Season one was far from perfect since the Tardis could apparently only land in London , Cardiff or a space station but all this was easily forgiven as we had the brilliant Christopher Eccleston in the title role.
Season two had the reverse with the Doctor becoming an irritating mockney geezer overplayed at every opportunity by David Tennant but the beauty of the show's format was used to its best ability. One week we saw a truly terrifying tale featuring Satan on another planet followed by an post modernist episode best described as a black romantic comedy that bordered on genius. With the exception of Paul Cornell's two parter and some of Blink and Utopia this season was rather disappointing and Last Of The Time Lords continues the trend With hindsight it becomes clear what RTD is doing with the season finales - he's trying to make them bigger and bolder that will leave the audience gasping in amazement.
It would be wrong for criticising someone with ambition but there also has to be a limit to this ambition. Earth is under control from the Master and the Toclafane and the Doctor is unable to help so it's left to Martha to make the best of a hopeless situation. In other words RTD has painted himself in to a corner from which he can't credibly escape from so once again we see a totally dreadful messianic dues ex machina ending. What's worse is up until the ending nothing much happens.
It's at this point the majority of hard core fans who have followed the original series decided Russell T Davies had done enough and was time for him to leave. Theo Robertson Aug 21, Details Edit. Release date June 30, United Kingdom. United Kingdom. Technical specs Edit. Runtime 50 minutes.
Contribute to this page Suggest an edit or add missing content. Edit page. Wilfred is amazed at being in space; the Doctor is more concerned with the Master. As soon as he gets out of his restraints, he destroys the teleporter, preventing the Master Race from following them. He asks for directions to the bridge; Addams initially refuses, citing that they are , miles above the Earth, but reconsiders when the Doctor points out the 'slight' problem of the Master having every single missile on the planet ready to fire.
When they arrive, the Vinvocci prepare to leave, so the Doctor destroys the ship's systems, leaving them dead in orbit. As the Doctor begins to mend the systems, Wilfred sees the mysterious woman again, who instructs him to give the Doctor his gun. The Master and his clones listen to the drumming in their heads, pinpointing the source as "from the sky". Meanwhile, the Time Lord council have just finished putting the drumbeat in the Master's head as a child, giving them his location now.
But as they're still trapped in the time lock , they need something to make physical contact. The Lord President removes a diamond from his staff and throws it through the link to Earth where it falls to the ground in a blaze, landing in London.
The Master soldiers pick it up, telling the original what they have found is not just any diamond This makes the Master crack up hysterically. On the ship, the Doctor is still repairing the systems. Wilf talks to him about many things and tries to have the Doctor take the gun to save himself by killing the Master. They believe the four knocks is the rhythm in the Master's head. The Doctor refuses and Wilf begins to cry over his fruitless efforts, prompting the Doctor to hug him. A broadcast from the Master reaches the ship; he informs the Doctor about the diamond and reveals it as a White-Point star.
It can only mean the Time Lords are returning. Wilfred considers this good but the Doctor's reaction says quite differently Wilf is confused as he thought the Time Lords were wise and peaceful. The Doctor tells him that's how he chooses to remember them; in reality, the horrors of the Time War had changed them, irrevocably corrupting them and making them far more dangerous than any of his enemies.
The Doctor has repaired the ship, but Addams will not have them going to Earth. The Doctor tells her "there's an old Earth saying. A word of great power and wisdom; and consolation to soul in times of need. The Master decides to kill the Doctor as "soon [he'll] have Time Lords to spare", sending missiles at the ship. Rossiter and Wilf take charge of the asteroid lasers and blast away the missiles the Master launches at them. Addams plots a course for Naismith's mansion and the Doctor jumps from the ship, crashing several stories through the skylight and into the Immortality Gate room.
While he recovers from the fall, he finds himself too late. The Master has brought the Time Lords back. Not only is the Master in the room, but so is the Time Lord Council The President greets " Lord Doctor " and " Lord Master ", then defames the latter by noting the 'paradox' that they have been saved by Gallifrey's most infamous child. The Master, fast to retort, quickly belittles the Lord President's authority and reveals that he did not call the Time Lords to Earth to save them.
He intends to implant himself in them and assert control of the entire race, gloating at how much better the Lord President will look as him. However, the Lord President is not amused at the Master's assertion over his power and demonstrates how fast he can unravel his scheme. He raises his gauntlet and it radiates a blue light. The Master Race begins to revert to their unaltered human identities, causing the Master great panic as he loses his trump card.
The Lord President tells the humans present in the Naismith Mansion to kneel. Left powerless, the Master tries to bargain with the Time Lords by reminding them that he was their salvation.
However, the whole planet shakes intensely. The President announces that "the approach begins". The Master is confused by his cryptic words; the Doctor angrily tells him that not only the whole species of Time Lords are coming back, but so is the planet. Gallifrey begins to materialise near Earth, fulfilling the prophecy that " it is returning". Standing about three times the size of Earth, it shadows over Earth with an air of doom.
Panic erupts in the streets of London as the giant red world of Gallifrey manifests above the atmosphere, with the Earth itself trembling. Wilf, having left the Vinvocci shuttle, makes his way through the crumbling Naismith Mansion to find the Doctor. Refusing to stay on Earth as Gallifrey threatens to knock it out of orbit, Addams immediately readies the shuttle for takeoff.
Rossiter is concerned about the Doctor's fate, but Addams shrugs and reminds him that he already said he was dying. All the residents of Naismith Mansion, including Joshua and his daughter, flee from the residence. Joshua spots Gallifrey's descent and is affixed with terror.
Wilf returns to help the Doctor, freeing a trapped man in the control booth and trapping himself in the process, not hearing the Doctor yell out to stop him. The Master thinks that the Time Lords' restoration to the universe is fantastic, but the Doctor tells him that the broken time-lock means that all of the other horrors born in the last days of the Time War, which he had sealed away in the Time Lock as well, would also be released.
The war had turned to Hell, which is exactly what the Master has unleashed above Earth. The Master delights at the thought of such chaos, but the Doctor tells him that not even the Time Lords can survive such an onslaught. The Lord President then reveals that he had planned to deal with these horrors by initiating the Ultimate Sanction ; a plan for the Time Lords to survive the collapse of all creation and all time, as the paradox of Gallifrey's return to the universe rips the Time Vortex apart, by ascending their conscious minds beyond the need for bodies, whilst creation itself ceases to be.
The Master asks to join them, but the President refuses, contemptuously dismissing the Master as "diseased Then the Doctor aims Wilf's gun at the President, who cautions the Doctor to "choose [his] enemy well. Even the Master goads him on, urging him to kill the President and claim Gallifrey for himself. At this, the Doctor spins and aims the gun at the Master, who realises that the link that brought the Time Lords to Earth is inside his head, and if he dies, the link is broken and the Time Lock is reformed.
He points out that killing the President would have the same effect. The Doctor aims the gun at the Lord President again, who coldly remarks that the final act of the Doctor's life is murder: which one will he choose? Finally, in this dark hour of the Doctor's life, one of the "disgraced" Time Lords covering her eyes behind the Lord President reveals herself to the Doctor; she is the mysterious woman that Wilfred had seen on a number of occasions.
As she casts her gaze to a spot behind the Doctor, he not only seems to recognise her but now knows what to do: he whirls around and aims toward the Master once again. As the Master's face falls, the Doctor orders him to get out of the way. Suddenly understanding, the Master smiles darkly and jumps away from the White-Point Star just as the Doctor shoots it, and its destruction severs the link and reinforces the Time Lock, pulling the Time Lords back into the Time War and to their inevitable doom.
As Gallifrey vanishes back into the Time Lock, Rassilon refuses to die alone and prepares to kill the Doctor. The Doctor is ready for the prophecy to be fulfilled As the Master counts the drums one last time, his blasts occupy Rassilon long enough for a bright flash of light to send all of them — the Time Lords, Rassilon, Gallifrey, and the Master, back into the last day of the Last Great Time War.
In the streets, Sylvia and the other humans watch as the giant red planet fades away and allows the sun to shine. The Doctor struggles to his feet, weary, but happy, almost in disbelief that he has survived the prophecy. The Doctor's face turns from relief to horror as he hears the four hesitant knocks portending his death. The knocks persist, condemning him further. As he slowly turns, he sees where they are coming from — Wilfred is still trapped in the nuclear booth and wants to be let out.
The Doctor, leery to approach the booth, looks at him with dread. As he suspects, Wilfred's life is in dire straits. Upon inspection of the booth, the Doctor tells Wilf that the Master left the nuclear bolt running. The machine has gone past critical and is about to overload, which will release a lethal dose of radiation into the booth and doing anything to it, even using the sonic screwdriver , will set it off.
The only way to get Wilf out alive is for the Doctor to walk into the open side of the booth and push a button to release the one-way lock, but this means the Doctor will be trapped inside in place of Wilf to endure the radiation blast. At , rads , it would inflict catastrophic damage to his body. Wilf tells the Doctor to leave him. Since he's lived a full life, it doesn't seem worth it for his friend to give up his own just for Wilf's sake. The Doctor pretends to callously accept Wilf's offer but knows he cannot allow the sacrifice.
His spirit finally shattered, the Doctor cuts loose with a rant of anger, grief, and frustration. He rages and chokes back tears about how despite everything he's done he's still going to die just because Wilf had to climb into the booth and he's just an old man, "not remotely important"; he could just be left and the Doctor could live so much longer and "do so much more".
Then he snaps out of this self-absorption and realises what he's just said. He knows he can't leave Wilf to die and concludes that a Time Lord sometimes lives too long. Ignoring Wilf's pleas, the Doctor enters the opposite booth and frees him, releasing the radiation into his booth. The Doctor writhes in intense pain until he finally collapses and the booth itself goes dead from the loss of power.
After a few seconds, the Doctor gets up, having absorbed all the radiation from the nuclear bolt. At first, it looks like the Doctor has survived; however, when Wilf comments that the Doctor acquired some battle scars in the course of stopping the Time Lords returning, the Doctor passes his hands over his face, healing the wounds he had sustained earlier from crashing through the skylight.
In response to Wilf's surprise, the Doctor examines his hands and announces that "It's started"; his body is preparing to regenerate. The Doctor takes Wilf home and tells him, "I'll see you again, one more time. The Doctor travels to various places where he has brief, mostly distant encounters with recent friends.
He saves Martha and Mickey from a Sontaran sniper. He pushes Luke Smith out of the path of a car, and exchanges a meaningful look with Sarah. He goes to an alien bar where he connects a despondent Captain Jack with midshipman Alonso Frame.
All of them realise they are seeing him for the last time. She was. The Doctor then appears after Donna 's wedding and meets Wilfred and Sylvia. Wilfred tells him Joshua and Abigail Naismith were both arrested, and asks the Doctor who the mysterious woman was.
The Doctor focusses on Donna and then Sylvia, but doesn't answer. He then gives Wilfred and Sylvia a wedding gift for Donna; an envelope with something in it, purchased with a pound given to him by Sylvia's late husband.
When Donna opens it she finds a lottery ticket, to which both Wilf and Sylvia realise that it is a winning ticket which will solve all of Donna's financial problems.
The Doctor then leaves with a final look at Wilfred, the man whose life he saved at the expense of his own. As he leaves Wilfred salutes him and cries, realising he'll never see the Doctor again. After Jackie departs, he talks to Rose, keeping himself partly hidden in the shadows. When the Doctor asks her the year, she responds, "January 1, ". The Doctor tells that she'll " have a really great year.
When Rose is gone, the Doctor staggers away as the pain of the radiation poisoning is finally setting in. He looks up to see Ood Sigma , standing calmly.
As the Doctor struggles to his feet, Sigma tells him that the universe will sing him to his sleep and " this song is ending , but the story never ends. On the Ood homeworld, the Ood sing "Vale Decem" in chorus. After tossing his coat on one of the coral structures, he notices his right hand glowing with regenerative energy. Tearfully, he utters: "I don't want to go As the words leave him, golden energy radiates from both his hands and face as he breathes heavily.
Taking a deep breath, the Doctor stretches his arms out as golden energy bursts from his hands and head and his body regenerates.
The regeneration of the Tenth Doctor. The regenerative energy shatters the TARDIS windows and sets the console room ablaze, destroying columns, blowing out the lights, and raining debris down from above. The Doctor's face is consumed by the regeneration energy. The Doctor closes his eyes as his facial features fade and morph into those of a young man with a swirl of brown hair, who is screaming in pain.
As the strain of the regeneration wears off, the Eleventh Doctor stumbles back with a look of surprise. He quickly examines himself to make sure all his body parts are still in the same place although he is shocked at his larger than usual chin , with his long hair causing him to think he had become a girl for a moment. With a quick feel of his Adam's apple confirming that he hasn't, yet , he then notices, much to his annoyance, he is still not ginger, but has dark hair again. Remembering there was something important that he forgot, the Doctor tries recalling what it was until another explosion forces him to his knees.
Realising that what he was trying to remember was that the TARDIS is now crashing, the Doctor oddly seems happy as he jumps over to the monitor — it shows the ship spinning wildly towards Earth. Delighting in the chaos, the Doctor clings to the console and gleefully shouts, "Geronimoooooooooooo!
Because this site puts both episodes of The End of Time into a single article, it is slightly more difficult to properly represent the crew in the above framework. The two episodes did not have exactly the same credits. The position of 3rd AD was only credited on part 1. A " Unit Manager " was only credited on part 1. Floor runner Chris Goding was only credited on part 2, while Tom Evans was only credited on part 1.
Production secretary Kevin Myers was only credited on part 1. No boom operators were credited in part 1. No electricians were credited in part 2. Design assistant Al Roberts was only credited in part 2. Associate designer James North was only credited in part 1. Standby art director Keith Dunne was only credited in part 1. No kind of buyer was credited in part 1. A " Storyboard Artist " was only credited on part 2.
A " Property Master " was only credited on part 1. Casting assistant Alice Purser was only credited on part 1. Assistant editor Carmen Roberts was only credited on part 2. In part 1, post-production supervisor Chris Blatchford is listed before Samantha Hall ; in part 2, it's reversed. Foley editor Will Everett was only credited on part 1. Counter Tenor Mark Chambers was only credited on part 2. The Vinvocci makeup design as originally filmed, and post-recolouring.
During the final scene, the Eleventh Doctor takes a look at his hair and utters the phrase, "Still not ginger! Director Euros Lyn. Russell T. Davies showrunner Steven Moffat showrunner Sydney Newman uncredited. Top credits Director Euros Lyn. See more at IMDbPro. Photos Top cast Edit. Lawry Lewin Rossiter as Rossiter. Teresa Banham Governor as Governor. Euros Lyn. Storyline Edit. Forewarned and with a sense of foreboding, The Doctor races to return to Earth fearing that The Master will somehow return.
He has good reason to worry since The Masters minions have in fact found a way to reconstitute him. Re-united with Wilfred Mott, The Doctor desperately tries to locate The Master only to find that he is being held by Joshua and Abigail Naismith who are using alien technology to create a new future for Earth. Was the extended tour of Ten revisiting his friends and companions self-indulgent and kind of a stretch, especially considering the Ood's song was written in Latin?
But was I perfectly willing to suspend my disbelief because of the performances, the soundtrack, the emotional resonance of it? The incredible emotion of Ten dooming the Time Lords all over again actually reminded me of issues I had with the 50th anniversary event that pretty much rendered his struggle in "The End of Time" pointless, and that's genuinely upsetting after how David Tennant pulled out all the stops to show Ten's devastation and determination.
The farewell tour of all the companions reminded me of where Doctor Who really succeeded under Russell T. Davies Seasons 1 - 4. The characters in this era were crafted in such a way that I didn't always especially care if the plot didn't make sense, as long as the characterization was consistent, and that's so important for a sci-fi series in which the hero's greatest enemies are robots with plunger arms , there are decades of continuity that is just not always going to fit, and seemingly endless variables.
It doesn't always have to make sense, but it has to matter. Investment can make all the difference when it comes to bonkers TV shows, and I was invested in all those characters. Honestly, I still probably couldn't watch the Season 2 finale without a box of tissues handy. So that leads to the question: what happened that I fell off the Doctor Who bandwagon and needed "The End of Time" to remind me of what I loved?
Davies, and I fell out of love with Doctor Who.
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