The things you loved, I loved, too, and you articulated our shared gripes so much more than I could have. I kept saying to myself, "Volcano Day" and it was beautiful, and perfect, that this had to happen, but was happening with an awareness that would help them all heal eventually and then yeah, victory snatched from the arms of defeat.
But yeah, I snotted like a colicky child, bawling the instant I saw Four. I'm not even sure I heard half of what he was saying, I was crying so damned hard. It was the only authentically earned emotional moment in the piece. I don't know how I managed not to be spoiled for it, but I am thankful I wasn't.
And yes, it should have been Paul McGann. Because among other things, that shifts all of the Doctor numbers and that makes Capaldi The Valeyard. Plus I do very much believe Moffat took a great big dump on RTD's legacy. It was Bobby Ewing in the shower.
I didn't feel it quite as viscerally as you, but that bothered me too. But when they were standing in that hut I knew it couldn't be the end because it wasn't time yet. Having said that, they don't/won't remember so they are left thinking they killed their whole kind. To me that's almost worse than actually doing it. Much like Donna's forgetting of who she became really bothers me to this day, the idea that the Doctor lives for so long remembering and regretting that he killed his entire people hits me in the heart. So ... I guess I'm OK with it? Though, like you I don't want Twelve to spend his entire time searching for Gallifrey. That seems very boring to me.
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But yeah, I snotted like a colicky child, bawling the instant I saw Four. I'm not even sure I heard half of what he was saying, I was crying so damned hard. It was the only authentically earned emotional moment in the piece. I don't know how I managed not to be spoiled for it, but I am thankful I wasn't.
And yes, it should have been Paul McGann. Because among other things, that shifts all of the Doctor numbers and that makes Capaldi The Valeyard. Plus I do very much believe Moffat took a great big dump on RTD's legacy. It was Bobby Ewing in the shower.
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