Sunday, May 19, 2013

Episode Review: Doctor Who: The Name of the Doctor

Hoo boy, what an episode.
Tenzalore. The Doctor's grave. Post-Library River. Multiple Clara's. So hard to pick where to start.
This season finale felt different from the other finales, almost like it needed to be two parts or that it wasn't the real finale and that's what the 50th is.
It was nice to see River again but it was irksome that the Doctor never mentioned to Clara who she was to him, but it does make sense since he almost never mentioned anyone he was close to to his companions.
Vastra and co. felt a little shoehorned in since they didn't do much of anything. It felt like they were put in just for the fans to see them again.
It would've made more sense to have the planet itself be the Doctor's grave, not a huge version of the TARDIS. Now that would've been exciting, them trying to find his exact grave.
What was the GI after exactly? To ruin the Doctor's life? To undo the universe? To gain a REAL body? And how did he know about Tenzalore to begin with?
It was very interesting to see Clara with all the other Doctor's, even if they never acknowledged her. Kinda interesting that she's the reason he even took the TARDIS to begin with. I'm wondering what episode was used for that footage.
Now up to the holy grail itself, the Doctor's name.
I thought it was nice that they didn't reveal the Doctor's actual name. His name is the Doctor and the Doctor is his name. The title was more a metaphor for what it stands for, that Doctor is the name of the hero we see, the savior of a billion worlds, the greatest history maker ever born. It also ties in the 'other' Doctors we've seen throughout the series. The Valyard. The Dream Lord. Richard Grant's alternate Doctor. None of them stood in 'The Name of the Doctor' itself. They might be incarnations of the Doctor himself, but they aren't him since they don't stand for anything he does.
Because of these reasons, it makes you wonder what John Hurt's Doctor did to not be a Doctor at all. Hopefully it's all revealed in the 50th or Mr. Moffat's gonna have some explaining to do come November 24th.

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