Comments on: The Next Doctor http://atypicalreview.com/tv/doctor-who/the-next-doctor reviews and witterings on tv, film, games and the like Tue, 11 May 2010 12:01:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Andy http://atypicalreview.com/tv/doctor-who/the-next-doctor/comment-page-1#comment-3142 Andy Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:59:10 +0000 http://atypicalreview.com/?p=1441#comment-3142 <p>My initial post-<em>The Next Doctor</em> feeling was one of good will to all men, which surprised me because I didn't like most of the episode. The Doctor's fight with the Cyberking was impressive enough to cover a multiple problems with the episode. The robot's cgi almost made me forget about the dodgy green screen and set and the Doctor's heorics almost covered the way the fake Doctor's character was ruined halfway into the episode. It seemed like there was only room for one heroic Doctor in the episode, and as the real one took over, the old one gave up. Seriously, let him save his own kid. The two Doctors teaming up at the start was a lot of fun, and could have made an excellent end.</p> <p>I would have prefered that Miss Hartigan was in a different episode. The fake Doctor and her were both interesting characters but neither had enough screen time to develop their characters fully. What was with her insistence that no one knew her name? And then when one guy knew her surname she told them off for not knowing her first name? Odd. Her rug with a mask was the least convincing monster so far in the new series and the use of flashing blue ear pieces is a clever idea, if the show is set in the twenty-first century.</p> My initial post-The Next Doctor feeling was one of good will to all men, which surprised me because I didn’t like most of the episode. The Doctor’s fight with the Cyberking was impressive enough to cover a multiple problems with the episode. The robot’s cgi almost made me forget about the dodgy green screen and set and the Doctor’s heorics almost covered the way the fake Doctor’s character was ruined halfway into the episode. It seemed like there was only room for one heroic Doctor in the episode, and as the real one took over, the old one gave up. Seriously, let him save his own kid. The two Doctors teaming up at the start was a lot of fun, and could have made an excellent end.

I would have prefered that Miss Hartigan was in a different episode. The fake Doctor and her were both interesting characters but neither had enough screen time to develop their characters fully. What was with her insistence that no one knew her name? And then when one guy knew her surname she told them off for not knowing her first name? Odd. Her rug with a mask was the least convincing monster so far in the new series and the use of flashing blue ear pieces is a clever idea, if the show is set in the twenty-first century.

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