Doctor Who Thoughts...

So Doctor who’s back soon so I thought I’d throw some thoughts out about where I think it should and shouldn’t go.

So let’s start with some reflection going back first to the 2006 final episode of the second series of revived who; David Tennant’s first finale in the role of the Doctor… it was so bad. The central problem wasn’t even the over crowdedness in the villain department; as stupid as having two villains who (at their core) are the same villain could have been saved by some inventiveness. I mean it wasn’t, but it could have been.

The problem lay with the fact that Russell T Davies loved the character of Rose Tyler too much. Now I’m not saying his failure to actually kill her like he said he would is what drags this episode from bad to downright awful, but the fact that he drummed her up as the Doctor’s one true love when there was really nothing to make her such.

Other than a capacity for getting irrationally jealous of every other woman that the Doctor spoke to and a belief that he had got to 901 years old and hadn’t made any other friends in his lifetime, Rose didn't really have anything to make her different for any other companion. The only thing that made her different was that T Davies made her and considered her better. And rather than build anything into her story or character to make her better, he thought he’d just tell us that she was better.

I raise this only because a similar thing seems to be happening with River Song. Now I like Alex Kingstone’s performance, but Moffatt is kind of making her take over the show the same way that Rose took over the T Davies series. This is a big DON'T; This can’t become the River Song Show; the centrality of the Doctor cannot be overridden.

Surely there’s enough left in 11^th Doctor that we don’t need to rely on other characters for all the development.

Also the exit of Amy and Rory can't be like the exit of Rose. Please Moffatt. I know you’re not T Davies but just in case; no slow motion falling, no extended screaming for twenty minutes and absolutely no last minute teleporting parents (good fucking god that was a terrible ending). The death of the Fourth Doctor’s companion Adric was 100 times more effective than the “death” of Rose, so something along those lines would be awesome.

Other than that the writers of Doctor Who can go wild!