The long awaited Day of the Doctor 50th Anniversary special of Doctor Who. Did it deliver what we were promised?
Since not everyone has seen the Day of the Doctor yet, this will be spoiler free. However, in a full review I will discuss the episode in detail.
First impression: WOW! Just wow, Day of the Doctor completely blew me away! It was entirely different than what I had expected and even better than I had expected. David Tennant is back and better than ever. He reminded me how much I still miss seeing him as the Doctor and his back and forth dialogue exchange with Smith was positively brilliant! Why can't Tennant return!? The episode had a few very minor flaws, but overall, it is everything that I could have ever asked for and then some. The episode was chock full of references and Easter Eggs to both Classic and NuWho. The cameos were great and I just loved the episode. The Day of the Doctor has some almost movie quality effects, which are superior to just about everything we have seen previously on the series. John Hurt's Doctor was fantastic! I almost wish we was the new Doctor. Some time in the next two weeks, I will probably have a full review with spoilers, so check back for that.
Have you seen the episode? If so, please tell me what you think!
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just wondering if i was to try dr who should start from the begining or pick up on the latest
ReplyDeleteMy review is on my blog - theblogofdelights.blogspot.com - if you fancy a read. Full of spoilers though - be careful! Daniel, if you want to watch Who, you can start with the 2005 reboot Rose onwards, or sample some of the classic run. I'd recommend Terror of the Zygons, Pyramids of Mars, Spearhead From Space and Tomb of the Cybermen. If you have less time, the Matt Smith era starts with Series 5 and is mostly self contained.
ReplyDeleteI will go and read your review soon, thanks for the link GK.
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its just i'v got to make sure and pick a good one because i dont exactaly watch anything by myself so everybody has to agree its good or at least the majority of my brothers
ReplyDeleteThe 2005 reboot of the series is definitely the best place to start. Start with episode, "Rose," first and then watch all seven seasons. The old series can be good, but if you are not a fan of old sci-fi, you may dislike it due to the cheesiness.
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You bet, I've gotta see Doctor Who and it's classic episodes before they all go away and forgotten in TV. The special is very exceptional with David Tennant back as the tenth no one's going to replace him, eh! Just make sure you have a review of the Day of the Doctor and please mention about the cameo of Tom Baker.
ReplyDeleteIndeed, Tennant was great to see again!
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I will most certainly mention Baker's cameo. That was fantastic!
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Glad you enjoyed the episode! :D I haven't seen the episode yet(my Nana taped it and is going to bring it to me on Thursday) but I hope I enjoy it too! :D
ReplyDeleteI hope you enjoy the episode as much as I did! :D
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Moffat's "Day of the Doctor" left in its wake more than just satisfied audiences, critical acclaim and renewed interest in the show. To those who saw more than just a epic, there were unanswered questions regarding its context, in particular with the first RTD era.
ReplyDeleteNotwithstanding Chibnall destroying the time lords for good at the hands of the Master, while it was interesting for Moffat to bring the time lords back in the 50th, I don't like how he had to recton RTD’s story that Gailfrey was destroyed in the time war, and portray the Doctor as being happy on "going home the long way round" to Gailfrey (ironically in hindsight with Chibnall/Master, the Doctor might as well have been kept as killing them in the first place). RTD's having Gailfrey destroyed was literally the only reason the show was allowed to come back on the air. Having the Time War and getting rid of the Time Lords was an agreement that RTD made with the BBC so that they would agree to put Doctor Who back on the air, so that new viewers could get into the show without having to struggle too much with 40 years of Time Lord backstory. The show we have now would not be here without that Time War.
Let’s just disregard the fact for now that it might have been highly disrespectful for Moffat to rewrite RTD’s big plot like that. Instead, looking back I think the ending was out of chracter for the Doctor. Even if he felt relief at the Time Lords back, I don't think Eleven would have acted happily as he did in the 50th. How he called Gallifrey ‘home’, how he looked so excited at the idea of being with his people. Gallifrey has never been the Doctor’s ‘home’. Earth has always been his true home. The very first season of the show began with him living on Earth, on the run from his people. Earth has always been where the Doctor was happy, where he found the people that made him happy, where his true family has always been from. The Time Lords? Are villains. They have always been dicks, who never understood the Doctor, who banished him and forced him to regenerate and took away his TARDIS and stranded him on Earth. The Sixth Doctor even denouced them where he put on trial by them in "Trial of a time lord"; "In all my travelling throughout the universe, I have battled against evil, against power-mad conspirators. I should have stayed here. The oldest civilisation: decadent, degenerate, and rotten to the core. Power-mad conspirators, Daleks, Sontarans, Cybermen - they're still in the nursery compared to us. Ten million years of absolute power. That's what it takes to be really corrupt!" They were even bigger villains during the Time War, contrary to how they were seemingly portrayed in the 50th special, all you have to do is watch End of Time to see that.
The only understandable reason for Eleven to be so happy at the idea of going back is that in 400 years he’s somehow forgotten that the Time Lords were great big jerks who never made him feel welcome, who never understood him, who rarely wanted him around, and that the frozen time he’s trying to go back to is when they were literally at their very worst, just as bad as the Daleks.
Same goes for Ten. In The End of Time, Ten is horrified at the Time Lords returning, and fiercely willing to do whatever it takes to send them back to hell. In The Day of the Doctor, he’s so happy to save them he’s grinning ecstatically, and jumping around with joy.