was left of my heart had finally shattered. The acting in these scenes were so good and it's a shame that they'll never win an award for it since it's a sci fi show.
So yeah. After four fantastic years Russell has never disappointed me and I'm sad that this was his last year as the showrunner/head writer for Doctor Who. Despite the complaints of a lot of classic fans I adore him. His vision of show was my vision as well and I hope The Moff doesn't disappoint me.