Well... Can't say I LOVED it, but maybe that is something to do with the fact I have been kept waiting far too long for a DW fix this year that I built up too much expectation. Or maybe down to the fact that Lady Bionic Catsuit quite annoyed me in many ways. She was, as she was at pains to point out endlessly, too perfect and a bit of a ripped page from the 'This is what a companion should be like' rulebook. A posh Rose? Rusty couldn't use her, so lets put in the basic model and tweak it a bit? It might not be a popular view (I know my Rose dislike puts me in a minority) but that's a bit what she felt like to me.
Malcolm, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways... Just the fact that you made me forget that I really don't like Lee Evans as a stand up AT ALL should be a good enough reason, but then he has to go and chant 'I love you!' at the Doctor in a complete fanboy worship moment that just made you want to go up and cuddle them both. Yes, Grand Moff, Malcolm should return.
I actually liked the Doctor during the chop conversation, how he finds humans endlessly fascinating and the very mundane and small facts of their lives, how they count days and time, gives him some kind of sense of joy. I do love a happy, bouncy, clever Doctor, the cleverest man in the room, dazzling everyone with his charm and brains and fantastic hair. But I also love the fact that he is then in turn a dark, morose, sometimes cold Doctor battling his own internal demons, seemingly wanting to die at times but still fearing it when told his song will soon end.
David Tennant - is it wrong to want to tie him to this role and not let him go? (I know it's not wrong to want to tie him to a bed but I'm trying to be good...) I know it is wrong, because he is so much more than The Doctor, but for this old time Who fan, he's perfect in the role. I know some don't go for his wild-eyed, big haired Doctor, but he's made it his own. As I said yesterday, Tom Baker traumatised me as a girl when he left and I'm sadly feeling the same way as the big grown up girl I am now. I forsee a very sniffly New year when Mr Tennant finally regens.
*Editing to fix my stuff up on Martha and UNIT - I had completely forgotten she had been meant to be going to TW. I am useless and stupid fangirl and I hang my head in shame!*
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Martha quit UNIT at the end of the last series of Who, and it was heavily hinted that she would be joining Torchwood in permanence instead. Of course, then Freema got her job on Law & Order so that probably won't happen, but she's not in UNIT any more, hence non-mention.
ReplyDeleteAm also experiencing trauma at thought of departing Tennant. Do you think they will set up a helpline, like when Take That split?
Crikey!
ReplyDeleteHanging head in shame! You are bloody right about Martha. I think I blocked out her departure last year as it was so clinical compared to the others. But less said the better - I'm a bad fangirl and I'm ashamed!
I fear the TT helpline may be needed by some - a friend said that to me the other day. I know he'll be in other things and I know he'll be great - BTW, his Hamlet was pretty astonishing, as was his Berowne in Loves Labours Lost, which was a complete surprise to me and I haven't laughed so much in the theatre for a long time - I am going to miss my Saturday night 'date' with him and his mad hair. It will be a sad day when the suit and converse are no longer in the TARDIS.