Truemag

  • Home
  • Contact
    • Contact Us
    • About Us
    • Staff
  • Shop
    • Account
    • Cart
    • Store Policy
  • Subscribe
  • Live Radio
  • Home
  • TV
    • TV News
    • TV Previews
    • TV Reviews
  • Movies
    • Movie News
    • Movie Previews
    • Movie Reviews
  • Anime
    • Anime News
    • Anime Reviews
  • Manga
    • Manga News
    • Manga Reviews
  • Comics
  • Gaming
  • Tech
  • Books
  • Blog
  • Shop
Home » TV » TV Reviews » Review Doctor Who: Closing Time

Review Doctor Who: Closing Time

By: Robert Prentice September 24, 2011
TV Reviews Amy pond, cybermen, Dr who, dr who review, river song, sci fi, syfy

Silence will fall when the question is asked.

A simple yet creepy statement first uttered while David Tennant was the doctor. Running through the fabric of the doctors story that statement finally comes full circle. At the start of season 6 we learn of the doctors death right from the start by the Impossible astronaut. What we didnt know was who was in the suit, why or how they came after the doctor.

This week, the doctor came and visited an old friend Craig Owens. Craig sees right through the doctors simple “social visit” claim when he arrives.  The doctor is in fact saying his good byes. Much like his previous incarnation, the doctor goes to his former friends to say goodbye knowing that what comes next cannot be changed, cannot be altered, cannot be stopped. But the doctor notices something isnt right.

Cybermen, at the local mall. Going undercover the doctor works at a toy store in an attempt to learn whats going on. Eventually he finds the underground ship that crash landed on earth thousands of years ago, now trying to create an army. Craig is taken and almost converted if not for the crying of his baby. Fighting back he in turn gives emotion to the cybermen, killing them and causing an explosion.

This final adventure is a simple small plot to the main event that has finally come to a front. Back in season 4, the doctor and Donna Noble visit a planet which is one giant library. The episode was titled “Silence in the library”. Creeply familiar to the above statement told to the doctor much later. The key to this was the meeting of River Song and the Doctor for the first time. Here River is killed saving Donna and the others and preventing the doctor from killing himself in the process. River insists that his death now will prevent her meeting him in her own past, creating a paradox. She whispers an intimate detail to the Doctor, revealing her relationship to him before activitating the device and dieing. The end of this episode has some really neat prop points. We see how the doctor obtained the “tardis blue” envelopes and the hat he wore to America.

We know now who River is and her importance. We also learn that Madame Kovarian is working with the silence and far in the future, they meet up with River who is researching eye-witness accounts of the day the doctor died. Kovarian brings an astronaut suit and sets it next to River telling her, you are still ours and now you will kill the doctor. We end seeing river under the water in the lake, wearing the suit, listening to a creepy lullaby leading up to the death of the doctor.

Robert Prentice

Founder and managing editor for Three If By Space. Loves to write about anything anime, science fiction or fantasy. His mission is to help increase the awareness of online media and their influence on the media world and to expose its importance to an ever-changing industry.

Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Google+ YouTube 

Sep 24, 2011Robert Prentice
Falling Skies Chat with Mpho Koaho - AnthonyFringe Review - Neither Here Nor There
Black Friday Sale.
  • Related Posts
  • What's New
  • Trending
  • The Expanse: Season 5 Begins With Many Separate Threads – Review, Ep. 501-03

  • The Manalorian: ‘The Child’ Gets A Name As Ahsoka Tano Arrives – Review, Ep. 205

  • The Mandalorian: ‘The Seige’ Returns Us To Navarro & Imperial Complications – Review, Chapter 12

  • The Mandalorian: Mando Learns Not All Mandalorians Are The Same – Review, Ep. 203

  • The Mandalorian: ‘The Passenger’ Offers Icy Adventure & Danger – Review, Ep. 202

  • Overcoming Your Past – Batwoman Episode 2 Review

    Overcoming Your Past – Batwoman Episode 2 Review

    January 25, 2021
  • New Trailer – Godzilla Vs. Kong

    New Trailer – Godzilla Vs. Kong

    January 24, 2021
  • Walker Series Premiere Review – Coming Home

    Walker Series Premiere Review – Coming Home

    January 21, 2021
  • Review: Paranoia Agent

    Review: Paranoia Agent

    January 20, 2021
  • Green Arrow And The Canaries Will Not Happen

    Green Arrow And The Canaries Will Not Happen

    January 18, 2021
  • Cyberpunk 2077: First Impressions –PS4 Pro
  • The Outpost: Death Stalks The Outpost In Season Finale – Review, Ep. 313
  • Lucifer Season 2 – Chloe is a Miracle!
  • Attack On Titan Episode 21 Review – Titan on Titan
  • Blue Exorcist Season 2 – ‘Kyoto Saga’ Blu-Ray Review

Subscribe

* indicates required
Newsletter


Geek Shop Items By TiBS
  • DC Comics Imperial Palace Batman Pop! Vinyl Figure $14.99 $11.99
  • Big Hero 6 Baymax FiGPiN Classic 3-Inch Enamel Pin $14.99
  • Marvel Classics Incredible Hulk FiGPiN Classic Enamel Pin $14.99
  • My Hero Academia Series 3 Stain 7-Inch Action Figure $23.99
  • My Hero Academia Enamel Pin - Tamaki Amajiki Academy Outfit #286 FiGPiN $14.99
  • My Hero Academia x Sanrio Pochacco Deku FiGPiN Classic Pin $14.99
2019 © ThreeIfBySpace - Movies, TV News, Reviews, Interviews. Privacy Policy