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Caves and Twins: The Big Bang

Confusing, exploding, emoting, deus ex-ing – The Big Bang was a rebooted Doctor Who end-of-series episode alright.

But was it, umm, any good, or was it as ultimately unsatisfying as all of the others?

Caves

 
Smith – magical and alien and brilliant

Gillen – Sassy and scared and screwed-up. Adorable.

Rory – An excellent male companion, who’s more daffy-but-resourceful Harry Sullivan now, rather than a another castrated idiot man.

Smith’s bedside soliloquy – Rather sums up the Eleventh Doctor and Matt Smith’s performance – both note perfect

The wedding – Good entrance

Twins

 
Love saves the day – As long as you remember someone, they come back to life? Whatever.

Magic light – The light from the Pandorica brings people back to life? And jump starts the second big bang, or something.
 

 

Where is thy sting? – The Doctor dies and comes back to life. Amy dies and comes back to life. Over the course of this series Rory has died and come back to life. At least twice.

Wibbly wobbly timey wimey – Getting a bit samey wamey now

Murray Gold – Time for a regeneration

Despite all the bollocks about people coming back to life and the big fat reset switch, so beloved of RTD, and now seemingly an inescapable feature of all Doctor Who, it was pretty enjoyable.

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Matt Smith rocks Glastonbury with Orbital

Probic Vent has been lucky enough to share a DJ booth with the Brothers Hartnoll from Orbital, and very nice chaps they are too.

Their version of the Doctor Who theme tune, while not as good as everyone reckons, I still pretty good though, and much more preferable to Murray Gold’s diminishing-return efforts.

Something that is as good as everyone says, by PB’s reckoning, is Matt SMith, who has been a revelation as The Doctor, and seems pretty bonkers himself.

So, to have him turning up at Glasto to introduce the Doctor Who theme tune is about as good as it gets. Check this out. Vworp, and indeed, vworp!