Bewitched, Bothered, Bewildered

With the Fires of Pompeii hurling us back into the drama expected from modern day Who, the team have established that last week’s quandaries regarding the confusing nature of time, space and how our Doctor fits into the mix certainly wasn’t a random blip.
Rather pleasantly we were finally given a much needed respite from the confines of Earth with the long awaited trip elsewhere, in this case to the Oodsphere. Granted this wasn’t a huge change to the norm, humans were still present in abundance and considering we were a couple of thousand years in the future there doesn’t appear to have been a whole lot of change in fashion or language in that time.

So, without further ado…time for the spoilers. You know the drill folks.
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Just as many were wondering if this series of Doctor Who was dragging us back to the dire comedy of the Eighties thanks to Partners in Crime and many others were suggesting that the excess of glitz and glamour was ruining modern Who, they come along and give us The Fires of Pompeii. Not only did we get a standard Who story of danger, history and backwards individuals who don’t understand the nature of time travellers, we get a surprising moral dilemma on the nature of the Time Lord and his ability to change established history.

All this at 6:45 on a Saturday evening after John Barrowman got done charming us with over-intelligent and precocious little kiddies. I think a round of applause is in order.

As always, spoilers after the break.
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