Bad Wolf

After seeing the sneak preview at the end of "Boom Town" I was of course intrigued, but I assumed the Daleks must be part of a game designed to get at the Doctor. It opened well, reminding people of Episode Seven, and having the Doctor just appear in the Big Brother house was good for not getting stuck in that sometimes monotonous formula of "Where are we going to appear this time".

Including the Weakest Link with Anne Droid was clever and pulled off well. I was impressed with Fitch's( the weakest link in the first round) reaction to be voted off and when Rose realises what she's done she is horrified. Though Anne Droid did just look like an oversized Playmobil model.

Captain Jack in "What not to Wear" was contained far too many absurd things in it, such as the gun he was "Hiding". The jokes just don't mach the serious ending.

The Doctor's reaction to Rose's supposed death was done tastefully with the background noise being drowned out.

Now, the ultimate flaw of a good episode. The revelation of who is controlling and manipulating Earth, which was a suspenceful scene, was revealed to us almost exactly one week previously in the "Next Week" preview. Had we not known that the Pepperpot pests were going to appear I'm sure it would have been shocking. The Dalek scenes were'nt done tastefully at all. No interesting camera shots, other than the breathtaking zoom out of the Dalek fleet. Apart from that they just plonked them in front of a camera and had them do the hackneyed Vallainous "don't do nothin' or the girl gets it,"

Then cue some hammy dialogue from The Doctor in the vain of "Next Episode I'm going to do exactly what you expect me to and save the world, get the girl and kill you all!" which prompts the Daleks to say "He's probably right but let's have a go anyway," The there was a good shot of them flying about preparing for war.

I don't dislike the episode, more that it could have been better.