[GregT] It was so very close to being good. The ending was fine in concept, just bad in execution. The Doctor was doing exactly what we'd always whined that we wanted him to; it was what the episode had made us want; and it was perfectly in line with a character who over the entire new series had been haunted by all the people he'd been unable to save.

It should have been closure for his failure to save the Time Lords, with unfortunate consequences. It turned out to be closure for the "secretly the Doctor's a colossal dick" storyline that Davies had apparently been building to.