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412: | 412: '''The Stolen Earth''' ''[[2008]] [[July 25]]'' | ||
(First watched 2008-07-26) God DAMN! Last week was good as a teaser, but '''this''' is how one goes about doing a mega intra-franchise crossover! Giant bad goings on bringing together all the major companions of the modern Doctor Who, as well as the core cast of both current spinoffs. Really the only way it could've encompassed the modern franchise in a bigger way is if [[Christopher Eccleston]]'s version of the Doctor from [[Doctor Who Series 1|series 1]] showed up. | |||
One disappointment... the Daleks. Though hearing "EXTERMINATE!" again was a surprise... this makes 3 of 4 series that have ended on a major Dalek threat. It's getting to be a bit much. Though I did appreciate the Doctor's reference to [[Doctor Who Season 2|The Dalek Invasion of Earth]] when he mentioned that someone had tried to move the Earth a long time ago. Though I guess from a non-time-traveler's point of view it's a few hundred years away. | |||
Harriet Jones, former prime minister, rest in peace. Even the Daleks know who you are, hahaha. | |||
So... what the heck is going on at the end. Obviously playing like a regeneration, but even from the two seconds of preview I saw from the next episode (and the fact that I couldn't avoid a spoiler of such magnitude if I tried) it seems to still be [[David Tennant|Tennant]]'s Doctor. | |||
So Earth is just one of 27 heavenly bodies placed together... isn't anything important happening on any of the other ones? | |||
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413: '''Journey's End''' ''[[2008]] [[August 1]]'' | |||
(First watched 2008-07-29) So again that creepy hand comes in useful. He regenerated... but only using a bit of its power (so he didn't totally transform), and giving the rest to the hand, which ended up growing fully as well as messing up Donna. | |||
Last week I almost said that next to the Ninth Doctor, the biggest things missing were Mickey and Jackie. Well, here they were! | |||
Daleks speaking German! | |||
Boy, the TARDIS sure got full for a while there. And finally enough people helming the thing to not require one man running around to all the controls. | |||
So Jack talking to Martha and Mickey at the end... could they really end up at Torchwood? It would make the series even ridiculously more Doctor Who-tied, but they would fit into the roles of doctor and computer expert fairly well. | |||
Rose Tyler... gets a Doctor of her own? Weird. Human Doctor, for all his differences that allowed him to commit genocide to save the multiverse, seems pretty submissive to the regular Doctor. They're near-identical, but he's completely willing to be shunted off to another reality to essentially stay out of the other Doctor's hair. | |||
The end result for Donna breaks my heart, though. Previously people got separated from the Doctor (willfully or not), but they went on to lead more productive lives as a result of their experiences, some of them eventually even rejoining up in this very episode to help save reality. But Donna... goes back to the almost self-loathing woman she was before, none the better for her experiences except that maybe her mom will treat her better. They'll find some way around it if they really want to, but what a bummer. I wonder if the Doctor gives everyone else fair warning? Awkward if Jack Harkness runs into her, mentions their past experience, and kills her. | |||
Human Doctor-Donna can't put up with it, but Human Doctor with Rose can? Pfffffffffft. Rose got infused with the power from the TARDIS enough to make a man immortal and alter all of history, but she survived. asofjasdfopia;werf. | |||
Appropriate that this series didn't end with a "What? What!? What!" like the last two. And hey, no reset button like last year. | |||
ADDED LATER: So a big deal was made of the Doctor's old companions become destructive... but where are the rest? Are the Ninth and Tenth Doctors the only ones inspiring continued action? Admittedly I haven't watched enough of the old show to know many ultimate fates, but surely ''some'' of them must be around in modern day England other than Sarah Jane. | |||
Maybe they were active, but in the interest of time the episode could only show those who managed to get anywhere. Off screen maybe 80 year old Ian and Barbara are trying to toss a blanket over a Dalek. | |||
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40X2: '''The Next Doctor''' ''[[]] [[]]'' | |||
(First watched 2009-01-06) Nice. Much cooler than last year's Christmas special. Gives you an interesting what-if for a while, wondering if the man really is a (potential) future version of The Doctor, though as things came to light I began to get a sense of what had happened to him except for the exact how of him coming about the fractured knowledge. I wonder how long he had been going around as The Doctor trying to fight Cybermen? | |||
Those Cybermen from another reality must be just like the ones the Doctor knew even though they had a different origin, because he immediately recognized their iron giant as a specific class of vehicle. | |||
Their plan to start up the thing seemed unnecessarily complicated, though. First, kill one man to get a funeral. Then, capture four important guys at the funeral. Then, mechanize those guys and have them lead groups of children to one location. Then... use those children for short-term manual labor? Shouldn't there have been a much simpler way? Were the Cybermen ''that'' short of power that they couldn't rotate a few gears and shovel some coal themselves? | |||
Tethered Aerial Release Developed In Style. Ha! | |||
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40X3: '''Planet of the Dead''' ''[[]] [[]]'' | |||
(First watched 2009-05-15) I kind of liked how almost the entire show went by without an appearance by the TARDIS, and even then it was just an exterior--no need for fancy dancy equipment. Otherwise this one just felt like kind of a long episode, not as grand as some of the other 90 minute ones. Also seemed a cop-out that he refused to bring along the thrill-seeking thief because he was no longer bringing ANYONE along, rather than because she was a thrill-seeking thief. | |||
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40X4: '''The Waters of Mars''' ''[[]] [[]]'' | |||
(First watched 2009-11-20) Wow, the Doctor really went too far this time. Eventually all but saying "Fuck the laws of time! I'm the Doctor!" I'm surprised he didn't go for a less drastic solution sooner, though. I mean, sure, the explosion there was important to history. But were the forensics results of any possible remains left after a nuclear blast important? Evacuate them to a distant part of time and/or space and they'd be alive while leaving the original flow of history intact. | |||
Also, gotta say that Adelaide's end solution seemed a bit off. So she was convinced the timeline should've been left as it originally was, and wanted to put things closer. But... a strange in-home suicide is not exactly going to have the same effect as a mysterious death on Mars. | |||
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