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I really don't think I have any more joy for this show. It's funny - I actually had more love for the SJA episode with Ten than I'm feeling right now. Once upon a time there was this quirky fun time travel show I fell in love with. And then they bait-and-switched me!
Thing is, I completely understand why the Doctor is where he is. (Except for that whole thing about being scared of death. I don't quite get that.) But the Doctor's "I AM GOD" attitude? I see why he's there at this point. RTD's done a fantastic job of leading him down this path full of ups and downs. It's not out of nowhere.
But still. Even though there were hints of this throughout - even since the beginning of 2005 - it's still not really the show I started watching. Or why I started watching and kept watching. I'm kind of glad the end is coming since I'm ready for it to be over.
For the longest time I felt slightly guilty about enjoying stuff in the altverse (fic, socks) to the point of not really caring what happened on the real show. But man, after this episode I'm not feeling guilty anymore. I'm happy Rose and TenII are off in another universe and don't have to deal with all this shit. May the walls of the universes never come down again.
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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.
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