The Day of the Doctor (S07E15)

Wandering in the jokes of recent seasons, a nod to the experts of the past and, at the same time, a pure Steven Moffat quality that couldn't and didn't want to be just a praise song. Thanks to the combination of Matt Smith's antics and David Tennant's unfailing eyes, The Day of the Doctor had the highest rating almost in the bank, but against the backdrop of the fall of Gallifrey, the burden of forgiveness, the changing appearance of the Tardis, the potential of hinted curatorship, or the magic of the last shot, there's nothing of fan service left for me to add. (02/12/2013)

Great men are forged in fire. It is the privilege of lesser men to light the flame. To take fifty years of a carefully nurtured (and by many fanatically worshiped) mythology which should be simply left untouched, only to completely turn it inside out in just one episode and still remaining genuine Doctorridge:; that is… Bold. The astonishing thing is that it doesn’t seem like a contemptible revolution smashing the foundations on which the phenomenon of Doctor stands, but as a logical evolution and a leap forward. And it’s not bad for an anniversary special from which at best you might expect just a nostalgic hindsight over the past ten years, and so it’s not hard to excuse it being rather disorderly (every so often they start hunting a different bird in the bush, changing styles) which also can be excused by (or can be hypocritically blamed on) the fact that it mirrors separate reincarnations of the Doctor. (25/11/2013)