Well, that was truely epic.
So much good stuff, and after last year’s “Daleks in Manhatten” misfire, its nice to see the Daleks being flippin scary again (a large part due to Elisabeth Sladen’s fantastic performance).
Great seeing the gang get back together (although the slow-motion run between the Doctor and Rose was veering dangerous close to cheese overload - thank God that Dalek was passing). Billie Piper seems to have sorted out her performance since last week as well, and felt a lot more like this was the Rose of old turning up.
Killer cliffhanger as well. Be interesting to see how it gets resolved.
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Well, now we know why the BBC didn’t mind letting everyone know about Davros’ return. The hype over it would be enough to cover their intended shocker, the regeneration of the Doctor. But will he change? Despite the hiatus and uncomfirmed reports of who is playing the Doctor in the next season, it is known that David Tennant is starring in the two upcoming specials. Does this mean hope for us, or simply that the episodes are chronologically set before the regeneration?
I’m hoping the fact that the Death Ray passed through him, and didn’t full on hit him (he also only had a partial invert effect) might mean some hope of a regeneration without complete cell change, perhaps just an accelerated healing
Yeah. Similar to the Dalek’s return in season 2 (where the return of the Cybermen covered for them), the return of Davros seems to have been something that they let out of the bag to keep the focus away from what else is going on.
I know the rumours for what’s supposed to happen with the regeneration, but also I think its a fake-out for these reasons:
1. Recruiting a new Doctor without the press finding out would be murder.
2. Even if you’ve managed to do so, why would you give the press a week’s notice to ruin the surprise? I think if we were getting a proper regeneration, they’d have used the reveal of the new Doctor as the cliffhanger, rather than the regeneration itself.
3. While RTD etc have happily lied in the past to keep plots a secret (”I hate the Master”, “Rose will never come back” etc), we’ve also had official BBC press releases stating that Tennant is doing the specials. I can’t imagine they’d go that far.
There’s other stuff as well, but of course, I could be wildly wrong, and we could be looking at a brand new Doctor next week. In which case the production team will have earned some huge kudos for keeping it quiet in today’s web-powered spoiler-filled world.
As I said, if they managed to keep something of this magnatude under wraps, hidden by a torrent of mis-information, pray RTD never gets any government work.
Cracking episode, my one gripe, the usually great music was pretty ropey at times.