The Stolen Earth and Journey's End
I watched the last two episodes of Doctor Who Season 4 (points at subject) last night again. I haven't watched Journey's End since the first time I watched it. I think it hit me harder knowing what was coming. The first time I watched it, Donna's line "Don't make me go back." meant back to Earth. This time I knew she meant back to the way she was. That is the hardest part of the episode for me because of all the development Donna's undergone. To become that ignorant annoying person again is just to hard to think about. That's the point I cry the hardest. I've got friends who have a fit about his regeneration and the second doctor running around. Being a David Tennant fan, I was glad to see this and it's never been able to be done before. So who says it can't?! I had a fit the first time I saw the end of The Stolen Earth and he was regenrating. I was seriously yelling "WTF? He's not leaving yet! I know! He's still supposed to be the Doctor. They'd better not be killing him off and I didn't know!!" And then they did that. I almost cheered. The other really hard part was on the beach. When Rose looks at The Doctor and asks him what else he was going to say you can tell how much it hurts him to not be able to answer her the other Doctor does.
In a way everyone else is happy in the end. Rose has The Doctor and he can grow old with her and they can have a family. But she'll always be thinking about her Doctor. Jack's still got Torchwood and Ianto, and it looks like he's got replacements for Tosh and Owen with Mickey and Martha. And he's gotten to see Rose again, which I'm sure he enjoyed. Sarah Jane still has her 'son' and has helped defeat the Daleks, again. But Donna's back to the way she used to be, all ignorant. Her family now knows her potential, finally. And her grandfather can never mention The Doctor to her ever again. And The Doctor is alone again! Don't get me wrong, Russel T. Davies is a great writer and I'm going to miss him being in charge. And he tied up a lot of loose ends (The Doctor's daughter is still running around out there and he thinks she's dead), but I think that was the saddest episode of DW I've seen!
Another brilliant but sad piece of writing is the bit about The Doctor's soul. It would seem that way to Davros and the Daleks. But they haven't seen all the good that man does. Lets face it, Turn Left proves that for all those who have died because of him, millions more have lived. Unfortunately this isn't really every pointed out to him. Everyone seems to focus on all the negative rather than the positive that surrounds him.
I do have a funny story from watching these episodes though. I've got two friends who are DW fans of the 6th and 7th Doctor respectively. I've gotten them watching again. So we sat down to watch the last three episodes of the season. I had seen Turn Left and The Stolen Earth but not Journey's End because we said we'd watch it together. The first time I watched The Stolen Earth I recognized Davros almost immediately. So we're sitting there watching The Stolen Earth and Davros makes his first appearance. I'm sitting there with my mouth hanging open looking from one friend to the other waiting for them to recognize them. It took them like a minute to realize who it was! I haven't even seen any episodes with him in it and I recognized him and the two people who have been fans longer than me take longer to realize who it is! So from now on, when I watch it I laugh at that point remembering what happened.
Now I can't wait for the specials and for Torchwood! I wonder how Sci-Fi is going to handle the specials. Because I'm not waiting until they get the next season going.
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In a way everyone else is happy in the end. Rose has The Doctor and he can grow old with her and they can have a family. But she'll always be thinking about her Doctor. Jack's still got Torchwood and Ianto, and it looks like he's got replacements for Tosh and Owen with Mickey and Martha. And he's gotten to see Rose again, which I'm sure he enjoyed. Sarah Jane still has her 'son' and has helped defeat the Daleks, again. But Donna's back to the way she used to be, all ignorant. Her family now knows her potential, finally. And her grandfather can never mention The Doctor to her ever again. And The Doctor is alone again! Don't get me wrong, Russel T. Davies is a great writer and I'm going to miss him being in charge. And he tied up a lot of loose ends (The Doctor's daughter is still running around out there and he thinks she's dead), but I think that was the saddest episode of DW I've seen!
Another brilliant but sad piece of writing is the bit about The Doctor's soul. It would seem that way to Davros and the Daleks. But they haven't seen all the good that man does. Lets face it, Turn Left proves that for all those who have died because of him, millions more have lived. Unfortunately this isn't really every pointed out to him. Everyone seems to focus on all the negative rather than the positive that surrounds him.
I do have a funny story from watching these episodes though. I've got two friends who are DW fans of the 6th and 7th Doctor respectively. I've gotten them watching again. So we sat down to watch the last three episodes of the season. I had seen Turn Left and The Stolen Earth but not Journey's End because we said we'd watch it together. The first time I watched The Stolen Earth I recognized Davros almost immediately. So we're sitting there watching The Stolen Earth and Davros makes his first appearance. I'm sitting there with my mouth hanging open looking from one friend to the other waiting for them to recognize them. It took them like a minute to realize who it was! I haven't even seen any episodes with him in it and I recognized him and the two people who have been fans longer than me take longer to realize who it is! So from now on, when I watch it I laugh at that point remembering what happened.
Now I can't wait for the specials and for Torchwood! I wonder how Sci-Fi is going to handle the specials. Because I'm not waiting until they get the next season going.
x-posted to: doctorwho, av_chick, and multi_genre_fan