Doctor Who! This season!
I do not usually post about Doctor Who anywhere but everything is beautiful and nothing hurts.
THAT ENDING!!!!!! I loved pretty much everything about it. Maybe actually everything? Clara's speech! Her not being dead! Running off in the Diner Tardis with Ashildr for all the adventures ever! The Doctor losing his memories of her, and not the other way around! (Because yes, after all these years I am still bitter about Donna's ending. I am never going to get over that.) Poor Doctor -- he is so terribly, terribly destroyed and I loved every moment of that.
I love that the whole episode ripped open so many, many possibilities.
I am also looking forward to the fun-and-games of the Christmas episode very very much.
Clara is not my favorite companion of all time but I still really really liked her and love that she got such a great ending. Or rather, lack of an ending. Now she and Ashildr can team up with Martha sometimes to save the universe! Or fight Missy! (Or, you know, fight Missy and then have a threesome with Missy? I'm not picky, but Jane Austen might get jealous. Actually, Ashildr and Clara should go pick up Jane Austen and have more hijinks.)
I think that it was a great way to reverse the dynamic of the show -- which is that the Doctor always knows more and is more important and more powerful than anyone else in it. Even though the companions are more important to him than he is, in the end he's still The Doctor; there's only one of him, but there are a lot of them. And to some extent that ceased to be true with River, but even more now -- he isn't the only time-traveler flying around in a stolen Tardis having adventures and saving the universe now. Even though at this ending, he seems the most alone he's been in a very long time, he really isn't.
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THAT ENDING!!!!!! I loved pretty much everything about it. Maybe actually everything? Clara's speech! Her not being dead! Running off in the Diner Tardis with Ashildr for all the adventures ever! The Doctor losing his memories of her, and not the other way around! (Because yes, after all these years I am still bitter about Donna's ending. I am never going to get over that.) Poor Doctor -- he is so terribly, terribly destroyed and I loved every moment of that.
I love that the whole episode ripped open so many, many possibilities.
I am also looking forward to the fun-and-games of the Christmas episode very very much.
Clara is not my favorite companion of all time but I still really really liked her and love that she got such a great ending. Or rather, lack of an ending. Now she and Ashildr can team up with Martha sometimes to save the universe! Or fight Missy! (Or, you know, fight Missy and then have a threesome with Missy? I'm not picky, but Jane Austen might get jealous. Actually, Ashildr and Clara should go pick up Jane Austen and have more hijinks.)
I think that it was a great way to reverse the dynamic of the show -- which is that the Doctor always knows more and is more important and more powerful than anyone else in it. Even though the companions are more important to him than he is, in the end he's still The Doctor; there's only one of him, but there are a lot of them. And to some extent that ceased to be true with River, but even more now -- he isn't the only time-traveler flying around in a stolen Tardis having adventures and saving the universe now. Even though at this ending, he seems the most alone he's been in a very long time, he really isn't.
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