Dr Who : Well it's all over for another year. It's all vaguely disappointing again. To summarise :
The Dr doesn't regenerate because he channels it into his previously lopped off hand (which had been given a close-up at least twice last week so we can't pretend we didn't see this massive cheap trick coming) explaining why the Beeb managed to keep the change of Doctor so secret ; it never was going to happen, that's how.
Everyone who's ever be a recurring heroic character in the series made a return (including that scourge of alien invasions Jackie. Jackie? Really? Sheesh.) Everyone apparently had a secret weapon ranging from exploding jewellery from the Argos counter to a mini disc that makes the world explode - everyone fails to use said weapons. Audience wonders why there were ever mentioned.
The Doc manages to clone himself via the above mentioned cheat, which it comes in handy (oh, a terribly pun is just waiting to be used there) once everyone gets captured by Davros (who's plan is to, er, destroy everything ever. Guy thinks big at least, so give him credit for that) because it means he can turn up at the last second to intervene (particularly since the Daleks decide to wait twice as long before firing their awful big bomb at this point for no obvious reason).
Then slash fiction Doctor mark two (he's human so he can love puffy lipped Billie like a normal guy!) gets captured too. Thus leaving the way open for Donna to save the day. Since you see Donna has now got the entire knowledge of a Timelord. This allows her to save everyone and defeat the Daleks using the combined power of techno-nonsense and a console with, count 'em, five switches on it.
Why this console is here I'm not sure. Since a Dalek certainly couldn't use it, nor does it look like Davros could reach it's controls either. It also apparently controls everything within the Dalek mothership, well everything needed to make Daleks harmless, spin on the spot and then explode. And then send back all the stolen planets. Can't help but think someone might have wanted to password protect that thing.
"Plot" now wrapped we then have a good fifteen minutes of everyone being super-happy and saving "bye, you're great". Although strangely Mickey says a goodbye to Jackie and not the girl he apparently loves and is reluctantly leaving behind for Clone-o-Doc to have his wicked freak of science way with.
Martha joins the Cpt Jack show so she can be wasted as a character on a full time basis.
Gwen and Ianto presumably have it off because that's what you do in Torchwood.
And then we have the crowd 'pleasing' moment of Rose finally getting her man, well a clone of her man before Donna 'dies'. That's right despite making a big thing this year of how great Donna's character arc is (she becomes more than an annoying stereotype of a mid aged Essex girl!) the writer decides to 'kill' her and completely re-set the character to day one. Great, that is A cheating us out of someone getting killed as promised and B verging on invalidating most of the rest of the season.
Plus, even for an insane blob of matter Dalek Caan's plan to rid the universe of the Daleks makes no sense at all.
So there we go, Dr Who is over for another year. Once more it was a year containing maybe three or four episodes that could be properly labelled good with the rest being distinctly 'm'eh' Tho' nothing was truly terrible this year which is I guess is an incremental step forward.
Still, there's another series of Primeval to look forward to at least, eh?
1 comment:
I liked it. It made me laugh. I liked the German daleks. And I'm sure legions of the show's target audience of kiddies agree with me. The companion progression was typically 'special' but at least it was consistent with the destiny of these whiny women the dr keeps meeting and spiriting away. Yes too many characters over-egged the already over creamy pudding. The Rose-fanfic ending was too much sugar on the top. Kids like cake!
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