I'm aching, I'm shaking, I'm breaking like humans do
~*SPOILERS FOR "THE END OF TIME" PART 1*~
I hope everyone had a nice Christmas and blah blah and all that but right now OMFG CAN WE TALK ABOUT DOCTOR WHO?? lol it was so awful! These specials, why are they so bad? I was iffy on "The Next Doctor," hated "Planet of the Dead" (oh god how I HATED that Christina sidekick lady), but really loved "The Waters of Mars." I saw it when it aired on BBC America last week, and I felt like I was watching the excellent Who I fell in love with -- a great episode about what the Doctor can't do, through both inaction and action. The episode gave me high hopes for "The End of Time." Oh how misled I was...
SERIOUSLY WHAT THE FUCK WAS GOING ON WITH THAT OLD LADY WHO HAPPENED TO BE THERE TO PICK UP SOME RING WHICH I GUESS HAD MEANING AND THEN THERE'S THAT KIND OF UNEXPLAINED CULT THING THAT RESURRECTED THE MASTER AND APPARENTLY THERE'S SOME KIND OF BOOK OF SAXON WITH SECRET POTIONS AND SO MUCH CRAP WITH THIS. SO MUCH CRAP. ALSO WHAT DOES THE WORLD THINK HAPPENED WITH SAXON? THE DOCTOR ERASED WHAT HE DID YET PEOPLE KNOW HE WENT CRAZY AND/OR WAS MURDERED? ALSO WHAT IS WITH THAT POWER COUPLE (OOPS I FORGOT THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO BE FATHER/DAUGHTER) HAVING ANY IDEA ABOUT THE MASTER AND THAT HE WAS GONNA COME BACK? WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON?
ALSO THE MASTER EATS PEOPLE NOW AND CAN JUMP LIKE THE HULK AND SHOOT OUT LIGHTNING FROM HIS BODY. AND THE DOCTOR SHOWS UP SUDDENLY IN SOME KIND OF GARBAGE DUMP AND GETS SHOT AT WITH SAID BODY LIGHTNING FOR NO APPARENT REASON. AND THIS WAS ONLY THE FIRST THIRD OF THE EPISODE. ALSO WTF LADY IN THE TV WHO ONLY TALKS TO DONNA'S GRANDPA?
My complaints in a nutshell: it was such a terribly confusing and poorly-written episode. I initially hoped all that bullshit from the first ten minutes would be explained later, but as the episode "progressed" I knew that wasn't going to happen. It wasn't the good kind of mysterious-confusing where questions are laid out to be answered later; it was the bad kind of confusing where Russel T. Davies just wanted to bring the Master back and came up with some half-assed scenario to make that happen, and then made a bunch of other stuff happen without precedent. And ugh, I do not care about any Timelords besides the Doctor and the Master. When they showed them in that meeting at the end of the episode, I experienced the same kind of dread and disappointment I feel whenever they go to a Senate meeting in the new Star Wars movies. BORING. I really, truly do not want Ten's last episode to be bad, and I especially don't want him to spend it surrounded by a bunch of stiff, stuffy Timelords. I also hated the Master's constant hunger, like it wasn't enough for him to have the sound of the drums in his head, he needed some new hang-up too. Dammit RTD why do you always have to do overkill? Also lol Obama impersonator, such a stupid idea.
THE GOOD: The parts with Donna (though a little depressing, of course) and that she might get her memories back(!), and her grandfather (mostly). I liked the exchange they had in the cafe, and the Doctor crying ;_; When those spikey aliens showed up, at first I was like "what the shit is this" but then they became an appropriately sized humorous side-story and actually helped explain some shit. The scene at the end where the Master was everybody went on forever, and it was really lame when he kept going "Or me? Or me?" like it was some terrible comedy about a cloning machine gone wacky. I minimally enjoyed him in women's clothes, though, because it reminded me that he is insane but rather funny when the writing doesn't suck. Also I liked when he got all intense about how he's a master of disguise looking the same as he did before. Like, oh I get it, he looks the same because he was resurrected from his print on Lucy Saxon... or something. Anyway I thought it was a good moment.
I just hope all of this get sorted out to the degree that Ten's last episode can be salvaged. Because right now the outlook is not good, and it makes me want a TARDIS so I can go back in time to when Russel T. Davies was writing this and kick him in the ass.
I hope everyone had a nice Christmas and blah blah and all that but right now OMFG CAN WE TALK ABOUT DOCTOR WHO?? lol it was so awful! These specials, why are they so bad? I was iffy on "The Next Doctor," hated "Planet of the Dead" (oh god how I HATED that Christina sidekick lady), but really loved "The Waters of Mars." I saw it when it aired on BBC America last week, and I felt like I was watching the excellent Who I fell in love with -- a great episode about what the Doctor can't do, through both inaction and action. The episode gave me high hopes for "The End of Time." Oh how misled I was...
SERIOUSLY WHAT THE FUCK WAS GOING ON WITH THAT OLD LADY WHO HAPPENED TO BE THERE TO PICK UP SOME RING WHICH I GUESS HAD MEANING AND THEN THERE'S THAT KIND OF UNEXPLAINED CULT THING THAT RESURRECTED THE MASTER AND APPARENTLY THERE'S SOME KIND OF BOOK OF SAXON WITH SECRET POTIONS AND SO MUCH CRAP WITH THIS. SO MUCH CRAP. ALSO WHAT DOES THE WORLD THINK HAPPENED WITH SAXON? THE DOCTOR ERASED WHAT HE DID YET PEOPLE KNOW HE WENT CRAZY AND/OR WAS MURDERED? ALSO WHAT IS WITH THAT POWER COUPLE (OOPS I FORGOT THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO BE FATHER/DAUGHTER) HAVING ANY IDEA ABOUT THE MASTER AND THAT HE WAS GONNA COME BACK? WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON?
ALSO THE MASTER EATS PEOPLE NOW AND CAN JUMP LIKE THE HULK AND SHOOT OUT LIGHTNING FROM HIS BODY. AND THE DOCTOR SHOWS UP SUDDENLY IN SOME KIND OF GARBAGE DUMP AND GETS SHOT AT WITH SAID BODY LIGHTNING FOR NO APPARENT REASON. AND THIS WAS ONLY THE FIRST THIRD OF THE EPISODE. ALSO WTF LADY IN THE TV WHO ONLY TALKS TO DONNA'S GRANDPA?
My complaints in a nutshell: it was such a terribly confusing and poorly-written episode. I initially hoped all that bullshit from the first ten minutes would be explained later, but as the episode "progressed" I knew that wasn't going to happen. It wasn't the good kind of mysterious-confusing where questions are laid out to be answered later; it was the bad kind of confusing where Russel T. Davies just wanted to bring the Master back and came up with some half-assed scenario to make that happen, and then made a bunch of other stuff happen without precedent. And ugh, I do not care about any Timelords besides the Doctor and the Master. When they showed them in that meeting at the end of the episode, I experienced the same kind of dread and disappointment I feel whenever they go to a Senate meeting in the new Star Wars movies. BORING. I really, truly do not want Ten's last episode to be bad, and I especially don't want him to spend it surrounded by a bunch of stiff, stuffy Timelords. I also hated the Master's constant hunger, like it wasn't enough for him to have the sound of the drums in his head, he needed some new hang-up too. Dammit RTD why do you always have to do overkill? Also lol Obama impersonator, such a stupid idea.
THE GOOD: The parts with Donna (though a little depressing, of course) and that she might get her memories back(!), and her grandfather (mostly). I liked the exchange they had in the cafe, and the Doctor crying ;_; When those spikey aliens showed up, at first I was like "what the shit is this" but then they became an appropriately sized humorous side-story and actually helped explain some shit. The scene at the end where the Master was everybody went on forever, and it was really lame when he kept going "Or me? Or me?" like it was some terrible comedy about a cloning machine gone wacky. I minimally enjoyed him in women's clothes, though, because it reminded me that he is insane but rather funny when the writing doesn't suck. Also I liked when he got all intense about how he's a master of disguise looking the same as he did before. Like, oh I get it, he looks the same because he was resurrected from his print on Lucy Saxon... or something. Anyway I thought it was a good moment.
I just hope all of this get sorted out to the degree that Ten's last episode can be salvaged. Because right now the outlook is not good, and it makes me want a TARDIS so I can go back in time to when Russel T. Davies was writing this and kick him in the ass.