David Tennant Goes to the Tardis in the Sky (in Dr. Who) (spoilers!)

So I finished David Tennant's run on Dr. Who yesterday.  He was absolutely marvelous as the Doctor, and I'm going to miss him dearly.  At the same time, I'm really looking forward to seeing Matt Smith as well.  This is also where Steven Moffat takes over as head writer.  Moffat gets a lot of hate on the internet over his writing on Dr. Who, so I'm actually eager to see if it's as bad as everyone says.  I absolutely love his writing on Sherlock, and in fact, his writing is why I ever gave Dr. Who a shot.  I needed something to fill the space in between Season 3 and 4 of Sherlock (stupid successful Cumberbatch and Freeman), and I found out Moffat wrote for Dr. Who as well so I gave it a shot.  Thank goodness I did.  It seems most of the hate on the internet is from Moffat not really sticking to Dr. Who canon, so considering that I don't actually know much canon, I shouldn't have too much trouble with it.

These last two episodes were the definition of an emotional rollercoaster.  The Doctor has had his death predicted to happen in this episode, and they use that against you the whole time.  There are multiple times where you are going "okay, this is it, he's going to go" and then something will happen and he'll recover.  Even at the end, when he is for sure going to regenerate, you still hold out hope that maybe, just maybe it will be okay.  And the Doctor's last line as he regenerates "I don't want to go."  just had me in tears.  My heart broke so many times over the course of this episode and I loved every bit of it.

I really hope they keep up with the story arcs the way they did in Tennant's time.  I loved finding out things in early episodes were really important in later episodes (the hand, the Ood etc).  Also, the love story between the companions and the Doctor really got to me (specifically Rose).  I have to admit though, it always sat wrong with me that the Doctor's "double" went off with Rose so she was no longer looking for the real Doctor.  I understand the logic of it, and it was a nice way to give Rose a happy ending, but my heart broke for the real Doctor.

Overall I'm looking forward to seeing what they do with Matt Smith and how his Doctor is different than Tennant and Eccleston's (I wasn't fond of Eccleston's).  I've put a link below to one of David Tennant's video blogs he did while he was filming Dr. Who.  They're really interesting to watch and really give some insight into how the filming works.  For some reason Blogger won't let me find the first one, so you're stuck with the one of Billie Piper's last day.  Seriously check the rest out on Youtube though.  I'm a sucker for behind the scenes stuff, I often love it more than the actual movies (looking at you Hobbit).