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[altariel]

THANK YOU RUSTY.

ETA: New season trailer! and spoilers now in comments.

Comments

[omniguy.livejournal.com]

Here here!

[jhall1.livejournal.com]

When I saw the time of your posting, I knew what the subject would be. :)

I thought that it was magnificent. It didn't always make much sense, but then when has Who ever done that. OK, there was one thing that I would have like to have happened which didn't (I'm trying to avoid spoilers), and there seemed to be one major loose end (but perhaps they intend to tie it up at some point during the next series). But those are no more than quibbles.

[jhall1.livejournal.com]

One further thought: my initial impression of Matt Smith was very favorablw.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

:-)

[altariel.livejournal.com]

there was one thing that I would have like to have happened which didn't (I'm trying to avoid spoilers)

Go for it, I've put a spoiler warning in the post now.

[jhall1.livejournal.com]

I would have liked a way to have been found for Dnna to be given her memories back without any ill effects, though I suppose winning the lottery will be a pretty good second best.

[iainjcoleman.livejournal.com]

Matt Smith is already shaping up to be my favourite Doctor.




[after Hartnell, obvs]

[mraltariel.livejournal.com]

[taken for read]

[mraltariel.livejournal.com]

Not to mention that nice chap out of The Bill.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I hope someone puts it on YouTube; I'd like to see it.

[katlinel.livejournal.com]

Happy New Year!

I was well chuffed with the brief glimpse of Eleven.

[katlinel.livejournal.com]

Me too! I want Donna to know how amazing she was and to have all those wonderful and painful memories to carry with her.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

I'm very much looking forward to the new series.

[manna]

After Waters of Mars was so disappointing, I was braced for all kinds of badness, but then this one was actually rather good. It was like the best kind of fanfic, really.

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

I was initially horrified by the wedding scene - he thinks money will make up for all she's lost? But after a while I thought, well, this means that most of the Donna fix-it fics still work, or can work with a little adjustment. (I'm already trying to work out how a 21st-century husband affects my own unwritten version.) And, since one of my complaints about Russell T. Davies was that I didn't feel he quite understood the difference between canon and fanfic, I think I'm grateful that he left us that breathing space.

[jomacmouse.livejournal.com]

Damn. It's still downloading here (the alternative being to wait several weeks until the ABC get around to screening it), so I'm on tenterhooks as to who you mean now.

[jthijsen.livejournal.com]

I'm waiting for the DVD box set because I can't be bothered to follow these things on TV these days. Especially not on BBC, which can't seem to stick to a fixed time or even day-of-week for broadcasting any series, which makes recording all the episodes a near impossibility.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

*slaps forehead* stupidly forgot it wouldn't work outside the UK. Thanks defcons_treklit!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I like what I've seen so far!

[greylin.livejournal.com]

Oh, the humanity! Poor Wilf! All things considered, it was *excellent*. :) Where's a BBC helpline when you need one? ::dabs eyes surreptitiously::

[altariel.livejournal.com]

When I heard those four knocks... wow. Boy oh boy.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Did you review Waters of Mars? I must have missed it.

[manna]

Yes, I did.

[katlinel.livejournal.com]

I think I'm grateful that he left us that breathing space.

That's a fair point.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Happy New Year to you!

Yes, Eleven is looking great.

[katlinel.livejournal.com]

Not that I don't still have hankerings for Sid, but even so, Eleven was good!

[greylin.livejournal.com]

I never saw it coming!

[azalaisdep.livejournal.com]

I thought it was archetypal RTD, in that the plot was all over the place (don't get me started on the holes...) and it was all about the shameless emotional manipulation and the Significant Intimate Moments instead. It really felt to me like the final episode from someone who has totally run out of ideas for the show and probably, to be honest, should have stopped at Journey's End and not written any Specials (particularly since, having always made the Doctor-companion relationship so central, RTD noticeably struggled to get any energy going once the ongoing companions were dumped)

On the other hand, it looked fabulous (that opening shot of Gallifrey! Surely that's the cover art for your next DS9 novel?)

and of course the thing about shameless emotional manipulation is that RTD's so good at it. Yes, I did start to sniffle at "To get my reward" and howl outright at "I don't want to go!.." (and we know who didn't want to go, boys and girls, don't we?...)

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Yes, it was absolutely plot-free, although the Master's trajectory was excellent. I think it would probably have worked better as a single episode. But the emotional stories rang true for me, and that's what matters to me most (plot I can make up for myself. I do wish there'd been a way to get Donna's memories back to her. Right now I'm telling myself that she ends up writing a series of children's books full of fantastic aliens and adventures.

[azalaisdep.livejournal.com]

I am trying to work out where having seen Tenth Doctor, obviously without Rose, exhausted and in pieces, puts Rose after Nine regenerates into Ten and she (presumably) remembers and recognises the wasted-looking bloke in the shabby overcoat from New Year's Eve, and is faced with irrefutable proof that she'll be lost to him before he regenerates again...

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I wondered if she'd recognize him, but it was dark and possibly she was a bit merry from new year celebrations. Also he looks nowhere near as young as 'Christmas Invasion' Tennant! ;-D