I don't get why River changed, I didn't think it was something in Let's Kill Hitler, so I'd be interested to know what it might be, and the way she was declaring her love, well it made me think there must be some timey wimey shagging and dating action between her and the Doctor that we are missing? Otherwise it doesn't really make any sense to me because we have only ever seen her knowing the doctor quite well, in the biblical sense, yet that must be off screen.
Still to be honest I definitely think that this finale is like King Lear compared to the dreadful RTD ones (with the exception of the wonderful Eccles series). At least it hung together, it was a very simple resolution, none of this Doctor/Dobby business and we all believe in fairies. I liked the straightforwardness of it. I like that River's Dad married them, that was cute.
Sweet that he mentioned Rose and Jack of all his ex companions (that was an aaaw moment for me, although I love Sarah Jane the best, I'm enormously fond of the few episodes at the end of the Eccles series with Rose and Jack.)
I didn't like her killing Frances Barber, but I agree at least it showed she was affected by the way they treated her and taking the baby. I do actually kind of like that Moffat has just got on with his plot, I think that if he wanted to go into the trauma of having the baby taken etc etc, then just don't use the plot, because then it's not Dr Who, it's a soap, or a crime drama. The only way to do it was to almost handwave it. Now I'm not saying it works, but I think it works for that show. I know people who have stopped watching because their children found it became too emotional, and relationship orientated, and they just got bored, so any more of that would have turned even more people away.
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Still to be honest I definitely think that this finale is like King Lear compared to the dreadful RTD ones (with the exception of the wonderful Eccles series). At least it hung together, it was a very simple resolution, none of this Doctor/Dobby business and we all believe in fairies. I liked the straightforwardness of it. I like that River's Dad married them, that was cute.
Sweet that he mentioned Rose and Jack of all his ex companions (that was an aaaw moment for me, although I love Sarah Jane the best, I'm enormously fond of the few episodes at the end of the Eccles series with Rose and Jack.)
I didn't like her killing Frances Barber, but I agree at least it showed she was affected by the way they treated her and taking the baby. I do actually kind of like that Moffat has just got on with his plot, I think that if he wanted to go into the trauma of having the baby taken etc etc, then just don't use the plot, because then it's not Dr Who, it's a soap, or a crime drama. The only way to do it was to almost handwave it. Now I'm not saying it works, but I think it works for that show. I know people who have stopped watching because their children found it became too emotional, and relationship orientated, and they just got bored, so any more of that would have turned even more people away.