Thank you Russell T Davies for giving us the first Dr Who special since The Christmas Invasion that really was special. Don't get me wrong, the others have been good (or just alright in the case of The Next Doctor) but they've not quite matched up to the epic season finales we've had. Army of Ghosts/Doomsday, Utopia/Sound of Drums/Last of the Time Lords and Stolen Earth/Journey's End were all fantastic, whereas most of the specials were more like normal episodes.
The Waters of Mars was different though. A darker Doctor and a darker story, similar in that respect to The Family of Blood. The Doctor is sick of the rules, and so he decides to change them. He was almost Master-like in the way he decided that he was the one with the power. Bit of a sudden change, but you could see what drove him to it.
The story itself was good because it didn't need too much detail and backstory. We could see that the characters had a lot of background, but what mattered was what was happening now. It didn't matter what the Martian water monster was, just how it affected the crew.
Those last few minutes where Adelaide kills herself to right the timeline, and the Doctor realises what he's done, were some of the best I've seen in Dr Who. The Doctor realises he's gone too far. He used his power to try and change a fixed point in time because he was arrogant enough to believe he could rewrite the law. Because of that, he was responsible for a suicide. Adelaide showed more bravery than he did, because she was prepared to die, whereas he wasn't prepared to do the right thing. Fantastic lead into the final story for the Tenth Doctor, and interesting that he saw Ood Sigma just before the end.
I've seen the trailer for The End of Time, and I'm incredibly excited.
The Waters of Mars was different though. A darker Doctor and a darker story, similar in that respect to The Family of Blood. The Doctor is sick of the rules, and so he decides to change them. He was almost Master-like in the way he decided that he was the one with the power. Bit of a sudden change, but you could see what drove him to it.
The story itself was good because it didn't need too much detail and backstory. We could see that the characters had a lot of background, but what mattered was what was happening now. It didn't matter what the Martian water monster was, just how it affected the crew.
Those last few minutes where Adelaide kills herself to right the timeline, and the Doctor realises what he's done, were some of the best I've seen in Dr Who. The Doctor realises he's gone too far. He used his power to try and change a fixed point in time because he was arrogant enough to believe he could rewrite the law. Because of that, he was responsible for a suicide. Adelaide showed more bravery than he did, because she was prepared to die, whereas he wasn't prepared to do the right thing. Fantastic lead into the final story for the Tenth Doctor, and interesting that he saw Ood Sigma just before the end.
I've seen the trailer for The End of Time, and I'm incredibly excited.
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