Season Finale
FIRST of all - HOW THE BLOODY FUCKING HELL DID YOU KNOW, LINA? HOW THE BLOODY FUCKING HELL?! THE FACE OF BOE?!?!
Okay, on that note also: Did Jack never hear Rose or the Doctor mention the Face, and if so, did that not strike him as odd? It strikes me as odd that he wouldn't have heard the name. And I'm just hoping that is the LAST we EVER hear about that, EVER.
Also, loving his dedication to his team. (Ianto. You know it's Ianto.)
Jack bondage, can't argue with that. Also can't argue with the wink that says "I got your secret message, and oh, by the way, if I wasn't tied up, I would totally fuck you."
Now, on to the important parts.
{What, that wasn't important?}
[Shut up, Jack.]
{Just sayin'. You did put me first, and all.}
[I know, but not everyone cares as much as I do. Plus, in the scheme of things, none of it WAS that important, it's hardly massive story arc stuff.]
{The Face of Boe and you're not calling that 'massive story arc stuff'?}
[FINE!]
Ahem. Now on to the OTHER parts.
The Doctor being aged into a house elf (oh tell me that's not what you thought, if you're a Harry Potter fan, anyway)? Yeah, okay, we're just gonna overlook the utter over-the-topness of that, and enough of my 900 years rant. (O! THAR IT IS AGAIN!)
Also, the Doctor becoming a floating glowing angel of vengeance? Okayyy... Half getting chills and half rolling my eyes. Totally undecided on that.
Martha telling the story all over the world? Kind of cornily brilliant. As cheesy in a "clap your hands if you believe" sort of way as it was... it was just also kinda touching.
And speaking of Martha...
OH THANK HEAVEN SHE'S GONE. Look, it's not like she, as a person, totally sucked. She was a nice girl, very smart, but she made awkward stories and terrible chemistry with the Doctor and I was so done with her like... 12 episodes ago. She was fantastic for supplying Harry Potter references, but that was pretty much the end of Martha awesomeness.
I'm a little afraid of who we get next. Is it too much to hope for a male companion? A heterosexual male companion? Not because I think that that's the bestest thing EVAR, but because I'm starting to think having a break like that, where there's no chance of a romantic storyline, might be the only way to recover from Rose. Look, I was never quite as devoted a Rose fan as a lot of people I know, but even *I* have not recovered from Rose. We need a break, and the Doctor can't travel ALONE, and if it's a girl, even a lesbian or utterly asexual girl, we are ALL going to compare her to Rose. I think a young male would be perfect. I would totally vote for the kid from Family of Blood except he's kinda spoken for, storyline wise. But that sorta thing - someone requiring care but without any possible sexual/romantic overtones. That is what we need.
Now, the Master.
He was actually successfully evil enough to engender loathing in me. And I realised how he managed this.
As I was watching the year tick back, I was thinking "This is time meddling on a COLOSSAL SCALE - how is no one notic- oh... wait... there IS no one to notice". Which is when it occurs to me, he's always had to fly under the radar a bit, seeing as he's been as much of a renegade from the Time Lords as the Doctor. Now, with no Council... he can meddle all he wants, and the only one he has to answer to is his best friend/best enemy the Doctor.
Rather evil, 'winning' by dying and leaving the Doctor truly alone, to mourn the loss of the Time Lords again, to mourn the loss of his best friend.
Yes, best friend. Cause that's what they were, back in the day. And when the Doctor realised that the Master - Koschei - was alive, he was remembering those days, not the intervening years (decades... centuries...) of evil and meddling.
I hate to see the Doctor cry. It frightens me slightly that I was unable to cry at it as well. I certainly felt like it. But I didn't.
I'm not sure I could cry at End of Days right now, even. Which is a sorry statement on how bottled up my misery is at the moment.
Oh, I'm sure I have more comments. At the moment however, I shall conclude with this...
WE HAVE TO WAIT TILL CHRISTMAS! *wails*