canonical_insanity | Fine, okay...an actual review of 'Journey's End' without swearing...

Okay...I got into sci-fi with Voyager. I'm used to 'To Be Continued' screens and random running around trying to get hints of what happens next. To see it at the end of TSE was nostalgic, really.

Random Tangent: I keep thinking that if this was an anime fandom, everyone would hate Rose because they'd be shipping Ten/Simm!Master. And then, because I'm contrary about my character tastes, I'd have to like her because no-one else does and that would be weird because...I don't see myself doing that. Ever.

-I spent most of TSE (and Journey's End, for that matter) going 'So, does this mean that Earth is Ravalox now?' (This is a reference for Trial of a Time Lord episode 1, and I've just spoiled the entire episode right there. You should watch it anyway for the novelty of Six and Peri actually getting along sans strangling.)

I complained a lot about the lack of Old Who companions in this army of the Doctor's. I'm not taking any of it back, because I still think that there should have been a few more people that should have shown up.

I'd say Turlough and Ace, simply because I want to see Jack hit on the pair of them, Grace because -since, as of 'Human Nature', the Eighth Doctor is canonical now (also, the post on FW about that is hilarious, even if it's over a year old) and therefore she's the only companion of Eight that we've actually seen (and I don't care how awesome Fitz allegedly is, I still doubt that he's canon)- Jamie, because everyone loves Jamie and he can give 'how to screw up canon by not staying amnesiac' lessons to Donna later (and that's a spoiler for the end of Journey's End and The War Games, I believe, as well as a reference to the Series 6b theory) and Peri because he still owes Peri an actual goodbye in canon (well, it's only been what, 22 years? She can wait that long, I suppose).

I like the fact that Dalek Caan betrayed Davros. I also find it entertaining -considering Doomsday, where the Doctor identifies the Cult of Skaro as being a group who's purpose was 'to think like the enemy'- that this makes two of them that have felt that the Daleks were doing the wrong thing. Also, I second

anbyrobanby. German-speaking Daleks are win. XD

I said on a

dw_academy post before the finale aired that I would like it if the Doctor actually recognised what Harriet Jones did for him and admit that he was wrong about her. After all, he was the one that -not only changed her personal timeline by forcing her to resign- but pretty much led her to her death. She was loyal and she saved the world -in fact, she saved 27 of them. She deserved more than a brief mention by Davros and a confused look by Ten.

I don't feel that Martha was in character for this episode. At all. Not only the willingness to blow up the world (am I the only person that believes that doctors -the human kind, just to clarify- should have some kind of medical ethics about such things?), but I don't see her accepting Rose that quickly. I know that Martha has moved on with her life, but I just can't see her approving of the reason that the Doctor treated her...I'd say quite badly, from a psychological point of view. But that might just be me. Is it just me?

Also? Jack/Donna. I'd ship it.

I love Tosh to pieces (who wouldn't, she's awesome) but...there's been a number of times where people have stormed around the Hub terrorising Gwen and Ianto and seeing as how that -previously unheard of- defence has never activated before, it seems rather suspicious. Also, Mickey is awesome and cool in his own right, but...he can't replace Owen. He's not snarky enough.

As for the beach scene...no. I'm still not prepared to go there without swearing. I will say this, however. What makes Rose (a chavvy shopgirl from a bad part of London with a rather nasal voice and daddy issues) so special that she gets her own Doctor? I'm not going into the aspect that almost everyone else I've seen has gone into, as to the weirdness of Ten forcing human!Ten on Rose and expecting her to like it. Apart from the fact that RTD seems to get the maturity of a ten year old girl (I apologise to ten year old girls in general for this remark, by the way) writing her first fanfic whenever Rose and Ten are concerned, what gives her the right to have her own Doctor, while pretty much every other companion has had -particularly in New Who- rather crappy endings in comparison?

Speaking of companions having crappy endings...no, I'm not prepared to talk about that without swearing either. Although,

versipellis? Does the fact that technically the Donna that we've gotten to like over the past series has died continue my strain of jinxing characters that I like?

I swear, there is actually no point in me getting into fandoms anymore. D: