kalleah | Last of the Time Lords

I'll cut everything except my excessive relief at finally having seen it. :)

Hmm.

I think I liked it, but I'm not entirely sure. Let me mull over my response in handy bulleted format.

WTF was with the creepy chibi!Doctor? I felt the overwhelming urge to smack Uncle Rusty on the snout with a rolled up newspaper and say "no" in a firm voice.
John Simm was wonderful although not as cool as the last episode ... but really, he so completely rocked in the last one that I can't fault him for that.
WTF with Lucy? I got that she went batty, but why shoot him? I mean, someone clearly needed to. The Master as the Doctor's pet in the TARDIS is too squicky for words. Now, there's a case to be made for Doctor/Master. I'm not entirely opposed to that, either, but it seems like keeping the Master caged up in the TARDIS is a lot like what the Master did to him.
I loved, loved, loved the Master's death scene. Tennant is a superb actor and I just ached for him being all alone, again.
Yes, the funeral pyre was a little Return of the Jedi. No Ewoks though. Look on the bright side.
The woman's hand picking up the ring was a little wrinkly. I don't think it's Lucy.
I do love how they undid the Toclafane's arrival and still had Martha et all remembering what happened. It would be a damn shame for the Joneses and Jack to go through that and then just forget. The population of the Earth? As usual, better off not knowing.
Jack as the Face of Boe? WTF? (I seem to be saying that a fair bit.) One assumes that as a time traveler that he'd have heard of the Face of Boe. Seems like a weird thing for him to toss out then, but I guess it does answer the "does Jack die" question. He dies in the year five billion as a big head in a jar with no penis. (One assumes.) I suspect for Jack, the whole lack of a penis thing is more awful than the whole unable to die thing.
The Doctor invited Jack along. Yay. And of course he messed with the vortex manipulator. He had to.
Rose moment. The Doctor didn't say "second best to whom?" either. He's just rude enough to say that, too, if he didn't already know.
The HMS Titanic busts through the wall of the TARDIS? I guess a really big-ass boat is stronger than the assembled hordes of Genghis Khan.

I want to watch the Confidential, but I can at least get through for a day or so until I do so.

I liked Donna too. I just don't get this whole arc. Why come out of TRB and write somebody with whom he can't really have a workable friendship, and make us watch it all year? Why keep at it with the "he doesn't really want to bond with her, she wants something he can't deliver, in the end neither of them is happy"? He unbent a bit after a while, but it just never felt all that solid, not when they kept pushing the crush. There were about five minutes in 42 where it felt like the Doctor and his companion were having adventures, and I miss that dynamic a lot. I don't know what they're going to do about a steady companion next year, but it almost feels as though they... tried and failed to write one this year? That makes me uneasy. They need to get attached to him, he needs to get attached to them. It doesn't have to be romantic to be meaningful. And you're right, they have managed to do a companion without the emotional angst, so why couldn't they do it again?

It doesn't have to be romantic to be meaningful.

Absolutely. It's a bit frustrating to have a male and a female together and have to have some UST. It's not always that way. Grumble.

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