Review: “Doctor Who: The End Of Time, Part 2″
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I was a casual “Dr. Who” fan as a kid. I’d catch the show on weekends and loved Tom Baker’s style, but never kept up with the show on any significant level. Thus, when the new series was announced, I wasn’t all that jazzed about it. Periodically I’d catch episodes on SciFi, but it wasn’t until about halfway through David Tennant’s second season that I really started paying attention to the show. Most of that credit can be laid at the Converse-clad feet of Tennant himself, who invested the Tenth Doctor with a unique charm, spirit, liveliness, and pathos that made him a definitive Doctor for the modern era, and probably the most definitive since Baker himself. As Tennant said in the short charity special where he meets his prior incarnation of the Fifth Doctor (Peter Davidson), “You were my Doctor.”
That partially accounts for the pomp and circumstance surrounding Tennant’s departure, I think. He is the Doctor for a whole new generation of viewers, after all. But the rest of it belongs to Russell T. Davies and crew, as the people who reinvigorated and rebuilt the ol’ TARDIS for a brand new era. I think that’s why “The End of Time, Part 2″ has such an air of finality through it. We know, of course, that the Doctor will simply regenerate and go on, but we also know that the RTD era is over.
So was the finale worth it? Did it live up to the hype? MAJOR SPOILERS beyond this point, so don’t read if you don’t want to know or haven’t seen it yet.
Read the rest of this entry »
I was a casual “Dr. Who” fan as a kid. I’d catch the show on weekends and loved Tom Baker’s style, but never kept up with the show on any significant level. Thus, when the new series was announced, I wasn’t all that jazzed about it. Periodically I’d catch episodes on SciFi, but it wasn’t until about halfway through David Tennant’s second season that I really started paying attention to the show. Most of that credit can be laid at the Converse-clad feet of Tennant himself, who invested the Tenth Doctor with a unique charm, spirit, liveliness, and pathos that made him a definitive Doctor for the modern era, and probably the most definitive since Baker himself. As Tennant said in the short charity special where he meets his prior incarnation of the Fifth Doctor (Peter Davidson), “You were my Doctor.”
That partially accounts for the pomp and circumstance surrounding Tennant’s departure, I think. He is the Doctor for a whole new generation of viewers, after all. But the rest of it belongs to Russell T. Davies and crew, as the people who reinvigorated and rebuilt the ol’ TARDIS for a brand new era. I think that’s why “The End of Time, Part 2″ has such an air of finality through it. We know, of course, that the Doctor will simply regenerate and go on, but we also know that the RTD era is over.
So was the finale worth it? Did it live up to the hype? MAJOR SPOILERS beyond this point, so don’t read if you don’t want to know or haven’t seen it yet.
Read the rest of this entry »