@janetteb Yeah, you know this is one of the episodes that I remembered not enjoying quite as much back in 2010, but I found to be much more entertaining the second time around.  A lot of episodes have been like that for me.

I’m glad you were able to find things you liked about Voyage of the Damned.  You know for me, quite a lot of these e…[Read more]

I watched The Sontaran Stratagem and The Poison Sky.  Of course since RTD or anyone else special didn’t write it, so it has no thread.

The basic plot is the Sontarans want to use Earth as a clone world, to make more Sontarans.  To achieve this they’ve placed poisonous gas into the ATMOS navigation systems that most cars in the show have, which w…[Read more]

I watched Planet of the Ood, which again there aren’t threads for many of these episodes so I’ll keep posting here for a while.

I am obviously pretty fond of the episode, since the Ood are my favorite DW creatures.  I will add on to that by saying that the Doctor and Donna don’t have a lot to do in the episode, and everything is already sort of…[Read more]

I watched The Fires of Pompeii again so I’ll talk about it here.  …I might be using this thread for several episodes, actually.

Well right off the bat this episode features both Karen Gillan and Peter Capaldi in roles as a member of the Sisterhood and an art-collecting family man, respectively.

I usually don’t like the olden time episodes but…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent Excellent question!  So back in 2010 I started getting the DVD sets for series 1-4 and the specials set.  I never got around to buying any of the Eleventh Doctor series, just because it was already quite expensive to buy British shows on DVD here in the US, and it took a little while for Matt Smith to grow on me.

I no longer own t…[Read more]

I think the Adipose were another great creature idea, but if they were all infants then it would still be interesting to revisit them and see what they look like once they become adults.  I don’t recall the Adipose ever appearing again.  It was a bit weird to hear they converted from bone and hair and other things besides just fat.

Like the o…[Read more]

So I think this episode might be a little underrated, and it had a lot going on in it.

We have the introduction of Wilf, who’s running a news stand when the group teleports off of the ship to Earth.  The episode has a slew of one-off characters, including Kylie Minogue as Astrid, and Clive Swift as Mr. Copper.  It also features a character n…[Read more]

I had mixed feelings about this series 3 finale on my rewatch.  On the one hand both episodes taken together (and maybe including Utopia), felt a bit like a Doctor Who movie.  At the same time I felt like this could have been a better story pitting the Doctor against the Master.  But I generally enjoyed it, and there were some really great and me…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent There you go, you even recalled another great quote from Blink!  And yes, the whole way the conversation on the DVD was presented seemed pretty original.

Though the later Weeping Angels episodes might not be as good as their initial appearance, I am glad they weren’t just left as a one-off enemy.  I didn’t know they come back a…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent I wish I could think of specific episodes, but surely a lot of John Pertwee and Tom Baker episodes went to similar-looking settings.  I want to say The Three Doctors had this kind of setting on Omega’s planet, but that’s just me going off of memory.  It was sort of a quarry-looking place, but I’ve no clue if it had any connection t…[Read more]

I wrote a whole response and lost it, so I will just do a quick recap.

I thought Martha’s discovery of the fob watch identical to the one from Family of Blood was a brilliant way to reveal Dr. Yana was another time lord.  I also thought the YANA acronym was clever.

The Futurekind reminded me of the Ferengi from Star Trek.  I was disappointed w…[Read more]

I rewatched Blink, and it really did go down a bit differently than I’d remembered since it’s been so long since I watched it.

The episode is among the best of the series, and works so well because there is an explanation for everything that happens.  With all of the communication going on across time, there is a reason shown for how all of the…[Read more]

These were some really great episodes, and as someone else mentioned it’s followed by the also great Blink.  I am not even sure where to start with discussing this story.

Well right off the bat the way this story is presented is well-done.  We don’t see the initial meeting between the Family of Blood and the Doctor and Martha, but we know they w…[Read more]

I just rewatched 42.  I wasn’t aware of “24” being the inspiration for the episode.

This episode felt kind of like The Impossible Planet and The Satan Pit, but I didn’t enjoy it as much as those two.  I wonder if the space suit worn in this episode was the same as the one from those, maybe with a few cosmetic tweaks.

Doctor climbing out of the a…[Read more]

I watched The Lazarus Experiment, so I’ll discuss it here.

There are quite a few episodes from season 3 I didn’t remember real well, and this was one of them.  I’d say this episode was kind of like the Martha version of any Rose episode where they return back to London and stuff is going on there.  We get to see more of Martha’s f…[Read more]

I watched Evolution of the Daleks, so I’ll give my thoughts on it now.

Firstly the scene with the radio was pretty good.  I half-expected Dalek Sec to ask what the music was and to be impacted by it, but it was used to create a diversion that stopped the Daleks for a few minutes – apparently the pig slaves, too.

When the Daleks started flying I…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent I guess that is something that bugged me about The Shakespeare Code a little bit.  Whenever the Doctor is shown to be the originator of things that important people in history did, it feels like it takes too much credit from them.  I guess it’s slightly balanced out by Shakespeare being the one whose words ultimately banished the C…[Read more]

I watched S3 Episode 4, Daleks in Manhattan.  I haven’t yet gotten to the second episode of this two-parter, so this will be a quick mention and then I’ll probably do a different one for the next episode.

I guess right away the pig slaves harken back to the pig creature that showed up way back in the episode with the Slitheen.  It seems like t…[Read more]

I liked this episode, and I think the interesting thing about it is that the real monster wasn’t the Macra, but the insane traffic.

It’s a nightmare to imagine a future where society lives years of their lives stuck in traffic, moving barely any distance over that span of time.  It’s not even that uncommon for people to be kidnapped and used to…[Read more]

I watched S3 E2, The Shakespeare Code.  No thread, posting here.

So as I’ve stated before, I tend to not like episodes set in the far past as much as others.  I wasn’t into this one as much.  The Carrionites made an alright enemy, basically witches trying to use voo-doo and other such methods to manipulate others so that they could unleash the en…[Read more]