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This Post contains Spoilers for Doctor Who Seasons 1-4 (including all specials aired)
and Torchwood Seasons 1-3

My f-list is filled with posts marked Spoilers: End of Time and they've all got multiple comments!

I hate being behind every time! I'm missing all the fun conversation and Meta.

So bloody irritating!

I have hope though, that I'll watch it today, write my own reaction and then comment a day late on my friends journals because I can't not comment.

I'm really excited about these episodes, Waters of Mars really whetted my appetite for these Specials and for Tennant's Bon Voyage.

I'm looking forward to the new season (not too excited about the new logo: oh look it's a shiny Tardis... it looks like the Autobots logo!) but Tennant is my Doctor.

Also, I really hope Jack is the eps, because really, I don't know if I'll be able to handle the new incarnation of the Doctor if there isn't any closure.
Then again, emotional consistency when it comes to Jack in the Whoniverse has never been strong - oh Jack you unpredictable devil!

Maybe this is just my own personal preference to Torchwood speaking, but Jack deserves closure from his hero - they're both going to be around for a while - they should at least be able to have some peace with each other.

The Doctor has said (I don't remember where or when) that a hero, if s/he lives long enough will eventually become the villain and I wonder of Time Lord Victorious is that instance, him cracking up and deciding "I am the master of my destiny" he took it too far and thought he could, in fact, master destiny, which is, in fact, something that depends on our decision and not on the omniscience of a demi-god.

And if we're going Archtypes (though the current Whoniverse inverts Campbell a lot), the Doctor and Jack are both Tricksters - fluidity in persona, personality, sexuality and combat strategy - though Jack tries to be a Hero but because of his "Life/Death" nature he just ends up being a monster and like Frankenstien's monster he's rejected by his "father", the Doctor.

I posit that despite the fact that it was Rose who revived and "Gave Life" to Jack (Why, hello there, Mother Goddess and Dying God - apropos Christmas, nay?); it's my reading, seeing as what we know of Jack's End Game is the Face of Boe, that Bad Wolf didn't give Jack infinite life, since we know that he dies, but gave him more time.
If it was just life why would he affect the Time Vortex and disgust the Doctor so much (I'm still bitter about the Doctor's treatment of Jack in "Utopia", sue me!) - time is what concerns the Doctor and time around Jack, according to the Doctor, is not as it should be.

Persoanlly, I think the Doctor was embarrassed that Jack had become something he doesn't understand and unlike Nine who relished in discovering the New; Ten very much enjoys Knowing All and is far less humble in the face of the unknown.

In any event, I'm looking forward to The End of Time I'm sure it'll be brilliant! One way, or another.