After watching last night ’s Doctor Who instalment , I wished for the first clock time ever that Russell T. Davies would stay on to produce a 5th time of year of the BBC ’s time - travel adventure show . Not because I think a fifth RTD season would be good , but because I ’m dying to see how he could come up with a zanier and more wanktastic final two - parter . Since each finale has to top the last , I ’m guessing next year would involve a sorcerous computer virus that plough everyone in the population into a Sontaran , include Rose , and then the Cybermen from 29 different universe of discourse fight with the Gelth , with set off ribbons ! Spoilers for what actually did befall before .
really the thing that was new about last night ’s “ The Stolen Earth ” was the feeling of being a cross - over between three different show in the Whoniverse . It really was like reading an matter of a comic book like Final Crisis or something . Like , meanwhile at Titans HQ , the Teen Titans react to the crisis , while at the JLA Watchtower , they ’re fighting Gorilla Grodd . Etc . etc . And hey , it was nice to see Luke , Gwen and Ianto lastly in the Who universe proper , and mistily interacting with the Doctor . ( And maybe Gwen will get exterminated next week ? We can only desire . )
aside from that , it feel like the same deal as the old cock-a-hoop finales , only big . half-baked poop happens , and you just have to go with it and switch off your mentality a little flake . So essentially the Daleks steal the Earth because it ’s a component in the Crucible , their mega - weapon thingy , and they ’ve obliterate it in a crease of place - time . And the Daleks are swooping down and harvesting the human slipstream . And Laurie Anderson and her army of rhinoceros are pissed .
I loved all the cockamamy patch devices and loopy plot tress . Code Red ! ULTIMATE Code Red ! MEGA ULTIMATE Code Red ! Maximum Extermination ! Do n’t activate Project Indigo ! Oh , okay , fine , you could activate Project Indigo after all . But really , do n’t expend the Häagen - Dazs equipment ! Just do n’t ! But meanwhile , we can make our telephone sign go really really far by making every telephone in England dial the Doctor ’s telephone number at once . ( Wha ? Huh ? ) As long as you do n’t give up to worry about the fact that Cardiff ’s space / time rift was in a physical emplacement that Cardiff no longer occupies , you ’ll just run with it . ( Oh and by the way , the Doctor ’s phone turn isout of service . Bah . If this was an American show , that number would have led to a viral - marketing lapin jam , with three websites . And a cake , with a time machine at heart . I ’m just say . )
Oh , and I loved the fact that Dalek Almighty Davros , one of the corking scientists who has ever lived , was ineffectual to figure out how to naturalize genetic material from himself without slicing his own torso up a whole bunch of times . Rock on , Davros , you crazy science guy . Rock on . Actually , even though Julian Bleach starred in theworst Torchwood instalment ever , he was reasonably bully as Davros . He captured the character ’s mixture of curio , manipulativeness and passion better than anyone since original actor Michael Wisher . ( Although I still think Davros should have stayed dead . And why does he have such alame home page ? )
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So here are some neckcloth questions that it ’s handy to require after watching part one of the giant whipped - emollient - factory explosion that is a Doctor Who finale :
Is there a reset button in sight ? Yes . Actually , there are at least two reset buttons — Dalek Caan traveled back into the Time War to deliver Davros . And the Time War was supposed to be “ time - locked ” ( huh ? ) . So maybe everything Davros has done since than can be undone using a treble reverse time lock . Also , Earth is in a fold of time , away from the quietus of the universe of discourse , so peradventure time can be stretch or something . But I honestly think Harriet Jones has to stay on idle , because we need closure on her character or something .
Does the Doctor get screw up ? Yep . He “ regenerates ” at the ending of the episode — similar to the way last class ’s finale had a cliffhanger of the Doctor being super - ripened . I ’m assuming there will be something similar this class , with the Doctor being mess up for part of next week ’s close ( in a bungled re-formation ? ) and then reinstate somehow . Or perhaps those older rumors about a regeneration which produce a second David Tennant ( thanks to his cut off hand ) are true .
Is there ( finger snap ) drama ? Yeah . There was the huge sniffly , forehead - kissy second when the Daleks first start chanting over everybody ’s speakers . And there was the uproarious sequence where Rose gets all pissy because she does n’t get to have her own public square on the fellow traveller - range . All because Wilf was n’t earmark to have a webcam ! So Rose is reduce to sitting there and mumbling ( still sounding unearthly btw ) about how she was there first ! And who are all these other riff raff bankrupt her bounteous counter ! Poor Rose .
Is there super - heroics ? Yeah , lot and lots of it . come up with a giant gun ! The unit of measurement soldiers going down scrap ! safe sure-enough Wilf ( this time of year ’s most valuable participant ) taking on a Dalek with his paintgun ! Gwen and Ianto needlessly sacrificing their lives so Jack can go off and have fun ! But most of all , there was the glow nobility of Harriet “ one jape ” Jones , giving her life so Dumbledore the Doctor ’s army could assemble . I altogether would have vote for her . ( And even though I was happy we ’ll never hear anyone say “ I know who you are ” to her again , I was glad she was able to turn her common shtick into a move words of defiance . ( It sorta reminded me of the Controller in “ Day Of The Daleks ” : “ Who knows ? I may have help to exterminate you . ” )
Do all those piddling easter eggs add up to anything ? Well , sort of . Yeah , we see the Medusa Cascade , and there ’s an explanation for the bees vanish , and we meet the Shadow Proclamation , etc . etc . And the overleap planets from previous episodes indiscriminately — in the whole huge macrocosm — turn out to be among the 27 steal planets here . It ’s not as if you could have guessed anything about this installment ’s plot of land by paying extra - close aid to the early storey , though . And I still have no clue why everything get going “ BAD WOLF ” at the ending of the previous episode , except that Russell T. call up it would be coolheaded . And we still have no clue what ’s fail on with Donna — except did she have two instant in that scene where we see her twinkling and zoom in on her face ? ( decent before she says the affair about extra missing planets . )
Are we excited for next week ? Yeah , I think so . I imply , issue forth on . It ’s Russell T. Davies , who ’s sort of the gay Michael Bay * , pass away further than he ’s ever gone before . Who would n’t require to see that ? It wo n’t make any sense at all , but it ’ll be underpants - lid half-baked . And we ’ve already had the obligatory “ everybody read the Doctor ’s name ” bit ( via telephony ! ) so that in all probability wo n’t turn up next week . And the concluding cliffhanger did leave me with that awesome WTF ? ! feel , like I have no clue how it could be resolved , even using crazy RTD logic .
- – Yes , I know Michael Bay is a director and RTD is a writer . But RTD is in an manufacture where writer have actual power , unlike Hollywood movies . And RTD really does seem to impart Michael Bay a little turn in his Who time of year finales .
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