A lot of theories were touted by fans over the couse of the series, whether the Doctor was in some realm created by the Toymaker which would explain the song and dance number at the end of the Devils Chord - rather than it being a self indulgent, lape of judgement on RTD behalf (sadley not). Explination of what was 73 yards all about, though elements were touched upon. And if Susan was still going to come back, so there was a lot hanging on this series ender.

Sutekh was unmasked as the villain at the end of the last episode, not seen since The Pryminds of Mars way back in the Fourth Doctors time, and who doesn't love an old enemy returing? It certaninly wasn't seen coming, well not by me anyway. This picks up where thing were left, with Sutehk wiping out all life, (spoilers) including Kate Stewart, and it took me complely off guard; killing off such a great character - I couldn't believe it. But then everyone else dies and the whole dramatic tension vanishes, as you know they'll all be brought back at the end. Not that I want Kate to be gone but it was such a great scene that was utterely devalued.

Apparently Sutekh has been hanging around holding on to the TARDIS since that first encounter and it stretches believability somewhat. During eleventh Doctors era - when the Doctor was deleted from history, the Time war, and lets face it every end of series finale where the Doctor or the universe has nearly ended, Sutekh's just sat there doing, not a lot? And it does beg the question of why now? In the last episode we had Harriet Arbringer shotttened to H. Arbringer as in Harbinger (of death) a nice pun but how exactly did Sutehk know it was all going to kick off now. As with other end of series, its just a little to convienet that it happens just when the Doctor decides to investigate.

It does fall into a bit of a lull a few minutes in, after the great build up and reveal, suddenly some time has passed and the Doctor is inexplicably looking for a peice of metal and there is a hint of Steven Moffatt's era here. It feels a little our of place with in the context of the story, and you do want the story to get moving.

The memory TARDIS makes an appearence, first seen in the Tales of The Tardis episodes, so it is quite nice to have it canonised, and helps to sell the idea, since we've had experience of it already. There are mentions of various planets, Telos, Spiradon etc, some glimpses of the Fourth Doctor and Sarah just enough to keep the fans happy, without over doing it.

Yet again the Doctor has tears rolling down his face, coupled with his self pitying attitude, its a bit tedious. What happened the the stiff upper lip the British Doctor had? Is this the kind of emotional immature role model we want?

Some unanswered questions who is Mrs Flood, how exactly did Mel arrive back the UNIT headquarters when she left with the Doctor? The resoultion of Sutekh and the bringing back everybody from the dead isn't achieved with any degree of satifaction, it deosn't really make sense.

As with other endings by RTD the story finishes about three quarters of the way through and the rest of the time is mopping up the bits and pieces, in this case it Rubys mother. MORE SPOILERS, this was massivly dwelled upon in the series, the snow falling when Ruby thought of her, the no traces of relatives by Davina and in Boom, the mystery was hyped up so there had to be something major to be found, NOPE. Ruby's mother turns out to be an ordinary person, which is fine, but am I seriously expected to belive one baby being abandoned is going to cause all that? and no DNA traces? With the cloaked figue looking like a witch pointing a finger that in no way looks like a 15 years old girl, it doesn't tally. To be so invested in the character of Ruby and what was so special about her origins to turn out that there wasn't anything means it wasn't worth the journey.

This didn't have the resolutions that fans wanted, and was a let down to how good the first part of the finale was. Sutekh didn't really do a lot and everything was back as it was at the end - fairy tipical for Russel T Davies. Its not been well voted, but I don't think its as bad as it seems, I mean it is better than some of the other episodes in this series.