I'm very grateful to Russell T Davies for being instrumental in returning Doctor Who to our screens, but I'm beginning to wish he'd stop writing episodes.
*** Spoilers follow *** The biggest problem with this and the previous episode was the Master, who as others have already noted now more closely resembles the Joker from Batman. I adore John Simm, and feel if the part had been better written he could have been excellent. Then there's the problem that the monsters are flying cybernetic beings for the third season finale in a row. The whole 'Doctor as a kind of messiah figure and his companion as his prophet' concept left me cold.
A shame, because some of the other stories in the season were really quite good, and I liked Martha. There seems to been a gradual slide in story quality since season one, and I'm hoping the new season with Catherine Tate will buck the trend. The first episode was fairly lame (another Davies episode), but Ms Tate was excellent I thought.
*** Spoilers follow *** The biggest problem with this and the previous episode was the Master, who as others have already noted now more closely resembles the Joker from Batman. I adore John Simm, and feel if the part had been better written he could have been excellent. Then there's the problem that the monsters are flying cybernetic beings for the third season finale in a row. The whole 'Doctor as a kind of messiah figure and his companion as his prophet' concept left me cold.
A shame, because some of the other stories in the season were really quite good, and I liked Martha. There seems to been a gradual slide in story quality since season one, and I'm hoping the new season with Catherine Tate will buck the trend. The first episode was fairly lame (another Davies episode), but Ms Tate was excellent I thought.