What annoyed me about the ending, even more than its interminability, was the impression that half the Whoniverse is too incompetent to survive without the Doctor's help! The boy genius can't cross the road, Martha & Mickey can't survive as freelancers, Jack can't pick up another human in an alien bar for gods' sakes! There are even elements of Donna & her new hubby being unable to make a decent life for themselves (re: Wilf's comments in part one) without the Doctor's help. Some of these do also have more favourable interpretations - the Doctor giving Jack permission to 'move on' from his guilt and not repeat Ten's mistake of isolating himself, RTD's concerns about the audience influence of SJA characters never looking both ways before crossing the road - but still left a bit of a bad taste in my mouth.
Was also extremely irritated by the circumstances surrounding the Cabinet of Death - magic glass which blocked radiation & the 'Master wave' but not light or sound, using (if I followed the dialogue correctly) a nuke as a power source (nuclear bombs don't work like that!), magic radiation of a kind you can pour down pipes and gets soaked up by the Doctor's tissues such that he can safely hug Wilf afterwards without even needing to change his clothes, he can flick a switch to let Wilf out but somehow doing this with his sonic screwdriver rather than his finger will bring down DOOM... it would've been much easier to swallow if they'd used some technobable names instead of calling it 'radiation' and 'a nuke'.
Still don't know how the Doctor survived falling dozens of feet through glass onto marble and was able to walk afterwards - maybe what actually started killing him was the internal injuries from that, and it was the beginnings of a slow regeneration which enabled him to get up afterwards and 'soak up' the radiation?
I really like the theory that the mysterious female Time Lord was actually Susan, which also gives some nice parallels with Jack's actions in TW:CoE. I wonder how much of the speculation that it was Ten's mum is based on relative apparent ages, which we all know means nothing when dealing with Time Lords!
The bits about the Cult of Saxon and the Conspiracy of Lucy were a bit throwaway, would've been good to see more of them. The manner of the Master's resurrection seemed a bit too much like magic rather than science compared to the rest of the show, though.
Other than that: really liked Wilf & the Silver Cloak, squeed massively over the immense slashiness, was very disapointed Donna didn't get to do more than panic and pass out and wed, was awed by the fantastic portrayal of the Time Lords gone psycho, was less annoyed by the RTD Apocalypse Reset Button now we've come to expect it of him, was chuffed to see a cameo from Rusell Tovey whetting my anticiation for S2 of 'Being Human' :)
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Was also extremely irritated by the circumstances surrounding the Cabinet of Death - magic glass which blocked radiation & the 'Master wave' but not light or sound, using (if I followed the dialogue correctly) a nuke as a power source (nuclear bombs don't work like that!), magic radiation of a kind you can pour down pipes and gets soaked up by the Doctor's tissues such that he can safely hug Wilf afterwards without even needing to change his clothes, he can flick a switch to let Wilf out but somehow doing this with his sonic screwdriver rather than his finger will bring down DOOM... it would've been much easier to swallow if they'd used some technobable names instead of calling it 'radiation' and 'a nuke'.
Still don't know how the Doctor survived falling dozens of feet through glass onto marble and was able to walk afterwards - maybe what actually started killing him was the internal injuries from that, and it was the beginnings of a slow regeneration which enabled him to get up afterwards and 'soak up' the radiation?
I really like the theory that the mysterious female Time Lord was actually Susan, which also gives some nice parallels with Jack's actions in TW:CoE. I wonder how much of the speculation that it was Ten's mum is based on relative apparent ages, which we all know means nothing when dealing with Time Lords!
The bits about the Cult of Saxon and the Conspiracy of Lucy were a bit throwaway, would've been good to see more of them. The manner of the Master's resurrection seemed a bit too much like magic rather than science compared to the rest of the show, though.
Other than that: really liked Wilf & the Silver Cloak, squeed massively over the immense slashiness, was very disapointed Donna didn't get to do more than panic and pass out and wed, was awed by the fantastic portrayal of the Time Lords gone psycho, was less annoyed by the RTD Apocalypse Reset Button now we've come to expect it of him, was chuffed to see a cameo from Rusell Tovey whetting my anticiation for S2 of 'Being Human' :)