The Parting of the Ways

I have really mixed feelings about this episode. The first 10 minutes where really clever and just fantastic! Most of the rest of the episode was great, but then the ending ruined it all.

Here we go again with the magic wand cure all solutions. This is a problem that the newer Star Trek series suffered from as well. No one ever fights it out any more. The writer paints himself into a corner and comes up with a magical way over the top cure all that ruins everything.

The writers need to keep things credible. Please listen to your viewers!

Others mentioned that it's unrealistic for taste in television or for similar shows to exist thousands of years later. I disagree because I think it's possible for television to revisist stuff from way back. We do that now all the time in fact. Television could have gone through many stages prior to the Daleks intervention. I think the whole reality tv concept was under explored. I would have made it a seperate story.

Effects! Ahh. I know about effects. I'm a professional 3D animator myself. The effects looked great, top notch, but the animation was choppy in some shots. I've seen this before on the show. There's no budgetary reasons to have this. A good animator would be able to make these shots smooth as silk regardless of budget. There's a way to smooth between keyframes with an ease in and ease out selection.

Captain Jack...

I really like this character. I'm hoping they don't get out of line with the gay stuff though. That aspect I don't like to see in Doctor Who, but otherwise great character and he behaves how I would behave in that environment. A much more entertaining Han Solo. Spin off show anyone?

Chris E....

The best by far in my opinion. I will miss him as the Doctor. I can't imagine anyone else in the role now. He put Tom Baker into 2nd place.

Rose.. Great as usual. Superb acting.

I haven't seen any other reviews but I think most would agree the ending was too over the top. The Dalek Emperor looked great. Would like to have seem move around though and personally I would rather have seen a Dalek invasion on Earth in the streets rather than in space. But that's just me.

What happened to the Jelly Babies by the way?