Even Incoherent Squealing Has Failed Me
Nov. 15th, 2013 12:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
andrasteSo, the 50th Anniversary Mini-Episode, The Night of the Doctor has gone up a day early:
Oh, God, the one thing I had never dared to hope we would see, and I just saw it. With no bracing time whatsoever, although as soon as I saw lovely Eight I knew this had to be the regeneration. It's just awful and perfect that he dies in that particular way and chooses what he does.
And I thought it could not get any better or more appropriate or more painful and then he said 'Charley, C'Rizz, Lucie, Tamsin, Molly' and that's when I started crying.
I guess it is too much to hope that the 'Moffat doesn't care about the Classic Series!' people on Gallifrey Base will watch this and eat their words, isn't it? (I mean, if Time Crash didn't clue them in, I'm not sure anything can help.)
I ... just ... It now does not matter to me if The Day of the Doctor is any good or not. I mean, it will be nice if it is, but that was really all I needed.
Oh, God, the one thing I had never dared to hope we would see, and I just saw it. With no bracing time whatsoever, although as soon as I saw lovely Eight I knew this had to be the regeneration. It's just awful and perfect that he dies in that particular way and chooses what he does.
And I thought it could not get any better or more appropriate or more painful and then he said 'Charley, C'Rizz, Lucie, Tamsin, Molly' and that's when I started crying.
I guess it is too much to hope that the 'Moffat doesn't care about the Classic Series!' people on Gallifrey Base will watch this and eat their words, isn't it? (I mean, if Time Crash didn't clue them in, I'm not sure anything can help.)
I ... just ... It now does not matter to me if The Day of the Doctor is any good or not. I mean, it will be nice if it is, but that was really all I needed.
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Date: 2013-11-15 12:29 pm (UTC)'but probably not the one you expected' ....break the fourth wall more adorably, why don't you~~
That was just lovely. I squeaked as soon as he said "I'm a Doctor!" Yes, Paul McGann. Yes, you are.
I kinda like the idea that Eight just couldn't bring himself to be part of the war, that there are states of mind/personality that are alien to each individual doctor, making them more unique.
Yeah. I think individual Doctors have always done things that others wouldn't be capable of, but it seems that the War Doctor is going to take that to extremes.
(On the other hand, does 'War Doctor' count as a whole regeneration? If it retcons the whole numbering system from Nine on, that's going to get *really confusing*)
I don't think fandom is going to renumber - it's just too ingrained at this point. I think Moffat has given us a good out by having the War Doctor reject his name, so he's the ninth incarnation but Eccleston is still the ninth Doctor.
What's REALLY interesting is that means that Eleven to Twelve is actually going to be the Doctor's twelfth regeneration. I guess now might be a good time for the show to say something about that 'thirteen lives' thing ...