Doctor Who, end of season 1
Aug. 11th, 2006 04:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethI finished watching reboot season 1 of Doctor Who.
I *really* love those episodes.
Right up until shiny!Sue appears.
I'd managed to edit that bit out of memory. I'd quite forgotten how much it winds me up. This time I was just kind of *facepalm*, which meant I didn't have to look at the screen until it was shiny!Doctor instead.
The thing is, I still don't see in what sense that season leads up to that ending. I mean, if I see it as 'TARDIS gains an avatar' it doesn't give me quite so much pain. But even then... How is that the ending to the story they were telling us?
Everything that happens to the Doctor, that was his payoff. To the point where I find myself wondering how he could *not* be regenerated at the end of that season. He had such a journey, and then it was done, and then it feels just right that there's a new face on the next bit.
But Rose? Okay, so she decides not to go back to regular life. That was a bit insulting, how she did that, but whatever, she's a teenager, she be rude. But she decides to do hero stuff. Okay, good ending.
But... omnipotence?????????
You know, generally, characters have to work for their endings.
Omnipotence, extermination on a mass scale with *zero* moral fallout, convenient memory loss so there doesn't even have to be character development, and killing the Doctor but again not even having to angst about it *and* not actually losing him... There was no part of that as was earned.
In other news - How much do I love Captain Jack?
Enough that when The Bad Thing happens to him, I made unhappy meepy noises and told off the Daleks, even though I know precisely how long it will last.
Because *bad* Daleks, no do that thing!
I, er, maybe also need to get some sleep...
But they were mean to him.
And then his face when they left!
He was all "Never doubted him, never will" and what do they do? He's three seconds away and yet woosh, dematerialised!
And you can just see how much that hurt.
No fair!
There should be hugs and kisses and happily ever after!
There's the thing, really - Jack did everything right, did his duty, died to save mankind, and what does he get? Dumped.
Rose, on the other hand... gets to be shiny, omnipotent, and never called to account.
I found Rose much easier to tolerate having seen season 2 end. But I've never liked her, and I doubt I ever will. She didn't earn anything, she just went around acting superior and screwing things up.
Yeah, I know, harsh.
And Jack did kind of... He has his flaws, definitely. He started out really screwing up. But he got better. And he's just so... With that goodbye kiss, that was just perfect. I felt like I'd been waiting forever to see something like that, you know?
Jack gets his own show.
I'm just not going to get tired of saying that.
:-)
Okay, watch me be coherent.
Basically, I really love Doctor Who, and some of the best parts were in what I watched today. Happy :-)
I *really* love those episodes.
Right up until shiny!Sue appears.
I'd managed to edit that bit out of memory. I'd quite forgotten how much it winds me up. This time I was just kind of *facepalm*, which meant I didn't have to look at the screen until it was shiny!Doctor instead.
The thing is, I still don't see in what sense that season leads up to that ending. I mean, if I see it as 'TARDIS gains an avatar' it doesn't give me quite so much pain. But even then... How is that the ending to the story they were telling us?
Everything that happens to the Doctor, that was his payoff. To the point where I find myself wondering how he could *not* be regenerated at the end of that season. He had such a journey, and then it was done, and then it feels just right that there's a new face on the next bit.
But Rose? Okay, so she decides not to go back to regular life. That was a bit insulting, how she did that, but whatever, she's a teenager, she be rude. But she decides to do hero stuff. Okay, good ending.
But... omnipotence?????????
You know, generally, characters have to work for their endings.
Omnipotence, extermination on a mass scale with *zero* moral fallout, convenient memory loss so there doesn't even have to be character development, and killing the Doctor but again not even having to angst about it *and* not actually losing him... There was no part of that as was earned.
In other news - How much do I love Captain Jack?
Enough that when The Bad Thing happens to him, I made unhappy meepy noises and told off the Daleks, even though I know precisely how long it will last.
Because *bad* Daleks, no do that thing!
I, er, maybe also need to get some sleep...
But they were mean to him.
And then his face when they left!
He was all "Never doubted him, never will" and what do they do? He's three seconds away and yet woosh, dematerialised!
And you can just see how much that hurt.
No fair!
There should be hugs and kisses and happily ever after!
There's the thing, really - Jack did everything right, did his duty, died to save mankind, and what does he get? Dumped.
Rose, on the other hand... gets to be shiny, omnipotent, and never called to account.
I found Rose much easier to tolerate having seen season 2 end. But I've never liked her, and I doubt I ever will. She didn't earn anything, she just went around acting superior and screwing things up.
Yeah, I know, harsh.
And Jack did kind of... He has his flaws, definitely. He started out really screwing up. But he got better. And he's just so... With that goodbye kiss, that was just perfect. I felt like I'd been waiting forever to see something like that, you know?
Jack gets his own show.
I'm just not going to get tired of saying that.
:-)
Okay, watch me be coherent.
Basically, I really love Doctor Who, and some of the best parts were in what I watched today. Happy :-)