Thanks for that gracious post Jeri1250.
I don't know anything about the older versions of Dr. Who. I've never watched Sarah Jane's show or Torchwood. I'm hoping that has something to do with how lackluster the two part finale was. The more I think about it the more dissatisfied I am. I guess I just felt that out of nowhere Donna downloads the Dr.'s brain and saves the day with ease. It's like a Deus ex Machina in that suddenly some god drops from the sky and everything's all better. *shrug* They just didn't earn it somehow. It's surprising because usually it feels that an episode of Dr. Who builds to the doctor finally working everything out. This just felt contrived to me. Also it undermines everything that charmed me about Donna/Doctor. She's NOT intellectual. She's normal and human and that's what's so special about her. Making her a part time lord... it's like they don't even understand what was so great about her character.
Rose Tyler. I loved her and her romance with the Doctor. Again, I'd rather her kiss the real doctor goodbye than settle for some false Doctor. The Doctor says that other doctor is him but they didn't seem the same to me. I guess that other doctor was supposed to me more like nine... I would have rather the real doctor say goodbye and that he loves rose and have one last really good snog between the REAL doctor and rose. Then she could go off with that other doctor but not romantically. IMO they have to meet each other and fall in love with each other and have their own story. It's like when Nine regenerated. She didn't just snog him right away. She had to get to know him a little.
Maybe... if they'd done more with the whisper. There was a lot of whispering this season. Maybe I'll find a good fanfic that makes that whispered word something so cool that I'll do a 180. As it is... I feel that "Turn Left" was my season finale and... maybe I'll find a good fanfic to wrap up series four for me.
Sorry for the rant. "Turn Left" and the Library episodes got me really hyped up for the finale and... it just didn't measure up to the set up IMO. But I'm glad you and so many others really enjoyed it. I enjoyed aspects of it too... but I believed the world was ending a lot more in "Turn Left" than I ever did in "Journey's End." There just wasn't enough story for all the characters running around.
ETA: I gave it a 4 by the way. So for all my ranting... I still thought it was a pretty good episode.
I don't know anything about the older versions of Dr. Who. I've never watched Sarah Jane's show or Torchwood. I'm hoping that has something to do with how lackluster the two part finale was. The more I think about it the more dissatisfied I am. I guess I just felt that out of nowhere Donna downloads the Dr.'s brain and saves the day with ease. It's like a Deus ex Machina in that suddenly some god drops from the sky and everything's all better. *shrug* They just didn't earn it somehow. It's surprising because usually it feels that an episode of Dr. Who builds to the doctor finally working everything out. This just felt contrived to me. Also it undermines everything that charmed me about Donna/Doctor. She's NOT intellectual. She's normal and human and that's what's so special about her. Making her a part time lord... it's like they don't even understand what was so great about her character.
Rose Tyler. I loved her and her romance with the Doctor. Again, I'd rather her kiss the real doctor goodbye than settle for some false Doctor. The Doctor says that other doctor is him but they didn't seem the same to me. I guess that other doctor was supposed to me more like nine... I would have rather the real doctor say goodbye and that he loves rose and have one last really good snog between the REAL doctor and rose. Then she could go off with that other doctor but not romantically. IMO they have to meet each other and fall in love with each other and have their own story. It's like when Nine regenerated. She didn't just snog him right away. She had to get to know him a little.
Maybe... if they'd done more with the whisper. There was a lot of whispering this season. Maybe I'll find a good fanfic that makes that whispered word something so cool that I'll do a 180. As it is... I feel that "Turn Left" was my season finale and... maybe I'll find a good fanfic to wrap up series four for me.
Sorry for the rant. "Turn Left" and the Library episodes got me really hyped up for the finale and... it just didn't measure up to the set up IMO. But I'm glad you and so many others really enjoyed it. I enjoyed aspects of it too... but I believed the world was ending a lot more in "Turn Left" than I ever did in "Journey's End." There just wasn't enough story for all the characters running around.
ETA: I gave it a 4 by the way. So for all my ranting... I still thought it was a pretty good episode.
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