The 50th anniversary weekend celebrations are over. Looking back, was it all any good? The answer definitely a yes!
The main event programs were all good in their own way. The Day of the Doctor managed to be brilliant and ridiculous at the same time. An Adventure in Space and Time was touching and The Five(ish) Doctors reboot was a fantastic piece of work by Peter Davison and deserves a DVD release of its own.
Some of the other events were a bit ridiculous, like The Ultimate Guide and the After Party. Others were tie ins, like The Science of Doctor Who and Celebrity Antiques Roadshow, but they all added to the sense that Doctor Who was "taking over television", like the showrunner had promised.
It wasn't just on television that the anniversary was being celebrated. One of my favourite stories this year was the DWM Comic strip story Hunters of the Burning Stone. The Doctor, in his eleventh incarnation, reunites with his very first companions, with Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright in a sequel to the very first Doctor Who serial. It ends with the wedding of Ian and Barbara. A great story.
Reviews of An Adventure in Space and Time and The Night of the Doctor are coming soon, as soon as I've been able to put my thoughts into a coherent narrative.
My congratulations go to everyone involved in making it all work.
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