Funny, but as I was watching it, my first instinctive impression about the Time Lady (Question 3)was that she was his mother…

Thanks mate…

3. She’s the same person as in your question 1…

1. No one knows for sure. There’s some non-verbal clues in the scene at the wedding where Wilf asks who she was that suggests that she’s a close family member of the Doctor. Julie Gardner (producer) suggested in the online commentary that she was his mother, other people think that she’s his granddaughter, Susan. But wife or daughter would also work.

2. In story, yes. Out of story, the next series is being filmed in HD so the TARDIS set (inside and out) needed to be refreshed…

4. That’s just the writer milking the emotion of the scene. From what they’ve said Tennant and Davies are both sad to go but believe that it’s the right time to do so.

Although I really enjoy watching the Doctor now (having lost interest in it with the advent of Pertwee), I’m not as ‘into’ the finer details as you are. Having said that, for Christmas I received the box set of Series 4 – can’t wait to watch it!

Perhaps you could shed light on 4 things that are puzzling me?

Firstly, Dalton referred to ‘the two weeping angels’ presumably, I thought, the two female Time Lords with their hands over their eyes? At one point, one of them removes her hands and it’s clear that the Doctor recognised her – who is/was she?

Secondly, I’ve never seen such an explosive regeneration – I’ve taken that to be a result of all the radiation the Doctor soaked up?

Thirdly, I must’ve missed something, but who was the woman who kept appearing to Wilf?

Finally, I thought that Tennant put so much emotion into his final words (‘I don’t want to go’) that it was almost a personal thing, and not just for the script. Think he was having second thoughts about leaving the role?

Cheers!

I had presumed Rassilon’s relative inaction was to do with not being properly ‘there’ yet, plus the big staged, show-off ending (rather than the “just shoot James Bond” one) would fit with Rassilon’s scheminginess from the Five Doctors also.

Would be happy to see Tovey in TW – but want to see him back in Being Human first! As for the error – well, I can’t be perfect all the time*.

*Well, actually, I can, but I like to give the impression I’m imperfect from time to time, so as not to demoralise the rest of you.

Minor correction – it was the Time Lord President that reset the human population not The Doctor blasting the machine.

What really spoilt it though, for me, was after a great action adventure episode the very contrived feeling to the ‘real’ (storyline) ending, which left a huge credibility gap. Firstly the stand-off – why on earth didn’t the Time Lord President just blast The Doctor and Master immediately with his glove? He had no use for them and knew they were needing to be got out of the way. Then the sonic screwdriver suddenly can’t open a locked door and The Master just happened to have left the nuclear whatever in a dangerous state, but also that it was designed for the radiation to leak only onto the new occupant in the empty section when they pressed the button (obvious air gaps around the door – and had to be otherwise we wouldn’t have been able to have conversations with people inside them).

I think it has to be the real world as that’s where the two of them were last seen at the end of season 4 and if the Doctor could have gone to the parallel world to see Mickey he would surely have seen Rose there now rather than back in 2005.