Doctor Who: Last of the Time Lords, by Russell T. Davies.
Tell you what Russell, never mind the countdown, everyone in my house was thinking the same thing during the whole episode. Can you guess what it was?
Based on the reviews on TV Scoop, The Stage and the responses to my last post, it seems I was in the minority in hating last week’s episode. So, to pre-empt you: Bring. It. On. For this week’s episode was EVEN WORSE.
The good: the Face of Boe, the Doctor waiting all this time to forgive the Master (cheesy but also moving), most of the acting (can’t say I’m going to miss Martha’s family though).
The bad: the telepathic rejuvenation, the random return of the Master at the end, the dialogue.
The ugly: it was boring. Totally boring. Up until the ending, when it was exciting, but also made no sense whatsoever.
Our pizza arrived halfway through the episode so we paused (yay Sky+) but then someone went ‘do we have to watch the rest?’ We all felt the same. Last week, the panto like nature of the episode drove me crazy. This week, I found it hard to care at all. There were some small moments that I liked, but these were few and far between. Should also point out the stupid decision to extend the episode by 10 minutes (totally unnecessary) but to put the extra footage at the beginning. Which means many people across the country will have tuned in at 7.15 only to find they’ve missed the entire opening 10 minutes. Nice one. Then again, maybe they were the lucky ones.