Into The Time Vortex - Episode 28 - Doctor Who Christmas Specials - Part One

Doctor Who 50th Anniversary: The Next Doctor

Doctor Who: 

The Next Doctor 

By Russell T. Davies

“They leave. Because they should. Or they find someone else. And some of them, some of them forget me. I suppose in the end, they break my heart.”

Here is a story that is fun to watch but isn’t one of the best ever.    It is a pretty entertaining story that features the Cybermen in Victorian England.  There is also the mystery of the man who is calling himself The Doctor.   The Doctor meets up with Jackson Lake who had gotten the Doctor’s memories from an attack from The Cybermen when the data was imprinted onto his brain.  This was a pretty cool concept and was pretty entertaining during the first part of the story.

In fact that was the best part of The Next Doctor was watching the relationship between Jackson Lake and The Doctor.  Watching The Doctor trying to figure out who Jackson was if he was truly a future Doctor was pretty good to see and the comments from The Doctor where comical.  I liked how The Doctor found out who he was by using detective skills all the while keeping up the charade as to not damage Jackson Lake’s already fragile psyche.  When they did the reveal and you saw the older Doctor’s appear it was a pretty cool moment and the first time the classic series has been acknowledge in the new series.  I really liked the relationship between the two and the scene at the end when Jackson invites The Doctor to Christmas dinner was a really touching moment and you could see the sadness on The Doctor’s face when he was talking to Jackson Lake about his past companions.