WATCH ALONG | DOCTOR WHO | The End of Time: Part 2
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ten is my favorite Doctor. It was simply incredible to see the series again with you. We have different opinions about some episodes, but that only made the experience more interesting. see how each person interprets it differently. Seeing ten go again is hurting. As if it were the first time. Seriously, I love this phase of the series so much. But I want to follow the entire series again with you. Including the new eps that are out now. until later.
JJ.C
2023-11-10 04:08:00 +0000 UTCidk if you’ll read this because you’re quite far ahead now but i subscribed to watch your rtd era reactions. but even as an rtd apologiser, this regeneration story is so bad lol. i watched a video on youtube of someone ranking doctors and he said something that this story almost makes the whole ‘time lord victorious’ thing invalid. the story SHOULD have been the doctor, on his ego trip, maybe trying to do something master-esque (like bringing the time lords back himself?) and then his downfall being him realising he can’t act this way and he was wrong and it causes his death. i like the concept of the four knocks being wilf and not the master, but the overall story should have been a lot stronger
Lydia Rodgers
2023-02-19 15:40:09 +0000 UTCI liked that they worked the Geronimo into this quick scene with him. I've been dying to know what 11's word/phrase would be. lol
Britany Felix
2022-11-22 17:19:20 +0000 UTCAyy, aha - allons-y! Or should I say.. Geronimo? I dunno, that'd be spoilers..
Tommy Galloway
2022-11-22 01:36:18 +0000 UTCCouldn't have said it better myself!
Tommy Galloway
2022-11-22 01:34:33 +0000 UTCJust how monumental was this episode's original broadcast on New Years Day 2010? Not only was the regeneration a lead item in the news bulletins that day, but the BBC went to the effort of making a special network ident to show beforehand with David Tennant (in character), so that a voiceover from the Tenth Doctor could introduce his final episode. Perhaps even more surprising, at the end of it all the credits were shown full-screen, not squeezed to one side, and without any damned continuity announcer yammering over them to spoil the moment. I don't think I've seen any other network TV show treated like that in the last two decades, at least. If you are at all interested in behind-the-scenes information about this era of the show, I'd really recommend RTD's book "The Writer's Tale", which is basically a very long and detailed email correspondence between him and Doctor Who Magazine journalist Ben Cook that covers the whole of the writing and production of Series 4 and (in its second edition, titled "The Writer's Tale: The Final Chapter") the year of Specials as well. All sorts of fascinating details about these episodes can be found there -- one of my favourite parts being the moment when, while actually in the course of writing an email to Cook describing this episode, RTD has the sudden realisation that it has to be Wilf who gets locked in the glass booth. Originally the Tenth Doctor was going to give up his life to save a nameless technician, but the idea of it being Wilf instead triggered that amazing scene between Tennant and Cribbins where the Doctor rails against his fate. The epilogue ("The Doctor's Reward") is thought by some to be rather self-indulgent, but I love it for the way it neatly ties up all the threads from RTD's era and clears the slate for his successor. (In fact, Davies gives up his executive producer's chair even before the end of the episode; although he's not credited, not only did Steven Moffat write Matt Smith's lines, but he came in on the day of shooting to oversee everything after the actual regeneration.) There are a lot of changes to come with the next episode, but hopefully you'll come to like the new era of the show as much as this one. Allons-y! No, wait... Geronimo! :-)
Steven Cooper
2022-11-19 13:07:23 +0000 UTC
