Doctor Who (2005) 1-12: Bad Wolf

Episode:

708

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Serial:

166

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Writer:

Russell T Davies

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Director:

Joe Ahearne

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Air Date:

11-Jun-2005

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This week on Sci-Fi Adventures, I'm watching Bad Wolf, the 708th episode of Doctor Who! It's also the 12th episode of this 13 episode season, so it's the penultimate story. Or penultimate episode anyway.

Bad Wolf/Parting of the Ways started a tradition of two part season finales that has continued to this day... mostly. Okay classic Doctor Who ended a season with a two-parter a few times as well, but the show was all serials, so that just meant a story had fewer episodes than normal. Since this there have only been three seasons that ended on a single episode (or four if you split Heaven Sent/Hell Bent), so it seems like the idea was a big success!

Oh, I should mention that "Bad Wolf" is an interesting title, as it's this season's important phrase. It has been mentioned here and there in episodes but its meaning remains elusive. Personally it makes me think about the phrase "Big Bad" in Buffy: The Vampire Slayer, which referred to the villain the heroes would have to defeat at the end of a season. Hey, that series is getting a revival soon as well, 20+ years after it left TV. That beats Doctor Who's 16 years absence!

Anyway, there are going to be SPOILERS below, but only about things that that happened up to 11th June 2005. If you're watching the series for the first time, you'll be safe. I won't give away anything that happens in part 2.

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Hey it's Satellite Five from The Long Game. It gets revealed 20 minutes in that the heroes have been here the whole episode, but they decided to put a huge massive clue here at the start, followed by the text "100 YEARS LATER". 

This has to be the quickest any episode has given away a twist, and I mean in the entirety of television. It's the very first image to come on screen! Hang on, is the sun stretched? Have I been taking these shots in the wrong aspect ratio all along?

No it's just this picture, okay, good. It made me check though.

The episode begins with a minute's worth of clips, recapping the events of The Long Game (including the news report about solar flares, just in case anyone forgot they seeded that so early). 

This kind of a recap is actually very unusual for Doctor Who, or at least it will be. Half the episodes in series 1 have one, but after this point that changes and it's only when a story reaches its second part that the 'PREVIOUSLY' text appears.

Personally I think this is a great change, as the viewers who need a recap to understand a surprise aren't going to be that stunned by it either way.

100 YEARS LATER

They just gave away another twist with the paintings on the right! Though that's actually more of a bonus for people to catch on a rewatch.

The Doctor is disorientated due to the transmat beam used to bring him here, and hasn't any more idea of where 'here' is than we do. Actually that's not entirely true, as if you're paying attention to the music, the logos and Davina McCall's voice over the speakers, you can guess that this is the Big Brother house!

He's asked to come to the diary room and told not to swear. The character hasn't sworn in 42 years of BBC television, but you still have to be careful. Incidentally, the British version of Big Brother was up to its 6th season at the time... on Channel 4. It's pretty amazing to me that the BBC lawyers were able to arrange for a way to make this crossover happen, and it took almost a year for them to pull it off.

This connection with regular life and modern TV is something that really set RTD's version of Doctor Who apart from its earlier incarnations. The series did have stories like Vengeance on Varos, which showed the public watching the events on the television, but they weren't literally watching Big Brother!

It's the kind of stunt that draws attention to the series from people who hadn't necessarily been watching. And for the people who had been watching, the title Bad Wolf would've definitely caught their attention.

OPENING TITLES

I have to be honest, I wasn't watching Doctor Who when this episode aired and I wasn't too bothered about spoilers, so I already knew that the episode was going to give us a second real life TV series: The Weakest Link. Both this and Big Brother are still releasing episodes to this day, so they made a good choice there. 20 years later and people still know what the episode's referencing.

The set is a bit minimalistic and it feels like we're getting to see behind the scenes on the actual stage that Doctor Who was produced on. But this bit was actually filmed on location in the Newport City Live Arena, and it actually took a bit of work and money to reproduce the distinctive lighting of the quiz show. Incidentally, the floor manager is played by Jenna Russell, who sung the theme tune to Red Dwarf. So there's some trivia for you.

This time it's Rose who's been kidnapped and it clearly wasn't an accident: her name is on the podium.

Meanwhile Jack's been kidnapped by the robot versions of Trinny Woodall and Susannah Constantine from reality makeover show What Not To Wear, played by the actual presenters. That's a series that didn't last 20 years, though it's pretty easy to pick up what it was about from the context.

This time they're on a set. In fact it's the Satellite Five set from The Long Game, though there's nothing unusual about a science fiction show redressing its sets to represent different places. You wouldn't necessarily make the connection... unless you saw the set in the 'previously' clips!

It's not edited like we're watching a TV series, so I find it easy to forget that the three of them are in front of millions of people right now. It's also easy to forget that Jack's supposed to be wearing a tech thing on his wrist, which is important considering that he gets all his clothing vaporised by their de-fabricator.

I would've assumed that the Big Brother house was another set, as houses often are, but nope it was filmed on location. The place didn't even need to be altered all that much.

The Doctor remembers that his last trip was to Japan in 1336, which is a place the classic series had never visited on screen and that hasn't changed much since. Before that they took a trip to Raxacoricofallapatorius (I got one letter wrong when typing it) to drop off Blon Fel-Fotch Passameer-Day Slitheen's egg, and before that was Boom Town. So basically all of the Ninth Doctor's adventures with Rose and Jack so far happened between The Doctor Dances and Boom Town.

Now that he's got his wits together he's realised that whoever did this went to a lot of effort to grab him. He tells his new friend Lynda (with a Y) that you'd need a transmat beam 15 million times more powerful than normal to get into his TARDIS. And he's going to need something powerful to get out, as the door is deadlock sealed and the exoglass in the window would take a nuclear bomb to get through.

This is, I believe, the first ever mention of something being "deadlock sealed" in Doctor Who. The term was invented to counter the mighty sonic screwdriver, which had been such a problem in the classic series they decided to write it out entirely during the Fifth Doctor era. It didn't come back until the TV movie.

This place is a bit more compact than the actual Weakest Link set at the time, but it's clearly a different version, with an Anne Droid asking the questions, so it's fine.

Unfortunately that means that almost all of the questions are about things way after Rose's time, so she's doing even worse than I would on the regular Weakest Link. While filming they apparently played the actors questions they weren't expecting so that their confusion would be genuine.

We do get some shots of what viewers are seeing and that's a very authentic looking Weakest Link overlay. Though there's no currency symbol on it to show what exactly they're banking. They've also got the authentic Anne Robinson voicing her robot doppelganger, with authentic rudeness, like when she gets Rose to admit she's unemployed and then points out she still has enough money to buy peroxide.

I think this is the scene where we get the first ever mention of the Old Earth institute called Torchwood, though that's all we learn about it.

Incidentally, if you're curious about how much of this you'd see on an old 4:3 CRT television, that overlay would fit perfectly along the left side of the frame, like you were watching the actual Weakest Link.

Oh, maybe viewers are watching 5:4 aspect ratio TVs in this future. I mean, why not? Widescreen isn't objectively superior, it's just more cinematic. Tiktok videos are in 9:16 ratio and they're popular enough. This isn't the public watching at home though, we never get a glimpse of them. This is in the station's control room.

There's some nasty chroma clipping over on the left. I guess they set the contrast of the image to match the monitor screen and the LEDs have gotten blown way out. It's like the classic series whenever they had a flame on screen.

The folks managing the broadcast are a bit confused about Rose, saying that they "don't think she knows". So there's the first hint that the heroes are in actual danger. It also shows that the people running the shows are just as in the dark about why the TARDIS crew are here. It's like the game's running itself...

Hey I just noticed that this room is kind of similar to the Floor 500 control room in The Long Game, with the same hand consoles.

They had fun with the design of these robots, and Jack's having fun over there as well. Dude, I know they're made of plastic but that's still not okay.

It's funny how the episode's not just using clothes from 2005 for its futuristic setting, it's drawing attention to it by putting Jack on a series where he gets to try different outfits. Maybe even different faces, if the robot with the chainsaw arm gets her way.

Oh, there's a President Schwarzenegger reference here, which doesn't necessarily have to be Arnold. Though if it is, then the story has something in common with The Simpsons Movie, the film Demolition Man, and the eternally unreleased Kung Fury 2.

Fortunately for Rose she is not the weakest link in round 1 and it's poor Fitch that gets vaporised by the Anne Droid. So now Rose is well aware of what will happen to her if she doesn't win. She's understandably distraught, especially as she voted for Fitch!

The Anne Droid is a goofy looking satire of modern pop culture and an excuse to get a voice cameo by someone famous, but she's pretty well realised and she has a laser gun in her mouth. So she'd fit right into the classic show... well except for the "well realised" part.

Doctor Who (1963) 25-06 - The Happiness Patrol, Part 2

Actually I'm being unfair to classic Who; this guy looks exactly as he should do. They did pretty damn well with the budget they had. And the cameras they had.

Rose decides she wants out and almost makes a run for it, but she's lucky again as contestant Broff darts off first and he's the one they make an example of. You either win, or you get disintegrated by the Anne Droid, those are your two options.

The Doctor's in a real trap here, as he has to obey instructions or else the other housemates get punished. Though right now the instruction is to gather on the sofa, so that's not so bad.

It turns out that the latest housemate to get evicted is... Crosbie! Davinadroid tells her she has ten seconds to say farewells and "then we're going to get you." But what actually happens is she goes out into the hallway and gets shot by a disintegrator beam.

She got evicted... from life! That's actual dialogue from the episode.

Then we get to see the Controller running the games and I'm sure I've seen her before on an old graphics card box. I'm not sure you'd actually need that many cables to hook up someone's brain to a computer and keep their body running, but it is a pretty striking look.

She apparently hasn't been human for years, either due to the all the cybernetics, or because she's had to watch all the terrible TV they broadcast for that whole time. Hey, I just noticed that you can see 3D images of different TV series on the monitors.

Back in the Big Brother house, the Doctor gets more information from the friendly housemates. There are 60 houses all running at once... which is actually pretty much how it is now, with countries having their own versions. Though here it's non-stop, the contestants have all been kidnapped, and the only prize is to not die.

Now that the Doctor knows that Rose is in danger, he decides he wants to get evicted early, and breaks one of the cameras.

Meanwhile Jack's realised that Trine-E and Zu-Zana are hostile and pulls a gun out of his ass.

Don't feel so bad for Trine-E, the two of them were going to stitch a dog's head onto him, or something. So this was also not a TV show with a prize at the end.

The Weakest Link takes a break, giving Rose a chance to chat with another contestant, Rodrick, played by Paterson Joseph. He's one of those actors whose name keeps getting mentioned as a possible future Doctor, and he actually auditioned to play the Eleventh Doctor.

It's funny because he's playing someone very un-Doctorlike in this. In fact Rodrick's a bit of a bastard, though he's not entirely unhelpful. For one thing it's a big help that he keeps voting for other people as the weakest link instead of Rose, as he's correctly determined that she doesn't have a clue about anything and will be an ideal opponent in the final.

He also mentions that the games are run by the Bad Wolf Corporation, which triggers a flashback to all the times the phrase has been mentioned.

Oh, plus there's a time vortex effect over the top, I guess to make it more visually interesting. 

If you're curious, here are all the places that "Bad Wolf" has appeared this season:

The End of the World: Mentioned by the Moxx of Balhoon.
The Unquiet Dead: Gwyneth saw it in Rose's mind.
Aliens of London/World War III: Spray painted on the side of the TARDIS.
Dalek: The callsign of van Statten's helicopter.
The Long Game: The name of a TV channel.
Father's Day: On a poster.
The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances: In German on the side of the bomb (Schlechter Wolf)
Boom Town: The name of Margaret Blaine's power plant project in Welsh (Blaidd Drwg)

The phrase also shows up in every episode of Doctor Who made since 2023, as they named the production company Bad Wolf.

Anyway, back in the Big Brother house, the Doctor steps into the disintegration hallway and waits to be evicted.

But nothing happens!

The Doctor's figured out that if someone went to all this trouble to bring him here, they didn't do it just to kill him. He invites Lynda to come with him, promising that he'll get her out alive. He's really got to learn to stop doing that.

He uses the logic that if she stays she's got a 50/50 chance of survival and from what he's learned of this world, no one votes to save the sweet one. I suppose if that hadn't worked he could've also used the argument that if she stays and wins, then it was her choice that caused the other housemate to die.

But hey, this means that other guy just won Big Brother! Congrats dude, I'm sure someone will be coming to get you any minute.

Oh wow it's Satellite Five, what a twist. They're making good use of those sets they built for The Long Game. Though it's 100 years later and it's called the Game Station now (which was also the second largest video game retailer in the UK at the time).

Lynda talks about some of the other shows they make here, like Call My Bluff (with real guns), Countdown (with bombs) and Stars in Their Eyes (with stars). Here's an idea of my own: Doctor Who, where you have to guess your mystery celebrity surgeon.

She asks if she can travel with him and he says yes! So Rose isn't going to be happy. But hey, she can't really complain after he let Adam and Jack join. 'One female companion only' has never been a rule, just ask Nyssa and Tegan or Barbara and Susan.

Back in the control room, they're a bit concerned about the two contestants roaming the hallways, but the Controller is keeping them from sending security. She's also keeping them out of the mysterious Archive Six. "Solar flares in delta point seven."

The Doctor and Lynda end up looking down at the Earth from a window, for the third time this series. Though this time the view isn't so pretty. 

The world is now a real dystopia and it turns out that it started 100 years ago, when all the news channels shut down. This is the Doctor's fault... well, technically it was Cathica who blew up the Jagrafess, but the Doctor chose not to stick around and help her tidy up (he was too busy cleaning up Adam's mess). Blon called him out on this behaviour in Boom Town and now we're seeing the consequences on a bigger scale.

Russell T Davies did a lot of new things with his first series of Doctor Who, like visiting the companion's family, giving the Doctor trauma and guilt to deal with, and seeing what happens if a companion tries to change their own history. But the idea of the Doctor returning to the same place at a later time and discovering the consequences of his actions is a very old one. I'm talking First Doctor old. To my recollection it first happened in the story The Ark, which is so old it aired a few months before Star Trek started. Didn't happen often though.

Jack meets up with the Doctor and Lynda, and we get the first appearance of the 'Nice to meet you' 'Stop flirting' 'I was just saying hello!' 'I'm not complaining' routine.

I've got no idea how he has his wrist scanner, considering he was naked a moment ago, but Jack hands it to the Doctor so he can connect it to the Game Station's systems and track down Rose. It's not working though as the systems are more complicated than they should be.

The Doctor has a line here, saying "This Bad Wolf thing's tied up with me. Someone's manipulated my entire life," and I've no idea where he got that from. The Bad Wolf references didn't start until he started travelling with Rose, and that's 1/900th of his life at best.

Back on The Weakest Link, it's down to just Roderick and Rose, so there'll be no more tactical voting. I wonder if Rose has been deliberately voting for anyone but Roderick all this time to keep him in the game because he never votes for her.

The episode's wringing some proper drama and suspense over whether Rose will lose The Weakest Link and whether the Doctor will save her in time. It even gives Rose a sci-fi question she can answer (the answer is the Face of Boe), to give us false hope.

Incidentally, I like how the series does this. It teaches the companion (and the audience) things, and then lets them feel clever a few episodes later when their knowledge becomes relevant. I think it helps new fans feel included. Plus if it's something that's going come back in a later story it doesn't hurt to refresh people's memories.

Well Rose loses and the Doctor arrives too late to stop her from being disintegrated by the Anne Droid, so now all that's left is a pile of dust. That's basically the closest you can get to seeing the body when someone's hit by a sci-fi gun. 

If the Controller was putting the heroes into games they had the skills to escape from then she messed up with this one. The Doctor was able to escape his game using logic, figuring out that being evicted wouldn't kill him. Jack was able to escape his game by having a gun up his ass and using violence. But Rose needed knowledge to escape her game, something that she couldn't have.

It's fine though, as the Doctor's got a new companion now. At first the episode makes it seem like Lynda's the one that'll inevitably die, with how she's so eager to go with them and have weekly Doctor Who adventures. But, huge twist, it's actually Rose.

Huh, are they filming on the Red Dwarf sets now? That was a joke, Red Dwarf looks better than this... sometimes.

Anyway the heroes are arrested without a fight. The Doctor seems utterly defeated after losing Rose and Jack's not doing much better. It's not a proper Doctor Who episode if he doesn't get captured though, and if he gets locked in a room twice in one episode then that's even more old school!

Isn't the point of a mug shot that you're able to get a good look at the person's face? Oh, they're using a flash, never mind. 200,000 years in the future and using a flash for photographs is still a thing.

Surprise, the heroes were only waiting for the right moment to break out! The Doctor actually joins in with the violence, which is a bit unusual for him. He usually finds more cerebral solutions to his dilemmas. Usually.

Okay, there have been a few times where a dude needed to get a shovel over his head. And the Third Doctor was always throwing people around with Venusian aikido. But generally this is considered out of character behaviour. A sign that things have gotten serious.

Carrying a gun is also a bad sign! The episode is really making it seem like the Doctor's snapped after Rose's death and has gone back into vengeance mode like in Dalek, especially as he marches into the control room and holds everyone a gun point.

But then he throws his gun to them, telling them "Oh, don't be so thick. Like I was ever going to shoot." Then when the guy meekly points out that he has his gun, he replies "Okay, so shoot me." It's a great moment I reckon, because it shows us that the Doctor's got his emotions under control and he's got the room under control as well. 

Jack's still got his guns, the Doctor's not really giving them an invitation to shoot him, but he is putting them more at ease and also confusing the hell out of them.

I also like how he has no patience for the woman who says that they were just doing their jobs. That's not a good excuse when your job is to run the murder games!

This is where the foreshadowed solar flares finally come into play. They interfere with the broadcast signal, giving the Controller a chance to speak to the Doctor. Her masters always listen, but they can't hear her while the sun is so bright. They don't watch the games so she knew that she could hide the TARDIS crew and they'd soon get out to find her. 

Her masters have been guiding humanity for a long time. Not just since The Long Game, they've been playing the long game for hundreds and hundreds of years. Planning and growing their numbers. So I guess the Doctor's off the hook as the future would've been screwed up whatever he did on Satellite Five 100 years ago. But that's all they're going to get out of the Controller as the solar flares are over and it'll be two years until the next one.

Meanwhile Jack has found that she stashed the TARDIS in the forbidden Archive Six. Also it's apparently figured something out for them, which isn't typical TARDIS behaviour. It does spare the characters from having to do the work themselves though, and speeds things up a bit.

Jack demonstrates what he's learned by using the disintegration beam on Lynda! So she did die after all. RIP Lynda with a 'y'.

But it's okay, she's actually fine. The TARDIS worked out that people don't actually die in the games, they get teleported. Except for the people who get dogs' heads stitched onto their bodies by Trine-E and Zu-Zana, those guys are dead.

I like how Lynda does that weird pose when she gets teleported so we can tell she's just been moved when she comes back in the same pose. Oh no, I just remembered something! At the start of the episode she mentioned that the transmat made her sick for days when she was first brought here, so now she's going to be ill again.

The Controller then gives them Rose's coordinates even though her masters will hear, and she gets teleported away for it. Then she's killed by a very distinctive energy beam that illuminates her skeleton.

The Doctor figures out that the Game Station's signal is camouflaging two hundred ships hiding nearby and on board there are half a million Daleks. Surprise, the one in Dalek wasn't the last one! That episode was actually establishing the villains for the finale.

These generic flying saucer ships were invented for this episode, so despite their retro look they're not actually from classic Who. But the Daleks did start out using a different kind of generic saucer ship, so the designer probably took inspiration from their earlier stories.

I haven't seen a lot of '50s and '60s sci-fi movies, but every time I see a screencap or a clip or a poster they're always using flying saucers. Twilight Zone is full of flying saucers. The hero ship in Lost in Space is a flying saucer. The USS Enterprise is 33% flying saucer. So I can't criticise classic Who at all for picking a bit of an uninspired design. (Okay 1953's War of the Worlds had cool distinctive-looking alien vehicles, but they came out of the spaceships).

Also flying saucers never entirely went out of fashion. Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Independence Day, District 9. Rick and Morty. Saucer-shaped spaceships will be with us forever.

The Daleks realise that the jig is up and decide to give the Doctor a call.

Aside from the overwhelming number of Daleks, this is a pretty familiar situation for the Doctor. A few episodes back he thought the Daleks had all died and he thought Rose had died, but he was wrong on both counts and now Rose has ended up as their hostage for a second time.

Last time, in Dalek, he gave in to the Dalek's demand in order to save Rose's life. But he wasn't at his best in that episode, he was getting a bit emotional and not using his head.

There's a shot that's definitely safe for 4:3 TVs. You could crop that for TikTok.

Anyway, the Daleks tell the Doctor he will obey or Rose will be exterminated. He says "No". The Daleks are incredibly smart creatures and they've had hundreds of years to plan for this moment, but they're completely unprepared for this response.

They request clarification and he explains that it means "no". He's got no weapons, no defences, no plan but he pulls a Davinadroid and assures Rose he's "coming to get you", and then after that he's going to wipe out all the Daleks.

I love this scene, because it shows us the man that the Daleks are afraid of. He doesn't know how he's going to beat them yet, but he will find a way and they all know it. Though now the series is committed to showing how this happens! Next episode the Doctor's gotta go and pull this off or people will be making furious blog posts about how this is the most disappointing series finale yet.

Good luck with that Doctor. The Dalek invasion of Earth has begun. 

Again.


CONCLUSION

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Bad Wolf is an episode full of surprises, many of them given away in advance. They gave away the Satellite Five twist in the recap and they gave away the Daleks in the trailer at the end of Boom Town! I know that Daleks getting a shocking reveal at the end of an episode that was blatantly going to involve Daleks is a Doctor Who tradition, but they could've maybe not done that.

At least they didn't call the episode The Reality TV of the Daleks. In fact the title Bad Wolf sets up one of the biggest surprises in the story: that it never explains what 'Bad Wolf' is about. At all! Rose has noticed it's a bit weird that it keeps showing up, but she already did that in the last episode, so we got nowhere here.

Though by the time I got around to watching this episode all the surprise was long gone for me. I'd seen clips of the ending, I knew how the next episode would resolve things, I knew pretty much everything. That's not usually a good thing for me, as I tend to get bored and distracted when I know what will happen, but Bad Wolf did a pretty good job of holding my attention. Better than reality TV usually does anyway.

I'm not sure I can call this a satire on television, because that would mean it's got something to say about it. There's a general 'bread and circuses' message about people getting distracted from confronting problems in society by their entertainment, and perhaps a point to make about how taking down the news left TV to be conquered by reality TV and quiz shows, but when it comes to the shows themselves it's mostly just having fun. It doesn't want to make the audience feel bad for watching this stuff... unless they're watching a version where people are killed, then they should feel bad about doing that.

Not that people were actually being killed live on TV. Well, except for the people who got shot on Call My Bluff, blown up on Countdown, turned into compost on Ground Force and had their heads swapped with a dog. Everyone else was really just beamed to a Dalek ship to be killed there instead. 

Personally I reckon we get enough of the three series to not feel cheated, and I like how it tries to make the shows feel authentic, with proper music and everything. Okay, I have a feeling What Not to Wear is a little exaggerated, but The Weakest Link is played entirely straight (aside from the contestants being murdered), and the housemates in Big Brother do very housemate things. In fact it's a little weird that they didn't go a step further and show reactions from the audience down on Earth. In fact we don't get any glimpse at all at what things are like down on the planet (though it sounds pretty bad). The episode doesn't even present scenes like we're watching the different shows ourselves, aside from a bit of The Weakest Link. It's basically a regular episode of Doctor Who, with a bit of '80s John Nathan-Turner spirit in how they got celebrity presenters playing comedy robots.

One thing I didn't like is how the heroes got transmatted from their TARDIS, presumably through time. Sure it took a beam 15 million times stronger than normal but there's nothing else special about the technology. The Doctor mentions that they could've been beamed into a volcano with it, and that's completely true! If the TARDIS is this vulnerable then surely the Daleks can just use their own Game Station to kill him, and if that's the case then why haven't they done that?

Though it wasn't a bad idea to split the team up into their own games to see how each of them reacts. It's just a shame the Doctor and Rose weren't put into each other's games, as there was no immediate danger in the Big Brother house and the Doctor would've aced The Weakest Link. Though then again, that means the Doctor would've had to set all his rivals up to die to save his own neck. That's pretty damn dark.


RATING

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I liked the episode more than The Long Game and Boom Town, but it's not on the level of Dalek or Father's Day, so I'm going to give it:

 6/10. 

Though the real question is, "Is it as good as Charlie Brooker's 'Big Brother meets zombie horror' series Dead Set?" It's been years since I watched the series and I can't actually remember any of it, but I'm thinking... no.

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NEXT EPISODE

Next on Sci-Fi Adventures, I suppose I have to write about the 2025 season of Doctor Who overall.

Though what did you think about Bad Wolf? Did you feel a bit cheated that it didn't explain what Bad Wolf was? Did you feel like they should've left the Daleks alone? Or did it get you hyped for the finale?