I enjoyed the episode, but only in a shallow, superficial way. I thought the quality of the writing was at a new all-time low for the series. I know RTD generally produces the poorest-written episodes of the show, but even for him, this one was pretty bad. The problem and the solution were both too clean, too clear-cut. And also it bothers me that he likes round numbers so much, with "1000 diseases" and all that. Just like in series one, with the years 200,000 (exactly) and 200,100 (exactly). I just find that annoying. I am expecting things to pick up dramatically after next week's episode.
There are two things I would like to mention though. First is David Tennant -- I don't know what you people are talking about, because in my opinion David Tennant was able to better his slightly over-the-top performance in "The Christmas Invasion." Whatever way you look at it, the man's downright brilliant and I'm expecting that as time goes by, it'll take more than your fingers and toes to count the reasons that he's perfect to play the Doctor. He hasn't let me down even by a single iota yet. (The writing, maybe, but David Tennant, no.)
The other thing I wanted to mention was the music. I'm a bit disappointed in Murray Gold because I noticed that a bunch of the music in the episode was just reused or recycled music from series one. Come on, it's a whole new series, new season, new year, so give us some new music instead of just reusing old stuff from before! (I have nothing against the music itself, just the reuse of it.) Also, he has reused the "Christmas Invasion" themes for both the opening (sort of a combination of his series one opening and closing themes) and closing (the BBC National Orchestra of Wales version with middle eight section of the theme). Just something to note.
Anyway, that's my two cents on the episode. Hope you enjoyed it.
