Doomsday vs Journey's End

[Cherry Pepsi Maxil]

The NuWho edition of pitting two stories together although here it will be between the final episode of each series rather than the stories as a whole.


Doomsday for me. Though it's a bit too teary at the end, I enjoy the well staged action scenes and the build up of tension. The plot more or less makes sense and the villains are defeated in a way that's not completely insulting to the viewer. Journey's End is an hour of insufferable smugness. It descends into farce by the end with Jack going, "get out the waaay" to a Dalek. The dragging the Earth back scene is almost as awful as the Sutekh vortex scene in the latest series.

[rushy]

Journey's End times a million. I love seeing the whole cast of the RTD unite. It's a joyous party episode. A real highlight of the era for me.

[iank]

Doomsday. It's not good in any way shape or form, but it's a bit less utterly awful than Journey's End, which at the time was the worst episode of Who broadcast to that point. Utter, utter garbage.

[Ludders II]

Sept 21, 2024 6:00:30 GMT iank said:

Doomsday. It's not good in any way shape or form, but it's a bit less utterly awful than Journey's End, which at the time was the worst episode of Who broadcast to that point. Utter, utter garbage.

Yeah Doomsday is crap, and the extended Rose goodbye is utterly excruciating, but Journey's End was a new landmark in shiteness at the time.

[Cherry Pepsi Maxil]

I loved Journey's End at the time. I rushed home from a bowling Birthday party to watch it. Such was my haste I left with the bowling shoes still on 

The thing that disappointed me at the time was that the "one companion will die" thing was all nonsense. Yes, Donna forgets everything but that's not the same thing.