April 2007: a monster has been created

7 April 2007

The Doctor meets Shakespeare. It looked fantastic, the Shakespeare in jokes were entertaining, and we even got a bedroom scene. The only downside was that the witches were not quite as scary as they might have been.  But Angela Pleasence’s Queen Elizabeth made up for that.

14 April 2007

Mix up Ardal O’Hanlon, a basket of kittens, car-sharing policies, the Face of Boe, a monster from the Troughton era and an old favourite hymn, and what do you get? A surprisingly good story.  This series just gets better and better.  Slightly embarrassing that I spotted the Macra before the Doctor revealed all, though. I shouted out 'Macra!' at the first sign of a waving claw.  Husband not impressed that I spotted it before he did. What sort of monster has he created?

 

So the Doctor is not alone.  OK, my guess is that the rumours about John Simm playing the Master are true, and that he is also the Doctor’s brother (cf  “I had a brother once”).

21April 2007

Doctor Who’s answer to Snakes on a Plane – Daleks in Manhattan. The ending was rather spoiled by having been given away on the cover of Radio Times. But the recreation of 1930s New York looked wonderful – especially the lift in the Empire State Building, which was perfect for a Dalek.

28 April 2007

Well, I guessed slightly wrong.  I thought that the new human/Dalek Sec hybrid would be a power-crazed maniac and the Doctor would have to form an alliance with the other Daleks to defeat him. In fact, the new Dalek Sec seemed much more reasonable and human than Mr Diagoras had been. The Doctor formed an alliance with him, but was thwarted by the other Daleks.  A very strange story.  Interesting at the end when the Doctor offered to help the one remaining Dalek (Caan) – he has clearly moved on a lot since his encounter with the Dalek in van Statten’s basement.