"Doctor Who" Finale Part 1 Recap: “Turn Left”

Can I just say how happy I am to see this episode being recapped. My Sunday routine is to come home after a weekend out and watch my DVR'd episodes of Doctor Who and Torchwood (When they are running anyways.)

And I have sorely missed the Torchwood Recaps, and sure Doctor Who isn't as satisfying as Torchwood for the whole Gay thing. But there is a reason David Tennant made #33 on the Hot 100 list this year. And its not just his awesome hair, though it really is great hair HEE! MMMMMMMM... David Tennant.

Also I think Catherine Tate is awesome as Donna, I just love how much of a down to earth counterpoint she is to the Doctor. And she is just such wonderful comedic actress, her reactions to the absurd are priceless.

I can't wait for the rest of the Season Finale. My boyfriend is awful and he watches them before I do online. He's the one who got me so deeply into the Whoverse in the first place. He has watched it already and wants to talk to me about it and I have to shush him cause I haven't seen it yet.

Anyways enough babbling, awesome to see you do a Doctor Who recap. I know tis only for these episodes but still makes me incredibly happy. Makes me wish you did them on a regular basis, but I will take what I can get. Cause I enjoy your Torchwood Recaps immensely...

Wow look at me babble at a mile a minute. Anywho, only one last thing to say. I said it before but it bears repeating... mmmmmmmmmm..... David Tennant.

I love your recaps.

Personally I also love the one "Doctor-lite" episode/year. It's always neat to see how the writer handles the challenge.

Trivia note: Fortune-Teller Lady is played by Chipo Chung, who played Chantho the Bug Lady on Utopia. The audience finally gets to see what she looks like underneath those prosthetics.

I love how (ma)Donna had only 4 minutes to save the world! ;)

Also Donna didn't know there was an accident down the road...she just thought it was a traffic jam, which is most likely a traffic light is broken or something. Not very interesting for Donna by any means.

I think the best episodes of the RTD Dr. Who have been the ones that are relatively Who-less: think Blink or that crazy one with the Doctor's fan club. There has been a tendency in both Dr. Who and Torchwood to overdo the emoting by the series leads and expose us to every last feeling that runs through the characters' heads (I swear I'm gonna throw my TV through the window if Captain Jack cries one more time!).

My only problems with this episode were that Donna was not as nasty as she was in her debut appearance (although at times she got close), and Rose's new speech impediment. She is now pronouncing every s as if it were an sh (Sean Connery anyone) and has led me to wonder if she is now wearing a full set of dentures.

...but wasn't that Freema Agyeman (Martha Jones, even though she was suppose to have died on the moon) who played the Spanish-speaking maid at the country inn that caused Donna to briefly see the beetle tentacle behind her? I'll have to rewatch it tonight after work to make sure.

I was wrong. On IMDB the Spanish Maid is credited to Loraine Velez.

This show never disappoints. I enjoy watching them come up with creative reasons/excuses for the Doctor-lite episodes, and this was as good a reason as any--hand the episode over to a real pro like Catherine Tate. Yes, the show is called "Doctor Who," but the new incarnation seems to be much more willing to give the companions higher (if not equal) status--old DW never put the companion's name or face in the opening, for example. I'm feeling a bit nervous about what I've heard about the last two eps--will they blow the budget on guest stars rather than special effects?--but I've learned long ago to trust their judgment. Best just to sit back, fasten your seat belt, and hang on. But it's going to be a long drought afterwards; BBC-America doesn't treat DW with as much respect as Sci-Fi does.

...as fabulolus and flaming as a toaster oven soaring across the night sky....:-)

Don't be nervous about the last two eps. I'm as awful as that earlier poster's boyfriend -- I watched them on YouTube when they were first posted. To turn into a squealing, Tiger-Beat, fanboy for a moment . . . They are the best finale episodes EVER!!! I'm still thinking about the way it ended. Fantastic.

I'm glad to be reminded that Moffat did "Blink," which was really compelling writing. And I know that "Girl in the Fireplace" got all sorts of awards, and was pretty good . . . but did anyone else feel it ended flimsily? I mean, I was waiting through the whole episode to find out WHY it had to be Madame de Pompadour. Did I miss something, or was the entire explanation (in the final shot) that the ship was named "Madame de Pompadour"? That's not writing, that's stencilling.

The blog would never leave you stencilled. The blog even has posts about the DW finale that don't have spoilers.