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Finished watching all of Christopher Eccleston's episodes of Doctor Who last night. OMG, I loved him! He was so quirky but could be deadly serious and he had so much affection for Rose. What a shame that he only did one season. Anyone know why he only wanted to do one? And I notice he's never involved with any of the Doctor Who specials, etc. Was there a falling out with him and TPTB?

Anyway, I just loved his relationship with Rose. He'd do anything to protect her, keep her safe. Easy to see now how this continued to deepen with her time spent with Ten.

Some very good and/or creepy episodes that season. Liked the "Dalek" episode and how it became half human because of Rose. And "Father's Day" was so sad! You knew Pete was going to have to die in the end to set things right. And then there was The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances. I finally find out how Captain Jack Harkness got hooked up with the Doctor! But man, that creepy little kid in the gas mask? Yikes! "Are you my Mummy?" I was glad that Jack hung around for several episodes.

Question on this whole "Bad Wolf" thing. After Rose gets…possessed by the soul of the TARDIS she says she left those words scattered across space and time to lead her there. Okay, I get that. But is there some significance to the actual words Bad Wolf? Why those two words? Am I missing something?

And that's the episode where she turns Jack immortal. Now the Doctor didn't see Jack rise from the dead. Yet when they meet up again a few years later in "Utopia" and Jack confronts him about leaving him on Satellite 5, the Doctor acts like he knew and deliberately left him there because he was this…anomaly. I always thought that was really harsh, considering what they'd gone through together.

Speaking of other characters, am I the only one who couldn't stand Mickey? I did feel bad for him at the beginning, when Rose just basically abandons him and takes off with the Doctor. But then he turns into a glutton for punishment, wanting to be around Rose then getting pissed off that she's infatuated with the Doctor. I was glad he decided to stay in the parallel Earth.

All in all a great season with Nine. Wish he would've had a bit more of a send off before he regenerated, though, like Ten did. It was very…abrupt. Oh! I watched the Christmas Invasion special right after that, David Tennant's first episode, and it's where the Doctor gets his hand cut off. I always wondered how Jack ended up with that hand! LOL!

I had to put my Doctor Who viewing to the side for awhile but last night I finally finished watching all of David Tennant's episodes, including the specials.

And okay, I admit it, you guys were right - I did end up liking Donna very much. But it was SO sad, what ended up happening to her. I mean, at least Rose and Martha got to keep their memories of their time spent with the Doctor, but Donna had to have them all erased. Broke my heart.

Like I said, I watched the specials - Planet of the Dead (booooring!) and The Waters of Mars. OMG, I was appalled at the Doctor's behavior at the end of that one! What the hell got into him, thinking he could just take it upon himself to change a "fixed" point in time? My jaw just dropped! I knew that poor astronaut/scientist woman was going to kill herself to put things right. So it was no surprise the Ood showed up at the end of that one, signaling the Doctor's imminent demise.

I'm probably in the minority in this, but I can't stand The Master. He's like this over the top cartoon character that just grates on my every nerve. So I was really not happy to find out he was going to be the main focus of the final two episodes, The End of Time parts 1 and 2. And what is it with the Doctor's fascination with The Master? Always trying to save him and go away with him, etc? There must be some backstory there I'm missing.

And geez, again I was pissed at the Doctor's attitude when he has the choice to save Wilfred (I never expected the knocking to come from him and neither did the Doctor!) or not. He's all, "You're not important, but I am! I have more things I need to do!" WTF? And then he's all, "I've lived too long" and frees Wilfred. Again, WTF with the abrupt about-face?

The only thing I truly liked about those last two eps was the last 15 minutes. I have no problem admitting that I was brought to tears as the Doctor made his final rounds to see everyone one last time. Martha and Mickey (they got married??), Sarah Jane and her son, putting Jack and Alonso together (OMG, loved that!), going to Donna's wedding and finally, seeing Rose. That last part confused me for a minute since she didn't know who he was. Until she says it's 2005, right before she meets Nine. Loved him telling her she was going to have a great year.

And then the Ood singing was so beautiful and the Doctor saying, "I don't want to go". Heartbreaking!

What an awesome, awesome ride with Ten and all his companions. Loved it from start to finish.

And now I'm off to start back at the beginning with Rose and Nine!

So I finally saw my first Doctor Who episode with Rose and the Tenth Doctor. Yay!

For some reason BBCA was stuck on endlessly repeating all the episodes with Martha and about a half dozen episodes with Donna. This week they finally started showing the ones with Rose. I was hoping that they'd actually go back to the beginning, with the Ninth Doctor. I've only seen one ep with Eccelston, the one where John Barrowman is introduced as Captain Jack Harkness. Wonder if BBCA will ever show those.

Anyway, Rose is great and Billie and David Tennant have wonderful chemistry together. I like her as much as Martha. Really looking forward to finding out exactly what happened with Rose and the Doctor, how they got separated. From what I've been able to gather from the Martha and Donna episodes it was pretty traumatic and it seems that the Doctor has never really gotten over losing her.

Do I have any other fellow Whovian's on my flist? I'm only 50 years late to the party, but I made it! LOL!