Posts Tagged 'Regeneration'

Regenerate

The Time Has Come
The king is dead, long live the king! In this case the former is Russell T Davies and the latter Steven Moffat who wrote, by all accounts, the final, post-regeneration minute or so of RTD’s swan-song opus, The End of Time, shown in two parts on Christmas Day and Boxing Day. Now that the baton has been well and truly handed over it is (almost) time to put together a complete analysis of the 60-episode era. There will be time enough for that another day and if you’re really, really quiet you can hear fanboys up and down the country tapping on keyboards about gay agendas, deus ex machina and how Paul McGann should be in it any day now. However, today it’s all about bidding David Tennant a fond adieu

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DW 4x12 Regenerate

Well, no-one was expecting THAT.  All talk in advance had been of the return of Davros and the new Dalek empire but RTD and David Tennant may have just proved that the ability to manipulate Who fans and the general viewing public with smoke and mirrors is alive and well in the corridors of power at BBC Wales.  As long as the climactic scene of The Stolen Earth is a genuine one that will not be reset in next week’s conclusion, then that may well have been one of the greatest plot twists in Doctor Who, if not television, history.  We’ve even seen photo’s of David Tennant apparently filming the forthcoming Christmas special for crying out loud.  Despite that, I am currently begining to believe that we have seen David Tennant’s final bow as the Doctor already. The Doctor Who Forum appears to have gone into meltdown as my meagre browser can no longer access it, so I have no idea what the concensus amongst the fans might be.

I just needed to get this comment “out there”…. Full review, of course, to follow….

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