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How amazing was the Doctor Who finale!
I loved every minute of Missy's screen time, Michelle Gomez was just fabulous. And how freaky was the moment when she was about to kill Osgood! I had to remind myself that this was a family show and we were unlikely to get a Hannibal Lector moment, just because Michelle Gomez was so unsettling that I was half expecting something really nasty to happen when she kept luring her closer *g*
I loved the final revelation that she just wanted her childhood friend back, that she wanted to help the Doctor realise that they aren't so different by giving him his own army to command, and she wanted them to find Gallifrey together. "I had a friend once. We ran together when I was little. And I thought we were the same. But when we grew up we weren’t. And now she’s trying to tear the world apart and I can’t run fast enough to hold it together" I need to find all the fan fic for them <3 I only hope that they bring her back for next series!
I've seen some controversy over whether it was right to have the Brigadier as a Cyberman but, as someone who has never really followed Classic Who, I thought that the way they handled it was very touching and meant as a heartfelt tribute to the character
And I've spend a lot of series 8 being pretty cynical about the Clara/Danny relationship, but it worked for me really well here when you get that moment of tragedy of Clara talking about the Doctor and how he is the closest person to her in the world and she would never lie to him, only to realise that Danny is the Cyberman. I thought that ending actually worked with how messy and dysfunctional their relationship has always seemed to me, to then end it on Danny heartbroken and asking Clara to remove his emotions.
Danny still annoyed me to the end though tbh with all of that "Sir" business and accusing the Doctor of being a "typical officer" in trying to keep his hands clean, even though it was Clara who took the inhibitor off the Doctor in that moment because she wanted to do it herself. That still annoys me about him that he has to make everything the Doctor's fault, he even accused him of trying to have a "tactical advantage" when the Doctor was weighing up the hard choice of sacrificing Danny's emotions (which Danny had been asking Clara to do anyway), what else would you have him do to save billions of innocent life's? The Doctor WAS giving a heartfelt speech about why Danny's emotions were worth keeping, and he WAS torn up when he realise the impossible choice that he was facing, but it felt like all Danny took from that speech was the opportunity to get in a cheap shot as soon as he possibly could. I feel like the writers always think that they are portraying Danny with really good points and ooh look at him call the Doctor out, but it just always comes across to me more as him being very biased and having a real chip on his shoulder because of issues from his own past. I did like his final moments of choosing to bring back the young boy instead though (although granted kind of a stretch as to how exactly Clara was supposed to find his family and explain where he's been all this time!)
And the last scenes KILLED me, I was literally sobbing out loud during the final Doctor and Clara hug and, "Never trust a hug, it’s just a way to hide your face". And seeing them walk away from one another convinced that the other got their happy ending and not wanting to ruin it for them :sobs and sobs: The Doctor's face when he realises that Gallifrey is still lost and he starts smashing up his Tardis :(
I loved every minute of Missy's screen time, Michelle Gomez was just fabulous. And how freaky was the moment when she was about to kill Osgood! I had to remind myself that this was a family show and we were unlikely to get a Hannibal Lector moment, just because Michelle Gomez was so unsettling that I was half expecting something really nasty to happen when she kept luring her closer *g*
I loved the final revelation that she just wanted her childhood friend back, that she wanted to help the Doctor realise that they aren't so different by giving him his own army to command, and she wanted them to find Gallifrey together. "I had a friend once. We ran together when I was little. And I thought we were the same. But when we grew up we weren’t. And now she’s trying to tear the world apart and I can’t run fast enough to hold it together" I need to find all the fan fic for them <3 I only hope that they bring her back for next series!
I've seen some controversy over whether it was right to have the Brigadier as a Cyberman but, as someone who has never really followed Classic Who, I thought that the way they handled it was very touching and meant as a heartfelt tribute to the character
And I've spend a lot of series 8 being pretty cynical about the Clara/Danny relationship, but it worked for me really well here when you get that moment of tragedy of Clara talking about the Doctor and how he is the closest person to her in the world and she would never lie to him, only to realise that Danny is the Cyberman. I thought that ending actually worked with how messy and dysfunctional their relationship has always seemed to me, to then end it on Danny heartbroken and asking Clara to remove his emotions.
Danny still annoyed me to the end though tbh with all of that "Sir" business and accusing the Doctor of being a "typical officer" in trying to keep his hands clean, even though it was Clara who took the inhibitor off the Doctor in that moment because she wanted to do it herself. That still annoys me about him that he has to make everything the Doctor's fault, he even accused him of trying to have a "tactical advantage" when the Doctor was weighing up the hard choice of sacrificing Danny's emotions (which Danny had been asking Clara to do anyway), what else would you have him do to save billions of innocent life's? The Doctor WAS giving a heartfelt speech about why Danny's emotions were worth keeping, and he WAS torn up when he realise the impossible choice that he was facing, but it felt like all Danny took from that speech was the opportunity to get in a cheap shot as soon as he possibly could. I feel like the writers always think that they are portraying Danny with really good points and ooh look at him call the Doctor out, but it just always comes across to me more as him being very biased and having a real chip on his shoulder because of issues from his own past. I did like his final moments of choosing to bring back the young boy instead though (although granted kind of a stretch as to how exactly Clara was supposed to find his family and explain where he's been all this time!)
And the last scenes KILLED me, I was literally sobbing out loud during the final Doctor and Clara hug and, "Never trust a hug, it’s just a way to hide your face". And seeing them walk away from one another convinced that the other got their happy ending and not wanting to ruin it for them :sobs and sobs: The Doctor's face when he realises that Gallifrey is still lost and he starts smashing up his Tardis :(
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Date: 2014-11-09 08:42 pm (UTC)And I interpreted it as Clara wanting to tell him about Danny not being the one to come back, but the Doctor already seemed convinced that she was about to break it to him gently that Danny was back and she couldn't travel with him any more, so he was trying to gracefully step out of the picture and leave them to their future happiness by pretending that he had found his home. And then of course, once Clara heard that, she didn't want to put a dampner on his good mood, so she pretended to have found her happy ending as well. It was all so tragic