Planet of the Dead, now with added wallpaper

Blimey, I quite enjoyed it. And to be honest this is quite a concern. I don’t know whether it’s that my expectations have been lowered, or a kind of mellowing that comes with my advancing years, but the fact is that this episode didn’t make me nearly as angry as it ought to have done. I was shocked to find that I was not spitting blood at the lack of a coherent plot, nor was I tearing my hair out in apoplectic rage at Tennant’s decidedly unsubtle ‘love me I’m weird, honestly’ performance (actually I thought this was Dave at his best). I even laughed at one point - for real, out loud. Okay, so the obligatory snog still managed to occasion the perennial grumble that this running joke was never funny in the first place, and the clunky dialogue fell somewhat short of what we really ought to expect from the saviour of 21st century drama (well everybody who works for him seems to think of him in those terms), but I was happy to just sit back and allow myself to be entertained. Perhaps - and this it what worries me the most - I’m entering a phase when I’ll happily be diverted by any old junk. I must admit that, apparently flying in the face of popular opinion, I’ve quite enjoyed the new Red Dwarf episodes (actually I thought this was Dave at its best). What next? Will I cheerfully curl up on the sofa with a cup of tea and a chocolate digestive to watch Holby City or The Royal? Perhaps I’ll find myself laughing at reruns of My Family of The Vicar of Dibley. Hell, maybe that won’t be so bad. That said, my wife has strict instructions that if she should ever catch me watching Robin Hood, she’s to burn out my eyes with a red hot poker. After all, there are limits.

I adore this picture - it’s currently my desktop. Hope you make more!

*Ring Ring* “Hello U.N.I.T, this is The Doctor, metal goes through the wormhole just fine so just drive a Tank or an APC through and we’ll be home in 5 minutes tops. Bye.”

I really wish i could turn my brain off when i watch Doctor Who. Or they spent a little more time at the planning stage so they didn’t have glaring flaws like that. If they simply left the phone plot line alone and had the aliens pick up techno-babble duty in the place of pantomime scientist i think it would have been a much stronger episode. With a ’small stranded group’ plot line like this you really need to keep your group isolated in order to keep any sense of danger about their situation, when you have them on the phone to a group with the desire, equipment and expertise to help them resolve their situation then you’re really selling the story short.