Doctor Who - Smith And Jones
Yay! David Tennant is back as Doctor Who! How long have we been waiting for the third series to start - it seems live forever…..
So, in keeping with the first series of Doctor Who, we see the Doctor sounding out a new assistant in Martha Jones, a medical student. Unfortunately, despite a high-speed car ride to get back home in time, we missed the first few minutes, but it wasn’t long before the whole family was immersed in Sci-Fi heaven.
The enemy in this episode were the rhinocerous-like Jidoon - an intergalactic police-force-for-hire - who beam an entire hospital to the moon in order to track down an alien suspected of murder. Bad news for the Doctor, since he’s not quite human!
My first thoughts were that Martha is the opposite of Rose. But that’s not true, she’s simply more educated. But like Rose, she’s not fazed when weird things happen, and she’s got a tenacious, inquisitive spirit. Do all The Doctor’s assistants have this? I can’t remember…
We also got a hint of Martha’s troubled home life in the first episode, which I’m sure we’ll see more of in coming shows.
David Tennant is really settling into the role of The Doctor in his second series. I was having a hard time getting used to him after Christopher Ecclestone, but I love the dimension he brings to the Doctor. Those little bits of emotion he lets through every now and again, like when he spoke to Martha about Rose and warned her that there’d never be anything between them….
Anyway, can’t wait for the next episode, nor can the rest of the family. This is truly how Saturday night entertainment should be!
April 3rd, 2007 at 7:36 am
After seeing some clips of the new alien race, I was hoping they were just a modernized form of the Sontarans. The suits seemed the same at any rate. I really wasn’t impressed with the animatronics of the aliens, but they were still somewhat believable. I loved the bit at the beginning when Martha runs into the Doctor out on the street and he doesn’t remember that incident when she first meet him in the hospital. I was confused till the ending. Brilliant.
The only bit that irked me was how fast and swift their ‘justice’ was, and yet they were willing to tear this hospital away from the Earth to search for the alien. Doesn’t that break some kind of law in their world? Oh well.
Additional thoughts?