Watching the episode partners in crime with Donna and the Doctor having their reunion (that actually takes forever) is breaking my heart lol
Especially Wilf jfc that man breaks my heart without trying
And watching Donna be all like wistful and stuff
Tr;dr its sad bc Donna forgot and the doctor is dead

confusedtree:

Steven Moffat spent each of the two full series of Doctor Who that he’s written thus far ramping up to the finales by bashing you over the head with entirely inscrutable questions to keep you hostage and forming an almost creepy and pathological contract with the viewers that if you suffer through all the substance-free trash on the way to that episode, you’d be rewarded with an entirely satisfying answer

And you never are, both times it’s just been The Doctor solving all the problems encountered by simply resetting the universe so that none of said problems happened or ever will happen but everyone conveniently remembers the events prior to the reset anyway

Which is honestly from precisely the same camp as any awful movie you’ve seen ending with the revelation that this is all just a comatose fugue state dream

In a way it’s actually more insulting to me because it’s like Steven Moffat doesn’t expect me to have the critical thinking skills to work out that what he’s doing is not the smarter alternative to that sort of bullshit ending

I don’t know if I have the energy to hang in there until he steps down as head writer but I have to believe the show can recover and become relatively decent again after