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Ravern

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At a guess, they're all in there because of this. At least partly.

I don't have high hopes either. None of the big two-part finales have been any good. It seems people have started rating Parting of the Ways now but I remember thinking it was pretty poor at the time, what with the Big Brother / Trinny & Susannah crap and the hopeless "epic" battle with about 12 extras. Yet again we'll have a fight to save the world from an indestructible menace played out on News 24, CNN and the streets of Cardiff, and yet again there'll be a pat ending and a big red reset button.

At least Sarah Jane's in it this time.

I rate Parting of the Ways because it's the one AFTER all the reality TV crap. But yes, the epic battle was shockingly poor.

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Parting of the Ways ruled.

The "battle" wasn't the point of it at all :D

Parting of the Ways is Rose's finest episode. Those last 25 mins when she gets transported home are some of the best scenes in the series since it came back.

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Parting of the Ways is Rose's finest episode. Those last 25 mins when she gets transported home are some of the best scenes in the series since it came back.

It was... Ok I think, despite being a bit of a rip-off of the Buffy season 4 finale. I think it's hard to defend the Bad Wolf episode. It's pretty much the cingeworthiest episode we've had of new Dr Who.

Series 3 struck a fantastically good balance I thought.

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No way, fear her has been the worst by a mile

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Back to Sarah Jane....

"Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane"...Now that was very very good

(Am I right in thinking this is the Trickster behind the turn left creature?)

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It was... Ok I think, despite being a bit of a rip-off of the Buffy season 4 finale. I think it's hard to defend the Bad Wolf episode. It's pretty much the cingeworthiest episode we've had of new Dr Who.

Series 3 struck a fantastically good balance I thought.

Bad Wolf has the best Dr Who moment so far for me though - when he squares up to the Daleks and tell him what he's going to do.

"Rose... I'm coming to get you!"

Brilliant stuff (I thought)

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Bad Wolf has the best Dr Who moment so far for me though - when he squares up to the Daleks and tell him what he's going to do.

"Rose... I'm coming to get you!"

Brilliant stuff (I thought)

I liked Bad Wolf - The Doctor realising he caused it when he turned up, "sorted" things then fucked off.

The exchange about the gun "Don't shoot" "Like I ever would".

The Doctor's "coming to get you speech" is pretty kick ass too.

And the pan back to see the entire ship of Daleks screaming (shame they've been over exposed since then).

I might watch Bad Wolf/TPOTW tonight actually...

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Bad Wolf has the best Dr Who moment so far for me though - when he squares up to the Daleks and tell him what he's going to do.

"Rose... I'm coming to get you!"

Brilliant stuff (I thought)

Damn straight.

"No."

Cue confused as fuck daleks.

"NO!"

Awesome moment, that was.

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Spot on.

That's what Russell brings to Who really. Glorious dialogue like that. It's very Queer As Folk that scene, actually.

it summed up the best of the characeter of that first season for me - less ham fisted than the 'bronze in gymanstics' and not quite up to the scene with the servant girl in Unquiet Dead but just what Rose is all about as a character in a kids' show, very ordinary girl acting as an ordinary girl might given the chance to do something extraordinary. Never understood why a lot of people just don't get that.

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OK, I watched Bad Wolf/Parting of the Ways again last night and I'll concede that POTW is mostly pretty good. However, Bad Wolf is pretty grim in places, and the Weakest Link contestant character is shit. And the thing I disliked most about POTW is still there - the reset button where Rose just appears and makes the daleks all disappear. All the drama and the build-up, the Doctor's agonising choice, his eventual decision not to kill everyone just to get rid of the daleks, it all counts for nothing because Rose sweeps in and makes it all ok again with a snap of her fingers, just like the Peter Pan ending of Last of the Time Lords. There's no foreshadowing of the fact that the Tardis/time vortex can do that. The only reason she sucked up the orange light was because she wanted to get back and try to help out. Right up until the "I can see everything and I undo you" there was real tension, and then there was just this deflated "oh, is that it" feeling.

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Rudi von Starnberg

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It's actually one deus-ex-machina ending that I really don't mind, Parting of the Ways. Whereas Last of the Time Lords pissed me off immensely (in just about every way, not just the reset ending), POTW didn't. I think it's partly that it's not a full reset - the Daleks are gone and Jack is brought back to life, but the rest aren't. So many other humans still died. The Doctor's decision (to basically commit suicide-by-Dalek instead of suicide-by-radio-wave) couldn't have been resolved any other way, really.

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