tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15742539.post519407103834240944..comments2024-03-12T01:33:30.737-07:00Comments on Fraggmented: Liveblogging: Journey's EndJohn Seaveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07530526320973807452noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15742539.post-65040022849694592122008-07-09T16:28:00.000-07:002008-07-09T16:28:00.000-07:00Hi. Hope you can help, I have 16 questions about t...Hi. Hope you can help, I have 16 questions about this season ender and<BR/>hope you can help answer them here:<BR/> http://youwillbeforever.blogspot.com/2008/07/doctor-who-journeys-end-finale-loose.html<BR/><BR/>Thanks!<BR/>Jomarultradust@gmail.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15746937749420309729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15742539.post-51123557007674565832008-07-09T03:27:00.000-07:002008-07-09T03:27:00.000-07:00I liked the episode as a classic cheese-filled Doc...I liked the episode as a classic cheese-filled Doctor Who story... but it is a bit disappointing as a Davies'-era story. I think what I didn't like was the need to do something world-shattering just to wrap up each plot point and return the Doctor to a starting point (that is... no companions, and no guest-stars constantly showing up). <BR/>How to get rid of Donna? Make her brain burn up by being part Time Lord for a bit, then never being able to remind her of the Doctor. Why not make it simple... she finally does decide to go home.<BR/>How to give Rose a Doctor and not tempt a writer to bring her back? Create a crisis that can only be solved by a psychotic half-Doctor who MUST be locked away from Doctor-prime's universe. So on and so forth. <BR/>One thing I DID like was Sarah-Jane turning the tables on the Doctor, even if she didn't realize she did it. She left him this time, because she had important things to do that didn't include the DOctor or the TARDIS. <BR/>Another good moment: the Doctor possibly realizes now that his meddling in Earth's affairs has loosed the worst set of monsters the universe has ever seen on... humanity. Does humanity remind the Doctor of his own people... so much potential... so brilliant, but so destructive. <BR/>Ah, well... the Steven Moffett era will be exciting, assuming that his writing won't suffer the way that Davies' has.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15742539.post-47750460911063071752008-07-08T13:50:00.000-07:002008-07-08T13:50:00.000-07:00Thanks, sweetie. We'll geek later. :) :)Thanks, sweetie. We'll geek later. :) :)Devi Shaktihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13910115073550181140noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15742539.post-37252375985475665232008-07-08T06:55:00.000-07:002008-07-08T06:55:00.000-07:00OK, I have to say I loved the bit with the Daleks ...OK, I have to say I <I>loved</I> the bit with the Daleks and Harriet Jones: <B>Yes! We! Know! Who! You! Are!</B> But I always liked HJ, and I was sorry she got the six-words treatment just because she was write and the Doctor was wrong.<BR/><BR/>That said: my #1 feeling about the entire two-parter, but especially the second two thirds or so of <I>Journey's End</I>, was: <I>how is the fan fic going to outdo this, he?</I>. I mean, count the beats: Daleks repenting of their evil (well, one of them); Donna having a real live destiny that, I have to say, worked well; the TARDIS being flown <I>properly</I> with a full complement of crew; the entire freaking <I>universe</I> under threat; Jack using his "get out of death free" card; Rose and the Doctor getting together and living happily ever after; and K9! Did they miss anything at all? I think not!<BR/><BR/>Yeah, I'm glad to see RTD go -- he's the man who gave us <I>Love & Monsters</I>, after all, which is surely grounds for immediate incarceration and punitive loss of limbs -- but he certainly kept a narrative going. He wasn't pulling stuff out of his arse at the last moment; this really was all set up. If you ignore the occasional farting aliens and sexually active paving slabs and the whole Gandalf/Gollum/Tinkerbell transformation in the S3 finale, he's been pretty damn good.<BR/><BR/>And Moffat? The man who gave us Captain Jack, Sally Sparrow and River Song? Oh. My. Gods. It's gonna be <I>superb</I>.Eric TF Bathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17877525364475334374noreply@blogger.com