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New Who 5.13: The Big Bang
Saturday, 10 July 2010 22:00I was out when this was broadcast, and away the following weekend, so it's taken me a while to find time to sit down and write up my thoughts about it properly. So apologies for the fortnight's delay, but here at last is my write-up of the Doctor Who finale.
This has been the first season finale from the hand of Moffat, so most of fandom was waiting with bated breath to find out if we'd finally seen the back of magic reset buttons, dei ex machinis and Total Bollocks Overdrive. My view on that is that ( actually we haven't really )
So overall it was a more satisfying finale than RTD used to produce, although still not entirely WTF-free. And Moffat has of course also left us with a ( tantalising list of unanswered questions )
Meanwhile, back to this episode, I thought Matt Smith was superb again, right from his touching-without-being-sentimental monologue by little Amelia's bedside to his mad-as-fish wedding dancing. Little Amelia herself was great too, but I'm afraid that after a whole season I'm ( still quite lukewarm about grown-up Amy )
Not to worry, though, because I am growing ( immensely fond of Rory... )
( ...especially now that he has lived through nearly 2000 years of Earth history )
Anyway, the phone-call at the end of the story strongly suggests that the Christmas special will give us an Egyptian goddess on the Orient Express... in space! Clearly not a pure historical, or even a straightforward historical in the sense of being set chronologically in Earth's past, then – but still by the sounds of it a story which will draw on not one but two periods of human history. With a Doctor I now firmly like, a multi-companion TARDIS team and a historically-well-informed companion on board, that should be pretty good watching.
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This has been the first season finale from the hand of Moffat, so most of fandom was waiting with bated breath to find out if we'd finally seen the back of magic reset buttons, dei ex machinis and Total Bollocks Overdrive. My view on that is that ( actually we haven't really )
So overall it was a more satisfying finale than RTD used to produce, although still not entirely WTF-free. And Moffat has of course also left us with a ( tantalising list of unanswered questions )
Meanwhile, back to this episode, I thought Matt Smith was superb again, right from his touching-without-being-sentimental monologue by little Amelia's bedside to his mad-as-fish wedding dancing. Little Amelia herself was great too, but I'm afraid that after a whole season I'm ( still quite lukewarm about grown-up Amy )
Not to worry, though, because I am growing ( immensely fond of Rory... )
( ...especially now that he has lived through nearly 2000 years of Earth history )
Anyway, the phone-call at the end of the story strongly suggests that the Christmas special will give us an Egyptian goddess on the Orient Express... in space! Clearly not a pure historical, or even a straightforward historical in the sense of being set chronologically in Earth's past, then – but still by the sounds of it a story which will draw on not one but two periods of human history. With a Doctor I now firmly like, a multi-companion TARDIS team and a historically-well-informed companion on board, that should be pretty good watching.
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