The Big Bang

Under Davies watch, Doctor Who became a mad rush of wackiness with incoherent stories and implausible deus ex machina endings.

Under Moffat, the series has improved significantly. Though they weren't all winners this season, Victory of the Daleks and the Upstairs Neighbor (I forget the exact title) were absolutely horrible, Moffat's finale' was absolutely perfect.

He tied in the entire series with things he's layered. He had a direction since the beginning, and followed it through competently.

While still maintaining a wackiness quota, Matt Smith's performance is stunning, and the finale shows us just how in deep he is with the character. You feel for the characters so much, and you want so BADLY to see the satisfying ending, and he gives it. He gives it without going over the top or pulling something out of his posterior.

I'm looking forward to next season, hoping they can overcome the rushed-out, hackneyed episodes that greatly suffered this otherwise great season. I foresee that the Doctor has nowhere to go but up after Davies, and with Moffat's brilliant storytelling, it WILL get better. It will.

Absolute genius. To link back to the first episode and show us the clues he left sprinkled throughout the 1st series shows remarkable confidence from Steven Moffat. Such complexity also shows the respect he has for his audience's intelligence.

This 2 parter was the best season finale so far in 'New Who' and wipes away the memory of Tennant as 'Yoda' Doctor with the Master.

As for Matt Smith - brilliant as usual - especially in the more emotional scenes with young Amy and all handled a lot better than the somewhat over the top style we got from Tennant & Davies.

Whilst other dramas seem to lose their way ( Lost, Heroes ) Doctor Who goes from strength to strength - and as long as Matt and Steven are around I don't see that changing.

The Pandorica is ready for the Doctor, and he is placed inside.

I find some parts a little hard to rationalise, the return of Rory was quite shoddily done, whilst the alliance between Cybermen, Sontaran and Teletubby Dalek seemed unimaginable.

A nice link back to the first of Tennant's episode, and we see how life affected young Amy without his influence. A world with no stars, all it needed was for someone to say the stars are going out!!

I had spent a week imagining if we were going to see Drahvins, Sycorax, Zygons, Attraxi, so I felt a little bit robbed. Even the title The Big Bang suggested something on epic proportions, it did not deliver big, being the least epic final to date.

I find it fun, but a wee bit smug in parts, it cannot help applauding itself for how clever it is, it's also long drawn out, more action would have been better then some of the padding. That said it is unique, fun and imaginative.

River Song proves to be a continued delight, and I enjoyed the Amy storyline, the wedding and parents were nice. How cool was that scene when the Dalek gets restored, I also liked that the scene from the Byzantium Garden now made sense. The Pandorica Opens was so big and wonderful, this was good, just a bit of a let down in comparison, 7/10

The change of cast is always an adjustment for everyone, but by the end of Season 5 I got used to Matt Smith as the Doctor. In general, the cast - great.

The stories - OK. The fans of Russell T Davies seem to criticize this season. Steven Moffat fans are singing his praises, despite the obvious fact that neither of them wrote that many of the episodes.

The nag that I got from watching this season was a sense of Deja vu, the stories seemed familiar, safe and contrived. Before this season started I heard a lot of talk about how Moffat was to bring us a darker, deeper Doctor, which captured my interest. How was this going to work out? I asked myself; well pretty much same-old- same-old really! At the end of this season you will have a feeling of 'Well... oh... hmmm....good...now what?" and the lure of the line from River Song "Next is when everything changes", which was used almost from the very beginning of the new series (Even Captain Jack!).

Season 5 is enjoyable but forgettable, let's hope for more from season 6.

There are times when I despair, things appear from thin air, in disbelief I stare and it matters because I care.

There are times when I cry out, there's confusion and then doubt, what next for them to flout and it makes me want to shout.

There are times I'm on cloud nine, loose ends join to intertwine, everything has been sublime although this time it's been just fine.