29x07 - 42

aidan_walsh

Digiguide wrote:

As a spaceship hurtles towards the Sun, The Doctor and Martha have just 42 minutes to save the day.

So, how many Hitchhiker references \ 24 puns are we expecting?

Stark

*yawn*

Those 42 minutes are passing by slowly

Stark

Ugh. Thank god that's over.

Worst. episode. ever. I was glued to those ticking minutes and not for the right reasons.

All in all, it was just a bad remake of the excellent "Impossible Planet/Satan Pit" right down to the set reuse from the looks of things. A seriously dismal effort.

BuffyBot

Actually, I thought it was slightly better than some of the stuff we've seen. Yes, it had way too many similarities to Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit but there actually was some tension in there. For someone who didn't know,

one might have easily believed there was a real risk of The Doctor regenerating

.

thelordofcheese

i liked it, nothing amazing but very watchable.
I get the feeling it's really more of a filler/lead into the next episode, which will also feature alot of the doctor screaming, if the teaser at the end is anything to go by.

Colour me intrigued.......

nothing

I quite liked it. Finally off Earth and a nice build up with Mr Saxon.

marie_85

Twas ok. Quite forgettable though, reminded me a lot of The Impossible Planet/Satan Pit from last year. The real time element was a nice idea, but they could have emphasised it more. But at least they weren't on Earth and it does bring us one episode closer to the return of Captain Jack.

ixoy

Finally got to see it. After Stark's desc., I expected it to be awful so I was pleasantly surprised. Yes, it was standard filler and elements of it reminded me of the infinitely superior "Sunshine" but it still kept me entertained.

Having characters picked off one by one is classic horror "Doctor Who" (the best example being the classic "Horror of Fang Rock") so it fitted in well and there was some fairly pretty SFX sequences.

The Doctor also was the hero again - which really pleases me. The balance on the role of the Doctor and companion is far far better now with Martha than it was with Rose. It's why I like Martha. I imagine Rose, when stuck in the airlock, would be too thick to have worked out the intercom. Nice moment with the key too

As to this week's Saxon reference - worked well enough for me. The idea of the mobile phone has always been daft so tracing it back would be too. It was funny watching it last night when Martha asked her mum what day it was and she said "Election Day". SPOOKY!!!!

Looking forward to "Human Nature". Hope Cornell successfully adapts his book to the small screen because it's got the potential to be either a disaster or the most thoughtful intelligent episode since the show returned.

Sleepy

Martha's mother needs to be killed fast. I honestly don't know if I can sit through another episode featuring that whiny biatch.

aidan_walsh

BuffyBot wrote:

For someone who didn't know,

one might have easily believed there was a real risk of The Doctor regenerating

.

Perhaps,

but it might have worked better if there hadn't already been two prior instances of The Doctor nearly dying this season as it is.

Failing that I thought it wasn't bad. They didn't need to keep jumping back to the clock as often as they did (we get it lads - 24, 42, ho ho ho), and at least The Doctor wasn't pining after Rose again, though we did have Martha go through her usual "why oh why" stint. Again, we get it.

I don't know, something just feels formulaic about this season sometimes.