The space sequences are all extremely well done. From Martha and Riley floating away in the escape pod, to the Doctor’s rescue attempt, to McDonnell’s sacrifice.
We’ve come a long way from Pertwee on very obvious wires in Frontier In Space! #DoctorWho
Tennant is very good at being possessed by the entity too, leading to a rare confession from the Doctor of being scared.
A decent, if not Earth-shattering debut from Chibnall. 🙂 #DoctorWho
Human Nature / The Family Of Blood: this was the beginning of a stormingly good sequence of episodes from here to the finale, maybe the best run in the entire history of the show?
How are there two versions of this story, given the novel? Ah, the Time War changed it. #DoctorWho
Looking back, it’s surprising it took until season 3 for Moffat to try a story with his trademark ’timey-wimey’ time-loop type of material, which he does so brilliantly here.
(We’ll forgive him for nicking that bit with the letter from the end of Back To The Future 2) #DoctorWho
The bit where the Angel suddenly appears in the room, just as Sally and Larry have finished looking at the Doctor’s message, is the only moment in the entire history of #DoctorWho that genuinely made me jump…
…slightly.
…just a tiny bit, okay? 😜
Ten, Martha and Jack make an unexpectedly great TARDIS team, and I wish we’d had them for longer.
Well, after several episodes with not a peep about her, we have to get discussion of Rose again. 😜 Unfortunately necessary I suppose, to explain Jack’s immortality. #DoctorWho
The way he appears silently in a doorway echoes how the Ninth Doctor would do the same in season one.
And so does the return of RTD’s favourite - the ‘triple gag’ of the Master and Lucy Saxon repeatedly opening and closing the door to hear Vivienne Rook’s screams. #DoctorWho
The reveal that the Doctor whispered “use the countdown” to Martha is a slight cheat really, how would he know there was going to be one?
Also, the idea that the Master carved his face into Mt Rushmore is quite funny, since it’s literally what Trump wanted to do… 😆 #DoctorWho
So long for now Martha, the best RTD companion (I will brook no argument on this), who got the best exit by it being on her own terms.
If only they hadn’t fatally undermined her from the start with the constant unfavourable comparisons to she-who-must-not-be-named…🙄 #DoctorWho
There are some plot contortions where logic’s a bit stretched, like Geoffrey Palmer’s Captain happy to kill his crew because they’re ‘old sea dogs’ (what about all the fairly young passengers?)
And did Max Capricorn really have to be aboard the ship when it crashes? #DoctorWho
The Sontaran Stratagem / The Poison Sky: time for the perpetual ‘Big Bad No. 3’ to make their New Series debut. The blue armour looks a bit CBBC but otherwise it’s a good update.
And it wouldn’t be a Sontaran story without the traditional reveal via a helmet removal. #DoctorWho
Rattigan’s an uncomfortably believable depiction of what certain tech billionaires we could mention were probably like as teenagers…
And like so many others in #DoctorWho who allied with Daleks, Cybermen, etc, the idiot ends up dead. Though at least in a noble self-sacrifice.
*Me in 2008 watching the first battle between UNIT and the Sontarans*
God, poor UNIT. They’re getting slaughtered.
*Me watching the second battle where they could shoot back*
YES! FINALLY!! WE’VE WAITED 40 YEARS FOR THIS! GO ON UNIT! FUCKING MURDER THEM!!! 🤬
Poor Martha gets such a raw deal here. She’s only in it to be hived off into the side-story about the Hath.
And then they have her be a terrible medical doctor when Jenny is shot, instantly declaring there’s no hope and not bothering to do anything to try to save her. #DoctorWho
Gavin Winters
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