Doctor Who 4x13
Jul. 5th, 2008 09:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
auntiemeeshOh wow, I don't even know what my reaction to that is, except, Wow!
Doctor Donna. Just about broke my heart into tiny pieces, that she finally truly gets to believe that she is special, and then has to give it all up. It was so painful, watching her try like anything to deny what she knew the Doctor was going to have to do, take everything away from her and reset her back to the person she was before she met him. Yeah, you can argue that, having the memories erased, she won't miss what she can't remember, but still, we know what she really is, how strong and beautiful and necessary she is, and she never will, now.
Rose and Doctor 2.0. Okay, I'm a little bit shippy about Rose and the Doctor. Not to the extent that I thought they were OTP and should be together forever, never to part, blah, blah, blah, but just. I love seeing them together and separating hurt them both. A lot. And now, in some way, they can be together. And yes, that makes me happy. Rose is sad right now, because she feels that this isn't her Doctor, but I think she'll realize very quickly that in all the ways that matter - who he is in his (one) heart, his memories, his essence, he's still the same guy. Maybe a bit more like Nine than Ten, but she'll help him heal, just like she did the first time. And the whole thing with him being half human, aging along with Rose. I think they're going to have a very interesting, crazy life together. Which is just how it should be.
The Z-Neutrino Single String Reality Bomb (tm) seemed a bit overdone, but then, this is Davros, so overdone is appropriate. Can you imagine how entirely damaged someone would have to be, how much someone would have to be in, to think that creating an entire race of evil monsters and using them to destroy all matter in the universe was a good thing, something to be desired. This isn't about ruling the universe, being lord and master. This is about making your pain go away in the grandest scale possible. Poor creature was totally insane.
Towing the Earth. Erm. Yeah, I'm just gonna handwave that, because really, just, no. I don't think there's any way to justify that successfully not destroying all life on the planet even if it didn't rip the planet itself apart. So, I'm sure that it still had that shield that kept the air in while it was stolen, and that kept the air from being torn away while in transit. Lalalalalalalalalala
And the Doctor. Alone again. But he still has his most faithful companion, the TARDIS, and as long as he has her, he'll never be completely alone. He needs some time to heal though, I think. Davros ripped him to shreds in this, all the carefully constructed lies that we all have, to help us accept who we are. The Doctor isn't any different from us in that regard. He's had to do terrible things before, and he'll have to do terrible things again, but in the meantime, he has shell he wraps himself in, this ideal that he strives for, of non-violence, of finding a better way to do things. And it's not always possible to achieve that, and he does what he has to do, but still, it was painful to have that shell ripped away from him, and the hypocrasy that we all have laid out in front of him. It paralyzed him, really. And that will probably hurt more than the truths that he really, deep down, already knew. It would be nice to think that he'll get that, but having seen the little bit of a trailer for the Christmas episode, I don't suppose they'll allow him to get any time. He'll just have to jump into another crazy situation and try to keep his head above water as best he can.
Anyway, it's really ridiculous, the way I feel this need to look into the heart and soul of people who only exist on paper, in the ethereal airwaves. But I do anyway. So there.
Doctor Donna. Just about broke my heart into tiny pieces, that she finally truly gets to believe that she is special, and then has to give it all up. It was so painful, watching her try like anything to deny what she knew the Doctor was going to have to do, take everything away from her and reset her back to the person she was before she met him. Yeah, you can argue that, having the memories erased, she won't miss what she can't remember, but still, we know what she really is, how strong and beautiful and necessary she is, and she never will, now.
Rose and Doctor 2.0. Okay, I'm a little bit shippy about Rose and the Doctor. Not to the extent that I thought they were OTP and should be together forever, never to part, blah, blah, blah, but just. I love seeing them together and separating hurt them both. A lot. And now, in some way, they can be together. And yes, that makes me happy. Rose is sad right now, because she feels that this isn't her Doctor, but I think she'll realize very quickly that in all the ways that matter - who he is in his (one) heart, his memories, his essence, he's still the same guy. Maybe a bit more like Nine than Ten, but she'll help him heal, just like she did the first time. And the whole thing with him being half human, aging along with Rose. I think they're going to have a very interesting, crazy life together. Which is just how it should be.
The Z-Neutrino Single String Reality Bomb (tm) seemed a bit overdone, but then, this is Davros, so overdone is appropriate. Can you imagine how entirely damaged someone would have to be, how much someone would have to be in, to think that creating an entire race of evil monsters and using them to destroy all matter in the universe was a good thing, something to be desired. This isn't about ruling the universe, being lord and master. This is about making your pain go away in the grandest scale possible. Poor creature was totally insane.
Towing the Earth. Erm. Yeah, I'm just gonna handwave that, because really, just, no. I don't think there's any way to justify that successfully not destroying all life on the planet even if it didn't rip the planet itself apart. So, I'm sure that it still had that shield that kept the air in while it was stolen, and that kept the air from being torn away while in transit. Lalalalalalalalalala
And the Doctor. Alone again. But he still has his most faithful companion, the TARDIS, and as long as he has her, he'll never be completely alone. He needs some time to heal though, I think. Davros ripped him to shreds in this, all the carefully constructed lies that we all have, to help us accept who we are. The Doctor isn't any different from us in that regard. He's had to do terrible things before, and he'll have to do terrible things again, but in the meantime, he has shell he wraps himself in, this ideal that he strives for, of non-violence, of finding a better way to do things. And it's not always possible to achieve that, and he does what he has to do, but still, it was painful to have that shell ripped away from him, and the hypocrasy that we all have laid out in front of him. It paralyzed him, really. And that will probably hurt more than the truths that he really, deep down, already knew. It would be nice to think that he'll get that, but having seen the little bit of a trailer for the Christmas episode, I don't suppose they'll allow him to get any time. He'll just have to jump into another crazy situation and try to keep his head above water as best he can.
Anyway, it's really ridiculous, the way I feel this need to look into the heart and soul of people who only exist on paper, in the ethereal airwaves. But I do anyway. So there.
