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Jun 27, 10 at 8:41am ^

Doctor Who - Silence Will Fall Today

“No. The universe has to move forward. Pain and loss, they define us as much as happiness or love. Whether it’s a world, or a relationship… Everything has its time. And everything ends.”
- Sarah Jane Smith

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Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a mysterious alien time-traveller known as "the Doctor" who travels in his time and spaceship, the TARDIS, which normally appears from the exterior to be a blue 1950s police box. With his companions, he explores time and space whilst facing a variety of foes and righting wrongs.

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Jun 27, 10 at 10:56am ^

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Pretty good finale. I enjoyed it even though there's lots of confusing questions remaining, such as did the series even happen at all if the Doctor didn't come back to life until the end. And if the Doctor never existed until the end of the episode, surely all the catastrophes from "Turn Left" would have still happened...Or most likely when he came back to life, it was as if he had been there all along. Dunno.

Only bit I really didn't like is the paradox at the start. Last week ends on the massive cliffhanger of the Doctor locked in the Pandorica, Amy dies, and River's trapped in an exploding Tardis...And the cliffhanger is resolved by...The Doctor coming from the future, when the Doctor couldn't have escaped in the first place to come from the future...I know paradox's in series happen, but to resolve a cliffhanger seems very sloppy of someone like Steven Moffat. I never would have expected him to go down such a cheap route.

On the other hand, it's quite convienent that a paradox resolved it. We've learnt in previous series that the Tardis prevents paradox's from happening (end of Series 3), so with the Tardis exploding at the time, I guess it was possible, somehow, but still...Moffat

Otherwise an alright finale. It just felt so strange to have a finale that was SO different to all the others, in that the team were just resolving a problem (allbeit a universe-sized one) rather than fighting a formidable enemy / army of enemies. Quite refreshing in a way.

I LOVED LOVED LOVED that it was confirmed the Doctor w/ tweed jacket in "Flesh and Stone" was from the future after all. I knew it! Screw everyone who laughed and thought it was a prop error xD Harr harr! Moffat really put a lot of thought into this arc. It's pretty impressive.

It also feels a bit odd that the main antagonist was never revealed...We never found out who took control of the Tardis and caused it to explode causing all this havoc in the first place. This instantly makes a lot of intrigue towards the next series...If there's an enemy capable of controlling the Tardis and destroying the universe, then next year should be very interesting

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Jun 27, 10 at 11:04am ^

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Can't wait for the next series! It sounds like we'll finally learn all about who (or what) River Song is!

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Jun 27, 10 at 11:11am ^

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Honestly I thought it was nonsense, the only part I really enjoyed was Amy raging 'YOU'RE LATE FOR MY WEDDING.'
Summoning someone back from nonexistence with a memory just seems like clap your hands if you believe in fairies to me, I enjoyed the performances and dialogue but thought the plot was balls. B- imo.

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Jun 27, 10 at 11:32am ^

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Spoiler: River Song Theory

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Ok this may be entirely stupid but I'm merely thinking in words here.

I was reading back on things Russel T. Davis had said back when River Song was introduced that she is "one of the most important characters we've seen in the series."

Now in relation to how she was at the end of 'The Big Bang' it got me thinking she is obviously pretty important to the Doctor even if he doesn't realise it. This got me thinking about who could be more important to the Doctor than his mother. I mean without her we wouldn't have this charismatic being traipsing around the universe.

It also compounds my belief that she is his mother as she's also a time traveler maybe not Time Lord but she certainly has the means and the tools to have gone back to before the time of the Doctor and created him.

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Jun 27, 10 at 11:36am ^

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Spoiler: Doctor's Mother

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I believe it was theorised that during the last series Finale with the return of the Time Lords, one of the woman with their hands covering her eyes was actually the Doctor's mother. Because she looked at him and he stated to tear up IIRC. However I'm not sure if it was ever proved to be so.
Not to mention River Song and the Doctor were married, so unless incest was allowed on Gallifrey, I don't she is his mother.

I personally think River Song is some long lost relation to him via Jenny. I'M HOLDING ON TO JENNY K?

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Jun 27, 10 at 11:38am ^

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So after a bit of thinking, I'm starting to warm to the finale a bit more. It's not as annoying as, say, The Master being all powerful and all badass (John Simm might be my favourite villain ever) and suddenly the power of man's goodness somehow saves the day. No. At least this one had some feeling of doom, some feeling of peril. I genuinely though near the end 'Huh, Matt Smith's going? Sucks...'

I'll have a series review up a bit later, for now, the verdict: Series not as good as it could have been, but that's to expect with a complete staff overhaul. I'm guessing next series will be more refined, now that everyone's getting into it. Yay for no companion/Doctor changes - first time since the reboot isn't it?

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- Jenny back. Liked her character and she's not bad to look at either

- River Song, just say who you are. I'm getting a bit tired of the 'You'll find out soon' things.
- Return of the Ood/The Beast.
- No 'EARTH IS ENDING IN PRESENT DAY' last episodes please.
- More character driven please. Might be hard, but I'm sure Moffat can do it.
- An alien/non-human companion or recurring character, please.
- Cybermen back, in full force - not the two minutes they got in Pandorica.

More when I get to it.

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Jun 27, 10 at 11:48am ^

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Otherwise an alright finale. It just felt so strange to have a finale that was SO different to all the others, in that the team were just resolving a problem (allbeit a universe-sized one) rather than fighting a formidable enemy / army of enemies. Quite refreshing in a way.

Haha yeah, series finale and all the doctor is really fighting is one ancient dalek.

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Jun 27, 10 at 1:06pm ^

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Good episode (particularly enjoy things coming from the past and him having to make sure everyting still happens like that note to Amilia's house) but looking back it was so plotholed. I know it's a paradox and shit but we had the biggest cliffhanger ever with The Doctor absoloutely *bleep*ed and then it started and he was alright.

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Jun 27, 10 at 11:02pm ^

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Bow ties are cool, Fezs are better.

And the companion switched only for 2 and 3, Rose to Martha and 3 and 4, Martha and Donna. We had Rose for 2 seasons, this is just the second time. 2 to 2.

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Jun 27, 10 at 11:12pm ^

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Yes but it's the only season where both the companion and Doctor have been intact at the end of the finale

Also Star of Spurs, this wasn't a "present day Earth" finale...Not quite anyway. 1996...But, close enough I guess xD

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Jun 27, 10 at 11:16pm ^

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Either the Companion or the Doctor changed every series so far.

Series 1 new Doctor and companion (obviously)
Series 2 new Doctor,
Series 3 new companion,
Series 4 new companion,
Series 5 new Doctor and companion.

So if Series 6 goes ahead as planned it will be the first time since the reboot that everything continues as normal.

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Jun 28, 10 at 9:29am ^

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I cant resist posting this.

I just got this from todays The Sun newspaper.

According to them only 5.2million viewers tuned in to Saturdays "Incoherent mess" of a series finale. In fact the viewing figures were DOWN 600,000 from the previous week.

I am not surprised by that considering it was written by Moffatt and had River Song in it. The worst character ever created.

Now compare that to the viewing figures that watched "The Stolen Earth" and "Journey's End" (which I watched on Saturday instead of this garbage) which got over 10.54million viewers for it. More than DOUBLE Saturdays garbage.

So it looks to me that I am not alone in thinking that this series has been the biggest stinking pile of garbage ever created. If Moffatt isn't careful this programme could get AXED by the BBC. Oh belive me it could. I have seen programmes with higher ratings get axed and Saturdays viewing figures were only 200,000 more than "Survivor" the last episode of the origional series and we all know that got axed.

So a word to Moffat shape up or ship out. This has been the biggest disaster in DW history. I wish the BBC would get rid of Moffatt or axe it or bring back RTD.

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Jun 28, 10 at 9:51am ^

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5.2 million is good when TV viewing is also split by Wimbledon and the World Cup. I mean even when England aren't playing absolutely millions upon millions watch the World Cup games especially the knock out rounds.