The Night of the Doctor (Doctor Who): Review

This mini episode (or just minisode) came as a rather big shock to me. I had heard various people talking on other groups about McGann returning for a 5-10 minute special, but I just ignored all of the rumours and didn't believe them. But of course I was wrong, and when I got home from school on that Wednesday, I looked on the BBC's YouTube page to find it. And it absolutely shocked me. How Paul could just return to this roll on TV after 17 years and play it so fabulously was beyond me! 

There was a few bits that weren't explained properly though. Like why the Doctor was so desperate to save Cas (I think that's her name). 

Something I noticed though as I was watching it was the fact that as the TARDIS is flying towards the crashing ship, it has the St. John Ambulance sticker on the right door, but when it goes for a close up when it's on the ship, it doesn't. It was probably just a small error when editing. The same thing happened to Hurt's box when crashing through the wall in The Day of the Doctor.

The Sisterhood of Karn were back, and of course it was their first appearance on screen since The Brain of Morbius. 

Then of course, the regeneration. As a lot of people are already aware of, I'm not a big fan of the standing up and tilting head back regenerations, and when I saw that McGann will be doing this too, I was a little disappointed. But I came up to the conclusion that when McGann took that drink, it changed the process in his body to make it golden energy coming from his body, and the Master took the same thing at some time in his life.

And I think that's all I have to say on this episode. I thought it was an outstanding contribution towards McGann's Doctor, and the fact that it was pretty much announced that the Big Finish stuff is all canon was excellent. McGann had the same prop from the TV movie too, and that was great! 

I give it an 8/10, due to a few things that I don't like, like the standing up regeneration and the mistake with the St. John Ambulance sticker. Leave your thoughts down in the comments, and my next review will be The Day of the Doctor.