Bad Wolf

I probably was one of the few fans who didn't realise that the Daleks were gonna be back until I’d seen the trailer. So sadly all week I’d been really looking forward to it although slightly dubious of the Big Brother parody.

Congratulations to Russell T Davies for creating as far as I’m concerned 45 of minutes of a pretty much perfect Doctor Who. For me I felt the best elements of Doctor Who were there. It pulled off the satire extremely well, with the robots design excellent, very retro but menacing when revealing the "face-off" as the last part of Captain Jack’s make-over. An excellent scene revealing the Doctor creating the cause of earth’s fate. The CGI space station looked marvelous and the sets in general excellent.

Captain Jacks character here was used well, Billie Piper again exceling as Rose, Chris in top form as the doctor and I particularly like the controller, a small role but reminding us of how nasty the Daleks were. What surprised me the most was how caught up I was in the show, when it looked like Rose died, for 10 minutes I was thinking maybe she had, the despair of her death was apparent and so well acted even by the regulars.

But what made this for me the perfect Doctor Who was the sense of sitting there watching it, totally immersed in the show. Having been saying to my friend watch this show, and she didn't until last night’s episode, her email this morning said I watched and now I wish I watched the whole series She watched it with her son and her son loved it as much as her.

I would comment on the script, and the designs and the acting but for me they were secondary to the atmosphere of the show. The final five minutes of the show for me was one of the greatest moments in Doctor Who history. Finally when we hear about the Dalek taskforce, we don’t just hear, we see, we saw thousand of ships, the CGI work here was outstanding and as they pull away to see the ships. Then we see the usual 3 daleks threatening the doctor, looking I felt very retro but conjuring up images of Doctor Who of old. I felt the last scene was the clincher for me as the camera pulled back revealing a huge army of Daleks, finally we see a Dalek army looking magnificent, bringing up images of the comic as they fly. In that moment, I was a kid again watching doctor who, I genuinely went WOW, and then our Doctor goes heroic and tells the rose he coming to get her and the end credits rolled and I was gutted. But not gutted because of bad scripts or wobbly acting but because I’ve got to wait a whole week before I get to see what happens. Perfect cliff hanger.

Congrats to Davies… he’s filled his promise, and the only thing that bugs me now is how long its gonna be till next Saturday nite ...