Another series of Doctor Who ends, and you gotta admire the boy Davies’s chutzpah.
It’s great but he seems to have nicked half of it from Star Wars, and the other half from the Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. As Matt has pointed out, the timelords staring into the ‘vortex’ which drives some mad is more than a little like the Total Perspective Vortex in Hitch Hiker’s. And a couple of episodes ago they went… to the end of the universe. Arthur Dent even got name checked in the first David Tennant episode.
Tonight we had plenty of Star Wars imagery – the severed hand, the weapon sliding across the floor by telekenisis, the Master dying in the Doctor’s arms, then burning on a funeral pyre… hello! We have seen Return of the Jedi!
It was great TV, though.
Hey! Don’t spoil it! It’s still in the future/past TV time freezer in my universe.