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I watched the latest episode of Dr Who, The Sontaran Stratagem, last night on BBC iPlayer and it was a great episode, almost returning to "traditional" Dr Who story lines of aliens invading, military incompetence and the Doctor triumphing with simple tools (like a squash ball!). And best of all, it is a two-parter. I really miss the good old days where you would just get to a good part of the story and then have to wait for the next episode!
I love it when great, iconic old villains return and the Sontarans are brilliant in their simplicity, a cloned race who live only to fight and who can't run from their enemies as their weak spot is on the back of their necks! Brilliant. (I wonder if sales in Mr Potato Head will increase because of their re-appearance?)
Martha was back proving herself a stronger character than ever and she even got on okay with Donna. And Bernard Cribbins' character of Wilfred Mott (Donna's grandfather) was featured more (is he dead, I surely hope not!).
And to top it all off we have lots of men (oh and women) in military uniforms, with UNIT and their aforementioned red berets [mentioned in Torchwood, Cap'n Jack wanted one for Ianto!], and a couple of them were even quite nice looking (Christian Cooke and Clive Standen especially).
All we need now is the return of the Brigadier!
Oh and I loved the fact that the Doctor referred to his past associations with UNIT being "sometime in the '70's, or was it the '80's" which fanboys will love as it refers to the inconsistencies in dating the previous UNIT stories (which I would know nothing about if not for Tim mentioning this in a conversation [or two] with me ages ago. Thanks Tim)
2 comments:
I thought Donna was almost bearable this week !
She is taking some getting used to, but I think she may grow on everyone.
There were definately less of her "characters' voices" in this episode.
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