I detested the FoB endgame when I first watched LotTL, but I've come around to it -- partly for all the reasons you cite here, partly because my own favorite TW-in-Who moment (my favorite scene in the Whoniverse, period) is the confrontation between Jack and the Doctor in Utopia. Which, of course, immediately precedes the "YANA" revelation. I've always thought it the most genuinely tragic passage in DW -- the futility of Jack's wait, the Doctor's inability not only to fix him but even to offer sympathy, all the more wounding because their dilemmas are in many ways so similar and because of the history they share. And yet there's Jack's touch of hope, which the FoB reveal in the next ep will magnify into something far more powerful.
BTW, I've been enjoying your insights on each of these "days," even if I haven't always commented -- your perceptiveness about both character and story mechanics is a daily pleasure. :)
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Date: 2011-01-27 10:48 pm (UTC)BTW, I've been enjoying your insights on each of these "days," even if I haven't always commented -- your perceptiveness about both character and story mechanics is a daily pleasure. :)