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babbred -> RE: Dr Who is coming back (8/15/2008 2:14:11 PM)
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The final episode was pretty good. It was great to see Captain Jack again since I love his character. Unfortunately, I stopped watching Torchwood after the second episode, which was basically porn. I thought it was a shame, because I had really liked the pilot. I'm glad to that they allowed Gwen to grow more confident. It's a far cry from the way she was in those first episodes. ( I also seem to remember the Capt. teasing Gwen about her Welsh lack of humor. Since the show, like Who, is produced by the Welsh BBC, I was glad to see that they could laugh at themselves. Either that or the writer was English.)
Like Rabstark, I was sorry to see Donna go. When they first announced that Tate was coming in, I wasn't sure if I would like her because I don't like the other stuff she's done. However, she really grew on me over the season. As Rab said, it was nice to have a mature woman on there who could hold her own and who wasn't pining after the Dr. like a teenager with their first crush (yes, I didn't like the third season for that reason, either) . Kind of vaguely reminded me of The X-Files.
That being said, I liked the way they showed her vulnerability by having her think her life was meaningless without being able to travel with the Dr. Great writing there. Almost made me cry. I must say, however, that as a fellow writer I didn't like her brain being dumped at the end, mainly because again that's a cliche that's usually used in sci-fi when the writers can't think of how else to get rid of a character. I think they could have made the show stronger by say, having the Dr. forcibly get rid of her, a la Rose. That would have set up an ambiguity for future episodes as to whether he actually meant it, and would have allowed Donna to have a little more dignified exit. As it was, I thought they made her look silly at the end, and she deserved better. She was a complex character who shouldn't have gotten a simplified ending.
Ah, Rose. Yes, I know that a) she wasn't technically killed off and that b) the Dr. didn't technically force her to go. For the first, I was merely speaking in generalities since they got rid of her character. For the second, the Dr. sure didn't look very eager to have her pining after him again. Although I don't think the Dr. came off very sympathetically, I thought the writers did a great job with Rose. Unlike poor Donna, the scenario with Rose is fraught with ambiguity. Is she better off with the Real or the Fake? When I first saw the episode, I thought it was a cop-out on the Dr.'s part and didn't like it. Now, however, I think Rose may have gotten the better deal. Clearly the Dr. didn't want her, so she would have been miserable if she had kept chasing after him. Now, though, like Martha, she has grown up and moved on with her life and has a chance for real happiness. In some ways I think the companions were more mature than the Dr.
Let's see. I like how the Daleks referenced my earlier point about the Dr. sending other people to die for him. Great writing.
OTOH, I didn't like the fact that Mickey was allowed to remain on earth but not Rose. Yes, I know the writers had to get rid of Rose and that having Mickey in the parallel universe might have been awkward, but it was inconsistent and could probably have been handled better.
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