So can I please start off by saying that was the MOS EPICEST THING I HAVE EVER WATCHED!!!! I won't spoil too much in case you haven't seen it yet, but basically, all of the Doctors were is it and it was AMAZING!!! You should have been in the room when David Tennant came on. All of the fangirl literally had to gag themselves so that they weren't screaming over him. John Hurt did an amazing rendition of the Doctor which wasn't very high-energy but was still hilarious and fun to watch. David Tennant really gave it his all in this one and made a stunning comeback (but I might just be biased. Still, there has to be a reason for me being biased and that is how amazing David Tennant is.) The scripting was amazingly incredible in the sense that, as much older than Matt that David looks, you still got the sense that Matt was the older one (in age of the Doctor) and that David was kind of the younger sibling. This is something we didn't get as much with John Hurt but I really think should've been there, especially with how he was playing the first regeneration of the Doctor. There was a little bit of the "David and Matt are showing him the ropes" but it might just have been that because they've played the Doctor before. Anyways, I would've liked to see them portraying John as kind of the naiive younger one a bit but oh well. Anyways, the rest of it was amazing. The writing was amazing, the scripting was amazing, and it was like a fangirl's paradise. I loved seeing Matt and David on the same set together and look forward to seeing more of it in the future, even if it isn't part of Doctor Who.
I only have a few complaints.
1. The editing at the end. They show a shot of all of the Doctors together in one arc and you can tell that the heads are photoshopped on. It isn't even good photoshop. It just looks like someone cut the heads out of the pictures, colored them in, and pasted them over the faces of the stand-ins.
You'd think that since it's Doctor Who and they've shown that they have better effects than that, that the effects would be better than that.
2. (This is more a fan dissapointment thing) WE HAVE 13 REGENERATIONS NOW!!!!! Steven Moffat said that there would only be thirteen Doctors (because on Gallifrey there's a law that only allows thirteen regenerations) and that the law still applys. Well, with John Hurt and Capaldi, we now have thirteen Doctors... I don't hate that we have these people (honestly John Hurt was amazing and I'm really looking forward to Capaldi) but John Hurt has only appeared in, what, two episodes? YOU THRE AWAY ONE REGENERATION IN TWO EPISODES?! A least have like a spinoff series or something about his childhood! But seriously, unless someone assassinates Steven Moffat and replaces him with someone else before this happens, it looks like Doctor Who is coming to and end and that makes me really sad. ):
Anyways everything about the event was amazing. There were all these Whovians around (I wasn't the only TARDIS) and there were tons of fezs and TARDIS hats (literally 5 out of ten people had either a fez, a TARDIS hat, or both) and there were SO many sonic screwdrivers!!!! At one point, we had all been waiting in the theatre for about half an hour and I said "Maybe if we all point our Sonics at it, it'll start" and right as I said that, the movie turned on. You couldn't go anywhere without hearing a sonic and it was just an amazing experience. It was like a Doctor Who convention! The amazing part about it was that nearly every theatre was sold out in a few weeks and it was on a Monday night, and the show did almost no big-media advertising whatsoever. Like, if you didn't set out to find one of the trailers, you wouldn't find it. One does not simply chance upon a Doctor Who 50th trailer.
Anyways, It was an amazing experience and I was very happy hat I went. Pictures of everyone will be being posted soon but not tonight because it is getting late and I've already been pushing off my geek-overload coma. I seriously can't stop running around my room screaming in happiness. It made me really happy to go and see that. I think BBC needs to do this again. They need to make an episode that is completely for the fans and has all these big actors in it and all these nostalgic things from past Doctors and they have to show it in theatres so that people can go be Whovians together. I had a really wonderful time just talking to the people there and taking pictures and I wouldn't have had that fun with out all of the other people there. I am now moved to start up some Doctor Who fan meet-ups and events so if you live by me, you better plan on meeting me!!! Anyways, I'm going to go cry myself to sleep out of happiness now.
~R