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Triple Entry


Xinlo

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first order of business, merry christmas (or whatever else) to everyone. I hope you all had a fantastic day of celebration and happiness.

 

Right then, as for me, I had a wonderful day (mostly; that's the third order of business) and I got some amazing gifts too.

 

My loot as follows:

 

-Rush T-Shirt (Roll the Bones)

-Coheed & Cambria T-Shirt

-Random joke shirt

-Umbra (after all these years... the list of sets I don't have is getting quite short)

-Dr. Robin, Lady Scientist minifig

-S.S. Enterprise, NX-01 Refit model kit (Star Trek)

-Doctor Who TARDIS Coffee Mug

-Live After Death by Iron Maiden (limited edition double picture vinyl)

-$150

-March concert tickets to Yes (band lol)

-April concert tickets to Dream Theater

 

So yeah, got everything I really wanted and more (Didn't expect the shows at all) and I'm really happy. Except I'm not, which brings us to thing #3:

 

The Time Of The Doctor

 

I was so excited for this

 

SO EXCITED

 

and it smashed my hopes and dreams and there was like two moments in the whole episode that I actually liked. I won't spoil it for anyone but it was (IMO) the worst episode to have been made as of current. And after the awesomeness of the 50th... well, needless to say I'm upset.

 

Carry on good beings.

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The Time of the Doctor could have been a lot worse. Overall, though, I think it was an excellent send-off to an excellent Doctor.

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I don't understand how anybody could have thought that was a good episode. Everyone was out of character, there was next to no plot (the entire episode's purpose was to fill the numerous plotholes from the three seasons and it only succeeded in making series 6 less confusing, series 5 more confusing, and series 7 completely irrelevant),the regeneration was done awfully, the dialogue was cheesy and matt smith looked like G'Kar from Babylon 5 through most of the episode (that one's not as important lol).

 

The level of bad that this episode was I didn't think the show would ever get to. If you liked it, well, that's your opinion and that's fine, but I do not understand at all.

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Well, to be fair, I didn't think it was an excellent episode all-around, but I don't consider the plot as important to regeneration episodes as in others. If it wasn't a regeneration episode, I'd totally agree with you, but I was focused more on the finality of Smith's tenure and the many references to his three seasons.

As far as send-offs go I found it more bearable than Tennant's atrocious swan song.

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I was disappointed with tennant's aswell. It wasn't unbearable but it did seem too dragged out and the episode itself seemed to have more unbelievability than is usual. However I still thought it was a good emotional sendoff for my favourite doctor, even if it did try a bit too hard.

 

This episode however tried much too hard to be emotional, exciting, depressing, edgy, romantic, scary and solemn all at the same time and I thought it fell flat on its face. (Spoiler'd just in case)

I was so busy trying to figure out what the episode was actually about that when the regeneration finally came (which, BTW, I had expected it to happen when he was in the tower; seeing smith still in the TARDIS at the end was even more confusing) I was so caught up in my own bewilderment I even missed it by blinking. Add to that the fact that the regeneration energy seemed to keep turning itself on and off for no reason and the odd and somewhat useless scene with small pond running around and there is just too much clutter to detract from what should have been a simple, focused, heartwarming/breaking moment as it was for 9 and 10.

Matt Smith wasn't even the focus of his own regeneration because you're too stunned and confused with everything else that's going on you get lost in it.

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