Doctor Who season finale (spoilers)

[jaderabbit]

I enjoyed the season finale of Doctor Who. They really did pull out all the stops. I particularly liked seeing Elisabeth Sladen in her Doctor Who context again.

One thing I didn't pick up on: Who was pulling Donna and The Doctor together throughout their run? It seems that someone must have had a hand in it, but I couldn't figure it out. Future Rose

Comments

[platypus]

I don't think we'll ever be definitively done with the Daleks; it'd be easy enough to say Caan and/or Davros escaped the final explosion. If anything, I'm a bit sick of 'wiping out' the Daleks, or reducing them to just one two, every single time we meet them in the new series. We know they'll come back, eventually, some day; they're Doctor Who's big monster. If Moffat doesn't want them -- and I doubt even that -- there'll be another showrunner sometday. So why pretend they're all dead, every last one, necessitating some handwavey technobabble explanation later as to how there can be more of them when the showrunner wants them back? (Or, as I was saying to Ken afterward, "I don't see why the Doctor was so upset about the other Doctor committing genocide on the Daleks. Everyone knows you can't actually genocide Daleks.")

I don't even doubt that the Time Lords will someday return, though I don't want it; I'd like to see the consequences of something actually stick for a change. They seemed to pave the way here by saying Caan managed to time-travel back into the Time War, even though that's 'impossible.' Nothing's actually impossible. Crossing universes has been said to be impossible at least three times now.

That said, I do believe the Daleks have been overused. It was dramatic when one came back, and then they were gone for good. It was enh when it turned out the Emperor survived after all and made a bunch of religious whacko Daleks to serve him. It was becoming boring when they showed up for their five-minute war with the Cybermen, and then a few survived that and showed up in New York to be totally unthreatening, and now this... that is just too many Daleks for a show that's only had four thirteen-episode seasons so far. They've been in three of the finales, for heaven's sake.