Which most of it is going to be behind a cut since some people I know aren\u2019t quite caught up yet. There will be spoilers in the comments so there\u2019s the warning for ya.<\/p>\n
I am grateful that Tennant did one more year of the Doctor<\/p>\n
The Next Doctor<\/em> Planet of the Dead<\/em> Waters of Mars<\/em> End of Time (Parts 1 and 2)<\/em> To get this out of the way, yes my mind did go to that special slashy place concerning the Master, the Doctor, and the restraint chair. However that chair did produce probably the best line of the whole episode \u201cWorst Rescue Ever!\u201d Somewhere Matt Groening is laughing hysterically.<\/p>\n This was a bit of a mish-mosh for me. Parts of it I loved and felt like Doctor Who and other parts had me saying \u201cget on with it\u201d to the screen. Part 1 went a very long way to get to \u201cThe Master Race.\u201d Simm chewed the scenery with his usual fine abilities. I don\u2019t know if I am comfortable with the Master\u2019s whole amoral behavior was because of the Time Lords setting him up as their patsy. I did like Timothy Dalton as the President who was addressed as Rassilon by the Doctor (which I think was an earlier version of the script that never got repaired). And then there is the woman in white which Peter equated to the Cheese Guy in Buffy who was walking through their dreams in \u201cRestless\u201d. She is what you want her to be. I\u2019ll say Susan and be done with it. I did enjoy his \u201creward\u201d for his sacrifice. Moffat wrote all the 11th Doctor lines so we have an idea of the tone of what is to come.<\/p>\n I\u2019m there for the next season and am willing to give the new team a chance to add to the canon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Which most of it is going to be behind a cut since some people I know aren\u2019t quite caught up yet. There will be spoilers in the comments so there\u2019s the warning for ya. I am grateful that Tennant did one more year of the Doctor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nYes, technically this is going back to 2008 but I really see this as a piece. Steampunk Doctor Who has been used to describe this episode and it is not far wrong. I though that the actors did a fine job. The script moved rather well. I was concerned that we were having yet another dose of Cybermen on top of the Daleks we had in Journey\u2019s End. But this is one of the better Cybermen episodes and the setting does add to it. It was right fun and a good episode to take a break with.<\/p>\n
\nWas not my favorite of the season. It felt very much like a place hold, marking time until the end. The idea was an interesting one but the execution wasn\u2019t not great. Also this cold Doctor who needs no companions didn\u2019t sit well with me considering what Wilf and Martha had told him at different times about himself and needing someone to share with. It all seemed to be set up for one line You be careful, because your song is ending, sir. It is returning, it is returning through the dark. And then Doctor… oh, but then…he will knock four times.<\/em> I think if this episode had been part of a run rather than a special, I would have not expected as much as I did. But I felt that if I was going to have limited Who, then it better be really good limited who.<\/p>\n
\nThis was a good episode in its own right. The tension was played well. The decisions that the Doctor makes and the decisions that the characters make played well. It is the beginning of the end and it feels like it but that\u2019s OK. The \u201cfixed in time must not be play with\u201d chant was a little over done and when the Doctor decides that he was done with all that it kind of goes by the way side except Adelaide Brooke makes the choice to fix that point in time by killing herself which will still change events as they stand. It is a set up for what happens next but I liked it as just a Doctor Who episode.<\/p>\n
\nSince these are of a piece, I will put them together.<\/p>\n