Scribblings from the Mitchy Side

Hee, I didn't half enjoy that! But of course, I was never a fan of Rose and the whole love affair thing so this is a breath of fresh air for me.

I really, really like the new assistant, and it looks like she'll have brains so no more Chav dialogue, I hope. The idea of her being a doctor too, or training to be one, is a nice touch. I do hope they actually use that skill rather than making her another dumb foil. But I don't think they will, not from the way they were writing her in this episode. Credit to the actress, she seems to have grabbed the chance with both hands and is doing a darn good job. I'm afraid I've blanked on her name already. *sighs and goes to look* Freema Agyeman - yeh, gonna take me a while to get the hang of spelling that one. But I think she's damn good in the role, so long may she reign!

Roy Marsden in a role that lasted all of 3 minutes? Umm. He must need the cash. Or possibly he just wanted to be in Dr Who, which I gather is happening a lot these days. It's the show to be seen in.

Plot-wise, it was moderately intriguing, it did what it had to do to set up Martha and the Doctor. Hospital building gets zapped up to the moon so Galactic police force can find wanted criminal. Different, inventive, interesting. I was mildly perplexed that everyone in the hospital reacted with hysteria and horror. Umm, yeh, maybe I'd do the same but for all that - the freakin' moon? How cool is that!! I'd have hoped more of them would have done the "wow" thing rather than the "panic" thing but on thinking about it probably not. I thought the baddie was played extremely well by Anne Reid - evil but not cartoonish about, downright menacing in fact. Except for the drinking straw. Guys? The straw was a Bad Idea, ok?

I LIKED the space rhino coppers - rather drastic and abrupt but definitely effective! Still, you'd think sucking up a large chunk of land and moving it to a neutral area would also infringe on a few Galactic Laws but maybe there's just a Galactic sized loophole in the regulations. "OK, you can't police on Earth, but it's perfectly ok to suck large chunks of Earth up onto the Moon!" Shouldn't the Moon belong to Earth anyway?? Hmf! I foresee a Galactic law suit! :D

I detected a slight rise in the quality of the writing, so either RTD had an off day or he's happier now he's not bogged down in mushy romantic stuff any more. Maybe Torchwood's burned all that out of him (ohpleasedeargodletitbeso).

I admit my dislike of Rose and the direction they took the show last season maybe colouring my perception of the new series but let us hope not. It's a good start and the next episode looks hilarious, so fingers crossed it's starting as it means to go on!

*eyes icons* Must get a Dr Who icon for posts like this. *makes do with Helo for the time being* One space god to another :D