The Obligatory End of Time Post.

[starstealingirl]

Why am I awake at this ungodly hour, you ask? Well, there are two reasons. The first is that last night's New Year's festivities kept me up past 4 a.m., and like an idiot, I spent a good 2-3 hours this afternoon napping, instead of dealing with my fatigue and then getting to bed at a decent hour. The second reason is that now is the time my

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[ooper67]

First, let me say that I still haven't watched the last half of TW season 2 (where I'm guessing a lot of the development/lack of development for Jack/Ianto happens) and I've only seen 10th Doctor episodes (probably close to half of them), all out of order so there is still a lot that I am missing here.

I was not as moved by the saying good-bye to everyone as I expected to be. I watched it again hoping to be more moved and then chocked it up to not having seen all of them and therefore not being as emotionally invested in the character as I thought I was. The only part I did really like was the saying good-bye to Rose. It surprised me because I don't particularly like her.
I was very "what the hell did I miss?" about Mickey/Martha - it seemed strange to me, but again I figured that I had just missed something.
I actually really enjoyed the Jack scene, but I had placed it outside of the Ianto timeline. I think in my head it was before Ianto (or possibly long after), though I don't remember there being anything that made me think that. It maybe makes more sense that the gesture was to help him get over Ianto, but that feels really cold-hearted to me.
Earlier in the week, I had watched DT's first episode (or maybe second - I think it was a Christmas special of some sort) and he spent a significant portion of the episode in a regeneration coma. Since that was my only experience with a regeneration so far, I was a bit perplexed by this whole flamey-face and look, now I'm a new person! thing.
The whole thing did feel a little bit forced to me, but like you said, DT is a fantastic actor so overall I felt pleased with it.
I have no opinion on the new guy yet. I thought the teeny bit we saw him was cute, but it really wasn't nearly enough to make me really feel one way or another about him.

[starstealingirl]

How much of DW have you seen? Because if the answer is "not much," I believe the answer to that is, "you and I must have a DW marathon."

[ooper67]

Hm *checks wikipedia*.
I've been watching a lot of the reruns on BBCA for the last few months. I've seen everything (or nearly everything) since the start of Donna's season, very very little of Martha's season, probably about 40% of Rose + 10th doctor (these get replayed A LOT), and none of #9.
I have everything since the reboot added to my netflix to watch if I ever actually finish the end of TW. I'll let you know when I get there if you want to come watch with me. :D

[starstealingirl]

I have all of #9 and Rose's season on DVD, and everything else on my hard drive. If you want to borrow, or do the marathon thing, I am definitely open to that.

[ooper67]

Awesome! I had initially planned on not going all the way back to 9, but if Jack's timeline goes back that far, then I want to see it.

[starstealingirl]

Jack goes back to the middle of #9's season. Those are great episodes, actually-- I like them a lot. Even if John Barrowman's hair is unfortunate in them.

[ooper67]

Ah, okay. Well that makes me a lot more excited to watch them then.
Let me finish these last few episodes of TW and then we'll try to get together a marathon night.

[starstealingirl]

Yay, fantastic! I'm interested to hear what you think of the end of TW Season 2 as well.