AnnaWaits on Doctor Who – Journey’s End

Wow. The last episode of Doctor Who’s Series Four – Journey’s End – provoked a lot of discussion right across the internet, with people loving it or hating it, and it seems fitting to put a link in here to AnnaWaits excellent posting on her blog about the essential ambivalence of it all. Here’s a quote:

“I can imagine that this episode will provoke an ambivalent response, but I think that’s because it was an episode that has ambivalence – absolutely intended by RTD – at its very core. Reality might be saved, but this was far from all wrapped up. Take Rose. She has a Doctor. A Doctor who can say the thing that a full time lord just can’t, who has that humanness in him that means he can respond to her in the way that she has so longed. A Doctor with added human, what could be more perfect, right? Right? Of course not. He’s not her Doctor. And no matter how much she teaches him, he never will be.

So there’s ambivalent ending number one.”

You can read the full posting on her blog here – Theatre Is Life, Film is Art, TV is Furniture.

~ by Paul Badger on 9 July, 2008.