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 08:07 pm (UTC)And it's such a change from the Jossverse. I know all my fannish issues stem from there, but, just, I got resigned to never getting anything I want from a story. And here I actually got something I wanted SO BADLY. Rose and the Doctor! Together! They kiss! And I get the joy of that but it's not cheesy, because they've got a ton of issues to work through and because our Doctor is left alone and heartbroken.
I LOVE YOU RUSSELL T DAVIES.
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Date: 2008-07-08 05:26 pm (UTC)Scroll down to the chart at the bottom. The text above is alright, I agree with most of its essential points though I differ on some specific things. But the chart is a bit useful. Gives a visual layout of the sameness I've been trying to work out in my head.
I wish someone drew Rose a chart like this. Except the only person who would is Donna, and she's not there. :(