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| TheDoctor | Sep 17 2012, 02:01 PM Post #1 |
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Doctor Who Series 4 So here we are the last full series of the RTD era and Tennant’s last full series. Now we can strap ourselves for one last long trip to the Journey’s End. First though we have the Christmas special Voyage of the damned which features a Titanic spaceship with Kylie Monuge as the guest appearance, it’s one of them episodes full of cameo’s yet the whole plot seems rather farfetched, though as it seems to be as silly as the two proceeding Christmas specials, so no change here. Now we move onto Series four and with the first episode Partners in crime sees Donna Noble return during an investigation the two team up as people’s fat is turned into adipose children to be taken away for the adipose family. Donna is then whisked off into the TARDIS for new adventures. Sticking with the tried tested formula of into future and into the past episodes… firstly we go back in time to Pompeii for the fires of Pompeii and even an appearance by future companion Karen Gillan (though not yet as Amy) Pompeii is a decent episode it’s brought down by the fact Pompeii was started by the monster of the week the Pyroviles. We have a great moment when Donna pleads for someone anyone to be saved by The Doctor and in the end he saves a family from the fires. The episode in the future is set on the Ood sphere in episode called Planet of the Ood. It’s a mixbag but though it has some great moments particularly from Donna again especially the Ood song and freeing the Ood from human’s using them as slaves. At the end of the episode The Ood reveal that the Doctor’s song will soon end the first indication of the doctor’s next regeneration. We have the first two parter The Sontoran Stratagem and Poision Sky. Martha calls The Doctor and Donna back to earth. Martha is now working at UNIT and they have a problem with the ATMOS systems, a device used to poison the earth to become the new clone world of the Sontorans. We also have The Doctor’s second meeting with Wilfred Mott (first met during the Voyage of the damned) Wilf is Donna’s grandfather and The Doctor’s surprised to see him again… Poison Sky ends with the destruction of the Sontoran fleet and Martha joining Donna and The Doctor on another trip. The episode the Doctor’s Daughter features Georgia Moffett (daughter of the fifth doctor Peter Davison and future wife of David Tennant the tenth doctor) Georgia plays the doctor’s daughter Jenny, who’s actually a female replicated clone of the doctor pre-trained for fighting. The trio learn they are in the middle of a war between the fish like Hath and the humans of the planet, it’s not a bad episode but a few silly moments and Martha is wasted in this episode which was a shame. In the end Jenny sacrifices herself and dies to save the doctor. Now Donna and The Doctor head back in time and meet Agatha Christie and an alien wasp that’s been committing the mysterious murders… it’s a fairly average episode though a great scene where the doctor is poisoned and needs Donna’s help to save him and we’ve got some hilarious antics between them. The second two-parter sees Donna and The Doctor head to the library were we have the first (and last) appearance of River Song. It’s a great two-parter (one of my personal favourites) we’ve got the Vashta Nerada who live in the shadows feeding on people like piranha and an alternate world where Donna has her own family…River reveals she knows a future Doctor and even tells the current Doctor she knows his real name and its even hinted she’s his future wife but by the episodes end River sacrifices herself and The Doctor manages to save her by putting her the alternate world created by CAL with the others who died in the library. Now we have Midnight an episode set on the planet Midnight which could be described as companion lite with it centring more around The Doctor. It’s arguably one of the best RTD penned episodes. It even has David Troughton son of second doctor Patrick. The episode deals with an unknown entity that possesses a passenger called Sky and we’ve got some of the best drama of New Who and at its conclusion The Doctor is almost thrown off the ship but is saved by the stewardess. Now we have the Doctor lite episode Turn Left which deals with the effects of the world if The Doctor died because Donna wasn’t there to save him. It’s an interesting concept . Though we do get the return of Rose Tyler who’s somehow escaped her parallel world to assist Donna in this alternate timeline world the end sees Donna die to put the timeline back on track allowing her to return to the doctor in the real world where she learns it was a tricksters beetle that had cause the alternate timeline. Donna reveals Rose is back to The Doctor as she warns of Bad Wolf, the two race to the TARDIS as the cloister bell begins to ring. Now for the two part series finale Stolen Earth and Journey’s End. They feature a crossover with the SJA and Torchwood which means a return for Sarah-Jane and Captain Jack. Martha is too involved and of course we have Rose, Mickey and Jackie appearing in the episode at the end of Stolen Earth The Doctor is wounded by a Dalek and begins to regenerate… (leaving one of the biggest climaxes in the shows history) but in Journey’s End he stops the regeneration by transferring the regeneration into his hand (previously lost in Christmas invasion) after using it to heal himself… it’s a concept that completely baffles me but I won’t ramble too much why let’s just say it makes little sense! The rest of Journey’s End has the Daleks plotting to destroy the universe with a reality bomb powered by 28 planets another concept which is absolutely ridiculous. Oh something I nearly forgot Donna touches the hand filled with regeneration energy and creates a second doctor who is half time lord half human while Donna gains some time lord knowledge… it’s the third silly idea in one episode it’s getting a bit frustrating now… the new clone Doctor destroys The Daleks and so the real Doctor exiles him into the parallel world with Rose and Jackie. Mickey opts to stay with Jack and Martha. While Donna has to have her memory of the doctor and all her adventures wiped from memory. Episode Scores - Voyage of the damned 4/10 1) Partners in Crime 5/10 2) Fires of Pompeii 6/10 3) Planet of the Ood 6/10 4) The Sontoran Strategem 4/10 5) Poison Sky 3/10 6) The Doctors Daughter 5/10 7) The unicorn and the wasp 4/10 8) Silence in the Library 8/10 9) Forest of the Dead 9/10 10) Midnight 9/10 11) Turn left 7/10 12) Stolen Earth 5/10 13) Journey’s End 3/10 Average score: 5.6 Doctor’s score: 7/10 Donna’s score: 7/10 Story Arcs 1)The Missing Planets/The Darkness : Throughout series 4 we hear about planet’s disspearing or creatures having lost their homeworld… I’ve added the darkness theme here as they tie together, we hear from Rose that the darkness is coming as the stars go out. It’s basically the Daleks had activated their reality bomb and the stars where going out and to use the bomb they’d stolen the planets… though if the stars had started going out surely their plan had worked, how is it and the end of the series they were stopped? This is the weakest overall arc of the RTD era in my opinion. 2)The Doctor/Donna: We here a few hints about The Doctor/Donna throughout the series and we even get a prediction from Dalek Caan that Donna was going to die… but like with Rose in series 2 and The Doctor in the specials… those who make prophecies about people dying really should find another career because nobody ever does die… though I could put that down to RTD trying to create good drama but lying like this really isn’t a good way to go about things. |
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