Bewitched, Bothered, Bewildered

So The Doctor’s Daughter really left me rather disappointed this week from it’s cop-out answer to the question of “Where did his daughter come from?” through to the aimless race to reach a single point via it’s fairly dull and predictable characterisation.

Want to know more? There be spoilers ahead.
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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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