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[tencrush]

Sometimes I have trouble articulating my thoughts about Who, but somewhere, somebody usually comes along and does it for me:

"The Tenth Doctor could be reluctant to go, by all means, but so reluctant that he has time to wave bye-bye to pretty much everyone he's met outside a Stephen Moffat story and even blow up the signature set of his era? I could sit here thinking up an in-universe reason why that happened - that's what fandom is about, right? - but why should I bother when the writer of the show doesn't seem to have? It blows up for the same reason that everything in this bloody episode happens, because the weight of Media Presence and Narrative Casuality invade the narrative space and make them happen, and the Tenth Doctor is crushed under the flying ruins of the fourth wall."

From here. This, dudes.

Comments

[qthewetsprocket.livejournal.com]

I actually didn't mind Ten's long goodbye as much as some people did...mainly because it was Tennant's last episode, and for some reason I can forgive the show runners a little indulgence for that. Hell, I probably would have done the same thing.

Also, there's a precedent, sort of: Five got spectrox poisoning back in the day, and it took him like three whole episodes to die. Personally, I'll take Ten's 'touch base' revisitng scenes over a pinwheel of ex-companions fluttering around the Doctor's head any day of the week.

[blinkytreefrog.livejournal.com]

If the pinwheel involves Turlough I'm all for it :-).

[jo02]

The funny thing is, I usually look to you to articulate my WHo-verse annoyances and frustrations much better than I do.

[curriejean.livejournal.com]

Damn it, I knew I shouldn't have flipped over to the flist. I was floating on a happy cloud of no-thinks.

[erinnthered.livejournal.com]

I especially like what he said about Rassillon. So much. I'm a big old school Who fan, and it was actually a let down to find that was Rassillon. The mystery woman thing will continue to bug me, and it's not about knowing who she is at this point. It's about the fact that it should have been a part of the story to reveal it. There were just so many problems.

On a positive note, I think next Tuesday is a go....I think.

[tencrush]

Yay for Tuesdays! Keep me posted, I'm a sucker for goss.