Geronimo!

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I was going to do a big End of Time Part Two reaction post like I did for Part One, but thinking about, it would really be a post about my thoughts on/problems with RTD and the characterisation of Ten over the course of his run, which is a bigger topic and one I can't really be bothered writing about at the moment, but it may still come in the near future.

Some random thoughts, for now:

Do you remember the way the interior of the TARDIS exploded when One/Five/Six/Nine regenerated in there? No, neither do I.

Similarly, do you remember when Doctors accepted their fates calmly, stoically, dare I say heroically?

Did anyone go WTF at the bit where Sylvia was straight-out praying to the Doctor...and her prayers were answered....?

Since when has the Doctor felt the need to reward his companions financially? Since when has Doctor Who been pushing the idea that money = happiness?

I may be one of the few people who can get on board with the idea of Martha/Mickey, but...what happened to poor old Tom Milligan?

I guess we now know what Tommy Knight was doing, apart from his GCSEs, during that SJA episode Luke didn't appear in.

Rassilon? What? Who? Where? How? WTF?!

Who was that mysterious woman in white? Answers on a postcard...

And as unlikely as it seems after all of that, there were parts of this I actually quite liked - I may be the only person who thought Captain Jack's Star Wars cantina scene was kind of amusing. Intentionally, I mean. Simm was great. Cribbins was great. Tennant was great - see my earlier comments about my admiration for his acting being undiminished by my head scratching at some of the scripts. Dalton was great - too bad he was hardly onscreen, because the actual, for want of a better word, plot was less important in this than the angst and the extended tour of all RTD's favourite fanfic characters. It reminded me of Journey's End in that - it reminded me of Journey's End to a scary degree, actually. And like Journey's End, the worst thing about it was that there were some good elements, but the less-good elements kind of ruined them for me. In a way, it'd be better if it had just been rubbish, instead of so...disappointing.

And Murray Gold needs to take a valium or something. ;D

Still, on brief first impressions, the boy Smith looks okay, doesn't he? Bring on S5!

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Yes, I thought Wilf was brilliant throughout EoT (and indeed throughout his time in Who), and the majority of his scenes with Ten were riveting in a way Ten!angst usually isn't.

I look forward to seeing Tennant in other things after Who, as I think he's a fine actor, even if Ten could be so very unlikeable at times.

I'll admit that I quite like Children of Earth - it was hard on the characters, sure, but a cracking story that didn't flinch from the hard stuff. A lot like Midnight in NuWho S4 and like that proof that RTD can do good stuff when he wants to - he just doesn't seem to want to all that often. But yes, after going through that it's hard to see how Jack could ever be "normal" again - not without a long, hard process of character development that would probably constitute a whole series of stories in itself. Maybe that's all happened between CoE and the bar scene, and maybe it's about to begin with Midshipman Frame, but...you're right, I don't really buy RTD's apparent intention that the Doctor can just make everything right with Jack again by hooking him up with a new boyfriend. In fact, it seems pretty ridiculous...

But the aliens were fun! ;D

And yes - bring on Eleven! Like, yesterday!