Doctor Who: Journey’s End
That was the most…
…depressing thing I’ve seen on TV in ages.
Let’s start with the things I loved. I loved that Martha and Mickey look set to become members of Torchwood, I loved Jack hugging Mickey, and I loved Rose’s ‘Ooh, she’s good’ regarding Martha. That made up for the jealousy last episode. Plus, all the hugging at the end! That was so lovely. Everyone gets a hug!
Plus, Mickey’s goodbye to Jackie. That was so sad, but I’m glad RTD remembered how much they mean to each other,
This really might be Rose’s final exit, then. I sort of hope so, because she has to finally leave one day, let’s face it. But this goodbye was a great deal better than the last. She has her mum and dad and brother (called Tony) and Torchwood and now she has a alternate version of the Doctor. It was so sad to hear the Doctor’s answer to her big question, though- what was it, “Does it matter?” or something. It almost seemed like he was trying to make her go, so she could be happy. Or something. I think she will be, though. She has a Doctor, even if he’s not The Doctor.
Over here on lifeonmartha some kind people have translated the German spoken in the episode (speaking of which, how awesome was it to hear Daleks speaking German, and how cool is it that Martha speaks it?) and the strange German woman’s last words to Martha are “Martha, you’re going to hell,” Martha answers in English, “I know.” Send shivers down my spine, that. She really was so great in this episode: it’s not everyone who’s willing to sacrifice that darn much. (I think, though, she may have known deep down that she wouldn’t really have to use the Osterhagen Key)
What became of Martha’s family? Her mum’s okay, but we never saw her siblings or her dad…
Donna. :(
I don’t think her ending is as incredibly awful as first thought, though. I think that eventually, given time, she’ll grow to be the Donna we saw in Turn Left, one without the Doctor but eventually growing up. Besides, hey, who knows, maybe her computerverse husband will find her.
Still, though. The very last scene, as well, with the Doctor all alone in the TARDIS…I was waiting for something to happen, another Titanic moment, and it didn’t. It was just him all alone.
On the other hand, though, how good does the Christmas special look?
July 5, 2008 @ 11:48 pm
I think that out of the many reviews I have read for this episode, this is the best. Your thoughts are exactly the same as mine. And the Christmas special? LOOKS AMAZING, only 5 months and 19 days until we get too see it :)
July 8, 2008 @ 10:42 pm
Why thank you. :D It really does, and hopefully it won’t have such a downer of an ending. :p
July 6, 2008 @ 1:39 am
Ohhh my gosh, it really was the most depressing thing in ages. Thanks for mentioning the stuttering husband, though… maybe there’s hope even though he was from a different time o.O I’m going to hold on to that. I can’t shake the Rose thing being wrong. Yeah, okay she has a Doctor but she still knows that there’s a Doctor out there without a Rose. I waited at the end too. It was so. So. Tragic. :( I’m really depressed now.
July 8, 2008 @ 10:44 pm
Since he was from a Moffat story, perhaps Moffat will bring him back when he takes over the reins? I hope so. :D RTD’s Who really piles on the depressingness. Three main companions and only one of them gets a happy ending…
July 6, 2008 @ 3:42 pm
We never saw or heard about Martha’s fiance and I keep wondering if that was deliberate (as RTD’s the one who made him up in the first place). That said, Martha being in the UK rather than Manhattan should – you’d assume – help that relationship rather than hinder it. Unless, of course, they’re going to drop in randomly that he was dead before the Daleks invaded. As for Donna? She’s clever – her time with the Doctor showed that. She’ll get on without him just fine. I think a residual belief in herself will be left over subconsciously from her time with the Doctor anyway. Plus Wilf will always be there to provide support even if her mum won’t. Rose – by being with a version of Ten – will learn how little she actually needs what she though she always needed. Human!Ten by virtue of his Donna-qualities will learn to evolve. Everyone will evolve eventually – except maybe the Doctor himself and that’s because he *wants* to stay stuck.
July 8, 2008 @ 10:46 pm
Ooh, I like that. Good way of putting it!