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The Sontaran Strategy was the best so far this season, IMO. Nice little homage to Invasion of the Body Snatchers

 

There's speculation here that she's the Doctor's adopted daughter.

 

Wasn't looking forward to Planet of the Ood...and I'm wrong yet again

In the trivia section: Was that Thunderbird 3 flying over-head near the start? Good to see Simpsons references survive in the culture (or lack thereof) for a few thousand years too

The scene with the PR lady running with the Doctor & Donna only to turn them back in 3 seconds later seemed like a tacked on device, but oh well, the rest of the episode easily made up for that.

For me the part that put the episode into 5/5 territory was the section with "DoctorDonna" in the cage with unprocessed Ood and the follow-up in office - fully re-working the Ood's image in that five minutes with Donna's "Of course they didn't resist, they are born with........." line as summary.

Speaking of Donna, if they keep doing things like this and the Pompeii plunger with her I'll have to eat more words and give her a top 5 companion spot. It still has me beat why they didn't give Martha much meat like that.


At the moment I've got Sontaran Stratagem rated at 3¾-4/5, will see how it ends before that's final though.

Susan's mum anyway. Probably something completely different and they just throwing it in to mess with some heads. Although there was the "I was a father once" line thrown into Fear Her and RTD has been known to throw a recurring theme or two in the series Will be looking for that episode in a few weeks.

 

I think I accidentally saw some spoilers as I skimmed the thread, so I'll post without reading.

I have rarely seen a funnier, more entertaining, and more thoughtful show (a lot of the episodes have metaphysical themes, almost spiritual, if that makes sense).

LOVE the last 2 doctors. Re: companions--Rose was amazing, but I did like Martha by way of contrast.

 

Which episode are you talking about, Learner?

 

oh, sorry--I was thinking of the most recent one we saw about the Ood, but many of the episodes deal with might-have-beens and a cosmic structure/plan to "time" and history.

In the Pompeii (sp?) episode, the Doctor tells Sarah that some things can't be changed--they are fixed points in time. Makes me think about free will vs. determinism, etc.

 

Learner, I think you'll find that's Donna, not Sarah; with the exception of School Reunion, Sarah hasn't featured in the stories for over 30 years.

CC, I don't know who 'she' is - perhaps you'd like to enlighten me

 

Possibly. More likely I guess than my theory of the Rachnos Queen.

 

Breaking news here is that Stephen Moffat (The Empty Child, Blink etc) is to take over as producer from RTD when he leaves - that should certainly assure the continuation of the series.

 

You beat me Matt: The Parting Of The Ways?

 

"Hey, who turned the lights out?"

 

Overall - v good. Continued the post-modern theme set last week but with not very many original ideas from that genre (are there many left one can do?): homages/rip-offs (depending on how one looks at things) to/from The Matrix (obviously) and the episode in Buffy when she's under the psychiatrist (can't remember the episode name). But the bit's that were (AFAIK) original were flashes of brilliance: Donna and her family, with her children not being real and the harrowing nature of their demise but her husband being real and then losing her, the Girl-In-The-Computer (as opposed to the Mirror) being Lux's aunty and hence another 'real person', and the relationship between the Doctor and River Song.