He just always gets stopped in the final stages. Though the Master does get points for being one of the only villains who ever seems to succeed at his villainous plans. Every single season finale was more engaging on a story level, and while I love John Simms as the bat-shit insane Master, this particular Master story did not stack up very well to the one from Season 3’s finale. Davies story, the plot here wasn’t as impressive as the emotional payoff that we got at the end of the episode. The Doctor catches one last glimpse of his past companions and then sadly returns to the TARDIS (with a heartbreaking “I don’t want to go yet”) to regenerate where we meet the Eleventh Doctor (Matt Smith) whose explosive transformation nearly destroys the TARDIS. While he is able to keep the Time Lords from returning (and the Master sacrifices himself to save the Doctor after he realizes the Time Lords had manipulated him), the Doctor has to sacrifice his own life in order to save Wilfred Mott by absorbing a lethal dose of radiation in Wilfred’s place. The Doctor realizes at the last minute what the Time Lords intend on doing (and he can’t let them return because it means the Time War would re-engulf the universe) and he flies back to Earth to stop them. The Time Lords see the Masters return as their chance to return to the real universe and manipulate the Master into following through with this plan for them. With the help of Wilfred Mott (and two aliens who were in disguise working on the medical device), the Doctor is able to escape and formulate a plan to defeat the psychopathic Master.
When the business man kidnaps the wounded Master to fix the machine, the Master uses it to transform all of humanity into copies of the Master (except for Wilfred Mott who was protected and Donna who is still half-Time Lord), and this heralds the return of the Time Lords from their time-locked destruction in the Time War led by President Rassilon (Timothy Dalton). As the Doctor arrives on Earth (and enlists the help of Wilfred Mott), he stumbles across a plan by a wealthy business man to use an alien medical bay to achieve immortality for his daughter. Though the Master died at the hands of his wife Lucy Saxon, part of his being lived on, and a cult dedicated to the Master half-succeed at resurrecting him (though he is now slowly dying from an unquenchable hunger). On the Ood homeworld, the Doctor sees mysterious visions of the Master (John Simms) and a plot to resurrect him which the Ood believe will lead to the end of time itself. While all of humanity is suffering from nightmares that they can’t seem to shake (underscored by narration by none other than past James Bond himself, Timothy Dalton), only Wilfred Mott (Bernard Cribbins), Donna Noble’s wily grandfather, seems to realize that something is amiss and desperately searches for the Doctor. The Doctor finally returns to the Ood homeworld to discover just what the Ood meant when they foretold that his song was coming to an end as well as the prophecy of the woman on the bus (from “Planet of the Dead”) who spoke of the Doctor’s death and a man who would knock four times. To quote the Doctor before you, you were brilliant, and even though this special didn’t fully transform into the send-off you deserved until its final 30 minutes, I’m willing to let that slide because you transformed the lives of so many science fiction fans around the world.
THE END OF TIME DOCTOR WHO SERIES
David Tennant (and his myriad companions and the writers of the series itself) provided me hours upon hours of exciting, terrifying, heart-breaking, and simply fun British television in a science fiction environment that I could use to escape from the less than always endearing real world. After breezing through the rest of the specials that closed out his run, I began to subconsciously come up with other activities for myself to engage in rather than see my time with the Tenth Doctor to a close, but alas, today I could hold it off no longer.
My only friend the end.” I just finished Doctor Who: The End of Time, the two part special that finally closed the book on David Tennant’s run as the Tenth incarnation of everyone’s favorite Time Lord.
I think I might have quoted Jim Morrison in my review for the last disc of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but I don’t really care cause I’m going to do it again.
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