![]() ![]() Early CGI and half-naked (and part ghostly) John Simm can’t save a scene that feels like it was never given energy in the first place.Ĭomparatively, to skip right past June Whitfield’s brilliant Minnie the menace, the Doctor and Wilf’s conversation in that café is given everything. It feels like a quick scene knocked out on the Friday night before heading down to the pub for a couple of pints, only for Monday to come twice as quickly for shooting to begin. It is overacted, overly trite in all those fantasy ways magic is often showcased, and generally, the writing isn’t there. See, the problem I have with Lucy’s imprisonment and the summoning spell by the cult of Saxon is simple, it just doesn’t sit well. They predict that Sam Tyler would get up from that car accident, Wilfred can see Sam Tyler when he closes his eyes, and Lucy Saxon is stuck in prison and it isn’t Wentworth. Playing a very slight role overall, they are wonderfully soothsaying in their now infinite wisdom. I know in the extended media such as the New Series books there are meant to be some more Ood-based mysteries, but you can never beat a good ol’ episode with Cthulhu’s baby cousins. I love the Ood, and the elder played by Brian Cox (the good one) is brilliant. Take this grandstanding away and I might hold Tennant in higher regard as the Doctor, but he’s exactly that. Loud, loutish, “I can do whatever I want,” claiming himself the sole proprietor and manager of both time and space, and defending it all himself. Try as you may, you just can’t do that no matter who or what you are, and in his final story, he’s exactly that. That is what this Doctor wanted to be, the ultimate savior that protects everyone and thing. Adelaide was right about leaving her and her crew on Mars, sometimes you can’t save everyone. Time-Lord Victorious, even with the context of the story following “ The Waters of Mars ,” is something I just don’t like. He’s just a good man, and that’s all you need when there is nothing but evil on the horizon.Īnyway, we’ll get back to Wilf and his pervert octogenarian friends in a minute. He might have a gun, but he’s never killed a man, even during his service. If there is only a Time-Lord Victorious standing at the front of the show, I don’t mind having good ol’ Wilfred Mott to look up to. He’s just an old man that enjoys adventure and space, all the while wanting to see both his daughter and granddaughter happy and healthy.Įven with a gun, threatening to kill a man (well, Time-Lord), I still love him. ” This is the reason I love Wilfred, alongside being played by the forever fantastic and brilliant Bernard Cribbins. All in a vain attempt to have Donna not remember, as Wilf puts it, “ all those wonderful things you both did. It is a walk down depression road in some cases. Donna’s fuzzy memory is, of course, playing a role in the episode because it is the 10th Doctor cavalcade of good and bad memories. Ok, enough being coy about it, because there is no out-doing Davies’ work drawing the reveals out. Either way, they blew up this prison Lucy was being held in, which caused a bit of a stir. There’s also the cult of mentals that followed this “Master” as if he was a cult leader. Well, that was before she shot him because he was a mental, which is why she’s in prison. Ok, being serious for a minute, I quite like Lucy because there is never really much said about her, other than she was once married to the Prime Minister. ![]() How about that fact Lucy is back, and there is that slightly crap looking summoning spell by white women who actually think they are witches. Nevertheless, “The End of Time” is one of those large world-altering episodes, one that basically says: Let’s ride the nuke into the ground waving a ten-gallon hat in the air while shouting “Yee-haw!” Again, I am asking myself where to start Do I do it with Wilf finally getting his adventure? Was that just to take a dig at Davies’ extended MCU-like comments? Maybe. Of course, that’s if you’re ignoring the extended universe bits such as Big Finish, with episode 11 of the monthly series from August 2000 featuring Romanadvoratrelundar as Lord President (I believe in her first term). It does something we’ve not seen in Doctor Who since “The Five Doctors” of 1983 it brings back the Time-Lord High Council to TV for the first time since “Remembrance of the Daleks” (?), and it is the first sight of Gallifreyians other than the Doctor and the Master in New- Who. It was a double-bill over Christmas and New Years 2009-10. Yes, I do mean that this is downplaying it. To downplay what “The End of Time” is, it is Russell T Davies’ magnum opus. ![]() Where do I even start? This is like reviewing “An Unearthly Child,” or both “The Day of the Doctor” and “The Time of the Doctor” at the same time. ![]()
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