Ouf. Oh boy. I'm not even sure where to start with this one. It was nice to finally get more backstory and understand what actually went down in the Time War and why the Doctor had to kill his own people. Yay exposition.
Also I just love Wilf. He's a really swell character. I liked when he said he would be proud to be the Doctor's father, and then later the Doctor said he would be proud to have him as a father. That was heart warming. But then the four knocks... oh, Wilf. Oh, Doctor. That whole scene was just awful. It didn't seem right for the Doctor to blame Wilf the way he did... I mean, he got over it, but it was really upsetting there for a minute. Especially when he said Wilf is "not remotely important." When has the Doctor ever said someone wasn't important? Didn't he have a line once where he said he'd never met someone who wasn't important? But then everything's okay. He goes back to it being his honour. And poor ol' Wilf telling the Doctor to leave him... Agh.
The ending really felt like a whole lot of cheese. He managed to not regenerate for the exact amount of time it would take to say goodbye to everyone? Geez. Also I feel like it's kind of ridiculous how they tried to give us closure by pairing everyone off nicely. Oh look, Martha has Mickey and Jack can have Alonso and Donna's married to what's-his-face and now it's okay that you'll never see them again because you know they'll all be happy. Way too much cheese... until the Doctor was leaving Donna's wedding, and I swear to you, I was really honestly actually thinking "he must be so sad he can't say goodbye to Rose"... oh Russell T. Davies, you big jerk. The second I realized what that scene was, I was in tears. And then Ood Sigma... and then the Ood song... and then "I don't want to go." So many tears.
Despite the cheese, I actually do feel like I have closure on almost all of those characters. I mean, Martha and Mickey are fine. Not a couple I would have predicted, but I was never especially fond of either of them, and from the brief clip we saw they seem to be happy. I'm okay with them. Jack... is Jack. He lives approximately forever and then may or may not become a giant face. Not to mention Torchwood is still a thing that happens, so you don't have to have closure on him, you just have to have closure on him not being pals with the Doctor any more. Sarah Jane is fine. She was only in like four episodes to begin with and she also has her own show. I'm even okay with Rose now. I didn't like her ending, but I'm okay with it. She'll be happy enough, and she'll learn to cope with looking out at the stars wishing for the real Doctor and being back in the TARDIS... (Besides, I have a feeling she'll be the Sarah Jane Smith of 30-odd years from now, when the show has been re-cancelled and re-revived and she ends up back in the appropriate universe and meets the sixteenth or so Doctor).
The one I can't handle is Donna. I can't accept that she lives happily ever after with some guy who her grandfather describes as 'sweet enough.' Sure, she might be happy, but if she had any idea what she had lost, if she knew who she really was, what she was capable of... how could she settle for that? Besides which, she's not even happy; Wilf also said that she looked so sad for no reason sometimes, as though she knew she was missing something. What kind of life is that? Also also, after her protection-majigger-thing happened when she started to remember, and the Doctor referred to her as his best friend... yeah, there were tears then, too. I'm just really unhappy about the whole Donna thing. I will never forgive this.
Okay. Matt Smith, it is time to impress me.
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