Doctor Who: The Demise of Ten

So. Doctor Who. I’ve only watched the new series, but my favorite Doctor is clearly Nine/Eccleston. I’ve never been totally nuts about David Tennant’s portrayal–I just didn’t find him as fantastic (shoot me) as Christopher Eccleston. Towards the end though, I will say I’ve warmed up to David Tennant.

So here are my thoughts on Doctor Who’s “The End of Time: Parts 1 & 2″

First of all, the whole thing with The Master felt a bit forced. I remember seeing the ring at the end of season 3, but the whole resurrection/x-ray vision thing was a bit… weird. I absolutely LOVED seeing John Simm’s head on top of virtually everyone on the planet, though.

Further thoughts for Part 1:
-”Oh, okay, so The Master will somehow kill him but also destroy himself. No big deal.”
*THE RETURN OF THE TIME LORDS!*
-”WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK IS THAT?! WHAAAAAAAT?!”

Now to Part 2:
Early on in the episode I realized it would be Wilfred who kills The Doctor. I somehow got that feeling, and I was right.

I felt the whole thing with the Time Lords was a bit disjointed–while it made sense, it just seemed really, really anticlimactic.

The Doctor also turned into a bit of a whiny bitch when he was deciding whether or not to save Wilfred. All I heard was BAAAAAAAAAW. I also found that the way he died was also anticlimactic. Very kind and very much like The Doctor, but dying from radiation is so much less bad ass than dying from absorbing the time vortex.

Finally, after some mushy stuff that I did appreciate a bit, the moment arrived.

… and I was ridiculously underwhelmed.

Let’s look at the Ninth Doctor’s regeneration, shall we?

… Now compare that to the Tenth Doctor’s regeneration:

Ladies and gentlemen, this is extremely anticlimactic. I absolutely LOVED Eccleston’s last words. It was so quirky and like his Doctor, and he went out with a bang. Tennant’s didn’t even seem like something his Doctor would have said (wasn’t he always telling people/things that everything dies eventually?), and he went out with a whimper. I’d liken my feelings when watching it to a large air filled balloon that had a person using their hands to keep the air in, and when he said “I don’t want to go,” the fingers holding the air in slipped and the balloon fizzled down to a smaller size with the occasional farting noise.

I was really underwhelmed and really unimpressed by that. Overall, I thought it really added to my general distaste for this Doctor. Don’t get me wrong–I really loved some episodes, but I still didn’t dig him when it comes down to it.

I’ll go crawl back into my cave and mouthbreathe now.