I didn’t see this story when it was originally broadcast, I caught up with it on DVD a couple of years later. Back then I found the political stuff boring and now that I’ve grown up and have a vague idea how politics work, I find it incredibly stupid. The rest of the story seems to be made up of juvenile fart gags. I would blame Mel Brooks for this but I doubt that when he did the first ever fart gag in Blazing Saddles back in 1974 he would have known that it would lead to RTd2 writing a whole Doctor Who story based around them.
Another problem stems from the fact that Rose is a horrible person in this. She disappears for a year without a word leaving her mother worried sick and Mickey was accused of murdering her. Does she show any sympathy to either of them, hell no! She goes off on an adventure with the Doctor again. But of course Rose can do no wrong because RTD2 says she’s the ultimate companion and as we all know everything he says is gospel in the Whoniverse.
Now in fairness to RTD2 the director rewrote parts of the script while filming so the story might have been less rubbish had it followed his original script more closely.
I know this one’s mostly for the kiddies and I shouldn’t get so upset, it’s just that nothing makes my blood boil more then bad Doctor Who.
