is it a kind of dream?

its nice that everybody lives. I liked the TARDIS diary, and the screwdriver with the red settings and the dampers. groovy.

i did like how she punched him and handcuffed him. love a tough woman on tv like that, yes i do. Not a screaming mouse or a quasi tough wannabe girl [like Rose], a tough real live *woman*.

She knew his name eh? That means HE knows his own name, its not some great mystery that even he doesn't know.  All those fics surrounding the subject have just been JOSSED. Bwahaha!

Oops, that means he can't be the Other either, not really, doesn't it? Sorry Marc Platt, Lungbarrow has just become sort of wrong, hasnt it?

but i dont understand why the Doctor didnt just beam her out of the computer core like he did everyone else? Unless its because there was no more swap space unless he used his own head, after she killed herself doing just that?

So why was she saved? Why can't NuWho just leave dead people dead? Why did she have to be uploaded into Donna's/CAL's dreamworld and left there? That's not saved, that's trapped for eternity in a dream that isnt real!  What kind of fate is that? I am confused. Her 'death' would've meant more if they'd left her dead, as a sacrifice because of how much she loved/trusted the Doctor, even if it was the future one and not the present tense one, kwim?

Like i just said elsewhere, i really wish NuWho wasn't so far from its roots. Look at Warriors on the Cheap - EVERYONE DIES except Bulic and he's just a bloke who needs to wear underpants beneath his uniform. No one special, just the only survivor of the whole episode. Look at Resurrection of the Daleks - what a body count! And at the end, the stuttery guy sacrifices himself and its all good. The Doc doesn't nip back in the TARDIS or somehow hit some reset switch and suddenly they're all alive again, they're dead, and that's that. The TARDIS crew move on and life goes on. Just the way i like it.

< nasal whine> I MISS SEASON 21! < / whine> There, i said it.

Anyways, i thought it was fairly good until the last 5 minutes, and I loved how Donna cried over her children - nowt out there more protective and fierce than a momma bear protecting her cubs, speaking as one myself.

I loved how River Song gave herself to protect the Doctor, and i really enjoyed watching him think on his feet. I liked who the little girl turned out to be too, though i pegged that one last week. Basically it was a good wrap up of last week, though the Vashta monsters were sortof done away with too easily, i thought.

I dunno, i walked away confused. It had Moffat's thumbprints all over it, i mean, it was almost epic like a Davies story, with the reset switch Song saving and the bedtime story at the end. I dont know, i just felt a bit odd after it finished, didnt know whether to cheer or cry really, you know?