Written 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’s 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 the
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
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