tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22974616.post7198043278479760395..comments2023-10-02T14:33:18.136+01:00Comments on The Very Fluffy Diary of Millennium Dome, Elephant: Day 2750: DOCTOR WHO: The Complete 2008 Series: "The Darkness is Coming"Millennium Domehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08430269096817934037noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22974616.post-7568630161867868352009-01-12T17:59:00.000+00:002009-01-12T17:59:00.000+00:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22974616.post-48934768259609015612008-12-20T10:56:00.000+00:002008-12-20T10:56:00.000+00:00well i agree the darkness is really coming.doctor ...well i agree the darkness is really coming.<BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.bestfakedoctornotes.com" REL="nofollow">doctor excuse</A>Improvedlivinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15875384218907815887noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22974616.post-7186390441347002082008-11-26T10:38:00.000+00:002008-11-26T10:38:00.000+00:00Thank you for a lovely long fluffy post to take my...Thank you for a lovely long fluffy post to take my mind off work.<BR/><BR/>I'm looking forward to rewatching this series, and hopefully getting Jon to watch a couple - PiC, TUATW, SitL and Midnight would charm the pants off anybody, I think - I noticed myself, during the middle of the season, getting impatient for the big finale they kept foreshadowing. The second half of the season is strong enough to distract us from that a bit, but it's still a massive crescendo, which I think makes that last episode twice as disappointing. The whole thing makes sense reading The Writer's Tale - or at least in the story that book tells - with a whole lot of targets being written toward with the desperation of a swimmer who's exhausted but wants to beat his record number of laps. He makes an interesting criticism of himself where he talks about a bad or weak idea so buried in the rest of the story that you can't dig it up but it can't be masked. Giving Rose a half-human Doctor is a 2 in the morning idea that half Journey's End is built over. If it was a good idea, maybe it would justify a lot of the contortions the story goes through to make it happen.<BR/><BR/>>The season presents both solutions as a kind of win, when surely it has to be one or the other.<BR/><BR/>I think Donna's story is about quality of life. I like how wretchedly sad it is - I like the sad ending - but... well, I suppose in the end it's an indictment of her mother, and a challenge to her for the future. Very strange that the series' finale is a reversal of what Doctor Who has usually been - the sound, if potentially too difficult resolution of the adventure narrative and the easy, too convenient to be true mechanics of the emotional one.Nick Campbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01618461043660129105noreply@blogger.com