The Next Doctor
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This might be a bit terse as I'm writing it on my phone (still can't get over how cool that is!).
I think I'm kind of over Doctor Who. Not even that it was bad--David Morrisey was wonderful, David Tennant is always lovely, the writing flowed, the comedy was funny, the gigantic steampunk cyber ship thing was cracktastic... just, it doesn't seem to be *going* anywhere. RTD seems intent on ending it thematically with "The Doctor always ends up alone and is now too tramatized to let anyone in." It's like we're back where we started--what was the point of seasons one and two? I like and agree with the theme that it's important to open up and love even when you know that it will ultimately end in loss. What happened to that?
And I can't help thinking, as Mr.-I-travel-alone angsts onward, that the reason Donna forgot him was that he wiped her mind, and that, oh yeah, the reason Rose broke his heart was that he dumped her in an alternate universe with a clone and refused to tell her he loved her. (Which, okay, the first one was pretty necessary, but the second one really did not have to end that way.)
But, yeah, not even that it was bad, just that it's getting boring. I did like that it was more light-hearted (certainly more holiday-appropriate than killing Kylie Minogue!), and that we finally got to see people cheer for and thank the Doctor, and that he didn't end the episode alone. It was fun. But it's just no longer the thing that drew me into Doctor Who in the first place, which was the Doctor sharing his joy with Rose and learning to love again.
One more day and then I'm back to civilization! *can't wait to get home*
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