Dr Who Series 4

So far this is my favorite season of Doctor Who. Initially I hated Donna Noble, played by Catherine Tate, but after a couple episodes she really grew on me. Watching her comedy show also warmed me up to her. Initially she comes off as loud, brutish and irritating but over time you realize that those things are all a cover because she thinks she isn't good enough, when in this season she is actually the most important person on Earth with all plots and timelines converging on her.

To spoil the obvious this is David Tennant's last season as the Doctor so going into this season I knew that he was going to have to die and regenerate as a new actor by the seasons end but I was very happy with how they wrote this into the plot. Tennant is now one of my favorite actors. As I have mentioned he played Barty Crouch junior in Harry Potter 4 but he was also recently in a DVD release of his time playing Hamlet on stage with Patrick Stewart as the king and the Kings murdering supplanting brother. Both his role as the Doctor and his role as Hamlet showcase his ability to bounce between sanity and insanity without missing a beat.

This season is also the end of a giant four season arc that makes up the new Doctor Who series. All the seasons twine together to make one huge story line, therefore the fifth season is the same but completely different from the first four.

Like the last season this one was very light on the History. The most notable historical characters in this season are Lucius Caecilius Lucundus and Agatha Christie. Neither one of very great or very interesting importance. Instead this season spent more time finishing off the tenth doctor's story line and that they did.

This season did two notable things in my opinion. The first it focused on the things that make this show what it is. The doctor travels and sees different universes and fight different enemies while developing the plot. The second thing the show does is it is always done from a creative and interesting standpoint so that the episodes don't become repetitive and the twists aren't expected.

When the season ended I felt that the only Doctor I could accept was David Tennant and I wasn't excited to see the next doctor Matt Smith who shows up right at the end of the season as a goofy looking gangly man in a bow tie and a tweed suit.