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Post by matthewsee on Dec 26, 2009 1:10:30 GMT -5
Part 1: 823rd Whoniverse episode. Very good narration by Timothy Dalton. Ooh the picture of the TARDIS on the church glass. Joining David Tennant's name in the title sequence is John Simm and Bernard Cribbins but not Catherine Tate even though she is back as Donna here. The Doctor's dialogue with Ood Sigma would seem to finally provide an explanation about the ending to The Shakespeare Code. The Master sure make an explosive return (literally) but it is too bad that Lucy was among the casualties. Ahh.. Bernard Cribbins is finally back in the TARDIS for the first time since Daleks Invasion Earth 2150AD in 1966 when he played Tom Campbell. The bus says Sparrow Lane an obvious reference to Sally Sparrow especially since one of the passengers is called Sally. Always nice to see Trinity Wells but then again who else would be reading the news from the US. Surprising about the aliens that looked similar but with a different colour to Bannakaffalatta. The episode was sure careful not to show President Obama's face. A planet full of Masters is so scary and rightly said it is the Master race. Wow what a relevation of Timothy Dalton's character leading to an excellent cliffhanger.
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Post by Ice Warrior on Dec 26, 2009 2:08:48 GMT -5
Thank you for putting all your words in a spoiler box as I have no intention to read what you have to say due to the fact I am waiting for the second episode so I can watch both of them together.
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Post by matthewsee on Jan 3, 2010 3:23:58 GMT -5
You are welcome. Part 2: 824th Whoniverse episode and the 249th Whoniverse story as a whole. In the 1970s the Master was hunted by UNIT. The fact that here he is in charge of UNIT among many things surely must bring a long sense of satisfaction for him. A very tender conversation between the Doctor and Wilf in the spaceship. Wow what a surprise that Timothy Dalton's character turned out to be Rassilon. Speaking as someone who incorporates the Paul McGann Big Finish seasons when he was the current Doctor in my Doctor Who season count, it looks like Rassilon had found a way out of the Divergent Universe. The main storyline about the Master and the Time Lords ended earlier than I expected due to the Tenth Doctor settling his affairs in order as his bids goodbye to all of his friends: - Martha and Mickey is revealed to have been married to each other during an encounter with a Sontaran. It looks like she broke things off with Tom Milligan. The fact that Martha's married is not a surprise as that was first mentioned in Children of Earth but it did not mentioned who she actually got married to. - The Doctor saying goodbye to Sarah Jane and Luke is basically a brief follow-up to The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith. - Quite good hearing the song from Daleks In Manhattan again this time in a bar that Jack is at (still recovering from events of Children of Earth) and what a surprise that he is getting together with Alonso Frame. Russell T Davies had wanted Alonso to return earlier in The Stolen Earth but Russell Tovey proved unavailable. Incidentally Tovey is now a regular on Being Human in which his on-screen girlfriend is played by Sinead Keenan and Sinead Keenan is Addams in The End of Time but they don't appear together in this Doctor Who story. - Jessica Hynes appears here as Verity Newman (amalgamation of the names of Verity Lambert and Sydney Newman) the granddaughter of Joan, her character in Human Nature/the Family of Blood in this nicely done coda to that earlier story. - Surprising to see Rose and Jackie before the events of the Rose episode. Of course the Tenth Doctor was not able to say goodbye to Rose in the parallel universe so seeing her before they formally met was the best thing he could come up with.
Very sad to see the end of the Tenth Doctor but a brilliant introduction to the Eleventh Doctor.
Geronimo indeed.
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Post by matthewsee on Jan 2, 2011 14:50:02 GMT -5
The DVD release for both parts of The End of Time was labeled The 2009 Winter Specials and the DVD catalogue states that David Tennant’s tenure as 2005-2009. All this is not totally correct. Only Part 1 is the 2009 Winter Special and David Tennant’s tenure technically ended in 2010 as Part 2 was shown on January 1 2010. Obviously someone made the mistake of thinking the first day of 2010 was part of 2009.
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Post by matthewsee on Nov 3, 2011 21:22:56 GMT -5
Lords and Masters: Corresponding Confidential to The End of Time Part 1. It is revealed here that there was a scene in which the Doctor meets the American newsreader Trinity Wells but it got cut from the script and David Tennant expressing that might get rectified with Steven Moffat and Matt Smith. As yet, Trinity Wells has not appeared in an Eleventh Doctor episode. Quite spooky the John Simm Master masks. It even freaked John Simm himself. Russell T Davies went over the appearances of the Time Lords in the “classic” series and it included the brief appearance of one in Genesis of the Daleks. It is curious that the Genesis of the Daleks Time Lord got included by mention and clip but not the one that briefly appeared earlier in Terror of the Autons considering the fact it introduced the Master.
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Post by matthewsee on Nov 15, 2011 18:21:33 GMT -5
In David Tennant’s video diary on The End of Time Part 1 disc on the Specials set, the subtitles identified a woman called Moore only for it to contradict itself when it correlated from the woman introducing herself as Maxine Mawhinney. Despite Tennant identifying director Euros Lyn, the subtitles still refer to the director as Man #1.
During this video diary it showed Tennant and Catherine Tate DJeeing on BBC Radio Two. I can only imagine whether this brought back for Tennant memories of Takin’ Over The Asylum as he had played a DJ in that.
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Post by matthewsee on Feb 5, 2012 21:11:27 GMT -5
The End of Time featured two Being Human cast members Sinead Keenan (Addams) and Russell Tovey (Midshipman Frame) but did not have any scenes together. Curiously David Tennant in the DVD commentary for Part 2 says the words “being human” but he wasn’t a reference to that TV series.
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Post by matthewsee on Feb 16, 2012 22:58:13 GMT -5
Allons-y!: Corresponding Confidential to The End of Time Part 2. According to Julie Gardner, the last slate number for David Tennant's last scene as the Doctor was 999 and that is the emergency number including calling a doctor. Quite appropriate indeed for that being last slate number for David Tennant. Quite a nice song accompanying the montage of the Tenth Doctor which ends this Confidential.
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Post by matthewsee on Mar 19, 2012 17:54:07 GMT -5
In an interview with Euros Lyn in DWM 409 of his direction of the David Tennant swansong The End of Time he said that Bernard Cribbins got to be in the TARDIS in this story. The End of Time was not the first time that Cribbins has been in the TARDIS, he has travelled in the TARDIS before in Daleks Invasion Earth 2150 AD. Perhaps Lyn hasn’t seen Dalek Invasion Earth 2150 AD and was advised against seeing it.
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Post by matthewsee on Apr 9, 2012 16:22:00 GMT -5
The End of Time Part 2 disc on the 2008-10 Specials set includes deleted scenes from the aforementioned specials. Ironically there does not seem to be any deleted scenes from The End of Time Part 2. This perhaps is not surprising considering its running time was 72 minutes, 12 minutes longer than the usual time for a special of 60 minutes. Therefore it would have been a surprise if The End of Time Part 2 did indeed had anything left out of it.
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Post by chase on Jul 15, 2012 6:25:40 GMT -5
There are no deleted scenes because they kept everything they wrote/made. Which is a shame. Most of this is garbage and not funny. The scenes with Wilf are interesting and fun and meaningful. The last 20 minutes of the goodbye were emotional and David's regeneration scene good but other than that, this is bad. John Sim was the worst Master and he's no better here. The Doctor turns his gun on ...both the Master and Rassilon. The Time Lords, after building them all up as "oh the Doc's home and people are gone, woo hoo", are made to be quite evil...without a real reason to be so. The aspects of what was good about this were worn away by what's not. Planets appear over Earth without much damage or repercussions...not suprising as the equally awful JOURNEY'S END did the same. Poor story, poor choice for trhe end but some good bits especially as the goodbye scenes touch one. But could have been better. The wilf/Doctor interactions are top notch.
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Post by matthewsee on Jan 29, 2015 20:56:48 GMT -5
Despite her many appearances in Doctor Who, Trinity Wells (Lachele Carl) never got to meet the Doctor. Russell T Davies however did write up such a meeting for David Tennant’s swansong The End of Time but it did not make it to the final product because he thought it subsequently to be “indulgent and also s**t”. As published in The Writer’s Tale: The Final Chapter, Davies emailed the scripted scene to Benjamin Cook. Among the dialogue in this scene it had Trinity mentioning Henry Van Statten (from Dalek) as a billionaire that she compared to Joshua Naismith, the billionaire featured in The End of Time. This scene had Trinity and the Doctor investigating what had happened at the prison where the Master escaped from. As the prison was in the UK this led to Cook to ask what the American newsreader Trinity Wells was doing in the UK, a question that Davies curiously did not provide an answer to.
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Post by matthewsee on Jul 22, 2016 16:56:45 GMT -5
In DWM's The Master, Alan Barnes noticed a narrative link between The Five Doctors & The End of Time. Barnes noted that in The Five Doctors that Rassilon transported the Master away claiming that, "His sins will find their punishment in due time..."
Barnes then state that this was an "intriguing assertion, given that years later - at the so-called 'End of Time', in fact - the seemingly resurrected Rassilon would be exposed as the architect of the Master's madness."
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Post by matthewsee on May 28, 2021 5:55:55 GMT -5
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Post by matthewsee on Jun 19, 2021 15:55:02 GMT -5
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