A reset of the Time War. To my thinking, it cheapens the Doctor's grief and loss from the last few years to wave a wand and undo it. It's one thing to resurrect the Master.
THIS. I don't mind the Time Lords if it leads to yet more Cosmic Ten angst, but if they end up being a deus ex machina that lets the Doctor out of ever having to really *deal* with the Time Lord then I'll be disappointed. Humph.
if they end up being a deus ex machina that lets the Doctor out of ever having to really *deal* with the Time Lord then I'll be disappointed
I'm not sure I'm quite there -- I think he's had to deal with it, at least as much as he's ever going to. I just don't want to make the character growth he's done as a result of that loss to be minimized. Actions have to have consequences.
I can't stop worrying because he has made steps toward dealing with his angst before, only to get squashed back down. So maybe RTD thinks the only way for the story to get past that is to eliminate the situation causing the angst? Except what's happened so far is not portrayed as A Good Thing, so I don't see how there can be a happy sunshine-n-rainbows "the Time Lords are back!" ending. What I've most dearly wanted for years is for Ten to learn to live with it, but after the end of S4 I started thinking that maybe the people who were saying that it would take a regeneration for a significant shift in attitude were right. I don't like that, because it implies that there can't really be any significant character development within a regeneration. (And besides, I thought it had been fundamentally dealt with at the end of S1, but man, did RTD like to keep revisiting it. Not that I'm saying the Doctor was wrong to be traumatized when he lost Rose, but I thought he'd done a little more healing in the meantime
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About the senior citizen brigade -- is anyone really surprised that they're more competent than Torchwood? Ha. Of course they were.
Honey. EVERYONE is more competent than Torchwood.
I AM WORRIED ABOUT WILF. The not-so-subtle foreshadowy shot of him in the church with the words "men who died for their country" or whatever makes me angst.
I think you're right to worry about Wilf. There was also his statement in the diner that he would die (because of course everyone does in the end) and the Doctor saying "don't you dare." I'd cry buckets, but if he gets a heroic death, I might be okay with that.
Rose or Ten II. Yes. I said it. I don't want that storyline touched. I like them together in their own universe, with so many stories left untold and possibilities left to the imagination. The Doctor can't be with Rose forever, and in a way, he is as much as he can be. I'm content to leave it that way.
While I agree that I don't want the story touched, one thing I would like to see is that some how he gets the coat to them. If he does see them, to not interact with them. Or a cut to them reacting to the death. Nothing that would interupt their story. But mostly the coat thing.
I agree... but then, I'd like some news from them. So that their happily ever after is CANON and some **** stop telling us that no, he's the Valeyard or he fell for Alt!River/Martha/Donna/... or that she didn't want of him because he's not the real Doctor... HE IS!!! I just want one little line/scene/message from Rose to confirm it... I think it would be good for the Doctor too. The confirmation that leaving them there worthed the pain and the loneliness, that, somewhere, thanks to that, he's still him (Ten, I mean), and that he's happy, with a family and his Rose and that they just go on, having brilliant adventures in their own Tardis.
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THIS. I don't mind the Time Lords if it leads to yet more Cosmic Ten angst, but if they end up being a deus ex machina that lets the Doctor out of ever having to really *deal* with the Time Lord then I'll be disappointed. Humph.
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I'm not sure I'm quite there -- I think he's had to deal with it, at least as much as he's ever going to. I just don't want to make the character growth he's done as a result of that loss to be minimized. Actions have to have consequences.
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Yep. I'll be impressed if he can do it in a way that doesn't fuck it up completely. C'mon RTD. Impress me.
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Honey. EVERYONE is more competent than Torchwood.
I AM WORRIED ABOUT WILF. The not-so-subtle foreshadowy shot of him in the church with the words "men who died for their country" or whatever makes me angst.
I agree with all of your "do not wants" list.
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Isn't that the truth!
I think you're right to worry about Wilf. There was also his statement in the diner that he would die (because of course everyone does in the end) and the Doctor saying "don't you dare." I'd cry buckets, but if he gets a heroic death, I might be okay with that.
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While I agree that I don't want the story touched, one thing I would like to see is that some how he gets the coat to them. If he does see them, to not interact with them. Or a cut to them reacting to the death. Nothing that would interupt their story. But mostly the coat thing.
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You could have knocked!
I did - four times. Didn't you hear?"
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THIS.
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I agree with you, I really don't want the timelords back.
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I agree... but then, I'd like some news from them. So that their happily ever after is CANON and some **** stop telling us that no, he's the Valeyard or he fell for Alt!River/Martha/Donna/... or that she didn't want of him because he's not the real Doctor... HE IS!!!
I just want one little line/scene/message from Rose to confirm it... I think it would be good for the Doctor too. The confirmation that leaving them there worthed the pain and the loneliness, that, somewhere, thanks to that, he's still him (Ten, I mean), and that he's happy, with a family and his Rose and that they just go on, having brilliant adventures in their own Tardis.
... Do I ask for too much??? ;D
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