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date: 2010-01-02 00:50:24
subject: Re: The End of Time (review)

From: doctor{at}doctor.nl2k.ab.ca (The Doctor)

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Agamemnon  wrote:
>Great performances from David Tennant, Bernard Cribbins and Timothy Dalton.
>
>He will knock four times turns out to be he will knock sixteen times or 
>something close to that before I lost count, not to mention all the other 
>knocking four times that was going on  before it.
>
>The Time Lords becoming creatures of pure energy like the Guardians was what 
>I expected might happen at the end, with the Doctor missing out on becoming 
>part of it. If the Master returns then the Time Lords probably survive as 
>well.
>
>Did the Time Lords bring back Rassilon as Lord President or did he bring 
>himself into the Time War? And do we now have the Glove of Rassilon or the 
>Gauntlet of Rassilion to add to the Hand of Rassilon or did we actually see 
>the Hand of Rassilon in its true form which gave it it's name?
>
>How come the 10th Doctor can fall at 100 miles an hour from a space ship 
>about 100 meters above a glass roof and hit a sold marble floor and still be 
>able to walk afterwards but when the 4th Doctor falls about 50 meters from 
>the top of the Joderal Bank Mk1 dish onto a field of soft grass he is forced 
>to regenerate almost immediately?
>
>And then he absorbs all that radiation, which somehow isn't able to escape 
>through the crack in the frame of the glass door?
>
>How long did he spend on other adventures while searching for an opportunity 
>to help his former companions? A few hundred years perhaps? Martha looked 
>good. Billie Piper still sounded like she was slurring and the scene with 
>Captain Jack was an obvious rip-off of the Jazz Bar sequence in Star Wars IV 
>A New Hope.
>
>Also how come Wilf wasn't affected by the machine along with Donna and the 
>non-humans but everyone else was. If it was because both had travelled in 
>the TARDIS then how come the Doctor didn't try to get help from Sarah Jane, 
>Luke, Martha and Mickey? It wasn't clear if Sarah Jane had been affected, 
>but Luke shouldn't have been. What is so special about Wilf and who is the 
>woman that was speaking to him who was also one of the Time Lords that had 
>her face covered. Susan perhaps? Was the other one the Doctor's father or 
>her father or is she descended from Verity Newman. And how come Verity 
>Newman has the name Newman which is the name of the Doctor's father in Human 
>Nature and Verity which is the name of his mother. Is she his biological 
>descendent?
>
>The sequence with Matt Smith after the regeneration sounded almost identical 
>in character to the Children in Need sequence of David Tennant after his 
>regeneration, as if David Tennant should have been playing the part which 
>now makes it obvious that the 10th Doctor was simply a continuation of the 
>9th Doctor character after Christopher Eccleston left. RTD is seems only 
>able to write just one personality for the Doctor irrespective of who's 
>playing him, so it's a good job that Steve Moffat has taken over for the new 
>series. The trailer for Matt Smith as the Doctor after by confidential 
>episode looks brilliant, and Smiths Doctor in it sounds like he has a 
>completely different tone from the RTD incarnations and looks like it is 
>going to be great.
>
>I'm going to miss David Tennant as the Doctor despite all my complaints 
>about RTD. Tennant made the part his own and was able to transcend the 
>quality of the script writing and the plots which Sylvester McCoy was never 
>able to do. David Tennant was the Doctor who the closest to the same age as 
>me which gives us something in common and I hope he carries on in the Audio 
>Adventures and comes back to do a multiple Doctor story every now and then. 
>Matt Simth on the other hand is the Doctor from my home town so that should 
>make up for not having David Tennant as the Doctor since we have that in 
>common now.
>
>Anyway RTD managed to add to the mythology and posed some questions in this 
>story and its sad to see David Tennant go since he had a few more episodes 
>left in him yet, and that's the first time I've felt like that since Tom 
>Baker left so I will give The End of Time 10/10.
>
>
>

I look forward to it unless it does a Waters of Mars.
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