Doctor Who - The End of Time (part one)

Wow, a mess but a hugely enjoyable mess! Logic was thrown to the winds which grated but since when has Russell T. Davies felt constrained by logic?

David Tennant was as excellent as ever but was outperformed by an ever more manic John Simm, although The Master in a dress did just look wrong. Bernard Cribbins made an excellent temporary companion, but is there more to Wilf than meets the eye? Maybe he and Donna are both part Time Lord. And talking of the Time Lords, didn't the Gallifrey interior shot owe rather a lot to the Galactic Senate in Star Wars The Phantom Menace?


I did 'like' Russell T. Davies's idea that Barack Obama was about to solve the world's economic problems but was thwarted by The Master; yeah that's likely.

So what's for New Year's Day? Timothy Dalton looks like a less than pleasant Time Lord but then in times gone by the Time Lords were not always the good guys. How did the Time Lords survive those much talked about Time Wars? Did the Time Wars even happen? Will Russell T. Davies reset this part of the history of time and thus wipe much of the slate clean for Matt Smith? I just hope that the New Year's Day second episode ties up the loose ends and is something to remember David Tennant by.


Odd spot - the old chap taking the photo of June Whitfield was one half of the old ballroom dance couple in Hi-de-Hi, Barry Stuart-Hargreaves.

I am also informed that Bernard Cribbins character's name "Wilfred Mott" is an anagram of "Time Lord WTF"