Well, On to a New Who
January 6th, 2010
After having viewed the second half of the end of Russel T. Davies and David Tennant’s finale I’ve been feeling a little better about it. I still wouldn’t downgrade it to merely “farty” as Colin suggested, but it is less crap when viewed as a whole. My primary complaints remain however.
There was no real payoff for the Master making everyone on earth the Master, unless you count the “Master Race” pun, which still makes me want to punch RTD in the face. So I guess I’m not counting it.
The whole thing could have been edited drastically. I know they’re saying goodbye to someone a lot of people really loved, but the end sequence where he sees
- everyone
again was a bit much, especially when it happened at the end of the last series already. And did they need the lighting bolts/junkyard confrontation in the first episode? Not in the end as it turns out. What is the point of being able to shoot lighting bolts that cause explosions when it just gives the guy you shoot at indigestion anyhow?
At any rate, it was not as bad as all that, almost pleasant in the end, and I did think that the acting was well done, when decent lines were there to make it possible. On to Smith/Moffat, which I have high hopes for, though it’s hilarious to see people complaining that Smith is not attractive. Because everyone wanted a piece of Pertwee and McCoy back in the day…
January 8th, 2010 at 12:25 pm
I felt like the, what, ten minutes at the end were basically Russell Davies saying “Now that I’m gone it’s the same as the show concluding”, or at least it certainly felt like a conclusion not to the season (or even the David Tennant Doctor) but to the show itself.
Also, I’m starting to feel a little grumpy about the “young attractive Doctor” thing. His other incarnations were generally pretty middle aged at best – so why have we been getting progressively younger looking Doctors?
January 8th, 2010 at 6:30 pm
If it’s any comfort, I got bored over this break and checked out a few comment threads on io9 and they seem to think that the new Doctor is ugly, or at least many of them do. I personally think he looks okay, but I don’t think he fits the pretty nerd boy look that a lot of the Who fans found so fetching about the Tennant years.