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Doctor Who, Christmas and New Years Special


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The is too young and is ugly he will be rubbish i think

 

That's what they said about Tennant.

 

And Eccleston.

 

And McGann.

 

And McCoy.

 

And Baker.

 

And Davison.

 

And the other Baker.

 

And Pertwee.

 

And Troughton.

 

Need I go on?

 

Well, I can't considering I listed every Doctor but the first.

 

Anyway, the finale was awesome as expected. Part 1 lacked a certain... flare, I guess. The resurrection of the Master felt more cartooney than it did foreboding, and the 'Potions of Life' sounded like something from a PARODY of Who than an actual episode. It got steadily better after that, and the Master Race actually got a couple chuckles from me. I was rather pumped for the second episode.

 

Part deux was better, though I was dissapointed how they used the Time Lords. Everything we've been told about them throughout the seasons, leading up to... almost nothing other than an EXCEEDINGLY bad Special Effect of Galifrey kinda-maybe-not knocking into Earth for some reason (Anyone notice that the size of Galifrey from Earth was a lot smaller than a Planet nearly twice the size of Earth really should have been, from that distance?).

 

That said, everything past that one little point was gold, especially Doctor's struggle with who to shoot, eventually ending in an (admittedly Deus Ex Machina) satisfying conclusion with the Master taking his revenge on the people that screwed with his mind, the Doctor keeping his morals, and the Master even showing concern for the Doctor the very first time in the entire New Series, telling him to 'Get out of the way' in what I think was the Crowning Moment of Awesome for the episode.

 

The 'Knocking 4 times' was brilliant when we discovered exactly what it meant; It wasn't the Master's frantic drumming, or a Timelord's heartbeat, or anything nearly as amazing or threatening as we had been set up to think; As it turns out, the knocking was nothing more than a simple old man asking to come out of a glass chamber he locked himself into. And while the Doctor had full power to avoid his death like that, he still didn't.

 

The goodbyes made to everyone was really quite tearjerking also, but the real part you have to wonder at is 10's final words- "I don't want to go". You have to wonder if it was the Doctor talking at that point, David Tennant himself, or an echo of the fans.

 

That said, I'm looking forward to Smith's tenure. At the moment, he seems to be emulating Tennant's frantic insanity in high-stress situations, which is good for the moment, but I hope he fleshes out more of a unique personality for himself.

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