Friday 22 October 2010

Den of geeks The Sarah Jane Adventures series 4 episodes 5 & 6 spoiler-free review: Death Of The Doctor

And so, less than a year after he waved goodbye to the Doctor in a blaze of nuclear fire, Russell T Davies is back writing Doctor Who. Ok, technically this is a Sarah Jane Adventure, but really, deep down in its marrow, this is a love letter to the 47 year history of the parent show and a story that ‘weaves' (that's a clue by the way!) together almost the entire legacy of the classic series and fuses it both beautifully and effortlessly with both the post-2005 and 2010 incarnations of the show.

The basic setup of the plot (for anyone who hasn't been paying attention) is simple enough. The Doctor is dead, the Last of the Time Lords seemingly meeting his final end saving a gaggle of children out in deep space from certain doom. With his death verified by UNIT's DNA checks, Sarah Jane and the gang decamp to UNIT's giant base under Mount Snowdon where his body is being held in state by the mysterious intergalactic coffin bearers known as the Shansheeth.

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