The End of Time: Part Two
- Episode aired Jan 2, 2010
- TV-PG
- 1h 15m
With almost everyone on Earth now recast in his image, The Master controls the Earth. He's shocked however when he realises one person hasn't changed; Donna Noble. The Doctor soon understand... Read allWith almost everyone on Earth now recast in his image, The Master controls the Earth. He's shocked however when he realises one person hasn't changed; Donna Noble. The Doctor soon understands what the pounding in the Master's head is; it's the Time Lords, who are trying to return... Read allWith almost everyone on Earth now recast in his image, The Master controls the Earth. He's shocked however when he realises one person hasn't changed; Donna Noble. The Doctor soon understands what the pounding in the Master's head is; it's the Time Lords, who are trying to return and re-establish Gallifrey. If they succeed, it'll mean the Last Great Time War will re-s... Read all
- Luke Smith
- (as Thomas Knight)
- Director
- Writers
- Russell T. Davies(showrunner)
- Steven Moffat(uncredited)
- Sydney Newman(uncredited)
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaDirector Euros Lyn wanted to remove the scene where the Doctor visits Verity Newman, thinking it would be confusing for anyone who had missed the connection she has to the Doctor, but Russell T. Davies insisted on keeping the scene in the final cut.
- GoofsWhen Verity is autographing her grandmother's published "Journal of Impossible Things," it's clear that the marker she's using isn't writing on the page.
- Quotes
[Eleventh Doctor's first lines]
The Doctor: Legs, I've still got legs, good. Arms, hands, ooh, fingers, lots of fingers. Ears, yes, eyes too. Nose, I've had worse. Chin, blimey. Hair...
[feeling his hair and breaking voice]
The Doctor: I'm a girl! No, no! I'm not a girl. I'm still not ginger. There's something else, there's something important. I'm, I'm, I'm...
[the TARDIS explodes]
The Doctor: Ha! Crashing!
[the TARDIS falls down to Earth on fire]
The Doctor: Haha! woohoohoo! Ah! Geronimo!
- ConnectionsFeatured in Doctor Who Confidential: Lords and Masters (2009)
The entrance of the Time Lords also comes at the expense of one major plot line established in Part one. After setting up the building blocks he took the time to construct, he unconscionably wipes the slate clean utilizing an all too accessible plot device which just feels tired and lazy. Leaving a somewhat bemused-looking John Simm here once more as the crazed arch rival the Master who has been reduced to being a disposable plot device rather than a major threat. In the place of the previous plot, we're left with a supposed Time Lord stratagem which in essence and application makes zero sense as to the motive behind it. A victim it may be of RTD once More attempting to mold a clumsily constructed analogy of his views on religion.
Nevertheless, the performances on display are of the highest order. David Tennant pours out his soul and gives a heart-wrenching performance as the Doctor, whose "song" is coming to an end. Although in context with previous incarnations of the protagonist his gnashing of teeth and wailing at the injustices of his symbiotic "death" seem rather undignified for the man who has gazed into the gaping black hole with more restrained fortitude. Bernard Cribbens is once more effortlessly endearing as the Doctor's pseudo-companion the charming Wilfred Mott who combines wisdom, compassion, and valor in another breathtaking performance. Dalton soldiers on the best he can with the questionable material he has been given and does manage to evoke some menace as the Lord President while John Simm is more than competent as the twisted, psychotic Master who is not at fault for how the villain's personae, has been left devoid of the more rational, charming unprincipled villain audiences had become accustomed when Roger Delgado first took up the part in the early 1970s. The rest of the cast which includes Catherine Tate reprising her role as former companion Donna Noble, Jacqueline King as her mother Sylvia as well as Sinead Keenan and Lawry Lewin as the alien Vinvocci add solid support. However, neither they nor the primary actors can save the whole sorry farrago drowning in a sea of overindulgent ineptitude, leaving it wallowing in a pool of absurdity. What with a daredevil Doctor plummeting god knows how many feet from a Vinvocci spaceship and through a sky-glass, rising relatively uninjured to an overdrawn finale where the Doctor visits those select companions and acquaintances he has known throughout his tenth life. Another conceit simply feels like a convenient excuse to have John Barrowman, Billie Piper, Freema Agyeman, and Elizabeth Sladen ET AL. Make obligatory cameos.
As for the final revelation as to he who will "...knock four times" to RTD's limited credit, it does come as an astonishing and less overwhelmingly grand twist and nicely opens the way toward Tennant's final farewell. And with him emotively uttering his final words and expressing his unwilling-less to depart us the entrance of a new Doctor is heralded. After the flashy, eye-pleasing light show is over and we're left with a wavy fringed, manic, befuddled-looking Matt Smith who yells the now requisite catchphrase "Geronimo!", I'm left with a feeling of uncertainty as to what the future will bring. For not only are we welcoming a new Doc at the TARDIS console but a new executive producer in Steven Moffat. But with a Dalek, the return of the weeping Angels, the now confirmed reports of the Cybermen resurfacing as well as the Silaurians, the Great Vampire and UNIT. It might be a little too chock full of old ideas but still fun.
- The-Last-Prydonian
- Mar 23, 2010
Details
- Runtime1 hour 15 minutes