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As you all know I love time-travel, and while never being a Doctor Who fan this new (started in 2005) series is just brilliant! In case you didn't know, the new Doctor Who is produced (and sometimes written) by Russell T. Davies (Queer as Folk and Torchwood) so it's not your grandpa's sci-fi show (and neither is Torchwood which runs later at night). Steven Moffat wrote this week's episode as well as several other episodes, some older shows (but I'm not sure if they were specials or radio shows), many episodes of Coupling (US and UK) and more.
This week's episode is just full of non-stop action and non-stop paradoxes and is just excellent! It's kinda scary too(!), I think that's what makes it seem so non-stop. This episode barely shows the main characters and instead focuses on a woman from London outside the normal time-line of The Doctor and Martha. As she's piecing things together it's very entertaining since you know it's going to all going to tie up neatly by the end. But one of the best parts is when he's explaining the non-linerarity of time and says "it's like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey... stuff" and it makes complete sense to the viewer; it's then you know the writers are doing something right..
The other good line is when Sally's talking about talking pictures of old things (which makes her sad) and her friend asks her "What's good about sad?" and Sally responds with "It's happy for deep people"...
And the extra bonus is that starting next week (for 3 episodes) we have the return of Captain Jack Harkness!
Read or leave comments (or trackbacks/pings) Posted by Gary on Saturday at 9:28 PM on June 9, 2007.
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 Looking at the on-line reviews today, I'm clearly not the only one who thought this was an excellent episode. Many others have been praising this as the best episode of the new series. I'm glad to see that I wasn't the only one who thought it was that brilliant... |
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