
15 Years Ago, The Oldest Sci-Fi Show Dropped Its Most Perfect Finale
Ryan Britt
created: June 26, 2025, 9:30 a.m. | updated: July 1, 2025, 11:46 a.m.
And with “The Big Bang” — which first aired on June 26, 2010 — Moffat achieved that by delivering a story that didn’t try to go bigger than previous finales at all.
Instead, “The Big Bang” suggests the end of the world could happen in the cramped recesses of a museum, and maybe, on the rooftop.
While prose time travel narratives have often employed this kind of effect-before-cause, it’s really hard to point to a mainstream sci-fi phenomenon that is so brazen about paradoxes as the Moffat era of Doctor Who.
“The Big Bang” was the dawning of a new golden era of Who, one full of big feelings and small, realistic human problems.
Doctor Who Season 5 (2010), “The Big Bang” streams on HBO Max.
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