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The third of David Tennant’s Doctor Who specials has just finished airing on BBC1 and I have to say I thought it was pretty average fare, bordering on absolute rubbish.  That said, its been the best of the specials thus far but that doesn’t really say a lot and is hardly a glowing recommendation.

It’s still car-crash TV though; you know you shouldn’t watch but you still do in the hope you’re wrong.  Only to be proved right in the end.

Russell T. Davies has, for me at least, taken the essence of Doctor Who and completely arsed it up to the point that the show is a shadow of what it once was.   David Tennant – as good a Doctor as he has been over the past couple of years – has done the best job he could under the circumstances, but even Tom Baker – the definitive Doctor Who for many, me included – would have struggled to carry off some of Davies’ storylines.  And although Baker himself had some real turkey scripts to work with from the pen of Terrance Dicks, they were positively Shakesperean in comparison to some of Davies’ efforts.

Yes, I’m no fan of RTD but I can’t help but feel Steven Moffat has a real job on his hands to steer Doctor Who back onto the track that Davies has veered so far away from and I hope the choice of Matthew Smith as the new Doctor can compliment the new direction I’m sure we’ll see the new series take under Moffat’s vision.