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Spoiler alert, of course.
What did you all think of The End of Time? Discuss! Remember, if you are feeling Tennant nostalgia, here’s the Daily Tennant tag on my tumblr.
I’m quite excited about the next series – series 5 or series 31 or the 2010 series or whatever they’re calling it now (it looks like they’re not continuing with that series 1 garbage). Here are the two trailers for the next series starring Matt Smith at the Eleventh Doctor and Karen Gillan as Amy Pond. The first is more traditionally trailerish, the second is, well, something else!
The Doctor is standing in front of the Tardis.
The Doctor: Okay, what have you got for me this time?
Lots of flashes of Doctorish activity: leaping about, explosions, he punches someone (!), he kisses someone, etc. There’s a vampire, a Weeping Angel, a Dalek! He screams ‘Geronimo’ as Amy just screams. More flashes of activity, Amy’s eyes turning towards us, more activity, the Doctor’s eyes doing the same. Then, on a black screen, in blue writing, ‘COMING SPRING 2010′ – Amy’s shocked face – ‘THE END’ – a shot of the Doctor – ‘IS JUST THE BEGINNING’ – the Doctor shooting a gun. There’s a black screen, and then the Doctor leans in to tell someone we only see from behind, ‘trust me, I’m the Doctor.’ As we fade back into a black screen and the new logo, the letters DW shaped like a Tardis, are lit up by the light on top twice, only to fade out again until we’re presented with a similarly-lit ’2010′. Then the new logo again with the similarly-styled words ‘Doctor Who’. Then ‘bbc.co.uk/doctorwho’ appears on the screen.
The Doctor and Amy are lying on grass, looking up at the stars.
Amy: How about that one?
The Doctor: Bit [?] up close.
Amy: That one’s flickering.
The Doctor: Yeah, sorry, thought I’d fixed that.
Amy [turning to him]: Who are you?
The Doctor [turning to her]: I’m the Doctor.
Amy: Doctor who?
A sudden noise and he turns to his other side. Light starts coming out of cracks in the ground. They’re lifted up into the air, holding hands, as a circle of light explodes under them. The circle of light changes into the swirling blue vortex and they’re sucked back in as Amy screams. They’re torn apart, but manage to grab hold of each others’ hands as they’re sucked down the vortex tunnel.
The Doctor: Hold on tight!
A close up of Amy’s bewildered face. They look to one side as we hear Dalek noises. They look around as various aliens the Doctor has fought before appear. They grab hold of each others’ shoulders.
The Doctor: Trust me.
Amy: What? Why?
He lets go of her. She screams his name and she tumbles back into the vortex. He turns to face a Weeping Angel, which explodes, possibly due to one of the balls of light flying through the vortex. The Doctor and Amy come back together in a shower of rocks and light.
The Doctor (v.o.): All of time and space. Everywhere and anywhere. Every star that ever was.
In a flash of light, we’re back on the grass.
The Doctor: Where do you want to start?
The grass is suddenly torn apart again and there’s an alien head in front of us (a Silurian I think).
The logo comes on screen and
a voiceover announces: Doctor Who. The journey begins this Easter on BBC One.
as the BBC One logo, ‘Easter 2010′ and ‘bbc.co.uk/doctorwho’ come on screen.
I am so excited and also nervous about the new series. AUGHSOMUCHCHANGE! I will be very interested to see what Matt Smith does with the role, though! (And what Moffat does as head writer. And what the new companion’s like. And etc.)
TIME LORD SEX!!!
Er, yeah, anyway.
I honestly thought that The End of Time Part 1 was the WORST Doctor Who episode of the RTD era. I thought that the Master jumping all over the place like one of the X-men was RTD’s attempt to use special effects to replace storyline, and the only bit I really liked was the conversation between the Doctor and Wilf in the cafe (I LOVED that bit).
Fortunately, I did think that Part 2 was a LOT better. I loved the twist on “he will knock four times” with Wilf, and the weeping angels reference, the Master backstory, and the mysterious Time Lady who I choose to believe was Susan, even if Julie Gardner does say she was the Doctor’s mother. And I honestly think that Doctor/Master is canon now — back when they were in Time Lord High School. I don’t think this was the best Doctor Who episode ever, but I was relieved to have something decent after Part 1.
Overall, I think The Waters of Mars was the best thing to come out of the Whoniverse recently.
‘TIME LORD SEX!!!’ Always a good conversation starter. Now I’m totally forgetting the Weeping Angels ref in Pt 2.
When the two Time Lords who voted against sending the sound of the drums to the Master covered their eyes, Timothy Dalton compared them to the Weeping Angels.
Oh yes, that’s right.
I myself am looking forward to having River Song back. I’m wondering if we’ll see her first meeting with the Doctor, or some intermediate meeting or what.
I was rather creeped out by how those two Time Lords looked like Weeping Angels. And I seem to remember there was a line that seemed to make a connection between the two, but I can’t recall what it was. I’d have to check.
(D’you think the Master will stop turning up now? That seemed to get him out of the way with finality….)
Mate, I don’t even know. To be honest, I thought it was cheating to bring him back and then the Time Lords in general so much more so. Because that’s the emotional deal RTD had made with the audience, of having this lonely angel/soldier, and going back on it wasn’t a powerful plotty move, it really undercut the emotional force in the show. So, I don’t know what places Moffat is going to take Who to, but they better be vastly removed from the places it has been recently.
I’m intrigued about how bringing back River Song will work – she seemed to know the Doctor in that particular incarnation.
I’m not keen on more Daleks. Haven’t we had enough of them already?
Excuse me a minute, I need to go and scream with excitment.
That’s better. Stephen Moffat looks promising, he’s written great stuff in the past. And the weeping angels are coming back! I’m not going to be able to sleep for weeks after. I’m really looking forward to have a long-term companion again. I much preferred David Tennant’s Doctor when there was a relationship being built on (except The Waters of Mars, but that was just on another level) rather than just jumping from one place to another.
Also, yay for Wilf and his gang (especially Minnie!)
I was disappointed with how Donna was left. Yes she got her man etc etc but she had been so much more when she was with the Doctor. The going back and visiting everyone was a lovely touch though.
I think the Master is unkillable. I just watched a Peter Davison episode in which the Master immolated himself in a fire, vanishing down to nothing – he used to do that sort of thing quite a lot, then come back. (The episode was Planet of Fire.)
I will be truly pissed off if the Doctor gets all romantic with Amy. I am okay with him having a romantic relationship with River Song as long as she stays mostly off screen – dropping in every so often – but if she’s going to be a regular companion, I don’t want that either. I want the Doctor asexual. Why? Because I started in with Patrick Troughton, and he’s kinda my vision for what the Doctor is.
To be honest, I thought it was cheating to bring him back and then the Time Lords in general so much more so. Because that’s the emotional deal RTD had made with the audience, of having this lonely angel/soldier, and going back on it wasn’t a powerful plotty move, it really undercut the emotional force in the show.
Which, ironically, seems to be RTD’s reason for not bringing Ianto back in Torchwood.
*ahem*
I have Issues.
Kirstente, I’m not keen on the Daleks flying. That’s just nonsense. And I’m not really that keen on Matt Smith as the Doctor – he’s too young. Plus, they’ve made him a bit too vampirish, like they want to attract the Twilight audience… Still, he must be shitting himself to be taking over from the most popular Doctor ever.
I didn’t like End of Time at all, sadly. I kept waiting for Donna to be involved in some way, and she wasn’t, and it made me sad. I feel like they brought Catherine Tait on just because there was no way to have the Doctor on earth and not deal with Donna. :( I would have rather they hadn’t done anything with her.
I’m excited for Moffatt, and River Song. River Song hits one of my narrative kinks really hard: “We’ve had a relationship spanning weeks or months or years and you don’t remember it and it’s not amnesia”. (Very specific, I know.) I’ve done it in RPGs with Alternate Universes and Time Travel, so seeing it in Who made me all gooey inside. *grin*
Also, I just love how Moffatt plays with time travel within episodes.
I secretly hope Sally Sparrow comes back.
I WANT JENNY TO COME BACK. Or get her own show. Either’s good.
Yeah, the storyline was totally unfair to Donna. Even if she couldn’t remember anything, she should have gained some inner resources – not this whole “well, she’s settling.” Her happy ending was to win the lottery??? That’s cheap.
I was also annoyed that The End of Time seemed to have forgotten Martha Jones is a doctor.
But I did love the chemistry between the Doctor and the Master. That was nicely done.
I was PHENOMENALLY CONFUSED by the Martha bit in The End Of Time because I’d forgotten that Mickey came back from Parallel Earth. So I was just like wait, what?
And why is she with Mickey now???
What happened to the other doctor? The one Martha left The Doctor for?
This is what I am wondering!
I will say, in defense of Russell T Davies, that his disposal of Martha and Donna is NOT the worst or stupidest thing that has happened to the Doctor’s companions. Peri (Colin Baker era) ran off with a warrior king with absolutely no setup or rhyme or reason. Zoe and Jamie (Patrick Troughton era) had to forget their time together with the Doctor. Adric (Peter Davison era) got killed, Sarah Jane Smith got ditched, and the list goes on and on. Bah.
On the plus side, the fate of the companions is not entirely up to the show’s scriptwriters. Fanfic! Anybody seen A Teaspoon and an Open Mind? URL: http://www.whofic.com/