Ok, so I liked it. Quite a lot, actually. Is it the best episode ever? No. That is a toss up between Midnight, Blink and Turn Left. Is it the best season finale for Doctor Who (since it’s been revamped)? Yes. Almost. In my mind the one with the Master is about equal, mostly because they both have big glaring flaws. This one was better overall, and a really good bow-out episode for Davies.
I’m really glad they didn’t hit a reset switch. I’m also really glad that they brought about all of the little seeds of plot that Davies left hanging from the begining of the series. I likes the two doctor aspects, and glad he didn’t wuss out on the regeneration (he could’ve gone far more wussier than that, and the idea of two Doctors is very cool). Not happy about Donna’s ending, or Rose getting stuck with Doctor 10.5, but them’s the breaks. It was melodramatic in those scenes to the point of making me want to throw up, but the good parts of the episodes way outweighed all the crap.
Like, for example, waiting until this week to see what happened. I have been this excited about waiting for a tv show in a long time. All the speculation, all the wondering and what-if’s- it reminds me of watching Lost in the first season, or Veronica Mars in the first season. And having all the companions pilot the Tardis? Nice.
About all of the non-scientific stuff that happened: who cares. Science Fiction is based when it is used as an act of wonder, not as an act of futurism. And this was full of wonder, full of cool as shit. And that made me smile. This is what science fiction should be like- it should make me go wow.
I guess some writers just can’t write endings. Stephen King is one, and it looks like Davies is another.
Good thing that there was that one console in Davros’ room that closed all the ongoing storylines for us. That’s not non-scientific, that’s just non-writing.
Also, why did Rose have to go back to the other dimension? There was no reason that she couldn’t just hang out on main storyline Earth with the human doc. He could work for Torchwood, too.
I don’t find Donna’s ending tragic, because I hadn’t seen any evidence that she’d grown as a person anyway.
Good things:
-Davros screaming
-Dalek Kaan giggling
-K9
“Good thing that there was that one console in Davros’ room that closed all the ongoing storylines for us. That’s not non-scientific, that’s just non-writing.”
That one didn’t bother me as much. Although I did find it funny that every single thing they brought up that could kill Devros got shoved aside- that was *funny*. The magic button? That was just Davies painting himself into a corner and not knowing how to get out of it.
K-9 was awesome, and did what K-9 did best- which is saving the Doctor’s ass.