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Jan. 6th, 2010 06:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vervet_monkeyI should be revising, but have lost all motivation... maybe more will appear after dinner.
It wasn't perfect. Of course. But it was still good! I'm liking the more of a plot to this ep than the previous. And the inclusion of some scenes that didn't make me want to cry.
What I don't get is the doctor used to be so ready to give up his life for anyone. Without hesitation. So why now, just because he has been given warning, does he fight it so much? I mean I get the not actually wanting to die, but he used to know that he was a small part of the universe and ultimatly expendable. In this ep, and the previous, he seems to have gotten to big for his boots, it stops being about the Universe and starts to be about him. Which maybe he does realise in the end with the line about being around too long.
The visiting of the companions seemed a little false to me, but not a huge issue. Just not really nessecary.
I love the idea that it wasn't the human race he was saving, it was one man. Just one man. And although he did throw a little tantrum about it he still did it. The line 'It would be my honour' very nearly killed me. (Turns out we didn't lose the expendability after all, just had trouble getting there!)
I've not been such a fan of the specials over series in general. For me it doesn't buil up the ending as well as it could. I felt that particulrly with the return of the Time Lords. Again haven't seen Old Who so they hold little meaning to me anyway, but I think if they had been hinted at throughout a series it would have meant more to me.
Am now very very excited for new season. I loved David, but a new Dr makes me squee a little bit!
It wasn't perfect. Of course. But it was still good! I'm liking the more of a plot to this ep than the previous. And the inclusion of some scenes that didn't make me want to cry.
What I don't get is the doctor used to be so ready to give up his life for anyone. Without hesitation. So why now, just because he has been given warning, does he fight it so much? I mean I get the not actually wanting to die, but he used to know that he was a small part of the universe and ultimatly expendable. In this ep, and the previous, he seems to have gotten to big for his boots, it stops being about the Universe and starts to be about him. Which maybe he does realise in the end with the line about being around too long.
The visiting of the companions seemed a little false to me, but not a huge issue. Just not really nessecary.
I love the idea that it wasn't the human race he was saving, it was one man. Just one man. And although he did throw a little tantrum about it he still did it. The line 'It would be my honour' very nearly killed me. (Turns out we didn't lose the expendability after all, just had trouble getting there!)
I've not been such a fan of the specials over series in general. For me it doesn't buil up the ending as well as it could. I felt that particulrly with the return of the Time Lords. Again haven't seen Old Who so they hold little meaning to me anyway, but I think if they had been hinted at throughout a series it would have meant more to me.
Am now very very excited for new season. I loved David, but a new Dr makes me squee a little bit!
