Doctor Who overall reaction: Pleasantly surprised. Because I thought it was going to be awful, and it was OK verging on Quite Good.


I'll do a proper reaction post tomorrow, probably, but for now:

New Rock boots, hee! Everyone seems to have spotted them, amusingly. I couldn't stop thinking how much they must have spent on them, though.

Mr Stoker gets his blood sucked. Heh. I thought the second mention of his name was a bit anvilly, in the same scene as the bloodsucking, but other people didn't necessarily pick it up so obviously I'm just too attuned to literary allusions.

Why didn't the Doctor regenerate? Bah.

Moon SFX were a bit pants, and the insta!hysteria was annoying. They could have slowly built up the hysteria and claustrophobia and made it really tense and effective.

I thought they'd killed off the sonic screwdriver (boo) but turns out I missed a line at the end where he said he had a new one. I was probably too busy grumbling about the Rose stuff to notice.

Kiss: random. Need to watch it again. At the end he seemed to imply he'd done it for the gene transfer, but I can't figure out why, since all that did was nearly get Martha killed.

I liked the guy who actually talked to the Ji Doon, and then went around telling everyone to be calm. Until the end, when he was all "I am the ambassador for Earth!".

Oh, I liked the gag about the shop, too, it was quite subtle. And I failed to get the Zovirax one properly until laerad enlightened me, because I'm terrible with adverts. But I giggled retrospectively.

Edit: I forgot to mention the most important thing that I liked! I loved that Martha, and other people, and the mysterious Mr Saxon, KNEW ABOUT ALIENS. Because of Cybermen and Slitheen and stuff. Yay for not doing the stupid "I was scuba-diving in Greece" shit they pulled at Christmas.

I'm heading out to the pub, but I had to watch Who and then come on here to see the reaction first. Me = Sad Geek.