Well, that did pretty much everything I was hoping it wouldn't - and yet still somehow managed to be rather wonderful. Rusty - in your own maddeningly inconsistent way, you were brilliant.
Like you there were lots of fun bits, let down by an end that made me want to stab things. But then its a Rusty season finale, it was always going to happen like that.
Bernard Cribbins was, as always, great. Davros and the Daleks were brilliant (I'm sure he'll turn up again, hopefully with Caan gibbering over his shoulder), and I'm rather looking forward to the Victorian Cybermen.
But the end didn't even make me want to stab things! I was so impressed that he set it up so we were expecting him to kill Donna and then managed to do something far, far worse and turn her back into Catherine Tate.
Davros was excellent, and I would be happy to see him again - but without the Daleks this time, please. As the Reality Bomb shows, he has so much more to offer. The loon.
Cybermen...hmmm. The alternate reality Cybermen were consistently shit, and after the way they got bitchslapped by the Daleks, I'm not sure they're even a remotely credible threat anymore. If this is a handful who managed to get through during this season's reality storm, well that makes a sort of sense but I'd much rather the Mondas lads came back. Then again, they would have had to have a bad redesign if so...
It was Rose getting her own pet Doctor that really annoyed me. Possibly because I grew to loathe the character over the end of her run, and after she left. I didn't like Donna being mindwiped, but I can live with it.
I'm hoping its the Mondas lot too, but by the looks of it it won't be. If they hadn't made the Daleks ridiculously overpowered (specially having them flying all the time) then the Dalek/Cyberman face-off would have been rather more interesting.
They had to boost the Daleks, though, to get past a lifetime of 'but why doesn't he just run up stairs ahaha' nonsense from philistines who've not seen Remembrance.
I am glad that Rose has now definitely gone and the real Doctor will now presumably stop moping over her.
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Bernard Cribbins was, as always, great. Davros and the Daleks were brilliant (I'm sure he'll turn up again, hopefully with Caan gibbering over his shoulder), and I'm rather looking forward to the Victorian Cybermen.
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Davros was excellent, and I would be happy to see him again - but without the Daleks this time, please. As the Reality Bomb shows, he has so much more to offer. The loon.
Cybermen...hmmm. The alternate reality Cybermen were consistently shit, and after the way they got bitchslapped by the Daleks, I'm not sure they're even a remotely credible threat anymore. If this is a handful who managed to get through during this season's reality storm, well that makes a sort of sense but I'd much rather the Mondas lads came back. Then again, they would have had to have a bad redesign if so...
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I'm hoping its the Mondas lot too, but by the looks of it it won't be. If they hadn't made the Daleks ridiculously overpowered (specially having them flying all the time) then the Dalek/Cyberman face-off would have been rather more interesting.
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I am glad that Rose has now definitely gone and the real Doctor will now presumably stop moping over her.