Howling:Series 5 Was All a .......?

Seems likely to me that this entire season of the show is going to be reset-button-fodder. Time can be rewritten, and #11 does a thing in the air when he says that which reminds me of how the novels had him "working magic with time" by drawing temporal calculations. Whoever's extremities punch the big red button that should nevereverever be pressed, now seems the time to start asking, what will Series 5 wind up being when the fairy dust settles?


 * Dream being had by Amy or the Doctor?
 * Desperate attempt by the Tardis to get David Tennant back by destroying the universe?
 * Crazy-awesome Xanatos Pileup planned by Rassilon or the Master at the end of TeoT?
 * Season-long introduction for the Dream Lord as a new villain?
 * Exploration of what happens when the Doctor becomes the villain?
 * The work of a villainous writer who can't keep his story consistent and is growing to hate the Doctor? (Nyuk nyuk)
 * Version of history that gets overwritten in ways that make all our favorite clues 'click' in a Whoniverse-consistent manner?
 * Buildup to a big cop-out where Amy becomes the Good Wolf and oh nevermind roll credits?

Agonaga 02:12, June 20, 2010 (UTC)

PS I should clarify that I'm joking or half-joking in some of my suggestions above. I adore The Moff's writing, so anything that might seem to suggest that The Hasslemoff would stoop to the level of one of RTD's finales, is probably definitely just me snicker-elbowing you all about what shite the finales used to wash up as. Agonaga 02:23, June 20, 2010 (UTC)

Well TPO was a massive copout. All the aliens came.....and then the Doctor sent them away! Wow! OR NOT. the twelfth doctor 11:25, June 20, 2010 (UTC)


 * - The aliens didn't run away, they all "left" because the Doctor was already at the Pandorica. Which is where they wanted him to be. Then they all came back after it opened to put him inside. 115.69.5.221 13:27, June 20, 2010 (UTC)

The only RTD finale I thought was truly awful was Bad wolf and the Parting of ways. The story for those two was just Daleks attack earth kill everyone doctor is the most useless hero ever ever ever, then at last second rose kills everyone of them because I can't think of a way to get rid of em and the ninth doctor. Other than that one the rest I thought were quite good, the best is probably doomsday because the way he beat them in that one was sooo cool. The idea of them being trapped in the void is a very creative interesting method of defeat not just I am a god who blew you all up. Last of the time Lords has Freema Agyeman thats all I need to say. Journey's end was a good story but the way the daleks were defeated was shit. It was awful to see every companion and the doctor undermined for all time, though hopefully with a new threat to the multiverse we wont get more donna is the most important person in all of doctor who as now someone else will have saved the multiverse. The end of time I thought might have been the best actually, really good story, acting and Freema Agyeman even just for a cameo still makes it excellent. I will admit though the pandorica opens was excellent we will just have to see if this is a parting of ways type ending or doomsday type. Winehousefan, 12:45, June 20, 2010 [UTC]


 * I don't think the RTD finales were boring or lacked entertainment, but the plot devices were senseless.


 * 1) The Tardis possessing Rose to magic the whole story away
 * 2) Big shootouts and a demon-numbered Hoover vacuum to erm... erase the story again?
 * 3) Prayer. :-/ and erasing the story
 * 4) Depending on which 'finale' ... Metacrisis D, or erasing the Master's deeds.
 * Won't it be fun someday when we can have believable tension at the end of a season of Who again? Awful lot of un-writing going on in these finales, and I mean... unless we're, what, never visiting another planet outside Earth again ... big red reset button. Obviously the Moff is trapped repeating the reset finale, but how will he make it good? What will it contribute aside from "crap now we have a human Doctor in another dimension, crap now the Doctor's death is less dramatic because he can cheat-regenerate, crap we've used up all our 'erase the Daleks from time' cards haven't we, crap we wrote another well-liked companion into a corner again and can't dig her out" ... I suspect Moff will do something a lot better that will impact the show going forward. Agonaga 16:26, June 20, 2010 (UTC)