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Wow. I've just finished watching it (on VHS and iPlayer on my PC simultaneously, as I couldn't decide which one I preferred) and to be honest, I thought it was... well... shit. In my opinion it serves as a prime example of how RTD thinks he can build a plot out of sections like Lego blocks, with his usual liberal peppering of frankly awful plot devices and cringeworthy one-liners. It had no 'soul' to it whatsoever. It felt like even the production team were loosing faith, as there were several scenes that appeared to be quite lazily filmed, and the silent conversation between Donna and the Doctor went on for way too long. I don't know if it was meant to be as funny as it was obviously intended to be, but I didn't find it entertaining. This has sort of reaffirmed the idea in me that Doctor Who really isn't going anywhere. It's still got the same cliché's, the same plotlines, the same RTDish banging on about humanity and the "what's happening to Earth all of a sudden! All these aliens! First the [...] then the [...] then the [...] then the spaceship over Buckingham Palace!" which is most definitely getting old very quickly in my opinion.
Why can't we have Doctor Who in space for once? And by 'once', I mean 'for the majority of the show'.
My thoughts on this episode summed up in one line:
"Get Steven Moffat"
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