History Recap / DoctorWhoS30E17E18TheEndOfTime

-->'''Joshua!Master:''' Or to ''me?''

-->'''Wilf:''' What is it? What have you done, you monster?

* EldritchAbomination: According to the Doctor, loads of these were in the Time Lock with the Time Lords and Daleks and his utter terror of them along with the little information implies they must be horrific, from the Skaro Degradations, the Horde of Travesities, the Nightmare Child and the Could've-Been-King with his amry of Meanwhiles and Neverweres.

'''Original air date:''' December 25, 2009 - January 1, 2010

'''Production codes:''' 4.17 and 4.18

Written by Creator/RussellTDavies, this two-episode serial first aired from 25 December 2009 to 1 January 2010. This story is the last one with Creator/DavidTennant as the [[Characters/DoctorWhoTenthDoctor Tenth Doctor]], and it's also somewhat notable for being the first MultiPartEpisode to be separated into explicitly numbered "parts" (rather than having each part have its own title a-la the show's first 25 serials) since [[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E4Survival "Survival"]] twenty years prior. Incidentally, both stories were season finales and marked both the departure of the incumbent showrunner and the last full-length televised appearances of the incumbent Doctor[[note]]do note the "full length" part; the Seventh Doctor's ''actual'' final appearance as the incumbent was in [[Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTVMovie the 1996 TV movie]], but that only occupies a sliver of the total runtime[[/note]]. It would also be the only Revival Series story to hold this distinction until [[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E1E2Spyfall "Spyfall"]] in 2020.

->''[[center:Numquam!]]''
->''[[center:Dum spiro fido...]]''

->''Vale decem\\
Honore res quara\\
Emerio\\
Alter altera\\
Vale decem\\
Emerio\\
Alter\\
Alteri te\\
Vale decem\\
Vale stragem\\
Vale temptua\\
De glorio''

->''"I don't want to go."''

The Doctor takes Wilf home and tells him that he'll "see [him] again. One more time." When Wilf asks where he's going, the Doctor replies, "To get my reward." The Doctor proceeds to visit each of his previous companions in turn[[note]]The Sarah Jane adventures reveals that he visited ''every single companion he's had ever''.[[/note]], saving Martha and Mickey from a Sontaran about to ambush them, rescuing [[Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures Luke Smith]] from oncoming traffic, and introducing [[Series/{{Torchwood}} Jack Harkness]] to [[Recap/DoctorWho2007CSVoyageOfTheDamned Alonso Frame]]. He also stops in on [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E9TheFamilyOfBlood Joan Redfern's]] great-granddaughter. He returns to the present day for Donna's wedding and gives Wilf her present: A lottery ticket purchased with money the Doctor borrowed from Donna's late father - it's a triple rollover and she "might get lucky". He's set Donna up for financial security for the rest of her life. Wilf asks him about the Church Lady, who was she? What was her connection to the Doctor? But he silently refuses to explain (though his eyes shift over Wilf and his own family members). After some final goodbyes, the Doctor leaves.

->"'''''[[Creator/MattSmith AAAAAAAAGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!]]''''' ...Legs! I still got legs! Good! Arms, hands, ooh, lots of fingers! Eyes; two, nose... [[Creator/JonPertwee I've had worse.]] Chin, ''[[LanternJawOfJustice blimey!]]'' Hair- ...[[HilariousInHindsight I'M A]] ''[[Creator/JodieWhittaker GIRL-]]'' No, no! Not a girl... [[Recap/DoctorWho2005CSTheChristmasInvasion AND STILL]] ''[[Recap/DoctorWho2005CSTheChristmasInvasion NOT GINGER!]]'' And something else, something important! I'm... I'm-I'm..."

As the camera cuts away from the six billion Masters [[EvilLaugh laughing]] at each other and at the horrified Doctor, Creator/TimothyDalton's narration kicks in again, [[DelayedNarratorIntroduction and starts growing ominously cruel and sinister]], revealing that this is far more than humanity's end. For Dalton isn't just the story's narrator, he's ''the'' Narrator. As in ''[[Recap/DoctorWho20thASTheFiveDoctors Rassilon]]'', Lord President of the Time Lords. The Time Lords are back in large numbers, and they're preparing for war. What are they fighting for? [[TitleDrop "The end of time itself."]]

* FakeShemp: [[UsefulNotes/BarackObama Obama's]] face is almost always covered or hidden by the camera angle.

->"Ha-haaaa! ''CRASHING!'' [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E1TheEleventhHour GERONIMO!]]"

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Written by Creator/RussellTDavies, this two-episode serial first aired from 25 December 2009 to 1 January 2010. This story is somewhat notable for being the first MultiPartEpisode to be separated into explicitly numbered "parts" (rather than having each part have its own title a-la the show's first 25 serials) since [[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E4Survival "Survival"]] twenty years prior. Incidentally, both stories were season finales and marked both the departure of the incumbent showrunner and the last full-length televised appearances of the incumbent Doctor[[note]]do note the "full length" part; the Seventh Doctor's ''actual'' final appearance as the incumbent was in [[Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTVMovie the 1996 TV movie]], but that only occupies a sliver of the total runtime[[/note]]. It would also be the only Revival Series story to hold this distinction until [[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E1E2Spyfall "Spyfall"]] in 2020.

!!Tropes:

He goes through the typical self-examination common of all new Doctors, making sure he still has legs, hands, lots of fingers ("ooooh!"), his now longer hair ("I'm a ''girl?!''"), that the fact he still has an Adam's apple means that he isn't a girl ("No. No, I'm not a girl!") [[note]][[Recap/DoctorWho2017CSTwiceUponATime Not yet]], [[Creator/JodieWhittaker at least]].[[/note]] and his hair colour ("''Still'' not ginger!") [[note]]His next companion, however…[[/note]]. [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E1TheEleventhHour The burning ship, now crashing back towards Earth and into the next adventure]], reminds the Doctor of imminent death (again) and he jumps onto the controls with manic glee, yelling "Geronimo!!" as the TARDIS continues crashing, the screen cutting to the credits.

* ShadowArchetype: Rassilon and the way the Time Lords in general are presented here are basically the Time Lord Victorious from the previous episode taken a step further; not just deciding what time should be, but outright ''deciding'' to destroy it for their own survival.

->''Look at you. Not remotely important. But me? I could do so much more. SO! MUCH! MORE! But this is what I get. My reward. '''AND IT'S NOT FAIR!!!'''''

** Whatever became of Leela? Or Romana, for that matter, seeing as how WordOfGod[[invoked]] says she returned to Gallifrey and became President — possible FridgeHorror if the unnamed Time Lady we see disintegrated was her.

** The Doctor too, when he rages against the dying light. "I could do so much more. [[PunctuatedForEmphasis So! Much! More!]]"

-->'''[[spoiler: Time Lady]]''': You never killed a man.

* ShutUpHannibal: The Master is gloating about how his Turn-Every-Human-Into-The-Master machine can now be used as a Transform-The-Returned-Time-Lords-Into-The-Master machine... and upon hearing this, Rassilon silently uses his [[ArtifactOfPower Glowing Metal Gauntlet]] to undo the machine's effect, returning every human to their original state.

* SympatheticVillainDespicableVillain: In the second episode, [[spoiler:the Master (of all people) is the Sympathetic Villain to Rassilon's Despicable Villain. As much of a genocidal, mass-murdering psychopath as the Doctor's long-running EvilCounterpart is, the Master's FreudianExcuse of having been driven to insanity his entire life from when he was eight years old is played for all the pathos it's worth with his current incarnation -- a tragedy which, it turns out, Rassilon himself has engineered via a StableTimeLoop, purely so that he could escape his own death and sacrifice the rest of the universe. When Rassilon's victory is foiled, the latter tries to [[TakingYouWithMe take the Doctor with him]] in a last act of spite, while the Master instead saves the Doctor at the last second, telling his ArchEnemy to get out of the way before he spends what seem to be his final moments furiously avenging himself on Rassilon for the latter ruining his entire life.]]

* WealthyEverAfter: Donna, [[ImpliedTrope presumably]], thanks to the lottery ticket.

** With Donna and the Doctor. Donna's in her wedding dress the [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E13Doomsday very first]] and last times we see her.

** Russell T Davies' tenure as the showrunner and main writer of ''Doctor Who'' [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E1Rose begins]] and ends with the Doctor meeting Rose in 2005.

* GrandFinale: "The End of Time" marks the end of both the Tenth Doctor and Creator/RussellTDavies' run as head writer. As a result, virtually every companion introduced since the show returned gets a brief sendoff.

Cue ending credits and the end of the (first) Creator/RussellTDavies era of ''Doctor Who''. Technically, it starts with the regeneration, as Creator/StevenMoffat was allowed to write the first scene of "his" Doctor. And don't worry too much about the Master's fate — [[TheBusCameBack he came back]], [[JokerImmunity as always]], [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E11WorldEnoughAndTime seven years later]], [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E12TheDoctorFalls along with his]] [[Creator/MichelleGomez future incarnation]]. The HeelFaceTurn, on the other hand, didn't stick.

** In "Journey's End", The Doctor is only implicitly shown wiping Donna of all her memories that he was present for, so as to prevent the DoctorDonna from coming out. While this is still the case, her involvement in this episode requires explaining how she's able to survive seeing the Masters' Doppelgangers. The Handwave given here is that the Doctor installed a "defense mechanism" at the same time back in that episode.