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Ian Borchardt ([personal profile] reverancepavane) wrote2008-07-07 12:46 am
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the end of an era

I have to admit that the following fan video, Caan & Company, did remove a lot of the sour taste from the ending to the latest season of Dr Who.

I agree that the only winners in the final episodes were Dalek Fred (who has apparently shot to posthumous super-stardom [literally]), and Dalek Caan (who got all the best lines [in fact, the only good lines in the final three episodes]). Otherwise I found the ending an entirely self-congratulatory ego piece. At least this time RTD didn't fall for the trap of treating his season finale villians as competent (and then having to resort to a deus ex machina to extract the Doctor and companions).

I thought the treatment of the Daleks in series 1 and 2 to be quite good, and almost worthy of rescinding my belief that there is no Dalek story after Genesis of the Daleks. It didn't last.

Via [livejournal.com profile] drjon.