Doctor Who

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First of all -- I LOVED IT LIKE PIE.

-- I loved Jackson. I loved Rosita SO MUCH. And I loved the three of them together. I could ride on that love for everything else.

-- I was deeply amused by and quite loved the Ten/Jackson dynamic -- tender, caring, gentle, sweet. The actors clearly got a kick at working together again.

--Although I rather hated Blackpool with a blind sort of rage, I adore David Morrissey kind of beyond reason and I WANT HIM AS THE NEXT DOCTOR LIKE OMG.

-- There was plot. Or something. With Cyberman doing what Cybermen do best. And then big Godzilla/Cybertransformer/Titan thing at the very end. Or something! And, like, stuff. YEAH!

-- I loved the "he saves small children" heroness of it all, but it also made me snort. hah.

-- I'm of two minds about Miss Hartigan (Dervla Kirwin! ILU). On the one, I loved her saucy evilness and her individual strength even though it was fueled by bitterness and likely a whole lot of abuse, and I loved her in red at the funeral with all those withered old men in black. I loved her as the Cyber King as well, mostly (except for the predictable 'no no, you promised I wouldn't be converted!!'). On the other hand I'm always wary of the 'woman brings about her own demise while seeking revenge from men' plot device. Mostly I just think it's overdone. But I can't be bothered too much, although it sort of pisses me off, too. Whatever. And I rather liked the scenes between the Doctor and her, and I'm a sucker for the Doctor's compassionate choice giving and his sorrow and apologies. At least DW usually turns these tired old plot devices on their head a bit.

-- Okay, okay, I admit I wanted to bonk the Doctor over the head with the whole "they leave me, they find other people, they FORGET ME." I'm not mad at him at all for what happened with Rose and Martha, what he did to Donna. I never was. I'm not mad at him for much of anything. I love the man a whole lot. But HONESTLY. Way to make everything about you! hahah. I mean, talk about some serious avoidance issues. He can't bear it. He knows what he does and what he has done and what he will do but it's so hard for him to say it, to own it. He has to reverse it -- she forgot me, not I made her forget me. I do it to myself.

-- I did like the "they break my heart" bit though. Not sure anybody else read it the same way I did, but I think it's his one truly honest moment in that speech. They do break his heart (they break mine, for crying out loud) and he cannot protect them. He cannot keep them. If they go with him, it's inevitable that they will leave, whether it's by his hand or by other circumstances, the end will come, and it's hard. It's really really hard. It's all hand holding and running and fun times and laughter and then it comes crashing down, and it's not easy.

-- In short, EEEEEEE. LOVED IT OMG. *flaps hands*