I loved it! And, as seems to be usual, for various reasons that you seem to have disliked it for... *g* I never want to niggle about things in DW either (I've just read comments over at the Grauniad, and oh, just shut up!) cos I tend to watch it for the adventure and the heart of it, as you said at the top. I seem to like Moffat's stories, so I didn't mind this one at all, and I've never paid much attention to their numbers, so if they'd suddenly started justifying them when they've never been an issue in the show it would have thrown me, I think.

Wasn't the point of this, and the prequel bit that you posted, that an ordinary incarnation of the Doctor couldn't actually have ended the Time War as the Warrior Doctor was going to do? McGann's Doctor was allowed to choose the aspects of personality/humanity that he needed to put an end to the Time War, because McGann himself couldn't find another way to do it - or that was how I read it...

I do agree that Tom Baker's Doctor at the end didn't make much sense - but then he gave a nod to the nonsense of it himself, and I'll take the heart of something like that over the scientific justification (which I always manage to make up in my head if I need to *g*) anyday.

So from me - a big yeay! And oh, I wish I could have been in Cardiff that day too, it sounds gorgeous! *vbg*