I just finished watching the final episode of Doctor Who starring David Tenant, and I have to say it made me cry a little bit. It turns out that The Doctor was actually responsible for the extinction of the Time Lords and his planet. Seems they'd gotten a little full of themselves and decided that they could ascend and become deities, subjugating the entire human race, if not the universe. Timothy Dalton plays Lord President, who made this decision the day they knew their planet and race would be wiped out by The Doctor, using The Master to bring them back through time and space. The Doctor, who never likes to chose to take a life after what he had to do to his planet and people, choses again, not to take a life. The Master steps up and defeats The Narrator, killing himself in the process. But, The Doctor has to save Willie (Donna's grandfather) from the nuclear fallout from The Master's time machine.
The Doctor is going to regenerate and goes to visit everyone from his past. Martha Jones, who's now married to Rose's Mickey. Rose, before she met him and ended up in an alternate dimension, Sara Jane and Luke, Jack Harkness in some bar on a planet and introduces Jack to an Ianto look-alike named Alonso and finally back to Donna Noble on her wedding day, bringing her the gift of a lottery ticket from a father who died years before.
The singing from the Oods at his end and transformation was beautiful.
I have to say that even though Christopher Eccleston was actually my favorite Doctor, David Tenant did make it his own and very enjoyable. To the point that I found myself tearing up at his end, his transformation, his declaration of, "I don't want to go."
I have to say, I don't remember Eccleston's transformation being so destructive to the Tardis. But that could just be time messing with me a bit.
I'm looking forward to seeing if and how David Tenant will translate here on U.S. Television with the new NBC series, Rex Is Not Your Lawyer. Slated to start airing in the fall of 2010.
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