Well, that was it. David Tennant leaves us for good. 
What a ride.
That has to be the most emotionally charged farewell to any doctor that i have seen. Kudos to David for his acting.
As is the norm for an RTD ep, it had shit in there that, well, quite frankly, didnt need to be in there. But over all, it was a fantastic final adventure for Tennant.
Especially the scene on the ship in orbit next to the window looking down on earth, i thought i was gonna cry when Cribbins delivered those lines that he didnt want him to die. and tried to hand him his gun that he (suposedly) never fired, until The Doctor finally grabbed the gun and ran.
As i said, it had bits in there that didnt need to be there, they just clogged up the works where they couldve put a decent few minutes of scenes. Instead we had a few minutes of The Doctor being wheeled 'Carry-on' style through a few corridors and down steps.
The last 20 minutes were astounding. Brilliantly written and acted. And the final scenes with Wilf and The Doctor were equally amazing. Especially where the Doctor gets up from the floor all cut up with glass and is amazed that he is alive, that The Master didnt take his tenth life, only to hear four knocks, and turns out to be Wilf behind the radiation shield. The way The Doctor turns round to Wilf with a look of 'Oh for fucks sake, its you that will take my life not the master' its a look of 'I dont believe it' which creates a huge wibbly wobbly timey wimey paradox where we were lead to believe it would be the master that would get the Doctor when in actual fact, it turns out to be Wilf that knocks four times and did ultimatly take the Doctors tenth life.
And after he had absorbed the radiation was great moment. Yeah, i got the Wrath of Khan reference of sacrifice aswel, didnt bother me really. But the whole monologue with Wilf just listening to The Doctor rant about humans was great, about getting stuck in stupid situations and having to save them, and then turning to him and saying that it would be an honour to sacrifice one of his many lives for the one life that Wilf will ever have put a lump in my throat.
And yeah, there are some aspects that are left open such as who the woman is in Rassilons gang of Timelords, why Donna rembered stuff and then didnt burn up and die a horrible unltiamte brain hemmorage and was fine, why Wilf didnt change into the Master (its pretty obvious why Donaa didnt, as she is still part Timelord of sorts, so it kinda skipped).
I also think The Doctor looked up to Wilf in admiration, serving in the war, possibly more wars/conflicts, having such an out going and honest character with gung-ho attitude actually made The Doctor respect him in a way that one would a father figure. He looks at Wilf in a way that suggests The Doctor has done nothing in his many years of life as Wilf has done in a meer blip of existence for a human, The Doctor i think for the first time feels inferior next to the true grit of the human spirit, and that was fantastic.
And then we have The Doctor visiting previous companions. Donna and her family, especially Wilf, to say goodbuy for the last time, Wilf tearing up as he knows that someone he respects is not going to see him again. Then the whole Mickey and Martha thing that was totally out of place, IMHO. Captain Jack and the bar scene was clever as it implies that Jack will find a way back to Earth via Allonso and the Titanic, and geet a good rogering too.
And the way he saved Luke from getting run over. And, like RTD said in the cinfidential, he looks at Sarah Jane and she remembers that look and knows that she wont see The Doctor in that body again, and wells up.
Then the beautiful scene with Rose before she meets Nine was glorious. The degredation of Tens life almost at its end, just to see Rose once more, before she meets him. It was a subtle and simple way of doing that scene, then we have the sad a poignant re-generation scene where the words "I dont wanna go" will haunt me now for days to come as one of Tennants best scenes.
Its done in a way where hes doing things he shouldnt, crossing his own timeline, saving people from death which he shouldnt do as it creates paradoxes/alternate events, alters future history ect. (Martha/Mickey, Luke). Hes doing these things becasue he can, and he only has a short time before this life regenerates, so hes breaking the rules a little before he goes.
And the Re-Gen scene was completley the opposite of what i was expecting. Ten being all alone and essentailly dies alone and sad.
You got to feel sorry for Eleven though, hes regnerated right into the middle of a Tardis that is being destroyed from the inside out. Hes thrown into life and hasnt a clue whats going on, obviously his memories of regenerating are there, but the essence of Elevens character has no clue for that split second of life and then BAMM, im crashing. I was expecting something a little quieter. Something like after regnerating he walks around the console, looks around, and sighs with a passing mention of something completley random, i wasnt expecting it to be so energetic and fast.
When RTD writes drama and emotion, he does it really well. And i loved these final two specials. Cribbins and Tennant were fabulous. They should both get BAFTA nominations for their performances. Truly astounding.
What a ride.
That has to be the most emotionally charged farewell to any doctor that i have seen. Kudos to David for his acting.
As is the norm for an RTD ep, it had shit in there that, well, quite frankly, didnt need to be in there. But over all, it was a fantastic final adventure for Tennant.
Especially the scene on the ship in orbit next to the window looking down on earth, i thought i was gonna cry when Cribbins delivered those lines that he didnt want him to die. and tried to hand him his gun that he (suposedly) never fired, until The Doctor finally grabbed the gun and ran.
As i said, it had bits in there that didnt need to be there, they just clogged up the works where they couldve put a decent few minutes of scenes. Instead we had a few minutes of The Doctor being wheeled 'Carry-on' style through a few corridors and down steps.
The last 20 minutes were astounding. Brilliantly written and acted. And the final scenes with Wilf and The Doctor were equally amazing. Especially where the Doctor gets up from the floor all cut up with glass and is amazed that he is alive, that The Master didnt take his tenth life, only to hear four knocks, and turns out to be Wilf behind the radiation shield. The way The Doctor turns round to Wilf with a look of 'Oh for fucks sake, its you that will take my life not the master' its a look of 'I dont believe it' which creates a huge wibbly wobbly timey wimey paradox where we were lead to believe it would be the master that would get the Doctor when in actual fact, it turns out to be Wilf that knocks four times and did ultimatly take the Doctors tenth life.
And after he had absorbed the radiation was great moment. Yeah, i got the Wrath of Khan reference of sacrifice aswel, didnt bother me really. But the whole monologue with Wilf just listening to The Doctor rant about humans was great, about getting stuck in stupid situations and having to save them, and then turning to him and saying that it would be an honour to sacrifice one of his many lives for the one life that Wilf will ever have put a lump in my throat.
And yeah, there are some aspects that are left open such as who the woman is in Rassilons gang of Timelords, why Donna rembered stuff and then didnt burn up and die a horrible unltiamte brain hemmorage and was fine, why Wilf didnt change into the Master (its pretty obvious why Donaa didnt, as she is still part Timelord of sorts, so it kinda skipped).
I also think The Doctor looked up to Wilf in admiration, serving in the war, possibly more wars/conflicts, having such an out going and honest character with gung-ho attitude actually made The Doctor respect him in a way that one would a father figure. He looks at Wilf in a way that suggests The Doctor has done nothing in his many years of life as Wilf has done in a meer blip of existence for a human, The Doctor i think for the first time feels inferior next to the true grit of the human spirit, and that was fantastic.
And then we have The Doctor visiting previous companions. Donna and her family, especially Wilf, to say goodbuy for the last time, Wilf tearing up as he knows that someone he respects is not going to see him again. Then the whole Mickey and Martha thing that was totally out of place, IMHO. Captain Jack and the bar scene was clever as it implies that Jack will find a way back to Earth via Allonso and the Titanic, and geet a good rogering too.
And the way he saved Luke from getting run over. And, like RTD said in the cinfidential, he looks at Sarah Jane and she remembers that look and knows that she wont see The Doctor in that body again, and wells up.
Then the beautiful scene with Rose before she meets Nine was glorious. The degredation of Tens life almost at its end, just to see Rose once more, before she meets him. It was a subtle and simple way of doing that scene, then we have the sad a poignant re-generation scene where the words "I dont wanna go" will haunt me now for days to come as one of Tennants best scenes.
Its done in a way where hes doing things he shouldnt, crossing his own timeline, saving people from death which he shouldnt do as it creates paradoxes/alternate events, alters future history ect. (Martha/Mickey, Luke). Hes doing these things becasue he can, and he only has a short time before this life regenerates, so hes breaking the rules a little before he goes.
And the Re-Gen scene was completley the opposite of what i was expecting. Ten being all alone and essentailly dies alone and sad.
You got to feel sorry for Eleven though, hes regnerated right into the middle of a Tardis that is being destroyed from the inside out. Hes thrown into life and hasnt a clue whats going on, obviously his memories of regenerating are there, but the essence of Elevens character has no clue for that split second of life and then BAMM, im crashing. I was expecting something a little quieter. Something like after regnerating he walks around the console, looks around, and sighs with a passing mention of something completley random, i wasnt expecting it to be so energetic and fast.
When RTD writes drama and emotion, he does it really well. And i loved these final two specials. Cribbins and Tennant were fabulous. They should both get BAFTA nominations for their performances. Truly astounding.
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