"The War Games" fallout/reactions

Last night, I finished rewatching The War Games, the last Second Doctor era serial. Which means I've now seen everything that currently exists on DVD with at least some real-actors moving-pictures episodes. I'm going to do another round where I also watch all the reconstructions and the completely animated stories (The Macra Terror of course only came out recently, so I haven't seen it yet, and I didn't buy The Power of the Daleks at first because it was all animated and I was the most concerned at first with getting everything of Two & Jamie goodness; now I of course want to see all of Two in some form and all of Ben and Polly that I can, too).

But oh, gods, this story. I did watch it once already, during the Twitch marathon when I fell in love with this era, but it's even more powerful when I've seen all the fully existing episodes of the Two era before it. And does it put me through a wringer. Mostly it's so amazing, probably my favourite of all the Doctor Who stories that I've ever seen, but oh, it hurts, too.

( Reactions, comments on it all; also contains references to other stories and New Who; spoilers abound; gets very emotional )

I kind of just want to dive straight back into Two's beginning and watch all the stories and spend my life in a blissful never-ending Two era bubble. But maybe that's not so healthy. So I'll probably try to watch the Four & Leela DVDs that I own next, before I return to Round Two of Two: Now With the Missing Stuff. Four & Leela would probably be really good for me now, once I recover from this a bit, and I didn't see enough of Leela during the marathons. I'm also thinking of getting The War Machines and The Tenth Planet on DVD so I can actually also make it "watch all of Ben & Polly" and get Two's beginning in context. (I watched The War Machines during the January marathon and enjoyed it very much, but will gladly watch it again followed by all the other Ben & Polly stuff.)