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Here's a meme that has been circulating lately.
Two Things I Want Before David Tennant Leaves Us (and One I Don't Dare Ask For):
1. At least one more unlikely object licked. The oral fixation became a fandom obsession after its several s2 appearances, but we've seen very little of it since then. Licking is good for a laugh, a fangirl fantasy, and a reminder that the Doctor is truly alien.
2. A Ten/Jack kiss. Tennant and Barrowman have great chemistry. I would absolutely love to see their sparks set alight a little bit of snogging. Sure, the love between the characters will still be there when Smith is Eleven, but I think that a kiss would be a great culmination of all that Ten and Jack have been through together and an absolution of the abandonment at the end of the Doctor's last incarnation. I will always love the Doctor/Rose ship most, but when Rose is out of the picture I enthusiastically ship Doctor/Jack. (OT3 is of course always a win/win/win scenario. ;))
Don't Dare: An ending on a happy note. Yes, there will be sadness intrinsic in the regeneration, but it could be a total angstfest or it could be an optimistic or cathartic transition. I know what I'd prefer! I was truly devastated when Nine regenerated, but it was in many ways a hopeful ending. He gave his life to save Rose with the Time War apparently over, feeling as at peace with himself as that incarnation had ever been. I'd like something similarly moving for Ten, not sob-inducing like the endings of all of Tennant's series. Nine has a reputation as the angsty Doctor of new Who, but I think when all his episodes are averaged that Ten has been every bit as angsty.
It is a measure of RTD's fondness for angst and audience torture that I regard happiness as much less likely than a guest star with a busy schedule and his own series stopping by for a kiss (a kiss between men, even, although one of the many things I love about DW is that the sexes of the kissers are not as huge a deal as they would be on a US tv series similarly aimed at families.)
The thing I want that I don't even dare make a proper part of the meme is the Doctor and Rose together in the TARDIS with the likelihood of remaining like that for a while. JE was a happy ending for Rose in the long term, and I fear that bringing her back would only end in someone's tears.
Two Things I Want Before David Tennant Leaves Us (and One I Don't Dare Ask For):
1. At least one more unlikely object licked. The oral fixation became a fandom obsession after its several s2 appearances, but we've seen very little of it since then. Licking is good for a laugh, a fangirl fantasy, and a reminder that the Doctor is truly alien.
2. A Ten/Jack kiss. Tennant and Barrowman have great chemistry. I would absolutely love to see their sparks set alight a little bit of snogging. Sure, the love between the characters will still be there when Smith is Eleven, but I think that a kiss would be a great culmination of all that Ten and Jack have been through together and an absolution of the abandonment at the end of the Doctor's last incarnation. I will always love the Doctor/Rose ship most, but when Rose is out of the picture I enthusiastically ship Doctor/Jack. (OT3 is of course always a win/win/win scenario. ;))
Don't Dare: An ending on a happy note. Yes, there will be sadness intrinsic in the regeneration, but it could be a total angstfest or it could be an optimistic or cathartic transition. I know what I'd prefer! I was truly devastated when Nine regenerated, but it was in many ways a hopeful ending. He gave his life to save Rose with the Time War apparently over, feeling as at peace with himself as that incarnation had ever been. I'd like something similarly moving for Ten, not sob-inducing like the endings of all of Tennant's series. Nine has a reputation as the angsty Doctor of new Who, but I think when all his episodes are averaged that Ten has been every bit as angsty.
It is a measure of RTD's fondness for angst and audience torture that I regard happiness as much less likely than a guest star with a busy schedule and his own series stopping by for a kiss (a kiss between men, even, although one of the many things I love about DW is that the sexes of the kissers are not as huge a deal as they would be on a US tv series similarly aimed at families.)