Finally...we come to it at last.
The end. . .of time.
Russell T. Davies saved the absolute best for last. Everything that his tenure on this show was, he poured into this final episode. Like Sauron poured all of his malice and hatred and will to dominate the free peoples of Middle-Earth into the One Ring of Power, so too did Russell craft this.
. . .which is why it's not going to surprise you in the least when I tell you, and I say this without any sense of bad faith or hyperbole: THIS IS THE WORST EPISODE OF THE ENTIRE RUSSELL T. DAVIES ERA. PERIOD.
I'd rehash that joke from my Partners in Crime review, but we've already seen that. We know the score, and the score is that Russell T. Davies is awful. While the man showed himself to be capable with the occasional gem like Midnight, he spent the better part of five years choosing not to do any of that and focusing on...well, you've seen my reviews, you know what the man is about.
Well, the sooner we get this started, the soon we can get it over with: here's The End of Time, which was broadcast in two parts (the first on December 25th, 2009 and the second on January 1st, 2010), but I'm going to cover them both here. Buckle up, kids, it's about to get loud up in here!