Some of the episodes feel rushed if anything.
I can understand peoples negitive reaction to this story, they tuned in ready to see the doctor, and effectively his starring role was replaced with an unknown. People reject change more often then not. I think the real problem is that the Doctor is a strong, central starring role. This tempory star was Joe average. But it does show the Dr Who universe from a different perspective. How often does in breeze in, and out again, never sticking around to face consiqences. How many people's live's have been shattered, how many have becomes obsessed with this man and his time machine. If someone like that breezed in and out of your life, without answering questions, how would it affect you? Well, we've seen it from someone elses perspective. He got together with a bunch of other people, and it effectively became a threopy group. He was no longer just himself and an unsolvable mystary. We also found out why he was so obsessed with the doctor, his mother had died. I personally think it might have been better with a more serious tone, but it's not really supposed to be a deep and dark series. Perhaps the script would have benefited more from a LOST style of doing things, but Dr Who has a definate formula. It's not one of the best Dr Who's I've seen, and to be honest I'm still of the mind that the last series writing and starring role was much better, it was certainly a bit darker. But compaired to season 2 standards set so far, this episode wasn't bad at all, just a bit of a culture shock.
I should also mention that I watched Johnathan Ross the previous night which revealed that the doctor and rose only appeared for about 5 minites, so I was possibily more mentally prepared for it then anyone who hadn't seen the Johnathan Ross show.
Also has anyone noticed a few dark comments about Roses upcoming fate in the show? We had the devil last week say she was going to die fighting, and we had a rather dark comment at the end of this weeks show about Rose's and Jakies fate. I hope they don't get rid of Rose, but there's certainly reason to suspect that she might not be living through the final episode.
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