Put it this way I use my sky planner as an indication of episodes not only that I have recorded but which ones I watched again and the only episodes I watched again were the weeping angels ones.
The last time a series was bold enough to reset an episode was Dallas when Bobby Ewing came back after a ’so called dream’ when he died in a previous series….come on!

On the topic of the changes. I do agree that moffat and co will not change a thing for the small number of people who naysay, and the bbc will support that. To be fair RTD’s era was picked on by the minority for things. Its a very popular programme and not everyone will be happy, so I agree dont change if the majority are happy with it.

BUT BUT BUT…The music HAS to change! That was a huge majority who said they hated it. It was so big it got onto Points of View. If the majority of viewers really dont like something, then the right thing to do wil be to change or alter it

It amazes me that any long-term Doctor Who can enjoy the drivel we’ve just watched over the last 13 weeks. It’s just lacking everything I love about Doctor Who. No one ever even dies in it anymore. It’s so tame. And as for killing off a companion only to resurrect him a couple of weeks later…imagine if Adric (a Rory for the 80s!) had come back from the dead at the end of the series and rejoined the TARDIS crew for more adventures, how annoying would that have been! There are certain rules in Doctor Who that just shouldn’t be broken.

@David

Totally agree. Well said.

@Steve
You’re entitled to your opinion, of course, but I disagree. I think this past series has been a lot closer to the classic episodes than RTD’s ever were. I liked RTD as much as the next person, but the writers and producers change; if they didn’t the show would become boring and repetitive. This season is different because it doesn’t have all the yelling and running and banging about that RTD’s era had. It’s calmer and more methodical. Maybe some find it boring, but others like it.

As for there not being enough deaths, the amount of death had become so ridiculous in previous seasons that my friend and I started taking bets on which characters would be killed next.

Also, Sarah Jane came back, as did K9, and Jo will be in an episode of SJA next season. Rose returned (too many times probably, but that’s another argument), and Captain Jack can’t be killed. Even the Brigadier made an appearance on SJA. As far as I know there are no “rules” concerning which companions can come back, whether they’re dead or not. Heck, even past incarnations of the Doctor have made appearances!

Everyone has their favorite Doctor and series, and maybe this isn’t yours. It’s simply a matter of opinion.

@Steve

Steve seriously man, what was it about this series that the other series’ didnt have?
Series 5 had:
WAY better Effects
Good acting by EVERYONE
Awsome storylines and twists in the plot (and no major plot holes or anything ridicules, like towing the earth back home)
WAY better filming (in HD) and also better camera angles and cinematography

Doctor Who is constantly changing, personally I’m happier without the gay jokes and toilet humour but that’s just me. Not to mention the weepy Doctor/Rose love story. I’m happy to chalk that one up to the 10th Doctors unusual personality quirk. I can imagine in a multi Doctor episode he’d be referred to as ‘the emotional one’ or some such, Tennant was awesome, but the era wasn’t without flaws, neither is this one. It’s just both era’s have different minorities who don’t like the direction of the show. That’s Doctor Who.

I imagine there were quite a few people who weren’t happy to see Colin Bakers Doctor running around yelling and hitting things like an abusive husband for the majority of the Twin Dilemma, to the point of terrifying his companion and making her fear for her life.

Least we don’t have to deal with that

I thought it was a good episode but not a finale as we have come to know them in the new DW era.I felt a little empty after watching the Big Bang.I thought that ep 12 was great and for the first time of this series was excited for the next episode but was dissapointed.will keep watching as i have done since i started watching all those years ago when it was Tom Baker so am used to the ups and downs of DW.SM IS a great writer just different to RTD .Roll on christmas Dont let us down lets have a few answers please!!!!!!!!!!!

@ e.p. But you must admit that being told a companion is dead one week only for him to be alive and well by the end of the series and lumbered with him for the foreseeable future is a bit different to Sarah Jane turning up on the odd occasion and, for me, just a total cop out. Also, the death toll was a big part of what made Doctor Who entertaining over the last few decades, it’s not half the show it was without that.

@ Steve It’s not all about clever camera angles (some of the best Who was filmed in a very shoddy way) and I’d disagree about there being no plot holes in this series…

@ Revenant
Certainly with you on the gay jokes and toilet humour, but it was a price worth paying for all the good stuff that’s now absent from the show

I rewatched it… and it was definitely worth it. I think expectations, rumours and a weeks worth of predictions kind of tainted my first viewing…but the second time I really really enjoyed it much more than the first.

To me, this was a great series of who. Apart from episodes 2&3 (which I didn’t dislike, just not my favourites) I think this series has been brilliant… super strong, visually stunning, and I enjoy the slightly more mellower pacing of the episodes in general.

Long Live Eleven.

Matt Smiths done well though with such a lot to live up to-well done mate.

@Steve

Yeah ok i agree that there is plot holes, and yes it is about the camera angles, it makes it look better and therefore more realistic and engaging

It’s funny to be talking about Matt’s first series in retrospect already…

Series 5/31 cleverly mixed all the technical advances, cgi, green screen, etc., we have all grown used to since DW’s return in 2005, with intricate plots and a “classic series” feel S1-4 + Specials didn’t capture (probably because RTD et al didn’t want to).

If that was Steven Moffat’s “vision” for this series, and I think it was, he achieved it. I can’t wait to see what he has in store for us next year, and beyond.

I enjoyed this finale so much! I am so thrilled that Rory is back and entirely human and married to Amy and that they’ve both joined the Doctor in the TARDIS. I loved all the messing about in time, and the legend of the Centurion guarding the Pandorica brought tears to my eyes!!!

I absolutely LOVED the Tenth Doctor era, and David Tennant is still my Doctor — I enjoyed RTD’s work and I was really doubtful that Matt Smith’s Eleventh Doctor under Moffat would even come close, but he has…he’s firmly my second favorite, and this series has even given me a new favorite companion — Rory! I had my doubts after Cold Blood, and even in The Pandorica Opens, but The Big Bang took care of that issue, even if it didn’t answer every question — which means there’s more to look forward to!

@Steve

I wouldn’t say it was all complete drivel but i do think you make some good points, its defidently not the same anymore. After the climax of ‘The Pandorica Opens’ i was looking forward to ‘The Big Bang’. It just felt a bit disappointing and left alot of questions un-answered. Plus all the aliens had ‘turned to dust’ (budjet contraints?).

Resurrecting a companion not long after he has died does feel a bit of a cop out, the impact would have been much better had he not come back. A worse cop-out was the series 4 finale where the prophecy stated one compaion would die. In the end no one died, Donna just had her memory wiped…

My main problem is that alot of the new stories seem to borrow elements from older ones or films, and if your not a long term fan alot of people might not notice them. ‘The Hungry Earth/Cold Blood’ was a noteable offender – borrowing from Doctor Who and the Silurians, Inferno, Predator and even Frontios.

Regardless i will look forward to seeing the christmas special and next series. Hopefully the questions raised from this series will be answered, mainly who was it saying ’silence will fall’ and what caused the TARDIS to explode.

We’re all sharing opinions which is cool and I will respect those that don’t agree with me as much as those that do. -SO-I have loved this past series. I love old Doctor Who as well as the new show I loved Tennant, but Matt Smith to me engaged me more and been reckless with his performance which to me is more like classic Doctor. I watch Matt and I believe he is that rebellious old man that “borrowed” the TARDIS and ran. Looking at those episodes with Tennant now and the new ones with Matt and comparing them I just want to watch more dangerous and crazy Matt. Also I prefer the less campy writing. RTD brought the show back and wrote some decent stories, but I don’t see him as much more. In my opinion-that’s all it is MY opinion…I think the new series is better in every way. No farting and no dirty raunch. There is more intelligent sci-fi and character development instead of the RTD cheese that featured the Doctor mugging and his female companions swooning.

I think that had Rory remained dead, I would have wished for a better death scene. Some acknowledgement of his self-sacrifice for the Doctor’s sake. As it was, it was left so open and so… loose that I felt he had to be brought back for the sake of keeping the story neat. And I agree with @Mike when he says that the lack of promised death in Journey’s End was disappointing. They promised someone would die! I know a version of Donna died, but I would have preferred it had she died properly. Ooh, that sounds sadistic. I mean from a storytelling perspective, of course.

Having just seen the overnight ratings for the finale, all I can say is, I think the series is on the decline. 5.1 million is low, low, low. Yes, it was a scorching day. Yes, it was on at 6pm. BUT previous series of “Doctor Who” since the 2005 relaunch managed to get good ratings at a similar point in the year – though admittedly the BBC were kinder back then and had the good sense of putting it on at 7pm. Bear in mind that Matt Smith’s debut had an average of 8 million viewers. Where do 3 million viewers go to? My belief is that the series has maintained high production values but the scripts have just been slow, slow, slow. Before everyone accuses me of having a short attention span (ahem), I’m a very patient viewer. But there were one too many times over the course of this series where I’ve been watching an episode and thinking what on earth the script editor was thinking allowing such clunky dialogue to go on and on… RTD reinvented “Doctor Who” for many, including myself. What defined his series was a sense of the epic – in terms of the scripts, the characterisation, the action. Steven Moffat is clearly toning things down and my belief is that it makes for less compelling television. It’s admirable that he’s trying to make us think and be more subtle about the scripts… but you can’t escape the fact that this is primetime Saturday television and “Doctor Who” has many, many young viewers. I’m a teacher, by the way, and kids are a good barometer of what people think. Overheard the other week: “I’ve gone off “Doctor Who”; it’s crap now”. His friends agreed. Just a thought. I don’t think it’s been an awful series. But I do think that the jury is still out on Moffat’s reign. I expected much, much more.

@ Jay

THANK YOU!!! I have been saying this for weeks! maybe your argument will finally settle down the moffat love machines.

The biggest test for dr who WILL BE series 6. Cos there is no change (cast wise and certainly story arc wise) so will the audience (especially the kids) be just as interested with River song by next year. We’ll have to see

I’m glad I’m not alone in my opinion, that’s all I want to say now