Well, time for some random thoughts.
Hate the new music, die in a bloody fire. I had to go listen to a few of the old tracks to cleanse my head, like the tom baker then peter davidson era.
The episode as a whole I found barely passing, then again I always try to brush over the first episode of each series, they have high moments but are usually.. meh. This upcoming episode looks so much better it's not even funny.
What I find amusing, though, is out of all the complaints I see people make about Partners in Crime.. no one has mentioned the two things that irked me! Wondering now if I'm alone in this.. >.>
Overuse of the damn sonic screwdriver.
People say the new series does this a lot, I chuckle, sometimes agree with it, sometimes not.. I do love the thing a lot.
But in this episode, I was expecting him to start making coffee with the damn thing. I mean come on, he used it.. how many times? Apparently it even split the ropes that bound the one reporter?
Oh and the fact the building was 'deadlocked'. Ahh, deadlock seal, the one thing they love to use when the sonic is being waved about way to much.. we don't even really know what deadlocked is, just that it means "Crap, can't use the sonic, got to think of something else."
Those were honestly some of my biggest complaints.
Onto related topics.. RTD.. <sigh>
My opinion has gone down about him rapidly, but I'm in the middle of watching the first confidential for the new season and DEAR LORD.
The man is so freeking full of himself in the read-through of the episode, you can tell that even David and Catherine seem to be sick of him. -.-
Oh and about the mime sequence, they show the script in it as well for a brief moment.
1. Doctor indeed says 'hell' instead of heck.
2. The very long sequence Donna mimes is:
"I, came here, trouble, read about it, internet, I thought, trouble = you! And this place is weird! Pills! So I hid. Back there. Crept along. Heard this lot. Looked. You! Cos they..."