OK, I decided that I disliked this episode so much, that I'd go slag it off here
, a place which I have visited a lot, but not posted in much in a loooong time...
I mean I know that this was a series opener, and to be honest, New Earth being one example, they are generally nothing on what comes towards the end of the series... but still... this episode just had me rolling my eyes and cringing all the way through...
So here is a long list of things I hated during this episode:
The 'villains' - Doctor Who has almost coined the catchphrase over the year of 'Now's the time to go and hide behind the sofa', but this last episode was truly pathetic. Nothing in this episode could have scared even a four year old girl with a nervous disposition never mind anyone getting towards their late teens (me), to whom the series has always appealed to before.
The plot as a whole - Oh my god... What happened to the philosophy of Doctor Who! What happened to the storylines such as The Girl in the Fireplace or The Empty Child, which carried notes of seriousness along with the mental stuff that appeals to the younger ones. There were no little jokes that are usually put in here and there that make the adults laugh which the children do not understand, and the whole episode looked as if it should have been shown at about 7 in the morning along with the other childrens programs and not on prime time TV.
The pause before Foster falls and dies - What the hell!? What - the - hell!? Am I watching Road Runner! No! Why did they put that in? it just undermines anything remotely serious about death, which links nicely to my point above, where as the seriousness and philosophy of Doctor Who gone?
Alien tractor beams - Can Doctor Who get more cheesy than this?
The music - Usually, I love Murray's work in Doctor Who, however the only pieces of music I liked during this episode were the ones composed for series 3. The new stuff all seems to be crap! How has Murray been allowed to get away with this? I really hate Donna's Theme and I heartily agree with those who say that it belongs more in a cartoon than in Doctor Who, as did most of the other elements of this episode.
In the end I gave this episode a 3/10 mainly because I liked how Donna was toned down from the highly irritating nag from The Runaway Bride and was impressed by Rose's cameo otherwise it would have been a highly deserved 1/10. I am getting a tad fed up of Rose though. I'm going to be interested in how Rose gets back when we had already established that it was 'impossible' to break between dimensions, and will probably be irritated further by some stupid explanation that Davies offers.
All we can do I suppose is hope and pray that this series is going to get better... If not, then maybe by the end of it I will be thankful for the lack of episodes next year instead of annoyed. Anyways thats got that off my chest...
On another note, a challenge for you - spot how many mobile phones there are in the scene where all the Adipose are released. What do you do when the earth is being invaded by thousands of little fat people? Phone your mum. Yeah that's it...
