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As far as her first reason goes, I didn't really understand it at all. I mean, wanting to stay with humans and care for her family is all well and good, but the Doctor does have a time machine, and there wasn't even a real catastrophe to clean up after anyway
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Her parents work as slaves for an insane sadist for a year. They watch the islands of Japan burning and 'half the world' slaughtered. Yeah, they'll get over it.
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I'm also gravely disappointed that she won't be back, or at least not full time. I really liked Martha and I would have welcomed more full season with her. I was looking forward to keeping the cast between seasons for the first time in the entire new series, but it seems I will be denied that now.
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I want more Martha too, but once again it's not a fault with the episode in question.
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Finally, the ending -- what the freaking hell? For one thing, that was just a random-ass ending. Seriously. Like The Runaway Bride, except ten times worse. Now, I must rant about RTD and his repeated use of "things getting into the TARDIS" as a major plot point (and not just as Christmas cliffhangers, which is common enough). Both Christopher Eccleston and David Tennant have made points on numerous occasions that it should be damn near impossible for ordinary objects or energy beams or anything like that to breach the TARDIS in any way. So then what do we have? We have the transmat beam taking the Doctor and Rose and Jack out of the TARDIS in Bad Wolf, Donna being transported into the TARDIS in The Runaway Bride, and now the Titanic bursting through the TARDIS wall (which, by the way, seemed to be made of wood and plaster, rather than the super-advanced Time Lord metal that we all know it should be made of) here. For another thing, even if something somehow were able to get into the TARDIS, I would like to point out that there is a distinct difference between the interior and exterior dimensions. I can almost buy what happened in The Runaway Bride, but with the Titanic, it seems to be a collision of some kind, and I can't imagine it being possible for the Titanic to collide with the TARDIS's interior dimension, and if it hit the exterior dimension, then nothing would happen because the TARDIS is indestructible. Even if somehow it did manage to breach the TARDIS, it would simply break the police box, and not burst through the dimensional wall into the console room itself. And RTD is overusing the cliffhanger-before-Christmas format that he established last year. It shouldn't need a format to begin with, but it certainly doesn't warrant almost exactly the same event (something breaching the TARDIS) and the Doctor's identical response ("what?").
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Well, I liked it. I hate to be a grumpy guts, but it's pretty ****ing obvious they'll explain how the Titanic got through the TARDIS and into its dimension. That's probably the reason for the "What?" I liked it, and I thought it was a fun reuse of last year's.
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I am so ready for Russell T Davies to move on from Doctor Who.
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Seven million people don't seem to give a toss, and neither does the director of BBC drama. Technically, Danny, you're not allowed opinions on BBC programming, as you're not British and thus don't pay the licence fee
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So, to sum up, I have a lot to say about this episode. I am deeply disappointed in Russell T Davies and am beginning to see that the man simply cannot throw together a rich, complicated, and thorough plot if his life depended on it. The more he tried to throw into this, the worse it fell apart. He ended what has been the best year of new Doctor Who yet with this clunker of a series finale, and I have never felt this way before, but all I want to do is erase these two episodes from continuity and start a blank slate to work from and redo it all. I gave this episode a 6/10 in the poll above, and after going through everything and writing this post, I am beginning to realize that it deserved a far lower score than that. RTD should consider himself that I voted when I did, before I realized the true depth of this episode's gaping plot holes.
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To paraphrase Horatio Nelson, "I see no plotholes." I thoroughly enjoyed this episode, and I am looking forward to the next series. However, it is clear that RTD might be starting to run low on ideas (3 great finales in a row can't be followed by a 4th) and I'm hoping that he gets some help from Moffat or Cornell with the next.
Things I liked about this episode, off the top of my head.
The bleakness of the Master's regime. Billions dead, at 7.05pm on a Saturday?
Those shipyards. Great CGI.
Milligan. He's a likeable character.
The Toclafane. "We made ourselves so pretty." Brrr.
The Master. Everything about that performance hit the spot for me.
Lucy. *sigh* Lucy...
The Joneses.
Martha being an action girl. Woo!
The scale of the thing. 200,000 multi-kilometre long rockets? Now that's a good start.
The resolution, the Doctor flying, the Doctor's message to the Master.
Everyone chanting the Doctor's name.
The music.
David Tennant. I want to give him a nice cup of tea and a pat on the back for just existing.
The Master's death.
The Titanic, silly as it was. Roll on Christmas!
Phew, that character limit is a pain