The final episode of Doctor Who will be on soon. It’s so very exciting I’ve been avoiding the media for the last few days after hearing how tonight’s resolution is smeared across the tabloids, which naturally then gets reported by everybody else for reasons I don’t quite understand. Hell, the BBC themselves were showing 3 minute clips at 1930 every day this past week! They sent me scurrying for the remote at least twice. I know that they have to get the interest going, but it’s a little annoying for people like me who just want to watch without the story being spoiled. How I managed to avoid prior knowledge of last week’s d

I know I’ve done this for the past three weeks now, but did you see the end of Doctor Who last night? Wasn’t it exciting! If you didn’t see it, don’t read any more. I have it on the tivo if anybody wants to watch it, too.

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Just watched the conclusion to last week’s Doctor Who, and thought it was superb. The excellent Russell T. Davies is the main writer on the series, but if Steven Moffat’s name doesn’t appear again on the credits I’ll be very surprised. His double episode managed the rare feat of having a completely self-contained, coherent and surprising plot. There were no ghosts in the machine or unlikely coincidences. Every problem’s resolution was foreshadowed (there’s a technical term for this, but I’m damned if I can think of it just now) such that it made sense, but was subtle enough that you didn’t figure it out in advance. It was also dramatic without being silly or over-the-top, as well as rather touching. The dialogue was wonderful, too:

“Back to your room!” says the Doctor, which temporarily disperses the attacking aliens (which sounds silly, but made perfect sense in the context of the story)
“I’m so glad that worked, those would have been terrible last words.”

If I ever write something that succeeds in all areas as well as this episode, I’ll be very proud.