How would you feel if the final episode of Season Five was the final episode of the overall series?
The Big Bang as Doctor Who's series finale
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It wasn't and if it actually was, I suspect we would have had a totally different story.
I am going to take out of Bones' book with this one.Go away. Stop with the stupid, pointless posts.
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And the reason why I thought the Big Bang would be a good series finale was because I felt it completed the Doctor's character arc of the new series and not the original. Think about it:
And the reason why I thought the Big Bang would be a good series finale was because I felt it completed the Doctor's character arc of the new series and not the original. Think about it:
- In the beginning, he was a battle-scarred Doctor haunted by the past while pushing himself to move on with his life. Rose helped heal him through their growing bond. Then he regenerated into the Eleventh Doctor with a sudden insatiable embrace of life and travel through space and time with Rose. Rose became his rock until the events of Doomsday happened causing a tragic separation between them.
- The Doctor was forced to go on without her and tried to use Martha as her replacement. But though they have had their share of good times together, Martha realizes that the Doctor will never have the feelings she wants him to have for her and that the Doctor still hasn't completely come to terms with Rose's absence.
- That is when Donna came in. Donna finished where Martha started with little success which is helping the Doctor move on from Rose. The Doctor didn't see Donna as Rose's replacement but as herself and you get the feeling that they were having great times together without the shadow of the past hanging over. Sadly, good times came to an end when the Doctor was forced to erase Donna's memories to keep her from overloading which would have killed her. That and the guilt he felt when Davros confronted him with how he turned his past companions into dangerous warriors led to the Doctor spending some time on his own without a companion for a while.
- The Doctor ended up facing his morality when he received the prophecy of his death and he struggled with it for a bit until he eventually gave into it to save the life of Donna's grandfather.
- The Doctor died but regenerated into the Eleventh Doctor and throughout Season Five, I had the impression he was trying to regain the embrace of life the Eleventh Doctor had more of before the tragedies of Rose and Donna. He was also trying to get back to regular old travel through space and time with his new companion Amy Pond without the dread of moral dilemmas that add more blood on his hands. But there was a moment their companionship nearly came to an end in The Beast Below when the Doctor faced such a moral dilemma that he blamed on Amy for pressing the erase button. However, Amy proved herself to be the right companion for the Doctor in the end. And he was confronted by the return of River Song, a reminder of his time as the Eleventh Doctor and people he failed to save in the past which tainted his spirit. But it was during his time with Amy, he was able to treat River less as a pesky ghost from his past and more of a glimpse of a hopeful future.
- By the end of Season Five, the Doctor is liberated from past guilt after stopping a disaster caused by the explosion of his Tardis which could have ended the Universe as we know it and getting to attend Amy's wedding. Rory and Amy joins the Doctor on his next adventure and if we were left with that, our imagination would have left wondering what would have happened next but happy for the Doctor as he continues to do what he does best: exploring other worlds and time periods.
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GallifreyBase would have a complete meltdown.
GallifreyBase would have a complete meltdown.
From what I've heard of that place, surely that's a good thing?
I think the finale was quite satisfying on its own. However your basic point is well-taken. I read a few comments of the "thank god not another cliffhanger" variety but that just means they weren't paying attention to the dialogue in the final scene.
As far as a "series ending" finale, I don't see this as sufficient in that regard. The ending of Journey's End, despite being a downer, would have worked well as a series finish.
Alex
Extremely disappointed.
Gah.
If "The Big Bang" had been the series finale, it would have been cool if the Doctor had visited events from all ten of his previous lives, rather than simply his own eleventh incarnation. That would have been a lot tougher to do, though, of course.
Aaaaand what he said.
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