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<blockquote data-quote="Willie Oleson" data-source="post: 383683" data-attributes="member: 8">Episodes 6 and 7 are not...great.The Lazarus Experiment&nbsp;&nbsp; looks too much like the unintentional mutation of the Spider-Man villains and it all happens too soon and then the only thing left to do is to run away from the big GCI monster.42&nbsp; is an incredible frenetic story and most of the time I had no idea what was going on. It looks like a poor imitation of The Impossible Planet (season 2).But at least the Doctor has officially accepted Martha as his new companion so that&#039;s nice.At first it seemed like an unnecessary obstacle to replace Rose with the equally pretty and lovely Martha - I mean, why not a young man? - but I&#039;m beginning to see how clever it was since it was in fact Not-Rose-Martha who allowed&nbsp;&nbsp; Rose Tyler to be remembered because&nbsp; of the similarity.It was something that needed to be dealt with, to show that Rose was replaceable (to both the Doctor and the audience) especially by someone like Martha.If the next companion had been very different then perhaps it wouldn&#039;t have been possible to get that point across, or the show the Doctor&#039;s feelings of loss.Furthermore, there is something very shady going on in the background as we see Martha&#039;s mother being approached by secret agents of sorts who confirm that her daughter is indeed hanging out with a &quot;very dangerous man&quot;.It looks like this storyline will continue in episode 11 Utopia&nbsp;&nbsp; and I&#039;m really curious to know what it&#039;s all about.Before that there are two stories (in three episodes) that have everything you can wish for in a Doctor Who episode, especially the two-part Human Nature / The Family Of Blood.With the quest for more time (or in this case, all eternity) it kinda harks back to the Lazarus Experiment.It has one of those excitingly frustrating plot twists (the boy who took the watch) and the Family is seriously creepy even though they used to be ordinary people.[ATTACH=full]49982[/ATTACH]Their comeuppance in particular is very well done.It&#039;s also Martha&#039;s best episode so far and I enjoyed figuring out what her role in the story was. The Doctor gets a great dramatic storyline because he has to sacrifice himself as a human. Let that be a good lesson for him.Episode 10 Blink&nbsp; is almost like a spin-off episode with cameos (or easter eggs) by the Doctor and Martha who really don&#039;t have time to be there.I&#039;m not even going to try to understand the concept of non-linear wibbly wobbly timey wimey history but it&#039;s something that I happily accept as &quot;as is&quot;.It doesn&#039;t have to make sense it only has to be convincing from a dramatic point of view. Too bad it was only one episode, I just loved the meta stuff about Doctor Who on DVD.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Willie Oleson, post: 383683, member: 8"] Episodes 6 and 7 are not...great. The [I]Lazarus Experiment[/I] looks too much like the unintentional mutation of the Spider-Man villains and it all happens too soon and then the only thing left to do is to run away from the big GCI monster. [I]42[/I] is an incredible frenetic story and most of the time I had no idea what was going on. It looks like a poor imitation of [I]The Impossible Planet[/I] (season 2). But at least the Doctor has officially accepted Martha as his new companion so that's nice. At first it seemed like an unnecessary obstacle to replace Rose with the equally pretty and lovely Martha - I mean, why not a young man? - but I'm beginning to see how clever it was since it was in fact Not-Rose-Martha who [I]allowed[/I] Rose Tyler to be remembered [I]because[/I] of the similarity. It was something that needed to be dealt with, to show that Rose was replaceable (to both the Doctor and the audience) especially by someone like Martha. If the next companion had been very different then perhaps it wouldn't have been possible to get that point across, or the show the Doctor's feelings of loss. Furthermore, there is something very shady going on in the background as we see Martha's mother being approached by secret agents of sorts who confirm that her daughter is indeed hanging out with a "very dangerous man". It looks like this storyline will continue in episode 11 [I]Utopia[/I] and I'm really curious to know what it's all about. Before that there are two stories (in three episodes) that have everything you can wish for in a Doctor Who episode, especially the two-part [I]Human Nature / The Family Of Blood.[/I] With the quest for more time (or in this case, all eternity) it kinda harks back to the Lazarus Experiment. It has one of those excitingly frustrating plot twists (the boy who took the watch) and the Family is seriously creepy even though they used to be ordinary people. [ATTACH type="full"]49982[/ATTACH] Their comeuppance in particular is very well done. It's also Martha's best episode so far and I enjoyed figuring out what her role in the story was. The Doctor gets a great dramatic storyline because he has to sacrifice himself as a human. Let that be a good lesson for him. Episode 10 [I]Blink[/I] is almost like a spin-off episode with cameos (or easter eggs) by the Doctor and Martha who really don't have time to be there. I'm not even going to try to understand the concept of non-linear wibbly wobbly timey wimey history but it's something that I happily accept as "as is". It doesn't have to make sense it only has to be convincing from a dramatic point of view. Too bad it was only one episode, I just loved the meta stuff about Doctor Who on DVD. [/QUOTE]

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