Well I'll take one thing back - Lee Evans was actually one of the best things about POTD!!! Who would have thunk it!!!
Bit underwhelmed by the episode as a whole however - it was very childish and I just wish Murray Gold would stick his crescendoes up his orchestra!
Let's see... overt Easter references... a whole bunch of people in a bus with absolutely nothing to do... aliens in overalls... more in your face story arc nonsense jammed in at the end with more characters who can see the future... (how many has that been in the last couple of years? 3? 4?)
Tennant as per was excellent- quite restrained this time around and Michele Ryan did a very decent Jaime Murray / Diana Rigg impersonation...
Some very dodgy moments though - RTD's ensemble of "characters" in the bus are his usual Londoner stereotypes.
UNIT were just laughable - again! I mean, did those geezers jog beside the cars all the way from Geneva? and can't their budget extend to a beret that actually fits the Captain...
BTW - she was just a ridiculous cardboard character - embarrassing saluting on the phone... one minute she's gonna stuff the Doc up by closing the wormhole and then as soon as he's back the two-faced bint is all smiles, salutes and congratulations... bah!!! Not to mention that she resorts to gun-toting because Evans won't follow an order!!! Imagine if the Brig did that every time the Doc told him to take a hike! Just useless "drama".
Location in Dubai looked great - nice to see some open spaces - and believe it or not I wouldn't mind if Lee Evans returned one day... (can't believe I'm saying this!!!)
It's becoming clear that RTD is out of ideas - how many other episodes of his series has he rehashed in POTD? MIDNIGHT, SATAN PIT, SILENCE IN THE LIBRARY... the alien "fish" things were just Toclafane...
POTD could have been a great episode...
And can RTD stop making DR WHO into HARRY POTTER!!! Bloody hell - which icon was first huh? It really annoys me when RTD seems to think that DR WHO needs props from pop-culture to give it some kind of cred...
The Mars episode later this year looks like IMPOSSIBLE PLANET all over again, except the Moffat won't have written it... ho hum...
Edited by Sniperscope, 12 April 2009 - 11:34 AM.