The episode maintains the high quality displayed by the first half of this two-parter, “The Time of Angels.”
The marvelous pre-titles sequence is a classic five minutes of Doctor Who.
Every Doctor sooner or later has to face the Daleks.
The setting is impressively strange right from the opening shot.
Welcome to the first of a series of weekly recaps for the latest season of Doctor Who, now being broadcast on Saturday nights by BBC America.
One point that the script doesn’t make sufficiently clear—at least, it confused me on first viewing—is that the initial Time Lord scenes take place before the three pieces of narration in Part One.
With “The End of Time,” the Doctor Who careers of two giants of the show—star David Tennant and head writer and executive producer Russell T Davies—reach their conclusion.
David Tennant’s long goodbye to Doctor Who enters its final stretch with “The Waters of Mars.”
Writing about the fourth Doctor Who Christmas Special is, admittedly, about as much fun as sitting down to eat a bowl of shredded wheat.
At some point the Season Four finale of Doctor Who, “Journey’s End,” will stand on its own.
“The Stolen Earth” is a wonderful and sometimes frustrating episode.
Welcome to the “Ruediger-light” episode of this season’s Doctor Who recaps.
The plot is surprisingly simple and the story is rooted in concept and character.
“Forest of the Dead” is an episode that left me so thoroughly perplexed that I had to see it several times to even begin thinking I understood it.
The name Steven Moffat has been the stamp of quality on Doctor Who scripts over the past three seasons.
I’m sure I read an interview with Russell T Davies some time ago where he referred to “The Unicorn and The Wasp” as “the first comedy we’ve done.”
As a title, “The Doctor’s Daughter” conjures up exciting possibilities, but as an episode it leaves the viewer wanting more.
This is easily the best of the early season, two-part action spectacles Doctor Who has yet offered up.
The episode is a killer setup for this type of two-parter, which always grabs a couple pre-midseason slots.
“Planet of the Ood” is a really strange episode (and yes—I had to restrain myself from describing it as odd).