Be Good To Us, RTD!

I've got my Saturday afternoon and evening planned for a total Doctor Who geek-out! Rachel's away at a hen night, I've got the previous two episodes on tape (Utopia and The Sound of Drums) to refresh my memory, and there's the Doctor Who special edition of The Weakest Link on before the season finale: The Last of The Timelords at 7.05pm.

This especially-extended episode (about 10 minutes longer than normal) is then followed by Doctor Who Confidential over on BBC3, which I believe is a review of the season, then we get Jekyll by Doctor Who alumnus Steven 'Blink' Moffat. By which stage I think I'll be close to overdosing on Who-related goodness! If such a thing is possible ...

But I am trying to not get my hopes up too high. For two years, head writer and Who saviour Russell T Davies has written spectacular, cliff-hanger-filled finales that have backed the Doctor into some very difficult and dangerous corners ... then dismissed them out of hand with weak, Deus Ex Machina escape routes for the sake of the emotional sub-plot.

I never thought I'd see a better villain in Doctor Who than the Daleks, but this year's Master story has blown me away and I really couldn't accept seeing the Master suddenly dismantled by a spectral mist from the heart of the TARDIS or sucked through a portal to an alternate dimension.

Please, RTD, keep up the incredible, inventive and original writing that has distinguished Season Three from many, many episodes of the previous two.

Fingers crossed!