bending_sickle | Have you any last words?*

"YES. I DON'T WANT TO GO." "Well. Succinct, anyway."*

Happy New Year!

I've just watched Doctor Who "The End of Time, Part 2".

Ow, my hearts. I'll try to write a decent reaction or review, but right now I'm just quietly wibbling in a corner with the image of Ten limping through the snow breaking my heart over and over again. Also, I've only done the one viewing, so between my heart and my faulty memory, the review may be a bit off and missing in bits.

- The scene between the Doctor and the Master at the beginning - a clip of which was released to the world prior to the episode's airing - was, to put it succinctly, Made of Win. It was wonderful to see them actually talk to each other, especially with neither being a ball of hyperactive energy (or madness). It's a shame we missed the scene where the Master(s) tie the Doctor up into the chair, but hey, that's what fanfic's for. I really liked the Master's disdain for the gun, barely touching it and tossing it aside in a very Doctor-like way.

- I giggled all the way through the "Worst Rescue Ever".

- "Cactuses." "It's cacti." :)

- The scene where Wilf does anything at all is trying to convince the Doctor to take the gun broke my heart. The Doctor's quiet and repeated "No" was so simple and definite, it was just... (Although, of course, it's misleading to thing that the Doctor refusing the gun means he's refusing murder, because he's done more than his fair share of that, manouvering people into situations where they die and the like.) And when Wilf figures out that killing the Master would fix the entire planet and he's telling the Doctor, "Don't you dare put him first," or something to that effect, for one second I thought the Doctor actually might, or be tempted to, especially remembering his reaction to the Master's death the first time around.

- "I'm an astronaut!" I ♥ Wilf x 1000000. And the whole, "Proud to be your dad," and "Proud if you were my dad" thing was beautiful. I love seeing the Doctor and Wilf together so much.

- "Allons-y!" Oh, break my heart why don't you, Doctor. ♥

- The Doctor twirling around with the gun was very The Unicorn and the Wasp and got a bit tiring on the third go. I adored the Doctor teaming up with the Master, although I feel he ought to have said something about it. The Master's switching allegiance and moaning about getting the credit was rather adorable and Mastery, although I absolutely hated that he kneeled, or moved to kneel, before Rassilon. What the hell, Master?!?

- So...the Master opened the ~~Hellmouth~~ Hellplanet and now we get a whole load of monsters? Except...they closed the door again, so no?

- There was no reset button, there was a reset glove. *sigh*

- I refuse to believe the Master is dead, or got sucked into the Time Lock. *firm nod* And what a cop out for the Super Healing Machine to have been unable to fix the Master. As for the whole "breaking the template" thing, that's a load of hogwash. What use would a healing machine be if it can heal an entire planet but the second the template kicks it, the planet's population reverts to pre-healing mode? It doesn't make any sense!

- The Doctor's rant before getting into the radiation chamber broke my already broken heart into tiny little slivers of hurt. I don't much care for his, "You're nobody," statement to Wilf, but I'll forgive him because I know he's always loved how nobodies change the world. Oh, Doctor, you do deserve so much more. (A nice long holiday with a drumless Master would be the way to start, I think.)

- We shall not speak of Donna, because once again she gets shafted. I mean, why give her so many little scenes and then just have her miss everything and just settle? Yes, I'm still upset over the mindwipe. (Oh, and a lottery ticket?!? I know they're short of cash, but, guh.)

- Martha and Mickey... I just, gah. There was a sweet doctor! Where is the doctor?!? Mind you, I think Martha and Mickey make a terrific team, but for the story to be all, "Oh hai, they iz married nao," seemed to just be an answer to the question of, "How can we shorten the 'Goodbye to Companions' scenes? Yes! Put them together!" Couldn't they just have kept the married thing out? And what kind of crap was that, "No place for a married woman"? I'll have you know Martha saved the world, she did. That statement wouldn't even fly if he's said pregnant.

- Yay, not!Joan! Oh, Mister Smith, you poor sod.

- Captain Jack. I have nothing to say except, "Omfg rotflol!" *sporfle*

- Rose. Oh for fuck's sake, of course we had Rose. I like Rose, I do, but that was my first reaction - maybe the anti-Rose faction of fandom's getting to me, or the blatant "RTD ♥ Rose" of it all - and the scene just went on a bit too long, especially compared to the tiny Doctor-nods that most other companions got.

- I can say nothing about the Doctor's Walk of Death through the snow other than, again, "Ow, my heart." (Although he took an astoundlingly long time to finally settle down and regenerate.)

- "I don't want to go." Ow, my heart.

- "Legs! I've got legs!" *kisses knee* I think this is the precise moment where I accepted Eleven with a squee, even though he was basically Ten just after regeneration. And no, not ginger. :)

* Azrael and Death, The Reaper Man, TPratchett