DW 28x13: Doomsday (short; part one of perhaps two)

[icepixie]

Um.

...What was that, exactly?

I'm not sure whether I liked that or not. I'm leaning towards being horrified at Rose's fate. I love how I managed to predict it accurately with a combination of two of my suggested endings ("Rose buggers off to the AU with her family" and "Rose joins Torchwood") and yet managed to miss the way it would happen/the emotions it comes wrapped in COMPLETELY.

Great big WTF? to the ending. (And to the music. JAY-ZUS. What crack was Murray Gold on?)

More later, I think.

Comments

[nostalgia-lj.livejournal.com]

I can see, though, where she was to the point where she did not really believe anything bad would ever happen to her, because it hadn't yet, hence that smug attitude that was annoying me halfway through the series.

There is a sense in which Rose gets stranded in the alt!verse because she insulted Queen Victoria. Which is wicked harsh if we're supposed to go there.

I think I am weirded out by the degree to which she seems cut off from her own family and still has no sense of purpose. "She is incomplete" as it were.

[icepixie]

I think I am weirded out by the degree to which she seems cut off from her own family and still has no sense of purpose.

Yes. If we'd seen (instead of just been told in one line) her working for alt!Torchwood, or otherwise finding purpose in her life, rather than wailing away on a beach because she's lost the Doctor and giving every indication that that's basically what she's going to continue to do, it would've been a very different episode--and one I would've enjoyed a lot more.

[nostalgia-lj.livejournal.com]

It's like they hurt her to make the Doctor cry.

[icepixie]

And then they made the Doctor cry to make us sad. I wonder if "Audience cries here" was inserted somewhere in the script?

[nostalgia-lj.livejournal.com]

It's never been subtle. Woe.