I wonder, too, what the kids thought. It's like Superman turning into a dark character 9 times out of 10. Maybe the adults love that but the children... I doubt it.
Personally, I was glad that there was a limit to the Doctor's regenerations. I have watched enough Highlander episodes to know that immortality or very long lives are a curse. I didn't like that Jack was turned into an immortal because it's killing Jack's soul, in my opinion. And Highlander explored immortality enough, in depth, to be convinced of that.
So Jack immortal? That's an horrible fate for him. And for the Doctor, I was glad that he only had a few regenerations left because it meant that he would finally found peace, after almost 1 000 years. Now I fear that greed from the producers and the BBC will turn the doctor into a new kind of immortal, or that he will have another set of 13 lives offered to him somehow and therefore will mean that he'll have another 1 000 years to see people he loves dying.
I really don't wish that fate on characters I love.
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Personally, I was glad that there was a limit to the Doctor's regenerations. I have watched enough Highlander episodes to know that immortality or very long lives are a curse. I didn't like that Jack was turned into an immortal because it's killing Jack's soul, in my opinion. And Highlander explored immortality enough, in depth, to be convinced of that.
So Jack immortal? That's an horrible fate for him. And for the Doctor, I was glad that he only had a few regenerations left because it meant that he would finally found peace, after almost 1 000 years. Now I fear that greed from the producers and the BBC will turn the doctor into a new kind of immortal, or that he will have another set of 13 lives offered to him somehow and therefore will mean that he'll have another 1 000 years to see people he loves dying.
I really don't wish that fate on characters I love.