So “Closing Time” really makes it apparent how the Eleventh Doctor has been changed by the events of this season, for better or for worse.īy “Closing Time”, the Eleventh Doctor (Matt Smith) has been traveling on his own for two hundred years since the end of “ The God Complex“, and he knows in his gut that he’s nearing the end of his journey, so he’s doing his best to go out with a bang and say goodbye to all his old friends with a ‘farewell tour’.
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Throughout Series 6, his personality has been pushed to extremes by all the messed-up things that have been happening to him and his friends, he’s been consistently confronted with some of the worst parts of himself, and he’s had to make some pretty tough choices in the heat of the moment.
As Matt Smith’s introductory season, Series 5 established all of the Eleventh Doctor’s essential personality traits and his character flaws, while Series 6 has built upon them and developed his character. With that much having been said, despite “Closing Time” mostly serving as a palette cleanser for the audience – one last breather episode before Steven Moffat starts wrapping everything up in the finale – this episode does have some significance of its own, mainly in regards to the Doctor and the direction his character has been heading in for the latter half of Series 6. The breezier shift in tone is exactly what you would expect from a Gareth Roberts episode, since almost all of the scripts he’s written since “ The Shakespeare Code” have been fluffy, absurd romps. While the last couple of episodes have all been really sad or really spooky in different ways, as the Doctor and his friends have been subjected to a wide variety of horrors, “Closing Time” takes a more light-hearted and comedic approach to the usual mystery of the week. As you may recall, I singled out “The Lodger” as the weakest link of Series 5, since it was easily the episode that had the least amount of substance, and I would also say the same thing about “Closing Time”, though I do enjoy it more than its predecessor. “Closing Time”, penned by Gareth Roberts, is a direct sequel to “ The Lodger” from last season, and the penultimate episode of Doctor Who’s sixth season.
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