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Clap Your Hands

So, this season’s finale of Doctor Who aired over the weekend. I found it strangely unsatisfying – more pyrotechnics than plot drama. And Russell T. Davies’ outrageous plot device – what you might call the Tinkerbell strategem, with the Doctor as Tinkerbell and Martha as Peter Pan – well, I confess I rolled my eyes in derision.
 
Still, John Simm, as The Master, acquitted himself well; playing the role as a bizarre mixture of Pol Pot and pantomime dame. And I did like the throwaway reference to Captain Jack’s probable fate (even if he didn’t get much to do in this week’s episode).
 
But all in all, this finale was not my highlight of this season’s offerings. For me, the episodes of Blink, and Human Nature / The Family of Blood, were definitely the high points, and possibly the best that there ever have been in the entire 40+ years of the show.

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2 responses to “Clap Your Hands”

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    Andy

    I am with you on this one Geoff – Blink was the best episode of the series and one of the best episodes ever.  Maybe it is a function of the age at which you see the show, but I still have a fondness for those old Jon Pertwee episodes involving UNIT, but objectively the new series is far better written than any of the old ones.

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  2. Geoff Avatar
    Geoff

    Andy, I go back even further – I really liked Patrick Troughton’s Doctor… and I can remember the first ever episodes with William Hartnell, I was beside myself with excitement over the first appearance of the Daleks.  

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