Finale Audience...........

As many as 9.8 million viewers tuned in to Doctor Who on Saturday evening as the extended-length episode brought the curtain down on the era of Bad Wolf, the Time War and Rose Tyler.
With a cast of thousands (of Daleks) Doctor Who maintained a steady viewership of around 9.4 million until the final stage sof the episode as a further 400,000 viewers tuned in to witness the departure of Rose Tyler, an alternate Doctor and Donna Noble.

No doubt spurred on by the strong - but incorrect - suspicion that the Doctor would regenerate, despite press photographs of the actor appearing opposite Cybermen shooting a Christmas special earlier this year.

Speaking to the BBC, Russell T Davies revealed that the keeping of plot details was a vital aspect to storytelling.

"We have got some very big names in both episodes and you obviously have to book these names in advance. It's vital to keep the audience guessing. I think that is why our ratings are doing so well.

"I am fed up with soap operas and dramas releasing all their plot details in advance in the tabloids. It takes the excitement out of watching. That is why reality TV does better in the ratings. People have no idea what is going to happen next."

And you've got to hand it him - he's certainly kept us all guessing over the past 4 years.

Digital Spy.............

That 'Doctor Who' finale
So, we've seen it. The finale has aired and the truth is out. Are we satisifed?

Here's ten things that were great about the Doctor Who finale:

1. The Doctor not regenerating after all.

2. The Daleks speaking German. "Exterminieren! Exterminieren!"

3. Martha Jones being able to speak German too. "Ich heisse Martha Jones" is probably the best line of the series.

4. Doctor Number Two imitating Donna. Donna imitating the Doctor.

5. The surprise appearance of Gita from EastEnders.

6. Julian Bleach as the frighteningly maniacal Davros.

7. The touching reference to Tosh, who posthumously saves the lives of her Torchwood colleagues.

8. Doolally Dalek Caan stitching up Davros and the Daleks. He was actually a nice bloke!

9. A surprise reference to Gwen's ancestor Gwyneth ('The Uniquet Dead'). Has no stone been left unturned?

10. Bernard Cribbins, whose guest appearance as Donna's granddad Wilf this series has been genuine and moving.

Wherever there are positives, negatives are normally always close behind - and I don't think I'd be giving a fair appraisal if I didn't also mention what wasn't quite as good about the finale.

In a nutshell? There was simply too much happening - too much fanw***ery crammed in - to do any individual story strand justice. The thing we were looking forward to the most all series long was the return of Rose, but when it finally happened, it was undeniably underwhelming (let's overlook Billie Piper's unfortunate dental trauma). It felt like a wasted opportunity.

There is an argument to be made that, had she been given more of a role, Rose could have overshadowed the finale and the other characters, but so what? Why not make the finale all about Rose? Forget bringing in Martha, Sarah Jane, Captain Jack, et al - they can wait.

Rose-Doctor interaction is what we wanted, and we were slightly cheated.Taken in a wider context, however, these episodes cap a magnificent run of episodes. Series four has been sometimes epic, sometimes moving, sometimes funny and sometimes upsetting. The quality of the show has never been greater.

Bring on those Cybermen!

Favorite Quotes.......

Journey's End

Jackie: Jackie Tyler, Rose's mum, now where the hell is my daughter?
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Doctor: There now. You see, used the regeneration energy to heal myself, but as soon as that was done, I didn't need to change. I didn't want to, why would I? Look at me. So, to stop the energy from going all the way, I siphoned off the rest into a handy bio-matching receptacle, namely my hand. My hand there. My handy spare hand.
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Donna: You can hug me if you want.
Jack: (Laughing)
Donna: No, really, you can hug me.
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Supreme Dalek: The TARDIS has been destroyed. Now, tell me, Doctor, what do you feel? Anger? Sorrow? Despair?
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Daleks: Exterminieren! Exterminieren! Halt! Sonst werden wir Sie exterminieren! Sie sind jetzt ein Gefangener der Daleks! Exterminieren! Exterminieren!
(translation: "Exterminate! Exterminate! Stop! Or you will be exterminated. You are a prisoner of the Daleks. Exterminate! Exterminate!" ... although it's worth noting that 'Exterminieren' isn't the exact German translation of 'Exterminate')
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Donna: I-it's you!
Human Doctor: Oh yes!
Donna: And you're naked!
Human Doctor: Oh yes!
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Human Doctor: ...I grew out of you. Still, could be worse.
Donna: Oi, watch it space man!
Human Doctor: Oi, watch it earth girl!Ooh... I sound like you. I sound all... all, sort of, rough...
Donna: Oi!
Human Doctor: Oi!
Donna: Oi!
Human Doctor: Spanners! Shh! Must have picked up a bit of your voice, that's all. Is it? Did I? No! OHH! You are kidding me! No way! One heart... I've got one heart! This body... I've got only one heart!
Donna: You're human!
Human Doctor: Ohh, that's disgusting!
Donna: Oi!
Human Doctor: Oi!
Donna: Stop it!
Human Doctor: No, wait, I'm... part Time Lord, part human! (sarcastically) Well, isn't that wizard?!
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Rose: Doctor, what happened?
Davros: Electrical energy, Miss Tyler. Every atom in existence is bound by an electrical field. The reality bomb cancels it out, structure falls apart. That test was focused on the prisoners alone. Full transmission will dissolve every form of matter.
Rose: The stars are going out...
Proper Doctor: The 27 planets... they become one vast transmitter, blasting that wavelength.
Davros: Across the entire universe, never stopping, never faltering, never fading. People and planets and stars will become dust. And the dust will become atoms and the atoms will become... nothing. And the wavelength will continue, breaking through the rift at the heart of the Medusa Cascade into every dimension, every parallel, every single corner of creation. This is my ultimate victory, Doctor, THE DESTRUCTION OF REALITY ITSELF!
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Captain Jack: Just my luck, I climb through 2 miles of ventilation shafts, tracking life signs on this thing, and who do I find? Mickey Mouse!
Mickey: You can talk, Captain Cheesecake!
Captain Jack: Good to see ya! And that's Beefcake...
Mickey: ...and that's enough hugging...
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Captain Jack:Captain Jack Harkness, calling all Dalek boys and girls, are you receiving me?
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Rose: I'm Rose. Rose Tyler.
Martha: Oh, my God...he found you.
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Davros: The Doctor. The man who keeps running, never looking back because he dare not, out of shame. This is my final victory, Doctor, I have shown you yourself.
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Davros: The final prophecy is in place. The Doctor and his children, all gathered as witnesses. Supreme Dalek, the time has come. Now... DETONATE THE REALITY BOMB!
Supreme Dalek: Activate planetary alignment field! Universal reality detonation in 20 rels!
Proper Doctor: You can't, Davros! Just listen to me! Just stop!
Davros: NOTHING CAN STOP THE DETONATION! NOTHING, AND NO-ONE!
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Dalek Caan: I saw the Daleks, what we have done throughout time and space. I saw the truth of us, creator, and I decreed: no more.
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Dalek Caan: I have seen the end of everything Dalek... and you must make it happen, Doctor!
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The Doctor: Davros! Come with me! I promise, I can save you!
Davros: Never forget, Doctor, you did this! I name you forever! You are the Destroyer of Worlds!
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Proper Doctor: Torchwood Hub, this is the Doctor, are you receiving me?
Gwen: Loud and clear, is Jack there?
Proper Doctor: Can't get rid of him...Jack, what's her name?
Jack: Gwen Cooper.
Proper Doctor: Tell me Gwen Cooper, are you from an old Cardiff family?
Gwen: Yes, all the way about to the 1800's.
Proper Doctor: Oh thought so, spatial genetic multiplicity, it's a funny old world, now Torchwood, I want you to open up that Rift Manipulator and send its power to me!
Ianto: Doing it now sir.
Rose: What's that for?
Proper Doctor: It's a tow rope, now then Sarah, what was your son's name?
Sarah: Luke, he's called Luke and the computer's called Mr Smith.
Proper Doctor: Calling Luke and Mr Smith, This is the Doctor...come on Luke, shake a leg!
Luke: Is Mum there?
Proper Doctor: Oh she's fine and dandy, now then Mr Smith, I want you to harness the Rift power and loop it around the TARDIS, you got that?
Mr Smith: I regret I will need remote access to TARDIS base code numerals.
Proper Doctor: Oh blimey, that's gonna take a while...
Sarah: No no, let me, K-9 out you come.
K-9: Affirmative Mistress.
Proper Doctor: Oh good dog, K-9, give Mr Smith the base codes!
K-9: Affirmative Master, TARDIS base codes now being transferred. The process is simple.
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Jackie: Oh, fat lot of good this is, bloody NORWAY!
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Proper Doctor: That's me, when we first met. And you made me better. Now you can do the same for him.
Rose: But he's not you.
Proper Doctor: He needs you, that's very me.
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Proper Doctor: I said 'Rose Tyler'.
Rose: Yeah?... and how was that sentence gonna end?
Proper Doctor: Does it really need saying?

Journey's End

Journey's End

EPISODE: 202b
AIR DATE: July 5, 2008
VILLAINS: Davros
MONSTERS/ALIENS: Daleks, Davros, Supreme Dalek
OTHER CHARACTERS: Rose Tyler, Martha Jones, Capt. Jack Harkness, Sarah Jane Smith, K-9, Luke, Jackie Tyler, Mickey Smith, Wilf, Sylvia, Gwen Cooper, Ianto Jones, Mr. Smith
LOCATION: London, Cardiff, Germany, The Crucible
PLOT:

Following on immediately from the end of "The Stolen Earth", The Doctor is regenerating inside the TARDIS while Donna Noble, Captain Jack Harkness and Rose Tyler watch in horror.However, the Doctor transfers his regenerative energy into the container which carries his severed hand. He has healed himself, but chosen not to change his appearance.

The TARDIS is transported by the Daleks to the Crucible and rendered powerless. The Doctor, Jack, and Rose leave it, but Donna is distracted because she is hearing the sound of a heartbeat and while looking back, the TARDIS door slams closed. Before the Doctor can free her, the Daleks dump the TARDIS into a waste shoot where it will be destroyed in the centre-core of the Crucible.

As the TARDIS interior explodes around her, Donna collapses near the severed hand, she hears the heartbeat again and while touching the container energy flows between it and her. The hand bursts out of the container, and forms as a new Doctor, although this Doctor has only one heart and has picked up some of Donna's mannerisms. With his help, the TARDIS escapes destruction and gives the new Doctor and Donna time to come with a plan.

In Torchwood Three, Gwen Cooper and Ianto Jones find themselves safely in a time lock created by Toshiko Sato, preventing the Dalek from entering but also preventing them leaving. Sarah Jane Smith is saved from two Daleks by Mickey Smith and Jackie Tyler, but in order to follow the Doctor, lay down their guns and allow themselves to be captured, taken to the Crucible. Martha Jones says her goodbyes to her mother and makes for an abandoned castle in Germany where one of five Osterhagen stations is hidden, and waits for contact from the other bases.

Aboard the Crucible, Jack creates a distraction by shooting the Supreme Dalek (Red Dalek) with his revolver, but is shot by the Daleks; as the Doctor and Rose are taken to the Vault where Davros is held, Jack's immortality allows him to escape. With the Doctor and Rose contained, Davros explains that the 27 planets form an energy pattern that is then amplified into a "reality bomb", able to break apart the forces holding everything together. Mickey, Jackie, and Sarah Jane escape a test chamber where this effect is shown to the Doctor just in time.

Jack finds his way to the three, and with a locket from Sarah Jane, creates a device that will implode the Crucible. Meanwhile, Martha makes contact with two other bases in China and Liberia. The Chinese counterpart wants to get it over and done with, but Martha, knowing the Doctor, first broadcasts a signal to the Crucible to give them (probably both Earth and the Daleks) a second chance, promising to use the Ostenhagen key to detonate 25 nuclear warheads under the Earth's crust to destroy it and disable the reality bomb. However, the Daleks manage to lock onto their positions and beam Martha, Jack, Mickey, Jackie, and Sarah Jane, with the Transmat to the Vault where the Doctor and Rose are too being held captive.

Daleks prepare to activate the reality bomb that will wipe out all matter in this and every parallel universe through the rifts in the Medusa Cascade, but the new Doctor and Donna arrive in the TARDIS. Both, however, are stunned by shots from Davros. The reality bomb countdown reaches zero, but nothing happens; Donna has manipulated the controls to disable it. The Doctor recognises that the creation of the new Doctor has had an unintended side effect: Donna is now half Time Lord herself, sharing the Doctor's intellect.

Donna and the new Doctor free the others, and with the help of the original Doctor, disable the Daleks and start to send the planets back to their proper time and space. Before Earth can be sent, the machinery is destroyed, and the original Doctor races into the TARDIS to replace the functionality of the broken machine. Realising that Dalek Caan has seen the end of the Dalek race and has been manipulating time to achieve this, the new Doctor (probably not kept back by guilt due to the influence of Donna's personality) uses the remaining machinery to destroy all of the Daleks and their fleet. The rest of the companions flee to the TARDIS, and while the Doctor offers to save Davros, but he refuses, calling the Doctor the "Destroyer of Worlds". The Crucible is destroyed.

The Doctor enlists the help of the other companions, making contact with the base Torchwood and with Luke Smith, Mr. Smith and K-9, to help use the TARDIS return the Earth to its proper place. Sarah Jane says her goodbyes, as well as Jack, Martha, and Mickey, who has decided to stay in this universe. Using a retroactively closing rift, the Doctor returns Rose and Jackie to the alternate dimension and leaves the new Doctor with her, as he will now grow old with Rose, no longer able to regenerate due to the human influence, the human doctor, having the same memories and feeling as the proper Doctor tells Rose he loves her and they kiss.

Returning to their universe, Donna finds she begins to have trouble thinking; the Doctor explains that the human mind cannot take in the Time Lord mental abilities. To save her, he wipes her mind of all her encounters with the Doctor, returning her home and explaining to her family, Sylvia Noble and Wilfred Mott, that she must never be reminded of her time with the Doctor or else she will die. As Donna recovers consciousness, she shows no interest in the Doctor; he leaves, though Wilfred promises he will look out for the Doctor every night while he looks at the sky.

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