## The End of the Universe - postponed due to bad feedback

Unless you are currently resident in an alternate Who-niverse, you'll be aware that The Doc survived his encounter with You Know Whom by a rather complicated deal involving a previously severed hand that absorbed his regeneration energy that was catalysed by Donna's touch (she was a bit concerned about being neutroniumed alive at the time) into a human-Donna/Doctor clone. One word - Metacrisis. Working together, the Whos, and the Sidekicks, save the day.

I wasn't such a Doctor (as in Tennant) fan until this episode, but I'll admit the D-Doctor won me over by being an even cheekier - and somewhat Chiswickier - version of himself. Quite a bit of Who-humour here, if I do say it. Lots of action - no-one ever seems just to walk around, we're always running, hiding, crying or screaming, or sometimes all three at once.

Logic doesn't seem to live here though. Having developed a 'reality bomb' that will Destroy the Universe, the Daleks run off to hide (where, exactly?) while it goes off, so they can return and rule. (er what, exactly?) as Supreme Beings.

Since having all your atoms demolecularised can seriously ruin your whole day, not to mention making good property hard to find, I'm afraid they're going to have even more problems than we do with house prices after the bomb.

My plans to rule the universe usually involve having lots of slave population around to run out and get the milk, walk the dog and generally take care of the boring business. Daleks are going to have to rediscover conversation a bit if their empire is to survive. (As in: "had a nice day at the palace dear?" "Exterminate! Exterminate!")

Jack, Sarah Jane, Donna and the D-Doctor, Rose and Martha Jones all pile in to help save the day. The Reality Bomb (sorry, there's a lot of Independence Day in here still.) is tested and then is about to be exploded until - there's a hitch."Nothing and no-one can stop the detonation of the Reality Bomb" says Davros. Bad move. He clearly hasn't watched any recent DVDs in his free time while rebuilding the Dalek Empire. The bad guy always says stuff like that just before the roof falls in.

Shortly after a series of untypeable (and nearly unsayable) technical tricks get played on the Daleks which causes them internal disruptions that even Gaviscon seems unable to control, all the planets (but one) are bounced back to their original locations.

K-9 glimmers in from a virtual kennel somewhere and briefs Mr Smith (S-J's supercomputer) on the Tardis' internal code and Torchwood use the Rift to help Tardis tow the Earth a bit shakily back to its normal position - rather like a Mini towing a 42-tonner down the motorway. (Are you keeping up? We'll be asking questions later.)

There are some interesting goodbyes, and Rose gets her man - more or less literally. The end's a bit of a let-down - everyone else gets on with their lives and the Doc dematerialises into another series finale. although the teaser for an Edwardian costume gig at Christmas 08 says beware the Cybermen!

OK I give up. I still like the Doctor - Whoever's playing him.

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