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I don't really know why I'm disappointed, I had no great expectations.
To put it in perspective - I *do* like the new who. I *do* like Tennant (Though more so in other things). I thought the beginning of this series was poor - but I think it had really improved.
That said - when I saw the cliffhanger last week I thought that here was a great opportunity to do something really wowsy - especially if they'd maintained the fantastic bluff and Tennant was really done... but I had no real hopes, my expectations were of a cheat and in that sense alone I wasn't disappointed...
Oh dear though.
I really liked Donna - so hate the way they used and abused her - and all this 'she's special stuff' - when what they really meant she was just gonna be the doctor for a bit? Why couldn't she have done something on her own merits for a change? (This is just the same trick as having Martha "Single handedly save the earth" last year - by walking around and talking about the Doctor...)
I also thought Tennant was nothing like her when he was supposed to be 'merged' with her.
And as for her fate? Asides from anything about the *shame* of just wiping her brain and sending her back shall we just talk about the utter unfeasability of it? We already established that Donna has low self esteem - so are we to believe that she will choose to ignore the entire world talking about the earth vanishing - and her xtended family talking about her alien infested non - wedding and all the other world newsworthy events - and think that no, actually the entire world is wrong and only I am right? - Let alone she wouldn't notice her grandfather suddenly stopping being obsessed with aliens? I give her a week before her brain implodes anyway.
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Then there's Martha - who wafts off in her leather to sacrifice herself and blow up the world - and dear God that little hint at the end from Jack better not mean she's on Torchwood next time - I can't stand her.
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And Rose and Doc#2 - wtf? She's end of the world in love with 1, but 2 says he loves her and will get old so that's okay? She made a huge fuss when Eccleston changed into Tennant (as you would) and yet now she's okay with a cheap (or should be say, angry, rage and hate filled and unstable) replica after a few hours? And Doc #1, despite professing to love her is happy to leave them together? And excuse me, when did her life become so disposable that she is to spend it rehabilitating a doctor clone rather than living the way she chooses? Mickey got to stay (Oh look 3 disposable females...)
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Even Bernard Cribbens - who I LOVE - ended up doing the same, eye moistened, wibbly chinned salute thing three episodes in a row. (I still would have forgiven the whole episode if they'd taken him as he next companion.)
PAH.
Good things?
Yes there were some -
Mickey! and Jackie! (I wish they'd brought Pete too!)
Gita from Eastenders acting badly.
I LOVED the daleks speaking German (although I couldn't understand anything the German woman said in that segment).
Mickey may be in Torchwood (but if it's a case of him AND Martha or neither of them, I'll take the latter.
Oh, and best laugh of all - watching RTD's hair getting more and more bouff every week on Confidential as he tries to cover his ever increasing hair loss!