Doctor Who - New Series! (Tennant&Tate)

Firstly, I'd just like to say what absolute torture it was being away for the final two episodes...
Seriously. Here are just a few of the things that annoyed me Who-wise over my holiday.

People sent me texts saying "OMG t Dctr is regenratin!" and I was like 'WHAT?! SHUT UP! I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT LEAVE ME ALONE!'
The French, while hating their royal family generally (quite rightly, bunch of scumbags, probably deserved to be guillotined, now lets all watch Les Miserables) are TOTALLY obsessed with Madame de Pompadour. Possibly because,while wealthy, she wasn't herself royal and just wandered in and showed them all up for the lazy good-for-nothings they were. Anyway, she's everywhere, and of course I see her and immeadiately think 'Ah, banana daquiries! and What's Pre-Revolutionary France doing on a Space ship?! *wanders off giggling, getting funny looks from the French*"
Signs such as this one: just sitting at the sides of woodland paths. How are Whovians supposed to keep an eye on what kind of lizard they've stepped on when suddenly their inner geekdom starts fighting to get out?
And my personal favorite, finding out that they do have Doctor Who in France up to 'Saison Trois'. But not only have they not translated the title (I wanted it to be 'Médecin Qui'!) they also don't translate TARDIS, although actually I sat and realised that in French it would be Temps Et Dimension Relatif Dans Espace so...TEDRDE. Which is hard to say. They also randomly decided that perhaps the idea of a 900 year old alien with two hearts travelling through time and space was a bit far-fetched - so although there are two availiable translations of it ('Doctor Who' and 'Docteur Who') one of them decides to make him 750. I'm not joking, alors, a quote from Amazon.fr
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Synopsis
Agé de 750 ans, le Doctor Who a toujours l'apparence d'un homme, dynamique, courageux, drôle, mais il est pourtant un extraterrestre. Sa planète natale, Gallifrey, a été détruite. Il est le seul rescapé et devient ainsi le dernier Seigneur du temps. A bord du Tardis, il voyage dans le temps et l'espace et va régler de nombreux problèmes dans l'univers, combattre des monstres et surtout sauver la Terre. La blonde Terrienne, Rose, vendeuse de lingerie fine dans un grand magasin londonien, le suit dans ses missions périlleuses, toujours aussi surprenantes, qui se déroulent hier, aujourd'hui, demain, ici, là-bas, ailleurs…quelque part dans l'univers… Encore plus d'aventures, de suspense, d'extraterrestres
Which roughly tranlated means:
Synopsis
Aged 750 years, Doctor Who always has the appearance of a man, dynamic, courageous, funny, but he is though an extra-terrestrial. His birth planet, Gallifrey, has been destroyed. He is the sole survivor and must be like this the last Lord of time (Time-Lord). On board the Tardis, he travels in times and space and goes to settle numerous problems in the universe, combat monsters and most importantly always save the Earth. The blonde (Something to do with earth, I think it means roughly 'Earth-girl'), Rose, seller of lingerie in a large London shop, follows in his perilous missions, always also suprising, what will be yesterday, today, tomorrow, here, there, somewhere...some part of the universe...Even more adventures, suspense, aliens.

My favorite thing of all though? The terrible dubbing...
[youtube=425,350]gNI2l4vBwPo[/youtube]I love how they've tried so hard to follow the original erm...modulation and dynamics of the voices and then suddenly right at the end you clearly hear Tennants original 'Brrr!'. Genius!

Anyway..to buisness...

And the worst thing is, although I saw them hardly a week ago now...I'm struggling to recall parts. They just weren't memorable for me, or rather not as memorable as previous finales have been (maybe I'm disillusioned due to the joy that was last years)

I felt it tried to do too much - give Rose a suitable end, bring Mickey back, get rid of Harriet Jones ("YES...WE KNOW WHO YOU ARE!" was quite funny though), introduce Sarah-Jane's son and Mr Smith to all of us who hadn't seen 'The Sarah-Jane Adventures', bring in the Torchwood crew, get Martha going, along with the idea of there being two Doctors (which admittendly I wasn't keen on before Tennant saved it by being a brilliant human-doctor, helped by Catherine Tate: "Watch it, Space-Man!" "Watch it, Earth-Girl!" "OI!" "OI!" "OI!" - fantastic), and then Donna's good but really depressing end. All with Daleks as well.
Madness.

But I will say, I did get rather overexcited and giggly when it was all coming together and everyone was meeting everyone else and it was all going to be bloody marvellous. But I think because there was so much going on that it was really jumpy: Donna's in the Tardis which is about to be burned, Martha's in Germany with Daleks(which as has already been said was gold), Jack's in the incinerator, the Doctor and Rose are stuck in those weird tube things, Gwen and Ianto are stuck in Torchwood, Mickey and Jackie are hiding from being killed (sorry, evaporated into atoms), anyone we've missed? Oh, Sarah-Jane's with them as well. And now Davros.

I enjoyed it, I just thought it could have been better. And I thought the whole Doctor-Rose-Martha-Jack thing could finally be sorted: Rose gets original, Martha gets new boy, Jack gets DoctorDonna, everyone's happy. But no. although I did quite like "You're the only one who can make him better ROSE!"
Even though we still didn't find out just what he said...I punched my own leg in anger.

And was it just me or was Dalek Caan HIL-AR-IOUS! He had the most unconvincing voice ever and seemed to be being controlled by a puppeteer with hiccups! "Theeeeeeee TimeLORD's Sec-KRET *JERK!* ARrrrrrrrrrrrrr....MEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeEE *JERK AND FLAIL!* wiiiiiiiiiillll"
and after that I don't know what he said because I was laughing too much...

And now the countdown to Christmas begins as we wonder if the Cybermen returning again will be good or sadly disappointing...

EDIT: While I'm here, the rumour about Robert Carlyle. It' not true, it's been going around for a while (Since Tennant took the role basically) and in all interviews I've read where it came up (all of one actually) he said that no one had appraoched him in any way and he didn't know where the idea had come from.
Not sure about karo's dislike of him - he's really good in Trainspotting, The Full Monty, 28 Weeks Later etc. and my personal favorite of all the distressing films we ever watched in RE, 'To End All Wars' the true story of the Scottish PoWs during WW2 forced to build the railway to Burma by the Japanese. It's really quite good if you ever get to see it...
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But yeah, it's all a lie...