The universe will sing you to your sleep
Jan. 2nd, 2010 10:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gwaevalarinSo, that's it. It's over. My eyes hurt from crying but I almost feel okay. Sad, but calm.
So first of all: A big thank you to Matt Smith. I was a miserable ball of tears when he turned up. But when he started rambling about arms and legs and still not being ginger I just started to laugh. He's still the Doctor, he was even a little bit like Ten but in an almost happy version. And while I miss Ten so much, realising all that made it so much more bearable. And now I feel like smiling just as much as I feel like crying.
But let's go back: I'm not even sure I particularly like the story line. Then again, I liked Part 1 a lot more when I saw it for the second time, so maybe the same will hold for Part 2. But there were some scenes that were just so perfect.
First and foremost pretty much every scene with the Doctor and the Master. From the yard in Part 1 right to "Get out of the way". There's just such a deep connection between them. "I wonder what I'd be without you".
When Wilf gave the gun to the Doctor I was so glad he still didn't want to take it. That's such a big part of Ten, that he never carries a gun.
And it did look wrong in his hands. And you could see that it felt wrong for him, too. And then, when he pointed the gun at the Master... I think I was literally whispering: "No. Don't. Please don't." at the tv over and over again. But he's the Doctor, my Doctor, and he finds the other way out. And in the end the Master saved his life. Not Ten's life, but the Doctor's life.
And what about the Master now? Is he trapped in the Time War like the rest of the surviving Time Lords? Is he trapped in hell? I know he did so many terrible things, but during those two episodes he seemed haunted to me rather than evil. And after what he did there at the end, he doesn't deserve hell. Without the drumming, he could still be brilliant, couldn't he? So I hope he can escape somehow. But either way, it was a great way for him to go. I'm glad he wasn't just the villain.
RTD still manages to surprise me. I had so many endings in mind, I never expected this. Playing with our expectations like that. When Wilf started knocking I think my heart skipped more than one beat. And of course the Doctor would never let Wilf die. That "unimportant" human is worth saving just as much as Adelaide or anyone else. The Doctor redeemed himself in that episode, not only in that scene. And that was really the one thing I was asking for. So for once, RTD wasn't quite as ruthless.
And then there were all those little goodbyes. Martha - who is married to Mickey? WTF? Luke and Sarah Jane. Jack (and Alonso). Joan in a way. Because he does care. Donna on her wedding day. And Rose, before she even met the Doctor. I wasn't too thrilled when I heard the rumour of Rose being in that episode. But it was such a perfect, sweet scene. And it gives me the illusion of a time loop where I can just go back to that day and travel with the 9th and 10th Doctor again. He had the time to see everyone again. And "get his reward". And this time, changing events was okay, because he did it for them. For the people he loves.
But then he is back in the TARDIS and the regeneration really starts. And he is all alone. And that was the one thing that really hurt. The 10th Doctor dying alone. "I don't want to go." And I didn't want you to go.
Goodbye, Ten.
So first of all: A big thank you to Matt Smith. I was a miserable ball of tears when he turned up. But when he started rambling about arms and legs and still not being ginger I just started to laugh. He's still the Doctor, he was even a little bit like Ten but in an almost happy version. And while I miss Ten so much, realising all that made it so much more bearable. And now I feel like smiling just as much as I feel like crying.
But let's go back: I'm not even sure I particularly like the story line. Then again, I liked Part 1 a lot more when I saw it for the second time, so maybe the same will hold for Part 2. But there were some scenes that were just so perfect.
First and foremost pretty much every scene with the Doctor and the Master. From the yard in Part 1 right to "Get out of the way". There's just such a deep connection between them. "I wonder what I'd be without you".
When Wilf gave the gun to the Doctor I was so glad he still didn't want to take it. That's such a big part of Ten, that he never carries a gun.
And it did look wrong in his hands. And you could see that it felt wrong for him, too. And then, when he pointed the gun at the Master... I think I was literally whispering: "No. Don't. Please don't." at the tv over and over again. But he's the Doctor, my Doctor, and he finds the other way out. And in the end the Master saved his life. Not Ten's life, but the Doctor's life.
And what about the Master now? Is he trapped in the Time War like the rest of the surviving Time Lords? Is he trapped in hell? I know he did so many terrible things, but during those two episodes he seemed haunted to me rather than evil. And after what he did there at the end, he doesn't deserve hell. Without the drumming, he could still be brilliant, couldn't he? So I hope he can escape somehow. But either way, it was a great way for him to go. I'm glad he wasn't just the villain.
RTD still manages to surprise me. I had so many endings in mind, I never expected this. Playing with our expectations like that. When Wilf started knocking I think my heart skipped more than one beat. And of course the Doctor would never let Wilf die. That "unimportant" human is worth saving just as much as Adelaide or anyone else. The Doctor redeemed himself in that episode, not only in that scene. And that was really the one thing I was asking for. So for once, RTD wasn't quite as ruthless.
And then there were all those little goodbyes. Martha - who is married to Mickey? WTF? Luke and Sarah Jane. Jack (and Alonso). Joan in a way. Because he does care. Donna on her wedding day. And Rose, before she even met the Doctor. I wasn't too thrilled when I heard the rumour of Rose being in that episode. But it was such a perfect, sweet scene. And it gives me the illusion of a time loop where I can just go back to that day and travel with the 9th and 10th Doctor again. He had the time to see everyone again. And "get his reward". And this time, changing events was okay, because he did it for them. For the people he loves.
But then he is back in the TARDIS and the regeneration really starts. And he is all alone. And that was the one thing that really hurt. The 10th Doctor dying alone. "I don't want to go." And I didn't want you to go.
Goodbye, Ten.
