The Parting of the Ways

I've been sitting in front of my computer for 15 minutes trying to figure out what to write for this episode. To be honest I was actually very disappointed in it, RTD continues his trend of poor writing.

Coming off Bad Wolf I kind of thought that there this episode might actually be really good, and a great send off for the 9th Doctor. But I was really disappointed. Bringing back the Daleks was a great idea but I don't think they were used very well. I mean why is it that the Daleks have to get within 1 metre in front of someone before they shoot them? When they went down to the floor where all the human survivors where the could've and should've started firing staright away, but instead they came within a metre and when the firing started the scene changed.

Oh yes, and we finally find out who the Bad Wolf is, yeah it's Rose, and I gotta see that the whole Bad Wolf idea was actually quite pathetic. I liked the idea that some people thought that Bad Wolf was something to do with the Doctor's life being manipulated by someone, and instead we find out that Rose left herself clues around the galaxy to make sure that she was there to save the Doctor or something. Sorry to say it, but what a load of crap! The regeneration scene was also quite pathetic. Not only did the Doctor regenerate instantly which has never happened, usually he is dead for atleast 10-15 seconds (except the 96 movie) before he regenerates, and I think that would've worked better. It would've been better if the Doctor died, and Rose was crying over him without the knowledge that he was going to regenerate, the all of a sudden David Tennant appears. He should've never explained regeneration to Rose at all, I think it ruined it completely. Also this would be probably the first regeneration where the Doctor just walks around afterwards as if nothing happened, not even the originals where like that! Who could forget Patrick Troughton being little light headed, Jon Pertwee being completely out of it, Tom Baker being completely nuts, Peter Davidson being weak and drained, Colin Baker being violent, emotional, suicidal, Sylvester McCoy being forgetful, and Paul McGann being very forgetful. These are the sorts of things that should be done. However I do admit that we haven't seen enough of the new Doctor, so I could be wrong about this.

Now the Daleks enter Earth's atmosphere and start bombing the hell out of it, I mean we see continents being completely mangled on a screen, but we don't actually get to see anything!!! This was so disappointing, I would've loved to have seen the surface of Earth being destroyed by the Dalek ships.

Oh, now I forgot to mention the Daleks, how the were magically brought back to life from the human dead. That was ok, I didn't mind that, as it kind of relates to Davros' experiments from Revelation of the Daleks, however I thought we should've seen Davros rather than the Emperor Dalek. Also how did the Dalek's manage to get those ships? They practically had nothing and all of a sudden they have these ships which look brand new. Realistically they should've had ships which were put together out of anything they could find, but instead they have brand new ships straight out from the factory, which doesn't make sense at all.

Ok now Rose absorbs the time vortex or something which I didn't quite understand because it sounded very made up, and using that power she restored everything and destroyed the Daleks. I wasn't impressed with this ending at all, thought it was just to simple and supernatural. And I wasn't happy with the Doctor kissing Rose, RTD says that he sucked out the lifeforce that was in her, but it didn't look like sucking to me, could swear that I was a tongue slip in. And bringing everyone back to life was to much of a happy ending, everyone should've just stayed dead, ESPECIALLY CAPTAIN JACK! Speaking of which I'm starting to think Jack is a homosexual (not that there is anything wrong with that) after he kissed the Doctor on the lips, and all that stuff in the Tardis about him taking to Doctor out and that, just ruins the story completely.

There was only one shot that I liked in this episode and that was when the Dalek's appeared from outside the observation window, you couldn't hear them but you saw their lights flash as the said 'exterminate' and then shattered the glass, thought that was really great. As was the shot when the Dalek's leave their ships and board the station.

In conclusion, RTD should be banned from writing Doctor Who episodes for good. I am very disappointed in the finale for the series, it was just very badly written and seem to mainly concentrate on the development on Rose's and the Doctor's relationship rather than that and the story. Another thing is the addition of the Dalek's force field, which has now practically made them indestructible, thought they would've been better without. And considering the Dalek's are trying to invade Earth you don't seem much of it, you would think that they would bomb the hell out of Earth rather the focus on trying to take over space station. Overall would give it a 3/10.