The Doctor Who s4 finale rewatch (2/2, Journey’s End)
You’ve read the first one right? Let’s crack on.
Aww bless them.
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The Doctor Who s4 finale rewatch (1/2, The Stolen Earth)
Okay so the rewatch of the Doctor Who season 4 finale was a BIG undertaking and loads of the cast and crew joined in! And some wonderful person actually put them all together in a list so the whole watchalong was made easier! Woo!
However, I’m gonna do the same thing I did for some of the other rewatches and put all the most interesting tweets together and in order. (Also I added Georgia Tennant’s tweets because they were friggin’ hilarious.) So first I’ve done The Stolen Earth and tomorrow I’ll do Journey’s End. There’s a wealth of fascinating information in there and well, this blog isn’t called Overly Devoted Archivist for nothing.
(Freema is utterly and totally delightful throughout all of this)
(I absolutely love all the Noel-Freema interactions here. Hey hope springs eternal Mickey and Martha will be back one day…)
(more…)Happy International Women’s Day!
To celebrate the occasion, here’s some of my favourite ladies from fiction!
Row 1: Amy Pond (Doctor Who), Sephy Hadley (Noughts and Crosses), Gamora (Guardians of the Galaxy/MCU), Rose Tico (Star Wars), Elsa (Frozen/Disney), Melissa Chartres (The Last Man on Earth)
Row 2: Eowyn (The Lord of the Rings/Middle Earth), Quinn Ergon (Final Space), The Thirteenth Doctor (Doctor Who), Princess Bubblegum (Adventure Time), Jane Foster (Thor/MCU), Amy Santiago (Brooklyn 99)
Row 3: Brook Soso (Orange is the New Black), Nebula (Guardians of the Galaxy/MCU), Erica Dundee (The Last Man on Earth), Kitty Winter (Sherlock Holmes), Rose Tyler (Doctor Who), Briony Tallis (Atonement)
Row 4: Meredith Quill (Guardians of the Galaxy/MCU), Missandei (Game of Thrones), Rey (Star Wars), Donna Noble (Doctor Who), Carol Pilbasian (The Last Man on Earth), Esmeralda (The Hunchback of Notre Dame/Disney)
Row 5: Sansa Stark (Game of Thrones), Ash Graven (Final Space), Tiana (The Princess and the Frog/Disney), Sophia Burset (Orange is the New Black), Misty (Pokemon), Clara Oswald (Doctor Who)
Row 6: Bill Potts (Doctor Who), Mary Brown (Paddington), Mako Mori (Pacific Rim), Gwen Stacy (Spider-Man), Jackie Tyler (Doctor Who), Ursula Ditkovich (Spider-Man)
Row 7: Yaz Khan (Doctor Who), Mary Jane Watson (Spider-Man), Marceline (Adventure Time), Michelle (10 Cloverfield Lane,), Natasha Romanoff (Black Widow/MCU), Mantis (Guardians of the Galaxy (MCU)
Row 8: Eponine Thenardier (Les Miserables), Mabel Pines (Gravity Falls), Sandra Kaluiokalani (Superstore), Padme Amidala (Star Wars), Martha Jones (Doctor Who), Jasmine (Aladdin/Disney)
Row 9: Beru Whitesun (Star Wars), Nakia (Black Panther/MCU), Diana (Wonder Woman), Chummy Browne (Call the Midwife), Rosa Diaz (Brooklyn 99), Leia Organa (Star Wars)
Everything that appeared in that one scene from The Timeless Children
You know the one.
Honestly, whatever you think of the episode… WHAT A SCENE. Over five decades of Doctor Who history (Whostory?) packed into a few seconds. With the theme tune! I loved it to pieces.
So being me I’ve gone through it frame by frame to pick out everything that appeared. (This gets pretty long, as you may have expected, sorry)
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Doctor Who: my kind of ending. Yes, I’ve been rewatching it again.
Donna keeps her memories and her human/time lord hybrid nature because [insert sci-fi explanation], finds the sonic pen from the episode Partners In Crime and travels with Doctor and Rose, and Martha and Mickey join them sometimes when they want a break from working from constantly defending Earth AND ALL OF THEM ARE IN ONE UNIVERSE THANK YOU VERY MUCH. And Jack too, he just didn’t fit in the composition, sorry Jack.
The most interesting thing here stems from the fact that River doesn’t know Donna or have any personal vested interest in her and yet she looks at her with such emotion. Donna doesn’t die traveling with The Doctor as the audience suspects in this moment. She forgets.
River has seen a lot of horrible things and isn’t one to be easily moved, but you can see how just the mention of Donna’s name completely affects her. The look on her face reflects the pain of what The Doctor told her about Donna. We are seeing a reflection of how much and how deeply what happened to Donna affected The Doctor long after she was gone.
#But this also says a lot about River#death doesn’t scare her#But what’s the worst thing she can imagine?#What’s the horror that she lived with the silence?#forgetting#forgetting who she is#Not having a choice#and that’s what happened to both of them#No wonder River feels for Donna so#beyond the doctor and the pain it caused him#River knows what it is to be missing a piece of your life#and memories (via goddessdel)
#YES this EXACTLY#river’s biggest motivation for her most dramatic gestures —#ripping time and space apart#shooting the TARDIS and toying with the Doctor in LKH#letting Amy go to the Angel —#is CHOICE when you boil it down#she needs to make her own decisions NEEDS to control her own life after lifetimes of being manipulated#often without her knowledge#which is part of why people saying her life revolves around the doctor is so baffling for me because YES#she does a lot for him but everything she does for him is very much her call — he can’t manipulate river and doesn’t really try#the doctor is representitive of the day River was able to save her parents and the Doctor#the day she dis-aligned herself with the Silence and became River Song and began to own her own life for the first time#in saving him she VERY MUCH saved herself and so everytime she sacrifices something for him there’s a lingering note of autonomy anyway#so donna is like River’s worst nightmare — Donna’s fate is the anti-River#Donna’s fate is finally choosing her own life and then having her personal control and power ripped#away from her by the Doctor#(this is why I’m SO enamored of the semi-pervasive headcanon that River somehow#gives Donna her memories back — River Song queen of the universe champion of free will#of course that’s what she’d do) (via riversonglife)