Ten is My Doctor
longtimegone, I am so sorry, but I couldn't wait because if I did, I wouldn't be able to get to it until later than you'd be able to start and I didn't want to make you wait.
In other words,
And I wept, and said goodbye to My Doctor.
I watched Nine while the season aired - hell, I watched Eight when the movie was first run - and I love Ecclestone so much and Rose and Jack and Mickey and that whole season, but Ten was My Doctor. Maybe because he was also My Barty (and thus also half of my OTP (Barty Crouch Jr/Regulus Black)) a few weeks before I first saw him as The Doctor, maybe because his run has been such a wonderful thing to watch. Maybe because of Rose and Martha and Donna and Jack and Mickey and Sarah Jane - and Wilf and Jackie too, because they all made him the Doctor he was.
God, was. I don't want it to be was. I don't want [him] to go. Oh, I'll watch "Rex Is Not Your Lawyer" despite law student Jerry O'Connell's replacement of Sendhil Ramamurthy and I will love it but it won't be the same.
I loved the episode. I loved the pacing - I worried when I saw how much time was left that the goodbyes would be too drawn out, but they were perfect. Rose was perfect; it was exactly right. The interplay between David and John Simm was, of course, fabulous and perfect and wonderful and I may already be mentally starting on that Doctor/Master "For Your Entertainment" vid that thunderemerald requested last month. Please. With all the flames and the snog-moment that Wilf interrupted and that chair, I need to do this.
The music was wonderful - is the final Ood song up yet? I love the Ood. But I still don't know whether it was the Master who was accelerating them, or something else. And can Gallifrey come back, again? Loved the follow-up on Family of Blood, as well as the Cacti and the reference back to Voyage of the Damned. Not sure about the Weeping Angel Time Lords. They do not, however, have the Phone Box.
Was slightly weirded out by Barack Obama, especially because given that the Master did kill the recent US president, it seems a little odd that the '08 election in the States would have happened as it did. Of course Jack was off-planet - had he not been, since he's from far enough into the future that he's a smidge more evolved than humans in 2010 he might not have been turned into The Master so he needed to be elsewhere. Would have liked to see Master!Gwen, though. Or Master!Lady Gaga. Those should be icons.
Also, much love for the multiple Star Wars references. Also, Queen Bess. That should totally be written as a Blackadder episode.
Off to read everyone's reactions, and possibly rewatch some of the episode. Because if I rewatch it, then David Tennant is still Ten.
In other words,
And I wept, and said goodbye to My Doctor.
I watched Nine while the season aired - hell, I watched Eight when the movie was first run - and I love Ecclestone so much and Rose and Jack and Mickey and that whole season, but Ten was My Doctor. Maybe because he was also My Barty (and thus also half of my OTP (Barty Crouch Jr/Regulus Black)) a few weeks before I first saw him as The Doctor, maybe because his run has been such a wonderful thing to watch. Maybe because of Rose and Martha and Donna and Jack and Mickey and Sarah Jane - and Wilf and Jackie too, because they all made him the Doctor he was.
God, was. I don't want it to be was. I don't want [him] to go. Oh, I'll watch "Rex Is Not Your Lawyer" despite law student Jerry O'Connell's replacement of Sendhil Ramamurthy and I will love it but it won't be the same.
I loved the episode. I loved the pacing - I worried when I saw how much time was left that the goodbyes would be too drawn out, but they were perfect. Rose was perfect; it was exactly right. The interplay between David and John Simm was, of course, fabulous and perfect and wonderful and I may already be mentally starting on that Doctor/Master "For Your Entertainment" vid that thunderemerald requested last month. Please. With all the flames and the snog-moment that Wilf interrupted and that chair, I need to do this.
The music was wonderful - is the final Ood song up yet? I love the Ood. But I still don't know whether it was the Master who was accelerating them, or something else. And can Gallifrey come back, again? Loved the follow-up on Family of Blood, as well as the Cacti and the reference back to Voyage of the Damned. Not sure about the Weeping Angel Time Lords. They do not, however, have the Phone Box.
Was slightly weirded out by Barack Obama, especially because given that the Master did kill the recent US president, it seems a little odd that the '08 election in the States would have happened as it did. Of course Jack was off-planet - had he not been, since he's from far enough into the future that he's a smidge more evolved than humans in 2010 he might not have been turned into The Master so he needed to be elsewhere. Would have liked to see Master!Gwen, though. Or Master!Lady Gaga. Those should be icons.
Also, much love for the multiple Star Wars references. Also, Queen Bess. That should totally be written as a Blackadder episode.
Off to read everyone's reactions, and possibly rewatch some of the episode. Because if I rewatch it, then David Tennant is still Ten.