The 24th season of Doctor Who comes to a close with Dragonfire and to be honest it's a bit dull with just a few highlights.
The first is related to the picture shown above, the Doctor dangling from a railing by his umbrella in the cliffhanger to episode 1. But the thing is he had no reason what so ever to put himself in such a ridiculous situation. He is walking along and then for no reason decides to climb over the railing and dangle there. It seems to be that maybe the Doctor is subconsciously aware that he needs to be in mortal danger roughly every 23 minutes and so is just fulfilling that demand. It's also quite funny that this is the clip that they used in the most recent episode, The Name Of The Doctor and therefore through hatchway somewhere Clara is watching on in despair!
This story also debuts Ace as the Doctor's new companion. She's pretty good but I don't really follow her explanation as to how she came from present day Earth and ended up working as a waitress on Ice World in the far future. I also think it would have been better if they had allowed Sophie Aldred use a less posh accent. Ace seems very much to be the beginning of the more modern companions like Rose but it's just a shame that she is not quite believable. Saying that I still think she's great.
Finally, with Ace's debut in the series, it means we have to say a farewell to Mel as she decides to leave the Doctor and this is a pretty heart wrenching scene actually as the Doctor at first seems not to accept the fact that she is leaving him and then goes on to discuss the ramifications of time travel. It also sort of shadows the rather weird way that she entered the series, being a sort of future companion of the sixth Doctor, it's all very confusing.
Anyway that's enough for now. I'm going back to sulking because the promised announcement of missing episodes has now been put off to midnight meaning I have even longer to wait!
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