So, I finished it ten minutes ago and I totally understand your need to sit and process. It was amazing. I did have some trouble because my viewing partners (my roommate and another girl from our floor) kept on commenting while I was sitting awestruck, absorbing the awesome.
People are complaining? Angsty!Doctor is my favorite kind (with Gleeful!Doctor running a close second). That's why I'd always had trouble totally committing to the tenth doctor - the ninth doctor was just so much more grumpy. The only complaint I have is that I wish we had an entire season for the Doctor-Is-Going-Off-The-Deep-End plot. This is the sort of thing that could have been fleshed out and shown through 13 episodes. Of course, I understand that we don't have 13 episodes, so there isn't anyone to blame.
Still, it is a perfect character development and it feels rather inevitable. While Nine once bitterly commented that he 'won' the Time War, he did everything in his power to run from the reality of that fact, the responsibility and power that went along with it. To watch Ten take control and declare himself the winner and master of all time, it was eerily reminiscent of the Master, which I suppose is perfect because a big confrontation is coming. (You must be excited. Loads more slashy subtext.)
This episode was particularly painful because all I could think was that what the doctor needed was for Rose to call him out or Martha to slap him across the face or Donna to take charge and tell him what to do (I always thought that helped him most because then he didn't have to take all the responsibility and guilt). But, he has no one and it's awful because he needs someone. The longer he goes without, the more obvious it becomes.
Anyway, totally brilliant episode, miles better than the last two.
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Date: 2009-11-16 05:17 am (UTC)People are complaining? Angsty!Doctor is my favorite kind (with Gleeful!Doctor running a close second). That's why I'd always had trouble totally committing to the tenth doctor - the ninth doctor was just so much more grumpy. The only complaint I have is that I wish we had an entire season for the Doctor-Is-Going-Off-The-Deep-End plot. This is the sort of thing that could have been fleshed out and shown through 13 episodes. Of course, I understand that we don't have 13 episodes, so there isn't anyone to blame.
Still, it is a perfect character development and it feels rather inevitable. While Nine once bitterly commented that he 'won' the Time War, he did everything in his power to run from the reality of that fact, the responsibility and power that went along with it. To watch Ten take control and declare himself the winner and master of all time, it was eerily reminiscent of the Master, which I suppose is perfect because a big confrontation is coming. (You must be excited. Loads more slashy subtext.)
This episode was particularly painful because all I could think was that what the doctor needed was for Rose to call him out or Martha to slap him across the face or Donna to take charge and tell him what to do (I always thought that helped him most because then he didn't have to take all the responsibility and guilt). But, he has no one and it's awful because he needs someone. The longer he goes without, the more obvious it becomes.
Anyway, totally brilliant episode, miles better than the last two.