Journey's End en repete
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timepiececlockI keep rewatching The Scene of Doctor Who 4x13.
The parts that I've already said don't work for me, still don't work for me. But the parts that I was okay with I totally love now.
Except a corner of my brain still keeps backing up and saying "Wait, is that really how it ended? This isn't some crazy late-night-cranberry-juice-induced dream of how your inner psychopathic fangirl heart would have ended it?"
I mean... THERE ARE TWO DOCTORS, and one will grow old and can LIVE A LIFE and MAKE OUT ON THE BEACH with Rose. I just...!!!! That's so whacked! A day later, and it's still totally whacked!
It's pretty much a happy ending ticket that I never in a million years thought we'd get. And it wasn't happy precisely--actually it was quite heartbreaking-- but the ingredients are there to have a kind of happy ending. Like, a fanfic happy ending.
But I hate to say "fanfic ending" because that's usually used in a derrogatory way. And I don't mean it in a bad way... I just mean it's like fanfic because it's whacked and it's over the top and it's impossible and I never ever expected it to HAPPEN. On my TV. Or, on my monitor, actually.
I think this can only happen on crazy sci-fi shows. Doctor Who and Farscape: crazy fun angsty romantic whacked out sci-fi space shows. Except DW's use of the trope is even more crazy and fanficcy because Farscape spend more than a season addressing the "twinning" and its aftermath, whereas DW crammed it into one episode. The biggest finale episode ever.
So... I've decided: I love the finale. I LOVE THE FINALE. It has problems, and it makes me angry and sad, but it also made me giggle a lot. And the truth is that if the episode has such a wide variety of responses and discussion that I've come across the last two days, then it was a damn good episode for a finale.
It left an impression, no doubt. ...It's so whacked.
The parts that I've already said don't work for me, still don't work for me. But the parts that I was okay with I totally love now.
Except a corner of my brain still keeps backing up and saying "Wait, is that really how it ended? This isn't some crazy late-night-cranberry-juice-induced dream of how your inner psychopathic fangirl heart would have ended it?"
I mean... THERE ARE TWO DOCTORS, and one will grow old and can LIVE A LIFE and MAKE OUT ON THE BEACH with Rose. I just...!!!! That's so whacked! A day later, and it's still totally whacked!
It's pretty much a happy ending ticket that I never in a million years thought we'd get. And it wasn't happy precisely--actually it was quite heartbreaking-- but the ingredients are there to have a kind of happy ending. Like, a fanfic happy ending.
But I hate to say "fanfic ending" because that's usually used in a derrogatory way. And I don't mean it in a bad way... I just mean it's like fanfic because it's whacked and it's over the top and it's impossible and I never ever expected it to HAPPEN. On my TV. Or, on my monitor, actually.
I think this can only happen on crazy sci-fi shows. Doctor Who and Farscape: crazy fun angsty romantic whacked out sci-fi space shows. Except DW's use of the trope is even more crazy and fanficcy because Farscape spend more than a season addressing the "twinning" and its aftermath, whereas DW crammed it into one episode. The biggest finale episode ever.
So... I've decided: I love the finale. I LOVE THE FINALE. It has problems, and it makes me angry and sad, but it also made me giggle a lot. And the truth is that if the episode has such a wide variety of responses and discussion that I've come across the last two days, then it was a damn good episode for a finale.
It left an impression, no doubt. ...It's so whacked.
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Date: 2008-07-07 11:32 am (UTC)I'm still trying to sort out how I feel but I keep coming back to the fact that it's really the happiest possible ending we could have got: Billie was obviously not coming back to the series full-time, but Rose still gets to be with the Doctor forever! And at the same time, it's also completely tragic and heartbreaking.
Yes, I agree with whacked!
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Date: 2008-07-07 05:08 pm (UTC)I know. MIND IS BLOWN. Usually shows choose the tragic route over the "never would happen, highly improbable ending involving a dopplegager and a cackling old man with a metal hand." I thought DW had gone the tragic route with the end of season 2. But the in the Confidential Billie Piper said that they'd always told her she would be back, almost as soon as she left.