Doctor Who Season 4 End of Time Review

"The Cease Of Fourth dimension" is quite the momentous milestone for Doctor Who. It'due south non only the 10th Doctor's regeneration story – bringing David Tennant's 3-season tenure every bit the rebel time lord to a close just in time for Christmas – it'due south also Russell T. Davies' last episode as the serial' showrunner. Later Doc Who had been canceled for sixteen years from 1989 to 2005, Russell T. Davies and his crew put in the hard piece of work and poured all their creativity into the show (when they had no style of knowing whether it would pay off or not) to make Doctor Who a success over again for four seasons directly.

Russell knew for quite some time when he would be prepare to bow out and movement on to other projects, since he had already singled out Steven Moffat as his successor past 2008, and he purposely wrote his last full flavour as a nostalgic victory lap of sorts: celebrating anybody and everything that fabricated his tenure special. Afterward the big blowout finale that was "The Stolen Earth / Journeying's End", a yr of specials followed, giving the viewers at habitation some sporadic new content to tide them over while the show changed hands behind the scenes. Steven Moffat and his coiffure had plenty of time to prepare their game plan for Series 5 (and cast the Eleventh Doctor), while Russell T. Davies had plenty of time to decide what the Tenth Doctor's swansong would be.

Russell already tied up about of his companions' graphic symbol arcs in the Serial iv finale, and wrapped up several story arcs similar the Torchwood Institute, Harriet Jones' autumn from grace, and the Cult of Skaro, so "The Finish Of Time" wound upwards being a story that is very Doctor-centric. He originally toyed with the idea of giving Ten a small-scale send-off, earlier he decided to go large past bringing dorsum the Master (who was seemingly killed off in his terminal appearance, but was also given some wiggle room so he could be able to return at any time in the future) as well equally the fourth dimension lords to complement Ten's story. If in that location's been any sort of theme bonding the Series 4 specials together (despite them all having vastly different plots), information technology's the Tenth Doctor existence confronted by his own morality, his hubris, and the fact that sometimes you lot can't fight fate, and "The End Of Fourth dimension" is the culmination of all those ideas.

When it comes to the flaws of this story, you could make a practiced argument that "The Stop Of Time" is hurt by how much basis information technology has to comprehend early on on. Your average season of Physician Who has 10 or eleven episodes building upwards to the finale, while "The End Of Time" (every bit the climax of the Series 4 specials) has only had a handful of episodes preceding it. The commencement xx minutes of this two-parter accept to work heavy-duty and cram equally much exposition in as possible, to get anybody where they demand to be in order for the plot to happen, which can feel more than a fleck forced, especially during the Master's resurrection ritual. "The End Of Fourth dimension" can likewise endure from mood whiplash in places: the tone of this special tries to be tragic, campy and ballsy all at one time, and sometimes those three unlike moods do not mesh well. Simply for the well-nigh part, this story holds up.

In "The End Of Time", the 10th Doctor (David Tennant) has to save the globe from the Primary once again, as he nears the end of his life. And unfortunately, he'south several steps behind his one-time foe, because he decided to put off having an important talk with the Ood. Compared to the complete mental breakdown he had in "The H2o Of Mars", 10 seems to have calmed down by now, but he'south however in a pretty chilly, morose mood in this episode, due to what'southward on his mind. Regeneration is probably the near alien concept in the series and the hardest one for an ordinary human to wrap their head around. It'southward both a death and a rebirth: an catastrophe and a new beginning. Whenever the Doctor is fatally wounded, his soul carries over to his next body and he'due south given another chance at life, but his current personality is lost as a event and he's never quite the same man again. Ten's problem is that he'southward hyper-fixated on the decease part of the equation, and he'due south really non interested in being reborn.

It's pretty ironic that the 9th Doctor but had one season under his belt but he still lived for decades (from all those offscreen adventures he had without Rose), while Ten has had three times as many seasons to his name, but he's aged roughly in real-fourth dimension with the audience (give or take the odd year he spent in an alternate timeline). So he's only been around for half-dozen years by "The Terminate Of Time", which makes him 1 of the shortest lived Doctors in NuWho, especially compared to Eleven and Twelve after him. This is ane of several reasons why the Medico is in a somber mood in this episode: fifty-fifty if the death Carmen foretold isn't permanent, he's pretty content with his electric current mode of life and he'southward not ready to reinvent himself and outset all once again from scratch – but clinging on like this and worrying nearly the future all the time conspicuously isn't good for you for him. Not to mention, the Doctor is still haunted past how he (unwittingly) collection someone to suicide in the final episode, which was really messed up, even for him.

Ten'due south unsafe quest to end the Master becomes a lot more daunting once he also has to stop him from bringing back the time lords, at all costs – since they went completely insane at the end of the time war, and were willing to destroy all of reality to relieve their own skins. In hindsight, "The Stop Of The Earth" was ane of the most of import early episodes of NuWho when it came to establishing i of the primary themes of the RTD era (which is something that I feel is very often overlooked in the bear witness's fandom). When the Ninth Doctor took Rose on her very beginning trip through time, a hard lesson he imparted on her (and past extension, the audience) is that everything has its time and everything ends somewhen. Over the post-obit four seasons, it became very apparent that everything must terminate eventually, because the alternative is so much worse.

Clinging onto life as your morals deteriorate, doing everything in your power to deny your own mortality at other people'due south expense, it'due south the quickest way to lose yourself and your humanity. How many villains in the RTD era have we seen exist driven to extremes and commit atrocities in a desperate attempt to prolong their own lives? Cassandra O'Brien, the Dalek Emperor and his fanatical followers, John Lumic and his Cybermen, Professor Lazarus, the Family of Blood, the Toclafane, the Master and at present Rassilon and his time lords. The Doctor has always spoken out against this kind of madness and tried to get them to run into reason, but he is not infallible – he's been tumbling downwardly that slippery slope himself recently out of selfishness and fright. It'south not until 10 is yelling at Wilf about how unfair it is that he's going to have to sacrifice his life for him that he realizes, to his horror, that he's starting to think a lot more like the Master and Rassilon, and information technology's definitely fourth dimension for him to regenerate. Afterwards all, yous either dice a hero or alive long plenty to become a villain.

Once the act of saving Wilf has been done, Ten decides to be self-indulgent for once and take 1 last look at all his friends earlier he changes. Martha and Mickey'due south scene, where they're revealed to exist married at present, is past far the strangest. I become what Russell was aiming for with this ship: they both learned a hard lesson well-nigh unrequited honey during their time on this show, so pairing them up probably seemed like a plumbing fixtures selection, merely they accept zero chemical science together since their relationship came about entirely offscreen. The Doctor sets Captain Jack up with Alonso Frame, and since Jack is apparently quite the sex god, this hook-up tin can also be seen every bit a souvenir to Alonso. The Medico saving Sarah Jane'due south son, Luke, from being hit by a car is a very poignant moment, which is immediately topped by the prove giving us 1 last fleck of closure for "Human being Nature", a story I never expected the Doctor to bring up again.

Ten sets Donna and her new husband up for life with a lottery ticket that he bought, with some help from her deceased dad, a sweet little gesture that only her folks volition always know most. And finally, 10 pops back to 2005 so he can see Rose, the love of his life, again one last time. When the large moment finally comes, information technology's pretty tragic. Ix got all his affairs in lodge and had Rose to keep him company during the modify, so he managed to find some peace of mind before the end, while Ten winds up dying afraid and alone in the TARDIS, filled with regret near his life choices and how he handled all his most important relationships. Is it any wonder 11 wound up beingness your classic Stepford Smiler, who always pretends to be much more cheery and carefree than he actually is, considering the circumstances of his 'nascency'? Out of the fires of David's regeneration, we're given Matt Smith, who I love as Eleven. As far as Doctors go, 11 is completely basics in all the best means, and in the two minutes of screentime he has in this episode, you can already see information technology.

Ever since he was introduced as a minor character in "Voyage Of The Damned", Wilfred Mott'due south function in the show has steadily grown more prominent over time. When Donna was brought back to the serial as a total-fourth dimension companion, he was retooled to become a member of her supporting bandage back home – the lovable granddaddy who served as her supportive male parent figure – and he really shined in that part, thanks in no minor part to Bernard Cribbins, who can sell the hell out of a expert sad scene. And now, as the 10th Doctor'due south tenure draws to a close, Wilfred's function gets bumped upwardly i terminal time as he becomes the Doctor's temporary companion for this Christmas special, a gig that once belonged to his granddaughter in her debut episode. One-time Wilf's been haunted lately, past dreams of the Main and ambiguous messages from a woman trying to tell him something, and in his gut, he knows the Doctor is the only one who can brand sense of it all.

We're also given an update about the status of the Noble family every bit a whole, since this episode is the concluding fourth dimension nosotros're always going to see them. Donna has moved on: she's met a prissy human who isn't an evil scumbag, settled downward with him and gotten the sort of nice, domestic life she ever wanted when we outset met her in "The Runaway Bride". Her amnesia is still in place, which ways a big piece of her personality is still missing and information technology always will be, and that's quietly sad. She helps to move the plot forrad subconsciously, and she's given quite a scare when the Primary tries to have her killed, but otherwise, Catherine Tate doesn't have a lot to practice in this 2-parter except give the Doctor a take a chance to tie up some loose ends. Elsewhere, Donna's mom, Sylvia, has finally mellowed out and her relationship with the Doctor has improved, to the point where she actually shows him some gratitude for saving the world in this special. So at least the lesson she learned, near being less of an overbearing mother, seems to have stuck.

Over the grade of Series 4, Wilfred grew to admire the Doc, for everything he does for the globe, and during this story the two of them clearly start to form a bond. Wilfred serves every bit the heart of this Christmas special, which is heightened past the fact that David Tennant and Bernard Cribbins accept a lot of natural chemistry during their scenes together. Many of their quiet exchanges are really quite sad and emotionally raw, due to the Doctor being a lot more candid and truthful about all his doubts and regrets than he usually is, every bit he nears what he thinks is the end of his life. Several highlights include Wilfred trying, in vain, to get the Md to restore Donna's memory, even though he knows that's not an pick, and Wilf trying to go the Medico to take up arms against the Master, which he knows is a lost crusade from the outset.

Wilfred'southward military machine groundwork has been hinted at a few times since his debut, but his status as an old soldier who never got to see whatever action is fabricated explicit here, when he'southward called to fight one last time. He knows he has a role to play in whatever'due south coming, and more importantly, he feels compelled to assist the Doc with the skillful fight, since he can tell the time lord could really use a friend correct about now. The prophecy about a human who would knock four times before Ten'south demise: no 1 would ever have guessed that that man would be Wilf, especially with cartoonishly evil villains similar the Principal and Rassilon running around, acting as cherry herrings. When he gets trapped in a cage that's about to be flooded with radiation, it's a prissy affect that he accepts his potential demise with more nobility and grace than many of the other characters in this episode – it shows the strength of a regular human'due south character compared to several immortal fourth dimension lords – and Ten making the ultimate sacrifice for him is the culmination of their camaraderie. Wilf is clearly broken-hearted later on, and it's easy to imagine that he was a bit haunted, for the rest of his days, by what the Md did for him.

"The Cease Of Time" doesn't waste any time addressing the hook Russell T. Davies left at the end of "Last Of The Time Lords": a way for the Master to return from the dead. Equally we quickly discover, Harold Saxon apparently had a secret cult of personality devoted to him, and considering how egotistic the Master is, that idea checks out, fifty-fifty if information technology seems to come out of left field. It's a pretty well-established office of the Master's grapheme that he tries to avert the Grim Reaper at all costs – hell, he spent a proficient chunk of the classic series looking like a desiccated corpse once he reached the end of his regeneration cycle, and he notwithstanding refused to throw in the towel – and then naturally, he had a redundancy plan in the result of his demise. The scene where his secret cult revives him is really pretty disturbing to think about if you put yourself in Lucy Saxon's shoes – imagine being forced to watch a bunch of brainwashed fanatics bring your abusive, tyrannical ex-lover back from the grave against your volition – only thankfully, she manages to get the last laugh over him by screwing upward his resurrection.

He comes back every bit a ravenously hungry zombie who can strip a bone make clean in seconds and needs to bleed other people's life energy in order to sustain himself, which barely lasts him for very long, giving him a similar affliction to Professor Lazarus in "The Lazarus Experiment". The Chief has ever been a villain with plenty of charm and charisma, and a deceptively debonair appearance: now he once once again looks like a beast on the exterior as well as the inside, and his monstrous new form allows him to unleash all of his sadism and depravity. The Master is nonetheless tormented by the drumbeat from his last advent in Series 3, and if he was already mad before, his schizophrenia is fifty-fifty worse now. John Simm is notwithstanding great in the role and genuinely creepy from how quickly and seamlessly the Master seems to spring around betwixt moods, in every scene that he'southward in.

The Main is angry and frustrated and bitter about his current circumstances, but at the same time, he'due south enjoying the thrill of the chase, toying with the Medico. He still has plenty of mixed feelings nearly his old friend: he resents him for all the times the Doctor has thwarted his plans, but at the aforementioned, his constant clashes across time and space, with the only person he would really consider his equal, make the Main's life so much more fun. 10 tries to achieve out to the Principal, in the proper noun of their old bail, and of form he's met with more than abuse. The Master may experience cornball well-nigh his sometime friend turned foe, but he won't allow that get in the way of his plans. Information technology's a testament to the Master's egomania that he decides to plough the unabridged human being race into copies of him, and once he realizes the drumbeat in his head is real and it's a signal coming from Gallifrey, he's delighted. He'due south more willing to play the role of his civilization'due south destined savior, since it'll give him the status and notoriety he feels he deserves.

The Master, existence the Master, tries to beguile them all and take hold of all the ability for himself, but unfortunately for him, Rassilon is way ahead of him when information technology comes to beingness a competent villain, and he was already planning to betray him kickoff anyway. The Master takes it pretty personally when he discovers the fourth dimension lords don't requite a damn well-nigh him, and he's every bit insignificant in Rassilon's eyes every bit humanity is in his. The Primary ultimately winds up attacking Rassilon and saving the Doc with his new Sith Lord lightning, which, needless to say, was only partially for the Dr.'due south benefit. No matter which way the climatic showdown panned out, the Master wouldn't get anything out of it, and the Dr. clearly wasn't going to ice that guy, so he figured he might besides get some revenge on Rassilon for using him – causing them both to go sucked back into the time lock. And in my opinion, those two characters truly deserve each other.

We've slowly been dripfed information about the fourth dimension lords over the last four seasons of NuWho, only "The Stop Of Fourth dimension" is our offset major wait at their civilization. The overseers of the universe, the time lords are avant-garde, futuristic fourth dimension travelers who've taken it upon themselves to continue the rubber and integrity of the time-stream intact. In the classic serial, their biggest rule was never to interfere with history's events, but to observe them, which put them in direct opposition with the Medico, who's virtually as large of a meddler every bit you can go. At the tiptop of their power, they were feared and respected by everyone; then the time war happened, when the Daleks rose to ability and they finally met their match, and everything changed. Present, their culture is in ruin and the fourth dimension lords are a shell of their former cocky: just barely clinging on to life and just barely holding dorsum the Daleks, and as a outcome, a good many of them accept lost their minds. Even in Classic Who, the high quango of Gallifrey was established to be pretty decadent and untrustworthy with some rather questionable morals, and after the time state of war pushed them to extremes, they only got worse.

I have some mixed feelings about Gallifrey-centric stories. On the one hand, it's always fascinating to learn new tidbits about how time lord gild works and where the Doctor came from. But on the other hand, the prove doesn't really do much with the time lords as characters (in the RTD era, the Moffat era and the Chibnall era) except take the Doc pino for them and have them show up every few seasons to remind the audition that they're terrible people ("The End Of Time", "Hell Bent", "The Timeless Children"). I primarily watch Doc Who as a show near a time traveler and his friends solving problems in history every week, and I can safely say that if you've seen one story about how the time lords are dicks, you've pretty much seen them all.

At any rate, Rassilon (Timothy Dalton) serves as the main villain of this two-parter, alongside the Primary. Every bit president of the time lords, and the one who helped found their civilization a long, long time ago, he symbolizes the moral decay of the high council more than anyone else, since he's gone from existence a respected individual that everyone holds in high esteem, to a crazed ruler that they clearly only follow out of fear past this point. His introductory scenes get in no clandestine that the president is a power-mad despot who, underneath an icy and reserved exterior, is a very smug, callous and entitled man.

It was apparently Rassilon'due south vivid thought for the time lords to give upward their corporeal forms and destroy all of reality in an effort to go gods, which reflects his god complex just equally much as the Master'due south conquest of World reflects his egomania. And I have to say, beingness even crazier than the Primary is really quite an accomplishment. He also shows himself to be quite the hypocrite, who's elitist to his core: he and his followers volition apply the Master to arrange their own needs and salve themselves, only they won't give him a spot in their new Eden because he's impure now, and that bit of last minute back-stabbing chop-chop proves to be his undoing. While it'southward debatable how much helping the Doctor was actually part of the Master's intentions at the fourth dimension, it does feel plumbing fixtures that Rassilon is brought down by the very two people he helped to pit confronting each other.

Another notable member of the loftier council is a mysterious, nameless woman who appears to Wilfred at several points with her ain agenda, preparing him for the time lords' return equally all-time every bit she tin. Information technology's left up to the audience'southward imagination who this woman is and why she's so interested in the Doc's welfare, but it is hinted at that she'southward meant to exist the Doctor's mother, trying to save her son's life (and Russell has admitted that he wrote her character this way), which adds an actress scrap of poignancy to this story'due south proceedings.

There are a few other side characters present in "The End Of Time", who generally serve every bit plot devices to motion the main story forward and are swiftly taken intendance of in one case they've served their purpose. Like Lucy Saxon, Harold Saxon's former lover and his about devoted follower from the Series 3 finale – the Harley Quinn to his Joker who loved him and enabled him to the best of her abilities, but eventually grew to hate him when she saw his truthful colors. By the finish of that arc, Lucy wound upwardly shooting him herself to finally rid the globe of him, and here'due south she given a definite moment of redemption, when she screws upwardly the Main's resurrection ritual at the cost of her own life. She tin can't stop him from coming back entirely, but she did cripple him vitally and forbid him from coming dorsum with his total forcefulness, which would have been and then much worse for everyone.

Some pocket-sized antagonists in "The Cease Of Time" are Joshua Naismith and his girl Abigail, loftier-class rubes who also illustrate this story's main message near why it'due south foolhardy to chase after immortality, albeit in a far less destructive way than the Main and Rassilon. Joshua wants to utilize his vast wealth to help his girl live forever with the assistance of alien technology, and for his efforts, they both current of air up existence turned into clones of the Primary, and then their actions almost lead to the time lords destroying the world – and so that investment did not pay-off, to say the least. Lastly, you have Addams and Rossiter, two outer infinite salvage-men who take been infiltrating Joshua's workforce to reclaim his technology. Addams is the more than aggressive one of the duo, while Rossiter is a lot more timid. When they're basically drafted into helping the Physician, Addams has little love for the fourth dimension lord who shows her very little respect, and once they've gotten him where he needs to be, they quickly (and understandably) scamper off back to safer waters.

"The End Of Time" is the last episode Euros Lynn (who'due south been with NuWho since the beginning) worked on, and like Grahame Harper before him, he really goes out with a bang with his depiction of the 10th Doctor's regeneration story. During the establishing shots, we're given thousand, sweeping movements, augmented past lens flairs that requite the overall presentation of this story a prissy, cinematic appeal, and during the more tranquility and intimate two-hander scenes, the slow and steady pan-in shots are handled with so much gentleness and care by the cameraman that they rarely ever have you lot out of the moment.

As the stop of an era in the show, Murray Gilt takes the opportunity to revisit many of the most important themes and leitmotifs that he'south written over the last four seasons with his score – reworking "The Greatest Story Never Told", "This Is Gallifrey", "The Master Vainglorious" and "All the Foreign, Strange Creatures" – while too transitioning to a new musical style for the Moffat era with some of his new material, like "All In The Balance" and "The New Md", which lay down the groundwork for "I Am The Physician" in the post-obit flavor. Many of Murray's tracks throughout the special are stunning and pull on the heartstrings like "The Finish Draws Near", "The Master Suite", "Final Days", "A Lot Of Life Behind Usa", "The Clouds Laissez passer", "Four Knocks", and "Vale", simply the biggest precious stone has to be "Vale Decem", which is one of the rare times a piece of Murray's music becomes diegetic in the prove. The Ood decide to sing Ten to slumber, so he won't be entirely solitary during the big change, which is such a beautiful sentiment, and the somber vocal track reaches its full crescendo with some other reprise of "The Doctor's Theme", a musical remnant of Nine that takes the RTD era full circle from where it began in Serial ane.

"The End Of Time" is a very cheeky, bombastic, audacious, and occasionally tonally messy ii-parter, and considering that sums up the Tenth Doctor'southward tenure as a whole, there was actually no other style our leading homo was going to bow out in his swansong. I think this Christmas special runs on a fleck too long for my liking (clocking in at 130 minutes), and I like "Bad Wolf / The Parting Of The Ways" more than it as a regeneration story, but it does a great chore of wrapping up X's character arc and giving the RTD era in full general a strong sense of closure, clearing the table for the next stage of NuWho.

Rating: 9/10.

Side-Notes:

* The Doctor, wanting to show off, tells Ood Sigma that he installed a auto alarm into the TARDIS. Ood Sigma doesn't say a give-and-take in answer, merely y'all can just tell he'southward internally cringing.

* Towards the terminate of his tenure, Russell really vicious in honey with prophecies, didn't he? Between the soothsayers in "The Fires Of Pompeii", the Ood in "Planet Of The Ood", Dalek Caan in "The Stolen Earth", Carmen in "Planet Of The Dead", and now Rassilon and his council in "The End Of Fourth dimension", they're freaking everywhere. Though I suppose it does fit with his tendency to portray the Doctor equally some sort of modern day mythological figure.

* "Something vast is stirring in the dark. The Ood have gained this power to see through time, because time is bleeding. Shapes of things once lost are moving through the veil, and these events from years agone threaten to destroy this time to come, and the present, and the by. This is what we have seen, Doctor. The darkness heralds but one thing: the stop of time itself".

* "Don't you dare. I'm ordering you, Lucy! You will obey me!" "Till death exercise usa office, Harry!"

* I of the most hilariously over-the-top scenes in this episode is the Master using his new Sith Lord powers to chase down two guys in a junkyard and consume them. It is a affair of dazzler.

* "IT'S DINNERTIME!!!" "NOOOOO!!!!" You're not y'all when you're hungry.

* I kind of love the fact that the Master spends the bulk of this ii-parter wearing a hoodie. Combined with his new, messy white hair, it gives off the impression that he's adopted a new emo look for himself.

* Minnie, honey, you putting your hand back there without the Medico's approval is sexual harassment, and I really doubt it would have been played for laughs if the genders were flipped.

* "I tin nonetheless die. If I'm killed earlier regeneration, and so I'thou dead. Even then, even if I change, information technology feels similar dying. Everything I am dies. Some new man goes sauntering away, and I'm dead" Oof, X. That's a pretty depressing way to look at it.

* "Far away, the idiots and fools dreamt of a shining new future, a future at present doomed to never happen" There was no demand for such savagery, Rassilon.

* "I had estates. Do you remember my father's state dorsum dwelling? Pastures of red grass, stretching far beyond the slopes of Mount Perdition. We used to come across those fields all day, calling up at the sky. Wait at united states of america now".

* "I did my duty" "You never killed a man" "No, I didn't, but don't say that like information technology's shameful!"

* "I similar you lot" "Cheers" "You'd gustation dandy" And just similar that, that conversation got a bit too weird for quondam Joshua.

* I go more than a bit uncomfortable during all the quick cuts of the Master scarfing downwards nutrient like a bottomless pit. I experience like I'm watching M-rated food porn.

* "Abigail. It ways bringer of joy" Okay Abby, thanks for sharing that information with us.

* "The company volition be restrained" "What? Simply I repaired it" "I'm not an idiot, Saxon!" That's not what Rassilon thinks, apparently.

* "I'yard President, president of the U.s.a.! Look at me! Ooo, financial solution. Deleted. Haha!" Thanks for that Primary, thanks a bunch.

* "So it came to pass, on Christmas Day, that the human race did cease to exist. Only even and then, the Primary had no concept of his greater role in events. For this was far more humanity's end. This day was the day upon which the whole of creation would change forever. This was the day the Fourth dimension Lords returned. For Gallifrey! For victory! For the cease of time itself!"

* "Y'all permit him get, you swine!" "Oh, your dad's still kicking upward a fuss" "Yeah? Well, I'd be proud if I was!"

* You meet, this is why I always worry almost the Medico's friends more than the Doctor whenever the Master shows upwardly. The Principal has only known about Donna'due south existence for two minutes, and he immediately tries to accept her killed off.

* "Say goodbye to the freak, granddad!" I'd just similar to remind everyone that the Principal is currently a flesh-eating zombie with Sith Lord lightning who hardly has any room to call anyone a freak at the moment.

* "Yous could be then wonderful. You're a genius. You're stone common cold bright, you are. I swear, you really are. But y'all could be so much more than. You could be beautiful" That'south very debatable, Doctor.

* "I don't know what I'd be without that racket" "I wonder what I'd be, without yous"

* "God bless the cactuses!" "That's cacti" "That's racist!"

* "No, not the stairs! Non the stairs! Oww! Worst rescue e'er!"

* "Ix hundred years. We must look like insects to you" "I think you lot expect like giants".

* "The Primary. That noise in his caput? The Primary is going to kill you" "Yeah" "Then impale him first" "And that'southward how the Master started".

* "There'southward an old Globe proverb, Helm. A phrase of great power and wisdom, and alleviation to the soul in times of need" "What's that, and so?" "Allonsy!"

* Information technology's canon that time lords are a much more durable species than human being beings, though exactly how much varies depending on the episode. In this i, the Doctor jumps out of a spaceship that's like a hundred anxiety up and falls through a skylight with null to suspension his autumn when he hits the marble flooring – and somehow that doesn't shatter every single bone in his body. That probably should have forced him to regenerate, even earlier he had a chance to accept a bullet for Wilf.

* "Merely, I did this. I get the credit. I'grand on your side!" You've gotta love the "Bitch, delight" confront Rassilon shoots the Master on that line, clearly giving zero fucks.

* "The war turned into hell. And that'south what yous've opened, right in a higher place the Earth. Hell is descending!" "My kind of world".

* I exercise enjoy the Mexican stand up-off where the Master and Rassilon are both spurring the Physician on to shoot ane of them. Instead of your usual symbolism where an angel and a devil are whispering on someone'southward shoulder, messing with their head, here you've just got two dissimilar flavors of evil.

* "Get out of the way" That little smirk from John Simm when the Master finally figures out the Doc'south true plan shows why I both love and hate his character. He's just so gleefully wicked.

* "Go out of the manner. You did this to me! All of my life! You made me! 1! Ii! Three! Iv!!!"

* If I may accept some other moment to gush over the score, the style the choir soars with euphoria during "The Clouds Pass" is just wonderful.

* "Well, exactly. Expect at you. Non fifty-fifty remotely important! Merely me? I could do and then much more. So much more!! But this is what I get. My reward. And it'south not fair!!! Oh. Oh. I've lived for too long".

* And so, um, why is at that place a baby Adipose toddling effectually in a space bar meant for adults? Are drinking laws vastly different in space, or is in that location some irresponsible parenting going on here?

* "We will sing to you, Doctor. The universe will sing y'all to your slumber. This vocal is catastrophe, just the story never ends".

* "There'southward something else, something important! I'm, I'1000… crashing! Haha! Geronimo!!!"

Further Reading:

• Gallifreyan Ramblings; The M0vie Weblog I & II; Spiralbound Notebook; Tapetrade; Review The Who I & Ii; Zygon Reviews I & II; Junkyard View; Lyratek; Random Whoness; Doc Who Reviews I & II; Who In Review.

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