Journey's End

Previously...

So as we now all know, this fake regeneration was in fact a real regeneration. And one further on than we knew.  

Isaac Dakin@IWhittakerDakin He's the 12th. He has vanity issues at this point :-) 

Sarah is saved by Jackie & Mickey...

...and Torchwood are saved by... time freezing around them. Okaaaay... 

Mark Walker@Mark_Walker Eve Myles really goes for it when shooting the Dalek!

Oh yeah, that time lock Tosh was working on in her spare time. Sheesh.

The Doctor explains that he used the start of the regeneration process to heal his current body then funneled the change-y part of the cycle into his spare hand from The Christmas Invasion.  

50dw50@50dw50 the Daleks eyestalks watching the TARDIS get dragged up always makes me laugh 

Sarah surrenders to be taken to the Crucible. The Daleks like snooker. Explains all those balls, I guess. 

Martha goes to Germany. Fine time for a holiday! 

Donna thinks she's nothing special. 

Isaac Dakin@IWhittakerDakin The Doctor mentions how the Daleks were mad last time. Yeah, they were shoving humans up their arses! 

Missed that bit. Was it an extra on the box set? ;-P

The Daleks drag the TARDIS aboard... 

...call out the Doctor and co... 

...but Donna is shut inside... 

...and now they plan to melt the TARDIS down with Spectrum ZX energy. 

Donna hears the heartbeat again, and the Doctor's jar hand glows at her... 

As she reaches towards it, regeneration energy floods out at her... 

...and the hand starts to grow into a full Doctor! 

Mark Walker@Mark_Walker he's naked! But luckily knows the one button to press to save them! 

50dw50@50dw50 grow your own David Tennant, the person who invents that will make a fortune

The Dalek Supreme taunts the Doctor. "You're full of despair, and you know you are...!" 

Jack deliberately gets himself shot so he can start work on a rescue. 

Rose doesn't know she made him immortal. 

They are the playthings of Davros now! 

The Hand Doctor wears the blue suit and explains that he was born of a metacrisis... 

Mark Walker@Mark_Walker not sure about calling him 'The Hand Doctor', sounds like a porn movie! 

Isaac Dakin@IWhittakerDakin  I call him "Handy" What do you think? 

Mark Walker@Mark_Walker  very similar. 

The Hand Doctor seems to have inherited some of Donna's gob. "Naked Hand Gob Doctor" it is. ;-P (Just wait till he starts shooting too soon in his immaturity...) 

Tim... LLAP@parks8472 "Oi, watch it space-man!" "Oi, watch it earth-girl!"

Mark Walker@Mark_Walker again Tennant shows his verbal skills, sounding like an amusing mix of the two.

50dw50@50dw50 he is thrilled not to have got Rose's teeth

The Doctor starts to put two and two together; this meta-crisis has been rippling backwards through time...

...bringing the Doctor and Donna together. 

Martha takes the Haagen Dazs key to Germany. 

The Daleks plan to make Jack all hot. 

Davros decides it's time for a chat. 

The Doctor hits a nerve calling Davros a Court Jester, the Daleks' pet. 

The Daleks have a vendetta against Eastenders on account of Dimensions In Time, so they exterminate Gita. 

Isaac Dakin@IWhittakerDakin Also Doctor Who was cancelled in 1985 so new shows could be created ie. Eastenders.

The dimension jumper is recharged so Mickey can save Sarah and Jackie, but the others are obliterated by the Spectrum ZX. 

Simon G@SHGB001 I had a C64 so I would not want to be obliterated by the Speccy.

Davros plans to detonate the "Reality Bomb" and unravel the very fabric of the universe. The dust will become atoms. 

"It's not over yet, sweetheart!" Not enough Cribbins in this one. 

Captain Beefy Cheesecake is reunited with Mickey Mouse. 

While Martha has the Haagen Dazs Key, Sarah has her own WMD, a warp... crystal.. thingy.  

Martha skypes the Haagen Dazs club and gets ready to blow up the Earth. 

Simon G@SHGB001 First rule of Haagen Dazs club is you don't talk about Haagen Dazs club.

2nd rule of Haagen Dazs club is "bring your own spoon."

Hand Gob Doctor plans to zap Davros in order to wipe out all the Daleks created from his flesh. 

Isaac Dakin@IWhittakerDakin So if Davros dies all the other Daleks die? If you're dumb enough to create a plan like that you deserve to be zapped!

Rose likes Martha! So many Rose wibblers with conflicted "feels" right there. (OR "emotions" in English). 

The companions are proud of their WMDs, but Davros twists the knife. "Behold your children of time transformed into murderers." 

He recognizes Sarah Jane Smith. "You were there at the very beginning..." 

Detonate the Reality Bomb! Explode the Universe Grenade! Release the Hounds! Turn it off and on again! 

Darth Marenghi@DarthMarenghi Has to be said that Julian Bleach is an amazing Davros - a real shame they've never brought him back.

There's still time for that, I guess.

Darth Marenghi@DarthMarenghi True. The Moff just seems interested in his own Dalek mythology though. Which is unfortunate.

Phil Creighton@phil_creighton Bleach is a little too animated compared to Wisher's original, but Davros has gone mad over the centuries.

Darth Marenghi@DarthMarenghi Well, *madder*...

I thought he was spookily close to Wisher's portrayal mostly but he gives a few Molloy edges here and there.

Simon Pittman@LibraryPlayer I think Julien Bleach is an excellent Davros... really scary, evil and mad! :-) 

Hand Gob Doctor turns up... 

...but Davros gives him a lightning tickle, and his weapon is useless.  

Simon G@SHGB001 Don't tell Rose his weapon is useless she won't want him! 

Davros' zap jump starts Donna - the metacrisis was 2 way and now she's gone part time-lord! 

The Doctor-Donna! So if you want to know what a female Doctor would be like; this, basically.

The Doctor-Donna makes all the Daleks spin... 

...then recruits the real Doctor and Hand Gob Doctor to send all the planets back where they came from. 

50dw50@50dw50 love companions pushing Daleks, it gives me that warm Cushing movie glow. 

"Three Doctors?" 

Dalek Caan declares "No More" after his experience of flying into the time war. Funny that... 

Hand Gob Doctor has killed all the Daleks...  

The Doctors get everyone aboard the TARDIS and is even willing to rescue Davros.

But Davros turns him down. "I name you the destroyer of worlds!" 

Darth Marenghi@DarthMarenghi I think I might have paid money for Davros to say Ka Faraq Gatri in that line! I assume everyone knows this but Russell scripted a flashback for Davros set before his accident... 

Phil Creighton@phil_creighton Flashback as a scientist or solving how he escaped death in Remembrance?

As a scientist; Bleach was supposed to get a scene as pre-accident Davros. 

The Doctor makes the Gwen connection. "Don't I know you from Broadchurch 2?"  

Darth Marenghi@DarthMarenghi Did 70s viewers complain about Roland Summers and Laurence Scarman not being "explained"? 

Mark Walker@Mark_Walker bit of a no-win situation there. If they hadn't addressed it people would've complained about that! 

Should've just let them. Just one more thing amongst millions! 

K9! Woo hoo! "The process is simple!" 

50dw50@50dw50 do do do da dooooo K9! 

Simon Pittman@LibraryPlayer I'm happy to admit that when I watched it I was excited by K9's surprise cameo! :-)

The Doctor gets everyone to work as a team, and Mr. Smith, K9 and Torchwood pitch in... 

So they all help fly the TARDIS and haul Earth back to where it's supposed to be. 

Phil Creighton@phil_creighton When you're six, K9 & Company is the most exciting thing EVER. Still love it! 

50dw50@50dw50 lovely Elizabeth Sladen 

Simon G@SHGB001 taken from us too soon.  RIP Lis.

atruedrwhofan@atruedrwhofan dearly loved and dearly missed. RIP Lis.

Simon G@SHGB001 100% agree my friend.

Isaac Dakin@IWhittakerDakin I love how Mickey starts again he's definitely not the coward he used to be. 

But now there's a Doctor's who's surplus to requirements. 

So it's back to Bad Wolf Bay one last time... 

Jackie winding the Doctor up that her son is named after him... great stuff. 

Darth Marenghi@DarthMarenghi Would have been a nice shout out to another show if the new baby was called Samuel. :) 

So Hand Gob Doctor is like a young War Doctor? Or Eccleston's Survivor's Guilt Doctor? 

Simon Pittman@LibraryPlayer So Rose basically gets to keep a 9th Doctor (personality, etc.) who's in a 10th Doctor's body! :-)

The realities are closing up so the Doctor and Donna have to leave. 

So Rose is left with her sub-par half-human Doctor.

Simon Pittman@LibraryPlayer Would make a great Jeremy Kyle show... "My friend snogged another me in front me!"

Dear Rose, welcome to dumpsville. Population: You. AGAIN. 

Simon G@SHGB001 Waiting for the spin off series of them, with the TARDIS he might have grown with the coral give to him in the deleted scene. 

I think that would have been the Russell-scripted film, had the BBC not wanted to keep the show on air with the Specials to bridge into the Moffat era. If this had genuinely been the end of the TV series, then I think the movie would absolutely have been Tennant and Piper, written by RTD, with the luxury of separation from any future return to TV. Note how the end of Journey's End, minus the trailer for the Next Doctor would perfectly well allow another Rose-style cold introduction of a new Doctor.

Back in the TARDIS, Donna's not right... 

Mark Walker@Mark_Walker I think Tate does the Donna breakdown bit fantastically.

Donna collapses, and the Doctor takes her back to Wilf. She'll be okay... won't she...? 

Isaac Dakin@IWhittakerDakin Donna's departure is SO damn heartbreaking! Why is there never enough bloody tissues? :-(

Hand Gob Doctor took them all.

Dalek Caan said one of them would still die...

The Doctor has had to wipe himself from Donna's mind completely. 

Donna wakes up and doesn't recognise "Mr. Smith." 

Isaac Dakin@IWhittakerDakin It's even more heartbreaking when we see her gossiping with her friend. she's now runaway bride Donna 

Heartbreaking this last scene in the rain between Wilf and the Doctor. 

50dw50@50dw50 beautifully done

Kosmic Kris@KosmicKris that last scene and then the scene in the cafe in The End of Time was RTDs best writing - loved how he wrote Wilf.

Wilf salutes in tears, and the drenched Doctor sets the controls for adventures new... alone. 

And at the end of the credits... a "Coming Soon" - Cybermen, in the Snow! 

Though what we got on screen's not the original ending, it is the better one, I feel. 

TTFN! K.
Coming Soon... The Green Death