New episode premiered last night, article and brief review on BBC news:
https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/entertainment/8571193.stm
https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/entertainment/8572786.stm
Sounds great, cannot wait to see it!
Aye! There are a couple of reviews which describe Matt Smith as a bit of a grower, but in my experience that's almost more rewarding. I'm getting so, so pumped. The bit about "spitfires dogfighting in space" dropped my jaw, a bit. That's gotta be Victory of the Daleks, surely.
If you want something to get stuck into, check this out...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2010/03_march/19/doctor_who.shtmlHuge article including interviews with Steven Moffat, Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, Piers Wenger and Beth Willis. Lots of interesting things going on, there. Well worth a read if you've got ten minutes to spare.
Blink is easily one of the best episodes, despite being Doctor-lite. I'm hoping for lots of that kind of writing from Moffat in the new series!
The End of Time was really good, though the power and impact it has was so much more after watching all the preceeding episodes. Particularly all that "he will knock four times" stuff.
I think they're both in the top ten. The End of Time is my favourite of the big episodes. It's so tight and brilliant, it feels like everything that's fantastic about Doctor Who rolled into one massive story. And how good is John Simm!?
@Rob: Yeah I've been watching a bit of Torchwood, halfway through series 1 at the moment. It's not bad, but I think they've tried to go a little too dark/gritty than is comfortable for the writers, and it feels a bit forced at times. My favourite bits of the series so far are the more fun segments. But then I've only seen a handful of episodes so it may well improve as I carry on watching.
Yeah, I think that's a very fair evaluation. Sometimes it feels like they're slopping in "adult" themes, just to emphasise how different it is from Doctor Who. But yeah, they had to turn around series 1 in VERY little time and that's really the reason it's such a mixed bag. I liked it on first airing, but then I caught series 2, and I was flabbergasted by how much more solid it was. It's got a lot more of a vibrant, swashbucking feel, and feels self-assured and intensely confident.
And then you have Children of Earth, which might be one of the best slabs of television I've ever seen. So, so good. Series 2 is fun and involving but a little bit throwaway, Children of Earth is
powerful. The 456 are damn terrifying.