Post by matthewsee on Oct 28, 2010 19:17:51 GMT -5
Written by SJA creator and former Doctor Who showrunner Russell T Davies.
Directed by Ashley Way. Having previously directed on Torchwood & Doctor Who, this marks his SJA debut joining a group of directors to have directed all three current Whoniverse BBC series.
Sarah is informed by Colonel Karim that the Doctor is dead. Colonel Karim is played by Laila Rouass a former cast member of Primeval which is more like Torchwood than SJA. Laila Rouass is a welcome addition to the Whoniverse.
Katy Manning is back as Jo. I have known for a long while how Katy looks like today but her on-screen presence is amazing.
It was during the funerary procession when Sarah and Jo each recount their adventures with the Doctor and Clyde and Rani getting to know Jo’s grandson Santiago that the story has its cheesy moment. To be honest I did not like it that Jo is still married to Cliff. The reason why Jo and Cliff were a couple in The Green Death is because the actors playing them were a couple in real life. Katy and Cliff actor Stewart Bevan have long since parted ways. So by the same token Jo should no longer be married to Cliff. I could say that Russell T Davies wanted to have happy endings in his scripts but this is the same person who came up with Torchwood.
Not really a surprise that there was something dodgy about the Shansheeth.
The cliffhanger was very predictable.
The concluding episode is better than the starting episode.
The Eleventh Doctor had previously appeared in a Russell T Davies story in The End of Time in the post-regeneration scene at the end but that little scene was written uncredited by current Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat.
Death of the Doctor is the first time that Russell T Davies has written for the Eleventh Doctor but in SJA rather than in the Doctor Who series itself. In fact Death of the Doctor is Davies’ first solo script for SJA, the series that he created.
Col. Karim makes allusion to The Brady Bunch when describing the kids. The Brady Bunch is not a good way to promote SJA.
Counting the solo use of clips of the Tenth Doctor in season 2’s Secrets of the Stars, Death of the Doctor makes season 4, the third season in a row to feature an appearance by the Doctor.
The solution in defeating the villains proved to be very satisfactorily and very exciting.
While I did find the starting episode to be cheesy on the way Sarah had her meeting with fellow former companion Jo whom she had never met before, the concluding episode proves that there is something special about being a companion of the Doctor and that is something that would always be cherished.
Directed by Ashley Way. Having previously directed on Torchwood & Doctor Who, this marks his SJA debut joining a group of directors to have directed all three current Whoniverse BBC series.
Sarah is informed by Colonel Karim that the Doctor is dead. Colonel Karim is played by Laila Rouass a former cast member of Primeval which is more like Torchwood than SJA. Laila Rouass is a welcome addition to the Whoniverse.
Katy Manning is back as Jo. I have known for a long while how Katy looks like today but her on-screen presence is amazing.
It was during the funerary procession when Sarah and Jo each recount their adventures with the Doctor and Clyde and Rani getting to know Jo’s grandson Santiago that the story has its cheesy moment. To be honest I did not like it that Jo is still married to Cliff. The reason why Jo and Cliff were a couple in The Green Death is because the actors playing them were a couple in real life. Katy and Cliff actor Stewart Bevan have long since parted ways. So by the same token Jo should no longer be married to Cliff. I could say that Russell T Davies wanted to have happy endings in his scripts but this is the same person who came up with Torchwood.
Not really a surprise that there was something dodgy about the Shansheeth.
The cliffhanger was very predictable.
The concluding episode is better than the starting episode.
The Eleventh Doctor had previously appeared in a Russell T Davies story in The End of Time in the post-regeneration scene at the end but that little scene was written uncredited by current Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat.
Death of the Doctor is the first time that Russell T Davies has written for the Eleventh Doctor but in SJA rather than in the Doctor Who series itself. In fact Death of the Doctor is Davies’ first solo script for SJA, the series that he created.
Col. Karim makes allusion to The Brady Bunch when describing the kids. The Brady Bunch is not a good way to promote SJA.
Counting the solo use of clips of the Tenth Doctor in season 2’s Secrets of the Stars, Death of the Doctor makes season 4, the third season in a row to feature an appearance by the Doctor.
The solution in defeating the villains proved to be very satisfactorily and very exciting.
While I did find the starting episode to be cheesy on the way Sarah had her meeting with fellow former companion Jo whom she had never met before, the concluding episode proves that there is something special about being a companion of the Doctor and that is something that would always be cherished.