4×12: “The Stolen Earth”

“When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up” - C.S. Lewis

There are moments in adulthood when you yearn for the thrill of youth. Usually, it’s at times when your body doesn’t quite behave in the way it should and always has done before, when they stop making birthday cards with your age on them (ever seen a “Happy 37th” card?), when you hear yourself for the first time starting a

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Tags: Captain-Jack, Childhood, David Tennant, Doctor Who Forum, Donna, Harriot Jones, Medusa, Rose, Russell-T-Davies, Shadow Proclamation, Stolen Earth

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….

Tags: David Tennant, Regeneration, Russell-T-Davies, Stolen Earth