Doctor Who:
The Night of The Doctor
By Steven Moffat
"4 minutes? That's ages.
What if I get bored? I need a television, a couple of books, Anyone for Chess?
Bring me knitting!"
Holy Cow!!! OMG!!! Or what other expletive
you may use when something surprises the hell out of you. Well The Night of The Doctor did just that.
It surprised the hell out of me to the point that I could not believe what I
was seeing and had to rewind the video I was watching to see it again
immediately. What a lovely surprise and
what a way to get the 50th Anniversary of Doctor Who started.
The Night of The Doctor had a
really big surprise. Paul McGann was The Doctor in it!!!!! How many of you teared up, cried, fist pumped
the air or jumped out of your seat for joy when you saw the 8th
Doctor appear on the screen. I mean
there was Paul McGann on the screen as The Doctor again. It was freaking amazing seeing him
there. It was like watching your
favorite sports team winning the championship that how I felt and I sure did
fist punch the air in excitement. It was
such a mind blowing moment that it just got me really excited for next weekend
and the 50th Anniversary special.
Now that I’m over the love fest
for Paul McGann returning what about the overall story for The Night of The
Doctor? Well I loved it. I really did.
The Night of The Doctor gave us
so much in the 7 minutes that it made me want more. I wanted to know more about that era with the
8th Doctor and why he has avoided The Time War. It seemed so interesting seeing him all
ragged and with stubble on his face as if he’s been through some tough
times. I liked they mystery it has
opened for the 8th Doctor’s era and hopefully someday we’ll find
out.
What The Night of The Doctor did
so well was explain what was happening during the Time War. From Cass we discover that the Time Lords are
no better than the Daleks. That both races are destroying the universe in their
petty war and have no concern over the other races. We see this from the fear that Cass has of
the Time Lords when she discovers that The Doctor is a Time Lord. She would rather die than go off and be saved
by The Doctor in his TARDIS. In fact she
was happy with the thought of The Doctor dying with her as it made her day that
she was taking out a Time Lord.
The Sisterhood of Karn makes a
return to Doctor Who in The Night of The Doctor. They were last seen in the Tom Baker story
The Brain of Morbius where we discover that they have an Elixir of Life that
has the power to prolong your life or sometime help heal a Time Lord with his
regeneration. Well the Sisters have been busy and have made up a whole bunch of
Elixir’s that can make a Time Lord become any type of person he dreams of
being.
This time they bring him back
from the dead for four minutes pleading to him to help in ending the Time
War. They offer him a choice to be
whatever he wants to be and he chooses warrior.
This seems to be very unlike The Doctor becoming a warrior that it opens
up a lot of speculation as to what the John Hurt War Doctor is like. I liked this aspect of the Sisterhood
blackmailing him into helping them as they knew he would choose life but what
was surprising was the warrior bit. I guess it explains all the stuff we do
know about The Time War from the series already and it does in a way make
sense.
The Night of The Doctor was more
than I was expecting from Steven Moffat. In truth I was expecting something
silly and stupid from which you cringe while watching. Well like most of the Doctor Who prequels
that have been well mediocre as of late.
Well this one made up for all of that.
It gave us Paul McGann and it also made mention of his Big Finish
Adventures companions it was a very telling story of a choice that a man has to
make whether it be one he agrees with or not.
It was a story that whets our appetite for the 50th
Anniversary and now I truly cannot wait to see it.
Grade A
wow, was sooooo excited seeing this, and equally glad Paul, bless him, didnt give the game away hehe, amazing.
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