The British Fantasy Society Forum

[Paul Finch]

What did everyone think?

SPOILERS ALERT for those who haven't seen it yet.

I enjoyed it, but wasn't it a bit naughty editing it so tighty as to show the nuclear explosion with everyone still inside the base, and then having them all stepping out of the TARDIS back on Earth?

Also, I thought we could have used the monsters a bit more. But of course they weren't what the story was really about, so perhaps that's a bit of a pointless whinge.

[AdrianF]

I'm not a Who fan to the same degree as others on this board but I was so hoping they would set up the Time Lord Victorious as the new big bad.  That would have taken Who into such an interesting area for the final episodes and given such a solid reason to bring the children of time back together again.  One Cthuhlu Sigma apparition and he learns the error of his ways.  A minor disappointment in a story that really looked like it would take Who in an interesting direction for the finale

[Kasalivich]

Some clues in there that confirm my suspicion that the Doctor will actually die and not regenerate, and that the next doc is actually a younger version. Opens upp all sorts of prequel stories.

As with most of the new Who, the script was full of holes (wormholes?) which are blurred by the pace of the story. Good fun though.

[Natt]

I thought it was (mainly) good.

The score was terrible, and just seemed to emphasise that people were RUNNING! and, occasionally, SHOUTING! It also seemed to back away from the interesting things it was setting up at the end.

It was, however, mercifully free from the worst RTD-isms (pointless dei ex machina, elevating copout writing choices to 'difficult dramatic choices', treating characters as excuses for 'great moments', thematic incoherence, I could go on...). For that, I am very, very grateful...

[Shaun Jeffrey]

Watching my son hide behind a cushion and then keep peeping out was the best bit for me as it brought back memories of my own childhood - but I enjoyed the program too.