RTD Retrospective #10: Series Finale
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Between Donna's Dance Party and Rose needing her Tennant RealDoll, "Journey's End" can fuck right off. Outside of Julian Bleach as Davros and the end of Donna's story, there's absolutely nothing redeeming about that episode.
"Last of the Time Lords" wastes all of its potential that it's given by its prior two episodes. Even though it's about 5 percent brilliance and 15 percent passable, that other 80 percent just absolutely ruins it. Dobby Doctor, Jesus Doctor ... ugh.
It's really a dead heat between "The Parting of the Ways" and "Doomsday." The more I think about it, I lean towards "The Parting of the Ways," though, for several reasons ... the big one is that I just like Eccleston's Doctor a whole lot more than Tennant's. As the whole high school flirting element is the biggest problem with Tennant's first season, the focus on it in "Doomsday" is rather irksome to me (though it's still a ridiculously fun episode).
"Doomsday" has some great moments (I'll always love "Oh, the Doctor will not") and some great elements, such as the Cult of Skaro, but "The Parting of the Ways" just holds up as a better overall story, in my book. (And it has, by far, the best regeneration scene in the revival.)
"Last of the Time Lords" wastes all of its potential that it's given by its prior two episodes. Even though it's about 5 percent brilliance and 15 percent passable, that other 80 percent just absolutely ruins it. Dobby Doctor, Jesus Doctor ... ugh.
It's really a dead heat between "The Parting of the Ways" and "Doomsday." The more I think about it, I lean towards "The Parting of the Ways," though, for several reasons ... the big one is that I just like Eccleston's Doctor a whole lot more than Tennant's. As the whole high school flirting element is the biggest problem with Tennant's first season, the focus on it in "Doomsday" is rather irksome to me (though it's still a ridiculously fun episode).
"Doomsday" has some great moments (I'll always love "Oh, the Doctor will not") and some great elements, such as the Cult of Skaro, but "The Parting of the Ways" just holds up as a better overall story, in my book. (And it has, by far, the best regeneration scene in the revival.)
So awesome.Or the Tardis towing the Earth in Journey's End.
Agreed. Possibly the best regeneration ever, excepting Androzani.
Steve, what's left to do - season by season?
It's a secret! But I tried to come up with a set of questions where every episode would be a possible answer at least once, so we've got a few more to go.
Thank God I find graphs infinitely entertaining.
Thank God I find graphs infinitely entertaining.
Why does everyone have such a problem with the TARDIS, properly operated, being able to tow a planet? Sure, execution is tacky, but the concept itself I thought was entirely possible and well within the capabilities of such a machine.
Nah, I have no problem with the TARDIS towing the Earth. Would the gravatational forces rip the planet apart during such a tow? Probably, but same goes for Gallifrey (and the moon) appearing directly above Earth (hell, same goes for all of the other planets in such close proximaty).
Even if the show runs another 50+ years, they're going to have to dip very low to out-cheese the cheesiness of that scene. They'd have done as well attaching wings or rocket engines to it.
In the spirit of the "Doctor Donna", I present the latest in Timelord technology:
TARDIS Earth
It's bigger on the...uh...surface? It can also fly circles around a Chula warship. The chameleon circuit will be installed on Tuesday.
In the spirit of the "Doctor Donna", I present the latest in Timelord technology:
TARDIS Earth
It's bigger on the...uh...surface? It can also fly circles around a Chula warship. The chameleon circuit will be installed on Tuesday.
^Sure it is. But I think this is a case of "just because you can doesn't mean you should". I mean, the TARDIS can theoretically do a whole lot of things that, on the surface, seem completely plausible but look incredibly cartoonish on screen. Much of that episode was like that, though.
I didn't think that the TARDIS towing the Earth was done poorly or looked cheesy (or, at least, any more cheesy than Doctor Who ought to look). I thought the moment was pure exuberance, pure joy. I thought it was magic, and it worked wonderfully for me.
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