We’re back, with our new Doctor Who rewatch! Today we wrap up series four with the two-part series finale, The Stolen Earth and Journey’s End. It’s not quite goodbye to the Tenth Doctor yet…but we’re getting close. Let’s get started!
Spoilers ahead for anyone who has not seen these episodes!
The Stolen Earth: After the “Bad Wolf” scene at the end of the previous episode, the Doctor and Donna rush home to Earth, to find that it is a normal Saturday. Yet, if Donna met Rose, that means the walls of the universe are breaking down. They return to the TARDIS, where the Doctor’s severed hand is bubbling in its jar; outside, things begin to shake. The TARDIS shakes violently, and the Doctor finds they are in space—but the TARDIS didn’t move; the Earth did. It’s missing, like several planets before it.
On the other side of the universe, the Earth is intact, but rattled. At UNIT, Martha Jones learns that the sky has changed. In Cardiff, Torchwood Three—Jack Harkness, Gwen Cooper, and Ianto Jones—also notice the strange sky. At Bannerman Road, Sarah Jane Smith checks on her son Luke, and finds it is dark outside; her computer, Mr. Smith, refers her outside for a better look. Wilfred Mott and Donna Noble see it outside their home as well; all parties have now seen the impossible in the sky. And on a street in London, Rose Tyler materializes, carrying a large gun. She looks up to see other worlds looming large in the sky—twenty-six of them, to be precise.
Donna fears for her family’s lives, and the Doctor can’t reassure her. Instead, he seeks help from the Shadow Proclamation.
Mr. Smith detects two hundred ships heading for Earth. UNIT receives notice of a Code Red Emergency; and Martha can’t reach the Doctor by phone, as the signal is being blocked. The fleet reaches orbit as Gwen urges her family to stay safe. Sarah Jane detects a massive space station at the center of the worlds. Rose evades looters, then sees a screenshot of the approaching fleet. Martha calls Jack, and determines that no one can contact the Doctor. They discuss a UNIT plan called Project Indigo, for which Martha is in New York. Mr. Smith detects an incoming message from the ships, which reaches everyone on all frequencies: “Exterminate”. Everyone panics; the Daleks have returned.
The Dalek ships invade, attacking all over Earth and killing many people. Geneva sends a message to UNIT, placing the Earth at war via an “Ultimate Code Red”. Aboard the space station—the Crucible—the Supreme Dalek declares it will soon be ready, and declares the Daleks to be the masters of Earth.
The Doctor and Donna reach the Shadow Proclamation’s space station, and are confronted by its Judoon guards. Meeting with one of the Proclamation’s leaders, he finds that 24 planets are missing, not just Earth; he probes for more information, and adds Pyrovillia, the Adipose breeding planet, and the lost moon of Poosh, bringing the total to 27. It seems planets aren’t just disappearing from space, but from time. The Doctor adjusts the model of the missing planets, and suddenly the worlds move into a formation that sets them up likes cogs in a machine. The Doctor suddenly recalls that someone once tried to move Earth before.
The Daleks disable the Valiant, causing its crew to abandon ship. Worldwide, military bases are being targeted. UNIT pulls Martha from her post as her base is invaded by Daleks, and sends her away with Project indigo, a teleport backpack reverse-engineered from the Sontarans; her commanding officer gives her something called the “Osterhagen Key”. As she teleports away, Jack thinks she has died, as the backpacks lack stabilizers. The Supreme Dalek announces that Earth has been subjugated, and a voice asks it for a progress report; it reports that the Crucible is nearly ready, and the Doctor has not been reported. The voice belongs to a figure with a clawed hand; and he has the mad Dalek Caan in restraints. Dalek Caan predicts that the Doctor is coming.
Donna has an odd encounter with the Proclamation leader, who is aware of the beetle that was on her back. She announces that Donna is something new, and predicts a loss yet to come for Donna. Donna reminds the Doctor that the bees were disappearing in recent months; the Doctor says the bees are actually from another world, and were evacuating home, but they emitted a frequency that matches the transmat that moved the planet, giving them a trail they can follow. With that clue, the Proclamation declares war, and tries to seize the Doctor and the TARDIS, declaring that he must lead them into battle; but he dematerializes before they can act on the declaration.
The Daleks round up humanity in the streets, but Wilfred intends to fight back. He only has a paintball gun, but he knows that he can blind the Daleks with it. Another man tries to fight back, but the Daleks destroy the man’s home with his family in it, causing Wilfred to retreat with Sylvia. Another Dalek catches them, and he shoots its eye, but it dissolves the paint. Just before it can kill them, Rose destroys it from behind. She collects them to help her contact Donna and the Doctor.
The TARDIS lands in space at the Medusa Cascade. The Doctor reflects on coming there as a child of 90 years, to visit the rift there. The planets aren’t there, and the trail ends. Torchwood listens as Earth surrenders and the Daleks take control of Earth. However, Rose hears a signal on Sylvia’s computer—a familiar voice, communicating by subwave. Mr. Smith and Torchwood catch it as well. The voice calls Jack Harkness down for his despair—and the image resolves into Harriet Jones, former Prime Minister (yes, we know who you are). She can communicate with everyone except Rose, who can’t make herself heard, as Sylvia lacks a webcam and microphone. Martha Jones joins the circuit as well; no one is aware of Rose, but Rose can see and hear everyone. Martha says that she was teleported to her mother’s home, where the laptop suddenly activated; Harriet claims responsibility for connecting everyone, using sentient subwave software which is allegedly undetectable. Harriet forbids Martha to use the Osterhagen Key, and focuses on the Doctor instead, despite his destruction of her career. She sets them up as “The Doctor’s Secret Army”. Jack realizes they can boost the phone signal using the subwave and their various systems; however, this will expose Harriet to the Daleks, but she doesn’t care about her own life—only about saving the world. The teams connect the Cardiff rift generator (for power) to Mr. Smith via the subwave, and Martha provides the Doctor’s number; Sarah Jane initiates the call. The TARDIS receives the signal, and the Doctor tracks the signal; but the Daleks track it to Harriet’s location. The mysterious figure warns the Dalek Supreme about the “Children of Time”, the Doctor’s friends, who stand against them. Rose, Wilf, and Sylvia send the number as well, adding to the signal. The Daleks burst in on Harriet. The TARDIS takes damage, but moves one second out of phase, into the future. Harriet transfers control of the subwave to Jack, just before the Daleks confront her, and kill her, and her signal goes dark. Around the TARDIS, twenty-seven worlds—and one massive space station—phase into existence. The Medusa Cascade was put out of sync with the universe, but now they have found it. The TARDIS gets the subwave signal and makes contact with everyone but Rose, who can still see them all, but can’t make contact. Meanwhile, the mysterious figure breaks into the subwave network on audio only, and confronts the Doctor; he is revealed to be Davros, creator of the Daleks, striking fear into the Doctor and Sarah Jane, who both remember him.
The Doctor believes Davros was destroyed in the first year of the Time War, but Davros explains that Caan rescued him via emergency temporal shift. Since then, Davros created new Daleks from his own cells, so as to keep them pure of genetic contamination. The Doctor breaks contact and takes off, headed for Earth. Davros sends the Daleks to find his companions on Earth; they locate Torchwood and send an extermination squad. Jack gets a teleport base code from Martha and uses it to activate his vortex manipulator, and teleports away with a large gun. Seconds later, the Daleks break into the Torchwood Hub on Gwen and Ianto. Sarah Jane leaves Luke and Mr. Smith at home to go find the Doctor. Rose, meanwhile, contacts her own support staff, who teleport her to the TARDIS’s location. The Doctor and Donna land in London and exit the TARDIS, and find it empty. He sees Rose arriving, and runs toward her…only to be shot down by a Dalek. Jack teleports in and destroys the Dalek, but the damage is done…and the Doctor begins to regenerate. They carry him into the TARDIS.
Sarah Jane is stopped by Daleks. Daleks enter the Torchwood Hub, where Gwen and Ianto open fire on them. The regeneration begins.
Journey’s End: The Doctor suddenly redirects his regeneration energy into the hand in the jar, and remains unchanged. He explains that it is a matching biological receptacle, allowing him to siphon off the remaining energy and avoid changing after healing himself—much to Rose’s pleasure. Mickey Smith and Jackie Tyler appear and save Sarah Jane from the Daleks, while searching for Rose. At Torchwood, the guns are ineffective; but the bullets are seen hanging in the air, and the Daleks aren’t moving. Ianto explains it is a time lock, developed by Toshiko Sato before her death—but, though it saves them, it traps them inside. Suddenly the TARDIS loses power, and the Daleks teleport it to the Crucible while Sarah Jane, Mickey and Jackie watch. Mickey explains that their teleports take a half hour to recharge. Sarah Jane, Mickey, and Jackie surrender to the Daleks, and are taken to the Crucible as well. Martha leaves via teleport to activate the Osterhagen Key, refusing to tell her mother what it does. She lands in Germany, and avoids German-speaking Daleks to get to a UNIT station. The Doctor questions Rose about the future she saw in her universe, and she admits that the stars were going out. Therefore her team built a device to transport her here, which she could do suddenly, because the dimensions began to collapse. She says that all the timelines seem to converge on Donna. The TARDIS lands on the Crucible, and the Daleks call the Doctor out. He explains that he has to go out, because these Daleks are at the height of their power, and know how to overcome TARDISes and their defenses. The others agree to step out with him, though Donna is experiencing a strange sort of trance.
The Doctor, Rose, and Jack step out to confront the Daleks, but Donna hangs back, sensing something strange—and the door closes on her, locking her in. The Daleks deny responsibility, but intend to destroy the TARDIS anyway; they drop it through a hatch into the Crucible’s heart, where its Z-neutrino energy will destroy the TARDIS. Things begin to burst into flame around Donna. The Daleks make the Doctor watch the destruction. However, Donna sees the hand in the jar start to glow, and touches it; regeneration energy floods into her, and the jar explodes. The hand begins to regenerate, and expands into a full figure—another Doctor?! In ten rels, the TARDIS will be destroyed; but the new Doctor makes it dematerialize. The Daleks believe it has been destroyed, and gloat over the Doctor. Jack opens fire on the Dalek Supreme, which kills him; the Doctor pulls Rose away, remembering that she does not know about his immortality. Jack winks at him as he the Doctor is escorted away.
The TARDIS is safe, and the new Doctor explains that he is different—he’s a biological metacrisis, created with some of Donna’s traits when she touched the jar. He only has one heart, as well—part Time Lord, part human. He reminds Donna that she is special—and realizes he can see her thoughts, and knows that she really believes she is nothing special. He concludes that they were inevitably heading to this moment, in some kind of destiny—and it’s not over yet.
Martha reaches the station, and meets its lone guard, and gains access to the Osterhagen Key control room after disabling the guard. She connects with the other Osterhagen stations, which are already ready. Meanwhile, Sarah Jane, Jackie, and Mickey are added to a group of prisoners on the Crucible. The Doctor and Rose are placed in energy cells and confronted by Davros. The Doctor realizes that Davros, too, is a captive; he is not in charge of the Daleks, and the Doctor calls him their pet. Davros turns toward Rose, and claims to own her; he explains that Dalek Caan prophesied her presence here. Caan predicts fire coming. Davros explains that Caan was driven made by his view of time in his time travels, but gained some prophetic powers. He predicts the death of one of the “children of time”; the Doctor takes this to be Donna, believing her to be dead. Davros reveals the Daleks’ plan: they have built a reality bomb.
Sarah Jane and Mickey escape the prisoner group, but are forced to leave Jackie behind. The Daleks set up a test of the reality bomb, to be used on the prisoner group. The planets align, and the field they produce together channels Z-neutrino energy in a single stream into the Crucible’s prisoner chamber, wiping out the prisoners as though they never existed. Jackie’s device recharges at the last second, and she teleports away to join Mickey and Rose, but is unable to save any of the others. The test is successful. Davros explains that it cancels the electrical field of the matter it affects, dissolving the matter. Released into the universe, the energy will break through the Medusa Cascade’s rift; all universes will fall to the field, and literally everything—reality itself—will cease to exist. Only the Daleks will be left. The Dalek Supreme recalls all the Daleks to the Crucible.
Fully recovered, Jack reconnects with Mickey, Sarah, and Jackie. Sarah Jane reveals a secret: a special gem called a Warp Star—not a true gem, but a powerful explosive. Meanwhile, Martha connects with the other stations, and prepares to activate the device, but waits. She intends to give the Daleks a chance to surrender. The new Doctor has a plan as well; he has a way to reverse the explosion onto the Crucible, killing only the Daleks. Martha appears on the screen in Davros’s chamber, where the original Doctor can also see, and explains what the key does: It will destroy the Earth, rupturing the machinery of the reality bomb in the process. It is a final failsafe, a form of mercy on the human race if their suffering is too great. Martha and Rose meet for the first time in this manner. Jack also tunes in with his group, and threatens to use the Warp Star, which is wired into the Dalek mainframe—it will destroy the entire Crucible. Davros confronts Sarah Jane, and gloats over her. Davros tells the Doctor that, though he abhors violence, he transforms his friends into weapons, who then sacrifice themselves for him. Already today it’s happened, with Harriet’s death and (ostensibly) Donna’s. The Doctor thinks over the many who have died for him and in his adventures—LINDA, the Face of Boe, Astrid Peth, Luke Rattigan, River Song, and many others—as Davros declares his final victory: he showed the Doctor himself.
The Daleks counter both plans by transmatting Martha, Jack, and the others into the Vault with Davros. All are imprisoned at once; and Davros orders the Supreme Dalek to detonate the reality bomb. Detonation will take 200 rels.
The new Doctor activates his plan, and the TARDIS materializes in the Vault. However, Davros shoots the new Doctor with a stun weapon and traps him in an energy cell. The weapon they were carrying is destroyed, with only 19 rels remaining. The countdown begins—but Donna shuts down the process at the last second, and reverses Davros’s stun weapon onto himself. He sends in the Daleks to exterminate her, but she shuts them down, spewing technobabble explanations the entire time. She reveals that the biological metacrisis that created the new Doctor ran two ways; she herself acquired some Time Lord traits, including the Doctor’s technological skill. The real Doctor realizes that this is what the Ood meant when the referred to “the DoctorDonna”. She deactivates the holding cells and seals the vault. She keeps the Daleks at bay while the two Doctors begin work. Together the three of them begin sending the planets home using the Crucible’s systems while Jack and Mickey keep Davros at bay. Martha and rose get rid of the Daleks in the room. Donna explains that it was Davros’s stun beam on her that activated the Doctor’s knowledge in her brain; the Doctor explains that this is what the converging timelines were leading to. Davros is angry at Caan for misleading him; but Caan denies wrongdoing. He admits that he saw the Daleks throughout time, was disgusted, and decreed “No More”, leading him to manipulate timelines to lead to this moment. The Dalek Supreme breaks in, and Jack destroys it, but destroys the magnetron system in the process; only Earth remains, but the real Doctor will have to use the TARDIS to get it home. He heads to the TARDIS. Caan tells the new Doctor to bring about the end of all things Dalek. He agrees; the Crucible alone is a threat even without the bomb, and the Daleks are deadly enough on their own. They must be destroyed. He sets the Crucible to self-destruct. It horrifies the real Doctor, however, who would not have committed genocide. He gathers everyone in the TARDIS, and tries to save Davros as well, but Davros refuses, and calls the Doctor the Destroyer of Worlds. Caan’s last words tell the Doctor that “one will still die”. They escape just as the Crucible explodes.
The Doctor calls the Torchwood hub, where Gwen answers; he also calls Luke and Mr. Smith. Mr. Smith is to use the rift power to link the TARDIS to Earth; K9 appears and provides the necessary TARDIS basecode. The Doctor places five companions on the panels of the TARDIS, and takes the sixth himself—as the TARDIS was designed for six pilots—and they tow the planet back to its normal orbit. Despite some turbulence, it arrives safely.
The TARDIS lands on Earth, discharging its various occupants back to their lives. Sarah Jane chides the Doctor for acting like a loner, when in truth, he has an enormous family on Earth. Mickey opts to stay on this Earth, as Rose has moved on, and his grandmother in Pete’s World has since passed away. The Doctor deactivates Jack’s vortex manipulator again, and tells Martha to get rid of the Osterhagen Key. He then takes Rose and Jackie back to Darlig Ulv Stranden—Bad Wolf Bay—in Pete’s World. Jackie says goodbye, and tells the Doctor about her baby, whom she named Tony. The real Doctor tells Rose she has to go back despite her objections; he intends to send the metacrisis Doctor with her, as he cannot tolerate a version of himself that would commit genocide, and the metacrisis Doctor needs someone to keep him humane. It’s better for Rose, as well; she will have the Doctor she always wanted, but he won’t regenerate, and will age and die with her. The walls of the universe are closing, and the Doctor must leave with Donna; Rose is still not convinced, and she asks both Doctors what he intended to say at their last parting. The real Doctor refuses to say, but the new Doctor whispers it in her ear; and she answers him with a kiss. In that moment, the real Doctor and Donna depart in the TARDIS.
Donna is enjoying her new knowledge, but the Doctor is concerned. As he watches, her mind seems to glitch repeatedly, and she falls into distress. She knows what is happening; her brain can’t tolerate the stress of the metacrisis. They both know they only solution. She fears to go back; but she must. The Doctor tells her at the last minute that he is sorry; and then he hypnotizes her, and seals away her new knowledge. To do so, he must also seal away all her memories of him and their time together.
He takes her home, and tells Wilf and Sylvia that the knowledge was killing her. She will be fine now, as long as she doesn’t remember. Remembering will burn up her brain, and so they can never tell her. To her it must all just be a story that she missed. He gives her credit for her deeds; but she can never know that for one moment, she was the most important woman in the entire universe. Sylvia insists that she still is; and he tells her that perhaps she should tell Donna that sometimes. Donna awakens and walks in, and the Doctor briefly introduces himself as John Smith, then slips out, noting that she safely does not remember him.
It is raining outside as he leaves. Wilfred asks the Doctor what he will do now; he promises to watch out for the Doctor, and to keep his secret from Donna, but to remember on her behalf. The Doctor departs in the TARDIS.
In my opinion, this story is and remains the best series finale to date. It does, I admit, have some stiff competition; Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways is very good, as is Utopia/The Sound of Drums/Last of the Time Lords. Eleventh Doctor series finales are good, but don’t seem to have as much punch as this one, in my opinion. It helps that we get nearly every major cast member from not only the revived Doctor Who, but also Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures; if there’s going to be the proverbial fanwank, this is a good way to do it. Jack Harkness, Gwen Cooper, and Ianto Jones fill out the roster for Torchwood (as this story comes after the deaths of Owen Harper and Toshiko Sato). Sarah Jane Smith, her son Luke, the computer Mr. Smith, and K9 stand in for The Sarah Jane Adventures. From Doctor Who, of course we have the Doctor and Donna; but we also get appearances from Martha Jones, Rose Tyler, Jackie Tyler, Mickey Smith, Wilfred Mott, Sylvia Noble, Francine Jones, Harriet Jones (I am beginning to think the DW universe only has three last names…), the Daleks, and Davros, as well as Jack, Sarah Jane, and K9.
Many story arcs are revisited and/or concluded here, from the very minor to the critical. Harriet Jones dies in this story, though she goes out in the most honorable way possible, having fully redeemed herself; it’s also the final instance of the “Yes, we know who you are” running joke that pertains to her (even the Daleks make the joke!). Rose makes her final appearance in the current timeline, though we’ll see an earlier version of her briefly in an upcoming episode. Martha makes her final major appearance, though she too will get a brief appearance in an upcoming story. K9’s final appearance is here, though he persists on The Sarah Jane Adventures. We finally get to see the Shadow Proclamation onscreen, and they’re kind of useless. The Cult of Skaro meets its final end in the reappearance and subsequent death of Dalek Caan. The series arc—regarding the disappearing planets and the missing bees—is resolved, and the planets are ultimately restored. The Doctor’s severed hand is resolved, in the form of the Metacrisis Doctor—this is perhaps the longest-running plot, covering three seasons and a season of Torchwood. An explanation is finally given for the TARDIS console room layout (and the Doctor’s bad piloting)—it is meant for six pilots, which had been hinted before, but not confirmed. Donna’s story arc reaches its end, drawing in threads all the way back to The Runaway Bride, although she will get a coda of sorts in The End of Time. Mickey returns from Pete’s World, though Jackie and Rose stay; he too will get an upcoming cameo, but is otherwise finished. The ongoing thread regarding the Doctor’s conflict—that he claims to be a man of peace, but shapes his companions into suicidal weapons—reaches its resolution here.
There’s been an escalating series of threats in each series finale to this point. The Parting of the Ways sees the Daleks threaten Earth of the future, and destroy a great part of it. Doomsday doubles the threat by adding the Cybermen to the Daleks, and threatening two worlds. Last of the Time Lords makes it a universal threat by putting the Master in charge of a universe-conquering fleet. This story takes one look at those, scoffs at them and calls them amateurs, and decides to crank up the threat to the ultimate heights by threatening existence itself. It’s a fantastic story, but it creates a problem: Where do we go from here? Indeed, the next several finales will hover around this level. The End of Time (not a true finale, but serving as one for the upcoming specials) also threatens existence, but through time rather than space. The Big Bang does the same, but from the beginning of time rather than the end. The Wedding of River Song does the same, but by attacking causality instead of a point in time. The Name of the Doctor capitalizes on that concept by attacking the Doctor as a specific form of causality. Once we get to the Twelfth Doctor, we get a bit of a reset, and go back to smaller threats, because honestly, what’s left at that point? We’ve exhausted the universal threats for now, I think. This is, to put it bluntly, as extreme as it gets.
I have to give credit to Catherine Tate and David Tennant for their acting skills here. Both were required to play two parts here—their usual characters, and the hybrid versions. Both pulled it off flawlessly. Tate absorbs the Doctor’s phrasing and mannerisms as if they were her own. Tennant does the same, and adds a degree of shock at himself—he’s stunned that he’s behaving this way, it seems. In a performance of this size, it would be easy to lose those details in the multitude of scenes that had to be filmed, but they never miss a beat.
Some noteworthy things about this story: The Stolen Earth is the 750th episode of Doctor Who since its premiere in 1963. It also technically contains the Doctor’s eleventh regeneration, though that is unclear at this point, as the War Doctor had not been revealed; either way, he uses up a regeneration without actually changing here. As that regeneration is the cliffhanger between the two episodes, there is no “Next Time” preview; this had only happened once previously, in Rise of the Cybermen/The Age of Steel. The opening credits had a record six names: David Tennant, Catherine Tate, Billie Piper, Freema Agyeman, John Barrowman, and Elizabeth Sladen. Several other guest stars are credit over the opening scene. Oddly enough, Bernard Cribbins (Wilfred Mott) and Jacqueline King (Sylvia Noble) are not so credited. Richard Dawkins makes an appearance as himself; he already has a tangential connection to Doctor Who, in that he is married to Lalla Ward, aka Romana II, who was previously married to Tom Baker. Adding to the coolness factor, Ward and Dawkins were introduced by Douglas Adams. The Time War is noted to be time-locked; I am not sure, but I think this is the first time the term is used. It actually appears twice; the Torchwood Hub is time-locked as a final defense measure, developed by Toshiko Sato before her death. Part two, Journey’s End is the longest season finale episode to date, at 65 minutes in its uncut version.
There are far too many continuity references to mention here, which is to be expected in a story of this type. However, a few that are easy to overlook: There have been references to the Medusa Cascade as a possible destination for the Doctor for some time, beginning in Last of the Time Lords. Jack’s gun (used against the Daleks) is the same one he carried in The Parting of the Ways. The Doctor’s disabling of Jack’s vortex manipulator is practically a running joke by now; it began in Last of the Time Lords, and will continue until The Day of the Doctor. The Doctor mentions someone trying to move the Earth a long time ago; this is intended to refer to the Daleks in The Dalek Invasion of Earth, but also happened at the hands of the Time Lords in The Mysterious Planet. The Doctor makes an early reference to the Nightmare Child, which will be repeated in The End of Time. Most of the missing planets were only mentioned this season, but Woman Wept was first mentioned in Series One’s Boom Town; its freezing oceans, unexplained at that time, were probably connected to its relocation here. Callufrax Minor, another missing planet, may be a reference to Calufrax, which became a component of the Key to Time in The Pirate Planet. The Doctor and Rose hint that Gwen looks familiar, a reference to Gwyneth from The Unquiet Dead, to whom Gwen is ostensibly related. The entire story is a sort of answer to Genesis of the Daleks, where Davros said he would destroy all life for the sake of the power it gave him; here, he tries to do just that. The reality bomb’s function is similar to the Valeyard’s partical disseminator (The Ultimate Foe), which is an interesting coincidence, given that many fans speculated that the Metacrisis Doctor would become the Valeyard. (I, for one, am in that camp, and would love to see that happen.)
Overall: Not the best season (though by no means bad!)—that honor still goes to series three—but by far the best finale. I could watch this one over and over. If you’ve not yet watched it, give it a try.
Next time: We move into the “year of specials”, in which there is no full series, but simply four consecutive specials. I intend to tackle each one separately, giving us a little more time with the Tenth Doctor. We’ll begin with The Next Doctor. See you there!
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The Stolen Earth
Journey’s End (part 1)
Journey’s End (part 2)
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