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The Bronx is up, the Battery ( Spoilers! )'s down!
An odd (not to be confused with Ood) ending to this half the series for me; the Manhattan references were so familiar and yet so Weepily altered for much of the ep. I actually enjoyed the BBCA pre-show as much as the story itself; it put the Doctor's US history in quite a bit of context which I'd never known- among other things, the appearances of the First Doctor on the Empire State Building, and the much-later trip by Ten where his character visited New York but Tennant himself never left the Penarth Leisure Centre car park in Cardiff.... and a local dog just wee'd on the TARDIS. I also gained far more of an appreciation for Tiffany Wells than I'd ever had before, and liked Jack's perspectives on the whole business, as well.
As for that story itself,
( Well, you KNOW what River says.... )
So Christmas will come with a relatively clean slate, with a new Companion who may or may not be a familiar character to us. Will Arthur Weasley return? Filch? Or might we get the ultimate HP crossover by Alan Rickman, as at least one friend suggested? Forget Silurians; that would be the first-ever appearance in the series of a Sarcasian:)
An odd (not to be confused with Ood) ending to this half the series for me; the Manhattan references were so familiar and yet so Weepily altered for much of the ep. I actually enjoyed the BBCA pre-show as much as the story itself; it put the Doctor's US history in quite a bit of context which I'd never known- among other things, the appearances of the First Doctor on the Empire State Building, and the much-later trip by Ten where his character visited New York but Tennant himself never left the Penarth Leisure Centre car park in Cardiff.... and a local dog just wee'd on the TARDIS. I also gained far more of an appreciation for Tiffany Wells than I'd ever had before, and liked Jack's perspectives on the whole business, as well.
As for that story itself,
( Well, you KNOW what River says.... )
So Christmas will come with a relatively clean slate, with a new Companion who may or may not be a familiar character to us. Will Arthur Weasley return? Filch? Or might we get the ultimate HP crossover by Alan Rickman, as at least one friend suggested? Forget Silurians; that would be the first-ever appearance in the series of a Sarcasian:)