Journey’s End Discussion…
Okay, hopefully I’ll be able to get this post up. We’re under a severe thunderstorm watch with hail and flooding and all that good stuff. Anyway… Like earlier this week, to avoid those of you who have yet to see the episode, I’m going to put my review after the jump. Let me say though that I enjoyed it very much and almost teared up at the end.
YEA! We still have Ten! Though I only had a small doubt about Ten completely regenerating. We also have Mickey and a now badass Jackie back. I thought Gwen and Ianto were sadly wasted on this episode though. I would have liked to have seen more Gwen… ANYWAY… The Doctor regenerate’s enough to heal himself and stores the rest of the energy in his severed hand. Kind of like a backup battery. The TARDIS is transported to the Dalek Crucible where the Doctor acknowledges that he has no defenses against these Daleks as they are proper Daleks at their prime. Donna’s trapped in the TARDIS when it gets sent to be destroyed, however she manages to activate the remaining regeneration energy in the Doctor’s severed hand and it form a clone if you will of the Doctor. I believe this is also the first time that you see Ten without his jacket on (or anything else for that matter…). The daleks presume the TARDIS is destroyed. Martha transports to Germany where we see daleks speaking german (which sounds even creepier…). Martha goes to activate the Ostenhagen Key which will destroy the planet. “Ostenhagen” is an anagram for “Earth’s Gone.” RTD does love his anagrams. I’m gonna leave the plot synopsis right there just because of spoilers. Really, this episode was a lot of fun and if you are reading this and haven’t seen it yet, well, I’m not the one whose going to be totally ruin it for you. I thought the ending was very bittersweet though. Very sad that the Doctor is alone again. And I knew that Martha was going to be coming to Torchwood full time, but Mickey too maybe? Plus the appearance of another past companion was pretty cool, if a bit brief. Plus when the Doctor sees Gwen and asks if she is part of an old family from Cardiff (thus confirming she is somehow related to Gwendolyn from The Unquiet Dead) and we also find out that the Doctor was never half-human. It was just a bit of craziness his eighth self spouted out.
So that’s it until Christmas then. But we have plenty of Who to get through. There are a bunch of DVDs coming out, Big Finish audio plays, books, heck I almost ordered the game for the Nintendo DS this morning (but held off… car payment is due…). So tell me, what did you guys think?
17 responses so far ↓
1 khan // Jul 6, 2008 at 8:40 pm
Stellar episode. Exciting, and, as usual, packed with good music. The ending was pretty rough though… very sad for the doctor in more than way, and he really showed it.
Nice to see that we still have 10 for a while longer. (let’s see what 2010 brings…)
2 BCDIRECTOR // Jul 6, 2008 at 11:54 pm
This was an outstanding episode that made me almost mad that it was so well done.. I can’t believe the series will be gone till 2010 aside from the Christmas special..
3 Seph // Jul 7, 2008 at 4:27 am
I loved this episode. I’m glad they kept Doctor 10, though I’m sure I would’ve kept watching (although very bitterly) had they replaced him.
Bring us the Christmas Special already! ;D We want to see the Cybermen!
4 Crayling // Jul 7, 2008 at 4:42 am
It did not live up to the massive hype :\
It was an awesome episode, by all means. And I am so glad there was not a red button reset at the end.
By the way… is david tennant the tenth and eleventh doctor now?
5 Richard Smith // Jul 7, 2008 at 5:33 am
Great episode, but during the Rose farewell scenes I couldn’t help but keep thinking how much of an oblivious jerk the Doctor can be at times.
Still my favourite Doctor though.
Anyhow, overall, it was very good, although a bit sad about the fact that it’s two years before we get another whole series.
Was a bit surprised not to have a ‘turn around in the Tardis and see [insert surprising thing here]’ scene. At least it gave us a nice ‘end’ to the first four series of the revival.
6 Thom // Jul 7, 2008 at 7:05 am
We don’t have no Doctor Who in 2009, oh no!
We are getting 4 more hour long specials throughout the year, I believe on certain holidays.
but, exit Daleks, enter Cybermen ^_^
7 Kern // Jul 7, 2008 at 8:21 am
Oh, C’mon. Do you really think the Daleks are gone for good?
8 dwarfyperson // Jul 7, 2008 at 12:32 pm
they’re worse than cockroaches.
9 BCDIRECTOR // Jul 7, 2008 at 7:19 pm
It’s sci-fi, nothing is ever gone for good
10 Mark // Jul 7, 2008 at 8:51 pm
With the Doctor’s farewell to Rose, I (being an old school supporter of the asexual Doctor) was glad they left it up to the viewers what it was that he said. The production office did of course say that he said “I love you” but I can only interpret what I see, and as far as I’m concerned, the Doctor stopped the transmission at the end of Doomsday so he didn’t have to not say it and hurt Rose, rather than it running out.
Rest of the episode was a lot of fun, though I am beginning to have reservations about the current format of the series, and I don’t think this year’s series was as good as last year’s.
11 Canadian Doctor Who // Jul 8, 2008 at 8:36 pm
Well stellar cast and stellar performance from all. Glad DT is still DW. But the shock factor of seeing a so unexpected regen and have it not fully done is a rip off in some sense. It would have been hard to swallow but a well known fact in the Whoverse the Doctor changes. Take Cris`s regen it angered me but see who we got now…well worth it. Well back to the episode Eh! I give 10 on 10. The closure of Rose was nice and tear bringing but Donna`s got my full tears. Well to all till next Xmas for the next Who. And whom ever has a XBOX 360 by the way name you on top is my gamertag. And for those who wonder the Dr Who game on DS its good but its your basic Top Trump card game with a DW touch.
12 Canadian Doctor Who // Jul 8, 2008 at 8:37 pm
correction to my Gamertag Canadian Dr Who it is..hehe
13 Olly // Jul 9, 2008 at 12:30 pm
“It’s sci-fi, nothing is ever gone for good”
Not even Donna, methinks. Fingers crossed for a cameo, or something.
14 Winkyboy // Jul 11, 2008 at 9:51 am
One of the lamest episodes ever, in my opinion. I just don’t like the way Davies creates science fiction as if it were “fantasy fiction”. He insists that viewers simply take too many things for granted, and this episode felt like one grand deus ex machina.
Anyway, I’m sure tons of others who DIDn’t go ga-ga over the fanwank have already posted the specific reasons why they hated it so I won’t go into detail. Above all else, though, if you’re going to bring Sarah Jane back in an episode, DON’T make her a practical afterthought.
15 tardisfiend // Jul 12, 2008 at 3:54 am
I have to say I will really miss Donna Noble. I really didn’t like her in runaway bride I was so angry when they said she was going to be in season 4. Then not sure if that was on purpose or not but by the end of it I was really loving Donna Noble her character was great. Then what happened to her well yeh the doctor comes across as a bit of a arrogant bastard really. I mean stopping Jacks time portal watch thing again. who does he think he is I mean no one has taken his tardis of of him well maybe they should
16 thorn4344 // Jul 19, 2008 at 10:53 pm
Well, as for stopping Jacks time watch; that’s his job! Last of the Time Lords. The time lords always policed time travel, and Jack’ s watch could allow him to travel in time, so the Doctor just stepped in and did his duty. Jack + Unsupervised Time Travel = Big mischief.
17 daniel // Aug 2, 2008 at 12:36 pm
er… Jack = Big mishief (regardless of Unsupervised Time Travel)
Thought the episode was fun, but would have liked more out of the old companions, and maybe even a reappearance of another of the older companions. Dr. Who has always been a bit of a toss as far as the actual science is concerned, I mean DoctorDonna near as much said “reverse the polarity flow” or some such nonesense which harkens back to the gobblety gook of the series in it’s earlier form. This isn’t realism. I am sad we don’t get more Dr. Who in 2009 other than the specials.
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