Spoilers Russell T. Davies Returns to Doctor Who as New Showrunner

[jaime]

By you, I mean those who object to it, but fair enough.

Ah. Fair enough xD

 

[JD]

But the weird thing by modern standards is — that wasn’t a season finale. Davisons Swansong in the lead yes, but the finale is The Twin Dilemma.

Which admittedly isn’t a shiny example xD

But consider this… Lis Sladen’s swansong is Hand of Fear. A normal serial, bar her being dropped off in not-Croydon. The next, Deadly Assassin, has all the hallmarks of what we now associate with a ‘finale’ and yet… isn’t one. Because then we get Face of Evil and pick up our new companion, in a story that relies in part on an offscreen adventure of sorts.
Which also is not the finale. (Talons)

Now, yes, it’s back when finale writing was not common place, but would season 14 be considered lacking a special something because we didn’t threaten the universe when Magnus Greel was terrorising Victorian London?

Admittedly, there’s a mid season break for Christmas and the New Year of about six weeks, probably a strike or sporting event involved too, so you could argue DA was still a finale of sorts. Not sure it was planned as such though.

I'm sorry, but it's absolutely ridiculous to compare a show being made today to a show made back in the '60s - '80s, TV is a completely different thing than it was back them. You might as well compare a big, modern broadway musical like Wicked, with an ancient Greek play like Lysistrata.

I think I must be the only person who has actually enjoyed most of the finales.