Doomsday

[poliphilo]

A lot of Whovians hated Rose and her family. John Pertwee, they protest,  never got all huggy and kissy with his companions and their hangers-on. I take the line that the new show is a reinvention not a reproduction and personally I rather like having my emotions played like a zither.

I guessed the denouement. I knew there had to be some reason for introducing that parallel universe and by the end (or rather, just before the end) I'd worked out what it was.  I've liked the story arc in this season.
 
And even though I knew how it was going to pan out, I liked the way it was done.  It could have been slushy and unconvincing and groan-making and it wasn't. Russell T Davies is a damn good writer.

I'll miss Billie Piper. She's marvellous. 

Comments

[huskyteer.livejournal.com]

> slushy and unconvincing and groan-making

Mm, I did think it was, I fear. The whole dream and race across the continent business dragged on and was hard to believe; I don't think there was any hard sci-fi explanation for the Doctor entering her dreams.

Rose acted like a complete brat at the end - No! Don't save my life! How dare you? - and seemed entirely ungrateful for having a daddy again.

Christmas Special, though! Yay!

[lblanchard.livejournal.com]

Who is this Rose of whom you speak?

I hated Rose and her family, too, but that was the Rose in "Keeping Up Appearances," and I especially hated her sister Hyacinth.

Which reminds me -- the TV show meme that's running through LJ is certainly short on Britcoms, isn't it?

[manfalling.livejournal.com]

just watched the season final. and yeah. pretty darn good, i'd say. i think the writers take a few wrong turns now and then, and often the writing, and the directing, can be pretty bad. but occasioanlly they really really nail it.

stand outs would be the girl in the fireplace, love and monsters, fear her, and the finale doomsday.

they were all about poignancy, and loneliness, and dealing with being alone. and that made them feel real. i don't much remember ever noticing the loneliness of the Dr. when i was watching it as a kid. was it there? i don't know. but it's there in spades now- and yeah- it really brings depth.

he's the last of the last of the last, and he will be forever. poor bastard.

but he manages to keep his chin up. some chick in a wedding dress turns up, and all memory of rose tyler's gone out the window. don't imagine he ever really stops going. if he ever did- he'd probably never get started again.

good stuff, though. a good showing for british tv, and seems to be an export well-enjoyed in the states.