![]() We all knew deep down it was always her, but I was more interested in HOW rather than WHO. This goes down to Smith’s terrific performance.Īnd the last two minutes? Chilling. And sure enough, he felt uneased by this too. Throughout Closing Time I always felt a drift of unease of the knowledge of the Doctors certain death next episode. Just how the TARDIS-flat wasn’t the main focus of The Lodger. I don’t agree, because then I’d have to also agree that the end-of-the-world-plot-of-the-week was the main focus of the story. Some folks at The Escapist thought it would have made for a more satisfying conclusion if Craig had died, so we would have one more final heartbreak before next week’s epic (and I don’t often use that word, but there it is) finale. Actually, wouldn’t that have been great? That final scene of the be-stetsonned Doctor stepping grim-faced into the TARDIS, off to meet his doom, with no hope (that we can see) of escape. My youngest son had misunderstood the chronology and thought that Closing Time itself was the final episode. So the last episode of this series, The Wedding of River Song, will have to carry all the weight of all the unresolved questions, including a few that go back to the end of last series. In a move that should please those who prefer Doctor Who as an episodic smörgåsbord, the “arc” material was kept to a minimum: a brief interlude with River (which I won’t discuss in detail to avoid spoilering) and a few moments in which the Doctor prepared, both physically and emotionally, for the forthcoming events of The Impossible Astronaut. A meal without it is still a meal, but the very best meals include it. If that was the only thing Doctor Who ever did, it would be a much lesser show than it is but if it never had laugh-out-loud funny episodes it would also be the poorer for it. ![]() Is that enough? Well, it was enough for Friends to run for ten seasons, and Frasier for eleven - both shows that I thoroughly enjoyed, though without ever truly loving the way I do Doctor Who and Buffy and Veronica Mars. Just very funny, with a near-constant stream of laugh-out-loud moments, and just enough plot to hang the set-pieces on. Not very scary (although with one truly horrific moment), not very suspenseful, not at all emotionally complex (again apart from one moment, Amy and Rory glimpsed distantly) and not remotely timey-wimey. I don’t have a lot to say about Closing Time beyond that it was very, very funny. And I think it’s fair to say that the baby was the star of the show. Gareth Roberts wisely avoided re-treading The Lodger’s Craig-and-Sophie romantic plot, by skipping straight to the part where they’ve been happily together for a while and have a baby. I don’t see how a sequel can really work, and I especially struggle to see how it can tie in to the arc.” At the end of my God Complex review, I worried about Closing Time: “I loved but in part because it was so very self-contained, a sort of holiday from the main story and because it wrapped up its whole rom-com subplot so neatly.
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