Doctor Who finale - The Big Bang

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I thought that was brilliant actually.

Lots of very funny touches (Matt Smith in a fez is hilarious in itself, esp with a mop). I really liked the way it tied things up but still left plenty of big meaty stuff for next time - so it felt satisfying as a finale (dealt with Pandorica, with why Amy was unusual, Rory, the cracks) but left you excited to find out more (why did the Tardis explode, whose voice was saying "silence will fall", what's the deal with River, who did she kill and why is she all sad about the next time they'll meet).

I'm loving Matt Smith. Dancing was great, the big speeches were good, everything actually. I really love River, always have actually, I can't wait to find out more.

Great job, really great job.

The dancing took me back to CE & 'the doctor dances'

Wow, the finale was so FANTASTIC! I really loved it, thought it was brilliant. My eldest three really enjoyed it too. DD1 has already put it on again this morn ( no complaints from me!). It was my favourite episode in a long time, think I must have cried atleast 4 times too

I really liked it -shocked that Amy was in the Pandorica, and jumped out of my skin when he was shot by the Dalek. I like the fact that it wasnt all tied up and finished in this episode, but they left the silence and the Tardis exploding as mysteries that still need to be explained.

Cant wait for Christmas now

It completely did my head in, but I enjoyed it. It made much more sense once I'd watched Cofidential - the going over the various jumps became clearer. Loved Rory. Loved the fez. Loved the dancing. Loved nicking Amelia's drink to give back to her later.

Flame, no, I feel exactly the same way. Am HUGELY grateful to RTD for bringing it back so I can share it with ds just as my Mummy shared it with me. (She's been watching since '63 but apparently missed quite a few episodes while at university - well, it was the 60s, I understand she had a busy social life so can excuse her!)

Just seen it on iPlayer - it was utterly brilliant - loved it.

edam - having a busy social life is no excuse for missing Dr Who - I never missed an episode when I was there.

Mind you, it probably helped that my boyfriend (now DH) is an even bigger DW fan than me....

Rusty

Tangential Doctor Who link: My mother once really offended Fraser Hines' wife. We were in a green room at BBC Leeds (friend was on a show) and when F Hines got called onto stage to do his turn, my mother looked at the monitor and exclaimed, loudly 'oh, so THAT's who he is, I thought I recognised him.' Mrs F Hines looked furious!

BBC3 repeat now

I'm confused. Was great and all, but I haven't a clue what to make of it all - lol

DS2 and I have decided that River didn't kill the dalek in the museum.

DD and I reckon she probably did but they didn't have the budget for the FX....

No cos that would make her a baddie - the doctors life partner could not be bad... simple as.

OMG that was perfect!

I loved it too but I'm still confused about how he actually escaped from the Pandorica. I know his future self told Rory what to do but how did he tell his future self to do that when he was already trapped? Will have to put it all down to wibbly wobbly timey wimey and just enjoy all the fab bits!

They are really going for the time travel this series - I mean jumping around left right and centre. V confusing for those of little brain (like myself)

It's the same thing as in Blink - the Doctor only knew what to say because he had the script from Sally, but Sally only had it because the Doctor had already said it...

As far as I'm concerned, 'timey-wimey stuff' is a good enough explanation.

Timey wimey stuff explains everything

Glad it isn't just me pleased to be sharing it with the DC

I thought the voice talking about "silence" was the dream man (can't remember his name!) from a few episodes back.

There, that was nice and vague [forehead slap]

do you mean that little guy in the white suit? Think eventually the Doc admitted it was him. Possibly hundreds of years in the future.

The monster the Prisoner Zero turned out to be was talking about silence in the first episode

I thought that was fantastic. It had all the things I was worried that it might have before it started a big reset button, and Rory coming back to life but it did them PROPERLY and it WORKED (RTD take note). And the tie-in with the Weeping Angels episode, that appeared to be just a continuity glitch on first viewing -- inspired. That's how you construct a series story arc, not by just writing "Bad Wolf" everywhere and then coming up with a half-arsed reason why afterwards (RTD take note again).

It was great wasn't it

SM is definitely better at the long story arc than RTD.

Can't wait for Christmas, and am dying to know who River is and how that all fits together.

Loved it and now love new Doctor, Amy and Rory. It took a while, well one whole series, but I've got there!
I also don't think River killed the Dalek, it was very suspicious. I just LOVE a revived Dalek though.
So glad they are really using the time travel thing, that for me is what DW is all about, time and space travel, sometimes they seem to forget about it.
I still think the Weeping Angels were wasted as their scariness depended on them sending people back in time and not killing or harming them, that just got chucked out the window.