Dr Who New Series 2005 Part 3 - The Final Episode!

Will the xmas special be about a difficult regeneration then? The Doctor did say it was always a difficult process.

Capt jack being left behind was just like what always happened with Tegan. Anyone else think that?

And Tennants smile was just like Ecclestones and Bakers. Making it really look like the doctor is the same person despite regenerating.

A lot of scenes brought a lump to my throat - the letting the TARDIS die scene for instance.

Theres been a lot of brings tears to the eyes scenes this series. On the whole the comeback has been far better than anyone could hope to have been. Creatively and ratings wise.

The xmas special seems so far away now. I can't wait!

Billie Piper was fabulous the whole way through and Ecclestone was brilliant, getting even better about halfway through.
He may only have had 1 series but im sure going to miss him.

But it is exciting waiting to see what Tennants doctor will be like.

Honestly before the series started would anyone have thought it would've been as good?

LOOSE ENDTASTIC!

- What actually happened in the Time War? What did the Doctor do? And how did he survive?*
- Captain Jack's 2 years
- The Face of Boe's secret (we Boe fans will not be hushed)
- Adam's cyber-implant (probably will never be referred to again)

*the implication I guess is that he used something similar to a Delta Wave, destroying both races (it's been strongly hinted if not stated outright that he 'pushed the button'). This turns his own story into a redemption arc, which is nice too.

- What will happen to Jack between getting stranded on the devastated Game Station and hooking up with Rose and the Doctor again?

I loved the bit where Anndroid said "you are the weakest link, goodbye" and killed a few Daleks.

I've never been able to really follow the Time Lord action from seasons past, so I've always been left in the cold hwen it comes to continuity. I was really hoping the regen would change the Doctor's clothes to go with the new body. It was a great frigging scene in the end: "You were fantastic! And so was I!" And he was right on the moolah. I'm really gonna miss Eccleston and his mad smiles and righteous anger. Tennant has this girly man whiff about him that makes it a little difficult for me to imagine him taking to the emo scenes well when it comes time to do so.

I was hoping for something far more sinister to happen with Bad Wolf, especially because I still remember how it rattled poor Gwyneth, but there was enough heaviness in the episode already and using it to ultimately strengthen Rose's resolve as a heroine saved it from the dumper.

I may buy the DVDs.

Poor Jack looks so gutted when he sees the Tardis going, I missed that in all the excitement.

I also loved how this series was much more about travelling through time than space. The Doctor's always been a Time Lord, but I always remember him acting more like a Space Lord in the past.

I thought the payoff was a bit lame-o, to be honest, but it only took up five minutes of an otherwise wonderful piece of telly.

I suspect there are intentions to do more with some of those threads, but almost certainly not all of them. The Time War one will return, no doubt at all.

It was a great series. Short of Buffy, it's probably my favourite SF TV series ever, and I was never a big fan of the show - well, I was keen enough in the Pertwee and Tom Baker days, but that was it.

- Britain's meant to be heading for its Golden Age, though the Doctor's grasp of history seems to be a bit shaky. And speaking of which...
- Does the Fourth Great and Bountiful Human Empire EVER get going?

And Bad Wolf - it does make sense, really, and not a disappointment. Emperor Dalek was a bit, but only because the trail had suggested - in my head at least - that we were in for a revalation, which seemed to lead to an earlier character. Did the ED survive? He has before.

Kiss?
Same gender kiss?
Regenerating while standing?

Can anyone confirm, and are the fan boards in meltdown about them?

Did Lynda definitely die then?

One assumes the Daleks will 're-atomise' somewhere somehow...

"Right, now to create that Tardis/'Because We Want To' mashup I'd been meaning to get round to since choosing Rose as my muse."

Not quite so happy with the means of conclusion, mind. The combination of 'domestic' and the plain resort to the magical seemed a bit contrived; I'd have liked to see the implications of Rose's use of the Time Vortex explored, or even just hinted at, to some degree - we don't have much picture of how the Daleks or humanity figure, just that the Doctor will die as a consequence. Appropriate, certainly, in that this series has largely been a narrative of its two central characters.

The regeneration scene was okay, just about avoided possible smugness in its 'And y' know what: *I* was fantastic!', and David Tennant seems intriguing. But overall, I was a little concerned that the big picture so built up in the previous episode was lost along the way (yes, Jack was saved, but were the entire previous events/killings by the Daleks?)... knowing Davies and the team, I am sure they will eventually fill in the detail.

Not the first kiss - it's the thing most people objected to in the TV Movie, the Doctor/Daphne kiss. Because that was a romantic kiss. I'm with IanLevine on this one, the one in Parting Of The Ways is more like a kiss of life than a romantic one (although RTD disagrees).

As I said on the Spoiler thread, this is the dalek from dalek. He says his ship, but what we call the dalek is, and has always been, the dalek travel ship. The casing is his ship, the kaled is inside and what it thinks of as itself. Plus Rob Shearman, writer of the dalek episode, confirmed that although his script killed the dalek at the end of the episode, the production team changed it.

Davros was revealed as the Emperor Dalek in Rememberance Of The Daleks, yes. But (presumably) that was all undone in the Time War. This is a new dalek empire.

Finally, as Charlie (7) pointed out immediately after the episode finished, the Anne Droid merely transmat'd them into space - presumably to where the co-ordinates were previously. If we assume Rose-As-TARDIS only looked on Station 5 and Earth, it's a handy survival plothole.

I loved it, by the way.

This was also great, because it so wouldn't be an issue for younger audiences. We sat on the sofa going "kiss him! Kiss him! Yay!"

Tom M puts his finger on what I didn't like about Rose's time vortex saving of everything. It was too magical, too much like something that would have happened in Buffy.

Christopher Eccleston is my favourite Doctor now.

And don't start me on the kiss. I don't care how they frame it [CPR or whatever], it was a kiss. Completely unnecessary, very American. As was the American running around with guns blazing. So much for staying British.

I agree that the regeneration was spectacular, and seeing Tennant was a massive thrill, but by the time it got there I didn't care anymore.

meaning the Timelord will have lost all his hair by the end of the next series

Chow Dr Too

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Oh good, now I won't have to spend ginormous amounts of money buying a uk dvd set.

They've hidden the box set but you can find it around halfway down the page if you search for Doctor Who:

10% off DVDs this week only
£5 off with promotional code XX-GGLN

£37.04

Bargain. I didn't tell you, obviously, and can we please keep this quiet-ish?

We aint seen you, roight?

The new series of Doctor Who, which won three prizes at the National TV Awards last week, returns in the spring.

1 x Billie Piper Doctor Who - Series 1 (Ecclestone)

Estimated dispatch date: Monday 02 January 2006

Good job it's not a Christmas present :-(

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2005550115,00.html

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/28/dalek_film/